The Astrology of July 2024

Hey everyone, this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology. Today, we're going to be taking a look at all of the major astrological transits for the month of July. I am really excited to introduce you guys to a couple of new co-hosted people who will be joining me each month to help me break down astrology. You guys know I've been saying this for a while: I really like it when it comes to horoscopes and monthly overviews; I so much prefer a conversation than just flying solo and trying to tell the story of all of these beautiful intricate transits, and this big story of a calendar month on my own. For whatever reason, I just find it much easier to talk to other human beings.

So I know it was like a month or two ago when we put out a spot for auditions. And we had so many wonderful talented people who applied and sent us in videos of them breaking down the monthly astrology. And we try in this to also pick some people who can be empowered from within the nightlight community.

So, I have two co-hosts I'm going to introduce you to today he'll be helping me break down the astrology of the month after I go through a couple of promotions and introduce you to them. And we'll be off to the races telling you about the astrology of July.

So before we get into it, as always, don't forget to like, subscribe, and share your comments and reflections. We'd love to hear from you guys, especially if there's a transit that you're circling on your calendar and you're like, ooh, that one, and you have some additional thoughts. Maybe you have some angle on one of the transits that we haven't covered. It's really nice to hear from you guys all the time in all of the videos. But in these monthly overviews, there are so many different approaches you can take. If you've got a cool idea, please feel free to share it.

You can find transcripts of any of these daily talks also on the website nightlight astrology.com. I'm going to take you over there right now because we've got two things that I want to turn you on to for July. Here's the website. When you go to the events page, go to the Speaker Series tab. And check out these free talks we have coming up on July 13 14th and 21st.

I'm really excited that T. Susan Chang is going to be here talking about the decades she is a fantastic author and expert on the decades and their correlations with the tarot. And so I highly recommend that talk also, if you've never learned about Sedna before, and one of our staff, Erika Beach, she's on staff is going to be giving a talk on Sedna and then Jeanne Fricia is going to be giving a talk on some of the major astrological signatures and the charts of artists, famous artists. So all the really wonderful talks are all free. When you sign up, you get the webinar link. And if you can't attend live, you get the recording afterward. If you go to the live talks page, you'll see that my webinar for July is on Uranus in Gemini, one of the major planetary ingresses of next year. We looked at Neptune in Aries a few months ago.

So, we've been taking some time out to look at some of the big transits that are coming up in the near future. If you missed the 12th House webinar, you could pick up a copy of that. There are all of the outer planets and love that I did earlier in the winter and spring. You can get those on the shop page as well. Then, three new webinar talks will be posted. Coming up here pretty shortly. And that will be the August, September, and October talk, so you can stay tuned for those. So on that note, I'm really excited.

There are so many big transits this month, and I'm really, really excited to have two lovely people and really talented astrologers here with me today to help break down the transits. Alexandra Blair and Whitney Krantz. Hey, guys. Hello. So good to have you guys here. I'm so excited to have people with me to talk about the monthly overview. I've been wanting to do this for so long. You're like, we had a whole staff of people who watched Alexandra and Whitney's audition videos, and we all just fell in love with them. We thought you guys were so talented. And we're just so thankful to have you guys here on the show.

Alexandra Blair
Thanks, Adam. That's really nice. I'm really excited to be here, too. And I can't wait to get into it. I love talking about astrology. And I agree. There's something really special when you get together to collaborate with someone, and you get multiple viewpoints. And what a month for it.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, yeah, there's a lot going on. I was like it was funny because Whitney is from Minnesota. And I was like I watched her audition there was like four of us on staff that were watching all the auditions and you guys I think it might be biased because she likes the Vikings.

Alexandra Blair
Like Exactly. It's ironic you've invited a wolf into the coop because I am a Packers fan. I know I even own stock I do.

Adam Elenbaas
It was a good thing you mentioned that the biases are showing.

Adam Elenbaas
That's right. Yeah. Well, I mean, we'll have at some point, maybe we'll in a month. For example, when we get to Super Bowl season or something, we might have to do an extra hour to break down.

Alexandra Blair
Yeah, we have to do. Oh, heck, Yeah.

Adam Elenbaas
So I am really, really excited to be breaking down the astrology with you guys. I thought we could take just a moment for each of you to just tell us a little bit about yourselves. How did you get into astrology? What do you love about it? What do you like about looking at the monthly overviews? Whatever comes to your mind? Maybe, Alexandra, you could start us.

Alexandra Blair
Sure. Well, I am actually just profusely atoning, probably eternally atoning, astrology, skeptic, reformed. I grew up with a just very skeptical background, let's say, but in 2017 ish, I was kind of forcibly introduced to astrology in a school setting, actually, which I think is the only way I would have received it for a grade. And it was actually I went to art school. I'm a proud first-generation college graduate. So any excuse to talk about that, but at Parsons, one of my teachers was like, we're having someone come in to talk about astrology, print out your chart, and I ended up taking a look and was just so blown away by all the different pieces of a chart that aren't just the Sun sign. And so I kind of started digging around and in, during the thing, when a lot of us got serious about astrology in 2020. I also got serious about learning astrology. I ended up taking some courses about specifically Hellenistic astrology. And now I'm taking some of the nightlight courses because Jupiter's in Gemini. Let's do all the courses. Yeah. And so that's kind of my background and where I come from. I love talking with clients. I've been doing that for about a year and a half. And for about two and a half years. I've been recording for some friends who run a fabulous Spirit World Center.

They're shamanic practitioners, and I've been doing spiritual opportunity periods and talking about energetic cycles and things over there. And that is kind of how I came into the monthly transit tracking. It's my favorite thing to do. I love doing it for clients. I love predictive astrology. So my favorite thing to do, you asked. It is just like looking from New Moon to New Moon. The monthly thing makes my Capricorn-rising brain happy. But if you look from moon to moon, the cycles are so clear. And it's just really humbling every time I look at it, where things make sense in a way that they probably wouldn't otherwise.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, for sure. It's interesting that you were a skeptic. I think at one point that that came up when we were talking, but I had forgotten that. So yeah, I think that's always fascinating when someone begins their astrological journey, not like, hooked by the magic that they already somehow believe in, but rather like, hmm, I don't know about this. Like, that's, you don't hear that every day. I think that's really interesting.

Alexandra Blair
Yeah, I came. I come from a very sort of uncharitable, even, like

Alexandra Blair
Yes. And I was, I can't come from more of like an atheistic practitioner, witchcraft and spiritual practice background as well. And so it's just been a real realignment of the polls over the past few years into something completely different. That's

Adam Elenbaas
super cool. Love it. And if you guys want to follow Alexandra, as you're getting to know her now and in the months to come, it's nine lives astrology on Instagram. Her website is NineLivesastrology.com. I'll be circling back to talk a little bit more about how you can contact her for reading and stuff at the end of our episode today. But yeah, thank you, Whitney.

Whitney Kranz
I mean, wow, I'm so honored to be here, part of a nightlight crew; I could never have imagined this. And I have to say, Alexandra, it is so amazing that you came to astrology in a school setting because I went to school in a very, very, very different environment. And being somebody who will probably be the polar opposite, I really grew up with this. Like I didn't know what it was called, but intrinsic sort of pull to the stars as a piece of belonging. I had so much trouble in school with people calling astrology a pseudo-science in this than that. And come on, like nobody's trying to pretend this is a science.

This is a pure divinity story as if we're talking to God. Right? That is one of the reasons that astrology fills me up so much, and it is such an incredible passion of mine. My journey, you know, this is something that I've really always been interested in, and I would say for the last decade-plus, I have studied but more consumed rather than studied, right? And so I felt pulled in the last probably year and a half, two years to really deepen my studies. It was in my research that I stumbled upon Nightlight and Adam, your daily podcast, and basically fell right into this growth through the Nightlight programs. I just completed your one this spring, and the completion of that program really made me realize that, wow, my passions are valid, and this can be my life. And so here I am on this journey; I've started my own business. Thanks for plugging astroarcana.com. And, you know, here we go.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, I love it. I love that. The whole idea behind this was not only to take some of the creative, like there are always patches, I think when you're a regular content creator, where it's just like, oh, I don't like doing this particular kind of content, from honest that's always the monthly overviews and horoscopes for me, but I do not feel that way when I'm doing it with other people. And I was like, Okay, well, we can take care of that need. And hopefully, we can build talented people within the community. And so that's the intention behind it. And it's just been great to, you know, pull some people from the nightlight space, people who are learning talented; you've got your business going, and hopefully, this is an opportunity to get your work out there and your creativity out there to a really great audience. I think the nightlight audience and the student community are just full of really great souls.

So yeah, I hope that it's beneficial for everyone and that, mostly for today, we get some interesting astrology for July to you guys, so you can find Whitney and Astro arcana.com or on Instagram Astro dot Arcana dot r dot astrology. And I'll plug those again at the end of today. I want to start off by asking if you guys are ready to dive in. Yeah. Yeah, let's do it. So, I want to start off by just asking this kind of big-picture question. What do you guys think of as the biggest themes and transits of July before we actually go blow-by-blow through the calendar dates in order? Yeah, what are your big themes and transits, and who wants to go first?

Whitney Kranz
Thank you. Okay. You know, when I look at the astrology of July, it spells alchemy to me, like pure alchemy and self-actualization through this process of emotional maturing. There's something about the fact that we have Mercury at the beginning of the month doing all of these things. We have Mercury at the end of the month and are entering Virgo, and I just picture the magician card in the tarot, which is really creating this magic. I think that's also echoed by all of these planets, Mercury, Venus, and the Sun, all entering. Leo, we have our Capricorn Full Moon, and then all of these Pluto oppositions that happen when those planets enter Leo feel really transformative to me. So, I would say that's where this month is going for me.

Adam Elenbaas
For sure. Those Pluto transits are such. I mean, like, I know, we all highlighted them. That's good. Yeah. We're going to talk about today for sure. Any one trend that really stands out to you if you had to circle just one this month? What is it for you?

Whitney Kranz
Oh, heck yeah, the Venus opposing Pluto retrograde feels really, really strong to me. It is. I mean, Pluto is always a double-edged sword. Right. And there is a beautiful transformation in seismic shifts. I think we can feel a little bit of duality with this transit, as it could be as big as finding the true meaning of love and creativity and letting it transform you entirely. So that's what I'm excited to talk about most today.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, yeah. And we were definitely gonna. I want to come back when we get to Venus opposite Pluto because I know you have to really delve into that one, too. So we'll definitely come back to that. What do you think, Alexandra?

Alexandra Blair
Yeah, I have to agree quickly on the alchemy of the month. And I flagged that too as sort of like messages of change because things come in, in their opinion, Pluto as they come into Leo, but also just generally, there are a lot of astrologers talking about the astrology of the coming years 2025-2026 And on and the big changes happening, and this very much feel like a place where we're still ironing out some messy little details, there are still some thoughts in our brain that are keeping us up, we need to write them down so we can go to sleep or like some ghosts that need permission to pass on. They're still kind of haunting us.

So that stood out to me. But I think for me, the biggest theme of the month was really a sense of being like me. And I think that works for the cancer Capricorn axis. And then also as things come into Leo because there's this supportive trine from Saturn, but then also Neptune. It feels like even as those planets enter Leo, they're still getting that trine energy there. And so it feels like there's some questioning, weeding through dissolving, letting go, but also uncertainty, just kind of like creating an inventory. Like, where am I? What, who, who are my people? What are my things? And where's the border of my domain?

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, I love that. Yeah. So, like so, so much the theme of Cancer, right is where, where do where and what and who do I feel connected and safe with and yeah, yeah, that makes it is there a transit that stands out to you this month?

Alexandra Blair
Well, I'm very excited about this second Capricorn Full moon that's happening in the 38th degree of Capricorn. I just think it looks spooky. And there are a lot of reasons for that. I'm sure that we'll dive deep in there. But that degree is just kind of interesting. And then Pluto's going to be retrograding. I will only go back to that degree later this year. And that's one of those ghosts. I think people are going to need to give permission to go. Yeah,

Adam Elenbaas
yeah, that's a good point. You know, I hadn't thought about that. I hadn't thought about the fact that this Full Moon is landing on the degree that Pluto's like. It's like last business in Capricorn is going to take place that's a really good um, well, for me, I'm like, I think of this month as the, I think of it as the, the coming out party for Venus. Since the Jupiter-Uranus conjunction, she has largely been going through invisibility and gradually getting into visibility again. And if you think we think back, we had this Kazemi in June between Venus and the Sun, and Venus was the host of the Jupiter-Uranus conjunction, and Venus is going to oppose Pluto, and then very shortly after, Mars and Uranus are going to conjoin in Venus's sign, and then a couple of ticks after that Venus appears as the Evening Star and almost immediately squares Uranus at the beginning of August. So I feel like the things that Venus desires behind the recent Jupiter-Uranus conjunction are just being kapow. They're just being pushed forward this month, especially through that close sequence of Venus, opposite Pluto, and then Mars and Uranus and Taurus because they kind of work together in a way. But the second Full Moon in Capricorn is interesting. We don't read. We rarely get that, so you could also say that the cancer Capricorn axis is just loud this month. It's just like really busy. I also like the idea of alchemy, which hit Pluto so much. Like, I love that theme that you brought up. Me and mine, where is my space? Who are my people? What do I feel comfortable with? Those are really good themes as well. Yeah, good stuff. I think so. Are you guys ready to start going? Transit by transit?

Adam Elenbaas
Let's do it. I'm going to put the real-time clock up. And I'm sorry, our beautiful faces will get a little smaller. Okay, so here's here's July 1. And now you guys get to deal with the epic pen. The epic pen has a real personality, and you never know what's gonna happen with the epic pen. That's our fourth co-host on the personality. Let's group some of these together, right? I think it's really interesting that on July 2, we have two simultaneous trines happening. We've got Venus in Cancer training. Saturn, who's now retrograde in Pisces, and at the same exact time, and actually, I'm going to back this up just like I have a fixed Aries on the ascendant, so I can kind of keep us with a steady House view here. But if you can see, this is also July 2; we've got Mercury and Cancer trying Neptune in Pisces, while Venus is also moving into the trine with Saturn in Pisces. So, two very watery trines will open on the same day for the month of July. I'll just switch right here so you can see there's the Venus trine, Saturn, Mercury trine, and Neptune doing both happening on the same day; the first thing that comes to my mind, and I really want to hear what you guys think about this, too, is that these planets at the new moon in June were all in a square to Saturn. Right?

So we went through this whole lunar cycle that was sort of toned by the conflict if you want to put it this way, between air and water, right, and I see that as a conflict that can express itself in many ways, but one of them would be like questions about the relationship between mind and emotion. Or, like, emotional intelligence if we want to kind of blend them together. It feels to me like this is a month starting off right away. There's this immediate potential for healing, soothing, and an integrating of mental and emotional energies. I see these as pretty constructive, given the commonality of water. I normally don't love, you know, contacts with Saturn, but their trines and their, you know, it's very watery. It feels like it is a grandmotherly, nurturing, and wise kind of elder maturing that's happening on the level of mind and emotion. That's the first thing that comes to my mind. What do you guys think?

Alexandra Blair
I definitely agree. I think it's really interesting as things are entering. They hit that trine with Saturn first and then with Neptune, and I got that same feeling of grandmotherly energy but also the hope and optimism of a new generation. So it's like Saturn is going to toss up those boundaries and give you that kind reminder because the trine is a really supportive aspect in that way. But then Neptune brings dissolution of things that don't serve us in that way. There is also optimism for those planets. So I felt the same.

Whitney Kranz
Same thing there. I absolutely agree with both of you. And I think that these trines really represent a kind of closing of that cycle at that watery cycle as we move into some of these more. Leo and Aquarius dynamics, excuse me. Um, and so Mercury here feels like, yes, we're trying Neptune. But could this be more insights and intuition, right, and that grandmotherly energy? You're talking about; I see that here with Venus and Saturn and her loving boundaries and helping us hone our creativity. Right. So that's what this early group in July is speaking to me.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, I feel like one thing that's really interesting is the transition that happens, right? If we tick this forward just a little bit, the very next thing that happens is Mercury goes into Leo. And instantly is now on July 3, opposing Pluto.

Alexandra Blair
And I'd be a little interesting, Adam, too, because it's still actually in a degree-based trine with that Neptune energy. So I'm so curious as to how that kind of will will translate for people. Sorry.

Adam Elenbaas
No, you're fine. Interrupt anytime. Um, I feel like it's like there's; it's interesting that you have the idea that an image in ancient astrology of separating within three degrees is like the fruit falling off from the tree. If you think the fruits falling off the mercury Neptune tree, and as it's in mid-air, it's like, let's oppose Pluto, like, right, like, right, while we're doing it, you know? So it's like, wow, what could that mean? And the image that comes to my mind is where it is almost like when I think about Cancer to Leo; sometimes I think about the image of my little kids there; there are spaces where they just need to be cuddled and held and like squeezed and loved. And then what happens is like their little heart meters get filled, and then all of a sudden, they jump off my lap and explode with creative energy. And they're completely independent.

They don't need me, they don't need mom, they need to, you know, express themselves and be confident and independent. And then you know, the, they'll come back, and that's kind of the pattern, right? But it almost feels to me like, you know, there's this kind of emotional nurturing little nexus of energy between Mercury and Neptune, followed by some very big and bright explosion that maybe is coming from having felt seen or heard or have done some. It's funny how, once we heal, we sometimes feel like we're empowered to say something or do something or announce something, and it feels like Mercury opposite Pluto is kind of like, I feel like I drank from the well. And now I have something to say, or now there's some something of the consequence of great consequences gonna happen because of this healing contact that was made between Mercury and Neptune, or maybe you get filled with some grandiose illusion, and then you go do something completely really nutty. You could see, like, so, but you get the idea that the two are intimately connected.

Alexandra Blair
Yeah, absolutely. I think it's interesting that only because this is Pluto's first few dips into Aquarius only pretty much Mars and Venus have endured this opposition so far. So, like last year, May 20 through 26. Mars was doing this opposition. Venus did that opposition from June 5 to June 11. And then, of course, there was like a retrograde, of course, the moon has also, but you might be able to look back at those periods and see what was going on in your life and kind of see what was playing out for me, the Leo Aquarius axis with Pluto there, I think is going to be a journey. At this point, it is almost a decade's journey for people to question the things that they're passionate about and the things that they put their vitality towards. And the places where they donate their radiant energy, how that serves or interacts with the collective and with social groups or concerns that they may have. And the things that we may not necessarily want to be a part of. But that may be what we're being called to for some reason if that makes sense.

Adam Elenbaas
Well, that was just, yeah,

Whitney Kranz
I was just going to comment on Pluto here. Because if we think about Pluto and Aquarius, Pluto really has that ideal image of humanity in mind, right, and Pluto is ready to tear it all down to build it back up. And so I think that these early transits with Mercury opposing Pluto, I mean, on the one hand, yes, it could be sort of these, like this insight, that are deeply insightful. But what about the shadow qualities? Maybe they are a little obsessive or anxious, right? And it is our journey to sort these things out so that we can go through that process of, you know, alkalization or self-actualization?

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, I love that. I feel like if you look at Mercury, Pluto's opposition is just in a vacuum. You often get moments of empowered speech or empowering thoughts or ideas or communication that somehow come surging out like volcanic like in an interruptive force that can be both destructive and creative simultaneously, when you finally just accidentally say something you've been holding in for a year or something, you know. But then, if you think about it, it's also, you know, coming up Mercury coming off a trine to Neptune, so I was kind of joking around like, you could suddenly, I mean, you could suddenly think that you're Jesus Christ, and then think that you need to go and announce it to the world and, you know, be faced with the consequences of suddenly looking like a mad person. I mean, that's like, obviously, it's a crazy example.

But the idea is just that Mercury is being filled with imaginative, emotional conviction, and then immediately hitting the opposition to Pluto, you could see it being like, maybe it's a little much, maybe you're out of touch with reality, or maybe you have something really important to say, and you're gonna it's coming from your heart and from a place of rich, emotional, imaginative depth. But you're, you may face some pushback, and you may face some opposition somehow in sharing yourself, which is vulnerable for Mercury in Leo because it's a very heart-centered place. I want to communicate something from my heart, and Pluto and Aquarius might be of some kind of collective or social backlash, saying that I prefer you just go along with the crowd or conform in some way. Or, you know, maybe it's the power of trying to be yourself while not conforming in some particular way. But those are the tensions that come to my mind anyway. Right.

Whitney Kranz
And this transit so says to me, word vomit. Like, too much? Yeah,

Adam Elenbaas
yeah. Yeah. Especially since we've got on that day. If you even look at it, we've got Jupiter in the moon together in Gemini. Mercury is the ruler, so yeah, that's fair. That'd be a fair way of looking at that day in particular.

Alexandra Blair
Yeah, I'm seeing a little bit of a sense of reckoning, but it's feels a little bit of a slow build throughout the month as things slide into Leo, one by one, all these interpersonal planets, and it's going to kind of be affecting everyone intimately, but differently very differently.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah. Well, let's move on to our next transit, which is on July 5; we have our new moon in Cancer, this new moon in Cancer. Let me just bring it along here so that we can see it. This new moon in Cancer is again going to be followed by a second Full Moon in Capricorn. So, I think it would be fair to say that this next moon cycle really activates some of the major tensions between Cancer and Capricorn. But what do you guys think just about here? You know, here we are now, looking at a very Cancerian lunar cycle to come. What kinds of themes come to mind for you guys?

Alexandra Blair
Yeah, this one, to me, is the first taste of that, me and mine. Cancer thinks about mine, and Capricorn does, too. But they're thinking about different things when they hear the word mine. And so some of that tension will for sure be in play here. But this lunation, for me, really looks like it may activate the Cancerian impulse to kind of avoid self-examining. This is one of those difficult traits I find with me and my entire family with cancer placements is that I am not always ready to just hear candidly about myself or look sort of directly in the mirror.

There's this great lyric that I was reminded of looking at all this Cancer Capricorn, and it's from the inimitable Taylor Swift songwriter who has several planets in Capricorn and a moon in Cancer. And the lyric is I'll stare directly at the Sun, but never in the mirror. And that's really how I felt about this new moon paired with that full moon later this month. This might be a really friendly time to do that on purpose if you're listening to this and you're into that. But I think we're really being asked to candidly look at ourselves; Venus is going to be softening that ability. And that's why I think it might be a nice time to partake in softening some of those rough edges. But the lunation has pretty much a sextile from Mars down there. It's in a tough place, but it's in a superior position. And we've got that energy from Saturn and Neptune coming in, in sign-based and degree-based ways. So those are some things I was thinking about. Yeah, for sure.

Whitney Kranz
I love that Taylor Swift is on repeat in this moon cycle. I'm on board. I think for me, this moon cycle, the new moon in Cancer specifically, feels like a question of nurture. What is What does nurturing really mean to me? What does nurturing really feel like to me? And how do we give that to others? How do we mother ourselves while still growing, you know, finding the comfort of home while spreading our wings? And so I think there's a deeply emotional aspect to this particular New Moon on the fifth.

Alexandra Blair
So it's such a good point because I think that both Cancer and Capricorn have a nurturer. However, the word nurture really only applies to Cancer. But I think for Capricorn, we could think about it as like fostering. It's not particularly, you know, kind of a few Civ or always even very pleasant, but the Saturnian grandmotherly energy that we talked about actually fosters growth and pushes for the creation and even creativity in its own way.

Whitney Kranz
Right, we need to nurture ourselves and be able to grow up that mountain that Capricorn climbs, right?

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, the two go together so nicely if you are someone who's like an official Sun Cancer, Moon Capricorn, if I may say so. I feel like the, the interesting piece about them is that they really do represent different, equally valid and viable paths in life that both have great spiritual potential if you think about Cancer, and I mentioned this, like, a week or two ago in the podcast, Cancer called the gateway of mankind on the ascendant of the thema mundi. The Sun starts descending from the summer solstice, and the arc of the Sun starts coming down. So we have the return of darkness from within the light; for ancient astrologers, that was about the descent of spirit into matter.

Becoming a material universe which, in a way, doesn't ever, for ancient mystics, doesn't really even have an origin. It's just, it's like an image that is a way of explaining the material in relation to the spiritual, and it's like, okay, so the word becomes flesh and that sort of Cancerian and very lunar, but that pathway if you think about it as a spiritual path is a path downward, into the body into the world into entanglements into attachments, vulnerability and fragility and mortality and like go into it. And it's a really gnarly place. And the whole thing is, can you end up feeling safe and comfortable and like it's inhabitable? You know, and like, for that, there's a mothering energy, nurturing, devotional, and romantic energy, which is very sensitive. And then, on the other hand, you've got Capricorn, the gateway of the gods, who was associated with the rising of the light from within the darkness.

And, of course, goats were banned as great escape artists. So, the Capricorn really represents the upward path. Now, in a mundane sense, that might be building skyscrapers amassing wealth and power. But the whole, the only reason you would be able to rise up along some imagined hierarchy or transcend your attachments or your entanglements in the world is because you have to kind of turn a cold shoulder toward them, then you have to say, well, I can't get entangled, if I'm going to build an empire, or, you know, like, I can't get entangled, if I'm going to go out to a hermitage, and meditate and climb a great mountain and transcend the world, I kind of have to, I have to like turn some kind of cold, distant gaze toward the world, in order to ascend in some way.

In my experience, when the two are paired together, as I was born with, one of the things that keeps coming up over and over is that you have to walk both paths at the same time.

So how do you like to allow yourself to be a human, to have a body to have entanglements and measurements, and emotional fragility? And then how do you know? How do you identify or discern what parts of you you need to grow up and need to take up the mountain so that you get some higher perspective and maybe some healthy level of detachment from the entanglements that aren't healthy and like caring that at the same time is, I think, really difficult and, and they're both sort of like, so you get like, that's kind of where we get the Capricorn sense of like an old wise grandparent, they've lived a lot of life, and they can kind of see the difference between, you know, like, it's funny how my grandparents will, my kids, grandparents, and my parents will have far less tolerance for certain things that my kids do and far more grace and forgiveness for certain things that my kids do. They're in, and it's very different from where my boundaries are. And I can only attribute that to them sort of having a perspective that's like 30 years ahead of what I mean.

So anyway, those are just some thoughts that come to my mind about this new moon and kind of some of the tensions that we might be feeling around are, like trying to foster certain things emotionally, and also feeling the tension of where we might need to grow up and do some difficult maturing or something.

Alexandra Blair
I definitely like to resonate with what you just said resonates with me; I have a Capricorn rising and a Cancer moon. And my Saturn is in Aquarius. So I think that the next level of what you're talking about even is if we're just thinking about Thema Mundi, and the solstice is, you know, Capricorn season is the time where you find out if your harvest is going to last, you through the long, cold winter, and that you're going to be able to feed your family. That's a very different way of providing care, but it's what Cancer wants to do as well. And then we get to Aquarius season, where we say, Okay, I know I can feed my family; can I help my neighbors who need help? And so we are going to have that energy where the Pluto opposition is hitting us as we shift in, so you can get kind of,

Adam Elenbaas
Oh, that's perfect. And that actually leads really nicely into if I don't keep us going, we're gonna be here for hours. So I will keep us going. We are going to look, I mean, look at this, because what happens is this new moon is also, as you guys mentioned, configured to Saturn, Saturn, also the ruler of the last full moon and the upcoming Full Moon in Capricorn. So we kind of ask ourselves, like, well, what kind of Saturnian requirements are we looking at here? And I think, to dovetail with what Alexandra was just saying, we look at here we have on July 10, the Sun will be training. Here's oops, up there it is. That's not what's going on. All right. This happens. I get really excited. Then it's like a big arrow, and I'm like, I didn't tell you to do that.

Okay. All right. So there's the trine, and here's the simultaneous trine, so it's one of these two little periods where there's back-to-back trines. Yeah, I mean Saturn and Neptune. And I just keep thinking that the difference between Cancer and Pisces, if I had to put it simply, in terms of where you look for emotional health or well-being Cancer, as Alexandra was saying, is me. You know, it's very personal. Pisces is very collective. Yeah. It's like what is the what is the emotional needs of humanity or what what are the emotions? All needs of my community are theirs. It's so much more collective and sort of universal. And I can't help but wonder if some of these concerns across the Capricorn cancer access and mine are being asked to grow bigger in their awareness of other people as well. And almost like, yes, your emotional needs are valid, and make sure you also consider the needs of other people's collectives. Bigger storylines are going on, and that kind of comes to my mind with these trains.

Whitney Kranz
Yes, and I think we're seeing this here too. This is the part of the journey where we're realizing that incredibly hard work is worth the reward. Right? That's that Sun, Saturn dynamic for me. And it just, it's, it's, when I look at this, it's screaming, like, work hard, and you'll get there. Yeah.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, it does have that feeling to it. There's a bit to me with the set, one of the things that Saturn and Neptune point to whenever they're together is some form of sacrifice. I think there are questions there. There are some real shadows to that as well, right? Like martyrdom or a martyr complex, you know, things where it gets really serious at times, and you kind of have to wonder, is it too much? Am I sacrificing too much or something like that? I think it's interesting to look at these two trends happening at this time in terms of the greater emotional realities I'm being asked to connect with, foster or nurture, or in some way devote myself to.

Whitney Kranz
Can I tell you an image that just blasted into my mind last night as I was preparing this, Venus trine Neptune? I don't know if y'all studied art history, but do you recall the famous famous Renaissance painting The Birth of Venus? This feels so Venus Neptune to me that Botticelli painting right here is this beautiful, dreamy. Right? Yes.

So, look at her; she is just primed and beautiful and a little mysterious. What is the meaning of love? Is it bliss like I am? It's just this came to me so loudly, and you know, this is the trine that immediately precedes the Sun upload opposing Pluto as it crosses the sign boundary into Leo. And there's something here that's like, so he or she is all primed and ready and like look at that woman trying to give her a robe like Cover yourself up Venus, and she is like, Oh, hell no, I am stepping forth. It's like the mermaid steps out of the water and shakes out her mane. And here she goes, right like, you know, it was funny because earlier, you were mentioning something about Venus. Like the coming out of Venus, right? And I thought, Well, geez, it's too bad. This all isn't taking place during pride month. This feels like a very loud and proud transit to me, right? Venus is loud and proud, reminding us that pride is 365, and here she goes. She doesn't need that robe. She's just gonna do her thing, right?

Adam Elenbaas
Nice. Nice. Yeah. It will, on this note, Whitney, take us into Venus opposite Pluto because that's what comes next on the 12th, and that was where you spend a lot of your time delving into.

Whitney Kranz
Yeah, this Venus opposing Pluto transit really spoke to me because what happens to Venus when she moves into Leo? Her lighting isn't quite right here, right? She's not in dignity. So her moon is, yes, indignity, and so hurt, like her mood lighting might not be quite the way she likes it to be. But I don't think you can. I don't think that completely affects her ability to bring about her signification, right? While we can think of Pluto so destructively, I like to think of Pluto as these profound shifts in the Earth and the tectonic plates moving. So, what happens when we put those two themes together? I mean, you both know, but our audience doesn't know. I love to think in imagery, and it really works for me to bring modern significance to these planets. And so you know what I was thinking about this.

Venus-Pluto feels like the powerhouse female artist in our music world right now. I think Venus-Pluto is like Lady Gaga, right? Like Lady Gaga. Is this image reinvention? She's pushing the envelope; she sings about bad romance. And did you know that her fans? I'm sure there are some of them out here. She calls them the little monster furs, right? So there is, isn't that interesting? There's a definite leak, right? It's like a subterranean aspect of Pluto where we are delving deep, right? Even think about it, Kashia kind of brings this up for me to have this, you know, like air of inhibition, right? It's this.

Like, I think of Dionysus and the like the uninhabited qualities. I think of Beyonce and her song Drunk in Love. You know, I think of going to a rave and getting lost in the music, the dancing, and the darkness. So these are some images that come up from me. But from like, A, as you like to say atom in a vacuum, I think like moving from light to dark. We're talking here about erupting passions and reclamation of inner creative power, like what is the power of love? You know, I mean, and is there a beauty in the beast aspect here to, like, love transcending darkness? Right. And those are some of the more positive the positive significations, I think we can, you know, there can absolutely be a shadow side to have some possession and obsession and jealousy, and there's some primal attraction here, there's definitely a sexual element to this particular transit to like, it feels like healing sexuality, or like sex magic, almost. So, I don't want to take up the time. I could literally speak for 20 minutes on this, but I'm curious to hear your thoughts and how they resonate with you. Oh,

Adam Elenbaas
No, I mean, that was so good. I love those images. And I was just funny because Ashley and I are going to be with our kids and some friends at an herbal conference in Colorado where Ashley's teaching is held. And I was looking at the fact that this was happening, you know, and I was telling her she was like, okay, like me, like, itinerary mode includes the astrology that we want to make sure that we're aware of blah, blah. And I go, so you know, I was like, I just want to be aware of it so that we don't get in any kind of fight or anything like that. And she reminded me that we're going to the last night of this event. There's a masquerade ball. Wow. And I'm going to be wearing a beast mask with the horns and everything. And no, she was like, you're gonna be wearing that beast mask, and then she was like, she was flirting with me and trying to make me feel better; she was maybe I want to make out with you, maybe that'll be with the transits.

Whitney Kranz
On the heels of Venus Neptune, and I know that creates a really good date day for you guys.

Adam Elenbaas
So historically, Venus Neptune, I swear to God, the trines between Venus and Neptune are always we always end up going to see a cool movie. We go to a spa, and we'll get a couples massage. I feel like those are my hands down. Like, I'm always like, ooh, that's a good date night. But the other funny thing was just to mention one more thing that I thought was really interesting. Was that, oh, Um, as this is perfecting, Ashley and I are also teaching a class on planets and plants this evening, Friday, right before the masquerade ball.

Oh, and I was like, Oh, that's really interesting. Like we'll be, we'll be joining our superpowers to teach. I just feel like anything where there is the potential for a relationship to go through a moment of transformation, empowerment, change, we don't think about that, typically outside of like crisis, you know, but the changes in relationships could be very creative, and the possibilities that sort of erupt through putting your brains together or collaborating with someone you love, or even a friend or, like, I even think of Venus often as representing, like women getting together and doing things too. So anyway, those were just popcorn thoughts that flew up as you were talking. I loved those images.

Whitney Kranz
Well, I'm excited to hear about this masquerade ball.

Adam Elenbaas
I'm gonna start like, here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to try to get a picture while we're there. Then, I'm going to post it on my Instagram, and maybe I'll post it on YouTube to get YouTube short of me looking.

Alexandra Blair
Obviously, I think what really stood out for me about Venus entering Leo here is that this is the first time she'll be back here since retrograde last year. And now there is this aspect with Pluto. And so, for me, it's kind of an opportunity I'm seeing or feeling to acknowledge what has changed during that. That cycle is in the Leo part of your chart.

Adam Elenbaas
Oh my god. Yeah. Okay. Now, another story. So, last year, we went to the exact same conference in Colorado, right, but last year, during the Venus retrograde. Okay, so in my natal, Venus is in Leo, right? So it hit me really hard personally because the conference was at, like, I want to say, 10,000 feet; it was really high up in the mountains. And I got altitude sickness, and they had to carry me down, like nearly unconscious, off the mountain. And that happened while Venus was just hurt stationing and turning retrograde. And that's my natal Venus. Do you remember when we were talking? And you said, God, you had some hard. Retrogrades are so hard, right? They came for you personally.

Adam Elenbaas
The funny thing is, we'll be at the same conference, but it's down. It's down at like closer to sea level. It's like down a lot further.

Alexandra Blair
They made some changes to it. Wow, that's so interesting. That's super interesting. That's totally what I was thinking of because I have a stellium, including my Venus and Leo. And I learned some things during that time. And I'm like, Okay, well, now it's my chance to prove to myself that I really did learn those things.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, absolutely. That's great. Well, I see this as So in Whitney. Did you have anything more you wanted to do? You were really dancing there. That was great.

Whitney Kranz
I could keep going. But we have a show to do, guys.

Adam Elenbaas
When you follow Whitney on social media, you can learn more about all of her takes, and they're all very, very brilliant. So Mars will conjoin Uranus on July 15. And I see this as intimately connected to the Venus-Pluto opposition because Venus is the host of these two planets. So whatever she's doing with Pluto, like whatever, whatever, uh, Alchemy and magic happen with Venus opposite Pluto, which I do think could be there's a destructive element. There's also a very creative and sort of energizing moment for Venus. But it is fueling the Uranus-Mars conjunction in Venus's sign, which is just a few degrees off from the Jupiter-Uranus conjunction. And I feel like whatever she's doing, this is why I said earlier. I feel like Venus is pressing the gas pedal because, by the end of the month, she's emerging as the Evening Star. Yeah.

And I'm like, okay, like she this is to me this month there's a like one of the biggest players is probably Venus and how she's changing what she's thinking what she wants, what she doesn't want, how she's growing, what she's learning all of these things, which to me we can think about that as relationships maybe that's like one a textbook but you know, love sextile appearance art creativity, women friends values all different Venusian things are just really going through tremendous change in the Mars Uranus moment could be a little forceful. You know, I think of it like, you know what, we may need to advocate for something Venusian, or we may need to do, you know, to be really assertive on behalf of Venus, and we could also be finding that we're being overly aggressive, assertive or domineering. And that clashes a little bit with the values and sort of harmonizes Venus's nature. Or we're playing fast and loose, right?

Adam Elenbaas
Because what? What did you come up with for Mars? Yeah.

Whitney Kranz
Oh yeah, watch this. So in, the audience of the audition process included a delineation of the Mars-Uranus transit. And because I think in images, this profound image of, oh my gosh, Jack Sparrow, the swashbuckling lead character of Pirates of the Caribbean, came to mind for me. And so that's really how I'm defining and picturing this Mars, Uranus energy, right, just like out there ready to go. And so I want to know what happens when Jack Sparrow and Lady Gaga get together, guys. That's like some sparks.

Adam Elenbaas
I mean, that day is so powerful when you look at it from the standpoint of what the moon is doing. It's a waxing gibbous moon, so it's growing in power; it's in its fall in Scorpio, and it's opposing the Mars-Uranus conjunction to me; this feels like Venus-Pluto on its own; I can always see it going in different directions. But when it's coming so close to a day like this, it makes me feel like, oh, there's a lot at stake. And there are emotions invested in this. And you always think, well, cooler heads will prevail. You know, like, let's be reasonable, let's be careful and thoughtful, even when we have to push forward or create a little revolutionary activity. But I wonder how easy it's going to be, honestly, on this day. I feel like this is one of the at the beginning of the year; I always write down what looks like the most difficult transitions of the year. I have this written down as one of probably one of the most, not that really constructive, beautiful healing things that can't come out of it, but like handling it or managing it without becoming impulsive or reckless or, or sort of losing our heads emotionally. I feel like this is a tough day.

Alexandra Blair
To me, with Venus coming off that trine from Neptune into Leo, it looks like I can do this. I said I would do the thing. I've been hired to do the thing. And maybe that square kind of sign base aspect for Mars Uranus is a lack of or perhaps a surprising realization that one does indeed have the material resources necessary to accomplish their goal. Like for some reason, the thing I keep thinking of is, this isn't this started out as being positive, but now we're gonna go somewhere else. But, like, I was thinking of Theranos, the health company, like, hey, we can make this amazing technology, it's going to help all these people, it's going to help. It's going to be such a big dream technology. And then there's that shocking moment where we realized that just absolutely in terms of material science, it is not a possible thing that could happen. And there's this collapse of that kind of company and that narrative, where things get swept away from undress, like this reality check. So, for me, those two planets in that superior position in that square, it is just sign base at this point. But still, it feels almost like a reality check from the ground. You know, from Taurus.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah. Yeah. Whatever the aspirations are, what in whatever. Yeah, whatever is attractive to us drives our actions. It's going through some kind of gut check. It's like, oh, I want this because I think it's beautiful or worthwhile or valuable, or I'm attracted to this, or wouldn't it be lovely if that? Right, all of that's fine. But then we hit this moment where it feels like, do you really want that? Do you see what's going to happen if you go for that? Or? Or do you know who you might hurt or bulldoze in the process? Or have you considered what other people want or the social consequences of this or that? And there's a lot to consider.

Alexandra Blair
Yeah, the astrology was definitely different. But I want to mention one of the occasions I found when I was kind of doing my research, which was during that Mars Uranus in Taurus on January 20 2021. Now, a lot was going on in January 2021. But we're not going to get into any of that. And I'm just going to talk about the Texas freeze, which happened just a couple of weeks after this. This transit and basically just feel so on the nose is like this sudden and exciting and agitating, goading, explosive thing that literally happened in the power systems in Texas, where the entire state's material security was basically thrown, And if you don't know about it, you can definitely google it. But basically, there was an unusual storm in Texas that brought really, really cold weather and the power grid failed. A lot of people suffered, and some really tragically passed away because of exposure and lack of materials security; there were all kinds of shortages of everything.

So I think that's a very on-the-nose manifestation of this. But when you talk about the social element of it, because it is being hosted by Venus, we can see this moment where people started to question, Hey, why did this happen? How can we prevent this from happening again? Why is our power grid separate from the national power grid? You know, different questions that were going on that had these social norms and these collective ideas that I think are even going to be more pronounced now that we have Pluto and Aquarius as well?

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, that's a great point. Anything you want to add, Whitney, before we keep moving?

Whitney Kranz
Well, I kind of feel like Alexandra's really set us up, and I want to hear how then we go into the Capricorn Full Moon. That second Capricorn Full Moon, right?

Adam Elenbaas
It's so it's interesting because you get well; one thing I want to I just want to dovetail off from what Alexandria was saying really quick before I go there. Yeah, like that. The Texas power grid, it was because of ice, right? It was like the Sputnik was like, yeah, it was cold. Yeah.

Adam Elenbaas
The elements of cold center. And I just feel like one of the things that happens with Mars Uranus in any sign, but especially in a sign like Taurus, is that there's a pocket of time that becomes very unstable. And that instability can be the same kind of instability that you feel when you're in a very productive creative space. But it's unstable because everything's just like Sparky. And that can be almost a fugue state that an artist is entering. It's like a live wire. And I feel like a lot of people may experience that as very invigorating and very, like, enlivening. But also, when it comes to a sign that is all about support, security, stability, that can feel a little that can hit a little different, like a power grid that can't support this, like a whole system of stability that's being undermined. So it's definitely this is, I think, this is probably one of the more difficult transits of the year in that respect, that it has a feeling of being like Mars isn't super comfortable in Taurus, and Taurus isn't super comfortable with Uranus. And you know, for that reason, that's such a good, vivid example of what can happen.

Alexandra Blair
Yeah, and I think Uranus sometimes has the quality of bringing the power of the gods to the people. And that is very much just a string of words that can go both ways. So I think in some ways, when we think about Taurus as being the ground, the Earth, and if we think about this transit as a bolt of lightning, what we do with a bolt of lightning means that we direct them into the ground to ground them. So in, in some ways, we may benefit from Mars not being super comfortable in Taurus and from not having the full explosive power of, I mean, go back and look at the timing of these transits happening in Aries, for example, or freak yourself out about them happening in Gemini if you want to. But yeah, I am with you on that. Yeah.

Adam Elenbaas
Um, well, then we move to another Full Moon in Capricorn on the 21st; what did I get that wrong? July 21. Oh, no, no, the 29th degree. I just gotta go back by some hours. Yeah, here we go. So what's so interesting to me about this Full Moon is that immediately after its full conjoins Pluto, and immediately after its full Sun opposes Pluto, so just by the 23rd, The Sun will oppose Pluto, like, you know, just it's imminent.

Alexandra Blair
So yes, they're out of sine-like by degree they are, they are applying to those placements. It's just a pretty interesting lunation, I think.

Adam Elenbaas
On the 21st, The day of the full moon, we also, at the exact same time, have Oops, here we go. At the exact same time, we also have Mercury in a degree-based square with Uranus.

Alexandra Blair
actually, it is more right because the Sun is trying Neptune, and Mars is trying Pluto. Venus is sextile in Jupiter, which is, you know, what we talked about as being sometimes B, but amidst all this, who knows?

Adam Elenbaas
Let's put it all in for contact. So we've got a busy day. No, it is. I mean, like this month of July, it's just loaded. I mean, here we have Sun trine Neptune, Mars trine Pluto, Mercury square Uranus, and a full moon at the anaretic degree of Capricorn moving into a conjunction with Pluto. And a day and a half later, not even the Sun opposes Pluto. Yeah. You take your pick.

Alexandra Blair
I feel like we could see Saturn's retrograde. So let's throw that in the next.

Adam Elenbaas
We can be like, what's the simplest way to describe this shitshow and get real that's like, that's it?

Alexandra Blair
I think of it in no totally in the way that when you describe like, this is the crucible the, we put a bunch of stuff in the crucible, we're applying some heat. Something's going to happen in there.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, this is, I mean, I like the thing that comes to my mind set aside, like, you know, any specific sign-based themes, which is that this is a very electric and very dynamic moment. When I think about Mercury and Uranus, the first thing I think about is just how active, creative, and inventive the mind is. So I love that, like, I love Mercury-Uranus contacts, generally speaking; I mean, they can cause some mayhem to, you know, but

Alexandra Blair
Mayhem is fine with that. Right.

Adam Elenbaas
Then you've got Mars trine Pluto, which I think of as very constructive in the sense that you have the will, and you have this kind of underlying primal power that's pushing the will. You have Mars in mercury sign being fueled by the Uranus Square. The sun trine Neptune gives us a real emotional and imaginative sense of conviction. So I got to feel like this could be a moment of tremendous inspiration with resources and energy to do something with. That's the most constructive thing that comes to my mind. What do you guys reach?

Alexandra Blair
Yeah, I think, like, when we look at the fact that this is the second, this feels so Capricorn energy to me, it's like, oh, I said I would do a thing back at the new moon, right? In January, we set I set some intentions. Then, at the beginning of that, this double period was like June 21. When we have the first Capricorn Full Moon, it comes around fast, and you're like, Oh, I didn't accomplish the things I wanted to accomplish. But never fear, a Capricorn is here. And so I can do everything that I said I was going to do in six months in one month. And here we go, we're gonna have one month to handle it. And let's see how far we get. And so there's some of that for me.

But there's also just a very real sense, this, there's something happening here that is outside of the control of us mortal humans here on Earth, because of that anaretic degree, it is really the so-called degree of fate. It's a place where decision-making is difficult or harnessing the energy of things moving around is difficult. And I think it just implies something that we're not necessarily able to affect the outcome of, which is also in this space ruled by malefic. In the Saturn-ruled sign, it's in a Mars-ruled bound; it's in a weird spot. Later this year, Pluto will actually come back to just do this one degree of Capricorn, which is 30th-degree number 29. To make us look in the mirror like I said, I'll look directly at the Sun but not in the mirror. And I think there is something some ghost here at 29 Capricorn. Clearly, that's being pulled up to the surface for us to look at.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, I mean, if I think about the ultimate Capricornian, like modern mythos, I think of Lord of the Rings, right? Because Tolkien was a Capricorn and had his son in the fifth house and everything, and I'm like, the like one of the images that comes to mind. I know Alex from monthly horoscopes would love this. It is like you've reached Mount Doom. Like you've got the ring, you're at Mount Doom. And, you know, events are conspiring to allow you to have this pivotal moment where maybe there's really a transmuting or releasing of something that feels like a really cool potential.

On the other hand, it does feel like, you know, things are outside of control. I just jokingly wrote down faded stuff. When you have this much all coming together, you sort of go; there are multiple timelines and, yeah, comeback stories that are converging right here. Yeah.

Whitney Kranz
I know I was just going to say there's only so much we can control here, and that's what all of this, you know, Mercury, Uranus, Mars, Pluto energy is bringing to this is full moon than with the Sun and Neptune. We can only control so much, right? But we're having these breakthroughs of insight and our transcendental moment after our, you know, emotional maturation and, like, let it be what it will be. Yeah,

Adam Elenbaas
yeah, that's well said. I am looking here at the Sun opposite Pluto, which I think technically does not happen until the 23rd Depends on your timezone.

Alexandra Blair
It's at 12:37am, I have.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, so it's like, yeah, it could. You might as well say it's kind of the evening of the 22nd into the 23rd, Depending on where you're at. But yeah, that Sun opposite Pluto moment, does it? You know, whenever the Sun is opposite Pluto, I can't help but mention that. Like, could there be some way in which the storylines of this month, especially considering two full moons in Capricorn, bring up some paternal karma? Yeah, like dad stuff, it feels like it could be on the astrological menu for the month. What do you what do you guys think?

Alexandra Blair
Yeah, my dad's stuff is just leashed to the Sun-Pluto. I mean, I can track it like to the day it's it's pretty wild. So because I have personal planets, such as Stellium and Leo, I'm ready. I'm as ready as I am. But I feel also like thinking of the dad stuff and thinking of the Sun and how it functions. It really feels like a king returning home. I've returned home to my kingdom, and immediately, there are 10 people. We've had famine, there's been a war, and there's fire. Everyone's dying. It's like, oh, no, there's a little bit of this reckoning feeling again, right there. The son thinks that he's coming back to his palace and getting a little vision of something else instead. Yeah, yeah.

Whitney Kranz
I'm so glad, Alexandra, you mentioned that the King is coming back to his palace because one of the images that came to my mind with the Sun entering Leo is his the King with his crown. Right. This is Aslan from the entire Chronicles of Narnia series, right like that. It feels so deeply like that archetype to me if we're rulers with heavy responsibilities. ality Yeah, we are destined to live for this purpose. And maybe I'm a little bit biased because I have Leo on the ascendant. And so for me, well, yes, Pluto is going to bring some deep stuff, right? Like it feels like I want to sing for this transit; it feels like a whole new world we're creating here; that's what our King is bringing you to know and Revelation and transformation and this life, death, and rebirth of identity so I, can't wait to see what this.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, I mean, it's a very, like, Kim belly and, like, Hero Lily journey feeling. Yeah, and it's so interesting. Look at Venus and Leo 14 degrees out from the Sun just about to appear as the Evening Star to and to me that it goes again, it goes back to some of the Jupiter Uranus dynamics that there's, I can't help but like, just think about this whole process having this underlying current about Venus, beauty, desire, you know, the connection between what we enjoy how we experience peace and pleasure and how we create a sense of security or stability, and what other forces need to be what other realities need to be considered alongside how we create peace or happiness.

Those are really big conversations. And I like, like, if I had to imagine I'm not a great mundane astrologer, but if I had to imagine a conversation happening in the collective, it might be between, you know, what creates wealth and happiness and what creates sustainability for example, a greater sense of peace and prosperity for the planet in relation to the pursuit of personal happiness, wealth, pleasure or stability. That's not an easy conversation to have collectively, let alone, you know, personally, let alone collectively.

Anyway, long story short, I think it's interesting that the last thing that happens after this is in the last days of August after the Sun opposes Pluto, and Venus appears as the Evening Star. I'm like, just again like I can't occasionally like it just see my term like gee, you know, Venus appears as the morning star on my Venus return to something like had you know, it's like, what, uh, and I'm like that's in my fourth house, which is also the place to father to so I'm like, Oh God, what like, what, what are we getting into here? But you can see it coming sometimes. You

Alexandra Blair
know, I know. It's worse if you have your family members' charts because then you're like, Oh no, I see. All of our chakras are no,

Adam Elenbaas
No, I know. But back just one second to the Sun opposite Pluto. Oh, yeah. Is there anything else you guys want to add to this? This is our last transit of the month.

Alexandra Blair
Yeah, for me, there are the Sun and Venus and Mercury. It's like Mercury is leading the way, and we've got Pluto. It just very clearly brings up the story of Orpheus, and you're ready to see where Orpheus, you know, travels to the underworld and goes to collect his recently departed bride and the golden goddess of the underworld. Pluto says, Sure, you can travel back up Mercury, who is the sort of psychopomp, the deity that walks between those worlds, and guides them back up, but Orpheus cannot look back at his bride until they emerge.

And Sun-Pluto already brings up that Kimbell alien journey that you talked about, the journey to the innermost cave. And looking at that mouth of the cave and knowing that there's a big, bright, beautiful light world out there that you could return to, and facing that dark moment. So it brought a lot of that up for me. And I just want to emphasize the importance of this one; you know, Sun-Pluto is something that happens every year, and it goes around like the Wheel of the Year. But this will be the first time this has happened at this axis of Leo and Aquarius.

And so, I suspect that it will impact everyone quite differently. And we've been having this on the cancer Capricorn axis since 2009. So this is gonna be a different, a very different feeling. And to your point about the mundane events, I actually went back, and I tried to look it up. And I was like, Oh, what was going on in the world? I saw this interesting headline: It was like, global recession ends June 2009. And I was like, Oh, is that when you think that ended for people? So interesting.

And it was almost to the day of the first Sun-Pluto opposition in Capricorn and Cancer, which is, you know, having to do with home and banking and all this stuff. So it was almost like the thing that happened if we can call, you know, a global recession. It happened, and then the work happened for the next, you know, some odd years, almost two decades after that. And so I wonder what's going to be happening here. That's that slow-building process that I think Pluto talks about. Very, very slow, gradual building and change.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, I mean, to me, it's it. Everyone who watches my channel knows that I am sort of adamantly a political person on the channel, right? Like, I just don't discuss politics on the channel. I can't I have to mention, and regardless of where anyone in the audience may be coming from, just as a pure fact, that these transits in the middle of the month are also happening as a former president is about to receive, you know, what is the verdict is no, not verdict. Sentencing sentencing?

Adam Elenbaas
Again, I don't care what President it is. And I don't care what the backstory is; that is a significant event that will happen around the same time as all of these transits. And that's something that I have no doubt will play alongside all of these transits this month. So that's just something that even though I'm someone who, like my channel, is very much about how we can take these transits and apply them to our personal lives, I have mundane astrologers that I follow separately. Yeah, you know, but I don't really bring it into my channel. But, like, occasionally, you can't just help it go like, well look at that, you know, and I think that's gonna be one of them this month.

Whitney Kranz
That's so interesting. You point that out, um, I hadn't made that correlation. And, you know, something about the Sun-Pluto really talks about, like these revelations about contrasting ideals, right, light and dark and ego, and shadow, and I can really clearly see that represented right in the world and the community. You know, as we move into this month, so awesome, and Alexandra, super, super insightful about the history. I love that. I love that you're pointing out these things. These things out. It's amazing. Thank you.

Alexandra Blair
I'm also not a great, mundane astrologer. But I am a prolific Googler. And so there is something there for Gemini.

Adam Elenbaas
I love No, I'm so happy. One of the things that I was like I was talking with several of the other nightlight staff who were helping me look at all the auditions, and I just loved that you had these really cool ways of bringing in events that had happened in the collective that were so vivid, I think that you know We're just so excited to have you here. And in all of the creative ways that you talk about astrology, it is just fantastic. And you, too, Whitney, love your swashbuckling example. That was one that, you know, I gave you guys that in the audition is I was like, You know what? That's a difficult transit to talk about, right?

Alexandra Blair
Because it's like, well, you know, well, I don't really know why it's because it's happening near your Senate. And so you don't get it because it's you, and you needed us to read your geography.

Adam Elenbaas
That's exactly what I couldn't read. I know this. I was looking for a free reading, guys. I was like, that's one of the most difficult transits of the year. I want to hear how they talk about it. You started talking about swashbuckling? You know, Captain, or what's this? Jack? Yeah. Jack Sparrow, you talked about the Texas power grid. I was like, they are awesome. These guys are sweet. So anyway, that is our astrology for the month. Those are the big, the big storylines. We don't cover every last aspect; we try to look at the big things and try to create meaningful conversations around them. I feel like this was a really fun first episode.

And what we can promise to all of you is that we are going to keep working creatively on these overviews and keep finding new ways of making them fun and interesting. And, you know, I think it's like a band when you first get together, you're like figuring out we're figuring out how to play together. So give us a few months as we figure out our jam habits and good patterns and stuff like that. But before we go, I want to point you to both Whitney and Alexander's work, Whitney, at Astro arcana.com. You can book a reading with her. You can. Yeah, there you go. You can book a reading with her, and you can follow her on Instagram for astrological content, such as Astro dot Arcana dot astrology.

So, I highly recommend getting a reading with both of our hosts. They are fantastic astrologers who have come through the nightlight programs that are in them at the moment. I also have other training and a long history of studying and being in love with astrology, except for Alexandria, who always hated it. And only recently have I been getting an Alexandria. You can find her at Nine Lives. astrology.com. Also, you can book a reading with her there and see her other offerings. And nine lives astrology on Instagram. Actually, let me just do this really quickly. Um, let's see. Here's Astro Arcana. So this is Whitney's website where you can book a reading. You can see her services and contact form. And then Alexandra's, I will switch.

Adam Elenbaas
I have one of those two. Looks pretty nice. Anyway, you can book readings with them here. These are their websites, and you recognize them when you land on them. You guys, thank you. This was really fun. Thank you, guys, for being here and just contributing so much energy in life. I haven't had this much fun doing a monthly overview forever. It's been a long time since I think Alex, at one point, was helping me for a little bit, but then he couldn't. And I was like, I need this kind of conversation.

Alexandra Blair
I was happy to be bringing our light into your innermost cave.

Whitney Kranz
That's right. Hey, that was a Sun-Pluto reference. Yeah, this was this was so incredible. And I'm so happy to be a part of this and can't wait to see how it evolves.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, yeah, for sure. Well, there's lots of astrology in August to be talking about. We've got a Jupiter Saturn square that is epic, especially following off from the recent great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in Aquarius. So there's a lot more to talk about. And then, before you know it, we're back into eclipse season this fall. So yeah, we're off to the races. But Shall we start in one of the most interesting months of the year, too? So, this is supposed to be a slow year?

Adam Elenbaas
I know, right? Yeah. Oh my god.

Whitney Kranz
We'll all have thriving careers, right? A lot to talk about.

Adam Elenbaas
That's right. Wait till we start breaking down stuff like Saturn and Neptune in Aries next year. That's wild. So yeah, thank you guys for listening. Remember that you can find all of my work and classes and all that good stuff at nightlightastrology.com. If you have any questions about anything you find on the website, email info@nightlight astrology.com. Thank you again to Alexandra and Whitney for being here, and we will see you all again next month. Bye, everyone.