If you’ve been feeling burned out, dimmed down, or disconnected from your joy—this Mercury Retrograde in Leo is your invitation to reignite your radiance and remember: joy isn’t extra. It’s leadership. In this episode of the Star Powered® Podcast, we’re diving into Mercury Retrograde in Leo 2025, a fiery, heart-centered transit from July 17 to August 11 that wants you to reclaim joy as your leadership fuel.

Uranus in Gemini is here to shake up how we think, speak, and connect. In this episode, explore what this 7-year transit means for your message, community, and future as a thought leader. We’ll dive into the astrology, history, key aspects, and horoscopes for all 12 signs—plus how to work with this energy now. Want to plan with Uranus and other major planetary shifts? Join Celestial Cycles at starpowered.com/celestial-cycles.

This episode is a powerful replay I recorded back in February during a wave of collective chaos and five months later, it’s still just as relevant. As we move through Cancer season, a time ruled by the Moon, it’s the perfect moment to tune into your Moon sign as a leadership tool. Your Moon reveals what you need to feel emotionally safe, grounded, and regulated especially when the world feels uncertain. In this episode, I’ll guide you through how your Moon sign holds the key to emotional regulation, self-soothing, and courageous decision-making. Whether you're navigating big changes, launching something new, or simply trying to stay steady through the unknown, this episode will help you stop spiraling and return to your emotional center.

This Cancer New Moon conjunct Jupiter is about expanding your soft power. It’s about growing and rooting your emotional capacity so you can play bigger, without fizzling out or hiding your head in the sand. The inner work is your leadership development. In this episode, we’ll explore the signs you're ready for a big leap, how to choose possibility in uncertain times, and what your Moon sign reveals about how to self-soothe while doing brave, meaningful things. Because when fear, scarcity, separation, and shame try to keep us small, astrology reminds us: we have a choice: the freedom to choose possibility and hope in an abundant Universe.

The June Solstice marks a celestial milestone. In the Northern Hemisphere, the longest day of light and the moment the Sun shifts to its northern-most horizon at the Tropic of Cancer, sparking Cancer Season. In this episode, I guide you through the astrology of the Solstice and invite you into a mid-year reflection designed to reattune your leadership, business, and emotional value. With the Sun conjunct Jupiter, Moon exalted in Taurus, and Pluto stirring transformation, this Solstice isn’t just seasonal, it’s strategic. Learn how to reflect, prune, and nourish what matters most in your Work. nIn this episode, we also explore how Cancer season reveals the hidden power of emotional labor—and why this often invisible work is central to visionary, heart-centered leadership. It’s time to revalue what truly sustains us.

This Sagittarius Full Moon near the Galactic Center invites you to illuminate the stories you believe about yourself, your purpose, and what’s truly possible in your life and leadership. Are your beliefs empowering or limiting? Personal or inherited? Expansive or outdated? In this episode, Leslie unpacks the contagious nature of belief and why monocultures in society, in systems, and even in your own thinking can quietly deplete your potential. Drawing from Malcolm Gladwell’s Revenge of the Tipping Point, Hawaiian star knowledge, and the fiery astrology of this Full Moon, you’ll explore what it means to nurture a polyculture of truths, where many paths and voices matter.

Jupiter in Cancer is here for the next 12 months, and with it, your opportunity to get to the root of what’s been holding back your real expansion. We’ve been taught that growth comes from strategy and hustle. But true expansion of your reach, leadership, and business starts with belief and inner work. In this episode, we’ll explore why your emotional rootedness is key to sustainable success, and how soft power, belonging, and emotional safety are the new leadership edge in a world racing toward AI and optimization.

Are you feeling the call to step boldly forward but wrestling with doubt? Saturn in Aries isn't here to hold you back—it's here focus your fire for forging forward. In this episode, you'll learn exactly how to harness Saturn’s prioritization and boundaries to turn hesitation into mastery AS well as hear the invitation to crystallize your courage so you can lead confidently, expertly, decisively, and unapologetically.