Mars in Leo; Stop Fighting for What You DON'T Want & How to Prepare for Upcoming Mars Retrograde...

0:19 This is a big one. And I feel like anything that may come up or come out under this Aries moon for you may be the beginning of a much longer story that yes may run from right around now all the way until June of 2027. Don't worry, I'll explain it all. Hi everybody, welcome to another episode of the Astrology Lounge, coming at you live, bright and early from the Astrology Lounge, the literal one, on our property in Twin Moon Ranch outside of beautiful Austin, Texas.

0:51 I'm very happy to be a transplant Texan. This state is really growing on me. But we are gonna talk all about Mars, planet of action. I would say Texas, definitely a Mars state. Ooh, that would be fun. If we gave each state a planet, let's see, I grew up in New Hampshire and I would give that Saturn. Of course, my I'm projecting my personal experience.

1:17 If I were to give Indiana, where I was born and partially raised, and now where all my family lives. Ooh. Ooh, that's what would I give Southern Indiana, Kentucky? I don't know why Jupiter just keeps popping into my mind. And the reason being is because I feel like family life and food and farming is so abundant and big down there.

1:42 Like, and then whenever I go there, my granny's rule is don't leave the table, take a gain five pounds, and she means it. So I don't know, maybe Jupiter expansion expansion, and all my family down there is why I'm thinking Jupiter. Florida. Oh, what would I give? Florida. Ooh, Jackson said I would give it Pluto.

2:03 It's intense, it's hot, it's powerful. California, you get your honest, your anus, because you're progressive and you think outside the box. Colorado, what would I give you? Probably the sun. Because the sun is always shining there. I don't think people realize that Colorado gets more days of sun than like any other state.

2:22 Think I'm pretty sure this is true fact. Who would get Mercury? What do you guys think? I feel like you're shouting at me right now. The state that would get it. I would give Utah Pluto. Maybe, maybe I would give Mercury to Florida because whoa, there's just always something moving and talking and creating and going on there.

2:39 And I would give Pluto to Utah. Utah scares me. I don't know why. I get uncomfortable vibes there. It just, I don't know. It's beautiful. It's just stunning. Don't get mad at me if you're from Utah. It's just personal feeling. Okay. Welcome to another episode of the Astrology Lounge. Be sure to check out the show notes for all things astrology, lots of goodies, free stuff, free playlists.

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3:57 Okay, guys. This Mars and Leo story, it's long, it's hot, it's interesting. I'm still processing it. I spent like two hours last night taking notes on this, trying to figure out how to relay the message to you in the best way possible. One thing I do want to say, and I don't talk about collective events.

4:17 Uh historically, astrology was never meant to understand the individual. It was always to predict political, social, natural disasters as a way to save a larger group of people, or just guide them. Farming, of course, I think is the absolute earliest tradition of using astrology. But our president of the United States, Mr.

4:40 Trump himself, has a 29-degree Leo ascendant. And when Mars moves into your first house, which would mean Leo is Donald Trump's first house, accidents. You have to protect. Like if he has an astrologer on staff, which something tells me he does not, but if he did, secret security would be buffed up during this time.

5:04 Now, Jupiter is also in Leo, making you famous, big if it's your first house. Put your name out there. Large growth. When you combine Mars with that, it's my name grows so big because of war, because of conflict, and God forbid, you know what I'm about to say. But I have my eye on that. I I'm I'm as an astrologer who just took a little peek at this, I'm like, oh geez.

5:33 He's also got Uranus near his Gemini son. I don't know. Collectively, I think it's about to get really wild. Now, if we just remove him as a subject, when Mars moves into Leo, it's going to join hands with Jupiter. Mars is action, aggression, war, but also stamina, strength, courage. When it joins with Jupiter, that's gasoline on the Mars fire.

5:57 So it's like if you're acting angry from your ego when it joins Jupiter, and I'll give you those dates, whoa, it gets massive and out of control. Now, if you take action, if you use this Mars transit through Leo, Jupiter comes through and says, Aha, see, that's all you had to do was meet me halfway. That's all you had to do was open the door, step through it, even though you can't see the whole staircase.

6:20 And it's like you walk through the door of uncertainty, and Jupiter's there to grab you. Or you're like, oh my God, I know there's this big change I need to make because it's something that I value, I appreciate. I want more expression, warmth, fun, and love in my life, Leo. And you have to make a difficult decision that requires you to be very Martian, strong, courageous, be brave.

6:42 You leap, and all of a sudden the net truly appears with Jupiter right there. So we will dive all things into that. Get brave enough to act or watch your ego. That's what this episode is gonna be all about. How interesting, right? We're having the Venus retrograde, and these guys aren't gonna cross each other, but we're having the Venus retrograde, and then Mars is gonna go retrograde.

7:05 Whoa!

7:06 This is so Venus is female, Mars is male, Venus is values and love, Mars is taking action, being brave, courageous. It's working for us, not against us. That this is so beautiful to me, is that it's really the cosmos, if you will, saying it is time to change. Like enough is enough. And you can use this or you can hide from it.

7:31 You can plug your ears and say, not me, not me, not me. But I have a feeling with everything moving in the sky, it's gonna be so hard. You're gonna have to plug your ears, your eyes, your nose, like all senses to not feel and sense that something in your life really wants some reconsideration, some movement, some change.

7:49 We know everything in life changes. That's a constant. The only thing confirmed in life is change. And I think that we're entering this highly accelerated portal, if you will, of change in our world, in our individual lives, and collectively as well. We've really got our eye on this transit because this is the collective getting Leo angry, right?

8:12 Um, I think we had mentioned this on the Jupiter and Leo episode that a lot of celebrities would be making large announcements. I believe Taylor Swift got married and had the wedding of the year at Madison Square Garden uh as soon as Jupiter moved into Leo, like the day of. And it was like, of course, we have the royal wedding of the United States, poor girl.

8:32 I just I love Taylor Swift. I think she's really cool, extremely talented. But yeah, it's she's living her life, and uh, I've never been into celebrity culture at all. It just it gives me the ick. And this is not a knock on people who really love it, but like remember when there was a real royal wedding of some sort and they were like playing it in movie theaters?

8:59 Why? I just I I look at it and it's so sad. Oh, what popped up on my YouTube algorithm the other day? It was like a short of the paparazzi following Justin Bieber. Love him, so talented. And he strategically took his shirt off when like running an errand and going to the bank so that the paparazzi would get the sexy shirtless photo.

9:23 And he did that intentionally so that they would get the perfect photo and then leave him alone. And it shows at the end of the reel him going up to the window of the paparazzi knocking on it. He's like, Hey man, you got the picture of me without my shirt off. I'm about to go in the hot tub with my friends.

9:35 Can you please just give me some privacy and leave me alone? Like, you got you got me with my shirt off. Can you just go away? And the paper paparazzi was like, Yeah, yeah, thanks. Ew. Oh, I was like, Justin, you Piscey sweetie. Yuck. I mean, that was really smart. It was a very smart move. Can't beat him, join him.

9:57 But I was still like, guys, we have to just leave celebrities alone. Uh uh that I'm getting on a tangent here, but it just made me feel so sad that that's the reality for people and cameras and oh gosh. Okay, so Mars and Leo, let's go. The first thing I'll say is if you have any Leo placements between 20 and 29 degrees, I want your ears up.

10:24 I want you journaling, I want you documenting, I want you to take a really good look at what's going on, what feelings you're having as we go through this retrograde. Mars enters Leo the day after this big Aries full moon, September 27th, 2026. And it will stay in Leo until November 25th. Now, because of the coming Mars retrograde in Virgo, next, it will return to Leo again February 21st, all the way to May 14th, 2027.

10:57 So some of what begins now is just chapter one of a three-act story. And for those of you who don't have Leo placements between 20 and 29 degrees, this still impacts you. Go find the house or the area of your chart that holds those degrees. The first time I want you to document what's going on, what's moving and shaking in your world is November 4th to November 25th of this year.

11:24 And then when it goes retrograde, February 22nd is when it's revisiting that. February 22nd to May 15th, essentially, is when it's going back through the 20 to 29 degree story of Leo. So, first, what is Mars and Leo? Mars, I want it, I'm going to get it. It's very Aries. Leo, this is who I am, this is what I love, and I'm not hiding it.

11:48 I'm getting on stage. Put them together. Mars and Leo says, stop waiting for permission to go after what you want or to be who you are. Put yourself in a room where you are celebrated and adored instead of having to fight just to be who you are or explain, over-explain what you love. That shouldn't be a thing.

12:10 I was just telling my mom this the other day. She's such a giver. Give cancer rising. Giver, give her, give her, give her. And the weather's getting cooler in southern Indiana, and she really wants to just stay home with her cats and garden. I posted a photo that she sent me one morning of her coffee date with the cats and her gardens and the morning glories.

12:28 It was so beautiful with a sun star in it and a cat walking along the fence. It was just perfect. You guys loved it on Substack. But uh she said, you know, so and so asked me if I could do something, and it's like a one-hour drive each way, and I just want to stay home. The weather's so nice. It's hot coffee weather, it's sweater weather.

12:46 I want to just be at my garden finally without dripping sweat. I said, Mom, you don't have you don't have to explain to me the weather and the gardens and how the what's just say no. Just as a full sentence, say, I would love to help, but I can't, I can't make it tomorrow. Thank you. She was like, I know.

13:06 I I had to like over-explain my reasoning for why I wanted to stay home. I was like, no, you don't. No. All you and I said, I get it. You are so family and friend oriented, you Aquarius, so I said, How about to soften the edges of it? Say, I can't make it for the next four days. I've got plans, but call me Saturday.

13:27 I would love to help you out. I'm available then. But you don't have to explain what you're doing. You could have nothing on your calendar and still say you're busy. That's not a lie at all. She was like, Wow, I never thought of it that way. Mars rules action, motivation, anger, courage, competition, the instinct to pursue.

13:49 Leo, that fixed fire sign, rules creativity, fertility, whether it's the fertile grounds of literally conceiving a baby, or fertile grounds of conceiving an artistic project and giving birth to it in the world. It's self-expression, pride, it's visibility, romance, and the desire to create something that feels uniquely you, right?

14:10 Leo, fifth house, always associated with fertility. We create a child that looks and acts like us, or it could be we create a book, a song, a play, um, any piece of art that is a unique expression of us and how we feel. So compared with Mars just moving through cancer, which can act because something feels emotionally necessary, the difference here with Mars and Leo is I want this, I want to move here, I want to do this because it makes me feel alive.

14:40 So as you listen to this, if you've really felt like you're in a rut, or you feel like you're my mom, and you have had to explain away or over-explain why you want to do something for yourself instead of just doing it and enjoying it and celebrating it, this transit is for you. The empowered version of Mars through Leo is finally feeling passionate again, feeling playful, creative blocks dissolved, fertility conception things get moved forward, feeling unafraid to take a risk.

15:12 Now, the shadow side of this transit is notice me, respect me, validate me, don't embarrass me, rah, very fiery. Mars and Leo can get spectacularly angry when it feels ignored or disrespected, right? Listen, Donald Trump is a Leo rising. Whenever people get triggered by him, I'm like, hello? If someone's moon is in Sagittarius, we already know they're fast and they're saying things they regret quite often.

15:38 But the 20s of 29 degree, that's the final degree of the Leo sign. He embodies it. He has been a royal gold-plated leader in many, many, many, many, many, many many lives. Like, I get it, it's very off-putting uh without getting political here. I I see it, of course. I'm human. I'm like, oh jeez, god, dude.

15:58 But then I look at his chart and I'm like, ow, that makes perfect sense. Doesn't dismiss it, but it makes perfect sense. So the practical question with this transit becomes what would I do if I stop being embarrassed or overexplaining what exactly I want? And then all the aspects that we're gonna go into, because not only is this Mars conjunct to Jupiter, but it will briefly form an opposition to Pluto.

16:29 I believe it's gonna form a sextile. Ah, I got it written down. A trine to Neptune and Aries, a trine to Saturn and Aries. It's it's really hot. We'll we'll dive into each one of them.

16:41 Yeah, that's what it is.

16:43 And what it means for us and the exact dates. But this transit is going to ask you, especially the information you get from the Venus retrograde is going to deliver you to a place where when Mars is in Leo, you're like, okay, now that I know what I value, who values me, who doesn't. Now I know, now that I know what I don't value, I've got to make some serious decisions in my life that are going to require me to be brave.

17:10 And again, look at that Leo ruled house to see where you gotta be brave. And I have a feeling that this Venus retrograde, wherever it is in your chart, is showing you the values or not values of the Scorpio Libra areas in your chart. And then the Leo area of your chart is saying, now be brave and make a change here.

17:30 Now we don't have time to second guess it. October 2nd. So this is just almost a week after, not even Mars moves into Leo, it will form a trine, a supportive blue line, a pillar of support, I call it, lifting you up, encouraging you to Neptune and Aries. Remember, this full moon in Aries tomorrow is conjunct, holding hands with Neptune.

17:55 So Neptune's really active right now for us. And Neptune is the planet of synchronicity, spirituality, leap in the net will appear. Well, I don't how my finances are involved, my sense of security, my kids are involved. Do you want to just remain the way you are? Keep knocking on the same door and getting the same result, or do you want change?

18:17 This transit is the dream becomes motivation, or there's motivation to complete the dream because Neptune says, imagine it, believe in it, go where you're being called. And Mars says, Okay, I'll go where I'm being called. Let me take action. And it's two fire signs it's Aries and it's Leo. So this isn't like sleepy, passive, Piscean Neptune.

18:40 This is more I can suddenly see the life I want and I need to start moving toward it. This is a beautiful uh week for artists, musicians, filmmakers, writers, doing spiritual work, getting messages through spiritual, religious work. Um, anything you have to believe in something before it exists, that's the first week of October.

19:00 The shadow of it is chasing a fantasy. You know, like inspiration with these transits needs discernment. But literally the next day, October 3rd, Mars opposes the long red line, 180-degree angle, opposition, right? Think of what I said. Hey, that girl's your opposition. You're like, all right, she's my opponent.

19:22 There's a battle to be won. Mars is opposite Pluto and Aquarius. So October 3rd, Mars reaches three degrees Leo, directly opposite Pluto at three degrees Aquarius. You decide what you want, and then you discover what's standing in the way. What deeper, darker emotion is preventing you from taking action?

19:46 Mars-Pluto can bring enormous willpower, but it can also bring battles over power, control, manipulation. Maybe you're sharing finances with someone, and that's a huge stickler to taking action. Or maybe there's like an employer or a relationship where something's not fair when it comes to sex, power, money, debt.

20:07 But then you have Mars and Leo screaming, but this is my life, and I'm tired of them being in control over what I want and I feel happy with. Aquarius Pluto can represent the larger system, the collective technology. So symbolically, this could look like I want to launch my business, but everyone thinks I'm crazy.

20:28 It's too woo-woo. I want to leave the relationship, but we're financially tied together. It's just so we have too many things in our name. We have a shared bank account. There's so many things that I'll have to unravel that just forget it. Or I want to express myself online, but I'm terrified of what people will say.

20:47 Oh, you guys know when you come to me and you tell me I would love to post on subside, but I'm so scared. I'm like, come here, you're gonna get the Scorpio moon treatment. We're we're gonna walk through this. Get your butt on the internet. I'm gonna make an account and I'll talk shit to everybody that transits anything.

21:03 You guys are my people, I protect you. Um internally, it could show up as do I actually want this, or am I just trying to prove something? And so I don't know, let's use that in a relationship standpoint. Do I actually want to be in this relationship? Or am I trying to prove to everyone around me, see, I can be married, I can be in a long-term relationship.

21:25 Um, do I actually want the job I have, or am I trying to prove? See, I can have a job for 10 years, I can have stability, I can achieve great success. But do you actually want that? That's the crucial distinction with the Mars opposite Pluto. It's when we use it well on its empowered side, it is an unstoppable personal power.

21:49 It is just, I've made my decision, I've gotten. Oh, the example I've been using from the dude in QS I met rip the rear view mirror off and go. And it'll be between the Aquarius and the Leo houses. Like a highway appears, and you are going 90 miles per hour down it and nobody can stop you. That's the good side of it.

22:11 Used poorly, it's I have to win. Win what? What do you get? Right? So I love using the example of a relationship because if we see someone say, We're celebrating our 25-year anniversary, the first thing you want to say is, Oh my gosh, congrats. But what if deep down they have been forcing it, faking it, staying together for the kids, or staying together because they're so worried about, well, we'll have all the financial issues untangling our lives.

22:36 So it's like, no, that's not a congratulations. That's are you okay? Oh my god, that's a long time to not live from the heart. Goodness sake. Mars opposite Pluto is not asking us to to win or overpower somebody or something else. It's asking us to discover whether we can remain powerful without needing to control anybody, whether we can continue moving forward without the opinions and the tomatoes thrown from anyone else.

23:04 We've made the decision. Venus retrograde is working with us, showing us what we value, and we can't be stopped. Now, October 16th, this is a couple weeks later, Mars will be trying, Miss Saturn, and Aries. So Mars reaches about 10 degrees Leo, still not in that retrograde phase, but it'll form a trine, that supportive aspect to Saturn.

23:24 This is where the Mars transit gets really productive. Neptune gave us the vision. This full moon, I'm telling you, whatever's going on under this full moon, whether it's external events or the dreams you're having, if you're lucky to sleep. Guys, the moon's not even in Aries yet, and my sleep is already fragmented.

23:41 I'm like, why? Let me slumber. As I sit my triple shot, latte.

23:51 Pluto tested our power, our strength. Are we willy to are we willing to really face the shadow side of what this change or the consequences of this change? And now Saturn asks, are you strong enough or serious enough to build it? Mars is energy, Saturn is discipline. That is someone who loses 50 pounds without GLP1.

24:13 The old-fashioned way of just cutting back calories and moving the body more. That is a Mars Saturn trine. Um, motivation and consistency. It's not just I'm inspired to write a book, Sagittarians. I'm looking at you. We have this thing going. It's I'm writing 1,000 words every morning. 500 words every morning.

24:37 Or you know what? If I've struggled with weight loss, I'm gonna get up every morning and just walk five minutes on the treadmill. And then next week I'll do 10 minutes, and then I'll do that for seven days, and then the next week I'll do 15 minutes. And it's like, okay, that's gonna take you a long time, but you're gonna get there.

24:51 You're gonna get there. It's like, I wanna start a company or I want to start working for myself. Okay, file paperwork for an LLC. That's it. That's all you gotta do. And Saturn being in Aries makes this interesting because both planets now, with being in fire signs, Leo and Aries, are dealing with independence and action.

25:14 So the Saturn to Mars trine is like prove it with your actions and go slow. Become someone you're proud of. Move, make this decision and go through these changes, not burning any bridges. There you go. That's what I would say with this one. Now, November 16th, we are jumping a whole month ahead. November 16th, Mars conjunct, Jupiter and Leo.

25:40 Guys, this is the date I'm real, unless you have something at 25 degrees, Leo. Uh, please come see me. Or send me a uh use the contact form on the website and tell me I've got this and Leo, I've got that, and Leo goes, whoa, baby. But I'm also looking at this from the collective standpoint. And Trump's 29 degree, Leo ascendant.

26:00 This is 25 degrees. That's a four-degree orb. That's a little too close for comfort for me. But this is like the grand finale of the Mars in Leo transit because it meets with Jupiter. Woo! Remember, this is huge fire. Mars, go, Jupiter, go faster, go more, or do more. Leo, believe in yourself and have fun and look good while you're doing it.

26:21 So this is just a day of go bigger. Confidence can increase, ambition, but also taking crazy risks, sexual energy, competitiveness, creativity, desire. This is like the day that we can finally say, I'll start it, I'll audition, I'll move, I'll tell them, I'll finally take the chance. Jupiter can bring opportunity, but it doesn't necessarily make something good.

26:46 It doesn't necessarily give you a windfall of money. You I mean, yeah, if if Leo rules your fifth house, so that would make you an Aries rising, definitely go play the lottery on this day. I'll take a cut of that when you win. But Jupiter just makes something big. So look at where 25 degrees Leo is in your chart, and expect something very big.

27:11 And steer your ship, put the wind in your sails to the empowered side of it. It's a pretty cool transit. But we gotta focus on the shadow side as well. Too much spending, too much confidence, too much anger, too much, I know what's right, get out of my way. Too just too much ego. Okay. Again, I know what you guys are all thinking.

27:32 Donald Trump, ego, making decisions for our country and us that all of us are like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Yeah. That would be the disempowered side of it. Maybe the empowered side of it is, God, I don't even feel right saying it. But maybe he steps down and he's like, you know what?

27:48 I'm done. I don't want to do this anymore. Figure it out. Maybe he gets impeached. I don't know. I don't know. I don't even want to look at it to dive deep into it. I think there's other astrologers that are great for that. I am not one of them. We are just hanging out in the lounge trying to live our best lives in this crazy world.

28:04 So Mars Jupiter on that day is like your Leo bestie saying, You go, girl, you do it. Yes, you got this. Saturn still needs to be somewhere in the room saying, Have you thought this through? Like, relax, have you thought this through? Instead of playing lottery, have you thought of just investing in your 401k?

28:22 So it's like, okay, summarize this. September 27th, Mars enters Leo. What do I, you know what? I need to choose myself more. October 2nd, Neptune gets involved. What do I imagine for myself? Let me write down my dream life. Could I actually live this? Maybe I could. October 3rd, very next day, Pluto steps in.

28:43 What power struggle or fear of finances stand between me and all that dreamy stuff I just wrote down? What am I so scared of? Let me turn around and face that head on. A couple weeks later, October 16th, Saturn's in the room. Can I work for it? Can I chip away at this slowly? Am I willing to wait until June?

29:03 Can I do things the slow, old school, but certain way? And then a month later, November 16th, guys, that's that's the day. Let me go to my calendar. What that'll be a Monday. Ooh, who doesn't have a good dramatic Monday? Jupiter gets involved. How much bigger could this become if I actually believed in myself?

29:23 If I need a little boost, that's the day we're gonna get it. But also if you deal with highly disempowered Leo people, overreactive, dramatic, loud, angry, avoid them on that day. Just say, pull out my Aquarius mom's card and say, busy. I'll see you Friday. Mars and Leo is not asking us to become more self-absorbed.

29:48 It's asking us to stop pretending that what lights us up and makes us so happy is not important. That's it. And with those dates, just pay attention to what you're beginning to think of or what you're beginning to do now because Mars is coming back for it later next year. Now, the three-pass story with Mars, those 20 to 29 degrees.

30:14 The three-pass story, every retrograde does a three-pass between some degrees. Like it goes over it while it's moving direct, and then it goes backwards and touches the same degrees, and then it's like, okay, I'm done. Let's go direct. And it goes over that degree one more final time before moving on.

30:29 So this is standard with any retrograde planet. Uh, believe it or not, we're gonna wake up, blink our eyes, and I'm gonna have an episode about yes, Mr. Mercury going in the microwave as well. Mercury's going in Gatorade 2. When I tell you Q4 of 2026 is uh, yeah, it's something. It's the year of the horse, is it not?

30:49 The fire horse is really gonna be revealed during this. So the first pass of the 20 to 29 degree Leo is November 5th to November 25th. This is the I want this chapter. This is the setup. Decisions get made, desires become very obvious. People could initiate things, pursue things, romance, dating heats up, launch projects, take a risk they've never taken before, get angry is the other side of this, or suddenly realize I can't keep hiding this part of myself anymore.

31:21 Venus really showed me what I value, and with Mars now here, I can't keep hiding or pretending anymore. So pay attention to what starts moving in your life after November 5th. You might think you're making a final decision here, but I think we're entering a full storyline. It's one piece of a story. So from November 5th to November 25th, you're probably making a decision.

31:48 You're probably moving, you're probably doing something, but it's it's the bigger piece. It's just one piece of a bigger story, I mean. So Mars will enter Virgo on November 25th and keep going all the way to 10 degrees Virgo. So Virgos, any people with zero to 10 degree Virgo, Mars is coming for you too.

32:10 It's gonna go over that and then it's gonna retrograde over that. So you guys are getting a three-pass story as well. You just don't have Jupiter and Saturn and all those things involved, but pay attention. Then it'll station retrograde January 10th. So January 10th to February 21st of 2027, that's the start e-break.

32:32 Wait, I just made a really huge decision. Is this actually working? Hmm, hold on, hold on. Like, there's a piece of this that is definitely what I wanted, but maybe I went about it the wrong way, and it's starting to be revealed. Or man, this uh this this is kind of harder than I thought, but you know what?

32:48 I still have courage and strength. It's like the Leo transit is here's what I want, this is what I love, I'm doing it. And the Virgo Mars transit says, Okay, but how exactly are we going to make this work and make this practical? So Leo supplies the desire. Virgo says, Well, here's the logistics. So somebody may passionately decide, I'm launching a business, and then Mars and Virgo says, Okay, cool, what's your budget?

33:14 Someone might say, I'm moving, and then Mars and Virgo says, Where? How much? What can you actually afford? Like, let's instead of creating a life where all of your creature comforts are the same when you move, do you need to downscale a little bit? Like, hey, it's not so bad, you might have to do it for a year.

33:28 That's fine. I'm changing careers to do something I love. Okay, well, do you actually have the skills, the resources? Have you been disciplined in your daily routine in order to create success out of that? Or it could just be as simple as Mars and Leo is, I'm choosing me. Period. Okay, says Mars and Virgo.

33:48 What needs to change every single day for your life to actually reflect that? Do you choose yourself with what you eat, what you put in your mouth? Do you choose yourself by moving your body to keep it nice and strong? Ugh, boring, but important nonetheless. So Mars will station retrograde, again, at 10 degrees Virgo on January 10th, and it'll go back, back, back into Leo, again, to the 29th degree of Leo, which again, Mr.

34:14 Trump, February 21st is another date that I'm like, what is going on? It's almost like if we were to use his chart as an example, something he says or does around that November date comes to an end or a second act on February 21st, and then it's done, it's over in May. I got my eyes on it, so I'm not usually one to watch the news or keep up with this, but this is too good not to, so we'll see.

34:41 We'll see. February 21st to April 1st. Mars is retrograde in Leo. This is the second pass at those late 20 to 29 degrees of Leo. Do I still want what I thought I wanted back in the intensity of those retrogrades in late 2026? Because Mars represents the desire, the motivation, the action. Retrograde Mars turns those questions inward.

35:06 Why am I fighting so hard for this? Why am I angry all the time? Who am I trying to be competitive with and impress? Do I genuinely want this, or do I just want the validation that comes with it? Did I push people away out of anger? And now I'm like, shoot. Am I doing this because it makes me feel alive temporarily?

35:27 Could I have just instilled a little bit of change into my previous life to feel this way? Did I have to really blow it up that far? Am I doing this because I actually enjoy it or because my ego doesn't want to admit that I'm wrong? Or that I can't do it. That is so Mars retrograde in Leo, because Leo is pride.

35:48 Kings and queens of the jungle. So sometimes the bravest, most mature expression of Mars and Leo won't be, I'm going all in and I'm fighting harder. It's I don't actually want this anymore, and I'm secure enough in myself to admit I messed up, I'm wrong, and I'd like to change things. That's sexy. Or I've tried to talk myself out of this for six months, and I still want it.

36:12 So maybe I need to stop apologizing to people or overexplaining myself for wanting this. Now Mars in its retrograde eventually reaches 20 degrees Leon April 1st, and it will station direct and move forward. So that degree is basically the turning point of the entire story. So April 1st, April Fool's Day.

36:35 I'm such a sad. I was like, April Fool's Day is always April 1st. So you don't call it April 1st, call it April Fool's Day. That's the turning point of the entire story, and I'm not joking. April 1st, all the way to May 14th. Isn't it crazy to be like tracing this all the way to mid-2027? Why is time, guys?

36:56 People who are in their 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s listening, I even have some 80s. Can you guys tell is does time just move fast as you age? I always assumed like it does when you have kids and you're doing things because you're just constantly overstimulated and doing multiple things at once. But I don't have kids.

37:12 I'm not a full-time parent. And life still seems to be moving at such an accelerated rate. Like what button did AI press that's making the earth spin faster? I don't know. But April 1st to May 14th, this is the okay, okay, okay. We're entering the final chapter. This is the third pass through 20 to 29 degrees, Leo.

37:36 Same territory, but you're different. The first pass back in 2026 now was instinct, gut feelings. This is it. Primal. The retrograde pass was reflection. Okay, where did I full steam ahead a little too much? Where did I act out of anger? Where was I a little too impulsive? The third pass is informed, grounded, mature action.

38:04 Mars retrograde is not saying don't do anything, it's saying do something. But your relationship with action may need adjustment. We may need to reflect because something about this change. I know this can all sound like word soup, and some of it could be hypocritical almost, but it's like between now and the end of 2026, there are so many planets going retrograde, so many conjunctions we have to keep our eye on, full moons.

38:32 It's like eclipse season in late August really spit us out into this vortex, and it's like, whoa, oh my gosh, things are moving so fast. It's gonna be hard not to act from impulse and act from a deep emotional reaction for the last three months of this year. But if you can contain that, this could be a time where your life just quantum leaps into something you have always dreamt of.

39:00 You may think something you want right now or something you have dreamt of is going to be a years-long process, but with all of these planets retrograde at the same time, quantum leap is just the phrase that is dumping into my brain to be spoken to you. Quantum leap, quantum leap. And then starting next year, it's like, hey, and we want this change to stick, we want it to stand the test of time.

39:23 We don't ever want you to go back to who you were from August 2026 in the past. That is done. We are entering a new timeline. Like, hello, AI is literally forcing us into quantum leap right now. It's here to stay. Um, and that's just putting all these crazy notes of mine aside and speaking to you from the heart freestyle here.

39:44 That's what this is doing. So when Mars turns direct April 1st, we may finally understand this. Yeah, I was right. This is what I want. I understand now why I want it. And that remember that opposition to Pluto? That could also come up to be resurfaced around this retrograde where you're like, wow, why did I let that person have so much power over me?

40:05 Or why did I let money, the fear of money scare me? I've had a experience with that. I didn't quit my corporate insurance job for so long because I was like, I can't financially afford it. But then when I just enough was enough, I'll have to look at those transits. I bet Mars was retrograde, and I just quit and I put in my two weeks, and I was like, Well shit, I got one month worth of savings.

40:28 Like I could pay my bills for one month, but after that, sink or swim, baby. And yeah, it was scary. But everything, once I freed my day up to pursue things that actually, Leo, literally, I'm now now that I say this out loud, this is like the most Mars and Leo story ever. I was terrified. When I quit my cushiony 401k PTO job in Charleston, South Carolina, and I was working from home.

40:54 I was like, oh my god, I'm so scared. Like finances, huge, huge, huge on the finances. I would sit at the beach, watch the sunrise, and journal. And I would say, Don't dig up and fear what you planted in faith. Don't dig up and fear what you planted in faith. And then I would say, I know this is something to myself, I know this is something you have never experienced before, which is freedom and autonomy over your day.

41:17 Because I went from the public school system straight into the university system, straight into the corporate system. And so at the ripe age of 26 years old, I had never experienced freedom and autonomy and choice around what I do every day. That kind of sickens me to say out loud. And so when I finally had that, I was a lost puppy.

41:38 I was like, why I feel guilty. I feel like I'm playing hooky, I feel like I'm cheating on the system. It's it was so weird. It was like, I don't know, being in prison for so long. And then when you get out, you're like, what do I do? How do I buy groceries? I can just like go take myself to a cafe without a parole officer next to me.

41:59 Like, what? What? But I ended up relaxing into it and totally stepping into Leo energy, which was, whoa, wait a second. I don't have to buy anything because I don't have money, but I can just go browse the supplements in a smoothie shop. I can just go to this free yoga festival outside and just look around.

42:15 I can't, you know, pay for a yoga class right now, but I can go look and talk and say hi to people instead of being locked away in a room behind a computer. And long story short, I ended up getting a job through talking to someone at that yoga festival. She just opened a smoothie shop and I was like, actually, I would love to come work part-time for you just to fill in my days.

42:34 And that led to getting holistic health coach clients because that's exactly where people who would spend a decent amount of money on working with a health coach would definitely be at a smoothie shop. And so I was slinging smoothies left and right, making minimum wage, but at the smoothie bar, I would elbow, like, hey, I'm a holistic health coach if you want help with that liver issue you got.

42:54 Here's my card. Boom, client, boom, client, boom, client. I ended up making more money than I did at the corporate job. And so I share this story because I don't, I just, I don't know. I share it because I hope it's motivation or inspiration to you that you can't see how things are gonna turn out. I wish we could to have that sense of certainty and security of like, okay, if I make this tough decision, then I will be rewarded.

43:22 I wish I could promise you that. Your birth chart might, but we we don't always know. But I look at everything now as an adventure. And I look at failure or rejection as projection in the right direction. If I go after something that my heart wants and a door doesn't open, I don't tell myself it's not for me, I say it's not the right time.

43:44 I've applied that theory to pregnancy and motherhood, I've applied it to my dream Florida Keys House. I just need more time to get to know who I am because I want things to last Scorpio moon, baby. I want things to last forever and ever and ever into every single life. And in order to do that, I have to know myself and I have to be patient and I have to wait for God's timing or the universe's timing.

44:07 Fully believe in that because I've also been on the other side of it where I've tried to force and push and make things that weren't fully baked come to fruition and then get mad when I can't hold the whole cookie because it's still dough and falls right out of my hand.

44:22 I worked so hard for this.

44:23 Yeah, my ego is driving that bus. So Mars walks through those late Leo degrees one final time and then goes back into Virgo on May 14th. So November, I want it. February to March. Wait, no, why do I want it? What's been holding me back? April to May. Okay, now I know why. Let's go. Let's get it. The interesting part of this, too, we gotta bring Jupiter in because he's in Leo as well.

44:50 Our Leo house is lit up, guys. Go find that. Go listen to the Jupiter horoscopes because I tell you where Leo is in your chart. Jupiter will go retrograde at 27 degrees Leo, another late degree Leo, on December 12th, and remain retrograde until April 12th during this entire Mars retrograde timeframe when it will station direct at 17 degrees Leo.

45:12 So during much of Mars retrograde, we have Mars saying, What am I pursuing and taking action on? Jupiter, what do I believe is possible for myself? Both being reversed or reconsidered retrograde in Leo. This is like driving the story beyond merely. Should I take action on this, on something I love? It becomes what kind of life is big enough for the person I am now becoming.

45:40 Because as we know, Jupiter and Leo expands confidence, creativity, visibility, and just having faith and belief in yourself. Mars and Leo acts on that newfound confidence and belief. And with both going retrograde, we could finally realize the dream I was chasing was never mine, it was someone else's, or holy shit, I have been playing way too small at this job, in this relationship, in this town, in this living situation.

46:08 And once they both turn direct, now go build accordingly. Mmm. And again, Mars and Venus will not be retrograde at the same time. I want to make that distinction very clear. Venus is retrograde from October 3rd, yes, the day of that opposition. So pay close attention to the first week of October next week.

46:29 Venus is retrograde October 3rd to November 13th, moving from Scorpio back into Libra. Mars doesn't actually station retrograde until January 10th, 2027. But Mars is in its pre-retrograde shadow. And so that's why I'm like, pay attention to these dates because it's gonna touch these degrees again. So Venus is retrograde while Mars is entering territory it will later revisit.

46:54 So this is not them retrograde at the same time. This is like a handoff, like a baton. It's a handoff between Venus and Mars. Venus is asking, what do I actually desire and value? Then Mars says, Okay, what am I going to do about it? I'm gonna take action on those things I find. That's a beautiful handoff.

47:13 Venus is love, relationships, money, pleasure. Mars' desire, pursuit, boundaries, conflict, motivation to fight what we want for what we want. So Venus retrograde is the evaluation, and Mars retrograde is the response to that. So that they're working hand in hand, right? And because it's Venus going from Scorpio to Libra, Mars going from Virgo to Leo, this is such a step-by-step process happening.

47:41 It Venus retrograde is is this still worth it? Do I still feel valued or like I can achieve feeling valued again or more finances from this? Scorpio says, Can I trust this? Can I trust this person? What am I overly attached to? Where have love, sex, money, power become entangled together? What needs to die?

48:05 That's a good one. What needs to die around those subjects? And then Venus moves back into Libra on October 25th. And then you guys know from the Venus Retrograde episode, we're at the whiteboard. Is this fair? How can I make this reciprocal? Are we compromising too much? Are we actually meeting each other halfway?

48:24 So Venus is not saying leave it or keep it. It's saying look at what you value now. You're a new person, not what you valued when you originally chose it. Chose this person, chose that job. And then comes Mars. Now, what are you going to do about what Venus showed you? That's what I'm telling you. It is such an intense last three months of the year and bleeding a little bit into early next year.

48:49 And all those signs, they're all kind of condensed, right? Scorpio, Libra, Virgo, Leo, they're all condensed in the later half of the zodiac. So Venus and Scorpio, tell the truth, face the truth. Venus and Libra, now restore the balance from that truth. Uh, Mars and Virgo, fix what's not working. Mars and Leo, now choose the life you actually want.

49:11 Truth, balance, fix, go after what lights you up. Right? That's a that's a pretty clean progress progression. The Venus retrograde says, don't keep choosing something or someone simply because you chose it before. Mars retrograde takes that baton and says, and don't keep fighting for something or someone simply because you've fought for so long or so hard for it.

49:37 Ooh, I've spent 10 years building this. Okay, but do you still actually want it? I've fought so hard for this relationship. I know you put in so much effort, but do you still value the way they treat you? Are they showing you respect? Do you really trust them after everything you've been through? I've worked so hard to become this person, or I don't know, achieve this.

49:59 Okay, you did. You put in a lot of effort, you probably since 2018. But is that still who you are? And again, this doesn't mean end something. It can, of course. Sometimes your answer to those things will be yes, I still choose this partnership, or yes, I still love this job. It's just really hard right now.

50:18 That would be Venus just asking you to reconsider what deserves your heart, who's respecting your heart. And Mars will say, Okay, well, who reconsider who deserves your fight and who will fight with you for you next to you. And to wrap it up, by the time both of these retrogrades, and of course we'll weave Mercury retrograde into, I didn't want to blast you guys too much with all these retrogrades.

50:40 By the time both of these are over, come May of next year, I think our love and our courage will be pointing in the same direction. Our sense of motivation and our heart and our gut will be all pointing in the same direction. So it looks very clean cut. Like there's no more confusion around what do I want?

51:00 What do I value? What should I do? I don't know. If you feel those things right now, just know it's kind of on par with the transits. Um, but next to you, where we're gonna be doing a lot of internal work, right? So again, this is so important that you find where those four zodiac signs hid in your chart: Leo, Scorpio, Libra, and Virgo, because we are doing a lot of cleanup crew here.

51:23 Okay, okay. I think we covered it. I mean, I could keep going on, hey, zero to ten degrees Virgo is gonna bleed into June, July. So if you're a Virgo, like, hey, uh, can you pick back up on what it means for us? That when Mars moves into Virgo mid-May, it's gonna come back and touch zero to ten degrees through the rest of May and into June.

51:46 So that's your guys' chance to do exactly that. Like, okay, I recognize something. This is when it changed, this is when it's solidified, kaboom. And of course, when Mars moves into Virgo, it'll get its own episode. I really wanted to focus on the Leo today, but I hope this helps. I hope you don't leave this afraid.

52:01 That is never something I ever want to do for you guys. I want you to leave these episodes feeling empowered. Nothing in your life is gonna blow up. And if it does, you've got a lot of planets on your side. I created, where is it? It was about three days ago. It's September 18th episode when life gets tough.

52:19 How to use your birth chart for help. I'm not saying the next three months are gonna be tough at all. Could they be? Absolutely. That depends on your natal chart. Could they be the best three months of your life? Yeah, that that could be for some people as well. But there's gonna be a lot of internal rewiring thinking, right?

52:36 Even with success. Gosh, if some of you Aries Risings win the lottery, like that's amazing. That is awesome. Have fun. But that will also come with family disputes around who gets what. Your astrologer Stephanie Powers coming at you saying, Hey, I predicted that. Give me. But you know, every like no good deed goes unpunished.

52:59 There's always gonna be something. And so, what I can predict, if we're talking about the weather here, if some like meteorologists are saying you're gonna have a crazy winter with ice storms and blizzards, what I'm saying is there looks like a little turbulence collectively, individually, but your birth chart is a toolbox, you've got everything you need.

53:18 It's like a survival backpack. And like the people who get life straws and have the freeze-dried food, like that's your birth chart. And so if an asteroid hits the earth and the only thing surviving is you and a cockroach, your birth chart is still yours. You can still work with all the planets in there to bring balance to your life, is all I'm saying.

53:38 Okay. So, with that said, if you want to look into this individually, please come find me. I have openings for November at the heat of what may happen. So, astrology-lounge.com. Come find me on Substack. It's called Ask the Morning. Everything's in the show notes. You don't gotta Google it. It's all right there.

53:56 Click it, come find us. I'll be there. I'll see you guys next week coming at you live from the Astrology Lounge outside of Austin, Texas. Thank you for tuning in, and I'll see you then. Bye. Happy little moon.