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Star Powered® is the evolution and expansion of the conversation begun in The Savvy Luminary podcast where we explore the intersection of astrology, changemaking, leadership and the intuitive revolution. Through New Moon rituals to set intentions that drive your Work forward, to monthly Biz StarCasts that allow for conscious working with the celestial energies, to power building interviews with other spiritual thought leaders, Star Powered™ aims to create a dialog so changemakers can feel secure and inspired in their star powers to lead by their chart and create the future they want to see. Hosted by Hawaii-born Jewish Filipino Astrologer, Leslie Tagorda. Through healing her Chiron wound around leadership and identity, she's a professional classical clarinetist, author, podcast host, designer, and the creator of the AstroBrand™ method. She helps changemakers become the luminary leaders they are born to be.

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June 16, 2026Episode 15450 min

What Chiron Reveals About the Gift in Your Leadership and Brand

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 own Chiron in Aries story of growing up mixed race, code switching to survive, and the comparisonitis that shaped her path into brand strategy and astrology. Then she maps the myth of Chiron, from abandonment to becoming the master healer with his own temple, onto the hero's journey of your own leadership, with a story mapping exercise you can pause and do with a notebook. If you were born between 1976 and 1984, this one is especially for you. On June 19, Chiron moves back into Taurus, the sign it held the day you were born, and your Chiron return begins. Leslie gets to the heart of the Taurus questions, is it safe to have, to receive, to feel worthy, and closes by inviting the Chiron in Aries generation to take stock of what their wound made them become before Chiron leaves Aries for good. You do not need to be fully healed to do this work. Your lived experience is your expertise.

June 9, 2026Episode 15341 min

How to Set Your Emotional Marketing Goals This Gemini New Moon

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 seven-part AstroBrand Story Blueprint to move your content from the head to the heart, and personalized prompts for all 12 rising signs so you know exactly what emotional shift your audience needs from you right now. Because Mercury, the ruler of this new moon, is sitting in Cancer, the old way of listing out features and facts is no longer enough — your people need to feel the magic of how you change their lives. Grab your birth chart, get your notebook, and let's plant some powerful seeds of intention together.

June 3, 2026Episode 15259 min

How to Read Your Astrological Returns with Theresa Reed | Saturn Return, Pluto Return & More

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, Astrology for Changemakers, I absolutely teared up. That's the kind of generosity she brings to this whole astrology family. She's been reading tarot and astrology for 40 years, she's the author of more than eight books, and she's one of the warmest, funniest humans I know. In this episode you'll learn the four things Theresa looks at in any return chart, why your second Saturn return rarely goes the way you expect, and how she reads the United States Pluto return as a lens on the times we're living through. Theresa even gifts me a live mini-reading of her own solar return, with real talk about visibility, PR, and showing up for the Astrology for Changemakers launch. Theresa's book gives you the cycles. Astrology for Changemakers gives you how to lead with your stars inside them. Read together, they're a guide for being the change you want to see.

May 27, 2026Episode 15120 min

Blue Full Moon in Sagittarius - The Beliefs That Were Never Yours with Jackie McDonald

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 seen, heard, and understood. In this episode, Leslie is joined by her friend Jackie McDonald of the Wildly Wealthy Woman Podcast. Together they pair the astrology with EFT tapping, a simple somatic practice for moving an old belief out of your body and a new one in. This one is part teaching, part hands-on. Come ready to do the work. What belief is stopping you right now? And what's the belief waiting on the other side of it?

May 20, 2026Episode 15032 min

Gemini - The Power to Engage

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, the cross-pollinator, the thought leader who builds bridges between people and ideas. Whether you have Gemini planets, Gemini Rising, or Gemini by house in your chart, this episode is your invitation to reclaim your voice, own your story, and harness your power to engage.

May 14, 2026Episode 14951 min

Taurus New Moon 2026: Uncolonize Your Worthiness

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. In this New Moon ritual episode, I open up about the bumpy recovery I've been navigating, the way my sense of self worth tanked when I couldn't produce in the way my ambitious self wanted, and the radical acceptance medicine I needed to remember.

May 7, 2026Episode 14842 min

Pluto Retrograde 2026 in Aquarius: How Reclamation Sparks Revolution Within

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 of you.

April 29, 2026Episode 14734 min

Scorpio Full Moon: What truth am I ready to reveal?

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 generational shift forcing us to get comfortable with uncertainty. And now, the Scorpio Full Moon is shining the light on the truths that keep us from reaching for our desires and clinging to the past instead of embracing inevitable change. In this episode, we go Scorpio Moon deep to tap into Scorpio's power and reveal what's truly holding you back from your leadership. To do the big change-making things that make you a leader requires the deep inner work to reveal the shadows that are still calling the shots. Then I'll teach you Pema Chödrön's Tonglen — a Tibetan Buddhist breathing practice that uses what seems like poison as medicine. In four counts of a breath, you'll walk the parallel path your leadership actually requires: inner awakening and outer impact, happening at once. Be prepared to go deep. To breathe differently than you've been taught. And to reveal what's truly blocking you from your luminary leadership.

April 21, 2026Episode 1451 hr 7 min

Uranus re-enters Gemini 2026 - Shake up your Circles

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 trace the history of Uranus in Gemini across three major eras — the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and World War II — to map what's coming for 2025–2033. I break down the Gemini archetype beyond its flattened binary, dig into why the US is especially impacted (natal Uranus at 8º Gemini), and walk you through how this transit moves through your houses and aspects your natal planets. The breakthrough has never belonged to the lone genius. It belongs to the collaborative. To the circle-shakers. To the ones willing to reach across the divide. So here's what I want you to sit with: How do you want to experience this breakthrough energy — and are you ready to shake up your circle?

April 14, 2026Episode 14537 min

Aries New Moon: Desire is Leadership

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 key to your leadership, and how your devotion is the key to getting what you desire. This is the Aries New Moon of all Aries New Moons. No planets in retrograde. Everything is full steam ahead. The cosmos is asking you: do you know what you desire and are you brave enough to take action?