Astrology- July 14-20, 2025

 ★★ ASTROLOGY Brief for July 14-20, 2025  ★★

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. Carl Jung

The Quarter Moon in Aries on July 17adds to the fire that inspires and prompts to forge ahead. Both retrospection and introspection are manifest. Desire to make a decision is strong that will need discernment and evaluation as you go forward throughout this and into next week. Independence is a key factor all throughout this current cosmic pattern.

Yes, it’s here, Mercury for three weeks is retrograde beginning Friday, July 18. Happening approximately three times a year the cycle cautions making major moves and suggests being thorough with activities due to possible errors and miscommunication. In Leo the willfulness is strong leading to the determination to tackle and conquer something significant, or for some this may challenge the ability to see with needed perspective. This is on the heels of Saturn now recently retrograde in Aries, also a fire sign as is Leo. See Thursday details for more insight.

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ASTROLOGY BRIEF for July 7-13, 2025

Uranus in Gemini - unique travel and a wild ride.

"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Uranus in Gemini for Seven Years and Saturn Retrogrades in Aries 

A Full Moon in Capricorn comes in on Thursday called the Buck Moon, Thunder Moon, Hay Moon and Salmon Moon all referencing aspects of nature. Where I live it seems accurate to call is Thunder Moon with all the thunderstorms happening. I read Mother Nature struck a fireworks display in a nearby county, hit by lightening that cancelled the event. Irony. This Thunder Moon opposes the sign Cancer bringing about challenge and certain awareness to nations and places governed by Cancer such as the United States and individuals born under the ray – creating an axis of activity for both Cancer and Capricorn and Aries and Libra.

Freedom of expression takes a new turn. Uranus, planet of innovation and disruption moves into Gemini for a seven year stent bringing about structural changes within the Gemini domain. There will surely be an overhaul for all communication. How we all interact and relate is in for an overhaul and certainly AI will be right in the mix. More is noted on Monday’s aspect list.

Saturn, currently transiting through Aries will retrograde on Sunday throwing ideologies and independence into a tailspin as it will with all matters relating to how you position yourself in your personal and overall place in the world. It’s time for review.

New topics on the Way

 A few new topics on the way soon.

ASTROLOGY BREF for JUNE 16-22, 2025

 

“Personal boundaries are the guidelines that we use in our relationships to help us define safe and comfortable ways of interacting with others. They help us define where we stop and others begin and help us protect and take care of ourselves.”— Theresa Comito

A major turning point this week is the Summer Solstice on Thursday that is the longest day and shortest night of the year when much of the planet is in bloom and teaming with life. This about going inward and tapping into your emotional and private life and bringing up ways you feel, or need to feel safe and secure. On a deep level feelings and thoughts are also about vulnerability and trust. Subliminally many will be, especially for the next month while the Sun transits through the sign of Cancer, exploring the meaning of family and all with whom bonds are significant. Home, family and personal bonds surface for notice and involvement. Ideals of safety and trust beacon to be manifest and giving such consideration is synchronizing with the world. Your nest, your memories and the sum of your spirit vibrates to a high level.

Also this week Mars enters Virgo for several weeks creating energy of the strategist. Being thorough and practical are traits that help to manifest what before has been idealism and desire. Check Tuesday on Patreon for the exact time and details. This is a great motivating ray.

ASTROLOGY for JUNE 2-8, 2025

“In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.” – Sigmund Freud

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Venus and Mercury take a front seat in the solar system travels this week creating a more personal experience as interaction is preferred. Mercury is all the ways you communicate and connect in the world and Venus is all the ways you feel, love and drawn outside yourself to another and personal aspects of life. While the Moon moves through a transformative cycle beginning Monday and for the week you journey, within and/or through decisions and actions toward significance. How and why you reach out and also respond to others has depth and meaning and as well how you connect through affection care and love is not just experiential but also informative as to your present path in life. Discernment is a good tool for determining decisions and choices as well as how you take the next steps on your way. 

This time of the Quarter Moon in Virgo benefits tending to details and small things so that your life runs more efficiently. 

Single White Female Syndrome

 "Single White Female syndrome" is a colloquial term used to describe obsessive, manipulative, and potentially harmful behaviors, often associated with female relationships or interactions. The term originated from the 1992 film Single White Female, which depicted a woman (Hedra) who became obsessed with and eventually sought to replace her roommate (Allison). They are able to integrate into society and groups as nice and forthright while privately are raging. Their forte is beguilement.

ASTROLOGY BRIEF for MAY 26-JUNE 1, 2025

 

"A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for." – Unknown

Beginning with a New Moon in Gemini the week unfolds with active energy from the
Gemini planet ruler – Mercury.  This leads the way to June and an upcoming solstice. Right now Mercury and Gemini set a pace of going forward and making more purposeful decisions. Carving out direct paths for progress is rewarding so the time is right to take steps and form a direction for the future. Everything facilitates this progression. Networking calls to engage that prods you to go beyond everyday routine and venture out that can be literal via travel and forms of communication and also exploring interests that leads to action.

The New Moon in Gemini at 11:03 PM begins a two week cycle of growth and progress as the Moon moves toward full on June 11. From now until then is great for acting on plans and implementing what you’d like to grow and blossom. There’s an eagerness this instigating a strong desire to do what is most valuable to you. Areas of activity are within the general media and all forms of communication such as ways to network and even how news is carried.

The Sun is in Gemini May 20 for a month

 

Gemini is about experience so manage and maintain what Aries began and Taurus brought forth, manifestation. These souls are a bridge into the corporeal so about action. Gemini in the evolution process is about action so gain ground through experience. The planet ruler, Mercury is about connecting so helps unite and be a network throughout the world. They are messengers and travelers like troubadours spreading news and extending awareness.

A few of the many Gemini’s in the world are:

John F. Kennedy, Jefferson Davis, Marilyn Monroe, Prince, George H. W. Bush, Nicole Kidman, Brigham Young, Sally Ride, Donald Trump, Anne Frank, Muammar Gaddafi, Charlie Watts, Clint Eastwood, Che Guevara, Judy Garland, Bob Dylan, Tupac Shakur, The Notorious B.I.G, Geronimo, Kendrick Lamar, Anastasia Nikolaevna, Morgan Freeman, Tom Jones, Boris Johnson, Mike Pence, Johnny Depp, Henry Kissinger, Ted Kaczynski, Ye (Kanye West), Paul Gauguin, John Wayne, Douglas Haig, Laurence Olivier, Tim Allen, Jeffrey Dahmer, Marquis de Sade, Martha Washington

ASTROLOGY BRIEF for MAY 12-18, 2025

 

“Our unconscious, then, does not believe in its own death; it behaves as if it were immortal. It knows nothing that is negative; in it contradictories coincide. This may be the secret of heroism.” – Sigmund Freud

There’s a sense of totality with the current energy from the Full Moon in Scorpio peaking Monday and ongoing until at least the next New Moon in Gemini on May 26. The concept of totality is change from within and also for the masses as it pertains to the impulse to transform based on something in life that feels intense.  

With Scorpio’s planet ruler, Pluto now in Aquarius forming a strong challenging angle to the Moon as well as Mercury, for many the feeling of unyielding and being stuck in dark waters is strong and influential regarding decisions and how any spare moments are filled with strong ideas and opinions. This is either helpful if you want to purge and release bothersome emotions and things that cause anxiety or there could be those things buried or put on the back burner rise to the surface of consciousness and disturbing. 

Taking a day at a time to work through the well of it all is a part of nurturing and healing. Rest, sleep and quiet contemplation go a long way toward restoring wholeness of your spirit. Recognizing and honoring your own truth is strengthening.

ASTROLOGY BRIEF for MAY 5-11, 2025

 

“When one flower blooms, spring awakens everywhere.” – John O' Donohue

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” -- George Bernard Shaw

The week leads to the Full Moon in Scorpio peaking next Monday, making this a power packed week of strong energy during which you can make headway, gain ground and implement something significant you’d like to manifest. This is enhanced by Mercury moving into Taurus. Mercury helps to grow especially where you want to secure your life and match your ideals to your lifestyle. The strong rays of Venus and Pluto encourage giving thought to your ideals and values as the reality of their truth and meaning.

The cosmic question isn’t just about what you want but why you want it, helping you to recognize strength as matching your core principles to choices and actions.

Happy May Day

 May Day is an ancient spring festival in the Northern Hemisphere and astronomical plus

astrological, one of the year’s four cross-quarter days – a day that falls between an Equinox and Solstice. May 1 falls between the March Equinox and June Solstice.

The other cross-quarter days are Groundhog Day on February 2, Lammas on August 1 and Halloween on October 31.

May Day is the Celtic festival of Beltane and is the waxing strength of the Sun as we in the Northern Hemisphere moving closer to summer. Celebrations include wrapping a maypole with colorful and in the Middle Ages, English villages these were.

Another tradition was May baskets when people left homemade May baskets filled with spring flowers and sweets on others’ doorsteps, usually in secret without letting it be known who left them. That would be a nice idea for charity to make baskets that included special treats for pets and packets of wildflower seeds to spread a bit of welcome to nature. 

ASTROLOGY BRIEF for APRIL 21-27, 2025

 "Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom." – Aristotle

Even though at the time of this publication Easter has come and gone, there’s a lingering and strongly resonating energy about the concept and history of the resurrection. Many seem more interested this year about ideas of rebirth, renewal and moving forward into newness. The weariness of the world looms, being kept prominent with continual media “news” and pontifications that as well calls for sorting through fact from fiction and where to rest into a trustworthy reality.  At the end of this week, on Sunday is the New Moon in Taurus that will help to find ways to settle into a more peaceful life especially if you establish your priorities of meaning and purpose over trying to keep pace with the outside world. All week while the lunar tide diminishes it’s about going within and embracing inner feelings. Midweek the Taurus Sun will square Pluto in Aquarius creating that very need – to keep your priorities in good order and not be pulled into any volatile situations. Taurean energy is about more than money and opulence but also about self-worth and values that is part of this time of resurrection. It’s not about what matters but also why something matters. Venus and Saturn connect in Pisces that spiritually grounds and is a reminder of the weight of your spirituality in the mix of life. Toward the end of the week, Mars in Leo opposes Pluto in Aquarius creating tension and a need to be mindful of where you put your energy and how you respond to pressure. In some instances people will rethink much before making decisions which is good as its follow the New Moon when actions are best initiated. Introspection and self-realization is a theme to think about.

ASTROLOGY BRIEF for APRIL 14-20, 2025

 

“There is a time to speak and a time to keep silent.” —Ecclesiastes 3:7 

The Moon this week is in what’s called a waning gibbous phase and waning Moons rise later as the days go by. This leads to seeing a daytime Moon that will appear pale against a blue sky in the western horizon. It will appear very big though an illusion. I recall seeing those Moons as a child and was totally captivated by them. To me then it was an enigma wherein time stood still.

We have quite a number of major planetary angles occurring that even though this is a somewhat “quiet” week as the lunar tide wanes there’s an undercurrent of celestial activity stirring all life to sit-up and take note of the world. There’s a kind of pause and call to regroup as well as rethink everything.

Mars in Leo beginning Friday will set in motion desires and passions that will be in the mix of “rethinking” life and priorities which in a way are good as it will help to settle societal pressures to concede to group thinking that has led in some instances to feeling oppressed. This will be ongoing for a few weeks.

Mercury and Neptune in Aries will also help to “think outside the box” and venture more within and toward individual creative awareness. It’s certainly a week to more easily tap into intuition and spiritual perspectives. Mercury in Aries during specific upcoming days will certainly be interesting. What were you thinking? What are you thinking? And, what will you think?

The in-depth column on Patreon for this week includes: Mercury’s transit in Aries with Mercury and Neptune aligned; the Sun in Taurus for a month; several major planet alignments; and the lengthy transit of Mars through Leo. Finalizing the week is the Quarter Moon in Aquarius influence lasting until April 27. Specifics are on the private Patreon site that includes an affirmation designed based on current cosmic energies. https://www.patreon.com/c/AstrologySandraHelton

 April 12 brings a Full Micro Moon in Libra - recent Astrology Brief. 

As well, I've talked A LOT about this Age of Aquarius:

 

ASTROLOGY BRIEF for APRIL 7-13, 2025

 “For we walk by faith and not by sight.”  2 Corinthians, 5:7

Mercury and Venus turning direct from retrograde motion in Pisces helps to see more clearly and move forward in a progressive way. Our solar system is an extension of influence a bit like riding a train that while in a certain car (Earth), all the cars are attached and moving along a specific path. We’re now fully in the Age of Aquarius and Pluto transiting through the sign triggers anxiety in society and powerful needs for greater understanding. While Pluto was in Capricorn I spoke many times about the influence which was the rebirth of nations, leaders, major corporations and major life structures being played out. Now, this rebirth is playing out through areas governed by Aquarius which is society, associations and friendships. Major change is happening far and wide and very near meaning we can see and experience gentle rebirth and more extremely chaos within those arenas if resistance is chosen. Denial resulting from such massive change is in part the chaos that is helped to lessen by embracing change itself. Change itself is often an uncomfortable process so to ease the intensity it’s good to look to the other energies afoot to not only provide solace but also answers. Right now Mercury and Venus are with Saturn in Pisces that can provide grounding of beliefs. Neptune, the planet of spirituality has moved into Aries opening personal doors to the inner psyche, the subconscious and all matters relating to the more shadowy world of other realms. You are called, from a best scenario to think for yourself that’s romanticized and enriched by the current energy of Mercury and Venus. These are personal planets in that they govern personal aspects of your life – Mercury is about communicating and connecting intellectually and Venus is about bonds through affection, love and desire and in Pisces ones beliefs are not just personal but also aspects of the spirit or essence of life. Finding calm, inner peace and order is helped by seeking to understand motivation from that perspective. What you believe and what you desire (ideally as a passion) leads the way into the clarity and order of Neptune in Aries. Very basically, thinking for yourself rather than “blind” faith is a beneficial key. Faith is strengthened by embracing your individual spirituality and higher motivations.

The Biblical quote, we walk by faith and not by sight, certainly defines Neptune in Aries. The Libra Full Moon (also called the Pink Moon) sensitizes your thoughts and ideas about life and spotlights how to manifest your spirituality into your lifestyle.

Other major energies unfolding this week are Mercury Stationary Direct (in Pisces); Venus Stationary Direct in Pisces.

CopyrightSandraHelton2025

Disappointingly – No to 2023

Having seen several episodes of the successful TV series, 1923 starring Harrison Ford and

Helen Mirren I still think the production and acting is great, however, it should be rated X due to the over-kill of sadistic sex scenes that appear more gratuitous than essential to portraying the story or purpose. It’s concerning that the producers have taken it that far when it was totally unnecessary so it makes one wonder, as many have, why? Reviews are as I saw it in that there was no purpose in the excessiveness when the point was clearly made that the man orchestrating the kidnappings and torture is a sadistic psychopath. Most of the very nice characters are being killed off. Something is wrong. Taylor Sheridan, one of the producers, born May 21, 1970 is under scrutiny for the questionable scenes. The ratings are great that makes me wonder how many are putting it all together in relation to the gratuitous invasion of something totally unnecessary and assaultive. Once seen it’s not easy to erase. One person state feeling ill after having seen the last episode and there are a number of others also stating the unnecessary extensiveness of something beyond entertainment and authentic meaning. Yes, the sadist as one of the “bad guys” will likely get his due justice but outside of that it’s too late to retrieve what has happened. It’s very complex and sophisticated in that the main stars are so great and all the others are as well great, the production is great so what’s happening? Brutality across the board is historically true but that was left by the wayside in favor of so much time and detail to a form of assaulting those who tuned in. The latest episode had so many killed that many fans have vowed to stop watching. So, in addition to the unnecessary sadism was the shock of one after another good souls murdered. Much in today’s world is a double-edged sword calling for each to have a clear grip on their solvency and moral structure. Radical misalignments are too commonplace that too easily twists perception. It’s good to see so many are aware of the perversion and assault on the audience. 

As we move more into the Pluto reign in Aquarius there’s likely to be more subversion guised with sophistication and certain appeal that asks to accept it with a misaligned definition and pretentious purpose. We’ve just begun a 14 year cycle of Neptune in Aries that will affect to film and media industry and within that there’s likely to be a need to change as people think more independently and with scrutiny. The idea of dictatorship is fast fading and giving way to the greater insight of those who love the creativity of the field.

ASTROLOGY BRIEF FOR MARCH 31-APRL 6, 2025

 ★ Taking a Turn for the Better ★

March ends its mad dash of celestial events with the world having gone through every kind of event from natural disasters to societal upheavals along with a myriad of holidays, eclipses and retrograding planets that caused reactions and kept everyone unsettled and anxious. Phrases certainly seemed to fit such as – Beware the ides of March and March Madness are just a couple of definitions having run throughout the world. This has been a global reckoning causing many to question their own place in the scheme of life.

April will continue to bring many events and a need to follow through with the aftermath of recent energies although more structure lends a kind of reprieve to the intensity of it all. The recent equinox when the Sun began its transit through, beginning the zodiacal New Year, is following with the upcoming celebration of Easter, also representing rebirth and hope. 

We’re just into the 14 year cycle of Neptune transiting through Aries that motivates toward a more individual mindset and interest in unique kinds of independence where beliefs play a major role. This is a week that allows thinking about the bigger picture and goals in life so contemplation on where you want to go and why is significant. Insight is strong with taking time to allow the connection to your higher mind and your own spirituality. The learning curve does lead somewhere.

Astrology Brief-March 24-30, 2025

 

★ From the Deepest Part of Your Psyche Revelations Emerge ★

Like a submarine surfacing at midnight comes extraordinary awareness as Piscean rays open deep aspects of your life. Awareness of abilities along with profound knowledge increases. Shifts between Pisces, the last sign in the zodiac and Aries, the first sign creates a finalization between the past and going into the future that is intensified with the New Moon in Aries.  

Mercury now retrograde returns for a short visit into Pisces along with Venus moving into this mystical sign to align with Neptune creates an unusual type of insight that you can utilize in a number of ways from simply being more tuned into your surroundings and others to tapping into other realms. Insight can manifest in many forms such as through dreams and being drawn to what you enjoy most. If you are the slightest creative that aspect of yourself is activated and beacons to take a dip into those abilities. Discovery of every kind comes forth with the enlightening energy of synchronicity.  

Aries helps to be more synchronistic and if noted by journaling or logging the experiences you are taking leaps forward in your own evolution. Synchronicity is a seeming random event that catches your attention and forms an unusual pattern outside ordinary life. It can be that you’ve been thinking of someone and suddenly they contact you or the unlikely stumbling upon an item you’ve desired. A number might keep repeating in “random” ways or any other circumstance or event unfolds. All these are reminders that you are on your own unique path and can manifest it profound ways. 

 “I am in sync with my higher purpose and divine order of the universe.”

CopyrightSandraHelton2025