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“To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.” ~ bell hooks

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Times are changing and shifting in accelerated momentum these days.

Steam is building, dissipating, and rising all at once. Activating energies swirling around us on the daily.

The old ways are shedding, and simultaneously, we stand on the dawn of a newer, bolder, more visionary way of living. An acceleration of energy and speed picking up now as we make our way into the middle part of this year.

We’ve all been sitting on some serious matter and density, a palpable and unbearable feeling of heaviness for the first few months of 2026, wondering when the burdens will lighten and lift even just a little, when we will feel hope enveloping our bodies and beings again, when we will feel inspired and hopeful for what is to come instead of fearing and doom scrolling the worst imaginable futures of destruction and peril.

Our imagination can be so incredibly potent and strong, whether directed toward the possibility of a whole new and wonderful reality beyond what we could previously believe was possible for ourselves or the world, or defaulting instead to fear propaganda and believing we are stuck where we are in this outdated reality that is stifling our souls.

Our perception and belief are everything, truly. How we perceive a situation changes the experience of it. Our biological chemistry dramatically shifts when we perceive a situation as threatening or something to be feared, and contrarily, if we perceive a situation as potent for growth and expansion and new energy, an excitement can build instead. Our beliefs shape our reality of life. They fortify the foundation of what we build our sense of self and lives upon. As spiritual teacher and author Byron Katie says, “taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them.” And it is no easy task to not only make conscious our unconscious belief patterns but to actively work to shift and shape them to be ones that actually support us in being who we want to be. Having faith in the self and in life supporting us on a deep, inherent level (rather than the belief that life is actively working against us and using our limiting beliefs to work against ourselves) takes so much courage, grit, and willingness to see beyond what our current experience looks like.

The truth we are willing to see will always set us free, even if it’s painful at first or challenges our current belief system. Truth gone unseen is like power we refuse to fully own and claim. But so many of us empaths and sensitive souls are seeking a freer, more truthful way of soul living these days, one in accordance with our soul rhythms. Freedom is a high value for many souls who came here to experience breaking free from ancestral patterns of soul bondage and free from limiting beliefs that keep us stuck, trapped, and looping in old patterns and behaviors not in service for our highest good. How to reach for a life of freedom where we don’t feel imprisoned and enslaved to the corporate machine, to our financial fears of lack, to the tyrannical, oppressive government structures? Where we don’t feel ruled and controlled by our reptilian minds, stressed and distressed, always in survival mode just trying to make it through the day. As the famous and beloved singer Bob Marley once said so eloquently, “Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds.” It is up to us to actively work to reprogram our own minds out of the fear energy we so often default back to on a daily, moment to moment basis. To free our own minds from fear is the work of a lifetime.

And this is the energy of these awakening times, especially as we move deeper into the month of May, into so much Gemini, air energy uplifting the cosmic channel from earth and heavy fire energy burning us out a bit. As Uranus (the great awakener and disruptor) is newly in the sign of Gemini for the next seven years, an awakening of consciousness is well underway. An awakening of the mind. Disrupting our mental loops, traps, and stories that keep us forever stuck in thoughts that imprison us rather than uplift and free us into possibility and belief in self. Gemini energy and season is our day-to-day experience of thought, of the mind, of our ideas churning incessantly. Our minds can be so well versed though at looping in familiar anxieties, stories of fear and doom, always planning and preparing for the worst. The Gemini energy reminds us of the power of our mind and of our thoughts. And can show us where our thoughts are ruling us and hijacking our energy and choices. Gemini energy is mutable air, fast-moving, quick-witted, full of endless ideas and options. With so many choices at our fingertips, we must be more connected than ever before to our inner guidance system to help illuminate the path forward. Gemini season can be a highly mental time; especially with Uranus now in Gemini, our minds and thoughts are moving faster, and overwhelm can happen easily spinning our nervous systems into a tizzy of manic, frenetic, erratic energy.

Gemini energy is the human mind, the one that so often gets caught up in the worries and stresses of everyday life. And yet, Gemini connects us to our inherent curiosity, to think, to wonder, to muse, to amuse, to joke, to banter, to express, to speak, to communicate our thoughts and ideas. To share in dialogue with others through words and language. Gemini energy is the energy of duality. Of this and that. Both/and energy. The inherent duality of life. To be vast enough in our wholeness to embrace all aspects of life and not make one right or wrong. Gemini energy is the forever student and life learner, enrolled in a universal school for the cosmic soul on a mission. Gemini is here to remind us that we are forever a student of life and the Mystery. Life is a school and one of the hardest ones at that for the evolution of our soul consciousness. Learning comes through the experience of life but also through the mental study of life. We need both.

And this is where Sagittarius energy (Gemini’s counterpart) comes in to balance the cosmic scales. Sagittarius energy is the cosmic mind, the higher mind, here to guide us on a higher, visionary, soul path and level toward our inspirations, dreams, and adventures calling to us. Sagittarius is the experience and learning of life through the lived reality of it. Gemini gathers the books and syllabus to learn about what it means to be a human, and Sagittarius says, “Enough studying! Life was meant to be learned and lived in the direct experience of the moment. The excitement that calls to us and inspires us to move and act is the experience of learning we need. Life is the adventure. Learning is a result of the adventure of life.” Sagittarius is the soul quest we take to bravely embark upon a new beginning into the unknown. And this Sagittarius energy is one of optimism, renewed faith and hope, inspiration, and possibility we have been needing to get us feeling alive and charged up again.

Because sometimes we are dosed with not just one lunar event and illumination of the energies, but this month of May doses us with a “blue” (second) full moon to really activate us. On May 31, we will have a second full moon in the mutable sign of Sagittarius at 4:45 a.m. EST and at 10 degrees of the fire sign. This once-in-a-blue-moon energy is here to free us after a potent Scorpio full moon we had at the beginning of the month, activating our deeply held emotional truths.

And with a more grounding Taurus new moon on May 16 sandwiched between the two, the month of May is a wave-filled month of energy to release the old karmic, subconscious weight and lift us higher into the heavens of renewed faith and optimism. That Taurus new moon was asking us to sow seeds of intention around what we want to build now that will sustain our energy and nourish our bodies and beings. Taurus energy brings to mind our values, our sense of safety and security in the world and where our money and resources are investing in. This new moon touched upon our mental energy too, with Mercury (the mind) in conjunction and conversation with our values, our sense of safety and stability. With so much changing in the world on a global, macrocosm and individual, microcosm scale, finding a sense of safety is the daily challenge. Because safety outside of ourselves keeps crumbling. Basing our sense of worth, value, or safety on those things predisposed to change will always result in a more fragile and precarious sense of footing on the earth. Taurus season brought us back to earth, though, for the time being, shining a light on the practical side of life.

With a bit more grounding underneath our feet and feeling more rooted in our truth, we are ready to answer to the life calling to us now. Yet, Taurus season reminded us that we need not rush to get there either, that we can take our time, be patient at the seeds still gestating under the soil, and know that all great things take time to come to fruition if we want them to sustain us for the longer haul vision of our future. Good things take time and we must have the patience and fortitude to keep going, even if our current reality doesn’t match up anymore with what we are seeking to build and create next. Sagittarius energy for this full moon reminds us of the power of our belief in the unseen reality, in our imagination and ability to envision a new reality for ourselves.

Sagittarius energy is ruled by Jupiter, the planet of expansion, growth, abundance, and optimism. Jupiter expands all that it touches, for better or for worse. Because more is not always better. Excess is not always better. Jupiter has been in Cancer and will still be in the water sign for this full moon. Jupiter and the moon will be in mutual reception of each other (being that Cancer rules the moon and Jupiter rules Sagittarius), creating a powerful, cooperative partnership and exchange of energies. So, while the moon in Sagittarius is illuminating our beliefs and inspiration to envision something brand-new for ourselves, Jupiter in Cancer says, “Let it be something that brings deep emotional fulfillment.” The Cancer energy seeks safety and the familiar while Sagittarius craves the new, unexplored avenues of life. How to appease and satisfy both? When we are deeply rooted in and connected to our hearts, we know that seeking what we truly desire and want to experience is worth the momentary discomfort of the unfamiliar. Our emotions will be the guidepost calling us toward that next adventure, and our heart the compass toward where that may be.

This could be in a most literal sense of craving a new adventure and more freedom by relocating our homes to a whole new place of discovery. Can an environment and new home bring a sense of freedom and fresh, new and exciting energy? Absolutely. And, still, we know on some level, that “wherever, we go, there we are,” and our patterns and routines of life come with us to any new soul place we travel and move to. So, even if we choose to move to a new place, the deeper call of Sagittarius energy is to seek out the new, exciting places and adventures more often in our daily reality, perhaps seeking out new adventures where we live or taking more trips and time away to get that perspective shift and change we humans need or else risk falling into patterns of stagnancy and depression. Sagittarius energy reminds us that travel and movement is what the soul craves to feel alive, to explore and travel to foreign lands, to taste the fresh nectar of some place entirely new to our senses. Sagittarius energy is the globe-trotting energy. Here to explore the world and live a life of more freedom.

Sagittarius energy also connects us to those dream seeds, the inner visionary leader, to our higher truth and mind, the soul quests we are called to take, the new inspirations calling to us to awaken our souls and free us. Getting out of our comfort zones will be the invitation of this full moon energy with emphasis on that Cancer comfort zone we can easily stay all too cozy in, never truly growing and expanding. And that is what we came here for after all. To step out with a more healed, whole, and empowered sense of self and say, “I am ready to be seen as I am now and to shine my light as only I can authentically shine.”

The month of May takes us deeper into soul and wound territory still, with Pluto stationing retrograde earlier in the month on May 6. The next few months will be a time of deep soul retrieval and inner fear excavation. Pluto retrograde in Aquarius is bringing up from the depths of our unconscious any fears or hidden aspects of self we are harboring around our sense of belonging. Pluto retrograde digs deep into the shadows of self, asking us what aspects of self and our lives need to die and be shed so a truer, more authentic self and life can be reborn. Pluto retrograde is a deep, inner, alchemical time to step more fully into our power, as doing so is in greater service to the collective awakening (Aquarius). Fears may feel more intense these next few months showing us where our unclaimed power lay.

Chiron (the wounded healer) is also making its final laps in the sign of Aries (The “I am”) where it has been since 2018, helping us heal the individual wounds we carry around our sense of self, self-identity, self-confidence, and physical bodies and our relation to them. Chiron makes its initial entry into Taurus June 19 through September and then goes back into Aries until April 2027, before it officially moves into Taurus for the next many years. Our authentic sense of self has been deeply healing, and as painful and brutal as it has felt, we will be much stronger for this journey we took.

This full moon in Sagittarius is a welcomed energy amidst the intensity of these times and potency of our healing journeys. As we integrate the healing medicine, Sagittarius invites us back out into the world. Even if our wounds are still healing, may we know that we are fully allowed to live and enjoy our lives. To bring fulfillment and joy back into our experience. Sometimes we get so hyper-focused on healing our traumas and bodies we forget to live. We close ourselves off to life. We shut down and put our lives on hold. But life doesn’t work like that in a vacuum. Yes, we have trauma and perhaps chronic illness patterns we are healing and working with every day, but Sagittarius energy asks us: If fear and limitation of thought or belief wasn’t holding us back, what would we choose to experience? Can we still seek out moments of joy and exploration amidst the healing journeys we are continuously on?

This full moon will be making a supportive trine to Saturn in Aries, dosing us with structural supportive energy to make our dreams real. Saturn brings the strategy to make something real and solid. Sagittarius, the archer with the bow and arrow, shoots its shot out from the cosmic mind onto its target of new, dream seed creation, the new vision of soul adventure. And Saturn brings it back down to earth and asks us to make it real. Dream the dream and make it real. Build the dream. Put in the work to make the dream come to life. To build it in a way that sustains itself for the long haul. Work is required to make our dreams real, but Saturn reminds us what is worthwhile. Have our dreams changed? Have we revamped and revised older dreams? Or is the same dream still calling to us? This may require a restructuring of our beliefs to make the dream a reality. This full moon illuminates the limiting beliefs we are holding onto that tell us the dream isn’t possible. Sometimes, we must uplevel our belief system (backed by the work to make it real) to hope, faith, and possibility. Venus in Cancer will also be making a square here to Saturn so our emotional values that seek safety and security are brought into question and asked if they are helping or inhibiting us to build a new, more solid structure of self. Our relationships are under review here too. Are we falling back into old, familiar patterns in how we relate to others or are we building relationships that truly foster a sense of sovereign self?

The moon will be making a wide opposition to Uranus in Gemini, so the unexpected surprises continue to show us where we are emotionally attached to a former sense of safety and security. Can we allow the new, unexpected energy of innovation to help free up stagnation in our field to create the life we truly desire? Uranus in Gemini is the quick, intuitive, and cosmic lightning bolt hits of knowing. The instant inspiration out-of-the-blue hits with this full moon energy opposing it. Be open to the instant, inspired messages coming through at lightning speed. This energy delivers the quick hits we need to take inspired action toward our dreams and visions of freedom and exploration. Imagine and really feel yourself already living the dream that is also dreaming you and watch the universe conspire in your favor toward the creation of that. The sun in Gemini will be conjunct to Uranus, shocking our minds awake. The mind could be on overdrive here though too, and our nervous systems are ever so wired and activated. So we must be invested in our body and self-care practices as the mind continues to ramp up. Gemini season will be chock full of mental activation and at times agitation. We will have more mental slowdown coming for us at the end of June as Mercury stations retrograde in Cancer, a deeper more emotionally invested energy.

This full moon in Sagittarius is making an “Iron yod” aspect to Jupiter in Cancer and Eris in Aries, emphasizing this energy of breaking free. This energy asks us to release our repressed emotions and set our truth free, emotionally breaking free from patterns of stagnation. Disruptive energy to our former comfort zones of safety and security but in the higher name and calling for freedom and self-liberation. This moon is also working closely with Lilith, the asteroid Goddess of the dark feminine. A deep reclamation of our power, hidden fears, and obsessions. The hidden aspects of self we normally don’t want to see or feel. The hidden truths we are never quite ready to fully claim and live out. The freedom seeker energy to break us out of the shackles of self-undoing energies. Any addictions or hidden obsessions that siphon our energy and power are highlighted here. Lilith shows us where we are not yet free, and Sagittarius brings the match to light it up so we can be free. With so much fire here, we may be tempted to burn it all down, but we must have discernment now of what that actually means and what is reckless destruction leading us instead of the wise wildness within. Reclaiming the inner wildness takes ample amount of courage to go against the grain of our preconceived beliefs or ones handed down to us on how we are “supposed” to live or what a life of meaning “looks” like, rather than how it feels. To live a wild, rebellious life of soul is the call of many awakening now, remembering how to bring that soul vision to life.

Let this full moon remind you why you came here. Why your life is so precious and worth living still. Let this full moon dose you with renewed hope, inspiration, vitality, and optimism. To remember that life is the soul adventure we came here to take. That life is meant to be lived. That the adventures calling to us are worth aiming for still. That our dreams have a purpose and claim us for a reason and season sometimes too. That dreams can shift and change and are never fixed either. That whatever calls to the wild within and makes us feel more alive is worth aiming for. Let this full moon awaken your inner fire and heart of inspiration. To free your mind by reclaiming your soul. Let this full moon remind you that freedom is only one belief away. Free your mind from the shackles of fear and limitation.

Allow this full moon to ignite your inner fire again with renewed optimism, courage, and faith to boldly move forward into the wild unknown. You. The. Archer. With. The. Bow. And. Arrow. Aiming. At. The. New. Dream. Seed. You. Are. The. Dream. And. The. Dreamer. Awakening. All. At. Once. Becoming. Lucid. Again. Alive. In. The. Dream. Creator. Of. The. Dream. Let. Your. Beliefs. Guide. You. Toward. The. Impossible. Made. Possible. You. The. Visionary. Leader. Of. Your. Own. Soul. Adventure. Of. Living. Life. As. The. Ultimate. Teacher. Let. Life. Excite. You. Once. More. Remind. You. How. To. Live. For. Living’s. Sake. Let. Exploration. Lead. You. To. New. Heights. You. The. Soul. Traveler. On. A. Great. Soul. Quest. For. Freedom. Of. The. Soul. Remember. Remember. Remember. Aho. Amen. And so it is.

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Check out Anna’s podcast on the Sagittarius full moon on Spotify or Apple.

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