Nov 12 2026

Return, But Different: The End of Venus Retrograde

Ripe pomegranates hanging from a tree, one split open to reveal deep red seeds
The pomegranate, ancient symbol of descent, desire, transformation, and return.

Hello you,

The ground was opened. The air’s been trembling. And if you’ve been feeling slowed, honeyed, provoked, pulled downward into yourself — well, let yourself fully embrace the rest of the experience. There’s purpose here.

The brightest and most beautiful planet in the night sky, the Goddess of Love — Venus — has been retrograde since October 3. Initially in Scorpio. Currently in Libra. And throughout the past five weeks, she’s been in a tense and complicated conversation with Pluto, the Lord of the Underworld who darkens the edges of our Solar System. Pluto is currently in Aquarius.

When Venus and Pluto meet in this way, they become insistent that you bring your values, your relationships, how you meet beauty, intimacy, and intensity, on a provocative shadow walk with them. The goal? To alchemize. To purify. To return to the light living from a more evolved understanding of yourself. Are you thinking about the past five weeks?

I’d really like you to think back to the end of this August. You might find something that was initiated then. Your values, how you experience beauty, your love life, the way you offer yourself intimately (or don’t), your finances, how you move through life’s most intense moments… even your vulnerability… maybe especially vulnerability. These are all places to feel your way through right now. And we’re currently moving toward the final phase of this energy… my opinion is that it’s important to look back over a cosmic tide of this magnitude once you’ve been swimming in it for a while. Then you’re able to understand what it means for you, and your lived experience. That’s where the value lies.

Even as Venus moved back from Scorpio into Libra during her retrograde journey, she’s maintained that arduous connection to Pluto throughout. This intimate, yet provocative combination wants you to do something cathartic… even, perhaps, regenerative.

Now, you’ve probably heard the version of Venus retrograde where your ex texts or you run into each other. Where in some way or another someone from the past shows up. Yes. Sometimes that happens.

But I’ve been sitting with a more fascinating question: what if what returns isn’t a person at all… but a hunger? What if being reminded of the ex is simply supposed to point you toward a pattern that wants changing? What if the return is a way you used to want. A creativity that went underground. A beauty that you won’t allow yourself to touch anymore. A part of your erotic life you folded away and told yourself was finished.

The question isn’t, Do I want it back? It’s, Who am I in the presence of what I desire now? Because you’re not the same person who wanted it the first time. And that’s the whole point of the retrograde — meeting what returns with who you’ve become.

I’ve been dreaming with Persephone through all of this. You may know Persephone… she’s the daughter who was abducted and carried into the Underworld by Hades (Pluto). But I haven’t so much been thinking of the girl who was taken — but of the queen who returned. She tasted something sweet in the underworld, despite every terrible thing, and that taste changed the shape of her. She didn’t come back as the one who originally descended against her will. She came back and reigned.

Return, but different.

And here’s the part of the story I keep going back to… after everything had been taken from her, after her world had become underworld, there was suddenly sweetness in her mouth. She’d been given pomegranate seeds. Here was something pleasurable. Delicious. By some miracle, after all she’d been through, something reached her. Something in her responded. That means she was still alive. To me, she encountered Eros — the burgeoning desire to still be reached by life and answer it.

Persephone was released from the Underworld, but because she’d eaten the sweet seeds of the pomegranate, she had to return. Cyclically.

But when she returns she doesn’t come back as the girl who left. She returns having become someone who belongs to both worlds. Wholeness doesn’t mean getting the old self back intact. It means becoming capable of integrating what was above and what was found below. Desire after descent has knowledge now. Depth. Choice. Appetite that has encountered consequence. Vulnerability that has encountered power.

The end of the Retrograde is very close… both Venus and Mercury start moving forward again within hours of each other on Friday November 13. That means you have until December 15 to understand what this intensely provocative season wants you to return to or from… but in a new fashion. You’ve been inhabiting the underworld, and now, as you reach back up toward the light, a resolution of these past many weeks will be in your grasp. Make sure you enter that stream of understanding for the full regeneration that’s possible.

I made you something you’ll find just below to accompany your walk out of the Venus Retrograde shadow…  something that will help you have your own encounter with something sweet in the darkness. The Taste of Return, a five-minute ritual. Something dark and sweet on your tongue, a cover over your head, a descent into whatever has gone quiet in you… and then you taste again on the way back up. I hope you also return  — but different…

This one’s for everyone — yes, men too. Eros belongs to all of us.

Go find something delicious. Open to the return. 🌑🍎

Yours,
Michelle

Venus Retrograde ritual altar with candle, pomegranate, dark chocolate, red wine, journal, and autumn botanicals
A Taste of Return, a Venus Retrograde ritual for the journey inward,
and the discovery that sometimes what returns is you.

A Taste of Return
Venus Retrograde Ritual

For the End of this Venus Retrograde Journey

Venus is in the final day of her retrograde (October 3 – November 13, 2026) having moved back from Scorpio into Libra. On direct motion, she’ll move back into Scorpio again, tracing the same contours three full times over just a few weeks. We have until December 15 to fulfil the promise of this year’s internal journey. This is a season for introspection and return: for finding out what you still want — how you want it differently, and who you are in the presence of it.

In the old myth, Persephone is taken away from bright innocence into the underworld, and what awakens her there is a taste. Sweetness reaches her in the dark, and something in her answers… despite everything. That taste becomes both her aliveness and her tether — she will ascend, and she will also return, changed by what she has tasted.

Sometimes what returns is you.

This ritual takes five minutes. And the beauty of your attention…

You’ll need:

  • Something gorgeous and sweet that you genuinely want to taste, held in a small, beautiful bowl. Pomegranate seeds, a few blackberries, a couple squares of dark chocolate, a date, a cookie, or a glass of wine to sip — or both — whatever calls to you. Choose what you desire. Desire is your guide.
  • A piece of dark cloth large enough to cover your head and shoulders. A scarf, a shirt, a towel, some magnificent, embroidered thing you brought back from your travels. Any cloth you use in daily life or keep on your altar can become your Venus Retrograde threshold.
  • A candle and matches or a lighter
  • A journal, pad, or slip of paper and pen
  • and five unhurried minutes.

The ritual:

Stand or sit comfortably, with your items placed beautifully around you.

Choose. Hold the delight you want to taste. Let it be wanted.

Taste. Take half of what you’ve chosen and TASTE IT — slowly enough to notice the instant pleasure bursting in your mouth. Chew slowly. Sip fully. Let it fill your whole mouth. Savor. Let the sweetness open you.

Save a bit. Save a few sips, and set a few seeds, one square, a berry or two aside, in the bowl beside the unlit candle. It waits for you on the other side.

Light the candle. With that taste of sweetness laughing on your tongue, light the candle, and watch the flame for a moment.

As you gaze at the flame, ask:
What in me still tastes alive?
Hold the question deeply, gently.

As you gaze at the flame, ask:
What in me has been hidden and wants to feel the fire of life again?
Hold the question deeply, gently.

Cover. Place the cloth over your head. Let the visible world soften and fall away… Light shifts… Sound shifts… You are gently enclosed inside your own presence. You have crossed the threshold from light to dark, right where you are. Magic.

Descend. Go down into Self — into whatever has gone quiet, waiting, ripening in the dark… the buried, the unfinished, the long-unfelt, the long-untasted. Let whatever comes, come…  a sensation, a memory, an urge to move, a longing, tears, sweet stillness.

Hold this:

What in my life is asking to be tasted — again, or for the first time?

(Some descents bring a different question with them: What have I desired so deeply that letting it into my life changed the landscape? If that one rises in you, follow it — it knows the way.)

Encounter. Stay a breath longer in the dark, with whatever you have found. Meet it. See it — Feel it, in the quiet, at last.

Lift. When you’re ready, lift the covering slowly. Return gently to the visible world.

Taste again. Eat the bite you saved. Drink the wine. The same sweetness now stands on both sides of the threshold — and you may taste it as someone new. Returned — but different.

Write down your revelations. Take your journal, your pad, your slip of paper, and commit in writing what you’ve discovered. Uncovered. Perhaps recovered.

Return to life. Within the next day, give what came to you one small embodied expression in the living world. Buy the flowers. Begin the page. Put on the music. Take the walk. Say yes to the thing. Reach for the person you love.

We descend for more life. We return – but different.
And sometimes what returns is you.

— with love, Michelle

Sep 26 2026

Aries Full Moon: Sept. 26, 2026

A luminous full moon hangs above a calm, deep-blue ocean beneath a dusky lavender sky. Its golden reflection creates a shimmering path across the water. Ivory text reads: “This Full Moon Brings You Into Your Body. Aries Full Moon · September 26, 2026.”
The Aries Full Moon, September 26, 2026.
A return to instinct, feeling, and the wisdom of your emotional body.

This Full Moon Brings You Into Your Body

At the Autumn Equinox, just four days ago, the Libra Sun reached across the sky to Neptune, inviting you to open to your own invisible world and notice what you can see when you close your eyes and feel your way into yourself.

Today’s Full Moon in Aries embraces Neptune on the other side of that Equinox moment, with the Sun in Libra still aching toward them.

The conversation between the Sun, Neptune, and now the Moon, has become deeply emotional, and you know what they say… As above, so below.

What you met, or intuited, or dreamed at the Equinox now moves into your emotional body. Into instinct, feeling, memory… into the things you sense before you know what words to wrap around them.

The Libra Sun illuminates your relationships with your people and your sense of beauty and everything you love. Across the way, the Aries Moon and Neptune are pulling you like the tide into a more intimate knowing, a more tender feeling for your own inner life.

What if this is one of the gifts of the changing light? You discovering that you don’t have to see something clearly to know that it’s there.

I’ve been exploring this in my new Equinox reflection, What You Can See When You Close Your Eyes, and in Forest of Breath, a free guided meditation for sleep that takes you deep into an Autumn forest and beneath an ancient tree and into the quiet between waking and dreaming.

Both are waiting for you at michellegregg.com. 🌿

xx Michelle

Forest of Breath: An Autumn Guided Imagery Meditation for Sleep

Read the Autumn Equinox reflection: What You Can See When You Close Your Eyes →

Sep 25 2026

The Autumn Equinox 2026

Ancient moss-covered tree beside a winding path through an autumn forest
Forest of Breath

What You Can See When You Close Your Eyes

I’ve spent the past couple of days thinking a lot about the Autumn Equinox. It’s one of two beginnings we get all year where we feel a shimmering breath of stillness and balance, where light and dark see each other as partners, as equals… for just a tiny moment. At the Spring Equinox we’re moving into new life and then the heat and color of Summer… but here, now, we’re moving into a season of harvesting what’s ready to nourish you through the shadows, moving into longer hours to rest as the days shorten… and then, comes Winter and darkness.

This Autumn Equinox gives you a lovely pause that you can step into, that you can breathe in and make yours. You can stop moving forward. Stop looking back. You can simply be, suspended between one moment and the next… it’s a threshold. It’s rather like that space just as you’re falling asleep (Autumn) and then again, just as you’re waking up (Spring). The whole of Autumn is a threshold for something not quite tangible.

I said one of two beginnings because the energy that surrounds us when something is born is the defining energy for the whole life of the thing… in this case Autumn. Everything has a beginning and with astrology we can both map and interpret any moment’s energetic signature. You have a birth chart, and so does Autumn.

The energy of this year’s Autumn Equinox opens a beautifully unbounded window into things that can feel like sanctuary. The Libra Sun arrives at this exquisite pause between light and dark, and directly opposite is Neptune in Aries, saying: there are ways of knowing that do not happen through effort, or action, or argument, or even accomplishment. There are things you can only encounter when the ordinary solar ego surrenders to something beyond or inside the Self. Or both.

While the Aries Neptune spills toward the other-oriented Libra Sun, you can enter that stream and flow toward the realm of the subliminal… let yourself merge into the threshold that now exists… open to how you’re enriched when you reach into other realms of being besides constant wakefulness… constant on-ness…  that’s Aries… being on fire. Neptune softens that. It becomes more shimmer than heat. If you use this opening creatively, spiritually, you enter an inner environment that’s guided by allowing, by stillness. This is when you learn to trust those liminal tendrils that curl into dreams, into beauty, into love… things that have no body and no fight… but that are openings to another kind of knowing… intuition, inspiration, trust… the Divine. The Divine is an opening that pulls you toward places where you sense what is true and holy.

Every Equinox offers balance. And balance arrives when you can live from your consciousness and will, and also from your interior places, from where beauty and awe, inspiration and intuition rise. They are counters to each other, just as our waking and sleeping lives are. Both are enriched by being nourished by the other.

What happens if you allow yourself to stop being on? To sense instead of do. When you willingly soften consciousness and flow into sleep and dreams. When you deeply experience music and art. When you let beauty move you so profoundly you weep. What happens when you fully love? When you trust your intuition. When you let inspiration work its magic. When you pray knowing you’re tapped into the Divine. When you fully recognize knowing that arrives before you can explain how you know it.

This Autumn invites you into more than the waking mind can apprehend. The gift now, as the light slants, and the leaves take on vibrant hues before their release, is balance between the consciousness that acts upon the world and your interior world filled with dreams, intuition, and awe. Go with the energy of this Equinox Season into sleep. Into the forest. Into that loosening of waking consciousness where another form of perception becomes available. Let yourself go in and under and in-between. Between what you can know by looking directly and what you can only see when you close your eyes.

Forest of Breath:
An Autumn Guided Imagery Meditation for Sleep

For this Equinox, I’ve created Forest of Breath: A Guided Imagery Meditation for Sleep for you, where you’ll walk into an Autumn forest where breath, body, trees, and night can bring you gently back to yourself, and lead you into that space that you can only see by closing your eyes…

Take it with you into the season.

The light is changing.

There is beauty here.

Enter the forest…

Read the Invitation to Receive the
Autumn Guided Imagery Sleep Meditation →

Jun 9 2026

Look for Venus and Jupiter tonight. ✨Venus Jupiter Conjunction on June 9 means love and abundance.

A twilight landscape of rolling green hills under an atmospheric, purple sky featuring the June 2026 Venus-Jupiter conjunction. The two bright planets align closely in the western sky above the horizon's sunset glow, illustrating the powerful astrological transit of abundance and planetary alignment.
Step outside into the twilight—the sky is offering you something golden tonight.

Look for Venus and Jupiter tonight. ✨

Have you spotted Venus near Jupiter yet?

Are you feeling loving abundance? Attraction? The possiblity of expansion? A desire for gorgeous relationships? A desire to fulfil your dreams?

These two planets have been moving closer and closer together for several days, so we’ve had some time to land in this beauty… keep it up! Keep aligning with those energies!

The conjunction is exact on June 9, 2026 – today. It’s so worth stepping outside for a few minutes just to watch them brighten the sky with their wonder. LOOK IN THE WESTERN SKY JUST AFTER SUNSET. Look West, then slightly North just above the horizon, and you’ll see them beaming their goodness on you. There’s something deeply reassuring about remembering that we’re living inside a real solar system — one that moves, turns, glows, and keeps its own elegant timing whether we’re paying attention or not.

And these planets won’t run from each other after tonight… you’ll be able to see them moving away from each other over the next few days. So if you have cloud cover, try again!

Venus and Jupiter coming together is one of those lovely pairings that speaks of pleasure, generosity, beauty, expansion, sweetness, and the feeling that life might still have something golden to offer.

Here’s the bit of astrology you’ll want to tuck into your knowing. These two planets together allow us to better resonate to:

• Opportunities, both ones we’ve wanted and worked toward, and unexpected ones.
• A positive shift in our financial well-being.
• The sense that loving connections and meaning for the future are opening up.
• Your heart starts to feel more alive – your resistance is dimming and your ideas are opening!

This energy moves towards those who consciously align with it. Expect to be joyous. Expect to be alive. Tell yourself that your life is good and beautiful and filled with love and all that you want and need. This is the most beautiful way to use the energy. Actively. With purpose. With full consciousness. Pull it toward you!

Go look west after sunset.
I bet you need that kind of beauty right now. 🧡

Jun 4 2026

Cosmos & Soul Book Club–Explore Meaning, Symbolism, and Connection– A new community!

Cosmos & Soul Book Club opening gathering poster with butterflies, black cat, and event details for Tall Tales Book Shop

Save your spot here→

🧡 An Invitation from Michelle

Hey there!

I’ve been wanting to create something like this for a really long time, and I’m ridiculously happy to finally invite you in…

Cosmos & Soul Book Club is for people who love books that open something up. Meaning, symbolism, the inner life, big questions, strange beauty, and the kind of conversation that can move from soul to laughter and back again without losing the plot. 

Will we talk about astrology? Yes. But also so much more…

And doesn’t it feel like exactly the right moment to get together, pour a glass of wine, and talk about what actually matters? I think so too… and I can’t imagine a lovelier place to begin than Tall Tales Book Shop, a beloved local independent bookstore that has been part of the Toco Hills community for 47 years. Just supporting Rebekah and the shop is enough of a great reason to come out!

We’ll open the club with a little in-person party on Tuesday, June 16 at 7:00 PM. Wine, hors d’oeuvres, mingling… we’ll say hi, connect, and talk about what’s ahead for our new community. And y’all can absolutely tell me your ideas about topics and books you think will move you… and all of us. 

The first book club meeting will be Tuesday, July 21 at 7:00 PM – also at Tall Tales – and if you’re not in Atlanta, you can join us via Zoom. 

Our first official selection for discussion is The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, a beloved classic rich with awakenings through the kind of journey that opens you up… and that’s something each of us could breathe into right now.

The gathering is free, and the book club is too… so come explore with me! 😊🧡

If this sounds like your kind of fun, I’d love to have you there–bring a friend if you’d like–and come be part of the beginning of something that will most certainly become really special.

With so much love, and a hope that we get to read together…

xx Michelle

Cosmos & Soul Book Club
Tall Tales Book Shop
Toco Hills Shopping Center
2105 LaVista Road NE, Suite 108, Atlanta, GA 30329
Tuesday, June 16
7 PM
Free

Save your spot here→

Mar 11 2026

The Tide Is Rising: Jupiter Goes Direct in Cancer

The tide is rising. Jupiter went direct in Cancer, March 10, 2026 – catch the wind.

Hi you…

Thanks for being here. And since you are, I’m just wondering. Do you feel something stirring? Are you feeling like you might be getting a little excited again about something that’s been at anchor a little too long? Or that you can feel a release from something that’s felt a little too still or heavy? I hope you do, because something shifted last night, and I want to share it with you.

Think back to November – or even sometime between November and December – just a few months ago. If there was something you were breathing life into, something that held a lot of meaning for you, a lot of promise, you might have noticed that around the Winter holidays the energy wasn’t gaining momentum anymore…

That was Jupiter. Our cosmic friend of big ideas and big hopes and exuberant, life affirming motivation. He started moving backwards on November 11 in the sign Cancer, and because he has everything to do with forward motion and gaining momentum and putting your faith and your sweat into something you really believe in, that backtracking can feel like what was once bright and shiny – right there on the horizon – lost its luster. The sunrise might have dimmed, or you might have felt some resistance, or started to doubt your own reasons for being lit up about it in the first place.

But here’s the thing… a really lovely thing. Last night, March 10, at 11:30 PM EDT, Jupiter started moving forward again, after four months of going against the tide. And when that happens, the energy begins to shift, and you catch a little wind in your sail, and you might feel the possibilities stirring again.

Maybe close your eyes for a couple seconds… see if you can align with that excitement again about the thing… whatever that thing was and STILL may be, and then see if you can find a smile around it. Can you? Do you feel the corners of your mouth turning up just a little when you focus on it? That’s what it feels like when hope returns…

That’s what it feels like when the tide turns, and you feel your own purpose start to swell again.

So, the whole reason for any planet to go Retrograde, is to give you time to rethink your plans, to realign with why you’re doing what you’re doing – maybe in a different way. During those four months of Jupiter traveling backwards, you were meant to gain some new perspective about what you believe in and what you’re trying to accomplish. Maybe during those four months you learned something? Or maybe you realized that you needed to change your plan or shift something slightly – or a lot – to make it better.

And if you’ve come up with a more honed and worthy goal, or shifted direction a little… and even if you didn’t!… what are you feeling right now?

This is the time the wind is picking up again.

So think about how you can gather your momentum again. Look for signs that things are shifting… hell, create your own shifts, be the wind in your own sail, because when you do, you’re actually moving with the current current. You’re saying to Jupiter, I get it! I’m moving with you… and he really likes that. 😊

And here’s the beautiful part: this is just the beginning. On March 20—the Spring Equinox—Mercury goes direct in Pisces, the Sun moves into Aries (pure initiation energy), and every single planet in the sky will be moving forward. Not one retrograde. Just momentum, clarity, and the open water.

We’ll talk more about that next week. But for now, know this: March 11-20 is the tide rising. Jupiter just cleared the mist. The Equinox is when you catch the wind.

How does that feel? What does that look like? What’s your new perspective? What’s happening that’s letting you know that things are starting to move forward?

If you want to explore what Jupiter moving forward means in your life right now—via your astrology chart—where your momentum is building, what’s ready to grow—I have a few openings this month. You can reach me here: astrology@michellegregg.com.



Misty autumn forest path with vibrant fall foliage representing threshold and liminal space for Michelle Gregg's Season of Gratitude astrology offering
Nov 8 2025

Standing at the Threshold: A Season of Gratitude Offering

We’re in the deep time now—the season when veils grow thin and the world turns inward. The air shimmers with something ancient. The light slants gold through bare branches. We stand at a threshold.

This is the season of gratitude, yes—but it’s more than that. It’s a liminal space, a holy pause between what was and what wants to become. A moment to stop. To breathe. To look back at the path you’ve walked and forward to the one still emerging in the mist.

The earth knows this rhythm. The trees remember. And so do you.

This is the time to ask: What do I give thanks for? What have I learned? What wants to grow in my hands and heart when I’m standing here, in this moment, wildly alive?

I’m inviting you to pause with me. To reflect. To honor the journey. To stand at this threshold and let yourself be seen—by the stars, by yourself, by the great turning wheel of the year.

Woman pausing in stillness on autumn path framed by golden fall foliage, contemplative threshold moment for Michelle Gregg's Season of Gratitude astrology offering
Standing still in the liminal space—
the holy pause between what was and what wants to emerge.

🍁 Gratitude Sessions: $144 (regularly $205)

A full session to anchor you in this season of reflection and possibility. To honor where you’ve been, to see where you are now, and to illuminate what’s calling you forward.

This is my way of saying thank you—for trusting this work, for showing up, for doing the soul-deep labor of evolving into who you truly are. For believing.

Available through November 30. Only 10 sessions available.

These sessions are a gift of time, of presence, of sacred conversation. Come sit with me. Let’s explore what the stars are whispering as you stand at this year’s threshold.

Book your Gratitude Session here

🍂 Gratitude Mini Sessions: $77 (30 minutes)

Sometimes you don’t need the whole map—just a lantern for the next few steps. Maybe there’s one burning question. One piece that needs unraveling. One thread of clarity that would change everything.

These mini sessions are for that. Quick, focused, and deeply held.

Available through November 30. Limited to 6 sessions,
scheduled around my regular client appointments as space allows.

Book your Mini Session here

✨ Looking Ahead: Cosmic Resilience Class

Every 2nd Tuesday of the Month | Starting January 13, 2026 | Via Zoom

After this season of gratitude and threshold-standing comes the work of staying grounded as the new year unfolds. Join Saivite Wilson and me for Cosmic Resilience—a class where we’ll explore the astrological energies shaping 2026, practice gentle embodiment techniques for centering, and learn how to hold your own axis steady as the stars turn.

This is about reigniting your capacity. Feeling hopeful. Touching into the greater cycles shaping us all.

Learn more about Cosmic Resilience

🧡 A Note from Michelle

Lovely clients,

I‘m so delighted to extend this Season of Gratitude offering to all of you. So many of you have been supporting my practice for years—whether through sitting with me once or twice a year, or every week over many years—and I simply want to say thank you. Thank you for believing in this work. Mostly, thank you for actually doing the work and moving through your life easier, better, happier. That’s the satisfaction that keeps me here with you, year after year.

So please, accept this offer and come sit with me again.

It’s the season of the threshold, of liminal space that moves one direction or another, and I can’t wait to learn what possibilities lay before you now.

With so much love, and tons of gratitude,
xx Michelle

Michelle Gregg is a counseling astrologer based in Atlanta, Georgia, offering astrology sessions, birth chart readings, and astrological guidance for individuals, couples, and families. With over 30 years of experience in Jungian depth astrology, Michelle helps clients understand their natal charts and navigate life transitions through the wisdom of the Cosmos. Sessions are available via Zoom worldwide.

Oct 8 2025

Autumn Season 2025: Compassion, Openness, and a Structure that Supports the Dream

Balance.

This is the word we reflect on at the Autumn Equinox, and throughout the Autumn Season. As we see and feel the shifting of the light and the crisping of the air, the Sun, in the astrological sign of Libra, continues its descent across the Southern sky, gradually weakening in light and height. At this time of year, light and dark are not battling for the sky, but equal in strength. The equinoxes, both Spring and Autumn, are the only times when the Northern and Southern Hemispheres are equally illuminated. In the Northern Hemisphere we are now in-between the extremes of the heat of Summer with its long, languid days just past, and in anticipation of the short, dark, cold days of Winter. We are betwixt and between… a time of equilibrium, a time of balance. A time of transition. It is as though we are between a deep inhale and a powerful exhale, where the moment hangs shimmering and poignant, before it passes away.

Before we started buying our food at grocery stores and super centers, the Autumn Equinox was a celebration of the harvest – the time when, both exhausted and jubilant, we’d successfully brought in the fruits of our labors, preparing and storing them for the winter. It was a time to mark the importance of working together for a common cause, a time to revel in our community as the stronghold of our survival together. This is an idea that is central to the energy of Libra and to this time of year: equality, balance, community, peace, beauty – the peace and beauty of the dying sun, of the vibrancy of the trees in their final blaze of glory, of our relationships and what we create when we are equal together, honoring all sides, balancing all views, and coming to diplomatic solutions that strengthen and protect us all.

Equinox is from the Latin aequinoctium, meaning equal night.” Today the night is equal to the day, yet as we move through time away from the Equinox and toward the Winter Solstice, the days become shorter and and we have less light to live by. What was known to our ancestors, before technology gave us permanent days with electric light, is the part darkness plays in the work of spiritual transformation. The darkness, to which we are absolutely heading as each day passes, is a place that restores us, a space where we germinate, and regenerate. But before we reach the full darkness of the Winter Solstice, we have the opportunity to learn from the harmony and symmetry of the Equinox. We tap into the beauty of internal balance, that sense of equilibrium we

The glyph for Libra represents both the scales and the Autumn sun setting over the horizon, a symbol for equilibrium and peace.

need in order to start preparing for the darkness. In this space of anticipation, when the light is gorgeous, the air is temperate and cooling to the skin, and the riotous, rich colors of ‘Nature in her Fall’ imbue our spirits with gratitude, with generosity – and because we are feeling externally delighted – we find it easy to extend ourselves in love, open to both giving and receiving. The crispness of the season is reviving to the spirit, and for as long as we dare, before the dark and cold drive us inside, we strive toward company among others, pleasures, beauty, harmony, and love. This is the message of Libra.

The particular message of this Autumn Season, found in the astrology of the Autumn Equinox chart drawn for the moment the Sun moved into Libra at 2:20 PM Eastern on September 22, 2025, is one of creating a strong container for the ways we support and hold our loved ones. Emotional connection and communcating from a place of collaboration, as well as a willingness to compromise are the keys during this season that asks us to both balance and release.

There’s a particular sense of being willing to deeply transform personally, while still holding space for others, for new innovative ideas, and for creating structure and strategy around our dreams and visions for the future. This entire Autumn Season is one in which we can ground ourselves in reality of the moment, while also being able to dream what’s beautiful into being. There’s lots of support and opportunity here if we’re will to remain open to others, and to understanding our ideas and desires from different perspectives.

Building on the dream, giving it structure, especially through compassionate exchanges of ideas, is the way forward this season. Be open. Let things be different. We’re in a state of flux for quite some time to come, but this Autumm Equinox energy says, “Collaborte. Don’t do the hard parts alone. This is time for community. This is time to hold what’s real and let the rest go.”

Enjoy this transitional season! It is filled with beauty, in the light and in the shadows.

Astrology Chart for the Moment of the Autumn Equinox – 2025

Sun in Libra, trining Pluto in Aquarius and Uranus in Gemini, opposite the Saturn / Neptune (Saturn in Pisces – Neptune in Aries), conjuncting Mercury and the Moon in Libra

Astrology Chart for the Moment of the Autumn Equinox / Sun in Libra / Sept. 22, 2025 / 2:20 PM EDT
Close-up of a green and gold eye glowing with starlight and shimmering cosmic dust, symbolizing insight, vision, and sacred awareness.
Aug 20 2025

Join Me on the Air – A Soulful Conversation About Astrology, Purpose and Sacred Timing

Thursday, August 21 | 2 PM ET / 11 AM PT
🎧 Listen live at HealthyLife.net

This Thursday, August 21st at 2 PM Eastern, I’ll be a guest on Making Sense of the World—a soulful and heart-centered podcast hosted by the luminous Frenesa Hall.

We’ll be diving into astrology as a sacred language of transformation—one that helps us reorient to meaning in times of change, reconnect with our purpose, and find beauty in the thresholds of life.

We’ll speak to:

  • How astrology came into my life—and the ways it continues to deepen me
  • The role of symbolic language in navigating transitions and uncertainty
  • Why this ancient practice still matters in a modern world
  • What’s unfolding in the sky right now—including Saturn and Neptune’s historic meeting in Aries, and the collective invitation of every outer planet entering a new sign

I’ll also share a glimpse of what’s coming this fall, including:

  • Cosmic Resilience, a new monthly class I’m co-teaching with Saivite Wilson beginning in October, where we combine astrological transits with spiritual embodiment practices.
  • Beginner’s Astrology: Term 1, a 12-week foundational course for those beginning their journey with the stars

If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to sit with me in sacred conversation—this is a beautiful moment to join me.

🗓 Thursday, August 21
2 PM ET / 11 AM PT
🎧 Listen live at HealthyLife.net

Come curious. Leave inspired.

With warmth and starlight,
Michelle

Sunlight pours through blooming honeysuckle and wild roses, capturing the golden warmth and lush abundance of Summer Solstice.
Jun 20 2025

The Longest Light: Summer Solstice and the Spirit of Cancer Season

Woman lying in sunlit summer grass, eyes closed in warmth and reverie.
The Sun lingers. Let yourself linger too.

Today, the Sun lingers.

He pauses in his journey, as if the heavens themselves are holding their breath. This is the longest light—the fullness of gold before the great turning inward begins again.

And here you are: open, alive, brimming with possibility.

Today the Sun moves into Cancer, and the warmth of the familiar wants to spread your arms wide to include something or someone new. With this fresh and gorgeous Cancer lens, there’s sweet longing to expand the heart’s circle. You might feel the nudge to gather your people close. To express your love in bigger, bolder ways. To feel them brighter, yet still long to keep them safe.

Within your circle, you might also feel a burning to shift the shape of your family dynamics, your relationships, your very definition of belonging – because you feel yourself growing and expanding toward something you might not yet know the shape of. But the urge to explore it is real.

Red-haired woman running through a sunlit summer field, barefoot and free, hair flying like wildfire—alive with purpose and joy
Answer the Sun’s invitation to bloom in full, erotic aliveness.

This is a moment to feel. To let your sensitivity guide you. Let light seep into every corner of your desire to be alive and whole and lush. Summer ignites an understanding of the eros of life—that creativity is erotic.

The Sun and Jupiter in tandem proclaim:
More is possible.
More love.
More truth.
More safety in your own skin.

A part of you may feel wide open to the “more.” You may answer the call because you feel an urge to sort your space, to clear the table and name what you’re ready to do next. You may feel called to bring order to your outer world, because of some clarity that wasn’t there last week. Or maybe your focus sharpens around how you show up for others, what you give, and how to make it count. You suddenly recognize how you want to show up to serve in the world – and you’re feeling the need to assess what that means and how it’s possible. The challenges that arise are the ignition and the motivation. Let them light you up. Let them call you.

Within that light, that calling, is a beautiful ache—a knowing that change doesn’t always require chaos. Sometimes it only takes a turn of the dial, a conscious clearing of what has overstayed, and the future rushes in like light through an opened door.

The dreams you’ve whispered to stars?
They want your hands.
They want your structure.
And even if your heart trembles a little at their bigness,
you are more than ready to hold them.

Let today be your still point.
Your sunlit center.
The place you pause, just long enough, to feel the light of what’s arriving.

A beam of joy.
A living solstice.
The day that doesn’t end.