Hello and Welcome to Virgo Season 2025!

This season starts with a New Moon that supports being intentional and ritualistic around setting up new routines that nourish the physical body and build supportive habits as we shift into the intense energy of eclipses season and Pluto moving out of bounds. Virgo is about tending to the mundane detail in our life, getting organized, refining the details. We can use this season to organize our inbox, create new habits, update our calendars, examine our spending habits, edit our systems, clean out and clear out the junk drawer, and offer help and support to those around us who may need it.

Dates:

August 22nd/23rd: New Moon in Virgo

August 26th: Pluto opposite Venus

August 29th: Pluto out of bounds

September 7th: Lunar Eclipse in Pisces

September 21st: Solar Eclipse in Virgo

Ideas to include for Dinacharya (daily ritual) can include:

• ​Set times: waking routine, eating, sleeping routine/sleeping
• ​Inner Nourishment + Hydration, consider using herbs to your food and/or water to support digestion
• ​Herbs: lemon, ginger, fennel, cumin, coriander, black pepper, licorice
• ​Outer Nourishment + Hydration, consider self-massage using favorite body oil and essential oils that nourishes skin and promotes healthy digestion.
• ​Essential oils: peppermint, fennel, ginger, lemon, cardamom
• ​Yoga Styles: practice that cultivate stillness, attention to detail, and/or slowing down ie. restorative classes, alignment based, super slow flow that includes repetition, mindfulness meditation, and nourishing rituals
• ​Postures: twists, forward folds, squats, knee to chest postures, gentle core strengthening, supine hip/leg stretches
• ​Breath: Morning: kapalabhati (“skull shining breath”, slow forceful exhale through nose/passive inhale), Evening: nadi shodhana (“alternate nostril breathing”, inhale left, exhale right, inhale right, exhale left, repeat)
• ​Meditation: trataka (candle or fire gazing), visualization of digestive fire, mindful eating
• ​Nightly Introspection/Journaling: what daily rituals can support my overall well-being? What practices can help me be in sacred relationship to my physical body? What are one or two habits I can let go of that would better support my wellness?

To attend a retreat with Kristi, take one of her classes or make a one on one appointment visit her website ⁠⁠https://www.kristilyonsyoga.com/⁠⁠ or follow her @lyons.kristi

To book a reading with Gabrielle follow her at @luminousastrology or visit her website ⁠⁠https://www.luminousastrology.com/⁠

Leo Season 2025:

Flirt, play, create, celebrate, bask in the sun, be bold and flashy. This is the season when we are encouraged to shine brightly, boldly and proudly as the unique human beings each of us are.

Vedic Story: Rasa and Lila

Meditation: Cloud Gazing

Dates

• ​July 24th: Leo New Moon opposite Pluto, trine Neptune and Saturn, Sextile Uranus
• ​July 31st: Mercury Cazimi
• ​August 9th: Full Moon in Aquarius + Mars opposite Saturn and Neptune
• ​August 11th: Venus Jupiter Conjunction in Cancer

Cancer Season Continued: Borders, Belonging & Broken Systems: The Unspoken Reasons for Immigration.

As we move through Cancer season, we hold our attention on the politics of home, country and family through the topic of immigration. In this episode, I talk with immigration lawyer Diana Moller to examine history, reasons for immigrating, economics, labor, and the abomination of for-profit detention centers. I weave in the Cancer archetype and in particular note the axis it shares with Capricorn.

To work with Diana see her link below.

Diana Moller https://www.mollerimmigration.com/

This week’s episode continues our exploration of Cancer season themes—home, belonging, and care—through the lens of immigration.
I speak with immigration lawyer Lisa Seifert to discuss the many facets of immigration in the U.S. We talk about the different types of legal documentation, what it means that being undocumented is a civil—not criminal—offense, how communities can hold ICE accountable, and recent headlines. We also explore how immigrants contribute billions in taxes and the significance of sanctuary cities in offering protection and support.

As we approach the 4th of July—a day that marks the birth of the United States and also highlights that this country is astrologically a Cancer—I invite you to reflect deeply.

Unless you are Native American, your family came from somewhere else. We are a nation of immigrants.
This holiday is an opportunity to ask:
What does patriotism truly mean?
Who makes up this country?
What are we really celebrating?
What are the stories—of migration, displacement, and survival—that brought us here?

And crucially, what are the ongoing consequences of colonization, especially for Native peoples, whose lands were taken to form what we now call the United States?

Resources:

Lisa Steifert: https://www.seifertlaw.com/

Northwest Immigrant Rights Project: https://www.nwirp.org/

In today’s episode I speak with birth worker, parenting coach, doula and writer, Marissa Bolaños of Womb Revolution. We continue to explore Cancer themes through an examination of the experience of birthing parents, parenthood, post-partum and the impact of capitalism and individualism on these experiences. Marissa normalizes the less glamorous experiences of parenthood: the rage, anxiety, inequalities, loneliness, and feeling trapped. We discuss a couple of quotes from her article, This is How Patriarchy Weaponizes Gentle Parenting and Leaves Moms Behind. (linked below)

• ​“I believe parenting is a unique opportunity to heal ourselves, dismantle systems of oppression and change the world.”
• ​“Nobody tells us how triggering parenting can be, how many of our own wounds resurface while we witness our kids big feels and big needs.”

Marissa's insights are powerful, helpful, reassuring, and even offer practical steps towards shifting outdated patterns and models of parenting. I hope you all enjoy!

• ​Marissa's website: https://www.wombrevolution.com/
• ​Center for Indigenous Midwifery: https://www.indigenous-midwifery.org

Books and Article Referenced:

• ​https://www.wombrevolution.com/blog/this-is-how-patriarchy-weaponizes-gentle-parenting-and-leaves-moms-behind

• ​Parenting from the Inside Out by Daniel Siegel

In this deeply reflective episode, we explore the archetype of Cancer through both an astrological and political lens. Ruled by the Moon, Cancer is tied to home, care, emotion, and memory — but in today’s world, these themes extend far beyond the personal. We unpack how the Cancerian archetype shows up in conversations around immigration, labor, mothering, and global injustice. From the trauma of colonization to the emotional labor of caregiving, this episode is a call to remember that feeling is not weakness — it is power. And it’s time to let that power move us.

Key Themes We Explore:

• The Cancer archetype: home, memory, mothering, and emotional labor

• Feminism and the undervaluing of caregiving work

• Immigration, ICE, and the politics of displacement

• Ancestral trauma, epigenetics, and embodied memory

• The global economy’s reliance on invisible labor

Yoga and Vedic Story

Yoga poses: supported fish (salamba matsyasana), bridge pose (setu bandha sarvangasana), bow pose (dhanurasana), locust pose (salambasana) belly down corpse pose (savasana)

Yoga style: slow flow + restorative postures- think slowing down, nourishing, soothing, healing

Meditation: deep ocean visualization

Pranayama: empty bowl meditative breath (belly breathing)

In this week's episode I have a conversation with Thea Strom, animal communicator, medium, teacher and author of, Animal Intuition.

Thea describes what animal communication looks like and the different ways that information comes through. We explore the subtle experiences in the body that can convey information to us if we develop the internal awareness and attunement. Thea shares her process in developing her skills and how she supports her students in growing theirs. She also shares a real story of a communication between her and her cat, as well as offering us a few tips for those who want to explore this more.

To find out more about Thea, work with her, take a class check out her website: https://www.theahealer.com/

or on IG at Transcendiathea

Today, we’re continuing our exploration of Gemini by bringing in its opposite on the zodiac axis—Sagittarius, the philosopher and professor—through a conversation with two of my favorite people: Professors Shaw Osha and Hugo Flores from The Evergreen State College. Both are brilliant thinkers, artists/ musicians, and bilingual speakers. Shaw teaches visual art, and Hugo teaches and leads the Spanish department.

In our conversation, we explored approaches to critical thinking that challenge our tendency toward immediate analysis, interpretation, and repetition. Shaw and Hugo both use teaching methods that encourage students to slow down and sit with what’s right in front of them—resisting the urge for quick conclusions or easy answers.

Their insights reminded me of the mythological characters we explored last week—Hermes and Narada—both known for challenging assumptions and disrupting habitual ways of thinking and noticing where our thinking has become automatic or overly simplistic. In a culture that values speed and certainty, it seems all too easy for our critical thinking muscles to weaken, but if we can allow for some discomfort the learning and growth potential is great!