Monday, July 21, 2025 — Ashes of Illusion: Moon in Taurus & Aftershock of Mars–Ketu
Moon in Taurus (Rohini Nakshatra)
The Moon glides through Rohini, seductive, stabilizing, and fertile. This is lunar luxury tinged with longing. The emotional body craves softness, but not at the expense of truth. Rohini urges embodiment not escapism. It’s the nourishment after the wildfire. Expect clarity through touch, scent, and beauty that anchors the nervous system.
Mars–Ketu Conjunction (Lingering Effects)
The exact conjunction is passed, but the ash still floats. Yesterday’s rebellion now takes the shape of:
Echoes of whistleblowers
Unofficial resignations
Political alliances unravelling quietly. Ketu begins to sever illusions with surgical precision. Mars, weakened yet refining purpose, burns through ego remnants.
Mercury Retrograde in Cancer + Saturn Retrograde in Pisces
Language is fragile. Memory deceives. Truth is no longer spoken, it’s remembered. These transits dredge up buried decisions and karmic entanglements. Expect:
Emotional reevaluation of past choices
Exposed manipulation
Institutional review without resolution (yet)
Global Pulse
The collective is hungover from Mars–Ketu’s psychic earthquake. Migratory tension continues to rise. Political factions calcify. Surveillance spikes while faith in systems declines. We are in the middle of the reprogramming, the language of reform is being rewritten.
From Florida to Finland, the cosmic story is one of disillusionment alchemized into truth.
Personal Pulse
This is a day of subtle unraveling.
Let emotions move slowly, like tectonic plates.
Trust gut instincts, they carry ancestral wisdom today.
Don’t rush clarity. It’s blooming beneath the surface.
Discomfort points to where energy wants to flow again.
Meditation for Monday
Inhale: “I dissolve the illusion.” Exhale: “I anchor in awakened presence.”
Notice what thoughts arise when silence deepens. That’s where the healing starts.
How to Move Through This Day
Use beauty as medicine, color, texture, aroma
Don’t argue with confusion, observe it
Honor fatigue as a teacher, not a failure
Integrate the lessons from Sunday’s fire into Monday’s soil
Affirmation
“I emerge from illusion. Not broken, but transformed.”
Let Monday be the inhale after the scream. The silence after the rupture. The first step into a clarified future.
