Once a year, without fanfare, Neptune appears to stop moving through the sky and begins a long, slow backward drift. Today, July 7, 2026, is that day. From our vantage point on Earth, the planet looks as though it has paused, gathered itself, and decided to retrace its steps.
Something significant shifts in the sky today. Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, moves out of Cancer and into Leo — and it will stay there for roughly a year. If you want a simple picture of what that means: imagine the most generous, expansive, optimistic force in astrology walking…
Every few months, Mercury does something that looks, from our vantage point on Earth, like it stops moving forward and begins to drift backward through the sky. Today, Tuesday the thirtieth of June, is the day it pauses — the moment astronomers call a station — before beginning that apparent…
Something shifts in the atmosphere today. If you have noticed your thoughts arriving faster than usual, or found yourself reaching for your phone mid-sentence to look something up, or felt a restlessness you cannot quite name, there is a good reason for that.