#322-"You Knew What You Had to Do"--Week of July 21, 2025

Venus (Relational One) in Gemini squares the Nodal Axis (North Node in Pisces, South Node in Virgo)

This square points to a karmic reckoning in how we communicate, relate, and express beauty or value.

• Venus in Gemini may try to explain, rationalize, or compartmentalize feelings.
• But the North Node in Pisces whispers: “Surrender. Feel. Trust the mystery.”
• And the South Node in Virgo clings to control, precision, and proof.

This square asks: What relationships, ideas, or self-expressions need to release over-analysis to trust deeper emotional or spiritual flow?

Reflections: Are your values aligned with your intuition, or are they still seeking external approval or data to be “valid”? Where can you risk not knowing in order to fully feel?

Venus in Gemini squares Mars in Virgo

This classic Venus (Relational One) -- Mars (Action-Taker) tension plays out in the head and the hands—the realm of ideas vs. the realm of doing. It can activate conflict in relationships, communication, and inner values.

• Venus wants to explore, connect, and play with ideas.
• Mars in Virgo wants to act, fix, refine, and get results.

This transit reveals misalignments between desire and direction. Do your actions support what you say you love? Do your words build bridges or start fires?

Reflections: How can you align your thinking and doing? Where can you bring playfulness into your problem-solving—and precision into your passion?

New Moon in Leo

This is a catalytic lunation that plugs into every outer planet—inviting you to be both the visionary dreamer and the embodied creator. The Leo New Moon calls forth a sovereign reawakening: a chance to declare who you are becoming in the unfolding web of change.

• Trine Saturn (Responsible One) and Neptune (Visionary), both currently retrograde in Aries. This encourages a mystical discipline: act from your higher self, and build what’s most spiritually aligned.
• Sextile Uranus (Maverick) in Gemini: sparks the courage to express radical new ideas or unexpected voices that want to be heard.
• Opposition to Pluto (Transformer) in Leo reveals where ego attachments may still be hiding under the guise of "authenticity." True sovereignty requires shadow work.

Reflections: Where in your life is your inner lion ready to roar? What part of your creative genius have you been holding back, and what would it mean to claim your stage?

Podcast poem: "The Journey" by Mary Oliver