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 Ghost of a Podcast. This week, we're looking at the astrology of May 24th through the 30th of

2026. And I've been thinking a lot about the world. I've been thinking a lot about this week's

upcoming astrology, which I will unpack for you in pragmatic detail. And in thinking about these things, I've been thinking a lot about emotional regulation.

And the reason why I've been thinking about emotional regulation will become very clear when we get into the astrology.

But also, because as my awareness and education about the ongoing bombardment and torture of Palestinians from the state of Israel, the concentration camp like conditions that ICE is putting people in in the United States, the ongoing crises of AI data centers and oil leaks and a myriad of other

things. What comes up for me, and I'm guessing comes up for you, is how hard it is to stay

emotionally regulated, to take in information and really sit with the complexity of it. You may also struggle with

this in your personal life, right? Going through a difficult relationship dynamic or some

other personal thing. When we're going through a rough time, when we understand that things are hard or bad, the human response is to recoil, right?

It's to recoil from pain.

It's to recoil from problems.

And some people's natures will say, I'm going to recoil, and then I'm going to jump in, and I'm going to really fix it.

And other people,

we will bury our head in the sand. We will kind of fall apart and there's so many ways to fall

apart. But so much of this, as normal and human as it is, is a result of maladjusted coping

mechanisms. So I've been thinking about how do I regulate emotionally? How can we sit

with our feelings long enough and in a meaningful, substantial way enough, that your feelings

feel heard by the rest of your system, but not so long that you're wallowing or losing track of, oh, look, there's a

relationship in my life that needs attention. I need to deal with it. There's a terrible thing

happening in the world, and I want to participate in the world to make it better, even in the

tiniest, tiniest, little way, right?

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