The Astrology of July 2025

Hey everyone. This is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology [https://nightlightastrology.com/].

I am joined today by my friends and colleagues, Alexandra and Whitney, to discuss the astrology of July. We're going to be taking a look at all of the major astrological events for the month of July, and then we'll also be breaking down horoscopes for the month of July.

That's going to be a separate show, and you guys probably know I do that alongside Alex and Dana today. What does July hold for us throughout the entire month? We're going to look at all the big transits of the month and break them down for you today.

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All right. On that note, welcome back, Alexandra and Whitney.

Adam Elenbaas:
This is our final time together, guys. I'm really gonna miss you. I'm—stop.

Whitney Kranz:
I'm in denial.

Adam Elenbaas:
I recorded horoscopes with Alex and Dana, and I was just reflecting both before and during and after the show with them. I was like, gosh, you know, this was an idea in my head a year ago to use the platform to try to help promising astrologers as they're developing their content, their careers, their platforms that have come through the Nightlight schools.

And I have to say, I think it's been wildly successful. You guys have been amazing to work with. It's been a joy to watch both of you—you came in with a ton of talent, but I feel like I've gotten to watch you grow in the same way that I watch myself grow every year as a content creator.

So it's been cool to share that as a process together. And I see nothing—without having to look at any charts—I see nothing but good things in both of your futures as astrologers and content creators.

And I'm going to tell everyone more about how to stay in touch with you guys and stuff like that. But I just wanted to lead that by saying thank you for all that you've brought to this community over the past year.

Alexandra Blair:
That's so sweet. Thank you so much, Adam. It's hard to put into words like what it's been like this past year. It's been such an unreal experience, getting to share, learn, grow, and collaborate with someone that I so deeply admire.

So it's been a really formative experience. And your generosity, not just to Whitney and I, but just to like the astrological community, is so noticed and appreciated.

Whitney Kranz:
Oh, to you both—way to make me so emotional here to start off our show. I will echo basically everything that Alexandra said. What an incredible opportunity to become a fixture in the Nightlight community, something that is just full of so many amazing people.

And, you know, of course, through this time, I've grown so much as an astrologer. And thank you, Adam, for that opportunity. But like, at the end of the day, it's all of these amazing relationships I've been able to create with both of you and, you know, everyone in our community.

And so I just am eternally grateful, but also so excited. There's so much talent in this community. So excited to see who comes next.

Alexandra Blair:
Yeah, I can't wait. And Adam, it really—it's been so awesome. But as soon as we're done recording this, it's kind of like Whitney and I are gonna BFF ride on horseback into the sunset. Yes, collaborate forever.

So, yeah. Kind of like that was like the unsung headline of this experience, really.

Adam Elenbaas:
Absolutely. I still feel like I got to see both—well, Whitney's in Minneapolis, so I see Whitney somewhat regularly. But getting to see both Whitney and Alexandra at NORWAC and then somehow forgetting to get a picture with the three of us was like one of the biggest flubs of my year.

But anyway, that aside, it's been really nice to work with you guys. And also, so everybody knows, the goal of this platform every year now is to bring in some new co-hosts that are coming through our programs, that are talented.

It's not fair—that really isn't—that astrology today is really measured by the success of your content creation platform. It's almost like to be an astrologer, you need a platform, and then you get to be an astrologer. I don't like that.

And also, even if people are really talented, it can take such a long time to build a platform that what I envision this doing is just giving people a little boost as they're like, here are some really talented astrologers that have come through the programs, and let's just use this platform to help boost their success, because they're killing it, you know?

So anyway, that's the idea. There'll be new people coming in, but also in the year following, co-hosts revolving out. The same co-hosts that were in will be invited to create weekend bonus content for the next year.

I've long wanted to provide some weekend bonus content because I think that it would be—I'm at full capacity Monday through Fridays, right? But Saturday and Sundays might be really fun to give the stage over to some of these talented folks who've gone through—familiar faces.

So for the next year, Alexandra, Whitney, Alex, Dana, will be creating some bonus content at least once a month, if not twice a month. You'll see some weekend content hitting on astrological transits and stuff like that.

So you will be seeing them again in the next year through that bonus content they'll be creating.

Alexandra Blair:
Yes, we can't wait. We're going to come up with some really good ideas for you guys. It's going to be—it's part of us—

Whitney Kranz:
Riding off into the sunset. It really is.

Adam Elenbaas:
We haven't—we are in the process of finalizing through the co-host auditions and who will be coming in. But by the time you see your forecast for the month of August, you'll be meeting new co-hosts.

And then hopefully, August or September, you'll be seeing some bonus content from Whitney and Alexandra roll in as well.

Unknown Speaker:
Yay. Can't wait.

Adam Elenbaas:
Well, on that note, let's first of all maybe we'll reflect just a little bit on the month of June. It was a very busy month.

We had the Jupiter-Saturn square, the Jupiter-Neptune square, wild Mars-Uranus transit that coincided with warfare erupting. I mean, assassination attempts here in Minnesota on some politicians—like, it was a gnarly month of June.

I think we should start by just offering any reflections we have. And I know we have a few "grab" stories as well that we're going to share.

Whitney Kranz:
Yeah, do you want me to jump right into "grabbed" and then we can share our experiences? Or—okay, do it that way. That sounds fun. Perfect.

So let's see. I've got a Jupiter in Cancer, I have a Jupiter square Neptune, and I've got a Mars square Uranus. So should we start with Mars square Uranus? Maybe get that one out of the way first.

Yeah. Okay, so this person says: "I knew this transit was coming up and was remembering to be mindful of accidents. Well, 10 minutes before heading out on a road trip, getting my last bag out of the house, I lost my footing on uneven ground—even though I had been going in and out of the door several times that morning already—and I twisted my ankle, fell back, and landed on my sacrum/tailbone, and hit my head on the garage wall."

"It happened so suddenly, I was in shock. All of a sudden, I was on the ground and landed so hard. Thankfully, after icing for a few hours, I was still able to go on my trip. It was super intense and painful. I looked up the exact time, and it was when the Moon in Scorpio was exactly opposite Uranus in Taurus at 28 degrees."

Yeah. How about that, man? That Mars square Uranus—I mean, you summed it up, Adam. That was freaking gnarly. And I also, over that period, I was also flat on my back, but I was sick. Like, I don't get sick very often. And I was—it made me physically ill for four days.

Adam Elenbaas:
Yeah, powerful. The Jupiter-Saturn square, along with the Mars-Uranus dynamic, hit me in a way—I'm still processing. Yeah, it was—and I happened also over this period—I happened to read a book by a guy named David Kessler about food addiction.

And it was mind-blowing. It was just so good and so interesting. It was talking a lot about the way that certain ultra-processed foods are capable of creating food addiction because of the addictive components of what's in them.

Really helped me understand why certain environments, certain places in my life, especially when we travel, provoke a lot of anxiety in me, because in those environments, I feel like I sort of lose control.

And I feel almost like—in my early 20s, I went through a period of addiction. So I almost feel like I'm an addict again in certain food environments, and I've never really known why. I haven't been that consciously aware of it.

And this book really made me suddenly go, "Oh my God, of course—there are addictive components in certain foods that are kind of your only options in certain environments, especially when I travel."

And no wonder I just dread this experience of battling with myself around certain food environments. That was, like, for me, a huge breakthrough, because it's like you're struggling with something, and you know this area is a struggle, but you're not yet conscious enough to really understand why or name it. You know what I mean?

So that was my—that was my Jupiter square Saturn with Mars.

Alexandra Blair:
So interesting that that came up for you because of your Jupiter-Saturn in Libra, sixth house. Like, it really was right in conversation with that, yeah, in a challenging way.

And I think that highlights some of what, like, Jupiter has been doing for a lot of people. You know, I've seen—in this week alone, I've seen three different Capricorn risings with Cancer seventh house who were like, "This was supposed to be a great time for my marriage, and I'm about to get a divorce, and I don't know what's happening."

It's like these—sometimes these really difficult things—it's like a crisis of self-belief or some different ways that it can play out that I think you touched on really gracefully in the last month's episode.

Adam Elenbaas:
The Jupiter experience beyond the square to Saturn, I'm hoping, may be a little less intense.

Alexandra Blair:
I think so. I for sure think so. But when we're thinking about expansion—like, we rarely think about the fact that it's gonna leave a stretch mark. And sometimes we can get hyper-fixated on that instead of the sacred abundance that we're expanding to welcome in. You know?

Whitney Kranz:
Well, should we talk a little bit more about Jupiter in Cancer? Here we've got two more "grab" stories that both highlight Jupiter, and I think they actually tie in very well to this conversation.

So this person says of Jupiter in Cancer: "I am a Capricorn rising, so as Jupiter is bringing light to my seventh house, my spouse was diagnosed with early Alzheimer's. Yes, it sucks. However, it has brought a softness to our relationship. Nancy has winked at me six times in the last three months."

"It may be a small thing, but for me, it was wonderful. After 33 years, I didn't realize how a wink was such an intimate gesture. We are more playful. I'm appreciating today and what I want and having a partner as we walk into this new adventure."

"It is so good for me to walk with Nancy twice this week. I told friends, 'I'm not sure what happened, but I found a renewed spark of love.' And of course, my four planets in Leo now know how to shower love. Thanks, Adam. I love my Cap reading this morning."

Adam Elenbaas:
That's awesome.

Alexandra Blair:
Oh, that's so sweet. Yes, that way—yeah.

Whitney Kranz:
Exactly—sweet and melancholy at the same time. It's that bittersweet, right?

Okay, so here's a Jupiter square Neptune: "Hi all. I'm a regular listener of the show and a big fan of everything Nightlight is doing to grow the community. Last week, I had a fun Jupiter square Neptune story."

"I'm a craftsperson who makes custom products for the design world. From concept to finish, an average project takes about six months, so I typically don't see the full financial benefit for some time."

"Yesterday, I had a project barely in the concept phase decide they are ready to go and paid the full estimate up front. Now I have thousands of dollars but no clarity as to the details of the product."

"I should be enjoying the old financial luck of this situation, but the lack of detail and clarity is completely stressing me out."

Adam Elenbaas:
Yeah. Yeah, so Jupiter-Neptune—

Alexandra Blair:
Totally. I feel like I got hit with a rash of like TikTok and Instagram posts of people who are getting hit with, like, tariff bills delayed from FedEx and UPS invoicing the consumer for something that they bought on, like Topshop or ASOS or whatever.

And I feel like that kind of speaks to what's going on there, too, a little bit.

Adam Elenbaas:
It's so Jupiter-Neptune that this—what came up for us. There's a few things that came up that were like—that felt relevant, but one that was like so Jupiter-Neptune was our younger daughter, who's turning seven, announced to us that she resents the fact that when we went to Disney World as a family several years ago—like, three years ago—well, she was three and a half or four, and she doesn't remember it.

And her older sister remembers everything. She announced that she thinks we need to go back one more time because she doesn't remember, and some of her friends have gone and whatever.

And for whatever reason, it sort of hit my wife, because this was such a strong—I don't know, just the way she presented it. It was like she was just such an attorney about it.

Alexandra Blair:
Is this your Virgo rising daughter?

Adam Elenbaas:
Aquarius rising. She's got Mars in Gemini right now. So she's—oh, okay—this executive power.

So anyway, so Jupiter and Neptune are coming together, and Ashley and I are sitting down family planning, and we're like, "Well, we could make this their Christmas gift. They have school off in January, so we planned a trip to the Magic Kingdom while Jupiter was square Neptune."

It was like—it doesn't get—and it was like, "Well, that's a Christmas gift, you know? Like, that's going to be their Christmas gift." And we'll go for—we're going to go for just, like, a quick couple of days, just because Ashley and I can only handle so much of that place, to be totally honest with you.

Whitney Kranz:
That's enough.

Adam Elenbaas:
Yeah, it's crazy, like, the whole thing. But you know, this is probably the last time where it will be cool and interesting for both girls, and they'll both have a memory.

And yeah, we were like, "Oh"—because last time I went, I actually did some YouTube content on it. I was like, "It's a very magical place. It's also a place of, like, great corporate seductive materialism." So I'm like—but, you know, so there.

But I thought it was—is fantastic that this Magic Kingdom request and planning happened while Jupiter square Neptune.

Whitney Kranz:
Wow, that—I mean, it kind of fits that you're going back in January to—won't Neptune be at the very last degrees of Pisces, which kind of fits that whole otherworldly Magic Kingdom.

Adam Elenbaas:
This is probably like—seriously, this—I doubt will ever go again, you know. And it's going to be like four days or something. But I think, you know, my girls are still at that space where everything Disney is very magical, you know? So hopefully it'll be—

Whitney Kranz:
Fun—the princesses and all.

Unknown Speaker:
That's cute.

Whitney Kranz:
Take pictures so they remember better this time.

Adam Elenbaas:
You don't have to buy their Magic Memory Maker kit where it's like—you spend a gazillion dollars, and then they—you know, they will sell you everything and anything they can.

Whitney Kranz:
Oh yeah.

Adam Elenbaas:
Anyway, okay, so do you want to share another "grab," or should we get into it?

Whitney Kranz:
I think we can get into it if you'd like.

Adam Elenbaas:
Yeah, let's do it.

Adam Elenbaas:
I'm going to put the real-time clock up on the screen. Our first portion of the month of July—we have creatively titled "Radically Relational July 4." That is this Friday. Venus will conjoin Uranus.

I have two episodes later this week that you will see that are devoted to breaking this down and doing horoscopes for the culminating lessons of Uranus in the sign of Taurus. So there's a lot more to come on this transit this week, but let's talk about it now.

It happens on July 4—Venus conjoins Uranus, and then within three days, Uranus will enter Gemini, following Venus across the threshold, so to speak. And then Venus will trine Pluto from Gemini to Aquarius.

Let's talk about that sequence, either all together or in parts. I'll let you guys take the wheel here.

Whitney Kranz:
I mean, you know, I'm game to jump in on Venus week, because that's how I'm referring to this. This is totally Venus week. I just collaborated with another astrologer, and we called it Venus week.

And it is because Venus takes really center stage in that sort of hand-holding process, again, with Uranus across the sign boundary. And isn't it interesting how we also saw Venus doing such similar work with Saturn and Neptune from Pisces to Aquarius?

I just—it just so cool to see how the personal planets, or the inner planets, have such an important role in these outer planetary shifts this year.

But as far as Venus conjoining Uranus in Taurus and all of this—like, I could not see a—I mean, for real, like, more fun and maybe a little frantic sort of if you're in the U.S., Fourth of July holiday weekend. Like, how great that Venus conjoins Uranus on her day—it's Friday, it's Venus day, right?

But if we're talking about this anaretic conjunction in Taurus, I really think what's happening here to start is that Venus is like testing us—if we have integrated what we've learned from Uranus over the last seven years that Uranus has been in Taurus.

And Venus is making sure that that Taurean revolution feels sweet and is showing us like the height of change in that sweetness and like, "This is what it's all been for." So I'm seeing this quite optimistically.

I mean, as we get into both moving into Gemini and then Venus trining Pluto, maybe we're working a little bit with like some power plays or smooth-talking sort of dynamics here. But I'd love if one of you want to kind of jump in on where we are, and we can kind of hash it out chronologically as well.

Alexandra Blair:
Okay, yeah, I totally agree with your idea that Venus is asking us to reconcile what Uranus has been up to in Taurus. And it's kind of underscored by some transits that are happening next year that I wanted to point out.

Because next year, in April—it's on April 23, but Uranus, because of its retrograde, will be back at 29 Taurus, and Venus will conjoin again at 29 Taurus a year from now, in 10 months.

And at that time, there is actually a Mars-Saturn conjunction in Aries that same week, and a New Moon in Taurus. So it's almost like what's happening right now is a kind request. It's a very sweet, kind, gentle, loving request for you to take action in the pieces of Taurus that you know you have uprooted and sort of like churned with Uranus there.

It feels like next April is no longer a request. It's a little bit of a demand. By the time April next year comes around. And it kind of had me thinking about—now, Taurus is my fifth house. So of course, I'm thinking about the creative process.

But it just made me think about this process you can get into when you're creating something and you're so comfortable in the process of creating. Of course, there's like discomfort and vulnerability involved in making anything, but it's really like a little warm cocoon of making and being creative.

Whereas there comes a time in anyone's life where you might have to show that work to somebody else. You might have to show a friend, or you might want to show a partner, or you might even get to the point where you're like, "Hey, I want to exhibit some of this. I want to put it out into the world."

And that can feel so scary and so—like, really, it can really threaten you in ways that you don't expect to be threatened, right? Some of that Uranian like, "Oh, I didn't expect for that piece of me to be wounded about putting my art out in the world." It can bring up all kinds of stuff.

So I kind of feel like that's what's going on here. You've spent years and years with this Taurus part having all of these unexpected experiences and pieces of awareness coming through, and now it's the time to actually go and exhibit your art and put it out into the world.

And it might feel a little bit scary, but it's, at this point, still a gentle request. So I think if you can find the agency to do it now, it might be easier.

Adam Elenbaas:
I love that. Yeah, one of the things that comes up for me around this is the revolution—if we think about Uranus just in terms of that move from the familiar to, you know, whether it's experimentation or it's eliminating things that feel stuck—that revolutionary impulse has been in a Venus-ruled territory of the zodiac for seven years.

So in many ways, this is like one of a few final remarks that Venus, the presiding goddess of this temple, also has to say, or is contributing to that revolution.

I think that one thing that I've been thinking a lot about is this dance between form and function. Uranus in an earth sign like Taurus can bring meaningful changes to the form and function of things that are material and physical.

The fact that there's this culminating shift, and then both planets go into an air sign, and then later in the year, we have—and Venus is going to connect with Pluto in the trine these early days of July—and then Uranus retrogrades back into Taurus later in the year.

I wonder if there isn't a meaningful—like a question of how to change the form or function of something, how to change the physical nature of something that isn't about to go even deeper, because it's going to gather a whole bunch of new ideas and then bring them back into one last process of changing form and function.

Does that—do you kind of see where I'm going with that?

Alexandra Blair:
Totally, yeah.

Whitney Kranz:
Oh, okay, I see exactly where you're going with that. And to me, as you're speaking, I am getting the picture of the archetypal Prometheus, which is so much related to Uranus, right?

In fact, like, I've been reading Cosmos and Psyche—I'm finally making it through that tome, right? And it was a little dense in the beginning, but now I hit the astrology part, and so I'm blazing through.

But Tarnas says something really smart and interesting in one of these earlier chapters in that—because the outer planets were discovered so many years later, there are discrepancies in their naming and the general archetypal quality, right?

And so like, couldn't you think of Uranus—like, what if we renamed Uranus as Prometheus, because that's so much more fits the archetype, right? Prometheus as stealing fire from the gods and bringing it to humanity and like lighting this flame that then really is the bed of creation and modern humanity.

And I'm seeing that absolutely reflected in how you're—in how you're speaking of the change of form and function.

Alexandra Blair:
Totally. I think that's one of Adam's favorite soapboxes, by the way—the outer planets and their naming and their discoveries.

But I was thinking of—oh, sorry, go ahead, Adam.

Adam Elenbaas:
No, go ahead.

Alexandra Blair:
I was thinking of it just some of the leaps and bounds in material sciences that we've seen in a mundane way. And I expect these two conjunctions at the anaretic degree over the next 10 months to kind of maybe bring some of that out into the public.

I'm specifically interested in, like you said, Adam, this dance as we move into the unbridled, tinkering inventor insanity of Uranus into Gemini, which I'm just thrilled for. But, you know, going there, getting some ideas, coming back and saying, "Oh, I can make it physical."

And also, I think we've seen a resurgence that will be really strong, made stronger by Jupiter in Cancer, of people saying, like, "Touch grass." You know, "When I'm feeling destabilized and my nervous system is stressed and my ideas are too idea-ing, I need to actually go outside and sit back in my body and, like, reconnect with nature."

So I think that will come to more of a fever pitch in a mundane way too.

Adam Elenbaas:
Something else that's interesting about that is—I mentioned this later in the week on a content video I've already made—but Venus is in the bound of Mars at this anaretic degree. Mars is trine in the bound of Venus.

And so you have a kind of mutual reception between Mars and Venus in earth signs right now with a trine. I wonder if there might be some new—almost like a new resource that becomes available (very common for trines) that has the ability to very practically change the form or function of something.

I can't help but think of the fact that we have a new—it's pretty small, but it's a landscaping project that's going to be taking place the first week of July, probably not on the fourth because obviously it's a holiday here.

But that, to me, speaks to some—like, I wouldn't be surprised if some new idea around the landscape, some creative new idea of form or function within the landscaping project emerged around this.

Okay, well, that takes us through the—these early—the conjunction, Uranus into Gemini alone. Anything else you guys want to say about just the emergence of this new archetypal dynamic before we move on?

Alexandra Blair:
I'm just like, excited to think about all of the ways to think about thinking we haven't even thought about. Do you know what I'm saying? Like that appeals—so on brand. And I'm just getting so excited about it.

I've been really like losing sleep over this work by Annika Harris, talking about, like, congregating our knowledge of consciousness and sort of like advancing the latest scientific theories about consciousness.

And talking about how consciousness is like an innate property of the universe, and what that means for the sense of self, which is pretty interesting with these Leo eclipses and the Pluto trine situation.

I feel like there are going to be just some crazy Nobel Prize-winning works and things that come out that are going to just change the ways that we think about our thoughts and about the world around us. And I'm really excited about it.

Whitney Kranz:
Oh, I—yeah, I love that. Like, ground—we are on the precipice of something groundbreaking, certainly.

And, I mean, I think we've talked about it before on this show, and I think at this point in the astrology community, it's, like, very well known—we're likely to see some sort of revolution around—yeah, AI, but is it more than that?

Technological, media-wise—like, there's something with Gemini, especially this early part, Venus and Uranus squaring—I'm sorry, trining Pluto—that feels like—it feels very social to me. Like, what is going on in—is it social media? I don't know, but there's some sort of—there's something we're pointing to here.

Because Gemini is such a curious sign that Uranus into Gemini feels like sort of blasting open these social boundaries for better, for worse—and hopefully they're better. But I'm kind of going in that direction too, like it's the progress, you know?

Adam Elenbaas:
Love that. Yeah, I think one of the things that I've been—the aspect of—I just gave a talk—let me rephrase this—I just gave a talk on Uranus trine Pluto. It was called "When New Objects Appear in the Sky."

Well, the talk was really about the elemental connection, ancient elemental connection between air and water. And for ancients, air was thought of as like invisible water in the sky, because it would condense and burst and fall to the earth in the form of rain.

And so in elemental theory, air and water are a pair of opposites. There's different ways of creating opposites with the elements that have different meanings.

But if we think about it like this—if I'm in the midst of a really dynamic, caffeine-fueled conversation with my wife in the morning, which—when we have our coffee, right?—I am typically so in the space of the ideas and the excitement and the turning of concepts and words, and it's really fun.

And I think of Gemini like that. It's like fun exchange. Typically what happens for me—because I have Mercury in Cancer, I have Mars in Gemini—the exchange is the Mars in Gemini. About three hours later, the emotional consequences of everything I talked about—well, I'll start actually feeling them.

And it's taken me years to realize that there's a connection between what I talked about three hours ago and what I feel three hours later. This is in a very simple way, air condensing into rain and falling down to earth.

So the thing is, is that I think this is why, in the 1940s, two advancements that happened that are so air-into-water—the conversation of post-traumatic stress in war veterans, where here's these things that happened, and there was dissociation and there was trauma.

And then here's these almost like delayed emotional-behavioral response patterns that are reflective of the trauma that have become embodied. That—you know, it's like The Body Keeps the Score. If you guys remember that book came out a little while ago.

Yeah, so it's like there's always a connection between what's circulating in the air and the eventual embodiment of it on an instinctual, biological level. And that's—I'm thinking about that a lot.

The other thing that happened during the '40s that was super fascinating was—basically that was one of the decades that's widely recognized as the decade within which the legitimization—the legitimatization of clinical psychology started taking place in academia.

This is a credible science. It's not just pseudoscience. This is credible academic—you can study to become this, you know? Well, and there we have the psychology—there's an -ology, there's a logos in it, but it's about human behavior.

So I think there's actually a super hidden—because also the air signs are human signs—there's some way in which air is so connected to water, but we don't necessarily think about it that way.

I've been exploring a lot of these elemental connections, because sometimes a strong elemental disposition will actually also immediately connect in the way that it shows up to an element that it's paired with, like water in this case. So anyway, I've been playing with it on that level.

Whitney Kranz:
That is so freaking profound. I definitely just learned something.

Adam Elenbaas:
It's fun, right? So cool.

Alexandra Blair:
Totally. It reminds me also of this book—I didn't really know why I pulled it out, but obviously I pulled it out to recommend it right here. But I don't know this author, but I picked this up at NORWAC—Procession of the Night Theater by J.M. Hamadi.

And it's basically like a—it takes several different astrological heritages and their systems of talking about where the moon goes in a month, and it combines them into one really elegant and very mercurial book.

And it starts with this 28-day story of a wanderer, like making a pilgrimage that's 28 days long, and it's just so incredibly moving. I'm not done with it, and I probably won't be for years. You know, it's one of those books that you really can revisit time and again.

But I feel like it's kind of what you're saying, like that mercurial wandering in the air piece, and then also this very lunar and sort of like watery, lovely thing going on. It's cool.

Adam Elenbaas:
Maybe I'm picking up on the fact that this whole first intro of Uranus in Gemini is happening while Jupiter's in Cancer. You know what I mean? Like, yeah.

Okay, well, let's move on to the full moon period. The full moon period we're talking about starts with the Full Moon in Capricorn on the 10th, getting a kind of classic Capricorn-Cancer conversation going on.

And then just a couple of days later, host of that full moon, Saturn is turning retrograde. And then not long after, on the 17th, Mercury turns retrograde. And then prior to the new moon—so this kind of constellating all around the week or so after the full moon—Venus will also square Mars.

We're going to take a look at those in order here. Let's start with a Full Moon in Capricorn. Anything that comes to your guys' mind right away?

Alexandra Blair:
I just like, love how boring this Full Moon is. Give me something so boring, like thinking about last year when we had two full moons in Capricorn. One was at the anaretic degree. We had Pluto coming back—like, it was spooky Saturn girl summer.

I remember us talking about that. And Adam was like, "Yeah, keep astrology goth," and we were—I'm just like, "Yeah, let's just have a chill. Like, I'll take a bath. I'll put a crystal in the window and charge it." It's like, so simple. It's so straightforward.

Adam Elenbaas:
I love that. Yeah.

Whitney Kranz:
That's awesome. Yeah, I—you know, it's really interesting because obviously this lunation is happening in Saturn's domicile, and it comes just days before Saturn stations retrograde.

In fact, like, the moon clears Capricorn, and then Saturn stations. So there's a way in which this almost feels like a bit of a trigger point that we're looking at.

And, you know, I—I just, I love this sort of boring aspect. But of course, Alexandra, you would find this boring as one of our resident Capricorns over here.

Alexandra Blair:
I just like, can't tell you how many clients with Capricorn stuff—particularly Capricorn, but then there's also, like, Adam knows—like, there's like a Libra Saturn piece of the generation where it's just like, it's been really hard.

It's been really hard since, like, even before COVID, but particularly like when Pluto got to those late degrees of Capricorn, and then we had the astrology that coincided with the global pandemic, because it was so nasty.

And, you know, there's just—it's been really hard for Capricorn people, and I just see them day after day in my—in my chair and my client sessions, and I'm like, "It does get better." And this is one of those moments where I'm like, "Yeah, see. Look, we don't have anything crazy going on. It's just a nice, little, cute situation. And here we go."

Whitney Kranz:
That's so funny. And so in a way, I was picking up on sort of this—we won't call it boring, but certainly like sobering aspect to this particular moon.

Like, I, you know, I'm thinking about this in context, right, as well. The last lunation we had was our new moon in Cancer that is so big, so Jupiterian, right? So much of this belief-driven new birth, right?

And so then, of course, here we are on the other side of the polarity and the axis. And now, like, those dreams are confronted with the real-world circumstances, right?

And it's that sort of like real-world reality that might be like a little bit boring, but also just like—like a weight to bear. You know what I mean? Like, we did all of this growth work, if you were paying attention for the new moon in Cancer, right?

And so, like, we're ready, we're galvanized, we're like gonna get to work, and then this Capricorn Full Moon is like, "Yes, and it's the real world. So bring your expectations down a touch and get ready to work for those dreams." You know?

Adam Elenbaas:
I love that. I was thinking—I just gave this little meditation at the summer solstice event that we did on Cancer, and I was talking about how, you know, Cancer is like the close proximity of the child with the source.

I feel like Cancer is like "God is mother," like, that's—or "God as mother," or something like that. Or, I mean, another way of saying that is just goddess, right? Like the—but as the one—not like, because I think most of the time we think of the one as masculine, the many, and the embodied world is feminine.

I think there's also a way of thinking about that oneness that is almost like the womb, right? It's like the oneness of the divine feminine and the close proximity of the child to its mother is like Cancer—like, stay close to the source, the source of nurturance, connection, comfort, safety, nurturance, devotion.

But it's connectedness to a source, not like emerging with it, but connectedness. But it's a—it's like a form of yin oneness or something.

And then what happens is we—the child grows, and it goes off into the world, and it gradually separates from its mother. And I'm watching my wife go through this with our two little girls as they're getting older.

And I'm like, it's not uncommon—like, at least one day or two during the week that my wife will just cry because of something that's just bittersweet to see. It's just cute and it's sad and it's wonderful, and it's all the things.

And I feel like that's the solar year—from Cancer, the sun's going down into the earth, we get a little bit more, like, farther away from the mother or source. We spread out, and we have to go into the valley of life.

And I feel, as someone who was born with a Cancer sun and Capricorn moon, by the time you get to Capricorn, there's this sense of having to return. It's like, "Yep, I got into the world, and what I found was amazing. And there's a bit of a mess, and so I have to—I have to, somehow, get back home. I have to get—"

We don't think about Capricorn as getting home, but if you think about it as start commencing the journey that takes us back to Cancer, and you orient from that space, then Capricorn can be like, "How do I get back home? I've somehow gotten lost in the world. And I want to get back to my mom. I want to get back to the womb of creation."

I feel like the Full Moon in Capricorn can be that awareness that grows within us that says, "Somehow I got a little bit lost from the sweetest, most essential things. As a result, I have to take this—I have to swallow a bitter pill of realizing where I am compared to where I came from, and I've got to start an arduous path of getting back."

But if that's being oriented through Jupiter in Cancer, through the sun in Cancer, there's—it's almost like there's a—rather than having to climb up a mountain in the dark and just forge, it's almost like there's a beacon at the top of the mountain. It's like a mom beacon, a womb beacon.

And it's like, "Here, come home, just come home." It's going to be easier from this point forward, because you've got Jupiter in Cancer as like this homing beacon that's maybe helping that process out a little bit more.

But anytime in my life that I have taken the advice of a Capricorn moon seriously in my own birth chart, it has typically been like, "Dude, you got lost in addiction. How do you get back home to sweetness?"

"Dude, you got lost in work. How do you get back home to connection with your family or your kids?" You know, "Dude, you got lost in principles and ideas. How do you get back to your heart?"

It's always something that the most real side of Capricorn isn't just about achievement. It's about sort of—it's like the hexagram "Return" in the I Ching. Like, how do I get back to that source?

Alexandra Blair:
That's so beautiful, Adam. That's, like, really eloquent and lovely elegy, kind of, of this, of this process.

I think it's—if you, if people are listening and they want to, like, do that work for themselves, I just wanted to note like, you can, you can go back and look at the last Full Moon in Capricorn, or you can trace what's happening at this Full Moon in Capricorn back to the New Moon in Capricorn that happened during Capricorn season.

And like, play around with this a little. It's going to be especially fun and interesting to do, as Adam said, with Jupiter's expression, relying on the dignity of the moon.

So here, to Adam's point, like the moon is in Capricorn, not so happy in her detriment, looking across the way at this like, you know, this beautiful, bittersweet moment that's happening.

It kind of feels like a little bit of a party with the sun and Jupiter there in Cancer, and the moon is like lonely outside in the cold, looking in the window a little bit here.

But you can trace it back through the dates and kind of do some of that work that Adam's talking about.

Adam Elenbaas:
Yeah, I—again, like, I've been reflecting on this. By the way, today Jupiter is on my Mercury in Cancer, which is opposed to my Capricorn moon. So I just—I've been really contemplating this in my own, like, personal kind of meditation space. It's been naturally coming to my mind a lot—the full moon that I was born under.

Whitney Kranz:
Well, you have a nice little cazimi action on top of your Mercury, too. So I think this little podcast is blessed today.

Adam Elenbaas:
You know, it is wild, but, like, I have—at the most like subjective level that I would describe Jupiter cazimi—the sun-Jupiter conjoining exactly on my Mercury, like almost down to the minute—has been that I feel so optimistic today.

It's like an unusual—it's like someone gave me Kool-Aid sprinkled with optimism. I'm—

Alexandra Blair:
Feeling that for sure. With Jupiter on my moon, I'm feeling all kinds of crazy stuff.

Whitney Kranz:
Yeah, don't you realize that's been in my cup this whole time?

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We needed you for real midwinter. We needed you to carry our torch.

Whitney Kranz:
Just sucking away. Welcome to the optimism party.

Alexandra Blair:
Adam and I started like sharpening our sights in the winter, and you were like, "No, no, put it away. Put it away. We don't need that."

Adam Elenbaas:
I will go back to telling you guys that when I looked at your auditions when they came in, I was like, "These two together—my yin and my yang. This is going to be the sweetest mix of personalities and apologies." And it—like, without your bubbly optimism, Whitney, we—this would not have been—we'd—

Alexandra Blair:
We'd be just live-streaming Nine Inch Nails, like—

Alexandra Blair:
Oh my god. Okay, so Saturn turns retrograde July 12, and Neptune—just to note that Neptune also stations retrograde in July, but it happens around the July 4 date, so just know that they're both retrograde at this point.

Adam Elenbaas:
They're both retrograde by this point. You want to say something about that, Alexandra?

Alexandra Blair:
You know, I don't have much to say about—I don't think it's totally relevant for, like, a personal astrological thing, but it's important if you're tracking that, you know, now both planets are headed back towards Pisces.

And in late Pisces, they're going to form a series of grand water trines and like a grand air trine kite thing over the next few months. So if you're tracking the way that things are unfolding, this is maybe a little bit of like an energetic change back into those last lessons of Pisces.

Adam Elenbaas:
Certainly it's phasal dynamic shifting. It always happens. I've explained this on the channel before, but when the sun gets close to the trine, you'll see the direction of the superior planets—Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn—change course.

So you get the retrograde and that upcoming trine that happens, you know, around the 24th—we're gonna get to that later. It's—it would not be surprising for us to see that the trine coincides with a—like more of a—if you're looking for the evidence of Saturn turning retrograde, I would look for the trine.

The trine is almost always when I start noticing, "Oh, here's the revision," or "Here's the reworking," or "Here's the delay," or "Here's the turn from the slow-moving planet." I start to go, "Oh, that's what this has been about. That's what shifted directions."

I always pick that up under the trine myself, for sure.

Okay, well, let's go on to Mercury's retrograde in Leo. We're seeing that station to turn retrograde on the 17th. I have it on the 18th here, just so Solar Fire will pick up the little "s."

But that this is a turn of direction for Mercury in a fixed fire sign. It's taking place in the bound of Saturn, who's just turned retrograde in a fire sign. Kind of a feels like a very fiery dynamic.

It's nice that at the time that Mercury turns retrograde, Venus in Mercury's sign is creating a sextile with Mercury. To me, that suggests that the outset of this retrograde could have a little bit of benefic fortification around it, so it's not totally chaotic and wild.

Almost like—I don't know, let's say your air conditioner breaks down, but Venus is there and manages to get a fix that's affordable. Maybe it takes a day, but you don't have to replace the air conditioner.

I'm making that up off the top of my head, and I'm going to knock on wood just in case I jinx that into my own house. But what do you—I mean, that's my thought about Venus sort of being in the midst. But otherwise, what comes to your mind?

Whitney Kranz:
Yeah, I like—I like Venus in the midst of this. I mean, similar to how you didn't have a whole lot to say about Saturn retrograde, I don't have a whole lot to say about Mercury retrograde.

I mean, this is our second of three Mercury retrogrades this year. I think it's really interesting as we're looking at this—as we're looking at this wheel, and we're seeing that this is happening in the bound of Saturn, and obviously Saturn is also retrograde, but still in Aries, where Mercury had their original retrograde moment earlier this year.

And like, isn't—does this always—maybe this is a thing that always happens. I haven't been practicing long enough. Um, are—are like all of the Mercury retrogrades this year happening in fire signs, or at least being initiated in fire signs, which I think obviously feels really prominent or potent?

Does that—does that always happen? Are they always trying each other in that way, elementally?

Alexandra Blair:
It's one of the most interesting parts of like, when you find yourself in a Mercury perfection year, because Mercury moves so fast, it's like, "What? What does it mean that Mercury is my time lord?"

I'm always sending people to the retrogrades because it's lighting up that trigon. And also it's this disruption of business as usual. So if you're in a Mercury year, you know you're looking at the fire signs this year. But yeah, that does happen.

Whitney Kranz:
May I just add here that, yes, I am in a Mercury-ruled perfection year, Alexandra. I know this Mercury retrograde is stationing atop my ascendant, so I'm in for it.

I'm trying to remember—it has—

Adam Elenbaas:
It's been forever since I've taught this. How often do they change through the triplicities? Is it every three years? Two years? I'm trying to remember. Do you recall, Alexandra?

Alexandra Blair:
I actually don't know offhand.

Adam Elenbaas:
Well, maybe in—

Alexandra Blair:
A comment on the video. Yeah, I feel like we—

Adam Elenbaas:
Should figure that out. I think I believe that it's something like every 10 or 12 years—I want to say 12—that Mercury's—Mercury will be returning via retrograde to your natal position. That feels like—I feel like I remember that. But anyway, it's been a minute.

The point is that they do. The retrogrades do occur in signs of the same elements and rotate through the elements. You do get crossover—like we had a little bit of Aries and Pisces, if I remember correctly—so, like, they cross over a bit.

But, yeah, predominantly they'll be in the same elemental signs and then switch. So there's very similar—you know, there's similar pattern that goes on with Jupiter-Saturn conjunction, where they change elemental triplicity families over long periods of time.

The Mercury's retrogrades change more quickly. I just can't remember what it is.

Alexandra Blair:
Not an easy question to Google, but I will pin it in as a comment on this video from my YouTube account. You guys can go—since I won't be here.

And I wanted to say one—I did have one thing to say about this, which is just like this to me strikes me as related in obvious ways through square to what's happening in Taurus, but related thematically to what I mentioned about agency and instigation and requests for change.

Like, Mercury stationing in a fixed sign here is another little thing that's like, "Hey, just rethink what's going on." It's a disruption of business as usual.

And don't—fortunately slash unfortunately, our reliable old fixed sign friends are often just the most resistant to any kind of like change or disruption of business as usual.

And Mercury, in some ways, is like very agency-oriented trickster. And so there's a feeling that, like, if you can grab some of that and make a choice to throw yourself into some change somewhere, that it might be helpful.

Like, there are so many people who I've talked to who have been feeling really stuck, and then I say, like, "Oh yeah, things are going to change." And they're like, "What do you mean change?" And I'm like, "You just said that you want to change. You didn't hear yourself say that, but I heard you say that."

So Mercury, in some ways, is like a real ally in that. And, you know, Mercury retrogrades get like a goofy rap in pop culture. But, you know, I know professional astrologers who launch projects on Mercury retrogrades.

Like, it's a great—it can be a great time if you use it on purpose to go back and revisit in an intentional way some of what's going on in that Leo area of your chart.

Adam Elenbaas:
I can't help but think that this Mercury retrograde, for some of us, may tap into father karma. I look at the consistency of some of the symbolism—Mercury in a sun-ruled sign, Mercury at its outset of the retrograde in the bound of Saturn, while Saturn is in its fall in a sun-ruled sign—or sun exalted in Aries.

The sun comes as the ruler of the Mercury retrograde into the bound of Saturn, Saturn in its fall retrograde. I just wonder if there isn't sometimes like—just dads, father figures, leaders, solar figures of central authority—they just, there's moments where they fall down.

And it's like—as someone who's gone through this in my life in a really profound way—with some square Pluto, my dad went through some epic downfalls. There's nothing more sort of difficult to watch, because it's like—I don't know, it's like watching a North Star disappear in the sky or something.

If some people never even had one to begin with, with a dad or a leader or a mentor or whatever. But if you have had one, and you watch them go through—whether it's their health, or it's they retire, or, you know, it's like they're stepping—they're getting older, their mortality is creeping in, or failure's coming in—somehow, those are really hard things to square with, because they can eat away at our sense of faith.

"Is there anything supporting me? Is there anything that's reliable? Is there anything that doesn't die and anything that isn't subject to corruption or scandal?"

I could see this as being a new faith in something new or someone new coming through the retrograde process, or even forgiveness. I talked about Saturn in Aries like the fallen solar figure who needs forgiving or needs help, needs to go to rehab, totally, you know, something like that comes to my mind.

Alexandra Blair:
I think it really—you're really setting us up for this end-of-month period, the new moon in Leo and before—like, I think we should take it there, but like, from July 12 through July 22—so just before we hit that new moon period—that's actually when Saturn and Neptune are at the closest they come this year to their conjunction.

They're only 13 minutes apart during that range of time. Here it is—well, through the 22nd. Yeah. So it's—it's really bringing up. It's like to Whitney's point of that sobering quality.

It really does feel like, "Ooh, drunk at the Jupiter in Cancer welcoming party, and then you go to the bathroom and you have to make eye contact with yourself, and you're like, 'Am I the person I've always wanted to be?' And you're like, 'Whoa. That thought's for tomorrow.' Like, holy, holy God."

Because it's like, you know, your whole sense of your world might, like, just fall apart right there. But with the new moon, I think there's—we're seeing like a real, like, strengthening.

And I don't necessarily think that's a good thing in some of the ways that we're seeing like these solar figures growing in power. So like to Adam, to your point, if you had, like, a weak and painful relationship with a father figure, and suddenly that becomes a really strong point in your awareness—like, it can feel really painful.

But over the next two years, we have only two eclipses in Leo. They're total solar eclipses, both new moons in Leo—August 2026, August 2027. Jupiter comes into Leo—into Leo.

So there's no doubt that, especially through all of the activity in Leo, but then also the oppositional stuff going on with Pluto right in Aquarius—like, our not just personal relationship, but like our cultural relationship to solar figures is undergoing some dramatic reorganization, at least.

Adam Elenbaas:
Wasn't the name of the major protests that happened recently "No Kings"? "No Kings"? Yes, it sure was. And obviously, like I say that with all due respect to the—I know there's political diversity in our audience.

But just as a matter of astrological fact, you can't make this stuff up like that. Is so Saturn in Aries—it's so Neptune in Aries, as well as other things that I think were going on—Mars-Uranus that was happening that weekend—has a whole history of being a part of the Revolutionary War, which was sort of against a king or a monarchy.

But I was like, that was—I thought that was like, "Wow, the astrology is so real."

Now, um, let's go forward to this last period, because we are running a little bit short on time. The new moon in Leo takes place on the 24th. It—you can't make up the logjam.

I mean, this is a very busy, dynamic period within the solar year. I had this—as I'm sure you guys did—mapped out back in December when I was looking at—we gather all the transits for the year in advance.

I have a woman on staff who's been doing it for me for years. Took a look at each month, and I was like, "Whoa. End of July—wow." New Moon in Leo exactly opposite Pluto.

So a new moon that is a sun-Pluto opposition probably sparks changes or transfers of power within the collective, which could involve the—for example, there's recently around—Adam who said we could have a regime change in Iran right now, like a regime change as a matter of something that's been talked about like he's bandying about with this, right?

Well, that's something that could literally take place under a new moon like this, whether that's here or in some other country or whatever. The point is that a new moon that forms a new beginning but opposite Pluto in Aquarius—that has that power to displace and transform structures of power in very intense ways—could suggest such things happening.

But in our personal lives, I'll just say that to me, this reflects some classic Leo-Aquarius dichotomies, like: What does it mean to be a meaningful part of society or a collective, and what does it mean to resist all categorization because I'm a "me," not a "they"? I'm not a "we." I'm a "me."

So I think collective and personal tensions—how do I fit in? How do I stand apart? The pressures to conform versus the risk of standing alone—also the risk of standing alone and the need, sometimes, to join with others.

So I see all those tensions like very loud—dad karma also potentially very loud, continuing on with the Mercury retrograde. But there's lots more to say about this one. What do you guys think?

Whitney Kranz:
Yeah, I'm—I am on the same page as you are in terms of these themes of, like, a new kind of power, new themes of boldness. And I think this can be really productive when we look at personal astrology, right?

But when we're looking collectively with everything we know is going on in the world right now—yeah, it gets real loud. And it's certainly related, just as we were alluding to before, to the Jupiter square to Saturn-Neptune, because now this moon is configured in a trine to Saturn and Neptune.

And so it almost feels like we're taking what we've learned over the last month of turmoil and using it to inform a new ideal of power. And read into that, both collectively and personally, right?

But what it looks like with Pluto opposing here—I mean, you're talking to an Aquarius, right? We're talking like "Power to the people" kind of messaging here.

And I think that dynamic is going to—that Leo-Aquarius dynamic of like leader versus people—hopefully not "versus," but that tension—is so prominent in this one.

I think there's also—it's Leo, right? I think there's also a—is there a performative quality to this? Like, whether personally we feel a pressure to perform, or from a collective aspect, we're looking at sort of this like electric force in the media.

It's like showtime, radiant in Technicolor that, like, it's just an intense period of pressure that has this, like, performative and powerful quality to it.

Adam Elenbaas:
Yeah.

Alexandra Blair:
Totally. I think there's this unsung mercurial piece as well. I don't know that I have, like, an opinion about it, but I'm noticing it as we're looking at the geometry of the chart, which is that Mercury is obviously retrograding back into this new moon, ruling Mars and Venus, who are kind of in a sextile across the Mercury signs.

So I think that retrograde that Mercury is doing again—that rethinking—it kind of actually has me weirdly thinking about, like, the new pope and things like figureheads that are that kind of solar figure, like almost going back on things that the church has stood for for a long time, saying, you know, like, "Forget what the public opinion, forget this pressure of this opinion of many years."

That maverick quality of that Saturn in Aries—like, I'm interested in how solar figures are going to say, "I don't need your approval to do the thing I've always wanted to do at this time." You know?

Adam Elenbaas:
Yeah, yeah. Because the pressure of Pluto in Aquarius opposite a new moon in Leo can be like, "Well, the collective pressure says you ought to be this, or you ought to do that," but the Leo pressure says, "I stand alone. I stand apart. I stand as one."

And the most maniacal version of that is when executive control or power, you know, is unbridled, unchecked. It just goes—it becomes dictatorial, or it becomes so overpowering that it's like it couldn't be clearer.

It's almost like sometimes I feel like sometimes people do things, not even because they really want to, but just to show you, "Well, I can do whatever I want."

Alexandra Blair:
Yeah, I feel like that happens on a personal level. Like, we all have those friends or people in our life where it's like the messages demanding change, especially when you're considering Pluto can be so loud in their life—especially if you're an astrologer and you can see it, right?

But a lot of times you're talking to a friend or, like, a person who is maybe really, really deeply situated in the "I'm not doing that just because the stars are telling me to," you know?

Or, like, "Just because my job is getting hideous and awful and unavoidably bad, I'm not changing my job," you know? It's like there's a rooting down and in, in that fixed way, that can really happen in Leo.

Adam Elenbaas:
I remember—I've told you guys this before—but I remember when I first made the decision not to actively, regularly cover mundane astrology events—like events happening in the collective in terms of the astrology. I just chose to go in the direction of personal.

90% of my channel is that way. We touch on things peripherally, here and there, like we have today, but—and I remember there was a fair amount of people who said, "Oh, well, you must be"—basically like, "Well, if you're not with us and talking about these things, then you're against us."

And I remember just being like, "Well, that's how you see it. I don't. I'm not. Just because I'm being me doesn't mean I'm antagonizing you. You know, I don't want to antagonize you. But if you can't accept me being me, and suddenly, for me to exist in your psyche, I have to be an antagonizing person, or, you know, my existence is now in a binary you've set up—that's your business. It's not mine."

That can be very—like, I found that the fact that I had to do that was very clarifying and actually has helped me to be more consistent and steady in my own mind, heart.

As a content creator, I have a separate part of my life where I'm a political person, you know, with friends, family, and I express myself there. Well, there are so—there are healthy ways where we have to say, "I'm an individual, and I resist collective pressure to conform."

But there are also realities that—like, we'll just say, when I am with certain portions of my family, and I know very well what their values are, and we may differ in some ways, I don't have a hard time in certain places in my life conforming, because I know that it's going to be better than sinking my heels in.

You know, I feel like this is an opposition that may require us to be as discerning about—is it a time to dig my heels in? Is it a time to conform? Is it black and white? Can there be a level of healthy compromise? Like, it's gonna be—it can be so reactionary, and especially with Uranus at zero Gemini, you know, Venus is squaring Mars, and Mercury's retrograde.

It'd be easy to sort of lose our heads and become confrontational.

Whitney Kranz:
Yes, 100%. And I see that especially emphasized in that Venus square Mars. And just before this lunation, Mars conjoined the south node, right?

And so even just the symbolism in that and what you were speaking to with your experiences of, you know, what you just—like, when to talk politics and when to not, like, when to let it go—there is something to this lunation about letting go, having like making a choice to a decision that leaves us letting go.

Alexandra Blair:
Gosh, it's also, unfortunately, kind of just reminding me of, like, that process. I feel like it's a—there's something very sacred feminine about this process of like having a friend who's in an unhealthy relationship dynamic, and you have to know you can't overtly criticize this thing.

You can't overtly talk about it, because then it goes underground. So it's like, you have to learn how to, like, subvert the part of you that wants to say the truth, which is, "This is toxic. You deserve better. This is crazy. Like, get out of here," and, like, learn to walk this fine line.

And there's—it's interesting, because it's a fixed sign, but there is some mutability piece to it too that, I think that that square is speaking to—that you mentioned, Whitney—but it's like learning how to walk.

It's almost like the Aquarian way, right? It's like, it's fixed, but there are—there's a binary. There are two things that you can believe at the same time, but they're both totally true—not in this mutable way. So yeah.

Adam Elenbaas:
The very end of the month, on the 31st, we'll wrap up with this. We get the cazimi between Mercury and the sun. At the same time that we get a first quarter moon in Scorpio, by the way.

That first quarter moon in Scorpio, to me—one of the things that makes this interesting would be that if there is something about speaking truth and sort of staying true to ourselves on some level, if that's what this is about, this is a time I could see where carrying over from the intensity of the new moon—excuse me—this could be some kind of first meaningful testing, like a stress test of that decision to stay, to dig your heels in.

Like, if you are—if there's something that requires, "No, I'm gonna—this is me. This is what I'm doing. This is what I'm thinking. And I'm resisting some collective pressure," I would anticipate that this could be a moment of almost like a stress test to that authenticity.

Whitney Kranz:
Right? And doesn't it kind of tie into the themes of what we were just talking about with our new moon, right? Like, if we have these questions of power, then this moment—this Mercury cazimi—feels like the perfect opportunity to mine insight, to mine gold into how best to use this leadership, what or possibly bravery on a personal level that we've been questioning or wrestling with over the new moon period?

Alexandra Blair:
Yeah, totally. I mean, I think there's something—I failed—and I it just occurred to me—I know that I failed to explain this in February when we talked about our lunar links.

But this cazimi that's happening at nine Leo is the site of the second total solar eclipse in Leo in August 2027. So that's kind of significant, and just something to kind of like think about.

And that's kind of where I was going in that. And I—I'm also just thinking about—I was truly tangentializing the sun-Pluto opposition and how we—that's how we first started recording together, you guys. And now here we are talking about it. And so—

Whitney Kranz:
The nostalgia.

Alexandra Blair:
Yeah, yeah. You got two Cancer people in a room together? We're going to be a little bit nostalgic. But anyways—

Adam Elenbaas:
I have to say—will be this Thursday and the first on Friday that the new monthly overview and horoscopes happen?

Whitney Kranz:
Yep.

Adam Elenbaas:
So Mercury cazimi feels like a good day to introduce some new people and also kind of bridge into the space where the two of you will be creating some bonus content—maybe even that weekend, you guys could create something for—

Alexandra Blair:
Us totally. And I feel like people, you know, when we have months like this where we have so many good or docile things that we talk about—yeah, and then we talk about one of those pockets of activity like is happening at the end of the month, it definitely looks more reactionary.

It's easy to just hear that part of what we said and not hear the rest of what was said in the whole month in the show. But what's coming up in the rest of 2025—there's some really beautiful astrology.

Like, Venus is moving into conjoin Jupiter in Cancer, we get air trines, we get water trines. Like, it's going to be really beautiful. So don't forget—because we're recording this where, in that early month period, we talked about touching grass and coming back to ourselves.

Like, don't forget that part of you this month.

Adam Elenbaas:
I love that. Yeah. Super solid advice. Yeah, 2025 is so far delivering on its promise to be an era-shifting year, mid-decade.

So I've just—it's been a real privilege to unpack a lot of this with the two of you. I want to show you—as always, where—how you can get in touch.

So for Whitney, on Instagram, it's @astro.arcana.astrology. You can follow all of her latest updates there and connect with her regularly. And then it is astroarcana.com to book a reading.

Whitney, anything new you have coming up that you want to talk about?

Whitney Kranz:
I have to promote that the day we are recording this today, I launched my very own podcast here on YouTube. Yay. So please come follow me.

The podcast is called The House of Good Spirit Podcast, and you can find it at @astro.arcana.astrology. It's the same as my Instagram handle.

And I am just so excited to cover each of the lunations as we move along here. So it's a biweekly podcast, and you know, before we go, I just want to say again how much this experience has deepened my own practice and how grateful I am—like, truly, working with both of you has changed my life. And thank you.

Adam Elenbaas:
Yeah, well, I can't wait to keep—you know, obviously you're a Minneapolis friend for life now. So, yeah, there'll be lots more to come for us. I know.

Whitney Kranz:
Good. I love to hear it. And we'll see in the bonus content.

Adam Elenbaas:
And Alexandra, on Instagram, is @ninelivesastrology.

Alexandra Blair:
I'm @ninelivesastrology everywhere. So find me on Instagram, you can find me on my website, you can find me on YouTube.

I will also have pinned that comment where I reveal to you my research about how often Mercury changes elemental triplicities in its retrograde cycle. So yeah, learn and grow together like we have for the past year.

Adam Elenbaas:
Oh, good. So that is how you can stay connected with both of these lovely ladies. I am so thankful again for your service to Nightlight in the community over the year.

Let's pour in a comment section today. Let's pour a lot of love on Alexandra and Whitney as they go forth into their projects and as they continue on creating some bonus content.

Let's thank them for an amazing trip around the sun together. Really, really pour out some love on them as we close here today.

All right. Well, we all hope you have a great month of July, and we will—you'll be meeting some new co-hosts, and then you'll be seeing some new bonus content coming from Alexandra and Whitney soon.

Take it easy, everybody. Bye.