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At the end of June, we had 2 important ingresses: Chiron moved into Taurus, and Jupiter into Leo.
Early this month, the 2 formed an exact square, triggering some of our deepest vulnerabilities around rejection, visibility, and the fear of not being accepted for who we are.
What gives this transit its unique flavor is that both planets have just entered new signs. Chiron hasn’t been in Taurus for more than 4 decades. Jupiter hasn’t been in Leo since 2015.
So this is not just another Jupiter-Chiron square. These 2 ingresses have shifted us into a completely new reality – one that, for many of us, is a total first.
To understand what makes this Jupiter-Chiron square unique, let’s get back to what Taurus and Leo stand for.
Taurus Vs Leo
Taurus is the intelligence of the body – discerning what feels safe, nourishing, real, and right – and what’s not.
Chiron in Taurus has the mandate to restore our somatic intelligence – what the body knows before the mind comes up with an explanation – our ability to feel what’s good for us and what’s not, to sense our boundaries, and to feel good in ourselves without needing validation or external confirmation.
Leo energy is different. It’s not the primal, early, instinctual knowing of Taurus. Leo follows Gemini, the mind, and Cancer, the emotions. So by the time we get to Leo, we have moved through all 4 elements and have developed a more rounded sense of self.
Leo is the developmental process where we learn to stand as individuals and be seen.
Jupiter in Leo then interprets the body’s truth through a big identity story: What does this mean about me? Who I am, how I am seen, and what’s expected of me?
And this is where the Chiron square creates the pressure point: “Will I still be seen, loved, respected, and wanted if I follow my body’s truth?”
Leo is ruled by the Sun, the largest body in our solar system by an order of magnitude. We cannot not see the Sun. The Sun is simply there, impossible to ignore, beaming its light and heat.
That’s why for people with Leo placements, being seen for who they are is at the very core of their experience. Not for ego strokes, contrary to some stereotypes. Not for applause. But for the experience of being witnessed.
The Leo Wound
Leo, the fixed fire sign, cannot help but radiate energy. So being allowed to express its fire as it is, without containment or apology, is one of its core needs.
But what happens when that radiance, that pure expression of one’s energy, is not witnessed? Or when it’s questioned?
This is terrifying not necessarily because of the rejection itself, but because it touches the very core of Leo’s identity.
You don’t witness me, so I don’t exist. My heat is not welcome – even if I can’t help but radiate it. If I am not witnessed, if I am turned down, then who am I?
So when Chiron in Taurus exposes our raw body truth, it also exposes the deepest Leo vulnerabilities:
Not feeling seen or appreciated.
Feeling that our sovereignty is questioned.
Feeling that our boundaries are crossed or not treated with respect.
The more Chiron takes us into this vulnerable, no-outcome-guarantee excavation, the more it can trigger Leo’s fear of identity collapse. We may see rejection where there is none, or experience rejection – real or imagined – as a direct ego death.
Jupiter In Leo Square Chiron In Taurus
Chiron in Taurus challenges Jupiter in Leo narratives. Everything we thought we knew about our identity, about who we are, and about what makes us valuable may suddenly be questioned.
As a response to the tension, the tendency can be to retreat, tomanufacture worst-case scenarios, to save face, or to act distant in advance, in an unconscious effort to re-establish control.
“I didn’t want this anyway”. “I don’t care”.
But Chiron’s invitation is not to avoid vulnerability. The reason that deep, underlying wound was triggered was for a very specific reason.
The power of the Sun is not that it shines all the time – at least not from our geocentric perspective on Earth.
The Sun gives us heat during the day, and then retreats under the horizon so we can embody, integrate, and rest during the night.
A key lesson for Sun-ruled Leo is learning how to set with grace. To be okay with the fact that its radiant heat, while life-giving and impossible to live without, is not needed all the time.
This means being okay not being the #1 person all the time. Not being seen all the time. Not being needed all the time.
This doesn’t make us less of who we are. On the contrary. It can take away the pressure to perform, the pressure to always be on, the pressure to constantly prove our light.
When we learn to take a back seat and slide into the underworld, anonymous and unseen, it can feel incredibly vulnerable.
But that’s exactly what helps us relax into being – becoming more, not less, of who we are.
Chiron And Vulnerability
Vulnerability feels scary, especially for a fixed sign like Leo, where consistency is so central.
But vulnerability serves a purpose. Vulnerability is what we feel when the old identity no longer fits, but the new one has not stabilized yet.
It is the part of us that steps into something before the mind has figured out the plan. At some level, we already know that there is “more” out there.
We don’t know exactly what – hence the vulnerability. But the longing has been awakened, and this makes the old reality impossible to sustain.
Vulnerability requires being a little less sparkly, less polished – and more raw in the truth of the present moment, whatever that is.
Even if it makes us feel smaller, even if it appears to dim our light, even if the outcome is completely unknown.
We don’t have to always provide. Always be the one others count on. Always be the generous one. It’s ok to pause. The world will not only survive without us – it may also learn to do its own share.
Jupiter Square Chiron – When Truth Triggers Rejection
This vulnerability has a distinct Chiron in Taurus flavor: what actually feels right, right now? What makes my body say yes? Say no? What makes me feel safe? Unsafe?
These are the types of questions we may have forgotten to ask. Because the pressure to perform a version of life that kept us seen, approved of, or needed also meant that we had to check out from our own somatic intelligence.
Since Chiron entered Taurus, the longing to reconnect with our body, our senses, and our sense of safety, to what feels right, has become increasingly difficult to ignore.
Yet at the same time, because Jupiter in Leo squares this process, we are asked to hold an uncomfortable dilemma.
The longing has been unmistakably awakened – but so have our deepest feelings of insecurity and rejection.
It’s like: “Ah, that’s what feels right” but at the same time “The world is rejecting my newfound truth” – so that truth, while real, also feels inappropriate, inconvenient, or not even possible.
Jupiter Square Chiron – The Story Behind The Discomfort
The invitation with all Jupiter hard aspects is to see the story behind the discomfort.
Jupiter, the first social planet, is the planet of beliefs – which is really the type of narratives we’ve been brought into – the culture of the time, the customs, the social codes, the unwritten and written laws of what’s right and what’s wrong.
Unlike Mercury, which reads reality in real time through direct observation and individual mental processing, Jupiter is the overarching story we have already been brought into.
The story we may not even be aware of – the story we may have never considered questioning, because it was there from the very beginning.
So when Chiron in Taurus comes with the longing to be more of ourselves, to lean more into what feels right, the Jupiter in Leo story automatically kicks into gear.
Why it’s inappropriate. Why it’s too much. Why it won’t be accepted. Why it will cost us love, approval, visibility, or belonging.
Remember, we are talking about a Jupiter-Chiron square – not a supportive aspect like a trine or a sextile.
But the gift of the square lies exactly in the dissonance it creates. Yes, the discomfort comes. The rejection. The feeling of exposure. The feeling it’s something wrong, that we’re doing something wrong.
But that is precisely the tension that forces us to look at the story underneath it:
What if the discomfort is not proof that something is wrong, but proof that an old story is being exposed?
What if the answer is not to fix the vulnerability, but to stay with it long enough for the body to tell us what is true?
What if we can trust our inner knowing before we know where it will lead?
The invitation of Jupiter square Chiron is to let the old story crack open, so a deeper truth can finally be felt, trusted, and lived.
New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove Jul 7, 2026 James Tunney, LLM, is an Irish Barrister who has lectured on legal matters throughout the world. He is a poet, a scholar, and author of The Mystery of the Trapped Light: Mystical Thoughts in the Dark Age of Scientism plus The Mystical Accord: Sutras to Suit Our Times, Lines for Spiritual Evolution. His paintings have been shown in galleries in Scandinavia and London. In this video, rebooted from 2021, he shares his passion for and knowledge of a fine art painting. This highly illustrated conversation covers the artwork of Hildegard of Bingen, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, Carl Jung, Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, Norman Rockwell, Paul Cézanne, Georgiana Houghton, Édouard Manet, Georges Seurat, Hilma af Klint, Wassily Kandinsky, Francisco Botticini, Leonardo da Vinci, Filippo Brunelleschi, William Blake, Gino Severini, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Jack Yeats, Oskar Kokoschka, Franz Marc, Max Beckmann, Seán Scully, Ian Fairweather, August Macke, Piero della Francesca, and Nicholas Roerich – as well as his own work. Special emphasis is placed on expressionism in painting. New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. He is Co-Director of Parapsychology Education at the California Institute for Human Science. (Recorded on January 16, 2021)
New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove Jul 6, 2026 Matthew Ingram is author of Retreat: How the Counterculture Invented Wellness. In this 2020 video, he describes two major styles of meditation that he, himself, practices – Vipassana or mindfulness meditation, based on pure awareness, and Vedic mantra meditation. The cultural context for meditation practice is crucial. There is a close relationship between Eastern meditative practices and western forms of psychotherapy. Other western disciplines, such as self-hypnosis are akin to meditation. The discussion also focuses on abuses that can occur between teachers of meditation and their students. His website is http://www.woebot.com. New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. He is Co-Director of Parapsychology Education at the California Institute for Human Science. (Recorded on December 19, 2020)
“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
~ Kierkegaard
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a Danish Lutheran theologian, philosopher, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher. Wikipedia
In a new interview with the Sunday Times, the band’s 82-year-old frontman said he once tried using AI to help title the Stones’ 2023 album, “Hackney Diamonds.” It did not go well.
“No one could agree, and I threw all these titles at it, and it came back with such rubbish; it didn’t help me at all,” Jagger said. “I was saying, ‘These are my 12 album titles, give me some more,’ and of course in the end we never used any of them.”
The comments come as the Rolling Stones prepare to release “Foreign Tongues,” the band’s next studio album, on Friday, July 10. The band has already experimented with AI-linked visual effects in the video for “In the Stars,” which features digitally de-aged versions of Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood.
That tension places the Stones inside a broader debate over AI’s role in music and the arts.
Earlier this year, Spotify moved to add verification badges to help distinguish real artist profiles from AI-generated personas, while artists including Grammy-winning producer Jack Antonoff have criticized AI-assisted music-making as a threat to the purpose of creating art.
The issue has particular resonance in the Bay Area, where OpenAI and Anthropic have major operations in San Francisco and Google, which operates Gemini, is headquartered in Mountain View.
Jagger’s view appears more pragmatic than absolutist. He dismissed AI as a writing partner but said it may have some use for artists.
“It can unstick you, and you think, ‘OK, that was rubbish,’ or ‘Mine are loads better than yours,’” Jagger told The Sunday Times. “It gives you confidence.”
Beyond its album release, Jagger told the Argentine newspaper La Nación that the band does not expect to tour this year.
“I’d love to tour this album,” Jagger said. “I hope to tour next year and I hope to do it as soon as possible.”
He sounded less enthusiastic about the residency-style model used by some major acts, including a potential run at the Las Vegas Sphere, saying such runs can make concerts more expensive for fans who have to travel to one city.
“I like to go places,” Jagger said.
In the Sunday Times interview, Jagger, Richards and Wood also discussed making “Foreign Tongues,” the band’s creative momentum in its eighth decade and “Ringing Hollow,” a new song that reflects on the current state of affairs in America.
Richards, a longtime Connecticut resident, described the track as “a nostalgic love affair with America, and (it being) a bit of a disappointment at the moment.”
“Foreign Tongues” follows “Hackney Diamonds,” which gave the Stones a late-career jolt in 2023. The new album was produced by Andrew Watt and includes contributions from Paul McCartney, Robert Smith, Chad Smith and Steve Winwood.
I will begin by dismantling the compliment before anyone tries to hand it to me. When I strive to dismantle misogyny, homophobia, and transphobia, I’m not merely being kind. When I devote my wild imagination to enhancing and celebrating the lives of women and LGBTQ+ people, my motivation goes way beyond an expression of niceness. Niceness is a thin, well-behaved thing. It’s a way of being pleasant while changing nothing. What I’m doing is more selfish and sacred than that.Here’s my confession: I do this work because I want to live in a gorgeous world, and I have understood for as long as I can remember that I can’t live in a gorgeous world while so much of it is caged.+I was raised, as most straight white men are raised, inside an invisible bargain. The deal went like this: Accept a narrowed life, and in exchange you will be handed a little extra power. If you will only amputate your tenderness, ration your tears, treat your feelings as a security risk, and learn to dominate rather than to commune, then you will be permitted to stand a half-step above the women and the queer and nonbinary people and anyone else the culture diminishes.I saw through it early. As a young man I understood, in my body before I could have argued it, that this was a robbery disguised as a coronation. The patriarchy did its utmost best to train me to devalue the feminine. It also tried to train me to deprecate the feminine in myself, including my own capacity for sensitivity, deep feelings, receptivity, and a sense of wonder.The homophobia that the patriarchy tried to foist on me didn’t merely target other men who love men. It tried to install in me and every boy a low-grade panic that policed every unguarded affection and every place where male love might spill past its assigned borders. I watched it happen to other boys, but luckily it never took hold in me. I simply didn’t buy the fear. I didn’t accept that tenderness between men was a threat to be managed rather than one of the plain glories of being alive.And I could see, even then, where the whole apparatus was headed: toward the lie that the self is a prison sentence rather than a work of art and that a person is stuck being whatever rigid roles they were assigned. I refused to believe that about anyone, which meant I got to refuse to believe it about myself, too.I knew instinctively that every wall I was told to build against someone else’s freedom would turn out to be a wall inside my own imagination. So I refused to build them. And I as I emerged into adulthood, I got loud about it.In the 1970s I turned my rock bands into loudspeakers for a high-intensity feminism and an unapologetic advocacy for gay rights and safety. For a straight white man in those years, this wasn’t a fashionable stance to strike; it was closer to a provocation. I caught a lot of shit for it from men who felt betrayed by a defector, from people who couldn’t fathom why I’d volunteer for a fight that wasn’t, as they saw it, mine to fight. But it was mine. It has always been mine. I wasn’t slumming as an ally. I was refusing to be swindled.
So when I fight for women and LGBTQ+ people, I am also fighting for the exiled parts of myself. This isn’t altruism performing a good deed for the less fortunate. It’s a jailbreak motivated by my clarity that we’re all susceptible to being snared in the same trap.The Indigenous Australian activist Lilla Watson is often credited with a line I have carried for years: “If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.”I take that as scripture. My freedom and everyone else’s are not two freedoms. They are one thing pretending, under duress, to be separate.A culture that despises women is a culture that has declared war on its own source. A culture that persecutes queer and trans and nonbinary people is a culture that has made imagination a crime. I don’t want to be a citizen of that country. Not just because I am virtuous, but because I am greedy for beauty and liberation, and that country is a wasteland.+I will be specific about my winnings, because vague nobility bores me and specificity is a form of respect.When women rise into their full sovereign intelligence—their sublime, unbossed, uncontainable intelligence—the entire world grows smarter, kinder, wilder, and infinitely more interesting.And I get to live in that world. I get to be surrounded by people operating at full power instead of half-throttled by contempt. Who wouldn’t want that? Only a fool volunteers to be the smartest voice in a room emptied of geniuses.When queer, nonbinary, and trans people are free to invent themselves in private and public, they teach the rest of us that we, too, are permitted to be creative authors of our destinies. Every trans person who insists on becoming who they are is informing me that my life isn’t a fixed sentence but a living poem I am allowed to revise. That’s a gift of staggering value.When love is allowed to take whatever shape love takes, the total quantity of love in the culture increases. And love isn’t a scarce resource I have to hoard. It’s a fire that lights other fires without diminishing itself. A society drenched in permitted love is a warmer, wilder, more erotic and more alive place to spend one’s incarnation. This is what I mean by PRONOIA: the hypothesis, always worth testing, that reality is rigged in our favor, and that the liberation of the people I was urged to diminish is not a loss for me but a windfall. Their flourishing is my inheritance.+I want to be clear that I’m not offering to save anyone. The white male savior is one of patriarchy’s favorite cartoon characters, and I have no interest in auditioning for the role. Women don’t need me to rescue them from a burning building; they need me to stop stacking the kindling and, more often, to shut up and hand them the water and get out of the doorway.My job isn’t to lead the parade. My job is to be a fierce and joyful accomplice, to spend my inherited advantages recklessly and gladly, in service of a world where such advantages no longer exist.And I want to do it while fully embodied and incarnate, not as a bloodless moral position but as a visceral delight. Too much allyship is performed with a long, grave face, as though justice were a grim tax we pay to feel clean.I reject that funeral. The dismantling of misogyny and homophobia and transphobia isn’t a chore. It’s one of the most thrilling collaborative art projects our species has ever attempted: the reinvention of what a human being is allowed to be.+So yes, when I do this work I’m serving the higher good of my culture. A culture that liberates its women becomes more intelligent. A culture that honors its queer, nonbinary, and trans citizens becomes more imaginatively courageous and more capable of transformation. A culture that lets love run free becomes more beautiful. These aren’t sacrifices I make on the altar of goodness. They are the conditions of a life I actually want to live.I fight misogyny and homophobia and transphobia the way a person trapped in a stale room throws open every window. It’s not out of duty to the wind, but out of hunger for air.Call it selfish, then. I’ll accept the charge and raise the stakes: It’s the most enlightened selfishness I know. My liberation is bound up with everyone’s. And I have come, exuberantly and greedily and for the rest of my life, to work together.
For anyone counting who’s missing Someone is going to read my essay above and feel a sting: Why only these groups? Where is everyone else?The answer is built into the argument itself.I wrote about misogyny and homophobia and transphobia because those are prohibitions I felt pressing on my own life, and the freedoms I had to win for myself before I could recognize them in anyone else. This essay is the map of one particular jailbreak, mine. I won’t pretend I’ve made every escape or know every prison from the inside.But the thesis doesn’t halt at the borders of my biography. It can’t. My liberation is bound up with everyone’s isn’t a slogan I get to apply selectively. If it’s true, it’s true all the way down.So I’ll say more of it plainly.A culture that brutalizes Black people is at war with its own genius.A culture that works to erase Indigenous peoples is trying to amputate its own oldest memory and its deepest knowledge of how to actually live on this land.A culture that treats immigrants as invaders is starving itself of the exact hunger and nerve and reinvention that keep a nation alive.A culture that scorns its Latina and Latino people is spurning the very warmth and boldness it needs and secretly hungers for. A culture that demeans and diminishes its disabled people is throwing away its hardest-won wisdom about adaptation. A culture that punishes the poor is criminalizing a wound it inflicted in the first place. A culture that treats the homeless as inconvenient scenery to be cleared away is refusing to look at its own failure. A culture that pathologizes neurodivergent minds is narrowing the range of the ways it’s allowed to think. A culture at war with certain bodies that don’t match absurdly narrow beauty standards is at war with the fact of embodiment itself.Each of those cruelties impoverishes the world I have to live in. Each of those liberations is, by the same greedy logic, my inheritance too.I don’t say all of it every time I say any of it because no single essay can carry the whole weight of everything that needs undoing. But I will never pretend the wrong I named is the only wrong, or that the freedom I’m this greedy for has a color, a border, or a limit.The invitation is identical for all of it: not to help from a safe distance, but to work together, because we have always been in this together.
Our abstract ideas tend to stimulate higher levels of creativity and inspiration compared to concrete or “relative” thoughts, by promoting a broader range of novel connections and mental flexibility. While concrete ideas provide necessary grounding, abstract concepts like “wholeness,” “justice” or “freedom” activate brain regions associated with complex thinking and emotion, triggering deeper, more enduring inspiration.
Pam is a longtime Prosperos student and Mentor, and you will enjoy hearing her insights. Pam will be introduced by Patricia Lambert.
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Releasing the Hidden SplendourTM is a simple technique that helps us to free ourselves from old patterns, to know ourselves Truthfully, to LOVE ourselves unconditionally, and to more fully live our unique, individual life purpose.
In this class, and in the workshops that follow, you will learn to “WORK” with a memory that made you feel bad (angry, fearful, hurt, insulted, injured, etc.), using a simple emotional technique that allows you to GIVE up the old pattern FOR a whole, new understanding of your true identity!
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Heather Williams became a Mentor in The Prosperos School of Ontology in 1978. She has taught The Prosperos classes for many years, in many different cities.
“You will really get a greater awareness regarding Spiritual Truth! Heather sparkles and has such a dynamic, concise delivery.” — Dr. Anna Hamilton, late Dean of The Prosperos
