Obviously, we all know what it means to “trust” something or someone, but what are the underlying secrets this word holds? I’m in the process of learning how to trust myself, and in order to do that I need to fully understand what that word means.

The new moon in Cancer that happened on June 28th was a beautiful symbol of manifestation, new beginnings and rebirth. For some reason, hands feel like an appropriate connection? I’ve been thinking about them a lot recently, which encouraged me to look a little more deeply at their meaning. I’ll start by speaking on the new moon in Cancer, and what that represents.

The summer solstice is marked by the sun moving into the sign of the divine feminine, Cancer. There’s something so sacred about that to me. The sun, this symbol of divine masculine on its longest day of the year, moves into the sign of its counterpart, Cancer, which is associated with the moon. It feels like a moment where the duality of the two cease to exist.

I can’t write this week’s forecast without recommending a movie I saw recently that had an incredible impact on me, and also happens to be perfectly fitting for the astrology this week. Everything Everywhere All At Once is a must see; and this week my attitude is largely similar to the message of the film.

I don’t think I’m alone in saying that Mercury retrograde this time around felt pretty tangible. I’m not sure if the post eclipse shadow had an influence, or it was simply the fact that most of the retrograde happened in the sign of already chaotic Gemini, but either way it’s been an interesting few weeks, to say the least.

This begs the question: can ambition co-exist with gratitude? I believe it can, but our collective perspective of ambition needs some serious reworking.