There’s a lot of good things in the ninth house—dreams of the future, self belief, and recognition. When you work with the ninth house, the best way to start is to ask yourself about your relationship to these things.
There is a sense of lack of control with the eighth house. What do we tend to do when we anticipate lack of control? We tend to hang onto things tighter. That’s the eighth house.
Love is supernatural, which means that it exists as both consequence and miracle. We love the same way we breathe—without thinking and miraculously.
There’s no such thing as going back to 2019 ideas of “normal.” There is no such thing as going back to before a loss. However, we get to grow bigger around our grief anyway.
Firmicus calls the seventh house Dysis, who was goddess of the sunset. The seventh house is a deeply yellow house where all things come to rest.
The best way to describe the sixth house is that it is the place of needed interdependence. It opposes the twelfth house, which is the place of isolation.
Capricorn is made up of contrarian bones. They’re one of the most quietly and infuriatingly wacky people out there.
There is no self correction in the fifth house but there is control. Pleasure is an automatic process but it eludes you when you have no control over your environment or decisions.
We don’t solve the issue of wound fetishization by making better representations. We do it by realizing that people in pain don't just need visible validation. We need a great deal of other things as well.
There is loss in the fourth house but there is a sense of return as well.
To really talk about Hobi, we have to talk about Venus.
There’s an inherent freakishness to inhabiting femmeness, a certain form of understanding your body from the outside, that becomes voiced and satirical when you understand yourself to be a freak.
Self expression isn’t just about adding decor or about getting stuff. It’s also about getting rid of things.
What Mars in Cancer fears the most, I’ve realized, is that they’re not concerned with the question of whether they can do it—they’re most concerned with the question of whether or not they will have to do it alone.
Sun sign synastry is as simple and as complex as the seasons. The seasons are about change and they’re about presence.
Maybe you’re a Sagittarius and you’re paranoid about desire. You’re paranoid about the question of whether your dreams will come true or not.
For those of us who are burdened with the task of translation (and, with it, treason), for those of us who must translate our own bodies, the third house is not about conducting measured rituals with store bought products. It’s about the terror of the body and becoming familiar with that terror until it is no longer normalized.
OHYUNG is a musician and composer who works with nostalgia and catharsis.
Not everyone is safe enough to get an astrology reading at home.
When I talk to people about their second houses, we talk about addiction, about recovery, about power struggles, about feeling owned by the ways in which you seek to break free from someone, and about the fear of loss.
We’ve seen other forms of protest get co-opted by power—from direct action to representation to satire. Power greenwashes, pinkwashes, and tokenizes. Why not call outs? Of course call outs can get co-opted.
