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July 17, 2025 19 mins

Cosmic tensions reach a peak this week as Mars conjuncts the South Node in Virgo while squaring Venus in Gemini, creating a powerful karmic triangle in the sky. This configuration brings our past wounds and obsessions to the surface, potentially triggering intense feelings about situations or relationships we thought were long resolved.

The South Node in Virgo is asking us to release our grip on perfectionism, excessive analysis, and the overwhelming desire to control every detail. However, Mars brings fiery passion exactly where we're supposed to be letting go, creating an internal tug-of-war between action and release. You might find yourself suddenly fixated on an ex who broke your heart years ago, a boss who wronged you, or other past hurts that feel freshly painful. The impulsive nature of Mars makes it tempting to send that text or make that call you might later regret.

Venus enters this cosmic equation by forming squares to both Mars and the lunar nodes, adding relationship themes to this karmic clearing. While tension is inevitable, Venus ensures that something beautiful awaits on the other side of this release. Perhaps after confronting old wounds, you'll find yourself free to connect with someone truly aligned with your path. Or maybe letting go of perfectionism will unlock a creative breakthrough you've been seeking. The key is turning toward the North Node in Pisces—embracing spirituality, intuition, and compassion instead of getting lost in details. Meditation, creative expression, time near water, or connecting with supportive community can provide powerful channels for release.

Feeling exhausted or emotionally raw this week? You're not alone. The cosmos is asking all of us to listen to our hearts, not the obsessed demons in our brains. Slow down, engage with your spiritual practices, and trust that this uncomfortable passage is leading to greater freedom and alignment with your soul's journey. Share your experiences with this transit and subscribe to receive more cosmic guidance as we navigate these transformative energies together.

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hello and welcome to Pisces Moon Astrology.
I'm your astrologer, kateLeonard, and I'm excited to
explore the stars with you.
Hi everyone, welcome to theweek of July 20th through July
26th.
And the energy is huge.
It's huge, and this is one ofthose weeks where there's a lot

(00:26):
going on and I'm not going to beable to talk about it all, and
I also want to just say up frontwe're going to be talking about
Mars, the lunar nodesespecially the south node and
Venus.
So I know you all care aboutVenus, and that's when we get to
the good stuff.
It comes around in sort of thesecond half of the whole thing.

(00:49):
So stay with me.
You're going to want to hearthe better energy that's coming
right.
So it's a big week.
Thank you for being here, thankyou for listening.
I'd really appreciate it if youwould share the podcast, rate
it on whatever app you listen onand all of those kinds of

(01:10):
things, because it helps me outa lot and I would be super
grateful.
But I'm grateful for you beinghere one way or another, so
let's jump into it.
All right, the big deal On the22nd.
Now this energy is going to behappening all week.
On the 22nd, though we get Marsconjunct the south node, we get

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Venus forming a square withboth nodes and Mars, okay.
So this is a whole lot.
It's complicated.
I'm going to try to work thisall out.
So we've got Mars, venus, fate,tense aspects, the south node
of letting go.
It's a lot.

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So that's what we're talkingabout.
Like I said, it's really allweek long, but the exact degree
of the aspects is going to be onthe 22nd.
And just to give you a littletaste of some of the other stuff
that's going on, also, on the22nd, the sun is moving into

(02:20):
rulership in Leo, so that's atime of shining brightly,
following your bliss standing inthe spotlight.
Yeah, just be in there in thejoy of the sunshine.
Right, the sun is also going tobe sextiling Uranus.
Okay, this is a very big deal.

(02:41):
It's like we want to be seenfor our freaky, unique selves.
It's kind of wonderful.
Then, on the 24th, the sun isgoing to form a harmonious
aspect to both Saturn andNeptune.
This is going to ask us to slowdown and enjoy a sort of gentle

(03:04):
path toward whatever progresswe're trying to make.
That's kind of wonderful too.
The sun trining Neptune isfantastic for all of you
creative people out there, so myartist and writer friends and
all people who do anythingcreative.
The sun trining Neptune is avery, very vibrant creative

(03:26):
energy, so you all should bedoing fantastically at that time
.
But on the same day the sun isopposing Pluto, so there could
also be some power strugglesthat come along.
So that part's not just for mycreative friends, that's for all
of us.
So, anyway, it's a whole lot.
Most of the other stuffhappening in the sky other than

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the 20 gazillion things I'mgoing to actually be talking
about, have to do with the sun.
So it's pretty good and they'reall good.
So, happy, happy, all right.
So let's just jump right in.
So let's just jump right in.
We've got Mars in Virgo on topof making a conjunction with the

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south node.
The south node of the moon isalways about letting go.
So, on the most basic level,the south node in Virgo we
already talked about this whenthe lunar nodes changed signs
back in January and, by the way,they're going to stay where
they are until July of 2026.
The south node in Virgo has alot to do with letting go of so

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much attention to all the pickylittle details about everything
right, those things, thosedetails that just make us crazy.
It's that role of being theadministrator in our own lives.
Right, the South Node is saying, yeah, if you want to progress
toward your destiny, this yearis about letting go of that

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feeling that everything has tobe controlled.
The North Node is alwaysopposite the south node.
The north node is in Pisces.
What are we supposed to befocusing on?
The bigger picture, spiritualreality rather than earthly,
mundane trivia.
So that starts us off.
But now we've got to put Marsinto that.

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Mars, you know, the one that Ialways say is either the psycho
killer or the noble warrior,depending on which one we're
getting.
In this case, I'm not reallythinking that we're going to get
either of those extremes.
I think it's going to be alittle bit different with this
conjunction to the south node.

(05:41):
Mars can be anger and violence,passion and drive.
Mars can be anger and violence,passion and drive In Virgo.
That can make us really laserfocused on what we want to cut
out of our lives, what we wantto sort of sturgically remove.
Right, it's controlling, butit's usually Mars rules

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separation and cutting thingsout.
He literally rules things likeknives and scalpels and surgery.
So it seems when you first thinkabout it like, well, that's a
good thing, right, mars is goingto be in Virgo cutting things
out.
That's what the south nodewants.
So win-win, right, wrong, wrong.
That's not how it works.

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The South Node isn't asking usto cut things out efficiently.
You know that's not the job.
The South Node is saying spendless of your energy in this
Virgoan realm, spend less ofyour energy worrying about all

(06:44):
these details and trying tocontrol all the stuff.
It's not saying bring Mars inand chop it up real quick.
That's not the point.
So, with Mars bringing passionand fire to Virgo, it's kind of
doing the opposite of what theSouth Node wants us to do.

(07:04):
We may be feeling a kind ofpush-pull, you know, like no, I
need to control this.
No, I'm not supposed to becontrolling this.
You know, I need to cut outthese things.
No, I'm not even supposed to bethinking about these things.
Right, there could be someelement of kind of yeah, like I

(07:26):
already said, push-pull, youknow, in our focus in that area.
So we have to keep in mind ifthis is what we're being
confronted with, we have to keepin mind that the goal this year
is Pisces Deeply spiritual,deeply intuitive Pisces.

(07:47):
Pisces is a water sign.
That's all about the feelingsand the depth.
So when we start getting intothis, whatever craziness is
going to be going on in Virgo,when you catch yourself and you
will, you will you'll feel thisremind yourself that it's the

(08:09):
bigger picture, it's the moreinner picture, it's not the
little details that we careabout right now.
The other thing that Mars andthe South Node can bring up is
obsession over past issues.
You know that ex who broke yourheart, like 14 years ago.

(08:29):
Yeah, you might suddenly findthat you're like crazy obsessed
with that, like you just can'tlet go of that.
Mars is fiery passion and wantsto act and the South Node is
about karma and the past.
So it may be that you're right,that there was something that
connected you karmically to thatperson or that situation.

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It could be you know the bosswho fired you wrongly.
It could be something like thatand what the self-knowed wants
is like let it go.
Yes, there was a karmicconnection, but let it go, it's
time to move on.
Mars is saying no, I want tolike tell them I don't know if

(09:19):
he, she, the boss, the lover,the whatever.
I don't know if they everreally understood.
I don't know if they understoodhow much they hurt me or how
they got it wrong or whatever,whatever, but I promise you
you'll know whatever, becauseyou're going to be obsessing
about it, right, those of us whoget hit with this, we're going

(09:41):
to know.
Yeah, just expect that to behappening.
And with Mars, the likelihood ofus acting out impulsively, it's
really high.
It is really high.
That's the thing that happenswith Mars.
We act out.
Mars rules Aries, the impulsivetoddler of the zodiac.

(10:05):
Yeah, we may find that we'retexting that ex and giving them
what for one more time.
So those are the kinds ofthings that can be happening For
some of us.
However, that anger, that energyof Mars gets turned inwards.
So when these old wounds, oldwhatever hurts, come up, we

(10:29):
might find that some of us gointo a bad mood, a funk, a
depression.
If this is you, please reachout and get help.
That's a very Pisces thing todo, you know.
Reach out to your tribe, yourtherapist, you know whoever that
is, and get help.
Just a word to the wise,because this Mars South Node

(10:50):
thing, the depression, it couldbe.
A word to the wise, because thisMars South Node thing, the
depression, it could be a lot todeal with, and for other people
this is going to bringoverwhelming exhaustion, because
it's another way we turn thatMars inward and, let's face it,
carrying grudges, holding on toall the details, fighting it out
a million times in our brains.

(11:11):
It's exhausting.
And the South Node like inmedical astrology and things
like that, the South Node isoften connected to depletion.
So you may find that you'rejust shockingly tired, and if so
, the way through it is rest,rest.
It's also about letting go.

(11:33):
There's also going to be a hugerelease, if you can, through
Pisces, through spiritualconnection, through meditation,
prayer, walks by water, you knowall of those kind of things.
If you can find your waythrough so that you could truly
let go of whatever, this oldthing that you're now obsessing

(11:56):
about, and give yourself alittle rest, you will come out
the other end much, much better,much stronger and with cosmic,
karmic lessons learned.
But, as I promised, don't freakout.
I know this all sounds really,really bad right now.
That's not all there is,because Venus is also in this

(12:17):
picture and the nodes Mars andVenus are locked together.
They're forming a triangle, atense triangle, but a triangle,
and so you don't get any of thiswithout Venus being involved.
And Venus, even when she's inan awkward or difficult aspect,
she's still Venus.

(12:38):
She's still the goddess of loveand art and beauty and money
and comfort.
Y'all know, right, all the goodstuff.
She's still that goddess.
So she's bringing some goodvibes, in a tense way, to this
situation.
She's in Gemini, so one thingto consider is we're going to

(12:59):
probably need to talk through alot of this stuff.
So keep that in mind.
But let's just talk about whatVenus brings to the mix.
All right, so Venus and thelunar nodes this tells us that
something faded and good,because Venus is not going to

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bring faded bad stuff.
That is not her job in the sky.
So Venus and the nodes being inconnection now it's a square,
so it might be that, after sometension, there is going to be
harmony.
We're going to find our way tosome kind of positive, gentle,

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harmonious outcome.
And whatever this outcome is,it is going to to have deep life
lessons that move us along ourpath of destiny.
Because that's what the nodesdo, right, that's their job to
help us fine-tune each area oflife year by year, rather year

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and a half by year and a half,as we move toward our natal
nodes and our true path ofdestiny.
So it gets all very complicated.
Just know that this week, withVenus and the nodes connected,
we're going to get to somethinggood.
But how are we getting there?

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Because she's also squaringMars.
Now these two can be thecelestial lovers, but they're
not in a good aspect with eachother.
So, again, venus is alwaysgoing to bring something good.
It's just what does it take toget there?
Remember that X that we'regoing to be all obsessed about

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and we need to tell off for noapparent reason, except our
brains won't leave us alone.
It's possible I know you're notgoing to like this example, but
hang with me it's possible thatwe do tell that person off and
after we yell it through, talkit through, whatever it is we're
going to do, text it through,we move into a comfortable

(15:10):
friendship and we realizethrough all of this that we were
karmically meant to be friends,not lovers.
That's a possible storylinethat would make sense of this
configuration.
Or it could be that we meetsomebody brand new after we let

(15:31):
go of the idea of getting backat that ex-lover or whatever, we
finally release it, and thensome faded person walks into our
lives and we're like, oh, Idon't care about that anymore.
Right, I released that oldthing and now my person is

(15:53):
really here and that old thingis like a distant, distant
memory.
Does that make sense?
I hope that makes sense.
It could be that that personthat we meet rubs us wrong at
first.
That's the tension, right?
Could be that we meet somebodyand we're all about thinking

(16:13):
they're such a jerk or whatever,and then they start to grow on
us and then we fall madly inlove and realize they're our
soulmate.
It could be that kind of thingand it can happen with any of
the Venus-y things.
We find our way through ourspirituality, through our
meditation, through our soulwork, whatever it is.

(16:36):
We find our way to release thatobsession with that old boss
who fired us unjustly.
And once we finally let go ofthat energy for real, we get
these great ideas about what wereally want to do, what we're
meant to do.
Or job offers come out ofnowhere because they're faded

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right, it's like karma.
We get some offer that it'slike we never would have
expected.
It's that kind of thing.
It can happen with art projects, where we have breakthroughs
After we release a project.
We've been struggling becausewe have to get it right and we
finally set the damn thing onfire and all of a sudden we have

(17:18):
amazing creative breakthrough.
It can happen in any Venus-ykind of area.
So, whatever it is, I think thisweek I don't want to lie right
I think this week is going to betense.
I think there are going to besome things that come up for us
that are uncomfortable and that,just plain old, aren't fun.

(17:39):
Mars is doing some damage here,but I do believe, with the
nodes involved and with Venusinvolved, we find our way
through it and we come out to amuch better place and we're just
freer and ready to walk forwarddown our paths, and I think

(18:01):
it's really, really good.
The way I would characterizethe problem this week that's
going to be the hardest one tograpple with is we're going to
need to listen to our hearts,not the obsessed demons in our
brains, and if we don't slowdown and Mars doesn't want to
slow down we may not know whichis which.

(18:23):
So my advice slow down, engagein your spiritual practices,
whatever those are, and I thinkon the other side of this it's
going to be amazing, and so Iknow that's a whole lot.
I hope it wasn't too confusing.
It's sort of a complicatedenergy, but I think it's what's

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important this week.
Thank you for sticking aroundwith me and sharing and liking
and all the stuff, as I alwayssay, and until next week, go out
and seize the energies of thestars.
This is my wish for you always,and until next time, bye.
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