Moon in Virgo Speaking Mercury Retrogradese

Mercury retrograde can feel like walking into a headwind, but we’re not treating it as an excuse to freeze. With the Moon in Virgo all day, we lean into the no-nonsense side of astrology: what can you measure, improve, and actually complete right now? We talk about how lunar timing can preview later breakthroughs, and why a “tease” today can become a headline later in the season when the Sun hits the same sensitive degrees.

Then we zoom out to the bigger sky story: an outer-planet cradle linking Pluto, Neptune, Uranus, and Jupiter. We break down why we’re calling it a cradle (not a basket), what supportive sextiles and trines can unlock, and how generational planets point to sweeping cultural changes rather than instant results. If you care about creativity, tech, art, and expression, this alignment reads like a signal flare for a new era, especially as long-term energies shift into air and fire signs.

We keep it practical: Mars in Gemini building a sextile to Saturn rewards disciplined effort, even when you do not feel like it. We share a simple playbook for making progress during Mercury retrograde, including gathering the data, sharpening your pitch, and showing up consistently. We also name the shadow side, including a pointed concern about money and hidden power, plus a forward-looking note about Scorpio season and election day astrology. Keyword: real. Color: sage. If this helped you, subscribe, share it with a friend, and leave a review so more listeners can find the show.

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Transcript

Virgo Moon And A Creative Spark

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Astrology time, and it is Friday the 17th of July. So let's go. The moon is in Virgo all day long. I love that, right? Got my green shirt rocking up for that, right? This is a no-nonsense moon that's crossing those points that I told you about earlier, right? Um like you know, radical art is definitely possible as a burst of abundance is brought on by our usage of tech and our own creativity as the moon hits the yacht points that Pluto and Neptune have formed at three degrees, Virgo, right around that point, right? Told you about those points, that whole cradle thing that's going on there, right? Now, um look, and it's gonna hit that right around 3.44 in the morning. So we're gonna feel the effects of that as we're moving on, right? It delivers some tangible results. Um the moon going there kind of gives us a little tease. Because what it's really a preview for is that when the sun is in that position later on in the season, the summer season, right? Because uh we're gonna have that happening. So now let's talk about this because um why is this

The Cradle Alignment Explained

SPEAKER_00 1:05

important? Well, you know, forget a look, people have been talking about a basket, right? A basket of all things. It's supposed to have a handle on a basket, right? What we're really seeing is a cradle, and there's a cradle between four planets, and that would be Pluto, that would be Neptune, that would be Uranus, and that would be Jupiter, all in sextiles with each other, and with two trines, one trine between Pluto and Uranus, which has been kind of ongoing for the last year, and Jupiter now is going to be um trine with Uranus. This is kind of surprising. This is a this is a good one, right? Last year they were actually conjunct for this stuff. So when we were looking at this, and Saturn was conjunct with Neptune. Now we take away the limitations from that, right? We we don't we're not limited by that. We have all this outer planet energy that we can go into, right? Now, there these are some grand sweeping changes, right? There's some changes that are gonna be happening to us this year as we move along, as we take those sextiles that are in those positions, figure out where the yacht points are for them, and then as we plot that, we'll see that you know, Virgo, Scorpio, and uh to some extent uh Capricorn are all gonna be points where these things are gonna be um seeing some energies resolving around them, right? We have Jupiter in Cancer, so I mean basically Sagittarius as well. Okay, not so much Capricorn. Capricorn's an opposition point from Jupiter in Cancer.

Action Beats Resistance Right Now

SPEAKER_00 2:32

So, look, nothing happens unless we decide to do it. And let me tell you, doing something to know right now, the moon is gonna be like Mercury retrograde is kind of like, but you know what? Mars is in a sextile with with uh Saturn and it's building, right? So what we force ourselves to do, what we get ourselves to do, has to be to overcome a challenge. We're overcoming a challenge that we need to overcome to bring ourselves closer to that abundance point and to trigger all of that stuff that's gonna open up with those portals as we move forward and we start to change a lot of things about what we're doing. Can we change other things? Yes, we can, but you have to decide to do that. Now, let's talk about this again. Okay, so now um the Earth energy at this point, Earth, being in in uh Virgo, um kind of cancels out the actions and the quirky ideas. So we've got some squares with Mars and and Uranus that it can be hard for us to reconcile, but reconcile them we will. And by taking action, we're gonna actually be able to overcome the the resistance that we have, right? If you don't feel like doing it and you do it, you're gonna gain, right? Let's make it simple. Let's make it like a trip to the gym. Make that trip. Do the exercise, do what you have to do. Venus is in Virgo for crying out loud. Look good, feel better, right? Venus, you know, Virgo's associated with health. Chiron and Taurus, right? Try and Venus. Yes, do that, okay? That's just one example of what you can do. Now, let's talk about this.

Drop The Jargon And Persuade

SPEAKER_00 4:17

Um, now everyone is clinging to um, you know, familiar words. Um, you know, this is this is something we're trying to do because look, um corporate spe our favorite our our you know, favorite words, there's some corporate speaking there, jargon, right? You know, and and very subtle initiatives to try to drive actionable points. There's some jargon for you too, right? Significant, you know. Yes. Actionable? What the hell is that? We gotta make a move. We gotta actually get things going. We have to be able to take it and run with it. We're not gonna change anything unless we change it ourselves, right? So now, today is for assembling the day is assembling the data and using our powers of persuasion to attain our goals, right? Get it all in front of you. Persuade somebody. The right attitude, the right clothes, the right how we feel about ourselves, how we carry ourselves. That will carry the argument, and that will be what we need to do to be able to make this cup first couple of steps. It's gonna take a while because the factors that aren't in your the factors, there's some factors of it that aren't in your control. And that's the Mercury retrograde working, right? Now think about the side hustles shine later, but only if you act despite the Mercury retrograde. Okay? And it's kind of like headwinds that are facing us. Mars in any air sign is brilliant. Mars is in Gemini, right? So act, dive in, and take a small chance. Uh with Mercury retrograde, it's gonna feel difficult, but this will lay the groundwork for another week of rapid growth. So let's go.

Keeping It Real With Sage Energy

SPEAKER_00 6:02

And today's keyword is real, as in keeping it real, right? And our color is sage. So now look, I'm beginning to get amused by all the people hyping the extended cradle that they're calling a basket, right? Borbalt's basket or whatever they're calling it, right? Um, I'm seeing that a lot lately, right? Oh, this guy, he per he said that you know the world was gonna change for the better because of this outer planetary alignment. If I had a dollar for every end-of-the-world story or outer planetary alignment that I've experienced in my entire life, that'd be pretty cool. But now this is really unique because of how everything's planned and everything's shifted finally for this year into the air and fire science. So this is kind of like a unique one. So and it's but think about it, a cradle is a succession of sextiles, right? And if we start with Pluto, we go Pluto, we go Neptune, we go Uranus, we go Jupiter. Now to make that a basket, you need a handle opposite, right? Opposite the middle of it. And I said that was um Neptune, and that was that was Uranus. Between those two points is Taurus, opposite Taurus is Scorpio. And where we're right at the beginning, like about between one and three degrees, that makes it fall pretty close to election day, right?

Why The Basket Points To Election Day

SPEAKER_00 7:24

So now think about it. This is pretty interesting. So when the moon swings around that area, we're gonna feel some news around things that we may be looking forward to try to capitalize on, or somebody may try to capitalize on, right? Okay, so now um look, if you were listening to me last year, I told you that the creative grand triumph between Neptune, and we had Uranus and Jupiter conjunct in that same area, would repeat again the following year because those outer planets are not moving that fast, right? They're generational planets. They they enact bigger changes, right? But the the underlying creativity that they were that they were um indicating showed us that we were in um basically a new era for art and expression, right? We're in a new age. Something's gonna be defined, and it's gonna define this whole next, oh, I'd say, twelve to thirteen years that we're in, right? We have seven-year cycles for Uranus, we've got 14-year cycles for Neptune, and we have, God only knows what, you know, 20, 24, whatever the cycle is for Pluto. Didn't look it up, and I'm not really gonna cite it off the top of my head. It's a long time for Pluto, right? So think about it. We have um that grand trine that I told you about, and it's gonna be even more potent due to the fact that all the planets in question moved from earth and water signs into fire and air signs. We had um Neptune in a in a the fire sign, and she finally moved last year permanently into Aries. Same thing with Saturn. Saturn had kind of danced back and forth on the Pisces line, put us in that spiritual moo mode, and now we're ready to move forward and just burn it all down, right? As we as we start to as we start to try to get more out there. So now think about this. Oh so now that it's in the air and fire science, it's gonna be there for years. Why is this initial energy so compelling? Well, because the cosmos is very much like water. And the energies that begin these cycles um really hum and they're gonna be energetically remembered by the cosmos. So that way, when we when we get going, right, as the yaw uh those yaw points from those sextiles, as the moon, as the sun progresses, as the planets are still there, those energetic points still remain, and they're gonna be triggered by the planets going around as they hit the cycle later on in the year. So the energy between Pluto and uh Neptune and Pluto is facing our desire to begin creatively and honestly and using societal change as inspiration and as a catalyst. So look, uranium energy and the retrograde Neptunian energies will provide clarity in the Scorpio season right around election day, right? If we extrapolate the basket shape, that is where the handle of this basket actually falls, election day. So now, the moon, as it travels these yacht points, you're gonna see what energy is actually expressed on these days. So, you know, think about it. Tomorrow, see what's expressed when that moon is between is at that point that is between Aquari uh Pluto and Aquarius and Neptune and Aries, right? It's Pisces, but that Pisces energy is opposite, so it's actually happens in Virgo. So feel that, see what it's doing, see where that culminates, see where that what's gonna break through tomorrow. What are we breaking through to do? And that's gonna be a great indicator for you for what's gonna happen later on in this Virgo season. Now, um, look, now that handle of the basket in Scorpio, yeah, we're gonna be talking about that too. I'm gonna do my best to remind you about these points as we hit them, but it's really up to you to understand and experience these from your own level, inside, right, intuitively, because that's how we keep with the cancer season. Mercury retrograde, right?

Money Warnings And Final Wrap

SPEAKER_00 11:28

The only concern I have with is with uh with the money, okay? Intuitively, we're moving in that right direction. But it's look, money, big money, money, not your money, the money that's out there, is shady, it's plentiful, and it's working against us in every conceivable way. So whatever you think could be a logical outcome out there, money is conspiring against us, right? Pluto things, setting Pluto right. That you know, that revolution? That revolution's being bought, okay? Pluto is also hidden wealth being bought. So today favors the charismatic organizer. Today we move the needle in our favor, just ever so slightly, and consistently showing up is one way to make some real progress, our keyword. And push your agenda tonight. Don't get lost in the details. Just try to keep things real. Changes are coming and look around, look all around if you doubt me. What kind of changes are happening, right? So get this. In 1987, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 2,500. A record in 1987 for the first time. Where's it at now? Around 52,000? Yep, somewhere around there. And our birth is this is kind of funny because I didn't really realize this. In 1965, it's Alex Winter. Who's Alex Winter? He's an English actor. And uh he's best known for Bill and Ted's excellent adventure. Opposite Keanu Reeves, right? He's born in London, England, back in 1965 on this day. Happy birthday, Alex. And that is all I have for you. So thank you so much for joining me. I appreciate and love every single one of you. Our color is sage, and our keyword is real, as in keeping it real. Today, today's a six. Happy Astra Catting.