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.

Reading the I Ching Through Yaoi

Just like the yin and yang within the I Ching, the dynamics between an uke and a seme are about power. (tw: fictional descriptions of non-con)

Cancer Venus, ____ Mars

What Cancer Venus looks like blended with Mars in the twelve signs

Het-Jacking

het-jacking is when there is a right and wrong way to fall in love and it usually begins with a dinner and movie and ends with a happily ever after public reveal.

April 2020 Horoscopes

There is absolutely nothing that you can do as an individual to combat the following: mass inequality, race oppression, rape culture, and coronavirus.

Scorpio Rising Breakdown

Scorpio rising, broken down by whole sign houses house by house

Gemini Venus, ____ Mars

Venus-Mars blends for Gemini Venus with Mars in the twelve signs

A Chronology of Pluto

Pluto decisions are the one you notice. You think that they’re a big deal and so they become a big deal, just like geopolitical borders.

Antiscia and the Aries Point (Part II)

However, what did Alexandrinus mean when he wrote that contra-antiscia aspects can “hear” each other while antiscia aspects can “see” each other?

March 2020 Horoscopes

Everything is very good in March! Shiny—operating with dignity, glory, and honor! Except for the mutable signs, it appears. Those guys are either moving very slowly or in ways that are contrary to their own nature.