Stop Using Yin and Yang to Talk About Colonial Gender

Yin and yang are not about western gender norms. Yin and yang have their own gender baggage from the cultural context that it developed in.

October 2020 Horoscopes

American fascism has never needed censorship to assert power. While some empires rely on the removal of information to assert power, American empires have always created a chaos of information by staging public spectacles, contradicting itself, and enforcing paranoia through constant surveillance.

Astrology is Science Fiction

Astrology is a mythmaking practice. Mythmaking is the power that storytelling has on life. As a mythmaking practice, astrology is being done when aesthetics shape materiality and when relationships change society. Astrology is being done when fiction shapes reality.

Nodal Benders

North nodal benders are things that you are continually in the process of building. South nodal benders are things that you are always in the process of releasing. All nodal benders are about change.

The Hidden Houses

The hidden houses are about accountability and abolition. They are about self transformation. They surround the horizon points because accountability and abolition change you and the roles you play.

The Supportive Houses

While the angular houses are about the actual events of change themselves, the supportive houses or houses that sextile the horizon are about the places where we see change become more than what was promised.

The Angular Houses

The reason why the angular houses signify change is because we were not born to live in a static and unchanging world but to live in a perpetually changing world.

Why the rich are afraid of us

For all their power and money, the rich are actually just afraid of us. They’re afraid of people. They’re afraid of people power—they’re afraid of what happens when people come together.

Responding to your chart

Your natal chart is not you. Your natal chart is an image of the moment of your birth in a very specific language.

Leo Venus, ____ Mars

Venus-Mars blends for Leo Venus and Mars in all twelve signs

Love Letter to Clients

This is a love letter to all of you who have gotten an astrology reading from me. Love is a community of care. Love is work. Love is in the moments and love can happen with strangers too.

Exaltations and Falls

We live in a representational republic where visibility is power, whether that visibility is achieved through political or commercial representation. In other words, exaltations and falls have to do with visibility.

September 2020 Horoscopes

The problem isn’t capitalism—the problem is racial patriarchal capitalism. To deride capitalism without the whole picture is to pretend that money is something that can buy happiness.

People Born in 1996 are Going Through a lot

I like to call this generation the punk generation. I call them this because I’m trying to be polite. Really, I should be calling this generation the trash generation. This is a generation that finds no hope in any of our political or civil institutions. It’s a generation that sees the world as something that has failed.

August 2020 Horoscopes

The symbol of a red hand signifies indisputable guilt. Often used in mystery or detective stories, the red right hand is often found on villains. Villains serve a specific function in the police story. They contrast violence with the state and make violence seem exceptional.

How to Start Doing Client Work

Client work can be a little scary. There can be feelings of imposter syndrome, of not having your own shit together enough to be counseling others especially before you build your own counseling framework, and you might have no idea how to differentiate between emotional labor and counseling.

Saturn as Generational Change

Saturn is about transcending the limits of political power. It’s about being anti everything. It’s about being dissatisfied. A lot of revolutionaries have been Saturn people.

Holding Me Accountable

Since writing and posting the articles on essential dignities, I’ve been called in on the use of the word decolonizing. Since the call in happened on social media and I don't think a lot of people saw it, I’m writing this article as an accountability process and to be transparent about my learning process and next steps.

Everything is not fine: Horoscope writing as art

Horoscopes, like other forms of art and culture, can be used for fascism. Just like there is a such thing as a fascist song or a fascist play, there is a such thing as a fascist horoscope column.

Five Books for Astro Newbs

This list is for people who are basically just vaguely aware of star signs and some planets but are not really sure how to put all those things together into an astrological analysis.

July 2020 Horoscopes

Happening opposite to the American Sun, the eclipse on July 5th is about the distribution of life and death within the empire that is the United States.