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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.