#373-"Continue to Dare to Love Deeply, and Risk Everything for the Good Thing"-Week of July 13, 2026

#373-"Continue to Dare to Love Deeply, and Risk Everything for the Good Thing"-Week of July 13, 2026

The Long Cycles Become Visible Something unusual is happening in the sky this month. Not just the weekly transits. Something larger. A convergence of long cycles that rarely become visible all at once — briefly illuminated in ways that allow us to feel their presence and direction. This week I am taking more time than usual to orient you in that larger field before walking the specific transits. The Three Long Cycles In astrology, when two outer planets meet in conjunction, they seed a cycle that unfolds over generations. Three of these great cycles were seeded in the last 130 years. This month all three are being activated simultaneously. Neptune conjunct Pluto in Gemini, late 1890s. Gemini governs mind, language, communication, and how reality is constructed and shared. This conjunction seeded a revolution in all of those domains — mass media, the discovery of the unconscious, technologies that transformed how human beings perceive and communicate. The AI emergence, the fracturing of shared reality, the speed at which language and information now move — this is that Gemini cycle in its current expression. Uranus conjunct Pluto in Virgo, mid-1960s. Virgo governs the body, healing, and the relationship between the individual and the systems they inhabit. This conjunction seeded a revolution in identity and power — civil rights, feminism, the environmental movement, the questioning of who gets to belong and on whose terms. The wounds of who has been excluded, whose body deemed less valuable, whose labor extracted — this cycle is still metabolizing in the collective body. Uranus conjunct Neptune in Capricorn, early 1990s. Capricorn governs structure, authority, and the institutions that organize collective life. This conjunction seeded the dissolution of old structures of collective meaning — the fall of the Soviet Union, globalization, the beginning of the internet age, the slow unraveling of institutional frameworks that once held collective life together. Those structures have never been fully replaced. What is breaking down in collective systems right now is this Capricorn cycle in its current expression. This month, through flowing trines and sextiles, all three cycles are being activated simultaneously. This is why many people are experiencing this time as both overwhelming and somehow significant in a way they cannot quite name. Something genuinely large is in motion. Key Cycles This Week: Monday, July 13: Venus in Virgo squares Uranus in Gemini.  Unexpected friction in relationship. A desire for more authenticity running up against existing patterns and expectations. Hold relationships with spaciousness. What feels like disruption may be asking for genuine realignment rather than repair of what no longer fits. Tuesday, July 14: New Moon at 22 degrees of Cancer.  The most personal question in the middle of everything large: what do you need in order to feel genuinely held right now? This New Moon also invites tending the ancestral field. What has been passed down that is being asked to transform? What do you want to consciously seed differently for those who come after? Wednesday, July 15: Uranus in Gemini sextiles Neptune in Aries.  The revolution in mind and communication in easy flow with the dissolution of old identities and the emergence of new vision. Genuine creative and visionary potential available today. Stay curious about what arrives in image, in impulse, in what the imagination reaches toward. Friday, July 17: Uranus in Gemini trines Pluto in Aquarius.  One of the most significant contacts of the month. The Awakener and the Transformer in flowing alignment, directly activating the Uranus-Pluto Virgo cycle of the 1960s. Where that conjunction was rupturing initiation, this trine offers flow — new pathways for what was seeded in that turbulent decade. Not a transit to merely observe. A transit to act from. Sunday, July 19: Mars in Gemini sextiles Saturn in Aries.  A grounding close to an activated week. Inspiration finding form. Insight becoming commitment. What has moved through you this week that wants to become something real and actionable? Looking Ahead Next week the activation deepens further — Jupiter opposing Pluto, the Sun entering Leo, Saturn stationing retrograde, and a Full Moon at 6 degrees of Aquarius conjunct Pluto and square Chiron. A culmination moment for everything this two-week arc is building toward. Episode 374 will go deeper into what these cycles are asking of us personally and collectively. Reflection Questions 1. Of the three great cycles, which feels most alive and present in your own life right now? 2. At this Cancer New Moon, what does your interior life genuinely need in order to feel held enough to be present to what is unfolding? 3. What does the larger arc of collective transformation seem to be asking of you specifically, given your gifts, your wounds, your particular place in the web of life? You are living inside something genuinely large. That is not a burden. It is, in its own way, a privilege — to be alive at a moment when the long arcs of collective transformation are briefly, unusually visible. Podcast poem: Continue by Maya Angelou If you are feeling called to work more deeply with these themes of tending, belonging, and rooting yourself within larger cycles of change, I invite you to join me in the Root in the Sacred group coaching program. It's a deeper container for those ready for sustained work with the Earth element, with the body, and with what it means to belong to the living world on your own terms. The program is structured as six-90-minute online sessions and meets on Thursdays, beginning July 16th.  You can find details about the program at ontheedgesofchange.com under What's Open Now. Support the show [https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=PR62BTYSEB5PQ] Go to Sheila's website for information for transformational resources:  https://www.ontheedgesofchange.com This episode was co-created with generative AI, engaged as a soul-aligned ally in service of transformation. At the edge where technology meets myth, I choose insight over noise, and alchemy over automation. Thank you for dreaming the future with me.

#372-"Pause to Take in the Miracle of What is Here"--Week of July 6, 2026

What the Interior Field Is Asking I am back. Five weeks of pilgrimage in Bhutan, Nepal, and India. I am returning without full knowledge of what has shifted in the collective while I was away, trusting that you have been holding your own orientation through whatever has unfolded. What I can offer, as always, is the larger archetypal field and the longer view. It is good to be back in this transmission with you. This week has a particular quality of threshold. Neptune stations retrograde. A new Mercury cycle begins. Venus crosses into new territory. After weeks of considerable activation, something is turning more inward — more reflective, more attentive to what has been absorbed and what now needs integration. Key Cycles This Week: Monday, July 6: Sun in Cancer squares Saturn in Aries.  The feeling self meets hard reality. What you are experiencing inwardly may not match what the outer field is demanding. The invitation is to let both be present without collapsing into either. Saturn at its best is not harshness — it is honest clarity. And that clarity, held alongside emotional intelligence, can be surprisingly useful. Tuesday, July 7: Neptune stations retrograde at 4 degrees of Aries (remaining retrograde until December 12).  When Neptune turns inward, the fog that can accompany its direct motion begins to thin. Over these five months, visions become more interior and personal. Where has idealization been obscuring what is actually true? The quiet signal of your own deeper knowing becomes more available now. Trust it. Thursday, July 9: Venus enters Virgo. Venus trines Chiron in Taurus.  Venus moves from Leo's expansive self-expression into Virgo's careful tending and discernment. Love that shows up in the details, in quiet acts of care that do not announce themselves. On the same day, Venus trines Chiron in Taurus — a genuinely healing contact. Healing arriving not through insight but through the body being genuinely attended to. A small act of care today may carry more weight than its size suggests. Sunday, July 12: Sun conjuncts Mercury retrograde in Cancer.  A new Mercury cycle begins. This is the still point at the center of the retrograde — the moment when something becomes quietly, suddenly known. Not through analysis but through felt sense. Pay attention to what arises today. This new four-month Mercury cycle is seeded in the feeling field of Cancer. What becomes clear now is worth noting. It is planting something that will develop through the rest of the summer and into autumn. Looking Ahead:  Monday, July 13 brings Venus in Virgo squaring Uranus in Gemini.  You may already feel this approaching in your relational field — unexpected friction, a desire for more authenticity that runs up against existing patterns. Hold relationships with extra spaciousness as the week closes. Larger Frame Less speed, more depth. Less projection, more honest seeing. Less performing of wellness or certainty, more genuine attunement to what is actually present. Neptune retrograde supports that kind of seeing. Mercury's new cycle in Cancer invites a fresh chapter of communication rooted in emotional truth. And Venus in Virgo reminds us that love at its most real shows up in careful attention — to the body, to the earth, to the small acts of tending that keep life genuinely nourished. Reflection Questions 1. As Neptune stations retrograde, where has idealization or wishful thinking been obscuring what is actually true in my life? 2. What is the quiet felt-sense knowing arriving at this Mercury cycle's new beginning about what wants to be seeded in the months ahead? 3. Where is genuine healing arriving not through insight but through simple concrete acts of tending and care? Podcast poem: "Portal" by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer If you are feeling called to work more deeply with these themes of tending, belonging, and the earth element, two offerings are available now. On July 11 I am offering a free Earth element taster workshop, Root in the Sacred. And on July 16 the Root in the Sacred group coaching  begins, a deeper container for those ready for sustained work with the Earth element, with the body, with what it means to belong to the living world on your own terms. You can find details on both at the home page of ontheedgesofchange.com under "What's Open Now" section. Both are invitations, not urgencies. If they are calling to you, trust that. Support the show [https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=PR62BTYSEB5PQ] Go to Sheila's website for information for transformational resources:  https://www.ontheedgesofchange.com This episode was co-created with generative AI, engaged as a soul-aligned ally in service of transformation. At the edge where technology meets myth, I choose insight over noise, and alchemy over automation. Thank you for dreaming the future with me.

#371-"What if There is No Need to Change?"--Week of June 29, 2026

A brief note. These episodes are prerecorded during a five-week period away. I am not tracking current events in real time. Hold what I offer here alongside what you are actually living. This is the last episode in this batch — I will be back in real time with you for episode #372. Feel First, Then Offer This is not a quiet week. Two major planetary shifts land on the same day. Mercury turns retrograde in Cancer. Jupiter enters Leo. And Mars makes three significant contacts by Sunday. The week carries considerable activation and asks for both presence and discernment. Key Cycles This Week: Monday, June 29: Mercury turns retrograde at 26 degrees of Cancer and Jupiter enters Leo.  Mercury retrograde in Cancer begins three weeks of review in the realm of feeling, memory, and belonging. Not a time for new initiatives or major decisions. A time for revisiting what was left incomplete, feelings too large to be fully processed in their first arrival, emotional truths moved past too quickly. On the same day Jupiter enters Leo, where it will remain until July 2027. For a full year Jupiter amplifies creative expression and authentic visibility, asking where you are playing smaller than your actual gifts require. The tension between Mercury turning inward and Jupiter expanding outward is worth sitting with. Feel first. Express from that ground. Wednesday, July 1: Jupiter in Leo squares Chiron in Taurus.  Jupiter wants to expand into visibility and creative offering. Chiron in Taurus holds the wound of unworthiness in its most embodied form. Their square asks where the wound of not-enoughness contracts around the very expansion being offered. The elder wisdom here: you do not have to be fully healed to offer what is genuinely alive in you. Friday, July 3: Mars conjuncts Uranus in Gemini.  The week's most electrically charged moment. The Action-Taker meets the Awakener at Gemini speed. On the eve of July 4th in the United States, when the mythology of independence and the reality of what this nation is becoming sit in painful contrast, this conjunction is not subtle. Mars conjunct Uranus can bring liberation and volatility in equal measure. Breathe before acting. The insight is real. It does not require urgency to be honored. Saturday, July 4: Mars in Gemini sextiles Neptune in Aries.  The day after the electric conjunction, Mars finds the Imaginal Field of Neptune. Action in service of vision. On a day carrying its own complex collective weight, this sextile offers an interior alternative — quiet creative engagement, movement toward what is genuinely envisioned rather than performed or demanded. Sunday, July 5: Mars in Gemini trines Pluto in Aquarius.  The week closes with depth and purposeful direction. Mars in easy flow with the Transformer brings action that serves the larger restructuring rather than merely the immediate impulse. A good day for intentional engagement with what has been activated through the week. Larger Frame The thread holding this week together: feel first. Let the retrograde revisiting and the wound Chiron holds be real and present. Then let Jupiter in Leo remind you that what is alive in you is not meant to be indefinitely contained. The healing is not a prerequisite for the offering. They happen together. That is the nature of genuine initiation. Reflection Questions 1. As Mercury turns retrograde in Cancer, what emotional truth is asking for more honest attention before I move forward? 2. Where does the wound of unworthiness contract around what Jupiter in Leo is beginning to offer, and what would it mean to share what is genuinely alive in you without waiting to be fully healed first? 3. In this week's activation and acceleration, what helps you feel the difference between inspired action and reactive urgency? Podcast poem: What if There is No Need to Change? by Oriah Mountain Dreamer If the themes of this transmission are resonating — the healing of our relationship to body, earth, and what genuinely nourishes — I want to let you know about two upcoming offerings rooted in exactly this territory. On July 11 I am offering a free Earth element taster workshop, Root in the Sacred. And on July 16 the Root in the Sacred group coaching begins — a deeper container for those ready for sustained work with the Earth element, with the body, with what it means to belong to the living world on your own terms. You can find details on both at ontheedgesofchange.com under "What's Open Now." Support the show [https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=PR62BTYSEB5PQ] Go to Sheila's website for information for transformational resources:  https://www.ontheedgesofchange.com This episode was co-created with generative AI, engaged as a soul-aligned ally in service of transformation. At the edge where technology meets myth, I choose insight over noise, and alchemy over automation. Thank you for dreaming the future with me.

#370-"As if Joy Weren’t Strewn All Around"-Week of June 22, 2026

A brief note. These episodes are prerecorded during a five-week period away. I am not tracking current events in real time. Hold what I offer here alongside what you are actually living. Tend What Is Real We are in the first full week of Cancer season. The Solstice has turned. The light is beginning its slow arc back toward darkness, not as loss, but as the natural rhythm of a living world that knows how to move between fullness and rest. This week is quieter in its archetypal signature — an invitation to let what has moved through in recent weeks begin to settle into meaning. Key Cycles This Week: Thursday, June 25: Venus in Leo trines Saturn in Aries. Sun in Cancer squares Neptune in Aries.  Two movements pulling in different directions. Venus trine Saturn brings grounding to the heart. After recent intensity, this transit supports commitment to what genuinely matters — relationships, creative work, values lived as practice rather than ideal.  At the same time the Sun squares Neptune, bringing emotional blur and permeability alongside that clarity. Stay close to what grounds you. Let the blur be present without letting it make decisions. Saturday, June 27: Mars in Taurus sextiles Jupiter in Cancer.  A genuinely nourishing contact. Embodied action in service of what genuinely nourishes. What you are doing and what you genuinely value may feel more aligned than usual today. Let this ease be felt. Mars is preparing for a significant transition and Saturday offers a good closing note before the crossing. Sunday, June 28: Mars enters Gemini, remaining until August 11.  Six weeks of deliberate Taurus momentum gives way to something quicker and more multi-directional. Mars in Gemini brings ideas that become impulses, communication that becomes action. In a field already electrified by Uranus in Gemini, this adds further activation to the mental field. The invitation is to carry something of Taurus into the new sign — the deliberateness, the knowing of genuine resource — so that speed and discernment move together. Larger Frame Cancer season asks not what you are building or achieving but what you are genuinely tending — with care, with patience, with attention that nourishes rather than extracts. That question is its own orientation in uncertain times. The large thresholds of recent weeks are working in the background as large transits do. Slowly. In the body. In ways that will take months and years to fully reveal themselves. This week offers something simpler: a moment of grounding in what genuinely matters, a closing of one chapter of action and the opening of another. Reflection Questions 1. Where this week does what I am doing and what I genuinely value feel more aligned than usual, and what does that alignment want me to notice? 2. As Mars moves from Taurus into Gemini, what quality of the deliberate and embodied do I want to carry into faster more multi-directional terrain? 3. In Cancer season's invitation to tend rather than achieve, what in my life is asking for more patient nourishing attention? Tend what is real. Move with discernment into what is new. Let Cancer season do its deeper work in you. The web of life is patient. It knows how to hold what is growing even when we cannot yet see it. If the themes of this transmission are resonating — the healing of our relationship to body, earth, and what genuinely nourishes — I want to let you know about two upcoming offerings rooted in exactly this territory. On July 11 I am offering a free Earth element taster workshop, Root in the Sacred. And on July 16, the Root in the Sacred group coaching program begins — a deeper container for those ready for sustained work with the Earth element, with the body, with what it means to belong to the living world on your own terms. You can find details on both at ontheedgesofchange.com under What's Open Now. Both are invitations, not urgencies. If they are calling to you, trust that. Support the show [https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=PR62BTYSEB5PQ] Go to Sheila's website for information for transformational resources:  https://www.ontheedgesofchange.com This episode was co-created with generative AI, engaged as a soul-aligned ally in service of transformation. At the edge where technology meets myth, I choose insight over noise, and alchemy over automation. Thank you for dreaming the future with me.

#369-"I Am the Wisdom of Millennia"--Week of June 15, 2026

A brief note. These episodes are prerecorded during a five-week period away. I am not tracking current events in real time. Hold what I offer here alongside what you are actually living. -- The Wound Beneath Many Wounds This is a week of significant arrivals. Venus in Leo moves through a rapid sequence of major contacts. Chiron crosses into Taurus, beginning nearly eight years of healing work in the realm of body, earth, and resource. And the week closes with the Sun entering Cancer at the Summer Solstice. Key Cycles This Week: Monday. June 15: Venus in Leo sextiles Uranus in Gemini.  A liberating opening. Venus in Leo leans toward authentic self-expression. Uranus electrifies that impulse, breaking open stale patterns and quickening the creative field. Notice the difference between radiance that comes from genuine self-expression and the performance of radiance designed to manage how others see you. Uranus helps clarify which is which. Tuesday, June 16: Venus in Leo trines Neptune in Aries.  Vision follows liberation. The heart and the imaginal field move in alignment. Creativity, inspiration, the sense that something more luminous is possible. In a collective field saturated with ugliness and cruelty, the capacity to remain open to beauty is not escapism. It is resistance. Let the imagination open today while holding what arises with gentle discernment. Wednesday, June 17: Venus in Leo opposes Pluto in Aquarius.  The week deepens. Venus opposite Pluto surfaces power dynamics in relationship, places where love has become entangled with control or desire shadowed by fear of loss. Collectively this opposition names what has long been visible: the way systems of power have sought to control the feminine, the relational, the creative. Where in your own life has love or creative expression become entangled with power in ways worth examining? What is being asked to transform? Friday, June 19: Chiron enters Taurus, remaining until September 13 before briefly retrograding back into Aries, then returning to Taurus until May 2034. This is the threshold of the week. Perhaps of the year. Chiron in Aries since 2018 has been working the wounds of identity, the right to exist and assert a self in the face of systems that deny that right to so many. It has also been working the wound of radical disconnection from the web of life. The mythology of the rugged individual who needs no one and owes nothing. The belief that life is fundamentally competitive rather than reciprocal. The armoring against interdependence that produces its own profound poverty and loneliness. That wound does not end as Chiron moves into Taurus. It deepens into new territory. Chiron in Taurus turns the healing work toward the body, the earth, and the deep unmetabolized wounds in our relationship to the living world. The wound of an economy built on extraction, of profound inequality where abundance exists alongside deprivation by design, of a civilization that severed its understanding that the earth is not a resource to be used but a living web of which we are part. Nearly eight years. A generational healing arc is beginning. Honor the threshold. Sunday, June 21: Sun enters Cancer. Summer Solstice and Sun sextiles Chiron in early Taurus.  The longest day in the northern hemisphere. A sacred pause in earth-based traditions, a moment to feel the fullness of what has been growing and to honor the turn. The Sun sextiling Chiron freshly arrived in Taurus is a gentle blessing on this new healing arc, the light of the Solstice illuminating what Chiron has come to work with. Spend time in the natural world if you can. Let the body be held by something older and larger than the current crisis. Larger Frame Chiron in Taurus initiates an era of healing in the domains that matter most for the continuation of life on this planet. The body. The earth. The radical inequality of who has access to sustenance. The severed relationship between human civilization and the living web it depends on. This is the wound beneath many wounds. The one that colonial dominator culture has both created and depended on to sustain itself. Chiron in Taurus will not let it remain invisible. The Summer Solstice opening this era is fitting. The longest light, blessing the beginning of a long healing. Reflection Questions 1. Where in my relationship to body, earth, money, or resource do I sense a wound that has not yet been fully named or witnessed? 2. As Chiron begins its long transit through Taurus, what does genuine healing look like in the domains of physical life, sustenance, and belonging to the earth? 3. On this Solstice threshold, what have I been growing in this half of the year that deserves to be honored in the fullness of this light? Stand at the Solstice threshold before moving on. Feel the earth beneath you. Let the body remember that it belongs to something ancient and reciprocal. We are not only living through breakdown. We are living through the beginning of a healing larger than any of us can fully see from inside it. Podcast poem: Cornwall Swamp by Julie Cadwallader Staub If this transmission has been useful, share it with someone who might need orientation in these times. Support the show [https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=PR62BTYSEB5PQ] Go to Sheila's website for information for transformational resources:  https://www.ontheedgesofchange.com This episode was co-created with generative AI, engaged as a soul-aligned ally in service of transformation. At the edge where technology meets myth, I choose insight over noise, and alchemy over automation. Thank you for dreaming the future with me.