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.

Venus: Retrograde, Parallax, Cacophony

The cacophony of Venuses is also a chorus of discordant femininities—femininities that promote carceral capitalism, femininities that are experienced as anticapitalist rest, femininities that are experienced as subjugated pleasure, and femininities that choose bad materialisms.

Not All Squares are Created Equal

Mutable squares are the only types of squares where it is possible that both planets in a square share a ruler. This would be like two tenants who share a landlord.

the Myth of the Soft White Heart

White people are taught to call their fetishization empathy. They’re taught that their saviorism is heroic. They’re taught that the only pure relation is desire and that white desire elevates racialized people.

Decolonizing Essential Dignities: Reading Dignities Through Fanon

When we apply Fanon to astrology, we change astrology from a tool of self reflection into a technology for action.

Park Jimin Natal Chart Analysis: The Local Intimacy of the Eye Smile

Because Saturn is the exaltation lord of Jimin’s south node while his fallen Sun is the exaltation lord of his north node, Jimin ruthlessly controls himself and his own image as a way to deal with the security issues that result from the precarious nature of neoliberalism.

Decolonizing Essential Dignities

Debilitation is a state of existence in which you are always viewed to be an outsider, where you must constantly prove your own existence, in places that were made to exclude you.

Min Yoongi Natal Chart Analysis: Authentic Pity as Commodity

Yoongi’s melancholy, which is a big part of his brand persona, communicates across borders. When Yoongi represents himself in Tony Montana, he’s not glorifying himself as a neoliberal hero but glorifying himself as a neoliberal antihero.

Lunar Eclipse June 2020

The eclipse is an expression of power. That’s what the Sun represents—the source and center of power. The Moon represents the places at which power is reproduced, which is always at the margins.

June 2020 Horoscopes

Centers of cultural and financial capital have historically controlled life by distributing death at the margins.

How to Work with Your First Saturn Return

Saturn is not just something that returns when you’re twenty eight-ish and again when you’re fifty six-ish. When it returns, it’s actually just one part of a larger cycle.

Why White Queers Love "Japan"

The question should really be—why do white queers love the dissociative images of themselves that pseudo-Japan mirrors back to them so much?

Libra Rising Breakdown

Every stereotype about Libra talks about how it is conflict avoidant and about how the scales really just want to balance out all the issues and find an equilibrium. However! Libra risings have Aries on the descendent. Psych!

Saturn Opposite Chiron

When Saturn is opposite Chiron in the natal chart, I’ve found that people tend to shoulder the traumas and issues of their family. They tend to feel that they are solely responsible for healing the family’s inherited trauma.

The Fixed Star Sirius

I have a lot of clients who have hard personal aspects to Sirius—a fixed star at 13º Cancer. Over the years, after working with numerous clients around Sirius, I’ve learned about its connections with alienation, cultural memory, and simulacra.

May 2020 Horoscopes

COVID-19 doesn’t bring new crises. It exasperates what is already happening. NYC has a bad case of the coronavirus because it is a police state. It is a place where we pretend to solve problems by expanding our sacrifice zones.

Chinese Masculinity/Patriarchy

The capitalist patriarchy that exists in China is different from the capitalist patriarchy that exists in the West. The western patriarch buys women as investment and enjoys them. The Chinese patriarch pays for women out of masochism and sees the act only as an act of self sacrifice.

Astro-Speech

Hey, are you also sick of wondering what Jupiter means, asking Mr. Google, and seeing the word “expansive” come up over and over again and wondered what the hell that even means? Astrology should not replace idea-making. Astrology is just a language. Would you allow any other language to replace your ingenuity?

Power

A lot of the time, when we say that we’re looking for love, we’re actually looking for power.