Star Powered™ - Astrology for Changemakers with Leslie Tagorda

We have our upcoming Pisces New Moon happening on March 10 and this new moon is asking you, how can you crystalize your flow to connect in your change-making Work. Today, I am joined by Decolonial Cosmologist and Archetypal Astrologer, Ixchel Lunar and we talk about all things Pisces New Moon and the pile-up of Pisces energy in the cosmos (Saturn and Neptune). In today's episode, we go over what it means to bring together that blending of the structure (Saturn), spiritual devotion (Neptune), and Flow (Pisces). Remember, your flow state is so important to be able to receive and have something birth anew.

Can you believe that March is already here? Like in February starcast, we had no planets going retrograde, and we continue on with this theme in March. This month, things start to pick up as we get ready for our astrological new year with the Aries ingress. In this episode, I want to give you the overview of what's to come this month, so buckle in, it's time to Get shit done!

You are standing at the threshold of a new cycle of collective leadership, it's time to awaken to your unique role in this transformative journey. This is about more than just leading; it's about embodying the Chiron process, healing in others what seems elusive in yourself, and stretching into your soul's purpose with the North Node's guidance. When two energies meet up, it's like a New Moon. A new cycle, a fresh beginning, a time of setting an intention, awakening: a North Node collective soul potential and a Chiron wounded healer/leader. This is your call, to know yourself, your healing path, your gift of contribution in your Work and leadership. And an awakening to see that your WAY, your journey, and YOU are born to contribute, heal and lead. You've been feeling this call. Now it's time to decide how YOU will rise up, step up onto the path of wounded healer/leader. How will you awaken your new cycle of collective leadership?

We are living at a time that the faces of leadership are changing. Where people desire authentic leaders. Those that have turned their difficulties into learning lessons and challenges into opportunities.Those that have leaned on others for support and have learned collaboration and co-creation. These leaders are here to build and share power - together. We are building a future that requires each and everyone to step up and lead, in our own, vulnerable, courageous, star-charted way. In this episode, I share my insights and experiences on how I founded my AstroBrand® Method and that your intrinsic leadership is written in the stars, a journey of awakening, accepting and becoming. Your soul chose a specific time to be born that cast your path, purpose how you are meant make an impact. Your soul chose you to lead - in your way. 

The Aquarius New Moon is where 2024 really sparks, always bringing in the Lunar New Year. And this New Moon and how it’s perfectly timed before the North Node / Chiron conjunction, then the Chiron Aries Eclipse, right before the great Jupiter / Uranus meet up… this New Moon is the literal spark to set off these chains of events that will catapult you into your change-making leadership - if first you face the change that still needs to be cracked open. In this episode, I share the details and importance of this New Moon so you can be the change. It truly stars and starts with you.

February is here and it’s time to stretch and shake things up. It’s time to get moving, but first to integrate a new truth, the truth you’ve learned from the last few months of stuckness. It’s time to get moving, but first to integrate a new truth, the truth you’ve learned from the last few months of stuckness. Jus like you can rush through waking up and overwriting your body’s need to stretch by checking your inboxes before you get out of bed and rushing off to whoever needs you. You too can overwrite this integration from rest to momentum in your Work without the proper, yet easeful shake up and wake up.This is the energy that February is asking of you. There is so much to do, and the winds have changed in your favor, but you first need to awaken, shake and stretch to your new truth.

On a global level, Pluto will dig deeper into dismantling all the ways Aquarius archetypes have dipped into the shadows of hyper innovation like high tech bro culture, hyper-differentiation like warring against the other or alien and the hidden truths of hyper-connectivity. And while each one of us is part of this collective, each one of us will experience this Pluto transit in a one-of-a-kind way. So what does this mean for you, as an individual wanting to re-align themselves with the highest ideals of Aquarius, community, friendship, and humanity?

Happy New New Moon in Capricorn! Our first episode of 2024 is all about the Capricorn New Moon. In this episode, I brought in fellow astrologer, April Millar to share our thoughts on this beautiful new moon. With so many of the planets occupying Earth signs, this New Moon is a great time to ground and get clear on your goals and where you want to go this year. Let this New Moon help inform you with whom do you want to experience these achievements with? This year has favorable energy of letting go and healing big stories that have been holding you back that you are ready to overcome and release. Things like unhealthy relationships, fear of playing big, imposter syndrome, money mindset, etc.

My theme for 2024 is Collective Leadership through awakened unity consciousness. I ask the questions, how can we show up better, and how can we move past our fear to be a leader. And so in the final episode of 2023, I wanted to share with you the 5 astrological transits for entrepreneurs, changemakers, and leaders that I have my eye and heart on in 2024 so that you can make your Mark. So wherever you are, regardless if you're just starting out or even if you're already a leader, these are 5 astrological transits that I want you to be aware of and really harness in 2024!

As we get ready to close out the year and welcome our winter Solstice, I want to reflect on the year that we have moved through, I want to share the significance of Solstice 2023, and I want to also share the gains and losses that I've had in my business. I want to live my truth as a transparent leader and show that for every win, there are several losses. Take a listen and find out how you can reflect on this Solstice and be ready to open up to the upcoming new year.

What Higher Consciousness Will Be Initiated In 2024? In this special episode, I am sharing an expert of a 90 minute Astrology panel with myself and 5 other distinguished astrologers from different backgrounds to share and spark inspired action that makes the world a more fair and just place. As we prepare for the cosmic changes of 2024, there has never been a time to come together in awakened, whole, collective leadership (Thank you Chiron in Aries) and it starts here in this panel.

The New Moon in Sagittarius is not yet so easy, but after all the big intense lunations that we’ve had since midyear, it’s finally starting to soften. This is a much more subtle lunation. This new moon is asking you to plant the seeds to take aligned action to grow your purpose and calling in your Work. As you set your intentions looking forward into the next year, really feel into how you want to be more aligned with your mission of what you’re here to do and aligned with your purpose and beliefs of why you’re here to do. 

When we move into Sagittarius season, the Sun the center of our solar system gets into alignment with the Galactic Center. To honor this time, and to awaken parts of your star-dust being, I invited a recent client and Master Energy Healer Arrameia Auraire Araiss to chat. She is a Starseed and she helps others awaken to their own Starseed energy and remove blocks using Light Code Activations.Take a listen to this episode where Arrameia shares her journey and how she reconnects Starseeds like you to their galactic essence through light code activation.  At the end of the interview, she guides us in a clearing energy ritual, perfect to get us ready for the Sun + Galactic Center alignment.

This month, give yourself a hug — you made it through another 12 months. You’ve made daily choices to get to where you are now. Feeling accomplished!? Yes! You’ve done so much. Now is the time to reflect and restore so you can reignite for the year ahead. Feeling resigned!? It’s ok, life is an experiment, so time to redefine your desired outcomes and redirect your energy to try again. You are an changemaker, always refining and redesigning for where you are at now. In December, we are asked to hold space for many planetary movement shifts. From Neptune shifting forward in the first week, to Mercury shifting backward and then Jupiter shifting forward at the tail end of the year. The New Moon in Sagittarius coincides with our final Mercury Retrograde of 2023. A week later, Solstice coincides with the midway point of the Mercury Retrograde, aka Combust where this blaze of light and illumination at this Solar standstill. The final days between Christmas and the New Year are anything but quiet in the sky. And again, I urge you to carve out time for stillness. The Full Moon, Big Spirit Moon in her home sign of Cancer is vast and brilliant, and asks you to be the master of your destiny and emotional security. And as we close out the year, Jupiter comes to a standstill on the point of the Lunar Eclipse in October. Connecting all the dots you got a chance to explore this year. 

This sparkly and activating Full Moon is allowing you to see all the ways your mindset has kept you from acting on your big beliefs. Mars is still hanging with the Sagittarius Sun adding the heat to builds the pressure to take action! And Venus, is now at the same spot as October’s Ring of Fire Solar eclipse. Remember 6 weeks ago when you promised yourself to let go of unhealthy power dynamics. This Full Moon, all of this comes full circle. Divine timing to remind you ,it’s time to re-evaluate the narratives in your mind, heart and soul so you can take action on your purpose. Can you hear it? Your purpose is calling you!!

As we approach American Thanksgiving, my gratitude is amplified. I feel so lucky, grateful and privileged that I am safe and loved. These feelings are amplified because there are so many of us in the world that lack these privileges and necessities. What is a person like me or you to do to during these times when there are so many extremes and when we may feel so powerless. The thing that we can do is to practice gratitude and heart opening. It is a sacred time of Thanksgiving and Hanukkah, a Jewish sacred day to welcome in the light. So this week, I bring a very vulnerable and special episode, an interview I did with the CEO and founder of AdaraRituals.com, Tara Townsend. 

I hope that you are ready for this most powerful Scorpio New Moon. This is absolutely the new moon that you want to create a clear intention. If you are ready to disrupt old patterns that keep you in place instead of in your power. On this potent and energetic New Moon in Scorpio, I invite you to carve out a sliver of stillness. I invite you to listen with your whole body, mind, heart and would. I invite you ask your intuition what it desires of you. And I invite you to ask your intuition what it wants you to know. How can you learn to trust that power in your body?

This month It’s a push and pull as you balance the intensity of Scorpio and the grandios of Sagittarius. You get to elevate and achieve your dreams by setting up boundaries and promising not to over-do-it. As we shift into the Sagittarian energy, with Mercury, Sun and Mars this month, they must initiate with Saturn in Pisces first. In order to dream and go big, Saturn firmly puts his threshold down and says, if you want to dream big and maximize, you must prioritize your Piscean ease, and flow. 

So yes, dream and go big, and choose YES, by first deciding what is a firm No.

How can I unlock my financial trauma? This is a question I often get from business owners, entrepreneurs, and anyone trying to make more money in their Work. Financial trauma is deeply woven into almost all of our experiences and it expresses itself through this idea of deserving. And if you feel like you aren’t deserving, which is most everyone, how this manifests in over-delivering, underpricing, hiding, not spending, over-spending and oh so much more. With this Taurus Lunar Eclipse being all about abundance and the beliefs of lack and deserving that we are now emotionally ready to heal, I decided to bring on Lindsay Bryan-Podvin, Financial Therapist and speaker, to chat about the profound impact on our sense of worthiness and financial well-being. 

In this eclipse reflection episode, I share lessons I learned from a failed retreat. Despite all the planning, often it’s the disruptions that have the sweetest surprises. Hear how although I had this big vision of what I wanted my eclipse retreat to be, I took the lemons that we were dealt with and made lemonade. I share with 6 lessons, a celebration and a beautiful closing of a container - all mostly unplanned - during this eclipse retreat. And what a sweet surprise it was, we mapped out the entire 2024 and can’t wait to share it with you. Maybe my lessons will inspire you to see how disruptions can be the silver linings we need.

In this episode:

• 6 lessons from a failed retreat
• Celebrating, appreciating and savoring
• Learning to close a container
• Eclipse ritual magic