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What if the biggest question of 2026 isn't what's happening in the world – but where you've been giving your power away?
In this installment of our 2026 Mid-Year Prep Series, Adam Gainsburg explores the deeper meaning behind some of the year's most significant astrological transits, including Saturn conjunct Neptune at 0° Aries, the Uranus–Pluto trine, Jupiter's move into Leo, and the eclipses ahead. Rather than focusing on prediction, Adam invites us into a more embodied relationship with astrology – one that helps us cultivate sovereignty, discern truth from illusion, and meet accelerating change without losing ourselves in the process.
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🎬 IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL HEAR:
00:00 — Saturn-Neptune in Aries: The Astrology of a New Human Era
06:35 — Sovereignty, Agency & Reclaiming Your Personal Power
13:12 — Saturn-Neptune Explained: Why So Many People Feel Lost or Confused
17:37 — A 12-House Exercise for Finding What's No Longer Working
21:24 — Jupiter in Leo, Uranus in Gemini & the Astrology of Acceleration
24:41 — The U.S. Uranus Return: Freedom, Community & Alternative Futures
29:38 — Uranus Trine Pluto: AI, Technology & Humanity's Evolution
43:21 — The Leo Eclipse: Leadership, Authority & Truth Coming to Light
51:52 — Pluto Oppositions: Embodiment, Personal Power & Major Growth
56:21 — Venus Retrograde in Scorpio: Self-Care, Relationships & Deeper Truth
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Laura: Hello, everybody. Welcome back to The Astrology Hub Podcast. My name is Laura. I am the head of operations here at Astrology Hub and your host for today's show. Today, I am joined by a beloved astrologer here at Astrology Hub. It is Adam Gainsburg, who is a soul sign astrologer and author. And something that I love that he does is he does a great job of bringing the astrology out of the mind and into the body and the heart. So I'm so excited to talk to him today because we are here for another mid-year prep series where we're gonna hear Adam's take on the astrology of 2026, where we are now, and where he thinks we're going. So this episode is packed full of advice for you to navigate the months ahead. So Adam, I am so excited to be here with you again today.

Adam: Thank you very much, Laura. Yes. Uh, so, um, I would love, before we dive into where we are now and where we're going, I would just love to get your take on where we've been so far in 2026. I can't believe we're already midway through the year. And so, uh, what are you seeing for some of the, the major themes that popped up for you in the beginning part of the year? Yeah. Um, for me it, it, that's a really direct question. Um, the major story for me and I think most astrologers, uh, was the Saturn-Neptune conjunction at zero Aries tropically. Um, that's something that I had identified like probably many, many astrologers for like a year or two before. Uh, I felt so strongly about it that I—my teaching partner and I, we actually created a whole retreat that kicked off something in July. July of, this is July of '25. That was timed with their near conjunction. They didn't actually perfect it. And then from that point in July all the way through, I think it was February 20th of this year, 2026, is when the conjunction perfected at zero 32 Aries. Um, we held a monthly cohort because we wanted to give people an opportunity to not just hear this over and over and over and over, like, uh, talking and explaining and explaining. We wanted to give them a direct experience held within a sacred field of other human beings that could show them, each of us individually, where our leading edge is or was around.

And the theme that we really brought forward very strongly for those eight months was sovereignty. The word in English sovereignty has such a… It tends to be over-intellectualized. In other words, we tend to go to what we understand sovereignty to be rather than the felt sense of where am I in my life sovereign and where am I in my life not sovereign. And that distinction should bring about questions about, well, what is holding me back from more sovereignty? Because sovereignty is not a… Sovereignty doesn't refer to I'm separate than everyone else, I'm an island unto myself, and I can do whatever I want. Sovereignty actually, when you really boil it down, Saturn, Neptune is zero Aries, it's actually the reverse of that. The more sovereign I become, the more sensitive and felt or, or empathic I become, and caring I become to other people, and to the Earth, and to whole populations. So the more sovereign I become, according to my definition, the more I feel like I'm a participant of the world. I'm a citizen, a student, I'm a, I'm a fellow human being. You know? So and where I got that from was the Saturn, Neptune. The Saturn is all the, the rules of everything that we can concretize and understand. Neptune is all the rules of actual reality. Before, during, and after being a human being. In other words, it's all, it's, it's total unity consciousness as well as the depth of delusion and fantasy and, you know, dissociation and all of that.

So the combining of that at the very first degree of the entire zodiac was like, okay, how long more are we humans gonna keep projecting and giving our power away to the idea of God, the idea of a savior, the idea of a partner, the idea of perfect health, the idea of, of wealth. Like, it just… We're just like, “Here, take my sovereignty. Just take my vital life force.” And we wanted to counteract that. So that's for me, as you can tell, like, I'm just going on and on about this. This was like… We actually called it birthing a new era. An entirely new human era 'cause I think that was the birth, and as we all know, when a child, when an infant is born, it takes years and years and years for that child to grow into and become what he or she is. Or they are. It, it takes years, and that's where we, I think, are. We are just beginning to maybe have more reality handed to us about what have we been participating in personally, energetically, emotionally, psychologically, financially. What have we been really participating in, and do we actually want to continue that participation? So, long-winded answer there, but I, I kind of feel like that's where the first half of the year is bringing us.

Laura: I love that because it touches on a word that I've been using for Aries, which is agency. Oh. You know, having agency. To like… And, and I love that. Like, understanding what we're truly participating in. ‘Cause one of the things that I've noticed since Neptune moved into Aries specifically is around the idea of, like, well, spirituality in general, but I think a lot of people are waking up to the idea that maybe they've been too lost in their, like, their healing, or too lost in, like, the modalities that they're using for spirituality that they're not really going anywhere. Like, what are they actually doing with them? And I feel like a lot of people are waking up to, like, “Oh, I have more agency. I have more power than I really thought I did. I was giving it away to some of these old gurus.” Or I, I… You know, all the Piscean ways of seeing things. So I love this. So what does it look like for someone to be sovereign in today's world? Like, how are you guys working through this and, like, bringing this into your lives in, in a tangible way?

Adam: Yeah. The answer to that question is entirely predicated on what has someone's history been. Where has someone either knowingly or not knowingly been giving the power away without really realizing it and without any kind of demonstrable circumstances that would tend to see- like, to point oneself and to realize, like, “Wow, I'm, I'm not in power. Like, I'm not in, in so- I'm not sovereign here in this relationship with this person.” Yeah. I mean, it could be a financial arrangement with a person. It could be an intimate relationship with a person. It could be a spiritual relationship. It could be a relationship with, you know, someone who, who's like a longtime friend. Where am I not—in my seat. And in my seat feels different for everyone. For some people, feeling like they're in their seat feels like, is the experience of really being like, “I don't take no stuff.” But other people being in their seat, fully sovereign, will internally feel as if, like, “Well, I'm more open and receptive, and I actually have the capacity. I have the capacity and the interest to wanna, like, go help and offer myself in service to whatever or specific things that might be needed.”

So I, I think it's where has the atrophy been, that will determine where the sovereignty is. But, but mostly what I find, what I'm finding, because I do a lot of work that is outside of what we would normally call astrology, Laura. You know? It's, it's much deeper, um, kind of crucibles of meeting through the heart the truth of what we've been choosing. Um, but today sovereignty means, well, this is just one person's, you know, viewpoint. I don't wanna, you know, ever say that I have the answer. Sovereignty means the ability to know to a certain amount or more what one's truth is, what feels true or right for oneself, and a simultaneous vitalized receptivity to other people's feedback, to life circumstances feedback around where I can grow, where I'm not seeing myself clearly, both in myself or in what I think I'm doing or the reasons why I involve myself in the things that I do. So it's both being in my seat, but also knowing that, that, uh, it's absolutely necessity and balancing to be totally really receptive. I think that's right now in this crucible, as we'll get into in the latter half of '26, I think that's what's really needed, that dynamic, ever-changing relationship between the two of them.

Laura: I love this too, because I feel like we've been getting… Like, depending upon how you, uh, see the astrology, there's been, uh, some mixed messaging, right? Like, all this Aries energy, be like, “Go for it. Go for your dreams. Go after what you want. Like, have your agency.” But then, you know, all this, like, we have Pluto in Aquarius, the Age of Aquarius, moving into a more, you know, Aquarian-type society. But what you're saying here is beautiful because it, it's… You're saying they're not separate, and it's like a, it's a loop, that it, they, they work together, right?

Adam: Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. I think a lot of the mistakes of the more popularized, what I would call it more superficial astrological takes that are everywhere now is taking something like a com- like, taking something complex like a, the sign of Aquarius and calling it, like, where we're all living in harmony together in some futuristic ideal vision of how human beings can live. The only way more than a few people can live together, whether you call that family unit or tribe or village or whatever, for longer than a few months or a few years is when each person is sovereign. Because then they're not sourcing what's right and wrong from a rule book. They're coming from their own, like, capital W wisdom. Not, “Well, this is morally wrong, but ethically I can understand,” and, “That doesn't make sense to me, but I agree with…” Like, then it's, like, all, like, trying to, like, figure it out with the mind. And that'll never lead to truth. The mind is a servant of, like, one's soul, I believe, you know?

And so, so, um—the second half is going to really test a lot of us. The second half of '26, I think it's gonna test a lot of us because we've gotten lazy, you know? We, we've gotten into comfort. Uh, just as you were pointing out there about, you know, um, uh, doing these pr- doing my practices, do- working on my healing or working on my practices to be spiritual and stuff. They might, they may still be working to some degree, or they may not, but they're not bringing us deeper into who we uniquely are. That, to me, is always a litmus test. Like, if I'm a perfect card-carrying member of spiritual humanity, what happened to Adam? Adam is where some of the grit and some of the juice and some of the, like, the real, like, innovative solutions come from. But if I'm all perfect and locked in, then I'm not giving as much as I could be giving.

Laura: Right. Right, and if we're all perfect, and we're… Like, there is, like, th- that doesn't exist because we live in a, in a world where there's a differences in extremes, and you can't have, you know, happy without sad, you know? And so you need it to be fully embodied. I love this, Adam. Yeah. So let's talk about where we're at now because the Saturn-Neptune happened in February.

Adam: Yes.

Laura: We're recording this June 2nd of 2026. So, for me personally, I feel like I'm starting to come out of that fog of the Saturn-Neptune and the confusion. And so can you speak to a little bit about, like, w- that, the confusion and the, the fogginess that Saturn-Neptune and, like, w- kind of how it's brought us here?

Adam: Totally. Great. I love this. For me, I can't s- L- Laura, I can't separate the Saturn-Neptune dynamic in humanity now from Saturn-Neptune at zero Aries where they actually met. So for me, and I've had a lot of time to write about this and, and teach to my students, and, and learn from others, and, like, months and months. So this is what my attempt to kind of boil this down just for this conversation here, but there's a lot of depth here for people who really want to explore it. The Saturn-Neptune, this one, at the beginning of the zodiac was or by design meant to instill or better word instigate a kind of deep systemic confusion. And the only reason ever a human being will be confused is when the new information, whether it's mental information, it's emotional information, it's somatic information… When the new information that's coming in, the individual does not already have an established sovereign relationship with themselves relative to what that information is pointing to. So when it comes in, I'm gonna go, “Wait a minute. This, this could totally be flipping my world upside down. I gotta stop and really digest this and integrate this.”

That's what Saturn-Neptune did. By the nature of the, the fundamental function of Saturn and the fundamental function of Neptune in the human consciousness, when they join together at zero Aries, it's saying, however… like whoever you've become, not just this life, but I believe past lives, karma, dharma, all of that, up until this point, there is now a complete opportunity civilizationally to reset and re-initiate, to reinstigate what the body-spirit relationship is, what being a local human being who the moment we were born were beginning our journey towards death and our eternal self, our eternal what's often called in some of the ancient traditions, um, each person as a continuum of consciousness rather than a fixated thing where here's not me, here's me, and this is the boundary that makes me, me. In Neptune-speak, that doesn't exist. But in Saturn-speak, that's the only thing that exists and the only thing that can be relied upon. So when you combine those two paradigms together, what's going to emerge? Only truth. And whether we as a human embodied being are ready for that truth or not, Saturn-Neptune doesn't care. It's up to us to adjust and adapt to what this is asking of us. So like you said, you're just coming out of the fog. Absolutely. That fog needed to be there for however long Laura needed to be foggy because that fog gives you partially a little bit of a timeout on something. Like for me, once this perfected in February, the conjunction, I had a week of just like chilling, not doing anything. And then like maybe nine days later it was… Like I had eight tires on my car going, like accelerating quickly. And it hasn't stopped. But for someone else, it might be, “I'm retiring now, I'm going away for a year. Don't talk to me.” You know? That could be their version of the response to the Saturn-Neptune. So it's, it's so unique to each of us.

Laura: Wow. I, I haven't heard someone explain the like mechanics of why the… it creates confusion, and that's super helpful. So if someone is struggling to make the transition from the effects of the Saturn-Neptune into a more clear-headed or sovereign place, what, what advice would you give them?

Adam: Yeah. The first thing I would say, especially if they're watching us and they're Astrology Hub member or follower or Inner Circle member, that means they speak astrology to some degree. Yeah. Okay? So that's a language that we all speak. Great. Okay. So given that, then I would say that the first thing to do is to go back and examine some of your earliest belief systems that were given to you. I'm talking about religion. I'm talking about what does it look like to do the right thing, to be a good person, be a bad person, do the wrong thing. Go back and really, not just mentally, but feel, but sense into this, do I believe that still? In other words, is that a core ethic for me in how I live my life? Or is that something that just seems normal and I never really examined it, and let me maybe start to examine it. So this is the first thing, to go into what I call the substrate of our belief system, or sometimes I call it the subconscious beliefs. These are beliefs that we hold in our mental body that we don't have any conscious awareness that we are holding onto them and we are carrying—and they are fueling us and influencing us. And to go into there and find out what we're assuming or believing about reality and about who we are and what our lives are. I think that's the first step.

The next step, though, is looking around our life, all 12 houses—from body all the way to spirituality, and everything in between. And take an honest assessment what is not working. But don't put it through the filter of, “Oh, well I can't change that. That's impossible. That's a, that's a given in my life.” Don't limit what you find. Go through all 12 areas of your life and write down, speak down. Some people are artists, paint 12 paintings. Calligraphy, you know, movements, song, whatever. Um, dreams. Some people are powerful, conscious dreamers. Dream 12 nights, like, 12 naps or nights into each of the houses of their life. And find out what is not working, what… It's not just what can be improved upon, but what, what, what do I need to get more real with myself about so that I can find out then, okay, here's how I can change it. Like, let's say I find something in my second house around, about my financial savings, and I go, “Well, I can't touch that. I've been saving for that for all these years and I need to keep it for that date when I'm… My goal.” Stop. Slow down. What is my relationship with this savings right now? Is this working for me? What do I feel from the energy that I put into this nest egg or that IRA or that whatever? What's my energetic relationship with it? Does it feel open and free, or do I feel like it's like a sleigh, like a burden around my neck? That, you know, just one little example, but we do all 12.

Laura: Mm. Yeah. I love that. That's super tangible wisdom to give people. So, I love that. Um, and, uh, it's great too, because I feel like the together with Saturn is reality. It's the reality checks. It's getting real with yourself. But Neptune does offer some compassion here, right? Some self-compassion to, to move through this. So, just reminding people to hold compassion for themselves if they go through this exercise. So let's talk where we're at now. So, today's June 2nd on the date of this recording. Um, where are we at now astrologically in the year?

Adam: Yeah. Um, we're three weeks away from the solstice. In preparation for our conversation, Laura, I, you know, as always, I came up with a list of the major transits that I see.

Laura: Yeah, let's go there.

Adam: Okay. Cool. Um, so just after the solstice at the end of June, uh, Jupiter goes into Leo. And the reason I'm mentioning this is less about giving people an interpretation of this or a signification of this, like a prediction based on this. I wanna emphasize here that Leo is going to play a major theme for at least the next three, four months. Leo will be the theme. And you'll see what I mean as we go through here. So, um, so Jupiter's ingress into Leo, it comes out of, you know, a whole year roughly in Cancer. Now it's entering Leo. Um, it—Jupiter in Leo sometimes doesn't know any limits. And that can be fantastic, and that can be really, really problematic, depending on what scope or scale or what situation it's in.

Um, around July 4th, Mars will conjunct Uranus. And of course, this will happen in Gemini now that Uranus is permanently in Gemini. Um, uh, this could be—yeah, I'll still say it, explosive. This could be catalytic of a crisis. This could be anything from, um, an act of violence to a champion of human rights. A champion of not just human rights, but giving voice to and giving proper defense of the innocent or those who cannot speak for themselves or cannot protect themselves at the level that they need to. Um, this conjunction is one of a few that will happen over the next six years between them. And the second reason I'm bringing this up is because, uh, Uranus, now in Gemini… I don't know, um, if any of your other invited, uh, guest astrologers, Laura, have, um, gone into this, but, um, this is the next of the United States' Uranus returns. The Uranus return of the United States using the 1776 chart as the start, which is 8 Gemini.

Laura: It's really interesting. All three of the astrologers on the panel brought in the US chart, but for different reasons. So, I haven't talked about the Uranus return yet. Yeah. Wow.

Adam: Yeah. Wow, that's so cool. That's so cool. Um, so this, this… Uh, there's so much to say here, and this is just a conversation. So here's what I wanna give, I wanna offer to people about this: The Uranus return of the United States now, the United States as it's existing and operating and functioning now—I am… I won't go so far as to say I'm predicting, but if this were to start, but if this were to materialize, I would not be surprised at all that small to medium-sized movements within the United States begin to exit the system of the United States. And this may not even be publicized, like by the network, by the news media. They just start to go off grid. And I don't mean that literally going in solar and all of that, but literally forming their own independent community. Power independent, water independent, food independent, financial transactions independent, governance independent, health and healing medicine, uh, needs independent—that. Or some communities are focused on one of those, and then they ally themselves with others that are focused on others of those areas.

So the Uranus… Look, Uranus is such a key… Like, it may even represent the heart or the spirit of what today we were all taught that America was built around: The principle of freedom within a country. In other words, not freedom to do whatever you want, like sociopathically, but freedom within a whole country. Okay? And so that's how I kind of see this. And as more people exit, I think there's going to be more breakdown in the existing infrastructure of American basic social systems. I think there's going to be corruption exposed. I think there's going to be, I don't know think, I hope there's going to be real visionaries, maybe of the next generation or generations who say, “Here's a better way to do this.” You know? Um, I'm reminded of the last time that Saturn… Um, I'm switching here. Saturn, Neptune was at zero Aries. Uh, literally democracy was invented by this one Athenian dude. He's like, “Why don't we have a government that's representative?” “Huh, we never did that before. Okay, let's do that.” And what they call democracy was there. So I'm wondering if this is going to be something similar. I wonder if this is something gonna happen there. So, so this, this Uranus return, um, it starts now. It definitely starts now in the second half of '26, but it goes through '27 and into '28 because Uranus will go through—you know, it'll make three passes over that degree. But, um, I'm not so focusing on the exact hits. I'm just seeing this as the season of the Uranus return.

Um, but, and um, I think for me, Laura, on par with the import of the Saturn-Neptune at zero Aries in February, I think the Uranus-Pluto trine is the number one story for the second half of this year. So the first time it happens is July 17, 18, depending on where you are on the planet. That's the first. The second happens November 28th of this year. That's the second time they trine exactly. And that… But the trines will continue through '28, or into 2028. So, um, I am actually holding a webinar on this very topic. One of my webinars—they are experiential. They're direct. They're not teachings. But it's like a whole hour, hour and a half where we just like dive in right here. And then we make it, we take it very, very personally in ourselves. We get out of this, and we go right into this. Um, and how I'm describing the Uranus-Pluto trine is actually in the form of a question: Are we as a species now ready to stop using conflict as the way to grow and start using radical collaboration and integration as the way to grow?

Laura: I love that question, and I really hope the answer is yes.

Adam: Oh, I am striving now to live that way, where things in my life where I've relied on tension and anxiety and, like, the negative rub on something… I'm trying to go, “Okay, I don't need to keep feeding on that or to keep fueling that.” I can let that go and go into more of a receptive, open-minded, open-eared state and go, “What's really here?” Even if it makes me a little uncomfortable, because now I have to look at a part of myself that I wasn't comfortable looking at before. But this trine is a big, big story here. Some other ideas that I've kind of compiled here about this trine… To me, this relationship is the astrological correlation to the, not just the acceleration, but the explosion of what's called artificial intelligence, and the massive amounts of resources going, and the redistribution of whole industries to support that effort. But AI is just part of tech. So the technological trend has always been something that has been sometimes a blessing, but sometimes a curse throughout human history. Um, at least post-indigenous history.

And here's what I wanna kinda share about this. I know we're only in 2026, and we feel like everything's moving so fast. But I don't think we've even come close to feeling and finding what the pace of change is gonna be happening over the next five, seven years. And when I say pace of change, I'm talking about sometimes shocking things. Like the—and I try to pick my word very carefully here—the intentional enmeshing of human with technology. This is one of the trends that I see Uranus trining Pluto, um, for five times through, again, through 2028, will be accelerating. We will be forced to examine this for ourselves. Is this something that I want to engage in? Whether it's including pet robots that look like dogs or people in our houses that do all of the yard work for us and all the dishes. Whether it's implanting certain neuro-technological devices to monitor certain synaptic wiring and firings—how much synaptic firing is going on or is not going on that can immediately tell me, “Oh, this might be the pre-indications of something. I better go take that medication.” You know. That kind of thing. As well as technology being used to expand, like, human consciousness and, like, go into other places. You know, transhumanism is the word that is the trend here. And I'm someone who doesn't resonate with how it's manifesting, with how the real pundits of that movement, what they've been espousing in terms of the processes and the techniques and the tools. I don't resonate with that. But the principle of transhumanism I absolutely resonate with. I just believe we have to do it from our flesh-full existence. That's my personal opinion here, you know?

Laura: Yeah. Well, there can't be, like, an agenda around it, right? If we, if you're gonna merge with AI or technology in some way. Right. You know, you wanna own that whole process because the outcome is, we don't, we don't really know. And so I think a lot of people are here where they see AI coming, they see a technological revolution of sorts coming, and they don't necessarily resonate or agree with it. And you're saying this trine is gonna take us through to 2028. Like, this is probably going to be a big conversation of a big group of people who are really against it, and then a lot of people who are adopting it and ready to go. Yeah. Like, do you see this trine, like, resolving this, or is it, are we gonna create, like, a Gemini two realities? Like, how do you see this playing out?

Adam: I see this, um… Okay, how I see it playing out, I think, is how I see it always with these massive new introductions in human consciousness, human society. There's going to be some hubris. There's going to be some mistakes that are gonna cost lives. There's going to be—the Buddhist word would be suffering. Not intentionally, I don't believe. But there's going to be some things that happen that we will learn from in the future through this next year and a half or two years. So, my personal opinion is I think we're gonna make some really intense mistakes. How we learn from that, that's what I'm holding out for this trine to give us. Yeah. How we integrate, how we adapt to it. Because if I hate AI, I'm, as a conscious human being, it's almost like I'm responsible for really examining my hatred of it and finding out, where is my hatred coming from? Not to undermine it, but to get more honest so that I'm just not so emotionally reactive at something that I don't like.

Laura: Right. Well, I love what you're saying about this too, because I think oftentimes we think of Uranus and Pluto as outer planets. It's, like, affecting a collective out there. But what you're saying is that there's actually something we can do in our own lives to work with this, and to, like, practice being uncomfortable and seeing where that growth edge is, right? That's what you're saying, right?

Adam: Yeah. Exactly. That's beautifully put, Laura. In fact, I wanna say something else that actually I wasn't preparing to share with you, but it comes right out of another teaching of mine. One of the dynamics of Uranus and Pluto together, whether it's trine, square, opposition, semi-septile, whatever, is the theme of the human fear of becoming what it is becoming. The human autonomic contraction from its future self. And why would—like if you hear that and you go, why would someone be afraid of what they're becoming? Because we can't control it. We don't know. And if we don't know something, humanity, in my opinion, as a species, we are still at the point where we trust what's familiar more than we trust our own happiness or our own potential.

And so, I'm fully resonant with what you're saying there. Um, and I think it goes, it plays into this Uranus return, especially for those living in America. As this happens, the whole country will be re-reverberating within its original vision of being a whole different form of country. A whole different way that's not based on, you know, bloodline. Well, that could be arguable these days, you know? But, like, a country based on proper representation of its people. Okay? The other thing that a lot of people who will be swept up in the acceleration of technology, of advancement, of medical breakthroughs that are gonna come, genetic breakthroughs that are gonna come, will be—it's kind of like a developing fear of being left behind. So, and I actually see this. I know this is not technically astrological, but this is more of an intuitive sense I have from really reviewing what's coming later this year, is the need to slow down as a practice, just like breathing. Not just when you catch yourself all stressed out and, you know, “Okay, gotta slow down now.” But regularly. Regularly engaging and strengthening what's called the parasympathetic nervous system, the part of our brain and neurological system that relaxes us. And make that an absolute go-to, almost like a new better habit to do. How we drive, how we speak, how we listen. I can listen to you slower or I can listen to you fast. How I process what I'm thinking, how I make decisions, how I move my body in space, how I walk through a park. Slowing down will be so important for this second half of the year.

Laura: Yeah. Um, I think it was Gary Caton, I think it was Gary, at our year forecast in January. He was talking about the retrogrades of Venus and Mercury, I think it was—

Adam: Yes. With them being in, I think, water signs.

Laura: Yes, water signs. As being as almost like a—an invitation to slow down, and almost like a—a great relax. Like a point where… Like an invitation to relax in such a high-paced time. Um, and so I love this of, like, finding more regular ways, not just during the retrograde seasons, but more regular integration of, like, practices that slow you down, and get you—I'm sure, out the minds are gonna be buzzing, but, like, getting back into our bodies. And don't forget about that water and earth elements, right?

Adam: Exactly. Exactly, Laura. That's great. Um, and going back to the overall theme, I talked about Leo, that I led off this with. The Leo theme. You know, Leo can be very, very buzzy, especially in the culture that we find ourselves in, the societal assumptions and, and norms and rules that we find ourselves in. Leo can be, you know, popularity, and, and, and reach of my message, or speed at which an event happens that spreads around, and then the global response to it. That speed can be slowed down inside of each of us. You know? Very, very much so. Yeah. Um, the eclipse season. Yeah, let's talk about it. Yeah. August 12th is the Leo solar eclipse. August 27th is the lunar Pisces eclipse. Okay. I wanna focus most of my comments here on the Leo solar eclipse. Um, this will be the first… This is like the banner announcing or the bugler announcing that the eclipses are moving into fixed signs now.

These eclipses are moving into fixed signs. I guess boiling it down, what I wanna say here is that both dimensions of leadership and authority—both dimensions. Those in positions of leadership or those perceived to be in positions of great influence or leadership or a social status that most of the people envy, which is another way to describe a Leo projection. Someone holds a certain place in a society or a family unit or a group that other people wish they had or they aspire to. As well as—so that's one side of leadership. The other side of leadership is how everyone else who are not in big positions of leadership or authority, consciously or otherwise, energetically fuel that person or that organization to remain in leadership. It takes both to create that and sustain that over time. And a lot of this is gonna start to be questioned. A lot of it. However, like, you know, however we define, however, whoever we look up to. Like a classic example is Bill Gates and how he is perceived now is literally the 180 degree opposite of what he built and built and built around himself with all of his wealth to place himself in that position. I'm not talking about every—like, all powerful wealthy men and women and government leaders are gonna be toppled. I'm not predicting that. I'm saying that wherever there is not truth, wherever there is fallacy both in the leaders and in us, in how we're holding them—that's going to really accelerate and intensify for a lot of us this eclipse season.

Laura: Yeah. I, I, I just, it sparked a story um, in me too because I, we do this in our own lives too. I mean, the first thing that came to mind was, like, idol worship or, like, celebrity culture where we fuel. It's a, you know, machine. But we do this in our own lives too. Like, I had a friend who got a really good opportunity and is meeting with some, like, big execs that could, you know, help make her dream come true, and the advice that I gave her is, “Don't go into that meeting thinking they're any more powerful than you or they're any, you know, better than you because they want you. They want your platform.” She's a content creator. “They want your platform. Like, you… Don't go into that meeting thinking that they are, you know, so much better than you or in a better position because you're not gonna go into that meeting in a way that's authentic to you and that is true to your integrity.” And so that's just an example I wanted to offer of how we do that in our own lives, and we may not think of it that way, you know?

Adam: Laura, that's so… I mean, that is perfect. Encapsulates what I was getting in preparation for our conversation. That's exactly it. Now take your friend's example and strip it down of the details of it and apply it to ourselves. Like, where in my life right now am I giving my power away to something, someone, or some when that I am projecting can promise or guarantee that I will get what I want? Exactly. That, like, that's what's all gonna topple now, or at least gonna ramp up and ramp up, and I think a lot of people are gonna go through a lot more people are gonna have a real crisis of faith. You know how eclipses, there's the energetic altered state energy, altered state consciousness of the actual eclipse? But sometimes that eclipse effect doesn't manifest until months or even years later. That's what I think this is going to be seeding, S-E-E-D, seeding this, this Leo eclipse.

Laura: Yes. Yeah, oftentimes, you know, 90 days later or, or after we moved away from the eclipse, you start to feel it. So interesting.

Adam: Yes. Also, I wanna say here that this Leo eclipse will be conjunct Jupiter. So with the sun in its domicile and Jupiter involved in this solar eclipse on, again, August 12th, this will intensify or intensely expose where we are not living in the captain's chair of our life. And as I said, this could topple a lot of beloved figures, and it could also, by the same fundamental dynamic of consciousness, it can rocket certain other people to fame status very, very quickly. Both can be… Both might happen here. Um, I'm very much in step with a few of my colleagues, um, Chris Brennan, Rick Levine, yes, that this eclipse particularly, for me, may correlate to political heads. Country heads. Heads of state. May expose corruption on a personal level. Or the mismatch between their personal lives and their public or their political persona.

Laura: Yeah. Well, I, I know that this might sound a little uncomfortable or scary to some people, but from my perspective, I think that's the only way out of the kind of mess that we've gotten into, is, like, some sort of truth, right? Truth is the only thing that can really get us out of this. And so it's gonna be uncomfortable, which is why I love that you brought in to, like, start getting used to being uncomfortable and start that within yourself.

Adam: Yes. I would even say it further or even more that when I'm uncomfortable, the reason I feel uncomfortable in my body, in my mind, in my emotions, why I'm unsettled, why there's anxiety, whatever… The reason I'm uncomfortable is because I am this close to more of my truth that I haven't said yes to. There's a great, beautiful phrase from an indigenous elder and writer. I don't know his last name, but he's very well known. Uh, his first name is Bayo. And he says something like, when you're meeting life really honestly and you find an edge, you find something like a handle that you can hold onto, a handle usually means there's a door. And that just struck me. And I heard that a couple weeks ago, and it's still with me. It's still moving through my body. That wisdom from that tradition. From indigenous wisdom. Um—

Yeah. The other thing I wanted to go through here is that um, two things very, very simply or quickly. Pluto will oppose Sun and Jupiter, and Pluto later will oppose Mars. Okay? So the dates of this: Pluto will oppose Sun/Jupiter at four Aquarius and Leo on July 27th. And Pluto will oppose Mars on October 3rd at three Leo and Aquarius. Okay? So I see both of those Pluto oppositions as actually linked specifically by the catalytic effect of Pluto, which is to expose—not just to expose, like pull back the curtain—but to expose and then to catalyze or to cause motion or movement in energy that has been held away from our conscious awareness all around one's relationship with power. Power. And Laura, I wanna share with you and everyone watching here what my very, very simple definition of power is. Personal power I work with as the movement of my love becoming, period. Like, the actual catalytic movement, the change in form, the change in frequency, the expansion, the contraction. The movement of my love, not just some spiritual level, but becoming something. Manifesting. Materializing in some way. Challenging me, challenging you, giving me a scare, giving me an incredible grace and synchronicity. So the movement of my love, my own natural energy, my love becoming. That's how I define power.

And so with that light, Pluto here will be causing the Sun-Jupiter dynamic—so much light. Expansion, expansion. More and more and more. Expansion. Pluto will be causing that to want to come inside, to want to embody. Or to be challenged by. Because the more that I go bigger and bigger and bigger, unless I'm really, really deeply, deeply rooted in me, all I'm setting myself up for is an experience of overwhelm and collapse. Because I don't have the roots to sustain that.

Pluto-Mars—can I go at my pace? Do I have to meet everything as a fight or as a challenge or as a need to win? Do I need to make everything parsed out and separated, which is one of the functions of Mars is to separate, to separate out things so that I'm comfortable up here. While Pluto opposite Mars is gonna be forcing, like all oppositions, they force us into a choice point, into a tension. And the Pluto-Mars is gonna force us into: Do I always need to basically do the way that I've done Mars all my—like, do Mars the way that I've always done that part of me, the instinctual self, the one that needs to measure up and to win and to fight or defend? Can I put some of my battles down and find out where, you know, what's more true in me?

Laura: Mm. You know, Adam, what I'm hearing you say across multiple of these transits is the embodiment piece as a secret key to work through a lot of this stuff so we don't remain up here where the mind plays tricks on us, our opinions are not always real or true, and really bring it down into the heart and to be led by the heart. Um, I think that's beautiful. And so, what also what I'm hearing from you is that pace is gonna pick up, change is gonna pick up, and coming back to our own body and finding time to be rooted in what we know is true because this is true, our hearts are true, is gonna help us through this accelerated period of time. Beautiful, Laura. That's it. Yeah.

Adam: And to that point, to that beautiful culminating point, this Venus retrograde coming up in October and November—Venus will start, will station in Scorpio and just dip back into Libra. Interestingly, though, Venus, when she meets up with the Sun at her maximum retrograde speed, literally the midpoint of her entire retrograde period, is at zero Scorpio. Right there at zero Scorpio. So, this is going to definitely force or invite us into a much more deeper… But if we're not right with ourselves in terms of our deeper values, if we haven't been being honest with ourselves in our relationships, in our communication within those relationships, this is an incredibly powerful, albeit perhaps uncomfortable time to go deeper into our embodiment. She'll be ending the cycle that she's in, and at that retrograde conjunction with the sun at zero Aries, when she's at perigee, when she's closest to the Earth than she ever gets—she's in… Venus is literally in between Earth and sun. That's the seeding point for the entire next 19-month cycle. And I'm going to be very much opening myself as like a fertile field for how can I deepen into my body in a natural way. How can… Like, what do I need to release? What do I need to come into balance, Libra, with? More honest relationship and communication, Libra, with, in myself and with others. And like I said, for some people, this is gonna be uncomfortable. But it's so precious an opportunity now. With all the acceleration we've been talking about and expansion, oh, my gosh, it's a fantastic time.

Something else, Laura, that I just received this image, so I wanna share it with y'all. Think about like a camo net, camouflage net, or a complex set of ropes that have been all been tied together, um, like with spaces in between, okay? And it spreads out over like a square mile or several square kilometers, okay? Some of those ropes have a certain amount of tension or pull on them disproportionately to other ropes. So this is pulling more than this is pulling. So the force of this one will pull the general theme or the general interaction and nodal points more towards it, where this one is just giving a little bit of a more of a weaker influence. Okay? That is an image that both applies systemically, culturally, nationally, in whatever country you're in, as well as personally, somatically. The more we can get inside of where am I pulling on myself disproportionately to what my truth is, to what my life is needing now, the more natural, the less anxiety-ridden we will be. The more our health, the more our immunological response will increase, our neurological processes will improve when we reduce the tension of these very autonomic assumptions that we have and behaviors, and patterns of thinking and behaving. And so that image, um, I think is kind of systemically is what's happening, is what's gonna be really being exposed now. And it's up to every one of us. I cannot rely on anyone to take care of me. But the more I rely on myself to take care of myself, the more that I am literally sovereign in caring for myself, now I'm like 10 times more able to receive direct support from you, and you, and them, and it. I'm actually able to receive the support rather than needing and feeding on the support.

Laura: Right, the tension on the rope. I mean, there's a liberation in that, right? When you can save yourself, quote unquote, or just provide for yourself, and then the request for help don't seem as like desperate or, you know, I need it right now. It's a much more holistic approach, I guess.

Adam: Exactly. Yeah. Exactly. Thank you for connecting that. Yeah. Yeah. So, so Laura, then just the last thing I wanna share, I want to invite everyone into is: Let's all up-level our self-care. Whatever that means for us. If I'm already taking great care of my physical body, how's my emotional life doing? Do I have people that can really hear me? Do I feel safe in my life to feel what I feel and to express it? You know, whatever the self-care need is, make a sacred commitment to increase it and improve it. Because that self-care is exactly what's needed on a very, very immediate personal level that can easily buffer the increasingly intense pressure of acceleration and expansion that's gonna be coming, not just this year, but over the next years.

Laura: Right. And is probably a great way to integrate some of that advice that you had to find ways to slow down regularly, so.

Adam: I personally agree with that, yes. Yes, yes, yes.

Laura: And, you know, self-care looks a lot of different ways, so I love that you brought that in, too. I think people always think, like, bubble baths and, you know, whatever, good food. But self-care can look so many different ways, so really tune into what is it that you need. Um, love that. I love that. Exactly. Oh, Adam, I'm so excited to have you in the inner circle again, and to have you on this panel and go even deeper. I know you, Georgia, and Ricky are gonna have some amazing conversations, and Amanda as well. Um, so really looking forward to that. That is a free event for everyone, so if you want to join that event, it's totally free. You just go to astrologyhub.com/solstice and you can reserve your spot. We'll send you all the details. Um, it's a two-part event this year. We're doing a ceremony for the solstice, and then we'll have a forecast panel um, with these amazing astrologers to see what's ahead. So, um, that's astrologyhub.com/solstice if you wanna join us. And then yeah, inner circle members, get excited for Adam again as your teacher, because that's coming up this fall. So, um, Adam, you're awesome. Thank you so much for providing your insights to this community, and just how much… I could tell how much you really thought about this, and there's a ton of tangible advice that we can pull from. Yeah. So thank you.

Adam: You're very welcome. Thank you for inviting me to this, Laura. Thank you.

Laura: Of course. All right, everyone. Well, thank you so much for tuning in today's episode. And as always, thank you for making astrology a part of your life. We'll catch you next time.