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08/13/2025

⚡️more somatic dimensions of Uranus in Gemini ♊️

From my most recent Substack, Cosmic Cartography - link in bio!

Also - I’m offering 45-minute readings on Uranus in Gemini (also link in bio)

An Art Nouveau card of cosmic sine waves of frequency and light undulating like ribbons, rhythm, pulse, and resonance, elegant movement captured in Art Nouveau swirls, gradient hues of violet, indigo, and electric gold, abstract yet embodied

⚡️Uranus in Gemini: Rebellion and StagnationUranus in Gemini will stir things up, giving an opportunity for us to releas...
08/02/2025

⚡️Uranus in Gemini: Rebellion and Stagnation
Uranus in Gemini will stir things up, giving an opportunity for us to release stagnation, while also aggravating rebellious tendencies—we’ll have to discern what is healthy release and what is a result of being ungrounded.

This is taken from my recent Substack post entitled The Body Electric, which explores Uranus in Gemini somatically.

I’ll also be teaching on these themes and more in my Embodied Astrology class on Thursday, August 7th. I am also offering customized Uranus in Gemini readings!

Links to all of this in my bio.

MidJourney prompt for the main image: Art Nouveau rendering of a figure half-bound by metallic wires and half-exploding into flames of liberation, rebellion breaking through energetic stagnation, cracked skin glowing with inner fire, dramatic shadows and stark electric contrasts, background of collapsed cityscapes and new dawn, Art Nouveau meets cyberpunk —ar 4:5

Wind in the body.It stirs the nerves, scatters the mind, and unsettles the sleep.It’s the whisper behind nervous tension...
07/30/2025

Wind in the body.
It stirs the nerves, scatters the mind, and unsettles the sleep.
It’s the whisper behind nervous tension, dizziness, and restlessness.
It’s the electric, astral force moving within and without.
With Uranus now in Gemini until 2033, the wind is intensifying.

⚡️If you’re feeling this transit in your body or soul—join me:
↳ Uranus in Gemini Reading: personalized insight into how this transit touches your chart.
↳ Live Class (Aug 7, 7:30pm CST): somatic + conceptual tools to work with the wind, not against it. Recording available.
Links in bio to book 🌀

⚡️⚡️Uranus in Gemini is here and it’s cray. ⚡️⚡️Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been gathering thoughts on the somat...
07/28/2025

⚡️⚡️Uranus in Gemini is here and it’s cray. ⚡️⚡️

Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been gathering thoughts on the somatic dimensions of it. I’ve just released a Substack post entitled “The Body Electric” on it, and I’m teaching a class on how to navigate it next week. I’m also offering individualized readings focusing on how Uranus in Gemini lands in your chart.

All of the links are in my bio!

MidJourney (the AI art platform I use) prompt: Art Nouveau-style illustration of a luminous human figure surrounded by crackling electric currents, transdimensional energy flowing through the body like circuitry made of stars, soft pastel tones with vibrant electric blue highlights, ethereal, inspired by metaphysical anatomy and celestial design, —ar 4:5

Uranus enters Gemini Monday morning.The pace of change is about to pick up — fast.We’re shifting from the physical, eart...
07/05/2025

Uranus enters Gemini Monday morning.
The pace of change is about to pick up — fast.

We’re shifting from the physical, earth-based disruptions of Ta**us into a much more mobile, mental, and communicative kind of revolution.

This is a transit with a historic track record: revolutions, inventions, upheaval in how people think, speak, and organize.

It’s also America’s Uranus Return — and it shows.
Expect tech acceleration, AI breakthroughs, shifts in language, identity, and alliance.

Don’t wait to be ready. Uranus favors those who move ahead of the curve. Your personal genius is being pinged.

(Also: it’s pronounced your-ah-nus.)

Jupiter’s entrance into Cancer is a fresh start—a turning point on the wheel of fortune. This isn’t growth through striv...
07/01/2025

Jupiter’s entrance into Cancer is a fresh start—
a turning point on the wheel of fortune. This isn’t growth through striving, but through tending.

What rhythms nourish you? What might it look like to grow more slowly, and more truly? 🕯

For the full essay and further reflections on Jupiter in Cancer, visit my Substack, Cosmic Cartography, at the link in my bio. 🌿

And if this speaks to you, feel free to share or save it—or send it to someone walking a similar path. 🌙

Jupiter in Cancer may magnify the hunger for belonging, and reveal where comfort conceals grief. But in shining light on...
06/30/2025

Jupiter in Cancer may magnify the hunger for belonging, and reveal where comfort conceals grief. But in shining light on these patterns, Jupiter also invites healing and release.

What are you noticing in yourself right now? What old stories might be asking to be rewritten? 🌒

For the full essay and deeper reflections on Jupiter in Cancer, visit my Substack, Cosmic Cartography, at the link in my bio. 🌿

And if this speaks to you, feel free to share or save it—or send it to someone doing ancestral or emotional work. 🕯

Earlier this month, Jupiter entered Cancer, the sign of his exaltation, his strongest placenment, where he’ll remain for...
06/28/2025

Earlier this month, Jupiter entered Cancer, the sign of his exaltation, his strongest placenment, where he’ll remain for the next twelve months.

Jupiter is typically the planet we look to for hope, optimism, a sense of possibility and room for growth. Here, Jupiter can bring the best out of Cancer, and has the resources to bring his best forward as well.

What kind of abundance feels real to you right now? I’d love to hear what this evokes. 🌊

For the full essay and more reflections on Jupiter in Cancer, visit my Substack, Cosmic Cartography, at the link in my bio! 🌿

Or, if this resonates, feel free to share or save it.
Or send it to someone who could use a little softness. 🕯

Ritual, Focus, and Agency (on tonight's eclipse and the Aries-Virgo antiscia)On face value, this lunar eclipse, a blood ...
03/14/2025

Ritual, Focus, and Agency
(on tonight's eclipse and the Aries-Virgo antiscia)

On face value, this lunar eclipse, a blood moon, in Virgo, represents a fullness and a culmination of the Virgo archetype. Virgo energy is strong, and therefore putting it to use via ritual, cleaning, organization, study, or planning is a good idea. This intensity can lead toward frustration and excess, though, which is represented by the blood moon—at these moments, the moon gets displayed in a rare, atypical light. Something can be eclipsed, released, or understood in more fullness and subtlety than a normal perspective gives.

Virgo’s shadowy extreme is well encapsulated in the stereotypical depiction of Virgo as neurotic and excessively focused on detail, which can certainly be the case. Virgo’s strong sense of quality and insistent specificity is connected to their sharp diagnosis of what’s needed, requiring things to be just right, as if it were a sacred ritual or medical procedure. This pointedness is mirrored by the sharp directedness of Aries. Aries, ruling the head and eyes, describes our point of focus and impact. It’s the tip of a sword or the bull’s eye. This Virgoan fixation on detail is either a nuisance to others or a gift to be employed by others. For Virgos themselves, though, the worst elements of it, when they really start tweaking out, it comes forth when they don’t have agency or independence—terms that we would typically associate with Aries, the individualist of the zodiac.

The central focus of this object of devotion is also key. This organizing light, too, is a mirroring of the Aries pointedness, except the central focus can be related to as an intimate subject or divine ideal as well as a goal or objective. This vital flame, this heat and light, is the power behind any successful ritual or rhythm. Our habits and routines become stale when this motivating fire loses its light. Perhaps the ideal is too far removed to be attained, no longer as central as we thought, or simply our devotions are insufficient to keep the dream alive.

(Read much more on this eclipse at the link in my bio!)

2025 is a mercurial year.We can see this in many different ways. First, numerologically: 2025 is reduced to 9 (2+2+5), w...
02/10/2025

2025 is a mercurial year.

We can see this in many different ways. First, numerologically: 2025 is reduced to 9 (2+2+5), which is the number of the Hermit in the Tarot, which is associated with Virgo, a sign ruled by Mercury. This is the form of Mercury as an elder, an adept who has achieved transformation and illumination and engages with the world as if from on high, performing some subtle, compassionate alchemy. Mercury would also delight in the nature of the number 2025 itself—it’s has the square root of 45, and the next year that will have a square root is 2116. Likewise, 2025 is the start of the second quarter of this century—as if it were the second quarter of a sports game, it’s started with a bang.

Second, this is the year of the Earth Snake in Chinese Astrology. While technically, the Spleen, the Yin organ related to both the Earth element and the Snake, is ruled over by Saturn in Chinese Astrology, the Spleen is very mercurial, said to rule over transformation and transportation—Mercury themes. Earth is the element of the center, ruling over the changes between the seasons and the pivotal moments between them when folks tend to get sick. Likewise, the Snake itself is distinguished by its cunning and capacity to molt, features that Mercury excels in. Perhaps the seasons that Mercury goes retrograde could be indicators of when these moltings or major adaptations will be occuring, and certainly this spring, when Mercury and Venus go retrograde amidst eclipse season, will be a major one—the pieces are already falling into place for that. The Hermit card could be a helpful guide to meditate upon.1

Additionally, through the first half of this year, Jupiter, who spends about 12 months in a sign, is in Gemini, which is also ruled by Mercury. Jupiter depicts where we find expansion, growth, and wisdom, in a manner that encompasses, harmonizes, and makes things whole. Although Jupiter is technically in detriment in Geminim and thus, this quality of expansive whole-making is weakened, it can still be achieved by diving into the small details of life, finding tiny moments for playful growth.

Notes from my Substack - link in bio!

Hail Venus, humanity’s queen.you, source of eros, psyche’s guide,open our eyes to your sheen,and open our hearts’ horizo...
01/17/2025

Hail Venus, humanity’s queen.
you, source of eros, psyche’s guide,
open our eyes to your sheen,
and open our hearts’ horizons wide.

A couple of major Venusian developments stand on the near horizon. The big thing is that Venus will be going retrograde this spring, and it will likely be a rather notable retrograde, as it’s happening alongside a Mercury retrograde and eclipse season. Venus takes her descent into the underworld (a journey mythologized by Inanna’s descent) every year and a half - we’re currently in the final stages of a cycle initiated in the late summer of 2023, although her status as an evening star came about in June of last year. In early April, Venus will be reborn as a morning star, a face that will last until January 2026.

Venus has already entered Pisces, where she’ll end this upcoming retrograde. Venus is exalted in Pisces - it’s her favorite place to be, as depicted by Botticelli’s Birth of Venus. Here, we can reclaim romantic idealism, and the sensual delights of the world serve as an avenue into other worlds. Over the past couple of years, Saturn has been slogging through Pisces, effectively making Piscean themes (which also include our spiritual striving and psychological health) much more heavy and difficult. Right now, Venus is in a conjunction with Saturn, helping us appreciate these serious responsibilities of the soul while also enlivening our imaginal landscape.

At the end of the month, the North Node of the Moon will move into Pisces, just as Venus is sliding into a conjunction with Neptune. Altogether, this is a remarkably dreamy trio, highlighting the end of January and the start of February (and especially Saturday, February 1st, when the Moon joins the party) as a peak moment of the year for Venus. Alongside the North Node’s entrance into Pisces, the South Node will be leaving Libra and entering Virgo - we’re done with a couple of years of eclipses in Libra, stirring up relational karma and conditioning. Still, within a couple of years, Saturn, the North Node, and Neptune will all have left Pisces, whisking away some of the imaginative luster that has graced us since 2011 or so.

Notes from my Substack - link in bio!

Mars Reborn We’re starting the year in the middle of a Mars retrograde. At this moment, in the middle of his retrograde,...
01/08/2025

Mars Reborn

We’re starting the year in the middle of a Mars retrograde. At this moment, in the middle of his retrograde, Mars is traveling the closest to the Earth that he does in his orbit, which symbolically depicts the “presence” of the Mars archetype.

The Martial archetype is important at this moment in history, as Neptune and Saturn are just about to move into Aries. For the next 13 years or so, the Martial archetype will be idolized and exalted, with heroes, heroines, and heroic actions taking on an otherworldly shine. The general atmosphere will feel a good bit more testy and aggressive, and we’d do well to feel strong and empowered while not getting caught up in any blustery fire.

Aries has already been the locus of significant planetary action for a few years, although of different stripes. For the last year and a half, the North Node has been in Aries, and we’ve had several eclipses in the neighborhood, indicating the potential for serious growth and quick changes in relation to our own Aries selves (and wherever Aries falls in our charts). By the same measure, this North Node, which is also called the Dragon’s Head, can be a place where we get ahead of ourselves, biting off more than we can chew or getting headstrong—here, the Aries archetype out of balance. I think this is part of the reason why the global atmosphere has gotten so suddenly war-like in the past year and a half.

On a longer time frame, Aries has been where Chiron, the wounded healer, has been transiting since 2018, which will continue till the summer of 2026. Chiron’s transit through Aries has brought healing to the masculine and healing through the masculine. Chiron’s medicine chest in Aries has all sorts of fiery, potent medicines. Chiron teaches us the therapeutic value of a good sweat and the psychological benefits of feeling physically strong. Our greatest teachers during this time period are not just otherworldly, more than human beings, but fully human, displaying a full, vigorous expression and engagement with the world. We can think of the next decade+ as a chance to put into effect what we’ve been learning with Chiron about Aries themes.

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