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 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.

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.

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.

2022 Yearly Horoscopes

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.

On Not Being a Stereotypical Capricorn

Capricorn is made up of contrarian bones. They’re one of the most quietly and infuriatingly wacky people out there.

Wound Fetishization

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.

Jung Hoseok Natal Chart Analysis: Beautiful Anti-Hero

To really talk about Hobi, we have to talk about Venus.

Venus, Freaks, and Choosing Unbeauty

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.

December 2021 Horoscopes

Self expression isn’t just about adding decor or about getting stuff. It’s also about getting rid of things.

Mars in Cancer

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.

Seasonal Synastry

Sun sign synastry is as simple and as complex as the seasons. The seasons are about change and they’re about presence.

On Not Being a Stereotypical Sagittarius

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.

Interview with a Leo: OHYUNG

OHYUNG is a musician and composer who works with nostalgia and catharsis.

Clients in their cars

Not everyone is safe enough to get an astrology reading at home.

Educational Privilege and Public Shaming

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.

November 2021 Horoscopes

It’s time that you stopped being so available to everything and anyone.

The Jupiter Opposition During Your First Saturn Return

I’ve found that a lot of the things that we typically associate with a first Saturn return, which we don’t typically associate with a second Saturn return, are actually about the Jupiter opposition.