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PRE-S: If you're new here (hiiiiii, welcome! happy to have you! 🫶), this is a specialty quarterly issue of the The Stir called The State of The Sky, where I guide us to check-in with all the major planets to clock what's going on energetically and help us find our footing in the bigger picture. Let's dive in! |
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YOUR WEEKLY DOSE OF PRACTICAL ASTROLOGY FOR REAL LIFE BREW #109
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You have to learn the name of a demon in order to control it. In every story, that's how it works. Rumpelstiltskin, Beetlejuice, Hereditary.
Knowing the name of the specific darkness you're working with gives you power over it.
This works in the psyche, too. It's why learning to name PTSD episodes or OCD spirals as such can be so helpful in loosening its grasp on your life.
This is where we find ourselves collectively; in staring at the face of darkness before us and giving a plain name to this specific evil.
I know you can feel it, the ground shifting beneath your feet. If you're sensitive, you've likely felt this shift coming for a long time (I wrote about it last year, actually! But things have been shifting for longer even than that).
It's the same rumble but we're getting closer to the epicenter. Which means it's going to require us to have stronger foundations + more unshakeable fortifications in who we are and how we move forward.
This is our collective Waypoint and our shared duty to each other but understanding this specific moment in time requires symbolic language to really grasp the energetic threads being woven.
Our very first State of the Sky for 2026 seeks to translate such language.
Doing that requires language -- our very first State of The Sky seeks to do just that.
We start big and zoom in slowly. The further, slower moving planets (Pluto, Neptune, Uranus) reflect bigger themes + collective arcs --- so we'll start there to ground ourselves.
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I know you’ve heard the TikTok astrologers and spiritualists talk ethereally about the age of Aquarius, oOoOoOooo! And how we’re entering a time of collective peace + harmony, a new world order is coming into play (you have to imagine me saying this in a Professor Trelawney type voice), yada yada yada.
All that is true…except it conveniently leaves out the whole role that Pluto – the planet of transformation through taboo, death, rebirth, and power — plays in this whole ordeal.
Pluto is the archetype that plays on fear. Not just to be a ghost to our psyche and provide jump scares, but to show us where in our lives we’ve made decisions out of fear.
Anytime you’ve found yourself saying as long as X doesn’t happen, I’ll be ok! X would be the worst thing!! …and then X happens?? That’s Pluto saying “oh this? this thing you’re defining your identity around OUT OF FEAR instead of sincerity or courage? Okay!”
It’s to show us that even if it sucks, when X happens, we can keep our hold to who we say we are. That when shit hits that fan and the world is on fire, instead of burning up in those flames, we can rise out of them.
Pluto in Aquarius is a 20-year-long cycle that just started. We’re still gaining momentum! Don’t tap out now, I need you to lock in and get clear about what the road ahead looks like.
I dove deeper into this already—take a gander here. TL;DR: Pluto represents power and Aquarius is collective vision + progress. These next 20 years are going to be filled with different chapters of how we make that happen based on how the following planets/archetypes interact with us in this great cosmic soup.
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Neptune in Aries: From Follower Behavior to Leadership
After a few months of retrograding back into Pisces, Neptune has officially moved into Aries for the first time in 143 years. It'll stay there for the next 13 years.
Let that sink in: You have never experienced Neptune in Aries. No one alive has! The last time Neptune was in Aries was the American Civil War—when the veil was ripped from our eyes about what an economy upheld by slavery really looked like.
After 11 years in Pisces—giving rise to pop spirituality, magical thinking, and influencer culture—the hazy waters have cleared. Aries is setting all illusions ablaze so we can see clearly for the first time in a long time.
And what we're seeing is ugly.
The Epstein files. The rot that goes all the way to the top. The "powerful men" who used all their might to abuse...women and children. Pathetic. Disgusting and uninspired. They have no spirit to speak of.
This is Neptune in Aries: a grand collective awakening. And awakenings are NOT cute or pleasant experiences. They are reckonings. They shake the roots of who you are and what you believe—on purpose.
We're being forced to reckon with what's been hidden behind illusion: our current administration, world leadership, the depth of corruption in the upper echelons of power, and how we define leadership going forward.
Leadership of the future—of NOW—is defined by the strength of your spirit, not your proximity to perceived power.
Neptune in Aries asks: What do you believe in so deeply, you're willing to fight for it?
Because the very real reality is that you WILL be asked to fight for it. So pick your battles and armor up. Join the cause (or A cause) or risk getting swept up in the currents of hysteria that fire sign energy brings out in people.
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URANUS IN GEMINI: Humanity-Driven Tech (Or Not)
Uranus is the ultimate symbol of disruption, innovation, technology, and evolution. Gemini is mutable air—ever-changing, witty, filled with trickster duality.
Together? We're looking at disruptive tech (hi, A.I.) revealing its dual nature: the helpfulness and the exploitation. Water usage. Air pollution. Noise disturbance. Not to mention the safeguards that just aren't there.
The last time Uranus was in Gemini was the 1930s-1940s. Helloooo, do we remember the atomic bomb??
Here's what I know: we have the technology and intelligence to build a future powered by renewable energy, mutual aid, and innovation that actually serves humanity. But we're missing the infrastructure and systemic compassion required to get there. It exists in pockets—scattered across hidden servers and revolutionaries doing boots-on-the-ground work—but we need to get organized about where we want this tech to go.
Uranus in Gemini is asking us to be wary of technology's dual nature and to fucking demand where we want it to go.
In the meantime? Boycott big tech for their lack of safeguards, their greedy use of resources amid a global climate crisis. Vote with your dollars and your own energy—use your own brain as much as possible instead of using AI for every little thing.
The future belongs to those that are growing their critical thinking and media literacy, not relinquishing it to a bot.
We might be in the minority for thinking this way, but it really is that deep.
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SATURN IN ARIES
Saturn is our authority—our ability to author our own lives. To take responsibility and lead from a place of wisdom and lived experience, lest we get written into performing for someone else's version of authority.
Saturn in Pisces was our chance to review our beliefs and what's worth our spiritual energy. Saturn in Aries, though, is about taking action on them.
Are you willing to put your money where your mouth is? Are you willing to take charge of what you care about? Will you answer Saturn's clarion call to do something about what's happening around you?
That's what this next 2.5 year cycle is about. This is about leadership.
Whatever house you have Aries in will show you the area of life Saturn is inviting you to take charge + rewrite the script from within.
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JUPITER IN CANCER: EXPANDING THE CONTAINER
Jupiter magnifies whatever it touches, and in Cancer it’s amplifying the feminine, intuitive, mothering current of this sign. Cancer is ruled by the Moon — cyclical, tender, and deeply responsive — which means we’ll see both the light and the shadow of this amplification.
The light looks like women reclaiming their rhythms, decentering men, rooting into their own intuitive power, and remembering the wisdom of infradian cycles. The shadow looks like the backlash: violent misogyny, internalized shame, and the “traditional values” propaganda machine woven through sponsored media.
To navigate this energy, we look to Cancer’s constellation, the crab: a sensitive, creative being that always evaluates its container — not just for fit, but for strength and safety.
This is your invitation to evaluate your own containers:
- Spaces: Do the places you inhabit offer sanctuary or second-guessing?
- People: Are the relationships within those walls nourishing your safety — or threatening it?
Cancer reminds us that sacred space is non-negotiable. Jupiter in Cancer is a call to expand your container — but only if it supports your tenderness, your safety, and your growth.
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Normally I don't cover the inner planets in State of the Sky...
They move too quickly and it gets overwhelming. But this moment deserves a spotlight.
We have 5 planets in Aquarius—the sign of forward progress, innovation, community action, and revolution. Most significantly, we have Pluto there, allowing us to see the underbellied shadow side of these planets in a way we haven't before.
Pluto is the god of underworld journeys and transformation. He offers us the invitation to transform into our most powerful selves if we have the guts to face the darkest parts of ourselves.
So we're seeing the dark side of Mercury (communication, messaging), Venus (relationships, money), Mars (courage, conflict, instinct)—all laid bare so we can really face them. So we can claim the power that waits there for us.
This is a Waypoint. Our last collective Waypoint was 2020 during George Floyd and the BLM movement (which was also in Minneapolis, by the way).
I'd argue that this moment—after everything we experienced in January—is another Waypoint for us to recognize this energy and seize its revolutionary momentum.
But what does that mean? What do we DO from here??
We name it. We face it. We choose our battles and armor up. We use our own brains, vote with our dollars and our energy, and we refuse to let the illusions keep us small.
The stars are giving us the roadmap. Now it's up to us to walk it.
A note before you go:
I don't share all this to overwhelm you or sound the alarm. I share it to plainly name what's present—to help us understand WHERE in the big picture we are.
That's the first step in any wayfinding process: Read the Signs. Get your bearings. Understand the terrain.
The next step? Doing something with it. And that's personal work.
If you want to understand what all this means for YOUR path specifically, take a look at what houses you have Aquarius, Aries, Gemini, and Cancer in—these will show you the personal buckets of life where these themes are playing out.
And if you're hungry to map your own leadership in this moment and find YOUR next steps through the uncertainty? Waypoint Sessions are open. This is the work I do—helping leaders build spiritual resilience when the ground is shifting beneath their feet.
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Thanks for reading!
In cosmic camaraderie,
One Last Sip
for the week of Mar 16th, 2026
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CURRENT ASTRO SEASON 🪐
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UPCOMING BIG SKY EVENTS 🌛
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We’re in the amniotic waters of Pisces season, to dream one last dream before the birth of Spring and forward momentum at the start of Aries season later this month. Expect inspiration, daydreams, strong intuitive sense, and nightmares. Pay attention to what symbols pop up for you right now. These are keys to your expansion and indicators for how you’ll take action once we get that Aries fire in our engines.
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Even though the eclipse portal is now closed until we experience the Fall eclipse portal (that will actually start at the end of August), we’re in what’s called an eclipse shadow period – which just recognizes that we just experienced a shake up of energy and it’ll take a few days or weeks for us to adjust to how it feels and find our footing. Drink water, rest up, be kind to yourself.
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HOW TO WORK WITH ME 🤠
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AFFIRMATION OF THE WEEK 📚
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I have one spot for monthly coaching opening up next month in April. I'm looking for a leader deep in their own season of uncertainty who doesn't want to navigate it alone. You want a thought partner who takes the science and the magic equally seriously — nervous system work, neural pathway rewriting, and self-trust repair — and who meets you exactly where you are. More info here if that’s you.
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The work of the mature person is to carry grief in one hand and gratitude in the other and to be stretched large by them.
— Francis Weller
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