Welcome to Ghost of a Podcast. I'm your host Jessica Lignato. I'm an astrologer, psychic

medium, and animal communicator, and I'm going to give you your weekly horoscope and no

bullshit mystical advice for living your very best life.

Welcome back to your midweek episode of astrology hot takes. This week, my plan was to talk to

you about exercises and rituals for Venus retrograde. And that is exactly what I'm going

to do. However, sometimes a girl's got a pivot. And let me tell you about why today is

the day for pivoting. For reasons I will explain in just a moment, I missed on your horoscope

episode. Some really important transits. Isn't that annoying of me? I would say unto you,

yes, yes it is. Yes, yes, it is. Unfortunately, I somehow missed on the 22nd of May, the new

moon and Mercury square to Neptune. Now, the reason why it's perfect is because Mercury

square to Neptune in particular during this Venus square to Neptune, Michigas that we

are a meshedon, Mercury square to Neptune is a real scrambler of the mind. Neptune is

fog and Mercury is your thinking and so missing important details, misunderstandings, thinking

you read a whole email and realizing you actually skipped a paragraph. That is classic of this

transit. It has the tendency to kick off anxiety and distrust paranoia and confusion. Not

the funnest of all the transits, but here it is, my friends. Had I apologized for having

moved out on these two particular transits, then I'm going to unpack for you. But you know

what? Sometimes the astrologer is subject to the astrology and this is one of those

damn times. So we live and we learn. So the new moon in Gemini is happening at 1039 AM

Pacific time on the 22nd. And as I always remind you, new moons happen when the sun and

moon are exactly conjunct to each other, they're sitting at the same degree of the same sign.

And in this case, that's Gemini. It's Gemini, two degrees of Gemini and four minutes to

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