We have an upcoming Mercury retrograde in the sign of Cancer! Mercury stations retrograde on June 29, 2026 and stations direct on July 23, 2026. The post shadow period will last until August 6, 2026. Here is what to expect according to your rising sign. You can also read for your Sun sign but read your rising sign first! These are general messages. For a personal reading, you can book one here.
ARIES RISING
What to expect: Family dynamics demanding attention ✨ Thoughts about your childhood surfacing ✨ Possible home repairs or issues with your living space ✨ Feeling more introverted than usual ✨ A parent or family member from the past reaching out ✨ Memories flooding back unexpectedly ✨ Reconsidering your living situation
The opportunity: You can heal deep patterns around belonging and security. What made you feel safe (or unsafe) as a child is up for review. Understanding these roots helps you build a more solid foundation going forward!
Your mission: Give yourself permission to rest and reflect. You don’t always have to be charging forward!
Mars & Uranus in Gemini Effect
You might be trying to process deep family emotions while your mind is racing at a million miles per hour! Mars and Uranus in your 3rd house is making your thoughts electric and your words potentially explosive.
Watch for: Saying something impulsive to a family member you can’t take back • Heated conversations with siblings • Restless mind making it hard to sit with feelings • Sudden news disrupting your home peace • The urge to talk through emotions before you’ve actually felt them
Breakthroughs in understanding family patterns can happen in a flash! Conversations you’ve avoided might finally happen. Just pace yourself.
The Saturn Square
What’s building from July 12th onward:
- Your family has opinions about who you are and those opinions might feel limiting, outdated, or just plain wrong! Old narratives about you are surfacing. “You’ve always been…” or “You never could…” These stories bump against the person you’re actively becoming under Saturn’s serious transit through your sign.
- Saturn in your 1st house is already asking you to mature, to take yourself seriously, and become an authority in your own life. Mercury retrograde in your 4th digs up everything that complicates that like family patterns, inherited fears, or the ways you were shaped before you had any say in the matter.
- Something at home or with family requires you to be the adult, the leader, or the one who handles it. This might feel burdensome.
- Who am I outside of my family’s story? Who am I if I honor where I came from? Can I be strong AND acknowledge my roots? The Saturn square taking place doesn’t let you escape into simple answers.
Journal Prompts: What do I need to say to my family that I’ve been holding back? How can I say it without causing unnecessary damage? What did ‘home’ feel like when I was a child? What do I want it to feel like now? What family narrative about me is no longer true? Where am I performing strength to avoid feeling my origins? What do I actually want to keep from my family legacy? Where does my sense of authority feel shaky?
TAURUS RISING
What to expect: Communication mishaps more likely than usual • Reconnecting with siblings or neighbors • Revisiting subjects you studied before • Short trips getting delayed or rerouted • Important conversations needing do-overs • Changing your mind about something you were sure about • Old thought patterns becoming visible
The opportunity: You can identify mental habits that aren’t serving you like the way you talk to yourself, the stories you tell, and the assumptions you make. This retrograde shows you where your thinking could use an upgrade.
Your mission: Listen more than you speak. Journal to process your thoughts before sharing them.
Mars & Uranus in Gemini Effect
Your thinking and communication are under review with Mercury retrograde. Meanwhile, Mars and Uranus are creating chaos in your finances and shaking up your sense of security!
Watch for: Impulsive spending driven by emotional triggers • Sudden income changes (could be positive or challenging) • Feeling destabilized around money and worth • Arguments about finances • Reckless decisions about resources
You might finally break free from limiting beliefs about what you deserve! Unexpected money could arrive. Your relationship with security is being revolutionized.
The Saturn Square
What’s building from July 12th onward:
- Your mind is processing something big but it’s happening below the surface. You might feel mentally foggy, distracted, or like you’re thinking through water.
- When you try to communicate, something holds you back. Possibly unconscious fears, self-sabotage patterns, or just ways you limit yourself without realizing it.
- A conversation with a sibling goes somewhere unexpected. A casual interaction reveals something about your hidden fears or sorrows.
- This period might surface anxiety, depression, or thought patterns you’ve been ignoring.
- Old karmic patterns, family secrets, ancestral trauma might come into awareness.
Journal prompts: What story have I been telling myself that might not be completely true? How do my childhood experiences affect how I think about money and my own worth? What thought keeps circling that I can’t quite land on? What am I afraid to know about myself? What patterns do I fall into that feel older than me? What would I think about if I wasn’t avoiding it?
GEMINI RISING
What to expect: Money matters needing attention • Unexpected expenses (especially related to home or family) • Reconsidering what you value • Past income sources potentially returning • Questions about your worth surfacing • Financial decisions from the past needing revision • Thinking about what truly makes you feel secure
The opportunity: You can get clear on what actually matters to you versus what you’ve been told should matter. Your values might be shifting and this retrograde helps you recognize that.
Your mission: Review your budget and financial commitments. Also examine whether your spending aligns with your actual values.
Mars & Uranus in Gemini Effect
Mars and Uranus are in your 1st house, meaning you personally are the lightning rod for this volatile energy! You might feel like you’re going to jump out of your skin!
Watch for: Extreme restlessness and impatience • Sudden changes to your appearance or style • Accident-prone energy (slow down!) • Acting before thinking • Feeling like you need to break free from something NOW • Identity crises accelerating
You’re reinventing yourself in real time! Breakthroughs about who you are can happen suddenly. Old versions of yourself are being shed.
The Saturn Square
What’s building from July 12th onward:
- Financial situations affecting friendships. Friends asking for money. Feeling like you can’t keep up with your social circle financially. Or resentment about always being the one who pays.
- The deeper you go into reconsidering what matters to you, the more friction you feel with what your community or friend group expects. They value things you’re questioning. You’re questioning things they value.
- You might feel like an outsider in your own groups. Like you have to work harder to fit in. Like belonging has conditions.
- This square asks, do you need their approval to know your worth? Can you value yourself even if the group doesn’t see it?
- Group financial commitments becoming stressful. Shared expenses with friends. Dues, contributions, crowdfunding expectations. The pressure to give when you’re not sure you have enough.
- Your dream might feel too expensive right now.
Journal prompts: What do I truly value? Does how I spend my money and time reflect those values? What part of my identity feels too small for who I’m becoming? What would it look like to break free? Where do I undervalue myself to keep social peace? What would I spend money on if I didn’t care what anyone thought? Which friendships feel like obligations versus choices? What am I worth outside of what I contribute to others?
CANCER RISING
What to expect: Reconsidering how you present yourself • Old versions of yourself coming to mind • Identity questions surfacing • People from your past recognizing you • Physical appearance changes you want to make becoming clear • How others perceive you being highlighted • Feeling extra introspective
The opportunity: You get to examine who you’ve been versus who you’re becoming. This is a powerful reset for your sense of self! Old identities can be released to make room for who you are now.
Your mission: Spend time alone reflecting on your personal growth. Who were you five years ago? Who are you becoming?
Mars & Uranus in Gemini Effect
While you’re reviewing your identity with Mercury retrograde in your sign, Mars and Uranus are stirring up your subconscious! Dreams might be wild. Hidden anger could surface. Things you’ve repressed are demanding release.
Watch for: Vivid or disturbing dreams • Unconscious patterns erupting into awareness • Hidden enemies or secret conflicts becoming visible • Sudden need for isolation • Anxiety that seems to come from nowhere • Old traumas getting triggered unexpectedly
Massive subconscious healing is possible! What’s been buried can finally be released. Therapy or energy work could create major breakthroughs. Pay attention to what’s happening beneath the surface. Don’t ignore signs from your body or psyche.
The Saturn Square
What’s building from July 12th onward:
- You’re swimming in feelings, revisiting old versions of yourself, and perhaps not feeling like the polished professional right now.
- Who you’re becoming during this retrograde might not match how you’re known publicly. You’re changing in ways that your professional world hasn’t caught up with. This creates tension with authority figures or career expectations.
- The person you used to be might not be who your career needs you to be, but they’re here anyway.
- Bosses, parents, anyone who represents authority in your life may be placing heavy demands on you during this period.
- How you present yourself publicly could be affected. Miscommunications at work. Your image not matching your intentions. Public statements needing revision.
- Questioning ambitions. Does this career path even fit who you’re becoming? This retrograde might surface doubts about whether your public role nourishes or depletes you.
Journal prompts: What parts of my old identity am I ready to release? What parts do I want to reclaim? What anger or fear have I been suppressing? What does it need from me? Who am I when no one’s evaluating my performance? Where does my public role feel inauthentic? What feelings am I suppressing to appear professional? What would my career look like if I honored my sensitivity?
LEO RISING
What to expect: Vivid dreams with meaningful messages ✨ Subconscious patterns becoming conscious ✨ Need for more solitude and rest ✨ Past regrets or guilt surfacing ✨ Spiritual experiences intensifying ✨ Things you’ve repressed wanting attention ✨ Feeling more sensitive to energy around you
The opportunity: This is a powerful time for therapy, spiritual practice, meditation, and inner work. What’s been hidden in your subconscious can finally be seen and healed!
Your mission: Create space for solitude. Pay attention to your dreams. Don’t ignore what’s coming up from the depths.
Mars & Uranus in Gemini Effect
You’re in DEEP inner work mode with Mercury retrograde in your 12th house, but your social world is exploding with unexpected developments! Friends might act erratic. Group dynamics could shift suddenly.
Watch for: Sudden changes in friendships • Arguments within your communities or groups • Friends behaving unpredictably • Technology issues disrupting social connections • Feeling torn between needing solitude and social demands • Your future goals shifting rapidly
You might meet someone who changes everything! Groups that weren’t right for you could dissolve, making room for better ones. Your vision for the future is being liberated. Protect your energy while staying open to positive social surprises. Not every change is bad!
The Saturn Square
What’s building from July 12th onward:
- Your beliefs are being tested by what you’ve buried. What do you do when your shadow contradicts your philosophy?
- You might feel lost between faith and doubt or surrender and seeking.
- Plans in travel or education might face invisible obstacles. Things falling through for reasons you can’t quite identify.
- During this period, time alone might shift how you see the world. Insights come in solitude, but so does distortion. Be discerning about what the silence tells you.
- Teachers, traditions, or belief systems from your past returning to consciousness. Are they wisdom or are they limitations you outgrew?
- Your dreams might feature unfamiliar places, other cultures, or symbolic journeys. Pay attention!
Journal prompts: What have I been avoiding looking at? What message does it have for me? Which friendships energize me and which drain me? Am I brave enough to make changes? What do I believe that I’ve never questioned? What am I afraid is true about the universe? What spiritual or philosophical material from my past wants attention? What would I believe if I trusted what I feel instead of what I’ve been taught?
VIRGO RISING
What to expect: Friends from the past reappearing • Reconsidering your social circle • Group projects experiencing delays • Technology glitches • Reassessing your goals and dreams for the future • Feeling nostalgic about old friend groups • Questions about where you belong
The opportunity: You can evaluate whether your friendships and communities are truly nourishing you. Old friends might return at the right time. Dreams you’d given up on might deserve another look.
Your mission: Reach out to friends you’ve lost touch with. Also honestly assess which relationships energize you versus drain you.
Mars & Uranus in Gemini Effect
Your friendships and communities are under review while your career is being hit with unexpected developments! Your professional life might feel like a rollercoaster right now.
Watch for: Sudden career changes or opportunities • Conflicts with bosses or authority figures • Unexpected public attention (positive or negative) • Impulsive career decisions you might regret • Professional reputation fluctuations • Feeling rebellious against your current path
Career breakthroughs can happen fast! You might suddenly see a professional path you never considered. Old career limitations can be shattered. Don’t quit your job in a dramatic moment. Sit with career impulses for at least a week before acting.
The Saturn Square
What’s building from July 12th onward:
- Financial complications with friends might surface. Borrowed money. Shared investments. The friend who owes you. The debt you owe them.
- You might feel bound to certain communities or groups in ways that feel more like obligation than choice. Contracts. Commitments that have become burdensome. The feeling of being stuck.
- During this square, superficial friendships might feel unbearable. You want realness or nothing.
- Hopes and fears are in conversation. What are you afraid will happen to your dreams? What fears are you projecting onto your future?
- You might be changing in ways that affect your friendships and community belonging. Outgrowing groups. Finding that transformation makes certain connections impossible to maintain.
- Sexual or deeply intimate dynamics within friend groups or communities becoming complicated. Boundaries between friendship and something more getting murky. Power dynamics in social settings.
Journal prompts: Do the communities I’m part of reflect who I am now? What kind of friendships do I actually want? What would I do professionally if I wasn’t afraid? What sudden opportunity might be worth exploring? Which friendships have financial or power complications I’ve been ignoring? Where do I feel obligated instead of connected? What transformation am I undergoing that my friends don’t know about? What am I afraid to lose if I’m truly honest in my community?
LIBRA RISING
What to expect: Career matters from the past resurfacing • Former bosses or colleagues reaching out • Reconsidering your professional direction • Public recognition for past work • Old career opportunities returning • Thinking about your long-term legacy • Authority figures from your past coming to mind
The opportunity: You can reassess whether your career path aligns with what actually fulfills you. Past professional connections might offer new possibilities. Your relationship with success and achievement is being examined.
Your mission: Reflect on your career journey. What professional relationships deserve reconnection? What past accomplishments deserve recognition?
Mars & Uranus in Gemini Effect
Your career is being reviewed while your worldview is being electrified! Travel plans could change suddenly. Your beliefs and philosophies are being challenged in unexpected ways.
Watch for: Travel disruptions or sudden travel opportunities • Belief systems being radically questioned • Arguments about politics, religion, or philosophy • Legal matters requiring quick action • Feeling restless to expand beyond your current life • Impulsive decisions about education
A belief that’s been limiting your career could finally break! You might discover a philosophy or teaching that changes everything. Unexpected travel could be transformative. Stay curious rather than defensive when your beliefs are challenged. The discomfort might be growth!
The Saturn Square
What’s building from July 12th onward:
- Your career needs attention. Your relationship needs attention. There isn’t enough of you to go around.
- Something resurfaces from your career past that impacts your relationship. An old job opportunity reconsidered. A professional connection from before. The way your career history shapes what your partner can expect from you now.
- A partner might have strong opinions about your professional choices. Friction between what they want you to do and what you’re reconsidering.
- How others see your relationship versus how it actually is. Career networking affecting relationship time. The public couple image versus the private reality. Questions about how much of your partnership is for show.
- You might be re-evaluating business partnerships or professional commitments with the same seriousness as romantic ones.
- This period might surface how your professional persona affects your ability to be a good partner. Are you the same person at home as at work?
Journal prompts: What do I want my professional legacy to be? Am I on track to create it? What belief about success or career have I outgrown? What new perspective is trying to emerge? What is my career costing my relationship? What does my partner really think about my professional life? Where am I performing partnership rather than actually showing up? What would work-life balance actually look like for me?
SCORPIO RISING
What to expect: Reconsidering beliefs you’ve held for a long time ✨ Travel plans changing or being revisited ✨ Interest in subjects you studied before ✨ Teachers or mentors from the past reappearing ✨ Philosophical questions consuming your thoughts ✨ Wanderlust for places you’ve been before ✨ Legal matters from the past needing attention
The opportunity: Beliefs that no longer fit who you’re becoming can be released. This is a powerful time to examine the philosophies and frameworks that guide your life. Do they still serve you?
Your mission: Question your assumptions. Revisit books or teachings that shaped you. Consider returning to a place that was meaningful.
Mars & Uranus in Gemini Effect
Your beliefs are under review while your most intimate life is being struck by lightning! The 8th house with Mars and Uranus brings intensity to shared finances, sexuality, and deep psychological processes.
Watch for: Unexpected changes with joint finances or debts • Power struggles in intimate relationships • Secrets being revealed suddenly • Intense or transformative intimate experiences • Inheritance or insurance matters heating up • Psychological breakthroughs that feel destabilizing
Deep transformation is accelerated! Financial entanglements could resolve suddenly. Intimacy blocks can break through. You might access power you didn’t know you had!
The Saturn Square
What’s building from July 12th onward:
- Your beliefs aren’t matching your reality. This square highlights the gap between your philosophy and your practice. Between what you believe about health and how you actually take care of yourself. Between your big picture and your daily choices.
- Plans for travel or learning bumping into work obligations or health concerns.
- This period for you might be about questioning whether any of this daily grind even means anything. The philosophy behind the routine coming into question.
- You might be re-examining health beliefs, dietary philosophies, or medical opinions. What you thought was true about wellness meeting the reality of your body.
- A mentor figure might be affecting your work life. Work people might be challenging your beliefs.
- The overwhelm of ideas meeting the demands of reality.
Journal prompts: What beliefs did I inherit that I’ve never questioned? Do they still resonate with who I am now? What am I afraid to confront in my deepest self? What power am I ready to claim? What do I believe that I don’t actually practice? Where is my worldview making my daily life harder? What would I do differently about my health if I questioned my assumptions? What philosophy would actually support the life I’m living?
SAGITTARIUS RISING
What to expect: Shared financial matters needing review (taxes, debts, inheritances) • Intimacy issues in relationships surfacing • Secrets from the past potentially revealed • Deep psychological patterns becoming visible • Conversations about sensitive topics • Old fears or control issues flaring up • Transformation processes intensifying
The opportunity: You can heal deep-seated patterns around trust, vulnerability, and power. Financial entanglements from the past can finally be sorted out. Intimacy can deepen through honest conversation.
Your mission: Have the difficult conversations you’ve been avoiding. Look at your relationship with control and vulnerability.
Mars & Uranus in Gemini Effect
Deep psychological and financial matters are being reviewed while your relationships are experiencing shocks! Partners might act unpredictably. Relationship dynamics could shift without warning.
Watch for: Arguments with partners (romantic or business) • Sudden relationship beginnings or endings • Partners behaving erratically • Unexpected people entering your life • Feeling the urge to break free from relationship constraints • Conflicts about shared resources with partners
Relationships that need to end might finally end! New connections can appear out of nowhere. Your partnerships could evolve rapidly in exciting directions. Don’t make permanent relationship decisions during peak chaos! Wait until after the retrograde to know what’s real.
The Saturn Square
What’s building from July 12th onward:
- You might feel like you have to earn your fun, or that creativity requires suffering, or that romance is work. Past trauma affecting your ability to play. Deep stuff surfacing when you’re trying to be light.
- The gap between romantic fun and actual depth becomes apparent. Casual doesn’t satisfy, but depth feels heavy.
- Financial complications that limit your access to pleasure and creativity.
- If you have children, this period might involve processing psychological material related to them or through them. They might trigger your deep stuff. Or their needs conflict with your psychological process.
- Creativity blocks are often psychological. This period might reveal the deep-seated fears or beliefs underneath your creative difficulties. What are you really afraid of when you try to make something?
- Where are there power dynamics in your romantic or creative life that you’ve been ignoring? This square illuminates them.
Journal prompts: Where am I afraid to be vulnerable? What would change if I let myself be truly seen? What do I need from relationships that I’ve been afraid to ask for? What relationship patterns am I ready to break? What psychological material gets triggered when I try to have fun? Where do power dynamics affect my romantic or creative life? What would joy look like if I let myself have it without earning it? What am I afraid will happen if I’m truly light-hearted?
CAPRICORN RISING
What to expect: Past partners or significant people reappearing • Relationship conversations needing do-overs • Reconsidering your relationship needs • Business partnerships under review • Misunderstandings with your partner more likely • Thinking about how past relationships shaped you • Old relationship patterns becoming visible
The opportunity: You can heal relationship wounds and understand your patterns in partnership. Conversations you’ve needed to have can finally happen. Past relationships can provide closure or new beginnings.
Your mission: Communicate with extra care in your closest relationships. Reflect on what you truly need from partnership.
Mars & Uranus in Gemini Effect
Your relationships are under review while your daily life and health are experiencing disruption! Routines might fall apart. Work situations could change unexpectedly. Health needs might demand sudden attention.
Watch for: Work schedule chaos • Coworker conflicts or surprising departures • Health issues flaring up and needing action • Daily routines being impossible to maintain • Feeling rebellious against the structure of your life • Nervous system feeling fried
Work situations that weren’t right for you could end, creating space for better ones! Health breakthroughs are possible. You might finally break free from routines that were draining you. Be flexible with your schedule. Fighting for control right now will exhaust you. Flow with the changes!
The Saturn Square
What’s building from July 12th onward:
- Your family has opinions about your partner. Your partner has needs that conflict with family obligations. Home life and relationship life competing for priority.
- You might see with uncomfortable clarity how your family shaped your partnership patterns. The way you love (or struggle to) because of how you were loved.
- Where you live, how you live, and the state of your home becoming a relationship conversation. Partner wanting changes to living situation. Family home affecting relationship. Housing decisions requiring partnership negotiation.
- An ex who connects to your family somehow. Old relationships surfacing through family contexts. The person your family keeps asking about. Photos in boxes at your parents’ house.
- Are you building something stable with your partner? Is the commitment founded on something real? This square demands honesty about whether your relationship has roots.
Journal prompts: What patterns do I repeat in relationships? What do I actually need from a partner? What daily habits are actually serving me versus just keeping me busy? What would my ideal workday look like? How did my family shape how I do relationships? What does my partner need from my family situation that I haven’t given? Where am I treating my partnership like my family of origin? What would a truly stable foundation with a partner look like?
AQUARIUS RISING
What to expect: Health issues from the past returning for attention • Daily routines needing adjustment • Coworker dynamics becoming complicated • Reconsidering your work habits • Pets possibly having health needs • Old health or wellness practices calling you back • Systems and processes at work needing fixes
The opportunity: You can identify what’s not working in your daily life and fix it. Health habits you abandoned might deserve another chance. Your relationship with work and service is being refined.
Your mission: Review your daily routines. What supports your wellbeing? What drains it? Make adjustments to how you structure your days.
Mars & Uranus in Gemini Effect
Your daily routines and health are under review while your creative and romantic life is on fire! This could manifest as exciting creative breakthroughs or chaotic romantic situations.
Watch for: Sudden romantic attractions or disruptions • Creative inspiration striking at inconvenient times • Impulsive decisions about dating or pleasure • Children (if you have them) being extra unpredictable • Potential for surprise pregnancies • Taking risks you normally wouldn’t • Feeling the urge to prioritize fun over responsibility
Creative blocks can shatter! Romance can surprise you. You might rediscover what actually brings you joy and have the courage to pursue it. Enjoy the creative and romantic electricity but don’t abandon your health routines completely. Balance excitement with self-care.
The Saturn Square
What’s building from July 12th onward:
- The mind-body connection is obvious during this square. The way you think directly impacts how you feel physically. Anxiety manifesting as symptoms. Negative thought loops depleting energy. Mental stress becoming physical strain.
- Difficult conversations at work, misunderstandings with coworkers, or messages getting lost that affect your job.
- Friction between where you live and how you want to structure your days. The commute affecting your health. The neighborhood not supporting your routines.
- Siblings might be involved in your health discussions, or their situations affecting your wellbeing. Alternatively, communication patterns with siblings becoming a source of stress that impacts health.
- Too much googling symptoms. Conflicting health advice. The mental burden of trying to figure out what’s wrong.
- Are your mental and physical disciplines in alignment or at war?
Journal prompts: Does my daily routine support the life I want to live? What small changes would make a big difference? What brings me genuine joy that I’ve been denying myself? What creative risk am I being called to take? How is my thinking affecting my body? What thought patterns are making me tired or sick? Where is my communication style creating stress? What would mental discipline that supports physical health look like?
PISCES RISING
What to expect: Old creative projects calling you back • Ex-lovers potentially reappearing • Reconnecting with hobbies you used to love • Children (if you have them) needing extra attention • Romance and dating having a nostalgic quality • Rediscovering what brings you joy • Creative blocks revealing what needs healing
The opportunity: You can reconnect with your capacity for joy and play. Creative projects you abandoned might be ready for completion. Your relationship with pleasure and fun is being examined.
Your mission: Revisit creative pursuits you used to love! Let yourself play without productivity pressure. Notice what genuinely makes you happy.
Mars & Uranus in Gemini Effect
Your creative and romantic life is under review while your home and family situation is experiencing upheaval! Domestic life might feel chaotic. Family members could act unpredictably.
Watch for: Sudden changes in living situation • Family conflicts erupting • Home repairs or issues demanding immediate attention • Feeling unsettled in your space • The urge to move or dramatically change your home • Parents or family members surprising you
Home situations that weren’t working can finally change! Family dynamics that felt stuck could shift suddenly. You might find the courage to create a living situation that actually fits you. Don’t sign leases impulsively. Sit with any urge to move until after the retrograde. Not all domestic chaos requires immediate action.
The Saturn Square
What’s building from July 12th onward:
- This square highlights the gap between what you want to enjoy and what your resources allow.
- This period might surface questions about your creative value. Are you good enough? Is your art worth anything?
- Financial considerations in dating. The cost of romance. Whether a potential partner is financially stable. Your own money situation affecting your romantic confidence or availability.
- If you have children, this square might bring their expenses into focus. The cost of joy, essentially. Or questions about how children have affected your earning capacity or relationship to money.
- This square also asks, do you actually value what you enjoy? Or are you chasing pleasures that don’t match your real values? Conversely, are your stated values leaving any room for pleasure?
- This period might bring back old creative projects, past romantic interests, or former joys. Do they hold up? Should you return to them? Were they ever valuable or just enjoyable?
Journal prompts: What brought me joy as a child? How can I bring more of that energy into my life now? What does my soul need my home to feel like? What family pattern is ready to shift? What joy have I denied myself because of money? What do I actually believe my creativity is worth? Where have I confused expense with value? What would I create or enjoy if money were irrelevant?