On June 12th, 2026, Uranus exactly squares the Nodal axis.
While this aspect might easily get overlooked in an already eventful June – with Venus conjunct Jupiter, and both Chiron and Jupiter changing signs – it might actually be the big elephant in the room.
When a planet is square the Nodal axis – which means it is simultaneously square the North Node and the South Node – astrologers call it a “skipped step”.
The Skipped Step
The skipped step is usually understood as unresolved developmental material from the past that needs to be addressed before a person can fully move forward.
“Unresolved” here is not to be confused with feeling stuck. Instead, it points to a dynamic where the conflict of the nodal opposition gets resolved through an outlet (the planet squaring it).
Just like in a T-square, we can look at the planet that squares the Nodes as the outside catalyst that resolves the tension of the opposition.
Oppositions and squares, while both classified as “hard aspects,” have very different functions.
An opposition is a “number 2” aspect – it divides the circle in 2: either, or. It’s internal, a constant pendulum between options. The tension is never resolved because this tension is exactly what makes the opposition an opposition: “either, or” – “this or that.”
The square, instead, is a “number 4” aspect – it divides the circle by 4, and 4 is the number of matter. This is why squares make things happen. They bring matters into the material world.
So in a T-square, or a skipped-step type of dynamic, the planet that squares the opposition axis acts as the catalyst that makes things happen (like for real, in the 3D world). It’s like a fuse that suddenly goes off – and the tension of the opposition is finally addressed.
And this reframe of the square invites a slightly different way of thinking about the skipped step itself.
Perhaps we’ve been taking the skipped step metaphor too seriously – but not literally enough.
And perhaps the easiest way to understand a skipped step is through an actual skipped step.
When you skip a step and stumble upon something, the script gets interrupted.
The skipped step not as something you’ve missed. But literally, as what happens when something occurs on the outside – the square – that resolves the problem of the opposition.
The Skipped Step And Snow White
And this takes us to the Snow White fairytale.
Snow White grows up under the shadow of a jealous stepmother, the Queen. Unable to reconcile with the passing of her own beauty, the Queen poisons Snow White with an apple, sending her into a death-like sleep.
We could go on and on about the rich symbolism of this fairytale – from the mother-daughter dynamics and the little-discussed jealousy that can coexist with love, yet still poison the next generation with the regret of one’s own unfulfilled potential.
If we look at it through the lens of the Lunar Nodes, the poisoned apple becomes the generational heritage (this could include past-life content if we choose to look at the Nodes this way) that someone is born into.
We all have a North Node and a South Node – this is the one aspect, the one opposition, that regardless of the rest of the natal chart, everyone is born with.
We are all born into some sort of story, heritage, or unprocessed material (South Node) which exists in polarity with our North Node – a symbol of future directions and possibilities.
The past and the future are continuously renegotiated, but unless a planet comes to activate this axis, nothing happens.
Uranus Square The Lunar Nodes – The Skipped Step
When Uranus squares the Nodes, something will happen.
It might come as an accident, an unforeseen circumstance, a coincidence, or an unexpected development that somehow changes the trajectory of the story.
In Snow White, one of the prince’s servants skips a step while carrying Snow White’s coffin.
–> The jolt causes the piece of poisoned apple lodged in Snow White’s throat to get expelled. The poison leaves her body, she comes to life, and the spell is broken.
This was not something that Snow White, the prince, or anyone else in the story “did.” It was not some sort of reward for hard work.
It was an accident. A skipped step. An interruption of the script. The servant literally skipped a step. And the problem of the Nodal axis got resolved.
The skipped step is not the problem. It is the solution.
Uranus square the Nodes is the catalyst that interrupts the looping narrative – and in doing so, frees it.
With Uranus squaring the Nodal axis, nothing “causes” the awakening in a linear sense. Instead, there is a sudden disruption of the existing situation. An unexpected event. A break in the pattern.
If we look back at our lives, many of our most life-changing moments were not planned or ‘worked through’. They happened by chance – or by what later felt like the mysterious pull of fate.
And while this transit may not require us to ‘do more’, it does require recognition.
What first appears as an interruption may in fact be the thing that resolves a tension that could not otherwise be resolved.
Sometimes the solution to a an “either, or” is not to take another step. Sometimes the solution is to skip a step.
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June 2026 features 2 dramatic ingresses: Chiron completes its 8-year journey through Aries and enters Taurus, and Jupiter makes its annual ingress, entering Leo.
These are very important transits that will completely shift our priorities and overall direction. Things are shifting at a fundamental level.
Another highlight of the month is the much-anticipated Venus-Jupiter conjunction in Cancer on June 9th. This is a beautiful emotional culmination before Venus and Jupiter shift into Leo in the 2nd part of June.
Mercury goes retrograde at the end of the month at the exact degree of the Venus-Jupiter conjunction. There’s more to the story!
But let’s take a look at the most important transits of the month:
June 9th, 2026 – Venus Conjunct Jupiter
June 9th, 2026, Venus is conjunct Jupiter at 25° Cancer.
Everyone is getting excited about this conjunction, and for good reasons. Venus and Jupiter are the 2 ‘benefics’ and their conjunctions are classically considered the luckiest and most joyful.
What makes this special is the sign it occurs. Jupiter is exalted in Cancer, so this conjunction is even more potent – even more flooded with abundance and emotional truth.
This is a time to rewrite our relationship to what matters – to be guided not only by what we believe is right, but also by what feels true. This distinction might sound like empty words, but let’s sit with it a bit.
We can become convinced we know what’s good for us when, in reality, much of our worldview is built on assumptions, expectations, and stories we inherited from family, culture, or the world around us. We adopt them so early that they start to feel like our own.
Venus conjunct Jupiter in Cancer invites us to reconnect with a more personal source of knowing.
Like a river instinctively finding its way to the sea, there is a part of us that already knows what matters. The task is not to figure it out, but to trust it – and then align our life with it.
June 15th, 2026 – New Moon In Gemini
On June 15th, 2026, we have a New Moon at 24° Gemini. Apart from a loose square to Neptune, this lunation is pretty much unaspected.
This is also the first New Moon in Gemini with Uranus in the sign. Once the realization dawns that things may not be the way we thought they were, a space opens up.
Because this New Moon is largely unaspected, there is no strong planetary storyline filling that space or telling us what to do with it.
This blank, unwritten space can feel disorienting, but there’s something about the ‘not knowing’ that paradoxically triggers the ‘deeper knowing’ inside of us – beyond society narratives and ‘that’s just how things are’ assumptions.
The New Moon in Gemini invites us to consciously seed that space with a genuinely new possibility.
June 19th, 2026 – Chiron Enters Taurus
On June 19th, 2026, Chiron enters Taurus. Chiron changing signs is one of the most important astrological events of the year.
Chiron has spent 8 years in Aries, digging into and healing the rawest themes of identity and self-expression. The process that began in 2018 has not been easy, but it has been necessary. Our relationship to ourselves will never go back to the way it was before.
The same process now begins with Chiron in Taurus. Taurus (together with Aries) are the 2 signs where Chiron – with its otherwise very eccentric orbit – spends the most time.
There is something about the relationship between identity – the abstract “who am I” (Aries) – and the embodiment of that identity (Taurus) that Chiron has to work on with its sharpest skills.
This is not a wound that heals overnight. It will take 8 years. But at the end of it, the core Taurus themes – like feeling safe in this world, feeling that we matter, manifesting, giving and receiving – will have received the healing they so deeply need.
We tend to see the Taurus types of dysfunction as an unhealthy relationship with our body or money – but that’s just the tip of the iceberg, what shows on the surface when something has been long unrooted.
But it goes much deeper than that. The good news is that if there’s a planetary archetype that has the tools, the patience and the empathetic understanding to guide this healing, that is Chiron.
Whether you were born with Chiron in Taurus (and you’ll have your Chiron return), have planets in Taurus, or simply an area of your life ruled by Taurus – and we all do, that’s our Taurus house – Chiron in Taurus will open a new chapter of healing and integration.
June 21st, 2026 – Sun Enters Cancer
Happy Solstice and happy b-day, Cancers! On June 21st, 2026, the Sun enters Cancer.
Solstices and equinoxes are the 4 turning points of the year, when the balance between light and darkness changes direction. We call them seasons, but they are really transitions into a different psychological and energetic atmosphere.
Each turning point introduces the qualities of one of the 4 elements. The Libra equinox brings air. The Capricorn solstice, earth. The Aries equinox, fire.
With Cancer, we enter the season of water – a season of intuition, feelings, belonging, and leaning into what feels right.
June 28th, 2026 – Mars Enters Gemini
On June 28th, 2026, Mars enters Gemini and that’s going to be an immediate change in pace!
After grazing, ruminating and gathering the resources needed in Taurus, Mars is leaving the familiar ground to step into the Territory, Gemini’s field of information, exchange, and discovery.
Uranus, for the first time in Gemini since almost 8 decades, will awaken Mars to something that it has never experienced before.
In Gemini, Mars will discover new ways of working with information, data, thoughts, and ideas – operating less on autopilot and with more awareness of what is actually happening.
June 29th, 2026 – Full Moon In Capricorn
On June 29th (or June 30th), we have a Full Moon at 8° Capricorn.
The Full Moon is separating from a square to Neptune and applying to square Saturn in Aries. Now that a dream or a possibility has been awakened, the Capricorn question becomes: how do we make it real?
The answer may not be obvious, and the road ahead may not be easy. Yet Capricorn is less interested in obstacles and more in solutions. This is a Full Moon to stress-test what matters, separate wishful thinking from commitment, and take responsibility for the next step.
A detailed Full Moon report will follow closer to the date.
June 30th, 2026 – Mercury Goes Retrograde
On June 30th, 2026, Mercury goes retrograde at 26° Cancer, for a 3-week journey into our emotional memory.
Why do we react the way we do? Why do certain situations affect us more than others? Mercury retrograde in Cancer traces our feelings back to their source, helping us understand the emotional logic underneath our choices and actions.
Mercury turns retrograde at the degree of the Venus-Jupiter conjunction earlier this month.
Whatever that conjunction has awakened or promised, Mercury retrograde in Cancer will initiate the necessary emotional processing to bring it fully into consciousness.
Mercury goes direct on July 24th at 16° Cancer. If you have planets or angles between 16°-26° Cancer, you will be especially influenced by this retrograde.
June 30th, 2026 – Jupiter Enters Leo
On June 30th, 2026, Jupiter leaves Cancer and enters Leo.
Jupiter spends approx 1 year in a sign, so when it changes signs, there’s an immediate change in the atmosphere. Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system, so these shifts are always noticeable.
At a collective level, the atmosphere shifts from Cancer – emotional, protective, inward – to Leo: bold, brave, straightforward.
At a personal level, Jupiter moves away from one sector of your life and begins expanding another. At the time of the ingress, pay attention to what comes up for you – especially how your interests shift, how you become drawn to a certain topic, or a particular area of your life comes into focus.
During its 1-year stay in Leo, Jupiter will form supportive aspects with Neptune and Saturn in Aries – however, the very first aspect it makes will be a square to Chiron (at 0° Taurus).
So the first encounter with the bold, confidence-driven energy of Leo will also – paradoxically – trigger deeper, forgotten wounds around security and trusting our instincts.
A detailed report of the Jupiter-Chiron square will follow closer to the date.
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On May 30th, 2026 (or May 31st, depending on where you live), we have a Full Moon at 9° Sagittarius.
The Full Moon is opposite Uranus in Gemini, trine Saturn and Neptune in Aries, and sextile Pluto in Aquarius.
This Full Moon connects all the outer planets into a rare, coherent configuration that will come to expose, in the way only a Full Moon in Sagittarius does – the truth of the matter.
What is truth?
This is the question that philosophers – and philosophers are ruled by Sagittarius – have wrestled with since the beginning of time.
Seeking answers is the very essence of the fire, mutable nature of Sagittarius. We read the books. We travel the world. We explore different perspectives – all in the hope that somewhere, hidden beneath the complexity of life, there is a principle that makes sense of it all.
At its core, Sagittarius is about trying to find a sense of coherence – the “big picture”, a governing principle that ties it all together.
And this process cannot be rushed.
There’s a reason why Sagittarius is the nomad of the zodiac. The man on a horse – always riding, always looking, always searching – never quite settling.
The constant movement can look like aimless wandering. That’s why it’s tempting to reduce Sagittarius to someone who ‘likes adventure’, ‘cannot commit’. But this misses the sacredness of the process of search, which is the pursuit of truth.
The search is not an escape from commitment – it is a commitment to finding the truth.
The reason the rider cannot stop is that they haven’t found (yet) the truth. So they have to keep going – not from restlessness, but from integrity.
And when the truth is eventually found, then and only then is the rider ready to graduate to the Capricorn, committed, make-things-happen state of consciousness.
Rush the Sagittarius process, and we settle for half answers, or linger into restlessness and a feeling that “I still haven’t found what I’m looking for”. Or simply convince ourselves that the search is exhausting and the road leads to nowhere anyway.
The Full Moon in Sagittarius will challenge that part of our psyche that hasn’t yet graduated in Sagittarius.
Full Moon In Sagittarius – This Is It
At its deepest level, Sagittarius is the realization that there is a deeper coherence to our life, and that we are living the life we are supposed to be living.
It is the moment when we can finally say: “This is it“.
“This is it” is the answer to the Sagittarius search. It’s the moment when the rider gets off the horse because the answer has finally been found, and the search has come to its inevitable end.
“This is it” is not an intellectual exercise. We don’t find it by testing hypotheses, making lists of things we like, ‘being intentional’, asking the experts, or weighing the pros and cons.
It is a deeper knowing that only emerges when everything falls into place, into what feels like an effortless choreography.
Our relationship with this Sagittarius principle reveals whether we live our life with integrity – in alignment with our own personal truth – or not.
In that sense, the Full Moon in Sagittarius can be the “yes or no” answer to the “This is it?” question.
It can be the striking realization that “none of this is really me” and maybe our entire life is built on a version of the truth that no longer applies.
The Full Moon in Sagittarius can also bring the assurance that – at least in some areas of our life – we are doing exactly what we are supposed to be doing. That our search for meaning, the striving, the searching have been worth the effort, and that things are finally clicking into place.
At the Full Moon in Sagittarius, the rider pauses:
Is this it?
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On May 16th, 2026, we have a New Moon at 25° Taurus.
The New Moon is conjunct Mercury at 28° Taurus and Uranus, now freshly at 1° Gemini.
This is an out-of-sign conjunction New Moon that captures the exact moment when the long Taurus sleep begins to give way to the Gemini awakening.
At 25° Taurus, we are deep inside Taurus territory. This is the fixed, grounded, natural intelligence that knows when to stay still in order to absorb nutrients and consolidate growth.
We don’t hurry here.
We take our time because we understand that certain things need to be protected, nourished, and given enough time to develop if they are to stand any chance of survival.
Uranus in Gemini is the antithetical energy – it’s the lightning bolt that snaps us out of inertia and invites us to move, to take the first step (1° Gemini).
This marriage between the stillness of Taurus and the sudden jolt of movement of Uranus in Gemini is illustrated in the fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty.
The Sleeping Beauty
A brief summary of the fairy tale, in case you want to refresh your memory.
A king and queen host a grand christening for their long-awaited newborn daughter. They invite the kingdom’s good fairies to bestow magical gifts upon the child.
An old, forgotten fairy crashes the celebration and places a curse on the princess: on her 16th birthday, she will prick her finger and fall into a deep 100-year sleep.
The prophecy comes to pass. The princess pricks her finger and falls into a deep sleep. The whole kingdom falls asleep with her, and the castle becomes surrounded by thick thorns that keep the outside world away.
When the 100 years have passed – the prince arrives, kisses Sleeping Beauty, and she awakens. And with her, the entire kingdom awakens as well.
The key thing to understand is that the 100-year sleep is not simply a frozen moment in time. It is not time wasted.
It is a symbol for the sacred gestation and unconscious development – the invisible work of roots growing in the dark, of form taking shape beneath the surface, before it is ready to meet the light.
Similarly, when something new is being born within us, or when the outer world becomes too overwhelming, the psyche naturally withdraws its energy inward in order to process the transition.
This inner process cannot be rushed. Taurus, the fixed earth sign of the zodiac, is that heavy, dense, protective matrix – the “hedge of thorns” where the soul must remain in undisturbed stillness.
During this sleep, nothing looks like it is happening on the outside, but underneath, organic gestation is taking place. This is Taurus building the literal physical and emotional substance required to sustain the next phase of life.
The princess needed the long sleep just as every one of us, when we reach the Taurus developmental stage – or Taurus phases in our life – needs to sit with something long enough for it to take root and acquire substance.
But Taurus eventually leads to Gemini, the sign of movement.
The New Moon in Taurus conjunct Uranus, now in Gemini, the next sign in the developmental sequence of individuation – is the sudden, electric shock of the kiss that instantly disrupts the 100-year stillness.
The moment the princess opens her eyes, the entire kingdom awakens with her. The silent, frozen castle is suddenly filled with movement, conversation, and activity.
This marks the transition from Taurus – immobility, silence, the patience of the earth – to Gemini: reanimation, movement, connection, and cross-pollination.
New Moon In Taurus – Sun Conjunct Moon
A New Moon is that part in the lunar cycle when the Sun and Moon come together – when the conscious and unconscious meet in the dark, before the new light begins.
The Prince and Sleeping Beauty are not separate people; they are 2 complementary parts of our own psyche.
The Prince (Sun/Animus) represents the masculine principle of will, courage, and discrimination. He arrives exactly when the 100 years are up – meaning the inner work is complete.
The Princess (Moon/Anima) represents the feminine principle of intuition, feeling, and unconscious wisdom.
The Kiss (Conjunctio/Sacred Marriage) is the ultimate Jungian goal of Individuation. When the conscious mind (Prince) bravely descends into the unconscious and embraces the soul (the Princess), the period of stillness comes to an end and a new chapter begins.
Both the princess and the prince – the Sun and the Moon – participate equally in this process. This is not a story of rescue. The prince does not save the princess.
The real work has already taken place during the sleep.
The 100-year sleep is a metaphor for the long, slow process of inner alchemy and psychological maturation, when we allow the deeper layers of our psyche to do their root-level work.
Nothing in the outside world can happen if we skip the Taurus stage.
The prince doesn’t arrive by chance – he is the natural consequence of staying in that sleep, in that introspective depth, long enough for the process to complete itself.
New Moon In Taurus – The Beauty Of The Sleep
The New Moon in Taurus reminds us we can’t rush life into life.
At the same time, the New Moon in late Taurus suggests that we are getting close to the edge of the hedge – to the end of the incubation period, and that the awakening is just around the corner.
The invitation of this New Moon in Taurus is not to rush the process – this is still a Taurus lunation. It’s to stay there long enough until the message, the insight, has no choice but to reveal itself.
Many of our struggles – especially in a world of constant connectivity, nonstop stimulation, and instant gratification – come from trying to jump too quickly to Gemini.
We want THE insight, and we want it now. We watch the 30-second reel instead of sitting with a single thought for an hour with no distractions.
We chase the next fleeting insight that will reveal the ‘secret formula’ we hope is the answer to our restlessness, our confusion, our longing for direction – when in truth, the answer can only emerge through the process of sitting with the question long enough.
At a larger level, this Sleeping Beauty New Moon in Taurus speaks of the redeeming quality that beauty and love – when awakened – have on everything around us.
When the Beauty (Venus) awakens, the whole world awakens with her.
When we live from beauty and love, the world has no choice but to respond in kind.
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As soon as Uranus entered Gemini in April, it began squaring the Lunar Nodes, now in the early degrees of Virgo and Pisces.
While the exact aspect – at 2° Gemini, 2° Virgo, 2° Pisces – happens on June 12th, 2026, the aspect is already building.
Transits to the Nodal axis are known for carrying a fated, “this is extraordinary,” “this is unlike anything I’ve experienced before” quality.
The Lunar Nodes
The Lunar Nodes are, in a way, the astrological outliers.
They are not planets. They don’t move in the same direction as all the other planets. They are invisible. They move retrograde. They create eclipses.
And anyone who has paid attention to how eclipses unfold knows that they feel unpredictable yet destined, leaving little room for doubt that something significant is taking place.
The Nodal Square
Out of all the aspects a planet can make to the Nodes, the square is perhaps the most interesting.
A conjunction to one of the Nodes is more archetypally concentrated – but it highlights only one side of the axis, either the South Node or the North Node. Even eclipses, while fundamentally an alignment, tend to emphasize one end of the polarity.
The square, however, is the only aspect that activates both Nodes with the exact same intensity, lighting up both ends of the axis at the same time.
This is no longer simply “focus on what’s ahead of you” – the usual North Node advice – nor “let go of the past” – the usual South Node advice. We are dealing with a complete recalibration – one that requires genuine integration.
The Nodal square pushes us to find a way that integrates both what we know and what we are being called toward – and the planet that was previously unresolved becomes the bridge between the 2.
In terms of fate, this feels less like “this is the direction you must go” and more like “this is the thing you can no longer avoid – and when you stop avoiding it, everything else falls into place“.
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What about Uranus?
Uranus speaks of encounters, opportunities, and changes that are not expected, that are not planned, and that do not arise from our existing agenda.
So when Uranus squares the Lunar Nodes, a powerful sense of unexpected but fated change is written on the wall.
When Uranus is the planet at the apex of this nodal configuration, what gets recalibrated is precisely our relationship with the unexpected.
The square is demanding that we stop pre-filtering reality and genuinely open to what is arriving from outside.
Uranus is in Gemini. Gemini, archetypally, is the Territory we enter once we have established a safe foundation in Taurus.
The Territory is about stepping outside our comfort zone and going to a different place than the one we already know.
In the Hero’s Journey framework, Territory is defined by Gemini or the sextile aspect. This is the part in the journey when something real happens for the first time. The Hero receives a message. A helping companion appears.
All these Gemini experiences are a way of life saying, “Listen to me. What I’m about to tell you is not something you already know. It is something you don’t know – something that will pull you out of your comfort zone and alter the direction of your life.”
–> The success of this stage depends on how willing we are to truly listen – to register the message.
Gemini requires real curiosity – not the kind that seeks confirmation of what we already believe, but the kind that genuinely wants to take in something that was not there before.
In real life, most of us struggle with this, because we are not used to truly opening up – we simply have no reference for it. We might think we do, but we don’t.
Uranus Square The Lunar Nodes – Entering The Territory
The Territory is a metaphor for the world outside of ourselves, where all kinds of things happen. It is foreign, it is mysterious, and it is where life begins to speak back.
Most of the time, we think we are open or adventurous because we travel, or we enroll in a class, or we try something new – and we might think we are entering the Territory.
But all these things are self-directed because they arise from our own plans and priorities. And being self-directed does not belong to the Territory.
–> The essence of the Territory is that it is NOT self-directed. It is completely unknown.
When we book a trip to Italy but arrive with a spreadsheet of everything we intend to do, we leave very little space for something else to call on us.
When we go to a networking event and tell ourselves we are “open,” but what we are open to is based on priorities we have already decided on, then we are not truly open – because we are pre-filtering reality.
When we live our lives through glasses tinted only in green and blue, we cannot even see the orange and the pink. We only allow into our experience what already fits our existing frameworks.
And while that is safe, and while that is efficient, it is also… boring and limiting.
Uranus Square The Nodes – No Map, No Agenda, Just A Compass
To truly enter the Territory, we need to become genuinely open. To go with no agenda.
It is only when we turn off the inner stereo that we can hear a different signal. It is only when we take off our tinted glasses that we can see things we have never seen before.
Some of the most important developments in our lives: our vocation, our relationships, our community, our contribution – are not manufactured by the ego. They don’t happen on our own timing.
They happen on destiny’s timing, and emerge through interaction with something beyond us.
Fundamentally, Uranus square the Lunar Nodes is an invitation to truly listen – and direct our attention to what is calling us.
When the Nodes are activated, the message WILL come. Will you recognize it – or walk on by?
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On May 6th, 2026, Pluto goes stationary retrograde at 5° Aquarius.
While the exact station happens on May 6th, this influence has already been building in the past week, culminating with the Scorpio Full Moon on May 1st.
Things have just been more ‘Plutonic’ lately – and this intensity will continue in the coming week.
What does ‘Plutonic’ actually mean?
Lots of us associate Pluto with power plays, heavy stuff, crisis and transformation – and other themes that are really more Scorpio than Pluto.
Pluto transits CAN feel like we’re some kind of puppets on strings – but that may not have anything to do with power plays, and the crisis we’re experiencing might not actually be Pluto’s doing.
So why is Pluto so misunderstood – and how does it really operate?
Pluto is the last planet in the solar system. From its position at the edge, Pluto can see all the other planets circling around the Sun, making aspects, and playing out their cycles.
Its distance gives Pluto the widest perspective of all. He’s the manager in chief of the solar system. The scorekeeper.
There is a natural law to how everything unfolds and interconnects – and Pluto, from that vantage point, understands this in a way no other planet does.
It doesn’t just register the individual parts, but the whole ecosystem – how different elements feed into each other and regulate the overall balance.
Let’s take the ecosystem we call planet Earth. Plants, animals, humans, resources – all co-exist in a system that regulates itself.
Animals eat plants, other animals eat those animals, we humans eat pretty much everything – and eventually, we feed back into the system, nourishing the soil and continuing the cycle.
There is a natural law where nothing is too much or too little – and even when things temporarily fall out of balance, the system works to restore itself.
Pluto problems arise when we start wrestling with what is – rather than trusting the natural law that’s already taking care of it.
For example:
We hope for a certain outcome, we put in effort, money, or time – but then we don’t quite get what we expected, or on the timeline we expected.
We find ourselves in a situation with a partner – we feel we’ve done a lot, and they owe us. Resentment creeps in. We’ve been keeping score, and we’re convinced it’s unfair.
But who’s keeping the real score?
Pluto is keeping the real score. And that’s a good thing, because it means we don’t have to. It means that whatever we’re dealing with is part of a larger process that is already being accounted for.
In Pluto’s books, nothing gets missed. Every action is recorded. Every investment – of time, energy, intention – is feeding something.
–> Maybe the time you invested in a relationship or a project didn’t pay off the way you hoped – but it helped someone else who needed it more than you did at that moment.
–> And the reverse is also true. Sometimes good things come your way that you didn’t directly work for in that moment – something works out, an opportunity opens up – and you might mistake it for skill or talent, when it might well be a dividend coming back around.
What goes around always comes around – just not always on our personal timing. On Pluto’s timing.
Pluto Goes Retrograde – Is Not All About Us
Most of our struggles in life come when we make life about us. This creates a kind of tunnel vision, and we miss the bigger picture.
But life is waaay more complex and interconnected than we give it credit for – and most of the time, what frustrates us, what feels unfair, what keeps us up at night – has very little to do with us personally.
There’s a much larger story going on that we simply don’t have the bandwidth to see, because, unlike Pluto, we’re not at the edge of the solar system.
Pluto in Aquarius, more than in any other sign, points to a higher order, a larger puzzle, and the understanding that everything is connected and accounted for.
When we shift our perspective from ourselves to the bigger picture, we stop wasting time and energy on resentment and score-keeping around things we have zero control over.
The same hour of unpaid overtime can create stress and grief (why am I not getting paid?) – OR it can energize us, when we see the impact we made and how that extra hour actually helped someone. Same situation – completely different experience.
When we make public speaking about us – what people will think, how they’ll judge us – we dread it. But when we focus on the message that needs to be delivered, on the people we’re there to help, the same experience becomes exhilarating. Again – same circumstance, completely different experience.
All this might sound simple – and it is.
But once the concept really lands, we can’t believe how much time, energy, and frustration we’ve been spending on things we have zero control over, instead of doing something more meaningful. We almost don’t know whether to laugh or cry – probably both.
Pluto stationary in Aquarius is that twice-a-year reminder that this is not all about us. And that by shifting our perspective from ourselves to the world, to people, to the bigger picture, we can move from frustration and resistance to flow, connection, and meaning.
In this Plutonic reflective window, ask yourself:
Where in your life are you keeping score – and what would change if you trusted Pluto to do it for you?
And where in your life could you make it less about you – and more about the world around you?
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The 2 ‘troublemakers’ – Uranus and Pluto – are all over the May transits.
May 2026 starts on a Pluto tone with the Full Moon in Scorpio square Pluto, followed by Pluto retrograde. Hello Pluto!
As we move through the month, the atmosphere becomes increasingly Uranian – starting with the New Moon in late Taurus (conjunct Uranus), then followed by Mercury and Sun conjunct Uranus.
At the end of the month, we get back to Pluto, who’s pushing us toward long-overdue spring cleaning of old identities from the Capricorn era.
And if this all sounds a bit much – and it might definitely feel that way – remember that Uranus, now in Gemini, is moving into a trine with Pluto.
These 2 aren’t just wreaking havoc for the fun of it – they have a plan. It all makes perfect sense up there on Olympus.
It will make sense to us too, a little further down the road.
In the meantime, May asks us to trust the process. If something is falling apart, it’s because it was supposed to. If an opportunity knocks, answer the door. Let the Universe do its work – and trust that the chaos has a plan.
But let’s take a look at the most important transits of the month:
May 1st, 2026 – Full Moon In Scorpio
On May 1st, 2026, we have a Full Moon at 11° Scorpio. This Full Moon is T-squaring Pluto, its ruler, Mars, is square Jupiter, and cherry on top, Mercury is conjunct Chiron. That’s a loaded Full Moon chart!
Whatever has been bottling up in your life will now erupt like a volcano, creating a much-needed clearing of the air.
As with any Full Moon on the Taurus-Scorpio axis, themes of give-and-take come into focus. Who’s doing what? Who’s giving more? Who’s been keeping score? This is a moment to look at the balance of your exchanges with others.
With Mercury conjunct Chiron, some of these conversations may touch old wounds, and that’s okay. Sometimes the eruption is also the healing.
May 3rd, 2026 – Mercury Enters Taurus
On May 3rd, 2026, Mercury enters Taurus – and we will all feel an exhale. Mercury has had a rough stretch: retrograding through Pisces, then getting pinballed by all those planets in Aries.
Now he’s finally found a safe house in Taurus, where even Uranus has left the building, having just moved into Gemini.
Enjoy it while it lasts, though. Mercury is already applying to a tense square with a stationary Pluto, pushing for (even more) resolution in the wake of the Full Moon.
May 6th, 2026 – Pluto Goes Retrograde
On May 6th, 2026, Pluto goes retrograde at 5° Aquarius. As usual, when a slow-moving planet like Pluto changes direction, its energy intensifies.
This doesn’t have to be a Plutocalypse – although when Pluto shows up, we know we have no choice but change.
The more we recognize what actually needs to go, the more empowering the process becomes. Pluto only feels like destruction when we’re clinging to something that was already done.
May 14th, 2026 – Sun Conjunct Mercury In Taurus
May 14th, 2026 – Sun is conjunct Mercury at 23° Taurus, which means we are mid-way through the Mercury cycle, and experienced the “Full Mercury” phase of the current cycle.
Early ideas and projects that have been taking root in the last couple of months are starting to show their first real growth above the soil.
May 16th, 2026 – Mars Conjunct Chiron
On May 16th, 2026, Mars is conjunct Chiron at 28° Aries. Since 2018, Chiron in Aries has been helping us heal our wound of identity – and with Mars, the planet of self-assertion joining in, old wounds resurface.
The Mars-Chiron transit can bring back situations where we felt disempowered, bullied, or dismissed. Times when our boundaries were crossed and we either didn’t know how to hold them, or felt we weren’t allowed to.
This is the final Mars-Chiron conjunction in Aries (at least for the next 4+ decades). Looking back now, we can recognize that the struggles – the times we were walked over, treated as if we don’t matter
– and all the stories we’ve been telling ourselves along the way that ‘there must be something wrong with me’ – were never true.
This is where it ends. No more crossing the line. Who we are and what we want matter. And as long as you’re not trampling on someone else’s right to the same, we don’t have to accept anything that won’t let us be ourselves.
That’s what Chiron in Aries has been building toward all these years. Soon, Chiron will move into Taurus and bring other areas to heal.
May 16th, 2026 – New Moon In Taurus
On May 16th, 2026, we have a New Moon at 25° Taurus.
The New Moon is conjunct Mercury and Uranus, and sextile Jupiter in Cancer. The New Moon ruler, Venus, is sextile Mars.
This is one of the more auspicious New Moons out there – strong aspects, supportive flow, and just enough Uranus to shift how we see things.
At the New Moon in Taurus, we begin to see opportunities that were always right in front of our noses, but somehow didn’t recognize their potential.
Now, with a few small tweaks and a reframe, we can make something real out of them. Eureka!
May 16th, 2026 – Mercury Enters Gemini, Conjunct Uranus
On May 16th, Mercury enters Gemini – its home sign – and conjuncts Uranus the very next day.
This is our very first Mercury-Uranus conjunction in Gemini, and it will not go unnoticed.
Whether it comes from the outside, through a surprising announcement, or from within – as a shift in how you see things – things will start to click in a new way.
May 21st, 2026 – Sun Enters Gemini, Conjunct Uranus
On May 21st, 2026, the Sun enters Gemini – happy birthday to all Geminis out there!
This is the first Gemini season in almost 80 years with Uranus in the sign. If you have planets or the Ascendant in Gemini, or if you know people who do, the shift will be quite obvious.
This Gemini season, expect to feel freer, lighter, and less ‘boxed in’, especially in the area of life ruled by Gemini in your chart.
May 26th, 2026 – Mars Square Pluto, Sun Trine Pluto
On May 26th, 2026, Pluto is square Mars and trine the Sun.
This Pluto one-two calls for a deeper kind of spring cleaning. Whatever has been running on ‘I can’t do this’ becomes visible for what it is – an excuse – as we use it to fuel a version of ourselves that no longer needs it.
May 31st, 2026 – Full Moon In Sagittarius
On May 31st, 2026, we close the month with a Full Moon at 9° Sagittarius, trine Neptune and Saturn in Aries, square the Nodes.
Having ‘survived’ Uranus and Pluto, something has shifted – and now there’s space to breathe, to look around, and to wonder.
We may find ourselves in what feels like a completely different place, even if it’s the same living room, the same commute, or the same life.
When our perspective shifts, we stop reacting from where we’ve been, and start recognizing what’s actually calling us forward.
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On April 26th, 2026, Uranus enters Gemini. Uranus only changes signs every 7 years, so this is BIG.
The internet is already full of predictions: AI will take over everything, communication will be revolutionized, and the world will move faster than we can keep up with.
But understanding how Uranus in Gemini influences us goes beyond “Innovation” + Gemini = AI, online learning and drones.
Let’s look at Uranus in Taurus 7-year chapter we’re just leaving behind to understand how Uranus really operates.
Uranus in Taurus Recap
Uranus entered Taurus in 2018. Back then, everyone predicted Uranus would completely transform the financial system – that everything would digitize, that cryptocurrencies would replace global currencies and so on.
Now it’s 2026, we’re at the very end of the transit, and your morning coffee is still not being paid for in Bitcoin.
In fact, the asset that saw the highest growth during Uranus in Taurus was gold – the ‘boring’ safe haven everyone had written off.
The irony is that Uranus – the planet of innovation and disruption – in Taurus, the sign of material resources and tradition, ended up rewarding the oldest form of money, not the newest.
Has the financial system been disrupted? To an extent – but not necessarily in the ways we imagined.
If anything, we could argue that financial markets have become more immune to volatility, responding in less dramatic ways to economic shocks, world events, or geopolitical moves.
Uranus in Taurus simply didn’t seem to ‘care’ that much about what happened in the world – the financial system kept moving to its own internal rhythm.
So what does this tell us about how Uranus actually operates?
Uranus’s role is not to impose the ‘new’ – but to stress-test existing systems, so that what’s genuinely solid survives, and what’s built on narrative or speculation gets exposed.
Uranus doesn’t necessarily bring the future people imagine – it dismantles the fantasies people project onto the future.
The crypto bet was a narrative about escaping old power structures. Uranus in Taurus may have simply shown us that we can’t Uranus our way out of Taurus realities – matter, time, and accumulated value still win.
Uranus comes, shuffles things around, creates chaos, and in doing so makes us aware that change is the only constant in life.
And as a result of this awareness, we become more resilient, and better equipped to withstand volatility and crisis.
Many people who lost their jobs during Covid retrained, pivoted, or started their own businesses. In many ways, Uranus in Taurus pushed us to become more self-reliant – and with that came more freedom than before.
Not without friction, not without stress – and for many of us things still don’t look good – but overall, society is now more resourceful.
Now that people have given up on the idea that “I’ll retire and live on my state pension” – they have started building more options and more security on their own terms.
So the question we’re really trying to answer when we look at a Uranus transit is not what kind of ‘innovations’ or ‘progress’ Uranus will deliver.
Uranus doesn’t care for innovation for the sake of innovation.
Uranus is not here to bring Tech to Earth. The fundamental role Uranus plays is to help us shed what’s outdated – so we can live more freely, more authentically, and more aligned with what’s real.
And that sometimes what we call progress or innovation – while it might solve some of our problems – can pretty much create new ones.
Uranus And Progress: Something Is Gained, Something Is Lost
Uranus is almost synonymous with the word progress.
Progress is good because it solves problems and limitations – we only call something “progress” if it helps us move beyond something that is not working as it should.
But progress doesn’t come without trade-offs.
Electricity gave us light at night, but it also disconnected us from nature’s rhythms. We no longer wake with the sunrise – we now need alarm clocks.
The smartphone put the whole world at our fingertips, but it also brought more isolation, less connection, and shorter attention spans.
With progress, we win something, we lose something. Yes, AI agents will take over our repetitive, daunting tasks. Robots will do the cleaning instead of us. This is freeing, right?
But it also means we will no longer touch the earth, scrub the floors, and engage with the world in the way that keeps us grounded and present in our bodies.
That part of us that rejoices in the senses – in the physical experience of actually touching, maneuvering, interacting with the 3D world – will miss something under Uranus.
Because progress is not just machines doing work for us. It changes our everyday lives and shifts our priorities. Something is found. Something is lost. And things are never the same.
In ‘The Wizard of Oz’, the Tin Man longed for one thing: a heart. The antidote to Uranus’ detachment and alienation is to remember why we create in the first place – to feel, to connect, and to be alive.
The New Air Era – Uranus in Gemini, Pluto in Aquarius
With Pluto in Aquarius and now Uranus in Gemini, we are officially in a new Air era.
The new Air era started back in 2020, when Jupiter and Saturn conjuncted at 0° Aquarius, starting a new 200-year air cycle. This Air era has accelerated rapidly since 2023-2024, when Pluto entered Aquarius.
And the developments the Air era has brought – technology, AI – can feel less ‘real‘, and harder to grab onto.
But Air is one of the 4 elements of physical reality, alongside fire, earth and water. Air might feel less ‘real’ because it’s invisible. We can’t ‘see’ Air.
Yet Air is a conductor – it carries the waves that make electricity, broadcasting, and the internet possible.
When we communicate and exchange with others, nothing tangible changes hands – we’re not planting a tree, we’re not building a wall – yet that exchange matters. The idea we share, the connections we make are pretty much real.
But this Air dimension or reality is different from the Earth/Water reality we’ve come from when Neptune was in Pisces and Pluto in Capricorn. In that era, the physical product was the real thing. We’d go on Amazon and buy something we could hold, unwrap, and put on a shelf.
In the new Air era, which we’ll be living in for the next 200 years – the new ‘real’ is the immate-rial – the abstract, the invisible network, the idea, the connection.
And this can be disorienting for most of us, at least in the first phase.
Which brings us to the big buzzword in the room: AI.
AI – Gemini’s Evil Twin
As we settle into the new Air Era, it’s becoming increasingly clear that AI is not going anywhere.
Some love it, some hate it, most have mixed feelings.
There are undeniable benefits to AI technologies – developments in research, medicine, education, and areas that were previously less accessible to many of us: translation, legal advice, or creative tools. The democratisation of expertise is real and meaningful.
But there’s one thing using AI for research or medical queries, and quite another using it as your voice. From YouTube videos to emails to social media, it has become increasingly difficult to distinguish what’s authentic and what’s not.
And with Uranus’ ingress into Gemini – the sign of self-expression and communication – authentic communication will become the defining tension of the next 7 years.
Sure, Saturn conjunct Neptune early this year has something to do with the blurring of lines between physical reality (Saturn) and what’s … umm…. not operating under the same rules of physics (Neptune). Reality has been getting slippery!
But there’s one particular way of using AI that’s becoming increasingly uncomfortable, no matter what your relationship with AI is.
That is no longer knowing whether we’re communicating with a real person or a script, whether that’s someone’s genuine self or their AI alter ego.
Gemini is the sign of the twins. In myth, Castor and Pollux were twin brothers who took turns between 2 worlds: one in the realm of the living, the other in the underworld. They were never both in the same place.
When we are using AI as a substitute for our own voice and identity, we simply can’t be both “us” and “AI’ at the same time. The Gemini either/or, Castor/Pollux, Jekyll/Hyde dynamic gets activated.
We’re either ourselves and we communicate as we’ve always done, OR we put the script ‘on’ which means we are no longer ourselves. The 2 versions can co-exist but can’t be ‘on’ at the same time.
This duality – while confusing and uncomfortable to navigate at first – will eventually help us better understand who we are – which part of ‘us’ is really ‘us’.
Paradoxically, Gemini’s shadow twin may end up making us more authentic, more distinct, more genuinely ourselves than we were before – because we now have a mirror – the alter ego – that reflects back at us.
But to get there, we have 7 years of experimentation ahead – and the slow learning that there are no shortcuts to freedom. Not even when it comes to Uranus.
Uranus and Saturn – Freedom Is Earned
Whether we use progress and AI to free ourselves or enslave ourselves is entirely up to us – and to our own relationship with Saturn. Yes, Saturn: Uranus’ preceding planet, and its necessary foundation.
Saturn is the guardian of reality – the last planet visible to the naked eye. Saturn represents the effort we put in so we can achieve long-lasting results in the real world.
–> If we want to become a doctor, we go and study medicine, and that is hard.
–> If we want to figure out how to use a tool properly, we have to sit with it, try things out, get frustrated, and keep going.
— > If we want to make an important purchase, we have to save money, and that means saying no to more immediate gratifications.
If we do Saturn first, then Uranus – the planet that liberates what Saturn has built – comes as the natural next step, bringing with it a freedom that is authentic and genuinely earned.
But if we skip Saturn and use Uranus or AI to cheat on our exams (ouch), write a proposal quickly without taking the time to understand what the client actually needs, or perform expertise we haven’t yet developed – then that’s not progress. That’s alienation from life and from our own path.
Plagiarism, shortcuts, cutting corners – have all been here before AI. But as the natural order of the planets reminds us, the only way to Uranus is through Saturn.
Of course, using AI to automate tasks that don’t require learning, don’t build skill, and don’t improve our lives in any meaningful way – that’s entirely on brand with Uranus’ gift of progress. Outsource the copy paste work – yes please!
But many times, what appears to be a time-saving shortcut is actually robbing us of the process of learning and becoming.
Uranus – No Shortcuts To Freedom
The difference between arriving at Uranus through Saturn, or shortcutting our way there, is the difference between real, hard-won confidence and an imposter life.
Whether we use AI as a substitute for the real us – or shave a few years off our age on our dating profiles, or perform a version of ourselves we think the world wants to see – we are not showing the world who we really are.
We send inauthentic signals, and as a result, we end up with inauthentic lives.
There’s a study from a dating website that found that there are 2 categories of people on their site, and whether or not they succeeded in finding a lasting relationship depended on one thing: how honestly they presented themselves.
People who presented themselves authentically – quirks, flaws and all – got polarising reactions: some people loved their profile, others didn’t connect with it at all.
Their average rating was lower. But they were far more successful at actually finding the right person, because the people who responded to them were responding to the real person.
The second category optimized their profiles – softened the edges, presented the most universally appealing version of themselves. They got higher average ratings and more attention.
And yet they were far less successful at finding a real relationship, because the signal they sent out wasn’t specific enough to attract the right person. When you appeal to everyone, you connect deeply with no one.
With dating, social media, AI and everything else – the question is the same: do we go for the likes, or for the connection?
Uranus at its highest expression is radical authenticity. It’s who we are behind the masks, behind the roles we play, behind the identities we’ve inherited or constructed to keep ourselves safe.
At its best, Uranus in Gemini’s goal is to free us from the outdated concepts and inherited scripts that define how we make sense of the world, how we express ourselves, and what we believe we’re allowed to say and be.
This won’t happen overnight.
Uranus will spend 7 years in Gemini, and at first, themes around authenticity and the lack of it, the AI’s role in our lives, the blurring of what’s ‘real’ and what’s not will all intensify, forcing us to learn from the discomfort of not yet having the answers.
But ultimately, these iterations, trials and errors, contradictions and paradoxes will help us find our own voice – more clearly and more freely than before.
Uranus In Gemini Trine Pluto In Aquarius
One of the most exciting things about the Uranus in Gemini transit is the incoming Uranus-Pluto trine. This is one of the best long-term transits we’ve had in a long time.
Neptune is also sextile Uranus and Pluto, which means that in the coming years we will have rare windows when all the outer planets are in agreement with each other.
Of course, outer planetary transits speak of underlying trends and slow developments – it doesn’t mean that if Uranus trines Pluto our everyday life will automatically feel better – we still have to deal with the Moon, Mars, and the rest of the planets doing their thing.
Still, when the forces that shape the world are in alignment, things simply work better. The flow of the trine will create openings and momentum that will make it easier for us to do what we need to do.
Let’s put it like this. Whether it’s sunny or raining outside, you still have to do the work. But when the sun is out, you’re more likely to leave the house. You’ll notice more opportunities, do your work better, and simply feel more alive while doing it.
This auspicious alignment activates as soon as Uranus enters Gemini and will remain active through 2029. A detailed report on the Uranus trine Pluto transit will follow soon.
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“I am what I am
And what I am needs no excuses
I deal my own deck
Sometimes the ace
Sometimes the deuces”
On April 17th, 2026, the New Moon in Aries meets Chiron – the wounded healer – at 27° Aries.
Since 2018, Chiron in Aries has been pressing on one of the most existential questions of them all: Who am I really, and why am I here?
In this period, we’ve seen the rise of influencer culture, the visibility of minority groups, the explosion of gender discussions – all different faces of the same wound:
Identity that doesn’t feel seen, that doesn’t feel allowed, that is refusing to stay quiet.
That’s how Chiron works. It tears apart the comfortable version of yourself until you can no longer ignore what’s underneath. Until you can no longer pretend that THIS – this particular quality, this particular way of being – is not part of you.
Because you can only be You once you embrace all of you.
And when the Sun and the Moon – the 2 identity planets – meet with this Chironic ache, looking away is no longer an option. The answer can no longer be researched, postponed, or outsourced to someone else’s opinion.
There’s an immediacy, almost pressure, to this New Moon in Aries. A sense that something is asking to be reclaimed – now.
“I am what I am”
Because when Chiron moves out of Aries, the next opportunity to go this deep, to meet this particular wound this directly, won’t come until the next time Chiron returns to Aries. And that’s in 2068.
With Chiron in Aries, we’ve been sensing – even if not always consciously – that the only way to be ourselves is to actually be ourselves.
And that without this, without this fundamental honesty about who we are, nothing truly fulfilling can take root, because it’s not being built on the right foundation.
“Life’s not worth a damn
‘Til you can shout out
I am what I am”
That Aries shout out doesn’t have to be to the world. Aries is not about getting a reaction, requesting feedback, or waiting for permission. It’s simply about being witnessed into existence.
“I am not invisible, I am here”.
I am here – and the world has no choice but to accept that.
If the world has been treating you as invisible or optional – tough luck, because you’re not.
If the environment you’re in glosses over who you are, or tries to fit you into a shape that was never yours – that’s not your environment.
If your friends can only accept the version of you that aligns with them and their views – they are not your friends.
At the same time, if we want the world to accept us for who we are, we have to actually BE who we are.
Because Aries energy doesn’t flame in mixed signals. It needs clarity and commitment to itself.
So – who are you, underneath all of it? Behind the filters, the curated pictures, the diploma on the wall, the job title on the business card?
For the past few decades, these things made sense to lead with. All the outer planets were moving through collective signs – Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces.
Whether we realized it or not, we’ve been living in a climate that rewarded conformity, credentials, and fitting in. The diploma and the job title were the language of that era.
But that era is over. Now Neptune is in Aries. Saturn is in Aries. Chiron is in Aries. Eris is in Aries. Uranus is still in Taurus.
And Pluto, while in collective Aquarius, is this time supporting the individuation process unfolding in Aries – rather than imposing another system to belong to.
What once pulled us away from ourselves – toward the collective, toward conformity, toward whatever version of ourselves was most acceptable – is losing its grip. With this much energy in Aries, we need to start from the source.
“I am what I am”
Because you – behind the mask, behind the AI, behind all the things designed to make life smoother and more palatable – are faaaar more interesting than any of it.
Your unique style, your quirkiness, your particular way of seeing the world, your unique bird song is what makes you, you. There is only one person born with your natal chart. THIS is what this Aries world needs right now.
The New Moon in Aries conjunct Chiron is an invitation to strip back the layers of identification and distill your essence.
Nothing needs to be added, nothing needs to be removed. Only recognized: I am what I am.
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What’s my life Purpose?
It’s the question almost every human being carries – whether asked directly or buried underneath all the other important questions: Am I in the right career? Is this the right relationship? Is this the life I’m supposed to be living?
We all know when we’re out of alignment.
For some it shows up as dissatisfaction with work. For others, a restlessness that no external change seems to resolve. A life that looks right on paper but doesn’t quite feel right.
When Purpose is not lived, there’s a subtle sense of being slightly out of sync.
Sometimes something does click, and it can feel as if the question has finally been resolved. But after a while, it returns in a slightly different form.
The assumption, in most cases, is that the answer has not yet been found.
That there is still something missing, something that needs to be identified, clarified, or discovered…
… and that with enough effort, exploration, or the right choice, it will eventually reveal itself.
And so the search continues, becoming more refined, more intentional, more sophisticated.
However, the problem is rarely a lack of trying. It’s a misunderstanding of where to look – and why.
While each story is different, the struggle with purpose follows general underlying patterns.
After working with thousands of students at the Astro Butterfly School over the past decade, we have identified 3 core reasons why people struggle with purpose:
Reason #1: Looking for Purpose in the wrong places
When most people ask “what is my purpose?” – they associate it with something they do – with what they need to achieve, with career, vocation, or accomplishments.
Purpose gets translated into something external, as a path that can be chosen.
So the question becomes: Which path is right?
And from there, we start to look around: Who is successful? Who seems fulfilled? What paths appear to work? What pays best? Who has the best holidays on Instagram – and what do they do?
“They look like they know what they’re doing – I’ll try that.”
The vicious circle is that if someone is unsuccessful by worldly standards, that becomes another sign that they haven’t found their Purpose yet – and that they need to keep searching.
If they feel unfulfilled in their careers, or have a vague sense that there’s more ‘out there’ – then again, this becomes ‘proof’ that their true purpose is waiting for them… somewhere else.
And paradoxically, the same people who serve as role models – people who appear extremely successful by outer standards – often feel they’re not living their Purpose either. But that’s Reason #3.
In astrology, if someone wants to understand their purpose or direction, the instinct is usually to look at their Midheaven.
The Midheaven is the highest point in the chart, it’s associated with vocation, visibility, and the direction we are moving toward – so that’s where we have to look for purpose… right?
Wrong.
Purpose And Individuation – Becoming Who You Truly Are
Carl Jung understood this. He believed the deeper task of a human life is not achievement, not adaptation, not finding the right role – but becoming who you truly are.
He called it individuation – and he was clear that this process begins inside, not outside.
The natal chart doesn’t start with the Midheaven, which is precisely why we shouldn’t look for purpose in a place that is meant to reflect the culmination of a process, not its origin.
Looking for purpose there is like trying to read the last chapter of a story you haven’t yet lived.
Astrology can be very useful here – but only when it is used in the right way.
Jung himself worked with astrological charts in his practice – finding that astrology revealed dimensions of the psyche he couldn’t access through other means.
Astrology does something no other system quite manages: it connects different parts of our psyche in a coherent way, helping us understand where to look, and giving structure to what would otherwise remain fragments of meaning.
Confusing Purpose With Career And External Direction
The issue with purpose is not a lack of options or a lack of effort, but the externalization of a process that can only unfold inside.
When we look outside for the ‘right’ career, or the next opportunity, we hand over the steering wheel to the wrong driver.
At best, it leads to lives and careers that look right… but don’t feel right.
At worst, it becomes paralyzing, because one part of us tries to convince ourselves that this is the path to follow, while another part – more honest and more connected – knows that it isn’t.
And when these parts are in conflict, both the inside (how it feels) and the outside (how it looks) begin to suffer.
Confusing Purpose with career and external direction is one of 3 core patterns we’ve identified in people who struggle with purpose.
The other 2 go deeper: into the psychology of why we stay attached to the search itself, and why even people who have built successful lives can feel fundamentally misaligned with what they’ve created.
[WEBINAR] 3 Reasons Why People Struggle with Purpose
If this topic speaks to you, join Caro on Wednesday, April 8th, 2026, for a free live webinar where she’s exploring all three patterns in depth, with concrete examples:
“3 Reasons Why People Struggle with Purpose” – Wednesday, April 8th, 2026 at noon ET / 5pm GMT
In this 60-minute call, we’ll look at:
- why Purpose is searched for in the wrong places
- why some people stay in the search without ever landing
- why others build a life that works – but doesn’t feel like theirs
- .. and how astrology and archetypes can help us recognize these patterns and begin to work with them differently
This webinar is also the introduction to our upcoming live program, Purpose + Service – an 8-week journey through the complete framework. The details will be shared at the end of the call.
To join us on April 8th, please RSVP by 11:00 am ET:
Email reminders with the Zoom link will be sent to everyone who registers – one hour before and five minutes before the call.
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