2025 | A year of transitions

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The world is shifting in 2025

Outer realm planets, hence potent undertones of how the world is moving and evolving, are shifting focus; we start a new 19-year draconic cycle as the north node moves into Pisces, reversing through the zodiac until it returns to 0°Aries in 2043 (taking our eclipses through each sign); Numerologically, 2025 adds down to 9, putting us in a year of wisdom and endings; in my own philosophy, a huge 15-year cycle will close out at the New Year, reorienting how we will all plug into life for the next 15 years. 

I’m going to start with the deepest undertone shifts and work my way through to the more specific and transitory energies, cycle by cycle, planet by planet. Buckle in. This will be a long post!

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More Soul, Less Ego | A New 15-Year Tone

You’ve likely heard me bring this up in past substack posts, but this is the moment! We are ending a Gemini phase that we’ve been in since 2010. I won’t get into the mechanics of it, but it has to do with smaller phases within an astrological age. 

From 2025-2040 a new phase will rule the tone of life, moving the world from a very adolescent sensibility to one that’s trying to be more mature under a Cancer, or 4th house, influence. 

To back it up a little, in 1980 we crossed a threshold into a new sort of world, very Piscean in tone. It’s been like working our way through the birth of a Pisces rising world in 15-year increments, from infancy through adolescence (15 years in the 1st house of infancy, 15 years in the 2nd house of childhood, and 15 years of the 3rd house of adolescence). 

If you look at a Pisces rising chart, we’ve been in the 3rd house of connection and communication (Gemini’s natural house) since 2010, but in this chart, Taurus rules the 3rd house of teenage drama and flirtation. Movement, connection, and intelligence have mingled very closely with beauty, values, and voice. 

While I adore Taurus as well as the Gemini-ish 3rd house, when any influence is singled out for 15-years we see the full spectrum of light and shadow. 

Beauty and Youth

How many youthful celebrities have beauty lines these days? The third house wants eternal youth, Taurus wants beauty, and our overall Pisces world is a bit fantasy prone. I feel like The Hunger Games was prophetic with the Capital (those we treat as celebrity) showing up as more and more plastic and artificial in nature. At the other end of the spectrum, many of us have learned a lot about beauty through how we eat and take care of ourselves—skincare via nutrition and natural products, tapping into the healing side of Pisces and the nature loving side of Taurus (and getting informed via a 3rd house influence). 

Voice and Communication

Voice (Taurus) + communication (3rd house) feels like the perfect incubator for podcasts and often a lot of these podcasts become popular when they focus on gossip, hosting with friends or siblings, or highlighting guests with valuable information—all 3rd house themes. On social media (very 3rd house teenage stuff), does it feel like those with the loudest voices are the ones dominating and influencing the world? I’m often astounded by astrology advice I come across on social media. Just because someone can make it entertaining or speak with confidence people applaud and popularize accounts that are actually amateur and undereducated. On the other hand, because of social media I’ve found excellent astrologers whom I adore and have been able to connect my own ideas out in the world in ways I would never have been able to before. With Taurus deeply connected to our senses, ASMR and food have held a special place on social media as well. 

Spinning Values

Taurus being the second sign of the zodiac is the sign that starts to make us aware of choice—this or that, good or bad, right or left. While this ability to develop preference leads to molding beauty, enculturation, and values, it can also produce polarizing black and white orientation. Add in the 3rd house, which is dimensional and duplicitous, and we’ve got our heads spinning with value arguments. Social media comment sections are fraught with black and white arguments, cancel culture, as well as very loud voices. Politics has become good versus evil with teenage-ish mob mentality. Body autonomy (Taurus) and reproductive rights (3rd house shows our birds and bees time of life) have been in a never-ending debate over what’s good or bad. What are our values and who possesses what due to those values?

Mental Health and Pathways

Ruling adolescence, the 3rd house shows our ability for neurogenesis, but also a proneness for anxiety with much effort put toward connection, learning, and feeling intelligent. While the connectivity of the world has brought out all of our anxieties, we’ve also learned a ton about the brain and mental health. Neurogenesis is the formation of pathways in our brain, but pathways happen in the outer world just as excitedly. Distribution pathways, sales pathways, road and air pathways. Hello, Amazon. When the world came to a halt in 2020, we saw how fragile some of our commerce pathways were as well as where, geo-politically, covert/strategic hoarding of pathways through China had gone un-checked. In Gaza, a war is partially playing out in tunneled pathways. Pathways are pervasive these days. The US (and others) hasn’t held back engaging in proxy wars between neighboring countries (3rd house encompasses neighbors and neighborly tensions), partially using these to trench its own long distance military pathways. 

The Next Phase of Life

I could go on for days to unpack the Taurus 3rd house of the last 15 years, how each sign orients to that, as well as how a Gemini rising chart also has influence and can show how each sign plugs into the moment (my new website will go deeper into this). But, I will move on to what’s ahead. In the Pisces organism that the world is, the Cancerian 4th house, that we are moving to, is ruled by Gemini. We come out of a 45-year spring phase of development and move into our next 15-year phase and also the next 45-year summer season of development. 

Our level of development as a world will move from adolescence into the threshold of young adult. The 4th house (in my philosophy) rules the ages of 21-28. It’s a time of more seriously committing to a direction in life, creating foundations, and, in our modern world, becoming more aware of things like bills, loans, and income. We move from hyper-connected anxiety to insecurity about feeling stable and rooted in life. The 4th house is Cancer territory where we start to turn toward a more feminine orientation, developing our inner life, vulnerably expressing our feelings, and reflecting on life. It’s like moving from a waxing gibbous moon that is very lively and active to a full moon that slows things down and turns us to an inner orientation each month. Developmentally, we also begin to prune pathways as we enter this attempting-to-be-an-adult period. 

On the yin side of ourselves, this phase may have us caring more, feeling more tender, and wanting to root in and nourish life. On the yang side of ourselves, things like security and protection can become reactive to feelings of insecurity. In the US, we are certainly facing a new political power that wants Cancerian/4th house things like boarder security, nationalism, and traditional, family-oriented living. A desire for safety and a reactivity around this is something we will face in many ways for the next 15 years. At the same time, we are developing a Pisces chart, meaning there is always an undertone of shadow work, compassion, transcending, and inspiration. 

I have hope that potential aggressiveness around security and protectiveness can be tempered, in that the 4th house does indicate the feminine growing in power. The yin aspects of care, depth, soul, and tenderness will have profound awakenings. The Gemini influence ruling the 4th house will insist on diversity and connectivity. 

If this were a hero’s journey we are moving into the ordeal, or the atonement with the father after having met the Goddess in this past phase. Compared to the heroine’s journey we will work to overcome the stepmother after having met the beast (I talk about the goddess phase in the Mars section of this post). 

In short, we are all descending into the depths to shed ego as a world and find soul, having been blessed by the Goddess (or our yin married to our yang). We are coming to a showdown with an ultimate power and overcoming improbable odds—defeating what holds power over us (Luke facing Darth Vader), or gaining its favor (Thor proving to his father that he’s worthy of his hammer). Like Cinderella, we work to find the voice we need to shake off the oppressive stepmother and go for what our hearts know we deserve, or better understand the boundaries that are healthy for us. In short, that ultimate thing that feels like an overlord, we work to confront it so it no longer triggers us. 

It’s scary, intuitive, and sometimes seemingly irrational work, but, ultimately, work that will help us learn to become more responsive versus reactionary, young adults versus teenagers. We will learn to become decent humans before we can stand on our own to be great teachers, parents, and leaders. Start to notice a shift toward responding to what you want in life (I can heal/make/learn/start….) versus doing things in life in reaction to what’s going on with a tendency toward finger pointing, separating, and rejecting.

Possible Trends to Come

While it’s hard to predict how a Gemini 4th house will develop, I’ll take a stab at a few possible trends that could crop up. 

• With 4th house developmental progress being about foundations and the qualities of Gemini including movement, we could see a lot of new infrastructure around transportation (could we get bullet trains, or something speedy between large US cities?).

• Our past 15-year 3rd house needed migration/pollination to happen, but the 4th house likes boundaries and security. Adding Gemini qualities here, there may be a ramp-up in wanting to secure information, secure neighboring borders, and secure our homes with stronger communities. (I actually feel that one of the best places to put our energy will be in creating beautiful and caring communities.) 

• Even more extreme, Gemini loves community and the 4th house loves home and family—it’s possible that we see communes become a more popular way of living. 

• In many ways land is ruled by the 4th house and Gemini wants multiple of things. Living in more than one place might become more common. 

• Gemini is one of the least feminine signs and the 4th house turns us toward a feminine orientation. There could be tension around how our newly and more inwardly connected masculine and feminine sides show up with vulnerability, something desperately needed when mapping the hero and heroine’s journeys onto this time.

• I have my own theories about how each sign/house relates to the 12 intervals between an octave, as well as to our seasons, to showcase levity outside of the more serious hero/heroine’s journeys—some mood vibes. I’ll put a link to slowly growing playlists with songs that have good interval integrations for this past 3rd house cycle and the coming 4th house cycle. The 3rd house is the minor 3rd interval. It feels whimsically circular and curious to me. The 4th house is the major 3rd interval. It feels a little more foundational to me. There’s still a lightness there on top of an ability to bring nostalgic as well as soulful sounds. The 3rd house is like June’s late spring (pollination and blossoming) and the 4th like July’s hottest height of summer (vacation and time out from normal life). 

• I also love looking at literature for insight into the cultural mood of different cycles. The last time we were in a 3rd house cycle was between 1830-1845. Recognizable titles during this time included Oliver Twist, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, The Little Mermaid, The Count of Monte Cristo, and The Fountainhead. 1845-1860 was our last 4th house cycle and titles included Moby Dick, Madame Bovary, The Scarlet Letter, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 12 Years a Slave, The House of Seven Gables, and The Origin of Species. In the past 3rd house cycle, literature emphasized themes of individualism, ego, and identity. In the past 4th house cycle there was soul seeking in the deep waters of Moby Dick, unpacking of a nation’s past, examination of the desire to subjugate women and the use of slavery, peeking into family inheritance and secrets, and new ways of looking at evolution arose. 

• Big 4th house focuses that could become forefront: DNA/genetics/epigenetic, history, ancestry, family, women, mothers, soul, subjugation (what we build on the backs of), emotion, memory, nostalgia, imagination, fiction literature, nourishment, and support systems.

I’m sure there are a thousand possibilities I’d never think of, but here’s to a shift in season—to, hopefully, finding care for ourselves and others as we use the marriage of head and heart in overcoming big things and using imagination.

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Transcending Shadows | North Node in Pisces, South Node in Virgo

Over an almost 19-year period of time our lunar nodes traverse backward through the whole of the zodiac, spending roughly 1.5 years in each sign. Our nodes shows us a lot about the headlines in any given year.

When the north node, a point of origin and hunger (in myths, called the Dragon’s Head), moves through a sign it’s a time of working through shadows in that part of the zodiac in order to transcend old limits and experience a rebirth and new hunger.

The south node is directly opposite, showing a halfway mark of a sign’s draconic journey. It’s where edits are being made based on what’s become productive, purposeful, and useful—out with what’s weighing us down. Both nodes can create endings and wild card shifts—where they are shows the axis of signs that are hosting eclipses. 

On January 11th, the north node will have finished its tour of Aries’ shadows (aggression, confrontation, domination) completing a 19-year journey. We arrive to new hunger and a transcended sense of Aries’ positives (authenticity, passion, direction). When the north node is at 0° of Aries, the Draconic Zodiac and the Tropical Zodiac are perfectly aligned, as the north node always denotes 0°Aries in the Draconic Zodiac. A new cycle of tuning our zodiac begins. Because of the reverse nature of the nodes, we work through the most complex things first and then work our way through to the most personal.

With Pisces being the host of the north node in 2025, we will begin to witness and experience shadow work of the most illusory, complex, and slippery nature. Institutional settings and bureaucracy will be highlighted— the shadows of prisons, hospitals, universities, religions, and governments. The arts and anything related to glamour will need to be cracked open. Hollywood is likely in for it. We may also see con artists and other kinds of artists in the spotlight. Mysticism, healers, and spirituality are also Pisces in nature, indicating shadows to uproot around the most intangible aspects of life. 

Virgo at the south node will show us where edits are needing to be made around work, wellness, lifestyle, systems, and skills that require practice and technique. We may have to face critiques around living sustainably and sufficiently. Ecosystems may be pushed to the forefront in critical ways. 

Overall, in a personal sense, it will be a year to be surrendered around compassion and forgiveness and to be productive around well-being. You might consider scheduling in more alone time for contemplation.

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A 9 Numerological Year and the Chinese Snake

2024 put our year into a numerological tone of 8. A vibration that has built the authority, focus, and power to make waves. I follow the 1-9 pattern of astrology through my own years, months, and days. Without fail, on 8 days, I get shit done.

This past year we had the pairing of the Chinese Dragon Year with this 8 vibration. The Dragon is said to be magic, powerful, and fierce. The Dragon gets put on a pedestal, but it has its shadows. It can be a bully when it wants. Dragon aligns with Aries in the Tropical Zodiac and can be quite selfish. Doubling down, we’ve had the Aries north node this past year, doing shadow work and rebirths in Aries energy of aggression vs assertiveness, domination vs direction, demolition and militant-ism vs rebirths and fresh order.

Dragon has also been in the wood element, which gets angry when obstructed, adding to further aggression.

How many powerful (8 vibration) yet aggressive and bullying (Aries and Dragon) people have been in the headlines this year? I can name more than a few: Putin, Netanyahu, Trump, Elon, Diddy, Kanye, to name the biggies. I’m sure this concoction was used to make waves in positive ways as well, but these other things dominated the headlines, in terms of my awareness. 

In 2025, the 9 vibration brings a 9-year cycle to a close. This vibration tends to bring wisdom, revelation, and culmination. 9 is a humanitarian, it wants to protect those at the bottom, understanding that we, collectively, are no better than those who are the worst off. There’s a want to spread and share ideas and universalize the lessons it can see. My husband is a 9 and is possibly the least selfish person I know (even being an Aries). 

Historically, very transformational things have happened on the world stage over 9 years: Brexit, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of WWII, the collapse of the Czarist regime, and the end of the US Civil War. 

The Lunar New Year (technically the new Chinese animal takes over when the Sun is at 315° of the Tropical Zodiac on February 4th) will also shift us into the Chinese Snake energy. The Snake is subtle. It is intuitive, shy, intelligent, perceptive, and deep thinking, It is connected with renewal and is a practical visionary. It is adaptable, quick, and ambitious. With yin wood connected this year (yin wood is like grasses and flowers vs yang wood of last year like tree growth) seeds can spread and grow very quickly. There is imagination with this concoction and in connection with the 9, we may see wise people dominating the headlines in the coming year.

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A Transitional Time - Pluto Through Jupiter

The powerhouses of the zodiac take anywhere from 1 year to 20 years to traverse a full zodiac sign. This year, each of our big outer planets are going to shift to a new sign, at least for an initial visit (due to retrogrades).

PLUTO

At the boundary line where the dark of our galaxy and universe meets our contained solar system, Pluto, frozen, small, but packed with power, orbits with secrets and mystery—keys to our evolution. Since 2008 (minus a few months earlier in 2024), Pluto has been alchemizing the power of the patriarchy in Capricorn. Of structure, corporation, and capitalism. The rise of the billionaire and their reach into influence of all kinds has peaked. We need to see the extremes of a sign with Pluto to notice and ask ‘What’s going on here?’, motivating a dig into the underbelly of it all. 

Capricorn, mythologically, has associations with the golden age, always longing for those times when things were better.

Trump nailed the ethos of Capricorn with ‘Make American Great Again’ merged with Pluto’s political associations. But, in late November, Pluto made a shift into Aquarius (to stay until 2043). We’ve completed what we’ve needed to unearth with growing concern and awareness around where Capricorn corrupts in its want to hold onto status, hierarchy, and material gain, versus using its executive and foresightful powers to serve. Time will tell how our evolved understandings will revamp the world—the Aquarius curriculum will naturally shake this up.

Historically, when Pluto storms into Aquarius after evolving and empowering the elite, revolutions rise up (last time we saw the French and Haitian Revolutions). Power to the people is returning, but not without a willingness to do deep alchemical work, psyche work, investigative work, research, uprooting, unearthing, dirty work. Pluto is a renovator, a transformer, and Aquarius wants to envision a better and more humane future. Pluto wants to empower and Aquarius wants to innovate. Pluto wants to manage (or if corrupt, hoard) shared resources and Aquarius wants collaboration. 

While signs of power to the people are held in this concoction, with Pluto, it’s never easy. Get into the trenches for humanity and be a part of envisioning what could be in the future, many generations past our own time—past personal ego. 

Historically, lots of new technologies have arisen during this transit—paper, gun powder, the printing press, the cotton gin. Some of these things have allowed the wide spread of truth that powers often attempt to unsuccesfully repress for a time. Some of the technologies have brought horrors. Aquarius often gets put on a pedestal around its altruism of thinking about the collective, but every sign has its shadows and Aquarius’ detached, scientific, technological instincts can bring plenty of these.

NEPTUNE

Since 2011, Neptune, the planet that shows what we glamorize, find inspiring and transcendent, and give an artistic lens to, has been in Pisces. 

This concoction has brought a glamorization of media, or mass communication. On top of the 15-year Gemini/3rd house phase, which adores communication, there’s been a storm of wading through illusion in information and media. Consciousness has been a big thread that this transit has attended to as we’ve explored alternate realities, microdosing miracles, and the multiverse. Neptune is a co-ruler of Pisces so there’s been some doubling down of themes present—glamorizing glamour, finding inspiration in mysticism, transcending the transcendent, bringing art to the otherworldly.

As we prepare to leave this hyper-dream realm, appreciate the spiritual journeys and awareness you’ve gained.

From March 30 - October 22, Neptune will start its foray into a new tour of the zodiac as it glides into Aries. In October it will reverse back to Pisces for a last goodbye until January 26, 2026, at which time it will more permanently anchor into Aries until 2038.

As we get an initial glimpse of this new tone of glamour, we may see a stark contrast. A move from glamorizing the ethereal nature of life to glamorizing the rugged truths of life. Victor Hugo published "Les Misérables"and Dostoyevsky couldn’t be stopped from inspiring with his thoughts of the human spirit. Aries will bring the eye of art and fashion toward what’s actionable and direct. With Aries being the pioneer, new art forms may arise. We may experience a spiritual shift, feeling inspired to make life clear, fresh, and authentic. Rose-colored glasses could open our hearts around being assertive and passionate. Some may even glamorize war, with this transit historically aligning with crusades. Neptune can also relate to gases, petrolium, plastics, and chemistry, while Aries is metals, machinery, and rough work. I wouldn’t be surprised to see more drilling, new chemistry discoveries, and something pioneering around plastics.

URANUS

The rabble rouser of the solar system, Uranus can show us what electrifies collectives, what conformity is being shaken up, and what kind of innovation is changing the world. It’s had a rough go of things in Taurus, its sign of detriment, as this sign wants tradition and stubbornly clings to enculturation. 

In Taurus since 2018, we’ve seen a rise in authoritarianism, globally. The last time Uranus visited, Hitler, Mussolini, Hirohito, and Stalin rose up. Taurus holds some control over cultural values and possessions. When Uranus lands here, collectives can be galvanized by those with a stubborn moral stance and a want to possess and polarize collectives.

We’ve seen Uranus disruption with collectives against collectives around Taurus/Venus themes of body autonomy and queer rights. While the status quo that got shaken was the overturning of Roe v Wade, I have to believe in Uranus’ ultimate goal of progress and innovation, even if Taurus is Uranus’ sign of detriment. Maybe there is a more innovative vision we still need to plug into, getting over our own stubborn hold on Roe v Wade and freeing ourselves to look at radically different paths towards body autonomy and LGBTQ+ rights. 

For a blip this year, Uranus will buzz over to Gemini, from July 7th to November 2nd, before reversing back to Taurus until the spring of 2026. We will see some first bullet points regarding new rebellion efforts. Another reason why I believe one of the most important things we can do in the next decade is to build loving communities, is Uranus in Gemini tends to bring rebellion toward infighting. We blend shakeups and community. During the last round of Uranus in Gemini, the US found itself in a civil war. 

In the US, specifically, Uranus’ move to Gemini puts this shakeup planet in our 7th house of conflict and opponents. This is also the sign of its return, with Uranus in Gemini in the US chart. This adds pressure that can start to bring fractures. Historically, the last (and only) three Uranus returns have coincided with wars for the US: the revolutionary war, the civil war, and WWII.

*We have Pluto in Aquarius that loves revolutions for the people and against the elite, Neptune dipping into Aries, glamorizing confrontation and spiritual crusades, and Uranus in Gemini stirring the pot between neighbors and in the US, between all sorts of opponents. But we can also choose to be more mature than our past. We can choose inclusive revolutions/evolution with Pluto in Aquarius, compassionate action with Neptune in Aries, and open-mindedness in our communities (and with the ‘other’ in the US) with Uranus in Gemini. We can choose to care about each other despite differences. We can lean into the biggest undertone of the Cancer phase of a compassionate Pisces world and choose care and sensitivity. 

I see a lot of astrologers speaking about this confluence of war energies, and while it’s insightful to know how the past might repeat itself, we aren’t our past and we can be more evolved if we work on ourselves first then go out and do the work of peace-making. Something AOC recently said has been sticking with me. Something to the effect of we need to get past the narcissism of holding onto our differences (as in, how can we look at what unifies rather than separates us).

SATURN

Saturn is our planet of structure and constructs, the furthest out planet we see with the naked eye, like a boundary or norm we are aware of—societal traditions. In Pisces, something dissolves about structure and we seek authorities who can hold deep complexity (or illusion). We can feel like the traditions and structures that once kept us upright and integral are turning to jelly. This transit can help us to see the shadows of society and tap into compassionate responsibility. I don’t know about you, but this transit has been feeling pretty real with the recent election.

There is a lifecycle to all of these planets and Pisces shows the end stop.

When Saturn moves to Aries on May 24th (until September 1st due to retrograde), we can find new direction and impulses around what we want to build in life and what we want to master. The direction of society might feel more clear. Pioneering building is ahead. Authorities who are pioneering and bold will step up, but also, I hate to bring this thread up again, potentially, authorities in military-minded roles. Aries loves order and Saturn loves authority, planning, and building.

JUPITER

The fastest of the powerhouse planets, Jupiter has a year long transit, currently moving through a sign it’s uncomfortable in, Gemini. Jupiter likes to push our boundaries, perspectives, concepts, and vision of life, taking us into foreign territory. Gemini wants to feel belonging and gets into the details of life—what’s here and now. Our sense of expanding life could feel a bit stifled as Jupiter asks us to expand our beliefs around community and what is local to us. Find wonder in what community and messaging mean to you in a philosophical way, through spring.

On June 9th, Jupiter will move into the sign of its exaltation, Cancer. Cancer provides nourishment for the growth that Jupiter seeks.

For the next year, through June 2026, notice stability underfoot regarding your ability to dream and find a vision for life. Hope and nourishment mingle here. Give hope to the part of you that can feel insecure by mixing your imagination with your willingness to push your boundaries. Dream big!

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Our Hero’s Journey - Following Mars

As we wake to a new year, our current Mars journey to individuate and answer to our life force—to save ourselves—is nearing its end. We started a two year journey in December of 2022 in the sign of Gemini. We’ve been through a lot in two years, gaining a better understanding of our minds and mental health, our purpose in community, and in using communication authentically. We’ve more recently found what empowers our connectivity.

On January 15th, we begin a new Mars journey, this time ignited in the sign of Cancer. For the next two years we will set out to discover ourselves through roots, imagination, soul, security, family, femininity, and home.

This ties in nicely with the 15-year Cancer phase arriving—a double down on getting in touch with our intuitive, caring side. 

While the Mars journey takes two years, we will be experiencing the first half of the Hero’s journey in 2025. This is a personal journey, not one to project too much onto bigger societal trends.

At the midpoint of the Mars retrograde, on January 15th, Mars and Earth will be in direct alignment, kicking off a new call to action.

• Initially, we resist this, finally feeling on top of life and comfortable with a construct we’ve created. Regardless, you may feel something niggling from deep within, something more to discover. Acknowledge this niggling even if you’re not ready to take a leap or have a million reasons/excuses to hold yourself back. Life is calling you to greater and better versions of yourself (and your life) than you can currently imagine. Eventually, if you don’t answer the call of the angel of life, you walk closer toward death, zombie mode, apathy. The small self will try to live a predictable, patterned, safe life, which can lead to all sorts of dangerous pathologies and even illness. The decision is yours to save yourself. Religion, politics, family, friends, counselors, or any other external locus of control will not save you at the call to action. 

• By March 7th, we will be meeting the guide we need to prepare us. Hopefully, an acceptance of the call has been found. In real life, this can be some sort of inspiration or reintegration that helps you to be more deeply guided into the unknown. It could (but doesn’t have to) show up as a literal guide/mentor, but would be someone or something that feels ‘other’ or abnormal to your normal. In Cancer, this guide or spiritual experience would inspire something deeper and more soulful about life. 

• At the Mars/Earth separating square on April 21st, we will be crossing a threshold and entering a new world. In ordinary terms, you might start a new job, move homes, or jump into a new project. Often the threshold isn’t as clear as this, but you get the idea. As you jump into the new you have to see life with new eyes, but this doesn’t happen automatically. We immediately find ourselves in the belly of the whale where something about our old self or life feels like a wrecking ball is being taken to it. Life’s agenda becomes bigger than us. Torque is applied in that we have to take action in a way that may be counter to our old instincts. Feel into impulse amidst chaos and do what’s needed to be spit out of the whale. With Mars in Leo, courage and heart will be needed to take action and get yourself moving toward that deeper Cancerian calling. 

• On June 21st, at the Mars/Earth trine, we start a new phase of the journey, the road of trials. We will be tested to see that we are capable and to gain the skills we need to step into acceptance of our hero role, or more simply, into a version of ourselves that is growing and finding new layers of worth and recognition. With Mars in Virgo at this point, you may need to cultivate new daily rhythms, practices, skillsets, wellness efforts, or purpose to step into a greater depth that’s unfolding in you to see new capabilities rising. We also find helpers who step into our lives or those who feel like allies. In mythology and storytelling, we see minor enemies creating burdens at this stage, but in real life, the enemies are often our own self-sabotaging tendencies, inner voices, habits, etc. that we have to overcome. That said, often the external reflects the internal. 

• The last phase that we will experience in 2025 starts around September 23rd. This is the meeting of the Goddess phase. In order for the Hero to manifest their power they must join forces with their emotions. The goddess is the first step toward this. It’s about meeting the yin to our yang (or something that seems opposite to us). Sometimes that can happen externally, but it’s simply a mirror for the inner work being done to pave a road from our heads to our hearts. At this point, we may feel like we have become the hero, but the goddess stage tells us that we are actually just beginning and that something darker is ahead of us. We meet temptations that lure us away from marrying head and heart, yin to yang, and that can cause us to abandon the journey. We can point fingers at why things are going wrong rather than looking inward and finding inner reconciliation and accountability. Although it’s valuable to learn the ugly truths of a bigger world and how so many things negatively impact us—government, society, family, relationships… we are challenged to move on from pointing fingers at these things. There is always something more to blame, even ourselves, but it’s time to put on adult pants and take charge of our lives. We must find acceptance for the imperfect world and for our imperfect selves. There is a virtue test in the meeting of the goddess. She is both terrible and benevolent, divine and tricky. If we aren’t spiritually prepared, seeing her with lower vibes like lust, fear, or hesitation, we are not granted her graces and protection—we struggle to reach the emotions needed to manifest as a true hero and progress on the journey. We have to be able to hold the complexity of the yin which includes being able to be in the darkness without lashing out. The divine and the trickster can be confusing to differentiate and we have to face ourselves and stop blaming others for how life has turned out. We come face to face with many dimensions of life and ourselves during this stage and it can be a slippery slope to get out of circles of abandoning our journey or not being spiritually worthy enough to understand how our feminine side is trying to help us—seeing what you CAN do, rather than keeping tabs on who’s doing what (I can heal, I can learn, I can create…). In Scorpio, we may feel a want to point at power and trauma for why our life is how it is or why everything in the world is broken. The challenge is to tap that Scorpio energy to say, I can do _____ to empower my foundations. *THIS is also the stage of the 15-year phase we are about to leave. If you have Disney+, I highly recommend watching the Loki series. It captures so much about what we’ve all metaphorically been working through as a world and as individuals since 2010 (as well as over the past 2 years as the current Mars journey seeded in Gemini), with a bit of a Mercury/3rd house archetype during this meeting of the Goddess phase.

In the 2-year Mars journey currently ending (that had a Gemini purpose), I started this Substack pretty close to the call to action. In revising my first post, I spelled out how it was a temporary and experimental home to try and find a new CosmoMuse vision (if there even was one). By taking that leap into Substack, I have now come full circle. By the end of the Mars journey, I will be close to finishing my new website, where I finally have a space to share all of my frameworks and philosophies that have been swimming and organizing in my head for over a decade. 

In true Gemini fashion, I have found my expression and how I should be communicating my passion. I had to take a wrecking ball to an already fractured site that housed so much work and so many gorgeous memories. 

I definitely experimented with the Substack platform. It was a great start, but something wasn’t exactly right. I finally committed to making a whole new website on my own and have found the home that feels like it’ll be right. In other Gemini insights, I also found out that I have ADHD and have found so much new acceptance for how I work and how to support (as well as utilize) my unique and creative brain. And I have, as this journey tends to result in, found myself anew, empowered in the Gemini section of my chart.

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Our Heroine’s Journey - Following Venus

The Venus heroine’s journey is a 19-month journey about autonomy, finding self-worth, new values, and our voice. It’s more of an inner journey to reclaim our feminine side. Both hero and heroine journeys initially descend and reconnect to the feminine, but Venus always stays close to the Sun from our view. She is inside of our orbit and takes us on a journey inward. Mars’ marriage to the feminine is more about becoming whole in how we act in the world. The being (Venus) and the doing (Mars) sides of ourselves.

As we arrive in a new year, we are coming to the end of a Venus journey that started in August 2023. The brightest planet in our night sky holds special adoration, and when she meets our even brighter satellite, Luna, these two feminine archetypes help us move from one stage to another in the Venus journey, with our chakra system also entangled.

Right off the bat, on January 3rd, our Venus/Luna meeting starts a process of re-empowering our throat chakras as we are nearing the end of a journey. At this juncture, there is some kind of empowerment we’ve found. With power comes responsibility and new tough decisions might come our way. We may have to speak truths that require a sacrifice. For example, if we find out something we have the power to change is negatively impacting others or the world, we might have to witness this and use our expression to terminate something we care about. Maybe there’s something about ourselves that we newly witness, something unearthed, which requires us to go through a transformation. In Pisces, all of this may contribute showing an expression of courage and creativity after some compassion is found. 

• The next meetup (February 1st) starts to reawakens our third eye. We gain more sight and our yin/yang balance starts to merge more harmoniously in how we are claiming our voice, values, and worth. Our heart takes the lead and our head follows its direction to enact its wishes. We see ourselves use empathy in our decisions as well as decisiveness of action. In Aries, we may work to find new order and clarity about what we stand for and what our hearts desire. 

• On March 1st/2nd, with Venus in Aries, we come into a balanced world, further enhancing 3rd eye energy. Let the power of your heart and clarity of value flow. 

• At the midpoint of Venus’ retrograde, we start a new Venus journey as Venus and Earth align. The tone of the new Venus journey seeds in Aries energy on March 22nd and our crown chakra opens. On March 28th with the Luna meetup, we find permission of happiness from what we’ve just been through and also refuse to see new cracks forming in other areas of our perfect world. These cracks may orient around our sense of Self, our ability to feel passionate and authentic, and our independent, clear voice. Stay connected to your crown chakra as downloads, unity consciousness, and openness will help you to see what you’d rather not around what’s no longer right in your world. Through the remainder of 2025, Venus will be on a decent toward the underworld, not quite reaching it before the end of the year. 

I’m going to wait for the new website to detail each of the steps of the coming journey. I’m hoping to create a community offering to help guide those who join, through this journey. The Mars journey is usually more obvious, but the Venus one is internal and takes reflection and awareness to really see it in action.

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Range & Triangulating the Mind - Following Mercury

Our fastest planet is one that has its own patterns that are insanely intricate and difficult to track. A simple idea to keep in mind is that Mercury helps us to triangulate the slippery realm of mind and truth. It will seed three different journeys in one year, weaving threads that share the same element. 

In 2024, the midpoint of each of its three yearly retrogrades seeded fire sign journeys, triangulating what our passion and spirit need to understand and move in life (Aries/impulse, Leo/command, Sagittarius/perspective). 

Interest, curiosity, thinking, and wanting information about things fire-y, inflammatory, egotistical, and sometimes even violent has been top of mind: What happened with the Trump assassination attempts; why are Boeing whistleblowers turning up dead, why are Russians with influence who are opposed to Putin ‘falling out of windows’, unpacking semitism versus zionism and the anti of each, what’s going on with the Russia/Ukraine war, the Israel/Hamas-Hezbollah-Houthi (Iran) war—all the heinous wars; why are people shooting at commercial planes; what crimes and violence was Diddy perpetrating (if this thread continues into 2026, interest will likely become more about psyche, entanglements, and power as we move to water threads); what’s going on with a ramp-up in hate speech…?

The other side is interest in things spirited and energetic, journeying and pioneering: The first in 50 years, a US owned spacecraft landed on the moon; the world’s longest treasure hunt (Golden Owl) ended after 31 years; ruins of an ancient lost city were discovered in Ecuador, the world’s third largest mosque, Grand Mosque, was inaugurated in Algeria; Taylor Swift became the first musician to become a billionaire from her music and concerts alone.

In 2025, the first two retrogrades will continue with this fire sign trend, triangulating and weaving understandings around spiritedness and feistiness.

Mercury stations retrograde: 3/15/25 at 09°35’ Aries

• Mercury rx cazimi: 3/24/25 at 4°24’ Aries (a journey seeding around understanding our individuation and authenticity)

• Mercury stations direct: 4/7/25 at 26°49’ Pisces

• Mercury stations retrograde: 7/18/25 at 15°34’ Leo

• Mercury rx cazimi: 7/31/25 at 9°00’ Leo (a journey seeding around knowing our hearts and command)

• Mercury stations direct: 8/11/25 at 4°14’ Leo

At the end of 2025, Mercury will start a new elemental triangulation, reversing into the water signs. This first one will be in Scorpio. While threads of fire will still braid through our lives, we will start to notice a shift of interest around the last month of the year. Something more emotional, deep, and ungraspable will start to intrigue us. The fluid nature of mind—the connection between mental and emotional—will begin a thread that starts to toggle our focus between what’s loud and exciting with the fire journeys to what’s subtle and unknowable, moving into the water journeys (Cancer/soul, Scorpio/power, Pisces/transcendence). When people talk about jumping timelines, I often think there’s a Mercury element afoot. We may feel we are starting to jump timelines as we end 2025 and move into 2026.

• Mercury stations retrograde: 11/9/25 at 06°51’ Sagittarius

• Mercury rx cazimi: 11/20/25 at 28°18’ Scorpio (a journey seeding around interest in the occult and power dynamics)

• Mercury stations direct: 11/29/25 at 20°42’ Scorpio 

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Happy 2025, friends! We certainly live in wild times and there’s no lack of that trend in the stars this year. Stay connected and caring. As a final thought, in creation myths, chaos always precedes creation. As chaotic as these times may feel, it is the precursor to creation—the incubator of possibility amidst what may seem like all is falling apart. 

XO,

Allie