LEO
Consider the future.
What do you see as the distance between
where are you now and where you hope to grow?
Your journey is in the traversing of relational space.
Tune in to your best intent and biggest wishes.
Remember the wisdom of your future goals.
And then, open up to new allies, groups, and guides.
Your upcoming adventures aren’t meant to be the solo kind.

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Hello Leo, welcome to your month ahead audio horoscope for Gemini season, May 20 through June 20, 2021. You're listening to Embodied Astrology and my name is Renee. I'm the astrologer here, I'm also a somatic movement educator and embodied intuitive. I do my best to blend these perspectives and languages. So as you listen to this horoscope, please listen through your own embodied intuition. Take what works, leave the rest, and make the meaning that is most meaningful for you. I also recommend that people tune in with horoscopes for their sun and rising signs. If you don't know your signs, you can get a free chart at embodiedastrology.com in the horoscopes section. 

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So you may have heard that Gemini season is bringing eclipses as well as some retrograde energy and that's a lot. Two eclipses, two retrogrades, another planet stationing retrograde the day that the sun moves into Cancer, the day after Gemini season ends. So we've got a lot that is shifting and fluctuating. And Gemini as an energy is a shifting fluctuating energy that likes to move in multiples and move with variety. And right now, that is the vibe. The vibe is, things are changing, have you noticed? Things are changing, there's a lot that's up in the air. And much of it, we don't know where it's gonna land. And that's kind of just the condition of the year, there is so much that needs to change and so much that has changed and fallen apart and broken down for so many people in so many ways. And even if your life has been relatively stable, all that's happening in the world is certainly creating the necessity to disrupt and shift and evolve. And for you, it feels like this is really palpable, this is really powerful. And the feeling that you want to participate in the world as it's changing in some ways, shapes or forms that are beneficial to others and also meaningful and relevant for you is the vibe that I'm getting. I feel like you're looking for ways to participate and involve yourself with larger communities. There could be specific communities you want to be involved with, it could be a kind of general feeling of wanting to get out there and meet new people, socialize more. For some people, in some places, things are opening up around COVID. And it's - COVID is also like one of those things where we're like, let's see, let's see how it goes. So what opportunities do you have to get involved. There are certainly opportunities potentially, on the internet. There are also opportunities when it comes to you applying yourself in some way that's about lending your energy to larger causes. You want to feel yourself engaging now with a larger world and you're looking for opportunities to do that. And over the course of Gemini season, you have a lot of opportunities and I think that you might be really excited by them and it feels like you're meeting people, you might be coming into contact with old friends, your world is getting bigger and you want your world to get bigger so also move towards the opportunities for that to happen.

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The part of your chart that Gemini rules is one of the parts of the chart that brings in like really good vibes, good energy. Good news for you. I've heard this part of the chart described as the domain of the angels or the guides, like this is where you get your, you know, the like you got the angel on your shoulder and the devil on your shoulder, this is the angels terrain. And it's like, I want to give you abundance, I want to give you gifts, I want to give you opportunities. And right now you have lots of gifts and opportunities coming in through your connections and your relationships, and also in the ways that you give and receive information and this is one of the things that Gemini loves to do. And so when you involve yourself in connection, in community, in conversation, it's great for you. I would always recommend with Gemini, but especially with Mercury retrograde coming up, and I'll get to this more in a little bit, that you prioritize curiosity over judgment. And any way that you can involve yourself in ways that are really coming from a stance of friendship and open mindedness are going to be beneficial to you now. 

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So the first 10 days or so of Gemini season from May 20 to the 29 bring a lot of emphasis into the ways that you are changing in relationship and how you want to feel yourself acting and interacting in the world. There's a sense here that I'm getting that you are wanting, or maybe not wanting, but there's a need for you to be revealing yourself to be a little bit more transparent, and open with yourself and certainly in relationship with others. I've talked a lot in your recent horoscopes in the last several months and even in the last couple of years, about this kind of process that you're in that feels like it can sometimes drive you to overwork or really like be a perfectionist or value yourself on productivity rather than your essential nature. I think that you are learning a lot about these patterns, and you are ready to kind of move on. And so you're repatterning, you're restructuring, the work isn't fully done. But in Gemini season, you're getting some new opportunities to come into contact in new and different ways. And what I would say here is that the challenge for you is to not perform and to be open in your energy. Now open doesn't mean over giving, it doesn't mean overwhelming other people with like all that you are. And so there's also the challenge and the opportunity to be discerning about how much you want to give and where. So this is an edge, right? Like whenever we're walking an edge, we're kind of trying to navigate between two states of being. And how I feel you navigating is the space between sharing or giving and containing or preserving. And the sense that I get is that you want to clarify and soften in your boundaries. And that doesn't mean that you don't have boundaries, because in certain places, you need to clarify them and maybe assert them or build them. But you don't want them to be rigid. And the sense that I'm getting around the softening is an awareness that boundaries can change, and they can evolve, and they can be a conversation. And as you develop trust with other people, boundaries can open, there can be more intimacy. And if trust is challenged, or if there is a reason to need to kind of withhold your energy, then you can respond to that. But you don't need to respond in a way that's like, really intense. And so you're learning to navigate a space of sharing, sharing of information, sharing of resources, sharing of energy. Where do you want to give and where do you want to hold back or hold for yourself. This requires you to be sensitive and attuned to your inner world. And as we move into Gemini season, as we kind of move really into the rest of the year and into next year, you're doing a huge amount of growth when it comes to these spaces of exchange and particularly emotional and energetic exchange with others as well as very practical exchange, like where you share money or something like that. So the learning is in your intuition and in your inner world. Can you stay present with your feelings about things and if you notice that there's anxiety arising or your body is getting tense or you're feeling kind of amped up and anxious and, I don't know about you, but that's often a place where I kind of go go into overdrive and end up oversharing if I'm like, really excited, you know, like sometimes I'll say things that I wish I just wouldn't have. So you can listen to your body and you can listen to your energy and try and really like research, you know, when do you give? When do you hold back? How do you want to open? Where do you want to trust? Where do you need some more discernment? Where do you need to take time? 

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On May 23, Saturn is stationing retrograde in your opposite sign Aquarius and Saturn will be retrograde until October of this year. The significance here is that you are reworking some structural pieces in your relationships. Definitely this applies to important partners that can include life and romantic partners as well as business partners. But also in general, how you present yourself with other people, how you're engaging in relationship with community, with the world at large. This is a time for you to be fortifying, refining, restructuring, remaining with process if things feel like they slow down or you're like, I don't know where we're going. Hang out, you feel it out, you know, you don't need to know. And, again, this is a year when a lot of things are up in the air and we don't really know how they're landing. And right now you're being asked to be accountable in your relationships. You're being asked to be mature and trustworthy and to show up for the work that needs to be done. If there is work that needs to be done, you can do it. It's not always going to be enjoyable. Sometimes you're going to feel really friggin frustrated that that's what you have to be doing. You might feel constrained, you might feel a lot of worry, you might feel doubt in your own capacity or somebody else's. In general right now for you, you want to be moving in directions and at speeds that allow you to build competence and trust in your relationships and that allow other people to build trust and their own competence with you as they relate to you. Things probably need to move slowly right now. So if there are conversations on the table about structural shifts, they probably need some time. Give them the time, don't force anything.

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May 26, there is a full moon and lunar eclipse in Sagittarius around five degrees of Sag. If you have natal placements or points in early Sagittarius, or if your Leo placements are in the early part of Leo, this is definitely a full moon and eclipse to pay attention to. Now lucky for you that this part of the chart is also the good vibes part of the chart. So Gemini season is really rocking the part of your chart that is about fun energy, joyful energy, supportive energy. And this eclipse really wants to help you tune in with your creativity and your self expression and your joy. When, how, where, with whom do you feel like you get to be your most authentic Leonine self? Leo as an energy rules the heart, it rules the spirit. It is about childlike innocence, joy and playfulness and silliness and warmth. Performance, not in the sense of being performative, you know, like, I'm going to be false or like take up all the space here, but like, I'm going to be a clown, I'm going to put on a costume and dance around and even better if everybody else does too. Are there ways that you want to be expressing yourself with more glee and abandon and delight in your life through creative projects or applications of your energy that you really want to be working with? This is a great time to give attention to them, to appreciate them, to uplift them. It's also a great time to release ideas about them that keep them confined and constrained. If you have beliefs about your own creativity, about your self expression, if you're like oh, I really love dancing, but I suck at it. You know, like I'm a bad dancer. Fuck that. Throw that piece of garbage in the trash. There's no such thing as being a bad dancer. Nobody's comparing you to you know, a prima ballerina. You don't need to be that. Dancing is about enjoying yourself. It's about tuning in with music. It's about feeling a rhythm. It's about letting your body express itself in a joyful way that feels good. If you are enjoying it, enjoy it. Don't worry about what other people think. In general when it comes to any kind of creativity or self expression right now, I'd love to encourage you to not worry about critique, not worry about whether or not someone else is going to like it, or whether or not it's going to be right. But also to concern yourself with how you can collaborate and come into conversation or connection with others in ways that feel generative. So to say like don't care what other people think might do a disservice to the energy that I'm trying to describe. Because I think right now you really want to care. But the caring that I feel you wanting to have has more to do with an authentic, heart centered, caring, and less with a superficial caring. So it's not about oh, I really care if people like think that I look good, who cares? Who cares if you look at dancing, throw it out. But when you're out there dancing, do you notice that there are other people on the dance floor? Are you flailing your limbs around and hitting people in the face? That's a place to care. You know, be responsive in your environment, notice who you're with, notice who you're around and try and express yourself in ways that increase the potential for connection, that open up spaces for conversation, that can get curiosity flowing in multiple directions. So right now, it's not about expressing yourself in ways that overwhelm others or that assert your energy in a space that's dominating or something like that. But it is letting go of self criticism, letting go of kind of like future fantasies of other people's judgement, really trying to tune in with your authentic nature, expressing yourself from your heart, and then letting that expression help you connect with other people.

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The last couple days of May - oh, lest I forget, let me not forget. May 29, Mercury stations retrograde. Mercury will be retrograde in Gemini, the sign of its rulership. Its retrograde brings it all the way till June 23. During this retrograde it is an awesome time for you to be thinking about connections. So what I was just saying before about the eclipse, this is an amazing time for you to be thinking about how do you want to connect with people? What are you curious about? This is a great time for you to be thinking about who you want to reach out to and maybe starting to make some of those connections. Although I will give a caveat here and say a retrograde is a really good time to research, it's a really good time to reflect. The 're' prefix is always helpful during the retrogrades. It's not a great time to act impulsively. And so if you're like, Oh my god, I want to connect with this person or that person and that person. Don't just fire off a million emails and DMs, take the time to learn something about those people. Take the time to tune in with your actual curiosity, like what do you want to talk to them about? And when you are ready to make an outreach that is self aware, and you know, complete in some way and like you know what you're asking for and you know what you're interested in, then you make the outreach. In a certain way, I would say you want a kind of emotional neutrality in your communications right now and that doesn't mean blankness, it doesn't mean an uncaring, but it means that if you find yourself in a heightened state of either reactivity, or even enthusiasm, that you might want to take a pause and really look at where is your energy coming from? And how is it probably going to resonate? You take the time to think about who's receiving your communication or your expression, and what might they need from you, in order to give you the response that you are looking for and wanting. In general, Mercury retrogrades, especially in Gemini, are times to be careful about communications. Try not to put things out that you might regret. And so again, if you're feeling like there's like a heightened state, or some kind of urgency, just save the draft, don't press send, give yourself 24 or 48 hours or a week. Reflect on the damn thing before you send it. Okay. 

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May 30 through June 4, we get a lot of movement in the water signs. Venus will be moving into Cancer on June 2, it transits Cancer until June 27. This is a time of heightened sensitivity for you and also heightened intuition. You have capacity here to connect more deeply with your inner landscape, your inner awareness, but also with others through subtle senses, through, you know, the nonverbal forms of communication and transmission. This is an amazing time for you to give time and space to the practices that bring you closer to your spiritual essence, to your guides, to your guardians, to your ancestors. This is also a beautiful time for you to reflect on your offering to collective energy. You are one wave in the ocean, but you are a wave and every wave creates ripples. How are you holding space in your life? What kind of energy do you want to be putting out into the world?

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The last two weeks of Gemini season June 5, until the 20 turn up the volume on the kind of provocation and instigation of change. Change usually is something that we're forced into. Human beings like stability, you know, we'd like things to be consistent. If we've built something and it works, a lot of times, it's like hard for us to change it. I will say that there are plenty of people out there who are compulsive about change and have a hard time sitting still. So if you're hearing me say the other thing and you're like, nope, that's fine. Either way, in these couple of weeks, there is a kind of increased atmosphere of tension in the world. It feels like there's a lot of possibility in these couple of weeks for people to be oscillating fairly wildly and rapidly through different states of being. There could be like an increased kind of agitation in the general climate and atmosphere. So in general, this is a time to be chill with your energy. Don't involve yourself in drama and conflict. If it's happening around you, make yourself a kind of beacon of peace, you know, and really try and emanate a vibe, that is what you want to call in. You know, don't put out energy that you don't want to get back or thrown back at you. 

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On June 10. There is a new moon and solar eclipse in Gemini that will be conjunct with Mercury retrograde. In general, eclipse energy is a kind of like powerful portal for karmic patterns to be coming up. Because of its placement in your chart. This is a really important time for you to be tuning in with friendship, and how you come into contact with a larger social world. These days, the internet is definitely one of the places where many of us are interfacing with the larger social world. But you can also think about social groups of any kind, you might think back to your experiences in school or involved in any kinds of communities. You are given the opportunity right now to really rewrite some stories about friends and social spaces and how you are and who you are in them and what kinds of relationships you have and want to have. This is a new moon to appreciate your friends and really, you know, love them for who they are. It's not a time to try and force anybody to be anything that they're not. But it is such a wonderful time for you to feel into your own body and experience, what kind of friend you want to be, what kind of ally you want to be, how you want to involve yourself in community. Feel that in your body. Feel how you want to take up that space, feel what you want to offer, feel what you want to receive, meditate on opening space for these kinds of connections, and for these kinds of connections to grow. 

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On June 11, Mars moves into your sign. Mars will transit Leo until July 30. When Mars is in your sign, it gives you energy, it gives you vitality. It also gives you potentially more aggression. So keep it in check. You know I'm like, I keep saying this like check your energy if you're feeling like really enthusiastic about something. It's not like you shouldn't be enthusiastic but just check yourself and maybe give it a minute before you act on an impulse. Mars in your sign can have you acting quickly with thinking so much about it. So, June and July, notice your own energy, notice your own impact and seek to assert yourself in ways that are very heart centered, and that are cognizant and conscious of your environment and the people around you. This is an awesome support for you to be using your energy in ways that are fun and active. It's great for you to be getting out, you know, and moving your body. Yeah, so use it like that. Have a good time, go out and dance. I feel like Mars in Leo is a great dance party vibe. And it's certainly a good support for you to dance like nobody's watching. But again, if you're waving your arms around, you hit someone in the face, apologize, buy them a drink, and then move your arms more in the up and down in the out and around but still have a good time. 

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June 14, Saturn in your opposite sign Aquarius squares Uranus in Taurus. Uranus is currently moving through your 10th house of career and public image. Saturn square to Uranus is the hallmark astrological signature for 2021. It is an aspect that repeats three times, the first time was in February, the second time in June, the third time will be in December. You are growing somehow, some way, in your relationships and in the work that you want to do in the world. There is something that you are doing or some way that you want to be that you are being that is setting you apart somehow. You want to be yourself unashamedly, unabashedly, with courage, with enthusiasm. You got to let that freak flag fly. And you have to be aware of your environment. So again, we have a symbol of you want freedom, you want liberation, you want to feel like you can do your own thing. And you want to be accountable in your relationships, you want to work skillfully with your communication, you want to include community and apply your efforts in ways that are supportive to people other than yourself. So this is a great aspect for you to be checking in with any projects or process that you are undertaking right now in your career with your vocation, or in the way that you are being yourself in the world, that you are becoming who you want to be. You might want to be doing some research, if you are working with certain groups of people, or another person, you know, get feedback this, this square is a great time to get feedback and to gather information about how are things going in the process that you are in, in whatever ways that you're trying to build and develop both your work in the world and your relationships in general. How are things going? Have some check-ins, get some feedback, get good tangible information that you can work with that will help you move into the future you're trying to create. 

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