Biz StarCast – June 2022 Edition

Week of May 29 – June 4, 2022

“So stay true to your own nature. If you like to do things in a slow and steady way, don’t let others make you feel as if you have to race. If you enjoy depth, don’t force yourself to seek breadth. If you prefer single-tasking to multi-tasking, stick to your guns. Being relatively unmoved by rewards gives you the incalculable power to go your own way.” — Susan Cain

This week, Mercury ends their journey in reverse, just as Saturn takes his turn at creating backwards magic. We trade moving through the drudge of feeling a slowness in communications, for reassessment of the structures we want to feel comfortable in to replace old ones. Two retrogrades back to back in Fixed signs means you can revisit how these energies show up in your life and how they’ve been constant (for better or for worse).

It’s a time for renewal in sturdy steadiness via the sign of Taurus — moving slow come in handy as you reassess your relationship to innovating your structures compared how you’ve done things until now in Aquarius.

June 3, 2022

Mercury Retrograde Stations Direct Taurus 26°

1:00 AM PT | 4:00 AM ET

What is your renewed clarity? What will you now take action on?

Mercury has stepped on the brakes to once again move forward in the sky! The second of 3 retrograde cycles in 2022 most likely gave you a case of the procrastinations, messages from old acquaintances and the slow down you needed to experience the intensities of May’s Eclipses. What did you get to rethink and see from a fresh perspective during this time? How are you now running more smoothly after this reboot?

Mercury will leave its shadow zone on June 16 and then you’ll be fully integrated from this cycle.

June 4, 2022

Saturn Retrograde begins Aquarius 25°

2:46 PM PT | 5:46 PM ET

Revisit your systems and accountability

What old rules and systems need breaking?

Saturn is officially retrograde and appearing to go backwards in the sky from our place on Mother Earth now through mid-October. Over the last few weeks, Saturn, a slow moving planet, has basically parked itself on Aquarius 25°. For those of us that have any natal planets or angles at this mark, we have already been feeling the energetic squeeze.

Saturn is about contraction, limits and the long haul. Saturn doesn’t mean to be strict – Saturn instead teaches us how to turn doubt into focused mastery. Obligation into accountability. And skill into expertise and authority. Saturn teaches us to say no and commit to our actions through boundaries.

When Saturn is in Aquarius, his second home, something special happens. Instead of building up the structures and containers in which we learn our place in the systems to succeed, Saturn breaks the rules he built so that he can live free from social restraints and conditioning that hold us back through shoulds and duty.

It’s during the Saturn Rx, which happens once a year for about 4.5 months, that you are given a chance to restructure your social obligations through the systems you live and Work in.

In 2022, as we create social equity, part of this rule-breaking of Saturn in Aquarius is building businesses outside the systems of Capitalism and Patriarchy and designing equitable leadership (authority). The old Capricornian patriarchy and duty is dying. Breaking free can be scary for some, especially those that fear change or hold tradition at all costs. For the rest of us, this is the change we’ve been waiting for.

As Saturn ends the Rx cycle in October, this energy will be squared off with Uranus, a similar energy that put us on the brink much of 2021. What have you learned from the extremes of last year that you can dismantle this year?

As Saturn retraces his steps for half the year, it is time to reform your systems, responsibilities and structures in your life and business.

The last few weeks have already brought up the fracture points in your life and Work that are the easy breaking points. Don’t resist, get curious.

On a personal note…

Saturn has been sitting on my natal Sun and Jupiter. This is a big part of my burnout story for the past few months. The Saturn principle of contraction is sitting on my two most expansive energies, my Creative Source (Sun) and my Power of Belief (Jupiter). Instead of fighting this burnout, I have created boundaries to work only on what’s necessary and NOT create anything new. Instead, I have been looking at the business I have built and seeing where I can pare down (contract) to focus on my expertise by repurposing great content and streamlining my offers. Saturn isn’t always comfortable but crystallizes what is important. And I have definitely been learning that!

Personalize Saturn Retrograde

• Mark on your natal chart Aquarius 25° and Aquarius 18°. Note if you have natal planets on those points or in between those points.
• Discover which house contains these points. This part of your life and Work will need to be restructured for mastery and focus.
• Detect angles that are impacted. If you have your Rising, Descendant, Midheaven or Imum Coeli near 18°-25° of Aquarius, notice how your identity and roles are shifting.
• Reveal planets that want a rebuild. If you have planets near 18°-25° of fixed signs (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius), the processes these planets represent requires a restructure. If you have Sun or Moon here, expect bigger shifts.
• Reveal restructuring allies. If you have planets near 18°-25° of air signs (Gemini, Libra), these energies are supporting your changemaking.

Saturn Retrograde Schedule

• 6/4 Saturn Station Retrograde Aquarius 25°’
  What old rules and boundaries need breaking to create new, socially-equitable and self-responsible containers?
• 8/14 Sun Opposite Saturn Aquarius 21°
  What illumination and new thoughts do you now have about structure reform in your life and business?
• 10/22 Saturn Direct Aquarius 18°
  What new socially-equitable role and responsibility have you now created for yourself and what is your expertise?

Week of June 5 – June 11, 2022

“Peace is built on understanding, and wars are built on misunderstandings. Never underestimate the power of a single word, and never recklessly throw around words. One wrong word, or misinterpreted word, can change the meaning of an entire sentence and start a war. And one right word, or one kind word, can grant you the heavens and open doors.” ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

The outer planets dance with the inner ones for us to look at the big picture and the details during this time. Pay attention to the details of your speech during the second quarter moon in Virgo right before we hit the week’s planetary aspects. As Virgo’s ruler Mercury then trines a retrograde Pluto, while Venus conjuncts Uranus and shakes up our sense of stability with what we value, we are reminded to pause and contemplate innovation and reinvention in the most personal of realms.

This week, your words and what you hold dear will both take a tailspin in how they go from inside your head to making an impact in the outside world. They may also make you reconsider if you’re putting true power into your speech, and make the appropriate changes. Caution in how we speak, for our words are spells!
June 7, 2022

2Q Moon Virgo 16°

7:48 AM PT | 10:48 AM ET

Act and ground

What is one practical step will you take that stabilizes your Work?

It’s time to take action! Action for Virgo is based on daily practices of health and wellness that grounds you. What change in your grounding and foundational practices have you been avoiding, but know will help you? Today is the day to ignite that one change. Maybe it’s starting that morning routine, or checking your bank daily. This subtle shift in your daily practice that you know you need to do but haven’t yet started will have maximum impact. So take a leap and start it today.

June 10, 2022

Mercury trine Pluto Rx

2:21 PM PT | 5:21 PM ET

Your words have power

What can you share that transforms?

A great day to craft a message with deep meaning.

It’s a day like today where you have access to deep emotional intelligence and want to share something vulnerable. Now, this isn’t for the sake of clickbait or manipulation. Instead, this is about sharing something deep you’ve overcome in your business that connects you to those that may be going through the same thing you’ve worked through — your ideal customers!

You have the ability to put words to these feelings today and use them to inspire transformation in your community.

Your words have power.

If you have Earth signs (Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn) in late degrees, you’ll be able to create your messages with a feeling of support.

Mercury Taurus 28° trine Pluto Rx Capricorn 28°

June 11, 2022

Venus conjunct Uranus

3:48 PM PT | 6:48 PM ET

Unpredictable abundance breakthroughs

What shakeups in finances and relationships are revolutionizing your world?

For a few days leading up to and away from this meeting, Venus, your abundance and relationship energy and Uranus, your maverick energy meet up in the sky in Venus’s home sign of Taurus. You may get some surprises with your physical resources (yes, money!). Be careful to not judge things as good or bad, for it would be too soon to say, even if the immediate outcome is a financial hit. When Uranus is involved, its shocks are meant to be quantum leaps to get you onto your next evolution. So if a minor setback gets you to where you are supposed to be, that doesn’t sound too bad, does it?

Especially awakening for Fixed signs (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio or Aquarius).

Venus Taurus 16° conjunct Uranus Taurus 16°

Week of June 12 – June 18, 2022

“I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.” —Maya Angelou

Mercury is back in Gemini, just in time to oppose a Full Moon in Sagittarius. This week can be used to celebrate ourselves via the power of using intentional language to give us the credit we deserve.

But while this polarity invites us to look at our relationship with how we can use our thoughts to self love, Mars conjunct Chiron and Venus conjunct the North Node add some contemplation to the mix of how our wounds interplay with destiny, and our responsibility to both.

Squares add a boost to us even in the midst of hard feelings, as Sun and Neptune face off and Venus and Saturn do the same. More creative tension surfaces just in time for us to be more reflective on how to expand past our inner blocks. The week ends with Mercury finally leaving its shadow from the last retrograde, putting a lighter spring in your step (and hopefully your speech too).

June 13, 2022

Mercury reenters Gemini

8:27 AM PT | 11:27 AM ET

Thoughts are curious and quick

What information will you share to engage?

Mercury returns to its home sign of Gemini now through July 12. While at home in chatty Gemini, Mercury is particularly strong while moving forward, taking care of business through sharing ideas, teaching, writing, and all things communication. And after this past Mercury Retrograde, Mercury has a few more items on its to do list implementing all the clarity it received.

You may have a ton to say and do but remember, Gemini at its highest is about being curious and listening too. That means remember to reflect.

For Luminaries with Mercury in Gemini natally…

You are a natural quick-witted, fast thinker who can engage mentally with even the most complex and dense of ideas.

It’s hard for you to remember that others don’t buzz at the speed you do, so sometimes you can leave others in the dust with your intellect!

It’s easy for you to remind the collective of the strength they can garner from being curious, and for you to lean into your own questions to find your own answers as you go through life.

People are drawn to you for being down to dig through the mysteries and investigate even the messiest of ideas. You’re not one to treat your brain as fragile – you know you can figure something out by the power of your commitment to curiosity.

In your Work, speak truth into the world by letting others in on how many questions you have cooking up, and how much you want to bring the community together to answer them.

June 14, 2022

Full Moon Sagittarius 23°

4:51 AM PT | 7:51 AM ET

Illuminating True Self-Appreciation

This Full Moon invites us to reflect back into the heart of the eclipse cycle of 2020-21, when there was a total solar eclipse (New Moon) at this same degree of Sagittarius. Look back at your calendar, journal, and communications to see what was emerging for you around December 14, 2020.

Now is the time to celebrate how far you’ve come.

Applaud the ways in which you’ve created a new paradigm, and adopted a new belief system for yourself. Appreciate – meaning, give more power and more value to – the ways in which you’ve broken free from a limited and limiting self-concept.

At the same time, Mars conjunct Chiron pokes you to notice anything that remains of your old doubts and fears. It’s time to sever any last ties to limiting beliefs that make you over-give, over-share, under-price, or under-estimate yourself.

With the Sun trine Saturn, it’s the perfect time to articulate better boundaries and more self-honoring policies. Moon square Neptune asks you to lean into self-compassion and connection with Spirit as you do so. Your creative integrity depends on your deep honoring of the interconnectedness of mind and body, and soul.

Sagittarius Full Moon Reflections
for Entrepreneurs + Changemakers

To what heights have you transcended in your belief systems and purpose?

• Full moon t-square Neptune Pisces 25° asks us to transcend and interconnect to your deepest purpose and meaning.
• Sun trine Saturn Rx Aquarius 25° sextile Moon asks us to see where saying No creates opportunities more aligned to your changemaking purpose.
• Aries stellium (Jupiter 5°, Mars 15°, Chiron 15°) asks us to understand the meaning of past wounds, especially around leadership and risk taking.
• Taurus stellium (Uranus 16°, Venus 19°, North Node 22°) asks us to make change in our relationships and resources that stretch us onto our highest path.

June 15, 2022

Mars conjunct Chiron

6:49 AM PT | 9:49 AM ET

Take a stand for healing

What wounds will you heal in others that you can’t heal in yourself?

For a week leading up to and away from this event, hurts, wounds and resentments are simmering on the surface for us all. It’s a potent time where salt can be poured on wounds just as easily as healing balm can be applied. During this time, you must choose healing over fighting, consent over conflict, honesty over anger. If you don’t consciously choose to look at all your old wounds and how you’ve hurt others, healing cannot happen. If you DO choose to take the path of healing, you have tremendous energy available to do great healing for others that you may not be able to do for yourself. This healing of course is metaphorical, for there are so many ways to offer healing through your Work. How will you be the medicine? It’s primarily to choose to not be the poison.

Ps: Chiron + Wounded Leadership: Designing Your Work According to your Healing Wisdom is coming in September. Sign up for the waitlist.

Mars and Chiron at Aries 15°

June 16, 2022

Follow the sweetness

What glimmers show you the way?

It’s an intense emotional day (thanks to the Moon cozying up with Pluto) with glimmers of sweetness. Today you need to follow the glimmers. Glimmers are the opposite of triggers — they are fleeting moments when you are sparked by joy, safety and calm. Like a hummingbird that comes across your path or a sun beam peaking through the clouds.

Deb Dana, a licensed clinical social worker, coined the term Glimmers in relation to calming our nervous system. And in your Work, Glimmers show you the way to your joyful purpose. Today, focus on these Glimmers, pay heed and follow their sweetness. They will show you your path to your soul’s potential and connection with Venus meeting up the North Node today in Taurus and the Sun aspecting transcendent Neptune.

Sun square Neptune

12:13 AM PT | 3:13 AM ET
Sun Gemini 25° square Neptune Pisces 25°

Venus conjunct North Node

2:46 AM PT | 5:45 AM ET
Venus and North Node at Taurus 22°

June 18, 2022

Venus square Saturn Rx

2:32 PM PT | 5:32 PM ET

Fleeting hard feelings

What inner emotions are blocking you?

For a few days leading up to and away, you may have fleeting hard feelings, maybe around finances or your physical surroundings. See this as a gift, waiting to fuel you. Instead of getting stuck in old stories, get curious about what these hard feelings want you to know about your situation. Saturn wants you to turn doubt into mastery. Venus wants you to connect to the people and resources that allow you to thrive.

• Is it self doubt in what you do? What is self doubt asking you to master?
• Is it difficulty in relationships? What is that relationship telling you about your own power or boundaries?
• Is it distrust? What about your own power are you not prioritizing?

With a day like today, you get to turn lead into gold in your business if you choose to perceive hard feelings differently.

Especially revealing for Fixed signs (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius)

Venus Taurus 25° square Saturn Rx Aquarius 25°

Mercury leaves Shadow – Gemini 4°

3:26 PM PT | 6:26 PM ET

Full speed ahead

What new truths and beliefs will you now communicate?

Mercury Retrograde ended a few weeks ago and now Mercury has crossed the point in the sky where it retraced its steps – out of the shadow zone. Mercury is now moving forward with your new thoughts and truths that you have recovered during the retrograde cycle. Permission to think quickly on your feet and proceed full speed ahead with your plans and actions.

Week of June 19 – June 25, 2022
“Just because you are soft doesn’t mean you are not a force. Honey and wildfire are both the colour gold.” ― Victoria Erickson, Edge of Wonder: Notes from the Wildness of Being

The Sun now enters Cancer, ushering in the solstice season and encouraging us to feel abundant and harvest the fruit of our connections. If you’re feeling like paying more attention to those who love and make you feel safe, this is the week for that! Meanwhile Venus goes into playful Gemini after trining Pluto in a steady earth sign, inspiring you to connect with your network in a playful manner. This is a week for being both gentle and intentional about who or what you’re aligned with, and also engaging with them to feel more nourished.

Use the bubbly energy of encouraging play and collaboration, in conjunction with feeling the most nurturing energy that can be used to Create the change you want to make in the upcoming months.

A slow, soothing time for community to gather.

June 20, 2022

4Q Moon Pisces 29°

8:11 PM PT | 11:11 PM ET

Relax and flow

What inner consciousness is now aligned to your soul?

A great day to relax and spend time alone or with spirit.

With the Pisces 4Q moon, spend some inner reflective time connecting with your soul and spirit. It most likely will be a day with your head in the clouds (aka not feeling or thinking clearly) so don’t fight it — simply relax and go with the flow.

The last quarter moon phase is an integration phase in our lives and business. A time to cultivate all that we have learned and assess what we want to continue with and what we want to churn back into the earth as nourishment for the seeds we’ve planted.

June 21, 2022

Venus trine Pluto Rx

1:23 AM PT | 4:23 AM ET

You are magnetic

Who are you attracting? Who do you need to avert?

There are powerful attraction powers today. And you could say yes to every invitation but that would spread you too thin. You are being asked to be selective today to attract only those people and opportunities that will put you on your highest path. You’ve gotten so much more clear on your priorities and focus that it will likely be easy for you to discern. So notice the no’s you need to uphold to let in the most powerful opportune yesses.

Venus Taurus 28° trine Pluto Rx Capricorn 28°

Sun enters Cancer – Solstice

2:14 AM PT | 5:14 AM ET

Season of inclusion and nurturing

How can you create belonging and sanctuary in your Work?

As the Sun enters cardinal water Cancer, it signals the summer solstice. The solstice is when the Sun is the furthest away from the equator meaning that those of us in the Northern Hemisphere have the most sun with the longest days and those of us in the Southern Hemisphere have the least sun with the shortest days.

Solstice, to stand still. The Sun reaches the highest poin in the sky and appears to stand still. Sparking

As it is in a cardinal sign, a solstice is the start of a season, a signal that we are now in Summer or in Winter. Whichever season it is, it is the season to tend to your foundational roots, the system that nourishes your emotional security that allows you to rise.

In your personal life, this means tending to your family and self care. In your business, this means nourishing your clients to feel included in your safe community. This care, security and protection is the root to emotional security that allows for healing and growth to happen.

Happy solar return to all the Cancerian Luminaries as you feel a sense of renewal this month.

June 22, 2022

Venus enters Gemini

5:34 PM PT | 8:34 PM ET

Connect over shared interests and dialog

What connections can you make with those with whom you can chat endlessly?

Now through June 3, Venus, our connection to the people and resources we need to succeed, is gliding through social Gemini where she wants to connect with others through intellect, engaging dialog and shared ideas. When Venus is in Gemini, your values scatter a bit as everything holds interest, and life is so fascinating. This isn’t the time to commit to any single relationship or interest. Instead, use this energy to meet new people over shared interests, join or start a writing group or a book club. Let your mind take the lead with connecting you to the right people and resources you need. Oh, and if you’ve had a hard time connecting over social or feeling blocks with your communications, Venus is here to send you some love in this area.

If you have any planetary energies or angles (Rising, Descendent, Midheaven or IC) in Gemini, over the next few weeks, lucky Venus will be sharing her sparkles with you.

For Luminaries with Venus in Gemini natally you love and value learning, curiosity, meandering conversations and connecting with all kinds of people and experiences.

You are a natural social butterfly, quick to pick up on people’s needs and moods. You love a good book, and can’t learn enough about everything! You most likely feel your most attractive in your glasses and nerdy chic.

It’s hard for you to commit and dig in to problems, as there are way too many new experiences to be had. But if you have to dig in, you can synthesize all the feelings and values you perceive and share it in the most light hearted way. Don’t let anyone shame you for your light hearted approach.

It’s easy for you to change your mind, your infatuations and interests can be fickle.

People are drawn to you with your quick witted charm.

In your Work surround yourself with other curious seekers, knowledge lovers and thought leaders.

Week of June 26 – July 2, 2022

“The gap between vision and current reality is also a source of energy. If there were no gap, there would be no need for any action to move towards the vision. We call this gap creative tension.” — Peter Senge

This week, water energies come together to create exciting change via the lens of emotions revealing to us what needs to change. Creative tension happens with expansion giant Jupiter squaring with the Sun, while Neptune (which Jupiter shares rulership of Pisces with) goes retrograde to force our imagination to get even more ambitious than usual.

Capping this all off is a New Moon in Cancer to reset how we interconnect and choose collaboration over power struggle.

The three biggest energies of the week culminate in one intense day that you’ll feel the impact of before and after. Set an intention to pay closer attention in the middle of the week – it’ll help you stay inspired even as some big changes in your perspective come through!

June 28, 2022

We end June with a bang as 3 energies are exacting today.

We start in the wee morning with Neptune stepping on the brakes to reverse for its annual retrograde.

Then the Sun squares off with Jupiter igniting new possibilities in perfect timing for the New Moon later that evening, an event that will amplify these new possibilities into ripe intentions.

Neptune Stations Retrograde Pisces 25°

12:54 AM PT | 3:54 AM ET

Reimagine with Spirit

Now through December 3, 2022, Neptune does its annual retrograde, which you will feel only on the most subtle level. All because Neptune is at its closest to Earth when in retrograde, so we feel Neptune at a deeper level. Feeling Neptune is illusive in of itself, as Neptune is the great transcender and blender of feelings so that you can feel interconnected with all at a soul level. And that goes especially true for those of us with Neptune Rx in your natal chart. Dream activity could be at a high, and everything Neptune represents (soul work, soul healing, soul purpose, faith, vision, dream work, etc) comes into refocus.

Pisces Rx Schedule

• 6/28 Stations Retrograde Pisces 25°
• 9/16 Midpoint 24°
• 12/3 Stations Direct Pisces 22°

Sun square Jupiter

5:59 PM PT | 8:59 PM ET

Your potent purpose ignites

What are your dreams or inspirational downloads envisioning for you?

Can you allow yourself to feel into this huge and expansive energy? Your creativity can be set ablaze with this visionary energy! As the Sun, our creative vitality, and Jupiter, our expansive belief, square off in the sky, you are ready to fly high! Channel this energy into creative pursuits, even if the energy feels untamable, for you can edit later. Be aware that this energy can flow into feeling overly generous. Be aware of what you agree to so that you don’t regret it later. However you channel this energy, ENJOY and share it with others to help up your enthusiasm.

Sun Cancer 7° square Jupiter Aries 7°

New Moon Cancer 7°

7:02 PM PT | 10:02 PM ET

This is a powerful New Moon that asks you to take full “response-ability” for your circles of belonging.

The Moon is at home in Cancer, fully attuned to the interconnectedness of All. A square to Jupiter in Aries ups the cardinal energy of this moon: it’s time to move forward by taking potent action that helps you to feel a greater sense of belonging at home, in your Work, and in the world.

This potent action must honor and protect what’s true for you. This may involve taking a stand, drawing and holding a boundary, and choosing a side. Remember that you co-create the circles in which you love and work, and you always have the power to draw them in ways that honor your truth and integrity.

With supercharged Mars in Aries squaring Pluto in Capricorn, there is definitely an edge to this Cancer moon. Tread carefully, and choose your co-creators wisely. Rather than becoming entangled in power struggles, channel the assertive and deeply transformative aspects of this lunation into the self-honoring moves you know you need to make.

As a celestial being yourself, you ALWAYS belong here. It’s time to claim your Belonging by turning toward the friends, lovers, partners, clients, and communities that honor your whole beautiful human self . . . and away from any that can’t or don’t.

Cosmic notes for Astro Techies

• New Moon (domicile) square Jupiter Aries 7°
• Mars Aries 25° (domicile) square Pluto Rx Capricorn 27°
• Uranus Taurus 17° conjunct North Node Taurus 21°