On Not Being a Stereotypical Aries

Aries is in control of what we share, how much, and with whom. We’re not petulant children who tantrum our way through the world. We understand that how to direct attention, we know when to surprise, and we are in control of when we want to speak louder and when we want to whisper.

Astro Advice Column: Quadruple Libra

How do I make decisions about planning my life in the future. I feel like an air plant and I want to be committed to a practice but I feel like I forget what I am doing all of the time.

Loving Venus in Leo

Venus in Leo looks at someone and, instantly, sees the biggest and brightest thing about that person. You see, Venus in Leo looks at you and sees talent raw and emerging. It sees you as a simply wondrous being.

Loving Venus in Cancer

You don’t get to tuck a Venus in Cancer away in your own pocket and keep them just for you. A Venus in Cancer comes with a family of trans siblings, a network of cousins, or a close knit circle of BTS stans who they text almost everyday.

Loving Venus in Gemini

Loving Gemini Venus is loving a Venus that remembers what it’s like to have no people, to be the odd one out who no one “gets”, and to simply not look like anyone else who is in the same room as them.

Loving Venus in Taurus

Loving Venus in Taurus is a Venus that is sure that it is meant to provide, provide, and provide.

March 2022 Horoscopes

This is no time for refined conversation, pointed lines, or subtleties of transference. This is a time for raucousness, for horselaughs, and for barking.

On Not Being a Stereotypical Pisces

When it comes down to it, a Pisces will always give—give more time, more food, more passion, and more heart. A Pisces doesn’t keep track. A Pisces always believes that there is more than enough.

The Twelfth House

Following ghosts does not result in professional success, Gordon writes, but as failure. Following ghosts means that you sit in a room and quietly call attention to the fact that “There’s something in the room with us.”

Loving Venus in Aries

This is a Venus that doesn’t like to be told what to do. You simply cannot tell an Aries Venus what to do. Loving a Venus in Aries is about loving someone who can’t be told what to do.

The Eleventh House

The eleventh house opposes the fifth house, which is the house of the erotic. It’s both these houses, this axis of the fifth and eleventh, I think, that refers to love.

The Function of Regret

If an idiot is someone who can’t tell who will choose to hurt them, who will feel coerced by a system to hurt them, because that idiot can’t read minds or tell the future, then so be it. Be that idiot.

Exalted Planet Hunger

Imagine an athlete who, having trained for something their entire life, stakes it all on one game. That type of exhilaration is breathtaking. This is how exalted planets deal with what they feel is promised to them.

February 2022 Horoscopes

February will be about softening judgment. There’s a type of judgment that is about compassionate awareness. Judgment can also feel paranoid.

Five Techniques to Assess Aspects

I’m going to show you five techniques from Abu Mashar for assessing aspects in a chart. Feel free to use a chart that you are familiar with, like your own natal chart, to try them out.

The Tenth House

Most astrologers describe the midheaven as having the largest influence on a person out of all of the angles.

On Not Being A Stereotypical Aquarius

There’s a certain romantization of the Aquarius—if you are an Aquarius, detriment Sun, the thinking goes, you must be so cool, so avant garde, and so performative in yourself that you must become your performance. But Aquariuses are just people who don’t know who they will be.

Toxicity and Salvation

Feeling like it is possible to seclude yourself away from everything and everyone who is toxic is a kind of alienation.

The Ninth House

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.

The Eighth House

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 as Supernatural Study

Love is supernatural, which means that it exists as both consequence and miracle. We love the same way we breathe—without thinking and miraculously.