Lion's Gate Portal

Sedona, July 2025 - Sitting with the Void

I’m checking in with you as we come out of a series of Siiiiiirius alignments. For me, these began in early July with the Sun’s annual conjunction with Sirius, followed by July 22nd (the Feast Day of St. Mary Magdalene), then the Day Out of Time and the First Day of Light, marking the Galactic New Year on July 25th and 26th. This culminated in early August with the Lion’s Gate Portal, at the heliacal rising of Sirius, when the Sun and Sirius are both seen rising together at 30° N latitude.

Wow. My head is spinning from all the activations, and yet I can feel that this coming week will accelerate even more. This week starts with a bang as Mercury stations direct opposing Pluto, followed by a glorious Venus-Jupiter conjunction with Sirius, at 14° Cancer. Sirius Consciousness is flooding through.

My inner Priestess’s eye sees this as an important phase, signaling the beginning of an even greater window that opens with the next New Moon at 0° Virgo, and closes at this same time next year when the South Node reaches 0° Virgo in August 2026. 

I feel this one deeply, since my progressed Venus is right there at 0° Virgo, almost as if it’s been paving the way for this moment since March 2025 when it first entered that degree.

Collectively, it feels like we’re being given the chance to seriously clean up, some of us with wake-up calls, as we prepare for profound changes, adjustments, and new beginnings (0°) in the fields of health and paths of service (Virgo).  

I can hardly wait to dive into the deeper dynamics of this window of the Lion's Gate Portal through the Virgo New Moon in our live workshop next Saturday. 

On a personal note, I’m now in a two-week countdown to my trip to Bali, as the Dark Goddess continues to magnetize my steps toward her. A fresh current of life force moves through me as Mercury stations direct conjunct my North Node in Leo. The path ahead is alive, charged, and ripe… and here I come. -Raquel Spring. ♡