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What if the most important astrology of 2026 isn't about predicting the future but learning how to prepare for it?
As we reach the halfway point of a year filled with historic planetary shifts, Ricky Williams joins Astrology Hub founder Amanda Walsh to explore the themes already emerging beneath the surface and what they may be preparing us for in the months ahead. From Uranus entering Gemini and the rise of AI to Saturn and Neptune in Aries, Ricky offers a refreshingly practical perspective on navigating uncertainty, embracing change, and developing a personal “game plan” for the future.
In this conversation, Ricky shares why curiosity may be one of our greatest allies during times of rapid change, how Saturn is helping us clarify what truly matters, and why the choices we're making now may be laying the foundation for what unfolds in 2027 and beyond. He also offers a fascinating look at how transits and progressions work together to reveal life's most significant turning points.
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🎬 IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL HEAR:
00:00 — From the NFL to Astrology: Reinvention, Purpose & Your Natal Chart Playbook
04:53 — The Biggest Astrology Story of 2026: Outer Planets Enter New Signs
08:23 — Curiosity vs Fear: Navigating Uncertainty During Times of Change
11:53 — Saturn, Neptune in Aries & Redefining the Spiritual Warrior
24:00 — Preparing for 2027: The Outer Planet Shifts Shaping What's Next
28:32 — Transits & Progressions: Ricky's Approach to Timing Major Life Events
34:49 — What Have You Noticed? The Midyear Reflection That Changes Everything
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Before founding Lila Labs, he was a popular ESPN Analyst and appeared on mainstream television programs including Celebrity Apprentice and Celebrity Big Brother. Earlier in life, Ricky achieved fame as an elite NFL running back, previously earning the Heisman Trophy while having a record-breaking run at the University of Texas.

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Transcript

Welcome to The Astrology Hub Podcast. Today, we're going to be tuning into the midyear astrology. Believe it or not, we're almost halfway through the year, and there has been a huge astrological story unfolding throughout this first part of the year. Today, we want to tune into, A, where we're at right now, and then, B, we're going to actually look forward to from now until the end of the year any astrological themes, transits, storylines that you need to be aware of.

And to do this, we have today a very special guest. I have with me Ricky Williams. Ricky is the CEO and co-founder of Leela Labs, where he leads the development of innovative astrological app technologies such as Leela: Astrology for Grownups and Leela Pro. These are great apps, by the way. If you haven't checked them out, they're so good. Our whole community loves the Leela app. He's an astrology teacher, a skilled coder, and a therapeutic counselor. He also is a former NFL running back, a very celebrated NFL football player.

And today, his journey from that football field to the forefront of astrological science is a reflection of his lifelong commitment to staying true to oneself and inspiring others to create a game plan for fulfilling their highest potential. So I love this, Ricky. You as a bright, shining example of how we can reinvent ourselves throughout our lives, how we can more fully align with our authentic path, even when that means making potentially huge, quote-unquote, sacrifices. You know what I mean? Like, just taking that huge leap, and we've done a whole entire podcast episode on this before, so we don't need to spend too much time on it. But I just love how you are just a living example of that.

Football, Reinvention & Your Natal Chart as a Playbook

Ricky: Yeah. Well, the segue here is that part of reinvention is you don't lose what you were before, it's just it evolves. And so the way that I look at astrology, the way I do astrology, is 100% informed by my experiences as a college and professional football player. Because one of the things that was built into our weekly schedule was study the playbook, we have a scouting report, and we have a game plan. And the nature of those things was to prepare us for the unexpected, is that we would study the patterns of the opponents, we'd study our own patterns, and we'd come up with a game plan of how to navigate what's coming up. So I love this type of astrology, of thinking about the potentials of what's coming up and how to best prepare ourselves for it.

Amanda: I love that too because I'm sure when you were looking at your game plan, looking at the other team, that you were considering the strengths of your team and wanting to amplify the strengths of your team. And isn't that what we're doing when we're looking at the astrology chart? We're saying, “Okay, what are my gifts? What am I here to bring? I'm not trying to be someone I'm not. I'm trying to amplify to the highest potential who I actually am.”

Ricky: Yeah, that's the playbook, you know? So when we first start, the coaches, their brilliance, they codify into a playbook. And so the playbook is the base part that we run, and then the coach sees which plays in the playbook do we run best, and those are our strength, you know? And so I think the natal chart is just that. It's the playbook. And if we get a sense of based on our lives which parts of our charts we work with best, to lean into that I think is a good place to start.

Amanda: Mm. Love it. Okay. Ricky is going to be an upcoming inner circle astrologer. He is going to be with us for the Virgo lunation. We're going to talk about his mastery class that he's going to be teaching our community at the end of this recording. And also, he's going to be on our free panel, our midyear, our solstice panel event, where we're going to have Ricky, Adam Gainsburg, Georgia Stathis. We're going to be coming together to really dive into the astrology, have some great lively discussion about it, and really give you a game plan for the last half of the year. So that's free, and you can sign up for that now.

But today we're with Ricky, so we can go even deeper into what he's seeing specifically. So Ricky, we're about halfway through the year. What do you think has been the biggest, most important storyline of the beginning of the year so far? Um,

The Biggest Astrology Story of 2025: Outer Planets Change Signs

Ricky: Well, for me when I look at what was going on in the sky at the beginning of the year, I look for themes. ‘Cause when you look at the astrology stuff, it's so much information, and if you can locate themes, that's where you start to get the story. And the theme for me is a liminal period, and liminal means the space between. And anything, like, where there's an ending and then a beginning, those are prime liminal periods. And Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and even Pluto, you know, all either at the very end or the very beginning of a sign at the beginning of the year. And since then, all of them have moved into a new sign.

And the thing about when something starts is that we don't know what it… We don't know what's gonna happen. So the nature of, I don't know, unexpected. And I think the best attitude to have approaching that is curiosity of I wonder how this is going to show up. And I think when we have astrology, we have a magnifying glass and we can look specifically about what is going to show up.

So if we think of Uranus moving into Gemini, the thing that comes to my mind is technology. And one of the things that's important for astrologers to do is take what you see in astrology and look for examples of it in real life. And so Pluto entering Aquarius, Uranus entering Gemini, making a trine, AI, you know? And so this is definitely one of the things that we see accelerating and—

You know, one of the things we talked about in the past was when we're looking at transits that are affecting everyone, I'm a little skeptical about talking too much about this because, yes, it's affecting everyone, but each of us are unique and each of us are different. Like, the example I like to use, if there's a storm coming, it's good to know, but are you a cockroach or are you a storm chaser? If you're a cockroach, you better find a place to hide. If you're a storm chaser, time to go. So we can talk about it, but to remember that each of us have a different role to play in the story, you know, is a way to think about it.

So thinking about the Pluto in Aquarius and the Uranus in Gemini, it's about AI and what is your relationship to that, you know? Are you open to it? Are you hesitant about it, you know? ‘Cause the reality of this is this is what's here, and this is where the energy is. And if you have some resistance to it, right, you're losing access to that energy that's available, as a good example.

Um, also, Saturn and Neptune entering Aries the beginning of the year, and Aries is one of the gods of war. Look around the world and you see what's going on, right? And I think the theme with anything entering into Aries is we see what's going on in the world, but how does it affect us personally? What is our attitude to aggression, you know? When is it okay to fight, right? When is it going too far? And because this is going on in the world, to some extent, all of us are having to wrestle with this every time that we look at the news. So curiosity about what's coming, I think is the way I think of the first half of the year.

Cultivating Curiosity in Times of Uncertainty

Amanda: Mm. Can we go a little bit deeper on both of those things before we start to look forward? Because when you were talking about curiosity, I was thinking, “Hm, what is required to look at a situation where you don't know how it's going to turn out?” Which is basically what you just described. We've just gone into new—the outer planets have gone into new signs. So we are opening up a new chapter of our lives, both individually and collectively as humanity.

Human nature often looks at something that is so unknown and sort of braces and gets restrictive. But curiosity is open and somewhat playful. What do you think kind of dictates for an individual whether or not they are gonna lean more into something like curiosity and openness, or if it's going to tighten them and put them into a place of fear? What do you think is important to cultivate in order to maintain that open place?

Ricky: Yeah. So I think in this specific example, and this is where astrology can help us, whatever energies we see activated, right, that just studying astrology, thinking about it, you're naturally connecting to that, to the curiosity about those things. So let's say someone in their chart have, they have a lot of hard aspects to Uranus. And so, you know, sudden change, new technologies, new kinds of things for them, you know, don't always feel good to them. Right? So those are the ones that are gonna have the least amount of curiosity around that subject.

And I think any time we have hard aspects where things have happened to us that haven't felt good, we have a kind of a… And it's for our own protection. We have a surety that something bad is going to happen. And so that cuts off our ability to be curious, especially to be curious about, how can this be useful to me?

And to me, I come from a religious background and my entree into astrology is I do think of it kind of like something to believe in and have faith in. And so which means if there is an energy that's being activated in the universe, it's being activated for our use. And so one of the ways to direct the curiosity is, how can these things help me? How can whatever is going on in the chart—how can I utilize it, you know?

And I think of utilizing Aries energy, right, a simple example is, you know, the garage that needs to be cleaned. You know? And right, some of them might even say, “I need to tackle that,” right? Yeah. So we see that it does require energy and Aries and initiative to go attack that issue and to solve it. And there's things in all of our lives where in the past we haven't had the energy to deal with those things. And when Aries is activated, right, one of the things that's activated if we are aware of it, is the energy to do those things.

Mm-hmm. And one of the images, especially with Neptune moving through Aries, is the spiritual warrior. And it's these… You know? So we can use our imagination about the things that we think should be different and imagine ourselves doing something about it. You know? I think that's an example of utilizing the energies that are active.

Redefining Aggression: Aries & the Spiritual Warrior

Amanda: Okay. So Ricky, the only other one I wanted to dive into a little bit more is this word aggression. Because we're talking about Aries, we're talking about the god of war. Do you think that Neptune being at Aries with Saturn, and Saturn being at the very beginning of Aries, both of them being at the very beginning of Aries, do you think that this is an invitation for us to begin to redefine what a warrior is, for example? Or begin to have a new orientation around things like aggression. What are your thoughts on that?

Ricky: Uh, 100%. I think redefinition is a great way to think about the effect that Neptune has. And the darker side of Neptune, and it's not bad, it's just really appreciating the full spectrum. The darker side of Neptune is things we imagine to be true that are not true. And the positive side of Neptune is things that we imagine to be true that could be true, you know, and make the world a better place. Mm. I think that's the point of Neptune.

And so, but if we… Another dark side of Neptune is escapism. So if we think about aggression and we try to imagine that it didn't exist, that's not possible. That's imagining something that can't exist, so it's dissipating this powerful energy of our imagination. And if we can allow ourselves—and it's painful 'cause the nature of aggression is it hurts—so any time we have to deal with this kind of energy, we have to be comfortable dealing with discomfort, you know? And so if we can do that and we can imagine, how could this be better, then I think we can imagine a world where aggression has its place, uh, and it does what it needs to do. Like protect people and accomplish the things that we think we can accomplish. So there's… I mean, this is where I think Neptune and Aries, I think everyone should watch superhero movies, you know? I think one of the, for me, the highest expression of Aries energy is the hero.

Amanda: Hmm. And you use that word protection, right?

Ricky: Yeah.

Amanda: And when I think of, uh, a little bit of a redefine around Aries, although some people may think of it this way already, but protecting the innocent, protecting the ones who cannot protect themselves, protecting life, protecting the things worth preserving, that is a very noble thing. And there's certain people here that are more capable of doing that and playing that role. And it can be done on many different levels. It could be done energetically. It could be done physically. It can be done spiritually, right? So I love that you're bringing this in.

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All right. So you're saying the themes for the first couple part—the first six months of the year have been around the curiosity and this redefinition or reorientation around aggression potentially.

Ricky: Well, that's my idealistic approach. That's the way I have approached it. But curiosity is another way of saying uncertainty, hmm, you know? And that curiosity is the way to navigate uncertainty. Because in a liminal period, things are changing. Some things are coming to an end, and certain things are beginning. And because it's the beginning, we don't know what it's gonna become at the end. But if we're curious about what it is and how it can enhance our lives, then we're gonna get off to a good start with it.

Um, and you know, moving into the second half of the year, one of the things that I noticed is Saturn… ‘Cause I was looking at this in my chart, is I have the moon at 11 degrees Cancer. And the last time Saturn made a hard aspect to my Moon, I did, um, Celebrity Big Brother. And it's just a funny story, is it was one of the hardest months of my life, you know? Um, because I was locked in a house with 12 celebrities and couldn't contact anyone.

Amanda: Oh.

Ricky: You know? So I was just isolated from the people that were closest to me, mainly my wife. And Saturn-Moon, it forced me to grow up emotionally to, you know, to have to navigate things without leaning on her too much because she wasn't there. But it was so lonely and depressing, but it did force me to grow up emotionally, and it did make our relationship stronger.

So that… And so because I had that memory, I'm paying close attention to what's gonna happen as Saturn gets to 11 degrees, where it is now, Aries, and makes a square to my Moon. And you know, it's gonna go past, and then it's gonna station at 14 degrees, and it's gonna go back to eight degrees, seven degrees, and it's gonna go back over my Moon. So it's gonna be hanging out on my Moon pretty much for the rest of the year, you know?

And I was thinking about that, and then I started looking at the chart of the United States. And people argue about the time, so, you know, we're not clear on the ascendant. But one of the things that's clear is that July 4th is our birthday. And July 4th, the Sun is at 12 degrees Cancer. So one of the things, and this is mundane astrology, and mundane astrology by definition is the astrology of groups. And the group we're referring to is the group we call the United States of America, and all of us citizens are part of that group. So this is the one place where I'm comfortable talking about transits that affect all of us because by definition, anything affecting the US is affecting us because we are the little cells in the larger collective.

And so for the rest of the year, starting a couple of months ago or last month, Saturn squaring the Sun of the United States from Aries, right? And we find ourselves entangled in this battle, right? In this… And I got, um, synchronistically, my son just married a woman from Italy, and they're in the process of her getting her visa. And he called me up kind of panicking and he says, “The administration just announced that everyone that's getting a visa, they need to go home and wait for the visa.” And so he's panicking, you know?

Amanda: Mm.

Ricky: And one of the things about Cancer, the shell, you know, nurturing. Who's in, who are we gonna take care of, and who are the outsiders, who do we have to protect ourselves against? And right? And so we can see this theme affecting the United States and it's affecting all of us, you know? And one example, the gas prices, you know. Saturn times, we have to decide what's really important to us. We have to prioritize things.

Amanda: So what are you seeing in terms of the… So you just brought in the United States and Saturn. What other astrology are you looking at between this, like around the solstice period and beyond that you feel has a thematic resonance?

Ricky: That's really the one that jumps out, you know? The one thing I was looking for are next year, you know? I think next year is gonna be a year where things start to solidify as the outer planets, especially for the US, as the outer planets start to activate things in the US's chart. They all get close and then they go retrograde. So to me, thematically it's the Saturn time that's preparing us for things that really start to take form. Mm, you know? And it's easy for me to think this way because the nature of a football game, there's ups and downs, there's things that are unexpected, you know, 'cause it's kind of like a simulation of war. So it's easy for me to think this way about uncertainty and the things that are coming 'cause it's about understanding the potentials and the themes that are gonna be there, and preparing yourself to act on them.

Amanda: Ricky, you brought up an example of a Saturnian experience with your Cancer moon, and now Saturn's coming back and activating your moon again.

Ricky: Mm-hmm.

Amanda: What do you do personally to prepare yourself for what might be a challenging transit? Especially based on the past. You know, like, if you've had a challenging time with this particular planetary energy or this particular transit in the past, how do you prepare yourself for one when you see it coming in your chart?

Ricky: Yeah. So I think the important thing is recognizing the past. And we've noticed that things that were difficult for us in the past, when they come up again, they're not as difficult, especially if we learn from the past. And that also means that whatever happened in the past is preparing us for something. So I think positively.

And the other thing is if we see transits coming, we also have vision on our lives. So we can start to get a good sense of where in our lives or who in our lives that the difficult activations are gonna come through. And there's difficult things in life, and I think the important thing is we need to have in our mind things that we would like to accomplish that aren't easy. Because then when difficult transits come up, then they have somewhere to go. They can help us accomplish those kinds of things.

And so, uh, you know, I look at the 10th house as ruling the mother, you know? And my mom's strongest planet is Saturn, okay? And my mom, her and I just together just bought a house in Corpus. So, um, I, and you know, the nature of working with my mom, dealing with my mom, I'm used to it and I've had a lot of practice, but it's not easy, you know? And so working with, consciously working with my mom, helping her get her new place set up and helping her get things all in order. So I think one of the things about the difficult transits, activations coming up, have something in your mind that you would like to accomplish that's not easy. And it's like magic, right? You'll have the energy to do those things.

Amanda: That's great. I love that. Like, literally looking at the energy of the transit and giving it an outlet.

Ricky: Yeah, that's really good. Yeah. Yeah, give it a job to do.

Amanda: All right, so give it a job to do. I love that. You just brought in a theme that, if I had to summarize what you just said in terms of the theme for the last half of the year for us, it would be around preparing.

Ricky: Yeah.

Amanda: It would be around preparing ourselves for what? Can you tell us a little bit more?

Preparing for 2027: The Outer Planet Forecast

Amanda: I know we didn't talk about talking about 2027, but now I'm curious. So what are we preparing ourselves for?

Ricky: Well, so again, when we see change coming for the world, how that change affects each individual is different. I think of COVID as an example. You know? Some people… Lynnell and I were talking about friends who we haven't talked to since before COVID, and we're surprised that they divorced. And then we had to look at each other and say, “COVID,” right? Is that COVID did wreak havoc on some people's lives, and some people benefited, right? Their lives got better because of it.

So when we say prepare for what, we can say in general prepare for change. But the nature of a Saturn time, and I'm saying that's what we're all sharing, so something that we can all be sensitive to, is it's… I think the purpose of a Saturn time is to help us get crystal clear on what are the things that are important to us, right? And the example is, again, gas prices go up, you know, and we have to make a decision. Do we pay for this? Do we pay for this? Do we go on this trip? Do we do this? You know?

And I think because there's going to be a time where there's activity, there's movement, things start to coalesce. And if you know what's important to you because you did well with the Saturn time, you're in the best position to make the most of what's coming, you know? Um, and I said earlier that the beginning of this year was the curiosity about what's taking form. And if we have that curiosity about what's taking form, then inside of us we get, we have a strong sense of what is gonna show up next year, you know?

Because it isn't… In this beginning time, it's like springtime, right? There's newness, and we can see hints. Like the beginning of a relationship, we can see hints of who the person is, right? But we have to pay attention. But as the relationship blossoms or blooms, we get to really see who's here, you know?

And so I think this curiosity, and specifically 'cause I'm focusing on the outer planets. This is where someone can look at their individual chart and see, you know, what house are Uranus—especially Uranus—what house is Uranus going through. What house does Aries fall in, so what house is the Saturn and the Neptune in, in your chart. And what aspects are they making? What… Is Saturn activating your moon like mine? Because that's where to put the focus. And I think of astrology as like a GPS. And it doesn't necessarily give you the answers, but it gives you the sense of what to tune into, where it opens up so you can see clearly, and you have a knowing of what's coming.

Amanda: Mm. Can you remind us again why you're emphasizing Saturn right now?

Ricky: Because, because Saturn is going to be hanging out squaring the Sun of the United States chart. Okay, Sun of the US is at 12 degrees Cancer. Saturn is gonna go to 14, which is still in orb of 12. It's gonna turn retrograde back to eight, which is still in the orb of 12, and then it's gonna go over. So it's gonna be hanging out there for the rest of the year.

Amanda: And if people are not in the US, what would be… Would you still be emphasizing Saturn, or is there another emphasis you would put on the outer planets?

Ricky: Well, I would emphasize that, not to be US-centric, but in the world politics, the US does play a specific role. So it will have an effect on the world. And because Neptune and Saturn are both in Aries, it's specifically relative to the war and how it's affecting everything else in the world. Mm, so I would say that.

But also the theme of newness, you know? And it's like the thing that I try to stress with my students—and you've heard me, and I'm a Gemini—but it's curiosity, is we can read books about things, but the curiosity of, huh, these planets have just entered new signs. Where am I seeing the evidence of these things, right, in the world? And the example I used is AI, and then thinking about, right, that's connecting what's going on in the sky to a concept that we all can deal with. And then we can ask personally, how is it influencing or affecting my life?

Amanda: Mm. Okay.

Transits & Progressions: Ricky's Mastery Class

Amanda: Let's talk about your mastery class. You are going to be teaching on transits and progressions, your unique approach to transits and progressions. Again, this will be a mastery class available to all Inner Circle members. So if you like Ricky, if you wanna learn from Ricky, if you are interested in his class, you could join the membership, try it out, get his mastery class, and stay with us if you still like it, if you wanna be a part of it. Um, but this is a great time to jump in and give it a try. So you can go to astrologyhub.com/innercircle for that.

But Ricky, tell us about that mastery class. What are you gonna be teaching? What are our members gonna be learning about? And why did you feel inspired to teach this particular aspect of astrology?

Ricky: Yeah. So great, thank you. I love this. Um, as a teacher, I wanna empower all of my students to become astrological scientists, to be able to do their own research and come up with their own conclusions. And the thing that we all have access to is our memories, our past experiences. And the best way to understand and study astrology to me is to look at times in your life where a certain natal position was being heavily activated or stimulated.

And so, when I say heavily activated or stimulated, I'm referring specifically, and it makes sense if you think about it, when a planet is receiving a progression or two and a transit or two, right? But if we're only looking at transits, we're not seeing when a planet that's receiving transit stimulation is also receiving progressed stimulation. And from all of the charts that I've looked at in my own life, that's when things happen, you know?

Mm-hmm. See, the nature of transits is they're important, but the nature of transits is they're triggers. They just bring things to the surface. But if there's nothing under the surface, a transit comes and it doesn't really do anything, you know? But other times, right, there's a huge… There's multiple progressions activating someone's Sun, right? So there's a lot of developmental things going on, right? And a transit comes and it triggers all those… And it triggers an event, right, that precipitates that time in someone's life, those major life events.

And so for me, the fascination of my students when they go back and look at their major life events and they see the progressions and the transits activating them, it's like, it's mind-blowing. But more importantly, when you can start to look into the future and see dates where there's transit and progressed stimulation affecting the same planet or affecting the same house, that's when you know that the universe is giving you a lot of energy for big things to show up.

Amanda: Can you give us an example of this, Ricky? Like, give us an example of somebody has a progressed blank, and then this specific transit happens, and this type of energy might all come together to precipitate something massive in their life.

Ricky: Okay. So I'll use, um, when I won the Heisman Trophy. Okay? So someone receives a big award like that, you would expect, uh, someone becomes famous like that, you would expect some activation to the 10th house. All right? So when I won the Heisman Trophy, my progressed Jupiter was conjunct my Midheaven. Okay? So that's one stimulation. Um, the ruler of my Midheaven, ruler of Gemini, is Mercury. The progressed Moon was conjunct my Mercury, right? Mm. And the Moon is in my 10th house, and it's my strongest planet.

So there's multiple activations to the Mercury, and transiting Uranus was making a square to the Mercury. So multiple by transit and progression stimulation to the 10th house. That's both a planet—all the activation to the Mercury—but also all the activation to the 10th house stuff, too.

Amanda: And if you'd only been looking at transits or only working at progressions, you might not have been able to see that this would be something significant.

Ricky: Exactly. Yeah, there's something when you… Because transits and progressions are two different systems.

Amanda: Mm-hmm.

Ricky: So the significance of when the two different systems are pointing to the same thing, it's massive. An example I like to use, and if people just really paid attention to this, it becomes obvious, but it's like cooking, you know? If something is simmering, you know, and you turn up the heat a little bit, right, it turns up really quick and it can even boil over, right? A progression takes a long time. So the themes related to progressions, they're on a simmer, you know? And when a transit comes along and hits that simmer, that's when things show up, you know?

Whereas if it's just a transit but there's no progression, it's like you turn on the water and you turn on the heat, you have to wait. You have to wait for it to get warm enough before it starts to boil. And sometimes by the time it does, the transit is over so nothing happens. Nothing major shows up in the life.

Amanda: Mm. So you're gonna teach us how to look at this, how to analyze it, how to look back at our life, and then also how to look forward, and sort of—

Ricky: Oh, and it's super simple. Wow, it's fun. It's fun. It's like putting together a puzzle. It's detective work. And yeah, there's technical details of how to do it, but once you do it, right, you can look back, forward at anyone's chart. Wow. Celebrities, friends, anyone. You can apply it to any chart.

Amanda: That's amazing. Okay. Yep. Inner circle members, we have that to look forward to. And if, again, if you're not in the membership, now would be a great time to take advantage of the promotional period that we have running for June. Okay, Ricky, anything else you want to say to us about the astrology for the rest of the year, how to… I love this, uh, this angle of preparing for next year. Uh, but is there anything else that you want to bring in before we close up?

Final Thoughts

Ricky: Um, just to reiterate, uh, if you're reflecting on the first half of the year, you know, pay attention, especially Gemini season. Pay attention to what you've noticed, 'cause everything that happens before is preparing us for what happens next. So a good time to say, what have you… ‘Cause there's been a lot of change, things starting. What have you noticed? What changes have you noticed, you know? And the change, right, things starting to move in a different direction. Wherever you've noticed those changes, right, know that things are probably gonna keep moving in that direction.

Amanda: I love it. And for all of you who do join the solstice panel, the free panel that Ricky's gonna be on, again, Georgia Stathis, Adam Gainsburg, as part of that we're also gonna be doing a solstice ceremony. So that will be a time for us to just come together and do that reflection in community. You know, I'll give you some time to really look back at the first part of the year. What has changed? What have you noticed? What themes are starting to emerge? What little, like, thematic grasses are peeking up over the dirt that you can just start to pay attention to and really continue to cultivate in your life?

So very good. Ricky, thank you. I cannot wait to connect with you on the panel. You are awesome. It's so fun to talk to you always. And thanks to all of you for being here. Thank you for being a part of our community. Thank you as always for making astrology a part of your life. We'll catch you on the next episode.