I was composing another BonBlast and mentioning that I haven’t gotten on any specific/consistent schedule with those emails. Then I decided, yeah, that’s probably gonna be the case ’til Saturn shimmies out of Pisces… and we’re gonna get a preview of what the Saturn-in-Aries years are gonna be like for a few months here soon.

But first!

Pluto goes retrograde in a few hours. What does that mean? Welp, ‘member how I said Pluto’s kind of like the TOWER CARD? He likes to transform things as he moves slowly from sign to sign and he’s pretty dang thorough in his “burn it to the m-f ground” definition of transformation.

For these 5+ months of Pluto’s retrograde illusion in Aquarius, we can expect the first real Aquarius-flavored experience with this (because this retro marks the first one during which Pluto won’t reach back into Capricorn to finish business there).

So, the way that Pluto’s 2008-2024 term transformed Capricorny things like government, systems, structures, big banking, big business, empires, and the like is likely the way we’ll see Pluto’s 2024-2044 term transform Aquariusish stuff like air-born transmissions, advances in medicine, innovations in society, technological breakthroughs, space travel, activism, and idealism for cultural advances.

And as for today’s kickoff for the retrograde part of it all, here’s where we’ll begin to get clarity around the TOLL charged at this bridge taking us into the transformation. Especially for folks with important chart stuff between 0º and 4º of the FIXED signs (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius), it’s gonna feel pretty dang intense for a while. (Don’t worry; I’ve gotchuu!)

Oh, also.

Um. Pinching myself.

That’s me blissed out over the convo I had with fellow astrologers Andrea Gehrz and Ricky Williams the other day. Wait… that name… Ricky Williams. That’s… not THE Ricky Williams, is it? Oh hell yes it is. So freakin’ ahead of his time, he walked away from his (first damn draft pick/Heisman Trophy legend) career in the NFL to become a pioneer in medicinal cannabis, and while he was building THAT amazing life, he was also becoming a brilliantly intuitive astrologer. With a school. And a couple o’ apps. Like ya’ do!

Anyway… we geeked out about the astrology of showbiz (yep) and the role of Mars… and Neptune… and “hard aspects” and so so so much more. Click that blissed-out image above (or scroll to the very bottom of this post) to watch Andrea’s fabulous show. I know I’ve just gushed about Ricky, but let me state for the record that Andi is no slouch. She’s prolific AF. She runs a school, a publishing company, her astrology business, and a music business too. Because of course she does! I am SO charged up by having had this discussion. It’s good to feel that, after having felt lost in a slog for too long.

And on THAT…

I’m leading a mini-course to help us ALL get our motivation back after a way-too-long/way-too-in-bad-shape Mars. It’s called IF MARS AIN’T HAPPY… and you can join the inaugural cohort NOW. No celebration of hustle culture, here. Just a straightforward roll-out of Chart Harmony rituals to help us ALL reignite that inner fire (without burning ourselves out in the process).

Thanks for checking it out. I’m pretty excited, meeself!

And finally… a lesson from this past week.

One of the things that happens when we’re stressed out is that our field of vision LITERALLY narrows. We lose peripheral vision. The narrowing of focus is to help us get out of the stressful situation more easily, but primal brain doesn’t realize that evolutionary brain needs something more creative to solve modern problems (like surviving late-stage capitalism).

Welp, as things have gotten increasingly stressful in many ways, I find myself keeping problems to myself and doing all this figuring in my brain. Trying to “talk” through the issues without ever saying a word out loud, many times (which is really unlike me; I *like* to talk — I *KNOW* I get energy from a writers room workout).

Especially since much of the woo weather got more straightforward in the last half of April, I began noticing opportunities that hadn’t seemed THERE for me, just days before. I decided to be more open to things I normally would’ve shut down (like, I actually got on the phone with someone whose job it was to prevent me from closing my account… even though I knew the budget was gonna require that I CLOSE THAT ACCOUNT). And wouldn’t you know it? That call — like a few other things I stayed open to — changed my options. Opened my field of vision.

The lesson:

Never decide you know how the story is going to end before you’ve even begun to share the story out loud.

The instant we involve an audience of any size, the story itself evolves. That absolutely involves the stories we tell ourselves about what is possible.

Take that for what you will. For me? It — like the very cool convo I had about astrology and the culture of show business — brought me back to why I ever told stories for a living (or even WAY early in my childhood). Yes, storytelling heals the world… but it also gives the stories room to change EVERYONE involved. Getting the story out of your head and in front of an audience of *any* size allows the storyteller to change, the audience to change, and the story itself to change.

Pure magic.

Much love,

Bonnie Gillespie is living her dreams by helping others figure out how to live theirs. Wanna work with Bon? Start here. Thanks!