Star Powered®- Astrology for Changemakers with Leslie Tagorda

I sit down with Dr. Sarah Webb, founder of Colorism Healing and an internationally recognized expert on colorism, the day before her brand new book hits shelves. We talk about colorism as more than a social issue. To Sarah, it is soul work, ancestral work, the kind of healing that runs through generations. I pull up her natal chart and we trace her Chiron placement, the wounded healer, and how the...

Mercury Retrograde in Cancer doesn't happen in a silo. It enters its shadow zone near the Gemini New Moon, stations retrograde on the Capricorn Full Moon, goes combust with the Cancer New Moon, and stations direct the same day the Sun enters Leo. Every cycle is a flower strung onto the one before it and the one after it, like a lei. In this episode, recorded live inside the Star Powered Circle mas...

Jupiter is the planet of expansion, and as it moves into Leo, the sign of radiance, creativity, courage, and joy, it invites us to ask a powerful question: How are you ready to expand your radiance? In this special four-part astrology series, recorded live inside Star Powered Circle, Leslie Tagorda explores what Jupiter in Leo means for leaders, entrepreneurs, and changemakers who are ready to mak...

The thing you can't heal in yourself is the thing you're here to heal in others through your work and your leadership. That's Chiron, the wounded healer, and your greatest gifts as a leader come straight from your most painful wounds. In this episode, business astrologer Leslie Tagorda walks you through the full arc of Chiron in Taurus and what it's asking of you as a changemaker. She shares her o...

What is the difference between an offer that sounds like a generic commodity and one that feels like an unforgettable, must-have experience? It all comes down to emotional marketing, and this Gemini New Moon is the perfect time to get radically clear on your messaging. In this special three-part Gemini New Moon Marketing Intensive, I am walking you through the astrology of this lunation, the full...

How do you read a Saturn return, a Pluto return, or any astrological return chart? Bestselling author and astrologer Theresa Reed, The Tarot Lady, joins me to break it all down from her newest book, The Book of Astrological Returns: Your Complete Guide to Every Life Cycle from the Sun to Pluto (Weiser Books). I don't cry easily, but when Theresa agreed to write the foreword for my upcoming book, A...

The Full Moon in Sagittarius on May 31 is a blue moon, the second full moon of the month, and a closing note on a big chapter. Sagittarius always asks the deeper question. Not just what is happening, but why. Under this full moon, that question turns toward the limiting beliefs that have been quietly running you — the inherited stories about whether your voice matters and whether it's safe to be s...

Gemini season meets Uranus for the first time in 84 years — and your voice is being called forward. In this special episode, Leslie Tagorda reads the full Gemini chapter from her upcoming book Astrology for Changemakers (Weiser Books, September 8, 2026). Geminis are some of the most judged signs of the zodiac — too chatty, too scattered, too changeable. Yet Gemini at its highest is the messenger,...

Taurus New Moon May 16, 2026. New Moon ritual, intentions, and astrology for abundance, worthiness, and the trance of unworthiness. Star Powered® Podcast with Leslie Tagorda and special guest Jackie McDonald on EFT tapping for the New Moon. The Taurus New Moon on May 16, 2026 at 25° Taurus is asking us to embody our worthiness, our value, and the relaxed receptivity that real prosperity requires....

Pluto stationed retrograde on May 5, 2026 at 5° Aquarius and stays retrograde through October 15 — moving only two degrees back to 3° Aquarius. But Pluto is a Mack truck. It doesn't shift gears overnight. This Rx medicine is still fresh. In this episode, I'm walking you through what this Pluto retrograde is really asking of us as leaders, changemakers, and wayfinders. The revolution starts inside...

Scorpio Full Moon — the perfect lunation to illuminate after the Aries New Moon. Both ruled by Mars' power. Aries moves us toward our desires. Scorpio moves us toward revealing our deep fears. The Aries New Moon invited us to see that desire is leadership, that we have to claim our desires, and that if our desires don't scare us a bit, they aren't big enough. Then Uranus moved into Gemini, a gener...

Every 84 years, Uranus enters Gemini — and every time it does, the world breaks open a new way to communicate and fight for freedom. The printing press. The telegraph. The computer. Now AI. This time is different. Pluto is in Aquarius, dismantling old power structures and making room for something collective. The pattern is here — and I'm not letting it pass without naming it. In this episode, I t...

Desire comes from the stars — literally. The Latin root of "desire" means "to await what the stars will bring." So what happens when you suppress your desires and refuse to speak them out loud? You're not just playing small — you're turning away from your original design and leadership. This Aries New Moon on April 17 brings seven planets into Aries, and I want to show you how your desire is the k...

The Full Moon in Libra arrives on April 1st, and all eyes are on relationships. In this special collaboration episode, I sit down with my favorite EFT tapping queen Jackie McDonald (Wildly Wealthy Woman Podcast) to break down everything you need to know about this powerful full moon — and how to work with its energy instead of against it.

I just got back from New York City — performing with my woodwind quintet, meeting astrology royalty, co-hosting an Aries equinox party with Colin Bedell (Queer Cosmos) and Ophira Edut of the Astro Twins — and I came home more certain than ever: we are meant to connect right now. In this episode, I'm sharing everything honestly. The mistakes I made with Circle in 2025. The thyroid cancer diagnosis...

This is your third and most potent New Year celebration of 2026, the truest fresh start, and the stars are done letting you sit on the sidelines. The Sun enters Aries at the exact same time Mercury stations direct, and this energy is asking you to stop reimagining and start living your dream - out loud! In this episode I'm breaking down what Aries energy really is and how to reclaim it even if you...

The final New Moon of our celestial year is here, and it's the most dream-filled, visionary lunation of all. This Pisces New Moon on March 18 at 28 degrees of Pisces is your cosmic invitation to transcend your current reality, reconnect to universal love, and dream a whole new world into existence. And the best part? You don't have to figure it out alone, the Universe is co-creating with you. Pisc...

You may think that to have more impact, more success, and more growth requires you to become tougher. That is so far from the truth. Now that Jupiter is coming to a stop to change directions forward in its exalted sign of Cancer, the stars are inviting you into something more powerful than tough — emotional capacity. The thing I have seen over and over again is that your external reach is limited...

The Virgo Lunar Eclipse on March 3, 2026 is here to reveal the hidden pattern of overgiving, the belief that you have to work harder, give more, and prove your worth. In this episode, I walk you through the astrology of this powerful Blood Moon in Virgo and how it's inviting you to release perfectionism, people-pleasing, and the pressure to do more. This eclipse is part of a three-eclipse Virgo cy...

What if Mercury Retrograde isn't here to create chaos, but clarity? From February 25 through March 20, 2026, Mercury retrogrades in Pisces from 22° back to 8°, inviting you to reimagine your soul purpose. In this episode, we explore how this Mercury Retrograde in Pisces is less about miscommunication and more about recalibration. With Mercury bookended by the North Node and aligned with Venus, Jup...

The Saturn Neptune conjunction at 0° Aries begins a new 36-year cycle and it's arriving alongside a new era of artificial intelligence forcing a new world of work. In this episode, I share the astrology of AI, leadership, and career adaptation. We talk about how to future-proof your work by becoming more human: embodiment, intuition, empathy, imagination, and spiritual meaning, the things AI canno...

If you've learned anything about 2026, it's that this is not business as usual. This Aquarius New Moon Eclipse sparks the Lunar New Year in the Year of the Fire Horse, and it's not asking you what you want. It's asking you: What are you open to? There's no going back to business as usual, so you need to be open to something brand new and trust on taking that leap of faith. In this episode of Star...

Saturn is moving into Aries, marking the beginning of a brand-new 30-year success cycle. In this episode, I break down what Saturn in Aries really means for leadership, identity, courage, and mastery — especially for changemakers, healers, creatives, and visionaries who are ready to stop doubting themselves and start honoring their lived wisdom. This is not surface-level astrology. Saturn teaches...

Ever set a goal or resolution at the beginning of the year…only to forget it by February? Or feel like something's wrong with you when you don't follow through? This doesn't mean you're undisciplined or uncommitted. In this episode of the Star Powered® Podcast, I explore why goals function a lot like predictions, they're binary, fixed, and rigid. They work for short-term planning and sprint cycles...

In this first episode of our new monthly Moon collaboration, Leslie Tagorda and Jackie McDonald come together to explore the Capricorn New Moon on January 18 and its powerful invitation to own your authority, trust your lived experience, and stop giving your power away to external systems, credentials, or expectations. Capricorn energy is often misunderstood as rigid, heavy, or obligation-driven…b...