Ancestral Healing: Horoscopes September 7-September 13, 2026

I have had a complicated relationship with the concept of ancestral healing work for some time. On the one hand, reverence is a feeling and experience that is deeply important to me and it is amazing to think of the longevity and persistence of life. On the other hand, a lot of my ancestors were true narcissistic assholes, often on the oppressor side of history, and I have no qualms about identifying that.

It occurred to me some years ago that we have both biological and spiritual ancestry, and it was easier for me to venerate those who have passed who have offered me spiritual wisdom from beyond the grave than my biological ancestors. However, as I have looked more into my own ancestral heritage, acknowledging the American genocides but being open to the fact that my ancestral line does not stop there, it has helped me do some work to integrate my biological ancestry. I suspect that as more white people start to honor our pre-capitalistic pre-colonial ancestral roots, we may be better able to participate in repairing our communities.

This week’s New Moon in Virgo invites us to consider any inheritance we have from our families around helplessness related to power and how we can transform that into healing for ourselves and future generations. This week also includes aspects that invite us to deep and transformative thinking around how we authentically show up in relationship and build community. Honoring our own needs can be a start.

Photo of part of my start at building an ancestor altar.

For horoscope principles this week, I am primarily looking at the following celestial events:

• The Sun goes from Gate 64 (using confusion as an access point to creativity) to Gate 47 (transforming ancestral oppression into healing) on Wednesday, September 9, 2026 at around 2am Pacific. The New Moon in Virgo happens in Gate 47, which invites us to look at our ancestral patterning and the ways we can engage in healing of our ancestral lines, whether than means reparations we offer to others or to ourselves.

• Thursday, September 10, 2026:

  • Venus goes into Scorpio at 1:06am Pacific. Venus in Scorpio is here for the depth of connection, not the performance of it. Venus is governs beauty and relationship. The beauty of Venus in Scorpio is goth and her relationships are intense. Going from Libra, where Venus is about harmony and impressionism, in Scorpio she dives into her blood bond and Girl Interrupted era.

  • Mercury goes into Libra at 9:20am Pacific. Mercury in Libra is more interested in communication and thinking that will build harmony and connection than what is technically accurate. In Virgo, Mercury analyzes and researches, but in Libra they connect and beautify. It is important to still pay attention to what is true, but if your thinking has felt harshly perfectionistic lately, this gives you a chance to soothe some of that edge.

  • Venus in Scorpio opposes Chiron in Taurus at 10:15am Pacific. Right as Venus goes into Scorpio, she opposes Chiron in Taurus. This is the last major planetary aspect to Chiron before he retrogrades back into Aries. This can bring up our wounding around having sexual needs on a physical level and codependency we have developed to meet our needs instead of honoring them.

  • Uranus stations retrograde in Gemini at 11:27am Pacific. If you have planets in the early degrees (0-5 degrees) of mutable signs (Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces), they are going to be revisited by the instability Uranus brings between now and March 2027. Early 2027, planets in late degrees (28-29 degrees) of fixed signs (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius) may feel this as well, but it is likely to be less pronounced. Hard Uranus transits shake things up that are stagnant so that we can re-evaluate what is correct for us and truly aligned.

  • The New Moon in Virgo happens at 8:26pm Pacific. This means both the Sun and the Moon are at the same place in the sky, offering us some sweet Virgo energy. This New Moon is applying to a sextile with Mars in Cancer, which adds some protective action to the moment. Because the Sun, which represents our sense of conscious identity, and the Moon, which represents our sense of security, are in the same place, it gives us a chance to really sit with that Virgo area of our charts and offer it some sacred healing.

• Saturday, September 12, 2026:

  • Mercury in Libra trines Pluto in Aquarius at 8:59am Pacific. This happens at almost the exact time as the aspect below, so I will address them together.

  • Mercury in Libra opposes Neptune in Aries at 9:37am Pacific. Along with the trine to Pluto, this offers us the opportunity to look at whatever it is that we don’t want to look at in our thinking and our communication. But, you have to take the opportunity in order for it to work for you. This combination of aspects can make us unreasonably optimistic in a way is self-aggrandizing or self-loathing, or, if we use it in our favor, it can invite us to be clear in how we think and communicate, even when it is painful. No matter how clear you are, not everyone will listen, but you can still be true to yourself and what is in alignment for you.

• Sunday, September 13, 2026:

  • Mercury in Libra trines Uranus in Gemini at 7:39pm Pacific. Whenever we unblock a limitation we’ve carried, integrate a shadow part, or allow a wound to be uncovered so that it can heal, we have to decide what we are going to put in its place. If you clean out a dusty corner of your house and leave it, the dust accumulates again. But, if you start using that space, it becomes an active party of your energy. Likewise, after Mercury uncovers wounds on Saturday, Sunday offers us the energy to shift and find the new thinking and communication we want to engage with.

• The Moon travels through Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, and into Scorpio this week; Mars continues in Cancer; Jupiter continues in Leo; Saturn continues in Aries.

These are the principles to consider for the week of September 7, 2026. It is worth taking a look at both your rising and sun sign horoscopes (visit astro.com to find your rising sign):

Aries: The concept of epigenetics says that the traumas our ancestors experienced are inherited in our genes and how we engage in the world has the power to heal those traumas for ourselves and generations going forward or turn them against us. This week, consider how changes in your home and family, whether you like them or not, may be able to contribute to the epigenetic healing available for your body. It is a good week to set up an ancestor altar to honor what you want to bring forward.

Taurus: There is a con artist rule that says if you want someone to trust you, ask them to do you a favor. Your need for relationships that have integrity tells you to do the opposite—protect your privacy and meet your own needs. There is some merit to that. This week, however, consider whether allowing people to do you favors may have a transformative power toward the service you provide in the world. Allowing other people feel needed contributes to the interdependence of the overall community.

Gemini: Most of us think we are observing life, when really we are seeing life through a subjective perspective informed by biology, culture, and other factors. In order to protect us, our brains are biologically and culturally skewed to feed us thoughts that tend more toward limitation and self-abuse than toward over-optimism. This week, though, offers you the opportunity to treat your thinking as a creative project. Consider what you would choose to think about life and yourself if your thoughts were a canvas you could paint with your favorite colors. Then, turn that into an actual communication creation, whether it is in a journal, blog, or chat with a friend.

Cancer: Biological and chosen siblings are some of the people who most help us define who we are because, generally, we know we can express annoyance, frustration, and even anger at them without losing relationship. This week, consider what has most irritated you recently and what that might mean about your needs and the reliability of your closest relationships. Consider how you can express your needs more simply and clearly and expect to have them met.

Leo: Ramit Sethi says that in order to live a “rich life,” you need to understand what richness means to you. This is a good week for you to sit with that question. Rather than creating a budget out of restriction, consider how you can look at where you invest your money as an indicator of what is truly meaningful to you. When you discover what is meaningful to you, be sure to share it with your closest community.

Virgo: What we think people “should” value and what we personally actually value are sometimes very different things. You know you value something by looking at your actions. This week offers you the energy to think deeply about what you value, not just what you think you should value. Look back at the past 24 hours, or beyond that to the past week. Where you spent your time is what you value most right now. If that is not aligned to what you want your values to be, now is a great time to make adjustments.

Libra: When we are children, it can feel like (or actually be) a matter of life or death that the adults around us be healthy and approve of us. As adults, then, rather than directly asking for what we need, we try to prove we are good enough to have our needs met or make sure everyone around us is happy with the expectation they will then meet our needs. This week offers you the chance to shift that. In your thoughts and communications, notice indirect ways you try to have your needs met, and consider how you could invite support more directly.

Scorpio: Sometimes, healing is the dramatic experience of opening up an infected wound, but other times healing is something subtle that happens over a long period of time without any fanfare. For you, both types of healing may be available in the coming weeks. If there is enjoyment available from your friends and social groups, bring your idealism to that. Also, your self-talk should be your biggest advocate, so allow this week to transform any space where that is critical instead of supportive.

Sagittarius: Most structures and systems we engage with in life are cults. This only really becomes a problem when we attribute responsibility for our actions to our group or leader or when we act as though people not in our group are dangerous or bad. For example, liking a sport or team is not necessarily a problem until we dehumanize people who like a different sport or team. This week offers you the opportunity to enjoy the groups you are in and also consider places where you have attributed responsibility for your thoughts and actions to others so that you can reclaim your decision making.

Capricorn: Rather than asking yourself whether an idea has evidence or not, it is more helpful to ask whether the idea is healthy and supportive of you. Thoughts and beliefs that are healthy and supportive of us don’t always feel good in the moment, but they help us align our actions with what we want to see in the world. This week, rather than defending yourself against conflict, consider whether it can offer you support toward deeper alignment.

Aquarius: Anarchy is a word we use to describe the absence of hierarchy, which is different than subverting the expected or rebelling against it. In order for something to be abnormal, we have to know what normal is. In order to rebel against hierarchy, we have to understand it rather than abolish it. This week invites you to consider the ways hierarchy serves you rebellion. Consider what it would look like to align your actions to yourself instead of against a system.

Pisces: Codependence happens when we try to get our needs met through accommodating the unhealthy behaviors of the people closest to us. By contrast, interdependence happens when we are honest with ourselves about our needs, open to having them met, and also take responsibility for our own boundaries. Easy lift right? This week, your spotlight is extra focused on your partners and closest accomplices. That is okay, and also remember to be honest about the needs you have, rather than using manipulation to get them fulfilled.

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Enforce Boundaries: Horoscopes August 31-September 6, 2026

This week, we have the two “malefic” planets in cardinal signs in tense aspect to each other. Coming off of eclipse season, this is another frustrating and destabilizing influence that asks us to slow down and release expectations that create pressure.

“Malefic” was an ancient designation for the planets Saturn and Mars that carried into Hellenistic times. This has come back into use in the past ten or fifteen years in the astrological community, but many reasonably question the benefit of this designation. It tends to imply an evil intent to the planets that can become unhealthy.

Instead, if we look at the astrological weather like the mundane weather, we can notice that we prefer some weather and not others, but also we can make plans for all weather. Enforcing our boundaries is like wearing a raincoat in the rain. It protects us, rather than arguing with a force outside of our control. The planets do not wish us ill any more than the snow does, and also if we understand them, we can work with them instead of against them.

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For horoscope principles this week, I am primarily looking at the following celestial events:

• Monday, August 31, 2026:

  • Venus in Libra enters her pre-retrograde shadow at 7:45am Pacific. This is the point Venus will return to when she begins her retrograde on October 3. As we enter the pre-shadow, watch for relationships returning and old relationship patterns showing up. Now that you have grown and learned, incorporate your learning into these encounters and see where patterns repeat versus where something new happens.

  • Jupiter in Leo trines Saturn in Aries at 3:17pm Pacific. This offers the energy of structured growth, and in fire signs, this can be big fire. We are still in fire season, and so if you have the inclination to feel over-confident on this day, keep in mind that your actions still have consequences. Intentionally center safety in what you do so that your structured growth serves you. Especially with Mars approaching square to Saturn, which is exact the next day, this can be frustrating energy, where there is both too much inclination toward expansion and too much limitation.

• Tuesday, September 1, 2026:

  • Mars in Cancer squares Saturn in Aries at 2:58am Pacific. This brings the energy of urgency toward action met with limitation. We can feel like we have our feet on the gas and the breaks at the same time, and so it can feel very frustrating. Go slow to go fast.

  • Mercury in Virgo sextiles Mars in Cancer at 6:21am Pacific. This brings the practical ability to plan effective and nurturing care. Although our actions might be met with resistance on this day because of the Saturn transit, we can still plan the practical, constructive, nurturing steps we can take in the future. Question any urgency that comes up, but let the practical planning flow.

• Thursday, September 3, 2026:

  • The Sun in Virgo goes from Gate 40 (giving from a place of sacred boundaries) to Gate 64 (confusion as the path to creativity) at around 4am Pacific. This transition offers us the opportunity to allow the external world to be full of pressures and chaos, and come back to the one simple step we can take or thing we can say that represents who we are and what we offer. Rather than organizing the outer world, we can be who we truly are and honor our sacred spark of life in the midst of the outer world.

• The Moon travels through Aries, Taurus, Gemini, and into Cancer this week; Uranus continues in Gemini; Neptune continues in Aries; Pluto continues in Aquarius.

These are the principles to consider for the week of August 31, 2026. It is worth taking a look at both your rising and sun sign horoscopes (visit astro.com to find your rising sign):

Aries: Anger is a healthy emotion, but if we repress it, it can contribute to serious illnesses. One way to make room for anger is to go into your car somewhere away from people, and practice screaming. You can even hit your steering wheel. This week, it is important to find outlets for anger and frustration that come up so that your body, home, and the people closest to you don’t inadvertently absorb it.

Taurus: Just because it makes other people uncomfortable does not mean an idea or creative project is wrong for you. This week, write down your ideas as they come, and when your inner critic gets loud, ask them to sit in the back seat. They might have some helpful feedback later, but right now, it is important to allow the ideas to come without censoring them. After everything is written down, take a break and don’t edit until this week’s conflict has passed.

Gemini: Notorious BIG says “Mo money, mo problems,” which are problems most of us would be glad to have. If you run into money problems right now, trust in your ability to sit with conflict and confusion, write about it, chat about it, and come to some kind of clarity and creativity related to your overall values in life. The problems you have right now are not because you’ve done anything wrong, but are there to teach you what you truly value.

Cancer: When we are developing any skill, the stage where we are aware of our own incompetence is the most challenging part and the space where many people quit practicing. Right now, you are more uncomfortably aware of the mistakes and missteps you make and their impact on not just your results, but also other people. Rather than going into freeze and stagnation, challenge yourself to fail more and embrace results you don’t want as strength training.

Leo: Before we can find creative solutions to the world’s biggest problems, we start with conflict and confusion. In that way, conflict and confusion are healthy starting points for creativity. This week, pay special when you run into unreasonable rules and restrictions to whether you start to criticize yourself. That is the path toward stagnation. Instead, lean on your ability to sit with confusion until you find creativity. Write about your problems and how they relate to what you value most.

Virgo: When we try to fix ourselves to get what we want from the universe, it is like thinking if we fix ourselves it will stop the rain. It works better to wear a raincoat. This week, when people show up in ways that irritate you, rather than trying to fix yourself or negotiate with them, make decisions about where to put your body and your attention that serve your safety and preferences. If you don’t understand what they’re doing, get curious about it instead of critical. You’re more likely to discover a creative solution that way.

Libra: Less thinking, more doing. This week brings you tremendous energy to get sh*t done. If other people are dragging their feet, just know that everyone is being hit differently by the cosmos right now, and not many people are having the jolt of problem solving ability that you are. If you start to overthink, remember that your thinking serves you if it is solving actual problems in the external world. If it is just criticizing you under the auspices of protecting you from criticism, shift focus away from perfect and toward action.

Scorpio: When we have a vision and know what we want, the limitations of time and space become deeply unfair. You may feel that injustice keenly this week, and even be extra frustrated with the limitations of your body and daily habits. Rely on your friend and social groups to help you alchemize that frustration into creative solutions that support your emerging vision of who you are in your public-facing service roles. Slowing down will help you implement that vision toward more long-term success.

Sagittarius: Big Ideas feel important, but it is not until we write them down and test them out in real life that we can tell whether they are healthy or absurd. This week, you may feel full of Big Ideas and insights into higher thinking. Before you go on LinkedIn and advertise yourself as a thought leader, write down your Big Ideas and test them out in the real world. Track what they create, and why they are meaningful for you personally. Rather than imposing them on other people, model them in your life.

Capricorn: Healthy boundaries include a plan for how we will create safety when other people violate them. Control, on the other hand, expects other people to behave how we want. Boundaries bring our lives into our own authority. Trying to control other people, contrary to what it seems, puts our power in their hands. This week, if people seem out of control, enforce your boundaries by creating safety for yourself, rather than trying to control them.

Aquarius: The universe may generally conspire in your favor, but wear a helmet. That is my own version of the Russian proverb, “Trust but verify.” This week, you are more prone to injuries than usual. Worrying about it is not helpful, but instead wear your safety gear. Especially as you do your normal travels and walk around your house, take extra care. You have lots of reason to be confident in your ability to navigate weird circumstances, and one of the reasons is that you know how to be cautious without giving into unhelpful vigilance.

Pisces: Overwhelm is a feeling, not an observation of reality. It often comes on when we have decided we need to organize the entire world before we are allowed to feel safe enough to rest. Then, our brains overload us so much that we collapse. This week, sleep first, before your brain tricks you into collapsing. It may feel like you have things to prove related to partners, children, or creative projects, but come back to what you value most. If you value health, choose health. If you value rest, choose rest. If you value life, choose life right now in this moment, without a set of requirements before you get to live.

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Curiosity Over Scarcity: Horoscopes August 24-August 30, 2026

This week, we are coming to the end of eclipse season, which has been a doozy. If you have not yet done your protest spells or justice workings, this is a good week to petition for justice and change. Eclipses are historically times when kings fall from power, and that can be relevant in our personal, national, and international communities.

When we watch the news, it is easy to fall into scarcity, feeling like we don’t belong and like nothing we do has the impact we want. I like to offer cheesy advice that works for me. It is that if you find yourself in scare-city, take a trip over to curio-city instead. You’re more likely to make progress and have fun that way.

This week, the partial lunar eclipse hits our charts pretty differently, but for all of us there is an invitation to allow insecurity or scarcity to exist, and analyze our situations from a place of realism. When you try to fix or criticize yourself instead of realistically analyzing the results you are getting with curiosity, you can get stuck in a downward spiral. Instead, consider flowing with the surprises.

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For horoscope principles this week, I am primarily looking at the following celestial events:

• Tuesday, August 25, 2026:

  • Mercury goes into Virgo at 4:04am Pacific. Mercury rules Virgo, meaning they are at home there. Virgo is analytical energy, which can become critical or perfectionistic and also can be used for discernment, quick thinking, and agile communication. It has the ability to look at the component parts of a situation and assess them. Though we are still in eclipse season, both Mercury and Venus are at home right now, which provides some supports for thinking clearly and finding beauty in the midst of the challenges and surprises.

  • Mercury in Virgo trines Chiron in Taurus at 11:57am Pacific. Just as Mercury enters Virgo, they give us the opportunity to analyze and evaluate how we’ve been handling our wounding around needs and caring for ourselves. This is a chance to be realistic about this and meet any needs that you’ve been unconsciously (or consciously) ignoring.

• Thursday, August 27, 2026:

  • Mercury is cazimi (conjunct) the Sun in Virgo at 10:03am Pacific. This gives a jolt of energy to the work Mercury is doing in Virgo. The trick of this transit and the week leading up to the eclipse is it might start feeling like everything is going right for you, and the eclipse is still likely to bring surprises. If we get too committed to perfectionism or turn the analysis against ourselves, it shuts down the creativity available with the Virgo energy.

  • The partial lunar eclipse (Full Moon) in Pisces is at 9:18pm Pacific. The Sun is in Virgo and the Moon is in Pisces. Because the eclipse blots out the Moon in the sky, and the Moon represents our security and emotional responses, this can bring an intense feeling of insecurity. This feeling will pass, and you do not have to make it mean you have done anything wrong or analyze yourself about it. Use the Virgo energy in your favor, not against yourself.

• Friday, August 28, 2026:

  • Mercury in Virgo squares Uranus in Gemini at 12:24am Pacific. This energy takes the destabilization from the transits on Thursday, emphasizes them, and invites you to do something creative with them. This is energy that can fry out electronics and bring surprises in communication, but it can also offer you the opportunity to change how you think and communicate. If something seems immovable, look at it from a new angle.

  • The Moon is void of course in Pisces from 9:14 am until Saturday, August 29, at 7:37pm Pacific. This is a Hellenistic void of course moon, which is significant because it means the moon makes no traditional aspects for 30 degrees. If you’ve felt destabilized through the eclipses, this is a good time to rest, recover, repair. Do not try to start anything new.

  • The Sun in Virgo goes from Gate 59 (establishing true intimacy) to Gate 40 (giving from a place of sacred boundaries). Throughout the week, this energy invites us to strike a balance between the mysteriousness that creates attraction and the transparency that creates trust. Then, in transitioning to Gate 40, we look at how we give to our closest community. Giving from a place that honors our sacred energy is healthy, where giving to the point of exhaustion is not sustainable or healthy, even to those who seem to benefit.

• The Moon travels through Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces, and into Aries this week; Neptune and Saturn continue in Aries; Mars continues in Cancer; Jupiter continues in Leo; Pluto continues in Aquarius.

These are the principles to consider for the week of August 24, 2026. It is worth taking a look at both your rising and sun sign horoscopes (visit astro.com to find your rising sign):

Aries: Failure is taking real action to get one result and getting a different result. When you notice a failure in your life, be sure to reward the actions that you took, rather than criticizing your worth as a person. Getting a result more in line with what you want comes from adjusting the actions you are taking, not self-abuse. This week, take an honest look at not just your focused actions, but also your daily habits, and whether they are creating the life you want.

Taurus: What we create both represents who we are and does not represent who we are at all. This can be difficult to sit with for someone who values comfort, beauty, and wonder, and who also wants others to admire your creative babies as much as you do. This week is a good opportunity to consider how much your creative projects actually represent what you truly value and talk through any shifts you want to make. Don’t forget to consider your human needs in the analysis.

Gemini: Marie Kondo tells us that our surroundings should spark joy both to honor our sacred energy and the sacred energy of the things and beings around us. This is a good week to take inventory of anything in your life, especially in your home, that does not spark joy. Who you are is undergoing significant changes, and so what used to resonate with you may no longer resonate. That’s growth! Communicate your thanks to anything you are releasing that is no longer aligned.

Cancer: When things feel chaotic, it is better to slow down than to speed up out of false urgency. This week, you may be surprised about people’s reactions to you, come off more harsh or abrupt than you mean to, or feel cut off from your emotions. This is a sign to slow down, come back to yourself, and focus on the one simple thing you can think, say, or do, that represents who you know yourself to be. This chaotic experience will pass, but in the mean time, use your journal and over-communicate instead of isolating.

Leo: Values are not good or bad, but instead they are a symbolic or energetic expression of our current alignment. For example, you know if you value nature by how much time you spend in nature, not by whether you think other people think you should value nature. The same goes for your relationships and any other value. This week is an opportunity to spend some intentional time energy budgeting. Notice what you are investing your time and energy in, whether it is aligned with what you think your values are, and whether you want to make adjustments between your current alignment and your ideal alignment.

Virgo: Living in flow doesn’t mean everything always goes right for you, but instead means that you are able to adapt to the currents and obstacles in life. This week, keep in mind your exceptional ability to adapt, as long as you don’t get stuck on your internal fears. If you feel insecure in your partnerships, come back to the truth that who you are is flexible and was never required to be one thing. Use your conscious mind and communications skills to think and talk through what is right for you.

Libra: A thought is a sentence in your mind. The good news about that is that once you realize a thought is unhealthy or harmful, it is pretty easy to stop believing it and release it. The bad news is that our brains are pretty good at convincing us we should debate the whether our thoughts are real or not instead of looking at how they feel and what they create. This week, even as you look magnetic on the outside, your mind may be busy analyzing everything in the background. Let it run, but if you start to feel depressed, stop and consider whether your thoughts are helping you, not whether they are true.

Scorpio: S*x and d3@th are two topics that we consider taboo if we want to live only in our heads and not acknowledge our bodies. People do this for many reasons including scarcity around the limitations of living in a human body and trauma around those experiences. But, they are also sources of fascination and even comedy. This week, consider finding spaces where it is comfortable to talk about those topics. You may feel more disconnected from your body than normal, but accessing spaces to chat could bring you back to your depth of connection to life cycles.

Sagittarius: Overthinking is really a misnomer for undirected thinking. There’s really no problem with thinking a topic that is interesting, but it becomes a problem when the thinking stops being fun and starts being self-harm. This week, you may feel somewhat more cut off from your emotions than usual, so take time to intentionally notice your body and how you feel, rather than allowing your thinking to totally run the show. Instead of trying to outsmart your closest partners or holding them to past conversations, be curious about the changes they are experiencing and allow yourself to learn.

Capricorn: There is a documented thinking error common to most humans that tells us that the taller someone is, the more reliable they are, and the older information is, the more reliable it is. Just because someone is taller or older than you does not mean they are giving you good information. I say this because this week, you may experience some insecurity around the intuition you get from your body and inner child. It may seem like the answer exists outside of you. Use your analytical powers to consider whether this is true, without assuming whether it is or isn’t. Both outside and inside information can be important to consider.

Aquarius: Sometimes, you can do everything right, and the rules of the universe still apply to you, meaning that life is still full of challenges and surprises. Other people receive unfair benefits and rewards, while you get overlooked. This happens because of the cycles of the universe, not because of something about you. And also, this week consider analyzing what other people are doing with money that works without turning that analysis against yourself.

Pisces: The ability to listen and accurately reflect back what someone else is saying is more useful than being right. You may have the tendency to be a perfectionist when it comes to your closest relationships, and that can be helpful if you use it as discernment regarding other people, but can be disastrous if you turn it against yourself. This week, you may feel more insecure and self-conscious than usual. Notice these feelings and allow them to happen, and rather than over-analyzing them or trying to fix them. Use your analytical skills to listen to your partners instead of trying to win arguments.

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Speak From The Heart: Horoscopes August 17-August 23, 2026

There has been a lot of conversation in the astrological community over the past two weeks about racism and speech policing. Mercury is in Leo right now, along with Jupiter, the Sun, Hygea, and the South Node (last week’s eclipse was also in Leo). Leo governs the heart and is associated with wholehearted presence. Leo is not, however, the sign most associated with listening. ; ) Love you, Leos!

The debate about racism and speech policing that I usually see goes something like this: Person A says or does something, Person B asks Person A to stop and apologize, Persons C through Z take a side or offer a different perspective. In the end, Person A either agrees to change their behavior or commits to the original behavior. There can also be other impacts, but related to the original conflict, those are the basic options.

For many people, this experience is limited to social media, but I have seen this experience in many, many workplaces, educational settings, and friend groups as well.

Ultimately, for People C through Z, who are potentially (but not always) somewhat removed from the central incident, there is the choice between offering scrutiny or offering support. When we are scrutinizing what “should” happen in a situation, it can feel fun, or it can feel very unaligned. When we are offering support, it can feel like people pleasing, or it can feel wholehearted.

If you are scrutinizing or policing (whether you are speech policing or policing the speech police by saying “wokeness” has gone too far), consider what police department you are working for and whether its mission is aligned to your values. If you are supporting, make the same consideration as to whether your energy is paying into what is aligned for you.

Ultimately, there are many ways to speak from the heart, and this week offers us energy to do that, even if we don’t get it exactly right the first time. It’s also okay to not care about what you don’t care about. Communicating from the heart includes allowing yourself to release spaces where your heart isn’t there.

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For horoscope principles this week, I am primarily looking at the following celestial events:

• Monday, August 17, 2026:

  • The Sun in Leo is in Gate 29 in human design throughout most of this week (starting around 7pm Pacific on Sunday night). This gate encourages us to look at places where we force ourselves to have enthusiasm, when we really don’t care, and allow ourselves to say no to what is not correct for us. On the other hand, it invites us to be enthusiastically committed to what is a “yes” to us. It’s okay to not care, and you don’t have to pretend you do, just notice where you overcommit or flake out because you’ve pressured yourself to fake enthusiasm.

  • Mars in Cancer squares Neptune in Aries at 2:42am Pacific. This transit comes with confusion around action and conflict. You may feel misunderstood about how you showed up and the actions you took. Depending on how this transit hits your chart, it may also influence you to react in anger in a way that you later realize was disproportionate to the situation. Look twice at the reality of what is happening with your 5 senses and write it down in the most neutral way possible before reacting.

  • Mercury in Leo trines Saturn in Aries at 8:26am Pacific. Mercury in Leo speaks the truth bluntly and from the heart, and with this supportive aspect from Saturn, we can be encouraged to be bossy and think we know what everyone should be doing. And, you know what? You might be right! Just be sure to start with yourself first, speaking from the heart with love and boldness.

  • Venus in Libra sextiles Jupiter in Leo at 9:15am Pacific. This is a sweet supportive aspect to be in the mix with the other more potentially explosive aspects. Venus in Libra is a peacemaker, who can understand different perspectives and find harmony with them. Supported by Jupiter, what we truly love and feel in our hearts can bring intimacy and alignment with others. If you say the wrong thing, motivated by the other aspects this day, you can always listen and repair with the blessings of Venus and Jupiter.

• Friday, August 21, 2026:

  • Venus in Libra opposes Saturn in Aries at 5:43am Pacific. This can feel like suddenly things go wrong in our relationships, we experience financial restriction and scarcity, or people overreact to what we thought was a small thing. It invites us to look at the reality of what is beautiful to us, and what is not for us, and be honest with ourselves about how we may be inclined to gloss over problems. If things feel restrictive right now, it may be a signal you are resisting seeing the reality of your situation, so the universe is loudly alerting you.

• Saturday, August 22, 2026:

  • The Sun goes into Virgo at 7:18pm Pacific. Right after this, the Sun also goes from Gate 29 (saying wholehearted “yes” to what we love) to Gate 59 (establishing true intimacy) in human design. Virgo is energy of analysis and seeing the component parts of situations. In Gate 59, this allows us to see past distraction or illusions of difference, in order to see honestly who we ourselves are and the truth of those we are in relationship with. This starts the transition to autumn in the Northern Hemisphere and can be a time of tidying up before we go into the dark months.

• Sunday, August 23, 2026:

  • The Sun in Virgo trines Chiron in Taurus at 12:29pm Pacific. This is a supportive aspect for evaluating the needs your body has in a nuanced way. If you have any health issues or nutritional deficiencies, this aspect is supportive for addressing them and caring for your physical self or your physical environment.

• We are still in eclipse season!! This means energy is unstable and surprising. The Moon travels through Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, and into Capricorn this week; Uranus continues in Gemini; Pluto continues in Aquarius.

These are the principles to consider for the week of August 17, 2026. It is worth taking a look at both your rising and sun sign horoscopes (visit astro.com to find your rising sign):

Aries: Conflict only happens when there is mutual interest. If we have no mutual interest, we just walk past each other and don’t even notice. This week, you may feel off-kilter and misunderstood. If conflict comes up, write down what you think the other person said and confirm with them whether you are right. Putting words on paper forces us to look at reality, rather than getting wrapped up in our own fears.

Taurus: Hermetic wisdom says, “As within, so without,” meaning that your inner world and outer environment are mirrors of each other. And also, we live in linear time, so internal changes we make are not always immediately or proportionately reflected in the outer world. You are undergoing expansion in your most intimate spaces, and so if you are not seeing external results, you may need to let time and the external world catch up with you.

Gemini: What we call the placebo effect can also be attributed to the power of thoughts and communication. This week, your thoughts and what you say have a powerful healing quality. You know what you want to say, so say it. The expansion you are experiencing in your communication is supportive of other creative endeavors. If you experience miscommunication with friends, take a step back and pay attention to what is working, rather than ruminating on what is not working.

Cancer: We are responsible for our actions, whether they are based in misunderstanding or correct understanding, and whether their impact is what we intended or not. But, responsibility is not the same as shame. If you mess up or come off more intensely than you intended this week, allow yourself to be human. Being human stings sometimes, and also you are worthy of care and nurturing.

Leo: You don’t have to be on all the time. It’s okay to be meh about some things or even hate them. The more you let yourself embrace what is in true alignment with you, based on what you feel in your heart, the more you will grow in an aligned direction. This week, as the Sun goes into Virgo, let yourself notice what you’re doing half-heartedly, so that you can lean toward what you love with your whole heart.

Virgo: Everyone has gloomy or painful thoughts sometimes, and people who say they don’t often lead very limited lives. There is no shame in experiencing painful thoughts, and the trick is to be willing to notice the pain and question thinking that is painful to see whether it serves you. You are good at changing your mind and learning. If you feel stuck in painful thinking, be open to changing your mind.

Libra: One way spiritual bypassing can have an especially significant impact on people socialized as women is by pressuring us to be positive all the time for the “spirits” (aka the people with power). Your appreciation of beauty and ability to bring harmony to your environment is exceptional, and also, if things don’t go your way it is because that happens to every human, not because you lack discipline. Consider releasing expectations on yourself to control your own and other people’s joy.

Scorpio: The line between being right and being self-righteous is sometimes fuzzier from the inside than it seems from the outside. When we want to prove we are right for the sake of it, we are usually being self-righteous, even if we think we’re protecting ourselves from attacks. This week, be wary of turning against yourself in self-righteousness, thinking your daily habits should be different than they are. There’s more than one right way to do anything.

Sagittarius: Faith is a thought that motivates us to take action based on what we do not see, but know to be true; superstition is the fear of unforeseen punishment. This week, consider which of your beliefs (the thoughts you think all the time) are as comfortable to you as sitting down in a chair, knowing it will hold you. Question any beliefs that center punishment because they are likely to create the thing you want to avoid.

Capricorn: Sometimes, it is easy to see the direct consequences of our actions, and other times, no matter what we try, it feels like nothing works. It may feel like you have been experiencing personal losses and releasing supports for a while now. On top of that, eclipse season is asking you to do more releasing of family or partner supports that is not aligned for you. Let yourself rest if you need to rest. Give yourself what you wish a partner would give you.

Aquarius: Words, and even thoughts, have tangible consequences in the real world. That is not a bad thing and does not mean we need to be vigilant about avoiding saying the wrong thing (spoiler alert: you’re going to say the wrong thing sometimes). It means that this is a curious area of study that anyone can engage in. This week, consider studying where you say “yes” and think “maybe,” especially with those closest to you. When you can understand that more, you may become more yourself in your partnerships.

Pisces: When you consider other people’s opinions, it is important to first consider whether they are living lives you want to emulate. This week, consider what habits, routines, or daily paths you follow and why. If you are half-hearted about them, let that be okay. Not everything has to be fireworks. And, it’s also okay to release those that don’t feel wholehearted. Not everything has to be a full-body yes, and also not everything has to be for you, even if other people like it.

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Question Your Cult: Horoscopes August 10-August 16, 2026

This week is pretty diabolical, I’m not gonna lie. If you struggle with a Mercury retrograde, this is a good week to see how you handle Mercury doing The Most. Truly, I’m laughing a little at how evil it is to have Mercury IN LEO making these outer planet aspects.

This is a great week to notice the cults you are in because you are definitely in one cult or another (we all are, in my view). These are spaces where the community protects the feelings of the powerful rather than the safety of the exploited or vulnerable. These are spaces where you feel safer with people who are in the group than those who are outside of the group. These are spaces where you feel good about hating people who are different than you, even if it is framed as a joke. ahem, sports

This week, you may feel inclined to take any cultish thinking to a dark place and then commit to the depression or anxiety. So, question any thinking you notice. Cultish thinking can also look like worrying that you are worst or seeking affirmation that you are the best.

When we question thinking, it is less helpful to ask whether there is evidence of the thought and more helpful to ask how the thought feels and what it motivates us to do or not do to care for ourselves and our communities. There is some evidence of most thoughts, even if it is bad evidence, so arguing about evidence usually goes nowhere. But, if you can see that your thinking is causing harm to yourself and your community, it is worth changing your mind. There is no shame in changing our minds, and flexible thinking is brave.

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For horoscope principles this week, I am primarily looking at the following celestial events:

• Monday, August 10, 2026:

  • Venus in Libra trines Pluto in Aquarius at 11:08am Pacific. This facilitates transformation around our relationships, both personal and within community. If you feel a push to transform how you relate to your partners and the larger community, this is a time that allows you to do that with ease, rather than pressure.

  • Venus in Libra opposes Neptune in Aries on at 3:01pm Pacific. This transit triggers our romantic idealization of the people we love the most. When we can see the best in people, this transit makes it easy to mistake that best for the reality of who they are. It is important to pay attention to the reality of people’s actions at least as much as the potential you see in them.

• Tuesday, August 11, 2026:

  • Mars goes into Cancer at 1:30am Pacific. Mars is going from active, light and breezy Gemini into loyal, patriotic Cancer. This can feel like agitation in our most sensitive spaces. Be aware of the tendency to knee-jerk defend a person, concept, or community just because of familiarity. This can be a sign of resistance to the discomfort of growth, rather than boundaries.

  • Mercury in Leo opposes Pluto in Aquarius at 6:19pm Pacific. This can be a day of dark and depressing thoughts, so remember to access your supports and take mental health seriously. Just because your brain offers it to you, does not make it true. If you experience oppression related to using your voice, remember this is meant to remind you of your own power. Each human voice is powerful, but it is easy to forget that. Question any “black/white” thinking. This kind of thinking is not only racist, it’s also never true (I just said the same thing twice, but I’m leaving it).

  • Mercury in Leo trines Neptune in Aries at 8:46pm Pacific. Normally, I would say this is a transit that allows you to dream big and romanticize without painful consequences. However, in the context of the rest of this day and week, this is another transit to be cautious around. Don’t believe your own bullshit. If your brain tries to feed you anxiety and depression, take a pause and maybe even take a nap. If you can’t see it with your eyes or feel it with your skin, question it.

• Wednesday, August 12, 2026:

  • Mars in Cancer sextiles Chiron in Taurus at 7:41am Pacific. Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to acknowledge your wounding around spaces where you have been loyal, but others have not shown the same loyalty to you. This is not something you need to fix or debate with anyone, but rather something to acknowledge and allow. Care for yourself where others have failed to care for you.

  • The Total Solar Eclipse in Leo is happening at 10:36am Pacific. This means the Sun and Moon are both in Leo, but the Moon (internal sense of emotional security) blocks the Sun (overall identity). This is the main event of the week, in my view! Eclipses are associated with the rise or fall of kings, and in our own personal lives this can be translated into power. Consider the power you are clinging to that you may want to release. Consider the places of power you are resisting stepping into. Both are relevant to this eclipse. This eclipse is happening in human design Gate 4 which is all about integrating intolerance so that you can come to a place where you understand others, including what is correct or not correct for you.

  • Mercury in Leo sextiles Uranus in Gemini at 1:47pm Pacific. If you have been doing the work of the week and questioning thinking that tends to keep you stuck and oppressed, this aspect supports downloads of new thinking. This can still feel uncomfortable because our brains resist change, but if you allow the discomfort, moving away from thinking that disempowers you is worth it.

• Thursday, August 15, 2026:

  • Mercury in Leo sextiles Venus in Libra at 9:22am Pacific. If this week was a challenge in your relationships, and you said things you didn’t mean, this is a good time to rethink that and repair it. There is room for you and for other people, so shift away from any defensiveness and toward mutuality.

• Saturday, August 15, 2026:

  • Mercury goes conjunct Jupiter in Leo at 4:22am Pacific. Listen, Mercury’s journey through the stars this week is diabolical. We go from dark thinking, to confusion, to now this transit, which is associated with inflated, exaggerated thinking and communication. My goddess, what a week!! What you say and what you think matter. If people correct you on it, thank them for it because they are welcoming you to their perspective on reality. Look at your own narcissism and be open to questioning it.

• The Moon travels through Leo, Virgo, and into Libra this week; Saturn continues in Aries.

These are the principles to consider for the week of August 3, 2026. It is worth taking a look at both your rising and sun sign horoscopes (visit astro.com to find your rising sign):

Aries: Capitalism tells us that what we create, whether it is professionally, through hobbies, or even as students, should be productive and marketable. That asks us to make our human experience secondary to our service to institutions. Right now, you have an injection of creativity, and it doesn’t have to be pretty. Make ugly art and creation babies. They matter because you do.

Taurus: Most people who are socialized as women are taught they should receive pleasure from other people seeing their beauty. This can also teach us that other people’s pleasure is more important than our own. Right now, consider how you can honor your own sacred energy by including beauty in your every day and most private parts of life. Nobody else needs to be involved for you to experience the pleasure of beauty.

Gemini: When you hold a beachball under water, the deeper you hold it, the higher it pops out of the water when you let it go. After the recent Mercury Retrograde in Cancer, your thoughts might feel like a beachball pulled deep under water. This week, as your thinking starts to dry out, start expressing what you’ve learned about your values recently with your closest community, then see what that inspires you to create.

Cancer: Many of us were raised to believe that values fall into two categories: good and bad. “Good” values typically adhere to rigid moral hierarchy, while “bad” values center human autonomy. You can tell what I think about that by how I wrote it. Values are actually what is meaningful to us: what we “value.” For you, right now, that is expanding. Assume your personal preferences are part of what you value and start to communicate those.

Leo: Ego is a healthy part of being human, and it generally only becomes unhealthy if the sensitivity of our ego limits us or motivates us to dominate others. When we worry about being too much for others, that is a sign ego is limiting us. When we worry other people’s actions will reflect badly on us, that can be a sign we’re dominating. Right now, expanding who you are means being too much. Be big in your communication. Listen to others, but listen to yourself first.

Virgo: The Hermit card in Tarot represents a time to go inward and explore your subconscious or unconscious world. Your unconscious, like many people’s, can be rigid around right-and-wrong, good-and-evil, us-and-them, and other protective polarities. Right now, consider how you can communicate those, even to yourself, your therapist, or in a journal, without judging them. Now is a good time to expand how you see yourself and the world and communicate that expansion, starting with your unconscious thinking.

Libra: One of the best scenes in any movie is when there’s a dance or party and everyone makes room for the main character to dance their ass off. These scenes are fun because usually it is the character expressing themself even if other people don’t like how they do it. This week, think about how you can fully express your star power in your friend and social groups, even if it brings up wounding around needing other people to like you in order to be safe. Dance your heart out and trust yourself to make it safe.

Scorpio: Knowing something and being able to communicate it in service to others are two completely different experiences. You’ve been invited to start an expansion process in your career, and this week your thinking and communication is more able to come on line to express that expansion. Treat yourself kindly through this process and remember that what is best for you is ultimately best for everyone.

Sagittarius: Most people want to travel because they imagine escaping from everyday reality, seeing exotic beauty, and learning about different culture. But, when they are confronted with different values and have their beliefs challenged, people are often less excited. This week, consider how you can have the experience of international travel by challenging your own belief system to expand. Your beliefs should serve you, not the other way around.

Capricorn: Humanity can center any value or concept in the way we create institutions, and in the U.S., we choose property as the value. There are many other values I would put forward as better, including health, prosperity, sustainability, or mutuality. This week, consider what it would mean to center beauty as a core concept in the structures you build within your life. Take actionable steps to offer beauty as service, while keeping things authentic.

Aquarius: Wanting to have someone partner us is different than wanting to partner someone else. Both can be possible at the same time, but they are different considerations. This week offers you the chance to have insight into whether you are partnering to have your needs met or to expand your ability to connect and support others. Both are ways of being that could be right for you. You deserve to have your needs met and to have the experience of supporting others.

Pisces: When our bodies change, it is like traveling to a different country. We see things differently, people treat us differently, and we move in space differently. This week, pay attention to how big you allow yourself to be physically and energetically in the spaces you occupy. If your brain tells you that you are not allowed to be too big, consider whether that restriction would apply to travel. Now is a good time to question that kind of limitation on your body and daily habits.

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Authority and Sovereignty: Horoscopes August 3-August 9, 2026

In astrology, there is a consideration called “rulership,” in which each zodiac sign has at least one planet ruling over it. The concept is essentially that the zodiac signs are sections of the sky that are the palaces of the deities, and the planets are the deities.

So, each sign has a planet that is “at home” in that sign and rules over it, but they all transfer around into sections of the sky that they are more or less comfortable with. When they are farthest away from their home, they are the most cranky and homesick.

This week, Venus goes into one of her palaces, Libra (she also rules Taurus). If you have Libra or Taurus rising, you have a “Venus ruled” chart, meaning that her movements probably have more impact on you than other planets’ movements. This is not necessarily good or bad, but just something to watch for influence.

Likewise, the Sun is in its palace right now, Leo.

As we start August, we go into eclipse season, with a full solar eclipse this month and a partial lunar eclipse this month. Eclipses are often when rulers die or are born, and right now we have many rulers influencing the world, whose births were tied to eclipses including the US President, Israeli Prim Minister, and the Iranian Supreme Leader (as was his father).

Eclipse season is a good time to reclaim our personal sovereignty and authority and from those who would oppressively and violently aggregate power to themselves. While we may still work under astrological schemes of rulership, we do not need to mirror those in our personal lives or communities. There are many rituals to reclaim our personal sovereignty from oppressive rulerships (and I think Venus and the Sun would support us doing so), including therapy, personal thought work, transformational magick, writing postcards to our representatives, doing something kind for yourself, and so many more! While eclipse season is not reliable for manifesting, it is destabilizing, so there is no time like the present to call on your magick to destabilize oppression.

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For horoscope principles this week, I am primarily looking at the following celestial events:

• Chiron stations retrograde in Taurus on Monday, August 3, 2026, at 1:10pm Pacific. This means that if you have planets in Cardinal signs (Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn) between around 23 degrees to the end of the sign, they will be experiencing more hard aspects from Chiron. This can mean you are forced to confront wounding in the spaces of your life represented by the houses with those signs. Also, collectively, we are asked to revisit our wounding around authenticity and courage.

• The Sun in Leo goes from Gate 33 (associated with processing information) to Gate 7 (associated with leading an army) in Human Design. This energy goes from a more introverted, internal sense of receiving and communicating learning about the self to a extroverted sense of expressing power into structured action.

• Venus goes into Libra on Thursday, August 6, 2026, at 12:12pm Pacific. Venus rules Libra, meaning that Libra is like the palace where Venus is the queen. Libra energy is harmonious, balanced, and cares about beauty and connection. When Venus goes into Libra, we have the opportunity to receive beauty and harmony in this area of our charts.

• The Sun in Leo trines Saturn in Aries on Thursday, August 6, 2026, at 7:44pm Pacific. This is a chance to evaluate and receive support for building structures in your life that center you and who you authentically are. It can also be a chance to embrace your competitive side and build the foundation you need to win. At what? Maybe being yourself.

• Mercury ends their post-retrograde shadow on Thursday, August 6, 2026, at 8:36pm Pacific. This should be the end of the time period where the mistakes, snafus, and other small problems plague you, especially as Mercury goes outside of the shadow into Leo.

• Mercury goes into Leo on Sunday, August 9, 2026, at 9:28am Pacific. Mercury goes from loyal, self-protective, nurturing Cancer into bright, sunshiny, direct, and bossy Leo. If you’ve had trouble being straightforward, this initiates a better time to find the blunt communication you need. Also, if you have been wrapped up thinking about others, this is a good time to check in with yourself and think about what you need.

• Mercury in Leo squares Chiron in Taurus on Sunday, August 9, 2026, at 10:15pm Pacific. Speaking of thinking about what you need, this transit may trigger wounding around your needs. When we realize we have needs and speak them out loud, it can bring up all of the times our needs have not been met. This transit allows us to honor that wounding and also continue to see our needs and communicate them, even if the first time does not work.

• Jupiter continues in Leo; Saturn and Neptune continue in Aries; Uranus and Mars continue in Gemini; Pluto continues in Aquarius.

These are the principles to consider for the week of August 3, 2026. It is worth taking a look at both your rising and sun sign horoscopes (visit astro.com to find your rising sign):

Aries: Capitalism tells us that what we create, whether it is professionally, through hobbies, or even as students, should be productive and marketable. That asks us to make our human experience secondary to our service to institutions. Right now, you have an injection of creativity, and it doesn’t have to be pretty. Make ugly art and creation babies. They matter because you do.

Taurus: Most people who are socialized as women are taught they should receive pleasure from other people seeing their beauty. This can also teach us that other people’s pleasure is more important than our own. Right now, consider how you can honor your own sacred energy by including beauty in your every day and most private parts of life. Nobody else needs to be involved for you to experience the pleasure of beauty.

Gemini: When you hold a beachball under water, the deeper you hold it, the higher it pops out of the water when you let it go. After the recent Mercury Retrograde in Cancer, your thoughts might feel like a beachball pulled deep under water. This week, as your thinking starts to dry out, start expressing what you’ve learned about your values recently with your closest community, then see what that inspires you to create.

Cancer: Many of us were raised to believe that values fall into two categories: good and bad. “Good” values typically adhere to rigid moral hierarchy, while “bad” values center human autonomy. You can tell what I think about that by how I wrote it. Values are actually what is meaningful to us: what we “value.” For you, right now, that is expanding. Assume your personal preferences are part of what you value and start to communicate those.

Leo: Ego is a healthy part of being human, and it generally only becomes unhealthy if the sensitivity of our ego limits us or motivates us to dominate others. When we worry about being too much for others, that is a sign ego is limiting us. When we worry other people’s actions will reflect badly on us, that can be a sign we’re dominating. Right now, expanding who you are means being too much. Be big in your communication. Listen to others, but listen to yourself first.

Virgo: The Hermit card in Tarot represents a time to go inward and explore your subconscious or unconscious world. Your unconscious, like many people’s, can be rigid around right-and-wrong, good-and-evil, us-and-them, and other protective polarities. Right now, consider how you can communicate those, even to yourself, your therapist, or in a journal, without judging them. Now is a good time to expand how you see yourself and the world and communicate that expansion, starting with your unconscious thinking.

Libra: One of the best scenes in any movie is when there’s a dance or party and everyone makes room for the main character to dance their ass off. These scenes are fun because usually it is the character expressing themself even if other people don’t like how they do it. This week, think about how you can fully express your star power in your friend and social groups, even if it brings up wounding around needing other people to like you in order to be safe. Dance your heart out and trust yourself to make it safe.

Scorpio: Knowing something and being able to communicate it in service to others are two completely different experiences. You’ve been invited to start an expansion process in your career, and this week your thinking and communication is more able to come on line to express that expansion. Treat yourself kindly through this process and remember that what is best for you is ultimately best for everyone.

Sagittarius: Most people want to travel because they imagine escaping from everyday reality, seeing exotic beauty, and learning about different culture. But, when they are confronted with different values and have their beliefs challenged, people are often less excited. This week, consider how you can have the experience of international travel by challenging your own belief system to expand. Your beliefs should serve you, not the other way around.

Capricorn: Humanity can center any value or concept in the way we create institutions, and in the U.S., we choose property as the value. There are many other values I would put forward as better, including health, prosperity, sustainability, or mutuality. This week, consider what it would mean to center beauty as a core concept in the structures you build within your life. Take actionable steps to offer beauty as service, while keeping things authentic.

Aquarius: Wanting to have someone partner us is different than wanting to partner someone else. Both can be possible at the same time, but they are different considerations. This week offers you the chance to have insight into whether you are partnering to have your needs met or to expand your ability to connect and support others. Both are ways of being that could be right for you. You deserve to have your needs met and to have the experience of supporting others.

Pisces: When our bodies change, it is like traveling to a different country. We see things differently, people treat us differently, and we move in space differently. This week, pay attention to how big you allow yourself to be physically and energetically in the spaces you occupy. If your brain tells you that you are not allowed to be too big, consider whether that restriction would apply to travel. Now is a good time to question that kind of limitation on your body and daily habits.

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Shine Like The Sun: Horoscopes July 27-August 2, 2026

We are at the hot, bright part of summer in the northern hemisphere, and in the West Coast of the U.S. fires are blazing. Smoke is creeping at the edges of the sky where I am.

The Sun is in Leo, which is the fixed fire sign of the hottest part of summer. Leo reminds us to be fully and outwardly ourselves. The Sun does not crouch down or hide herself if we feel too hot, and if she did, we would all die. The Sun is core to life in our “solar” system, and we need her to shine brightly. In the same way, whether people are comfortable with it or not, you shining brightly in who you truly are is important for the life around you.

For horoscope principles this week, I am primarily looking at the following celestial events:

• The Sun in Leo trines Neptune in Aries on Monday, July 27, 2026, at 12:36am Pacific. At its best, this aspect is visionary and allows you to see into the spiritual spark of the collective unconscious. At its worst, this aspect is delusional and invites you to indulge in self-sabotaging dissociation. Imagination is important, and so is reality. If you indulge in what is beautiful on this day, be sure to do something grounding as well.

• The Sun in Leo sextiles Uranus in Gemini on Monday, July 27, 2026, at 2:36pm Pacific. Not everything needs to be so serious. This gives our egos and self-images the opportunity to grow around change and newness instead of rejecting it out of fear or clinging to the old ways.

• Venus in Virgo squares Mars in Gemini on Wednesday, July 29, 2026, at 12:09am Pacific. Venus square Mars brings flirtation, sexual tension, and the sexy, friction side of gender wars. In Virgo and Gemini, there is a mental, witty, analytical quality to it. This is like the flirtation in a Dorothy Sayers novel or Dorothy Parker joke. Anyone named Dorothy (my mom’s name!).

• The Sun goes conjunct with Jupiter in Leo on Wednesday, July 29, 2026, at 5:17am Pacific. This is called a Jupiter cazimi and in traditional astrology is a portal of luck. Jupiter is in the “heart” of the Sun on this day, and so although the rays of the Sun overshadow the planet, this is a moment where Jupiter’s expansion and beneficence is empowered by the Sun’s rays.

• The Full Moon in Aquarius happens on Wednesday, July 29, 2026, at 7:35am Pacific. The Full Moon means that the Moon and Sun are in opposite places in the sky, bringing our collective sense of security and our identity into opposition. The Sun in Leo is natural being center stage in a competition, while the Moon in Aquarius knows that in order for us to be secure, we must be community. Full Moons are a good time to pause before reacting and allow this tension to be cleansing.

• Lughnasadh is on August 1, 2026. This is the festival honoring the Celtic god Lugh, who is known for athletics and skill. The festival is said to be dedicated to his step-mother, Tailtiu, who died of exhaustion clearing the fields of Ireland for planting. While the festivals are said to traditionally center athleticism, they are a reminder of the scorching heat of summer and the exhaustion of overwork to survive. In the West Coast of the US, we are experiencing fire season, and this week of focus on the Sun reminds us of the consequences of extremes.

• Mercury continues in Cancer, Saturn continues in Aries, Pluto continues in Aquarius.

These are the principles to consider for the week of July 27, 2026. It is worth taking a look at both your rising and sun sign horoscopes (visit astro.com to find your rising sign):

Aries: Sometimes romance is intense and explosive, but other times it is in everyday, small choices. This week brings the opportunity for intense, creative, romantic, imaginative experiences, and also mundane, every day romances. The interesting thing is that the romances available to you are with your communities and yourself more than any particular romantic partner. Turn your romance into something tangible, creative, and maybe even useable by yourself and your closest community.

Taurus: Usually what we most value, or what is most abundant to us, is most deeply found in small things, like your favorite drink or joke, rather than grandiose visions. That same rule applies to building lives and communities that reflect our values. The deep transformation our communities need to be safe for our most vulnerable requires us individually to transform and expand. This week, expand deeply toward what you most love and create more of that.

Gemini: The first rule of flirt club is you have to talk about flirt club. A flirt is a wakening spark of life and connection, and this week offers you a little taste of what it might be like to embody that energy. Design an internal space, where your most private life expands to meet your most romanticized version of what it would mean to party with your friends all night. Be sure to check in with your most wise self, like Buffy checking in with Giles, because your wise self knows how to party too.

Cancer: Too much of a good thing can feel just as uncomfortable as lack. This is often the experience energetically perceptive people have around connection. When we are so connected to others, we can lose ourselves. This week, focus on expanding your own personal values and money, even if your fears around security and emotional demands ask you to focus on your partners’ values and money instead. There is room for both, but that room expands from you outward.

Leo: The Sun, obviously, is the center of the “solar” system. Imagine the Sun worrying it was taking up too much space and trying to hold back so that its rays were not too harsh in our summer sky. First of all, that would be ridiculous, and second we would die. Like the Sun, expand your rays this week in the most romantic, electric, and joyful ways you can find. If your partners’ transformation needs attention, shed your light on it without contracting your energy. The plants and people around you will thrive from your light, even if they blink at first or need sunscreen.

Virgo: Some people believe that our unconscious programming is set during early childhood and we spend the rest of our lives acting that out, but I think that view is absurd since there is evidence people make dramatic changes throughout their lives. This week, your unconscious parts, including your child self, have the opportunity to change, expand, and become something new. You may also have a work flirtation come around. Let it be good to feel good.

Libra: In the movie Party Girl, Parker Posey flirts with Mustafa, the falafel cart owner, asking him what he thinks about her being a librarian. He tells her, “This is a garden, and we are all the flowers.” This week challenges you to be the star of the show, like Parker Posey is at all times, and if you find yourself overwhelmed, expand around the challenges rather than contracting inside of them. Consider how you can take even serious situations and turn them into a flirtation challenge. You are just one of the flowers in the garden, and also you are a special flower.

Scorpio: Celebrities sometimes create an alter ego who represents their public self, while their private self can stay private. This week offers expansion in your public-facing life or career, while the transformation you are experiencing in your private life may feel sensitive. While it is important to maintain community, it is also important to allow yourself to be the center of attention in your career. Create an alter ego who loves the spotlight if that feels uncomfortable.

Sagittarius: Wisdom is the ability to synthesize experience, knowledge, ideals, and intuition and implement that synthesis in communication and action. This week, the part of you that is wise has the opportunity to expand. If it feels important to your security to maintain your lessons from childhood, consider how you can transmute them into something wise, using your life experience. Your natural magnetism is big right now, whether or not it is wise.

Capricorn: There is a Kabballah principle that instructs us, whenever something happens, especially if it is not what we wanted, to pause before responding and say, “What a pleasure.” This is a mixed invitation for you this week because at the same time, saying something nice is not always as kind as saying something authentic. This week, internally make a practice of pausing and saying “what a pleasure,” while externally you try to communicate your most authentic truths, even if they are not pretty.

Aquarius: For many people, especially millennials, fairness can feel like a survival level security issue. But, as many of us have been told, life is not fair. This week, the spotlight and expansion is on your partnerships and partners, and rather than tracking whether this is fair, consider that balance may be more important than fairness. When your partners expand, their overflow includes you.

Pisces: Our bodies are the bridge between our mind, emotions, and spirit. Our bodies are the transportation system that we most rely on, the first living being we are responsible for, and the connection point for those we love most. This week, fall in love with the wonderful animal of your body. You may idealize what your body could be, but you can romance who your body is now. Then, share the overflow of that love with your romantic partner(s).

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More Health Is More Health: Horoscopes July 20-26, 2026

One thing I like to say is “more suffering creates more suffering and more health creates more health.” We cannot suffer our way toward a better world; we can only suffer our way toward increased suffering.

That is not to say that if you have suffered, it is your fault or you should pretend it didn’t happen. Suffering exists. And if we want a better world, we need to take seriously adding better into the world we have.

If you caught my post last week, you know that there was a Cosmic Pentacle in the sky on Sunday, July 19. There is another one involving the moon on Friday, July 24. And also, twice a day, while the outer planets are configured in Barbault’s Basket or the cradle formation, there are pentacles and merkabas in the sky when the ascendant or midheaven are in Libra and Sagittarius.

The pentacle is a symbol of protection and prosperity. The merkaba is a symbol of alignment to access higher consciousness.

This week is like that experience of doing breath work, where the instructor says, “Take a deep breath. Now breathe in a little more.” You didn’t know you could fit that “little more” in, but you could. This week invites you to expand your passions, imagine your most idealistic version of a courageous future for yourself, and build structures to support that new reality. If things get overwhelming, pause and look within to honor your personal experience, while letting your influence on the collective become more aligned.

Photo from Astrotheoros (chart cast for July 19, showing the Cosmic Pentacle)

For horoscope principles this week, I am primarily looking at the following celestial events:

• Jupiter in Leo trines Neptune in Aries on Monday, July 20, 2026, at 12:23am Pacific. If you thought your ideals were big and that you were passionate about them, this transit asks you if they could get a little bigger. This is also a difficult aspect for the fires we are seeing in North America and other fire-related problems like war. It may indicate confusion (Neptune) around why the fires and wars have been so big. The lesson is to look at the reality of the problem and establish clear boundaries and expectations rather than getting caught up in confusion.

• Jupiter in Leo opposes Pluto in Aquarius on Monday, July 20, 2026, at 7:44am Pacific. This is a tense aspect between the planet of expansion in a sign associated with the self and the planet of transformation and oppression in the sign associated with the collective. We can make the collective oppression about us in a performative or competitive way or we can make the collective oppression about us in a way that takes responsibility for our part in it. The more you make this about you, the more you are invited to expand your authentic efforts to contribute to the transformation you want to see. If you get overwhelmed, pause and look within to what is deeply important to you.

• Jupiter in Leo sextiles Uranus in Gemini on Tuesday, July 21, 2026, at 4:10am Pacific. As you are expanding, be willing to pivot, allow surprise, and integrate the unexpected. If every surprise or “mistake” is an alert to a magickal door you could walk through, be open to the gift in that and willing to release sensitivities around ego.

• The Sun goes into Leo on Wednesday, July 22, 2026, at 12:13pm Pacific. In Human Design this means the Sun transitions from Gate 56 (a Cancerian gate in the throat energy center) and into Gate 31 (a Leo gate in the throat energy center). Gate 56 asks us to turn inward to our unique (and evolving) truth and share that, when we want to distract ourselves with over-stimulation. Gate 31 asks us to influence others through our own alignment, when we might want to perform perfection. Leo is fixed fire and invites us to be self-focused and the rulers of our own lives. Leo energy gives you access to the energy of aligning how you are on the outside with your inner priorities.

• The Sun in Leo squares Chiron in Taurus on Thursday, July 23, 2026, at 8:35am Pacific. When we are invited to be aligned in a way that people can see our alignment, that often brings up wounding. This is a tense aspect that spurs us on to get our needs met through being more upfront about them. This also can represent how triggering it is to do exactly that, though. Just because being authentic brings up wounding or feels uncomfortable, does not mean it is unsafe. And also, care for yourself around this. Pay attention to what is actually unsafe.

• Mercury stations direct on Thursday, July 23, 2026, at 3:57pm Pacific. For those of you with Mercury ruled charts, you may breathe a sigh of relief about this! And also, the three weeks after the retrograde is over are a time where the mistakes we made during the retrograde come back to us to give us another chance to redo. Remember, retrograde redos are magick. Rather than getting frustrated that things did not go right the first time, be curious about the gift in the redo.

• Venus in Virgo sextiles Mercury in Cancer on Friday, July 24, 2026, at 9:12am Pacific. This is a sweet opportunity to lend some of the Virgo analysis and tidying to your Mercury retrograde redos. What did you say badly the first time that you want to make more beautiful? Now is your chance to make that happen.

• Pluto in Aquarius sextiles Neptune in Aries on Friday, July 24, 2026, at 10:26pm Pacific. This is the last of the aspects technically associated with the Barbault Basket, though the Sun transit later in the week emphasizes this configuration. Consider the ways you idealize how you would show up if you were a politician or leader of a country or army. Create parameters and boundaries that transform how you are currently showing up for your local community into that version of yourself.

• Saturn stations retrograde in Aries on Sunday, July 26, 2026, at 12:56pm Pacific. From this day until December 2026, Saturn travels backwards from 14 degrees Aries to 7 degrees Aries. Then, Saturn will change direction again and go forward over these degrees. Planets you have from around 4-17 degrees of Cardinal signs will be impacted by hard aspects from Saturn, so check your personal chart for that. I do not interpret this as having too much significance in our personal lives, except that if you do not like the results you are getting, specifically related to those degrees of your chart, change your actions to get different results.

• The Sun in Leo opposes Pluto in Aquarius on Sunday, July 26, 2026, at 11:54pm Pacific. As the Sun does this, it also approaches a conjunction with Jupiter and supportive aspects with Uranus and Neptune. What is not working in our collective rebirth comes front and center. If you do not want light to shine on any part of your transformation, you might not have a choice. Better to be honest with yourself ahead of time about what needs additional alignment than hide. If you are proud of your transformations, allow this proud light to honor them.

• Mars continues in Gemini.

vThese are the principles to consider for the week of July 13, 2026. It is worth taking a look at both your rising and sun sign horoscopes (visit astro.com to find your rising sign):

Aries: Conflict on the internet is something that many people take incredibly personally, leading to backlash about “cancel culture.” Most of the ramifications of “cancel culture” are caused by the person being “canceled” choosing defensiveness over curiosity. This week may bring out some fights or bickering for you (bonus points if it’s on the internet). And, in the midst of that, notice the nurturing home spaces you have created. Cast a spell to pull that nurturing energy around you whether conflict exists or not.

Taurus: When we see all perspectives, we lose all perspective. Perspective is unique and your perspective is yours, even if other people disagree, and even if those disagreements are valid. This week, consider how your creative projects align with your values. Your money and values are in a period of change, and that means you can release what is not aligned for you. Consider what feels nurturing to you in your closest community, and that might give you insight into what you value most. Release creative projects that are not aligned with your values and honor ones that are.

Gemini: Money is energy all around us, like water. Many of us want more money, or more fairness around money, but we also hang onto fear of it or aversion to it. This week, consider your relationship with money as though money was your friend. If you gave a friend as much attention as you give money, consider whether they would stay friends with you. This New Moon is a chance to cast a spell calling in money as a source of nurture and comfort.

Cancer: When birds make a nest, they take little (or big) twigs, and carefully stack them and other fun materials, all the while turning around in a circle to snuggle into it. As you consider new foundations and boundaries in your career and public facing life and have fast changes in your thinking, this is like generating a new nest for yourself. Make sure you are treating these changes as a nest that is meant to incubate you. Release any inclination to bring punishment into your nest because that would not serve the new self you are incubating.

Leo: Defensiveness often comes up when we are self-identified with a topic or behavior that someone else questions. If I say, “You have exposed electrical wiring,” and you become defensive, we know you don’t want to fix the electrical wiring, and that may become dangerous. This week, notice what harmful cultural messages you might be protecting unconsciously because it feels to sensitive to see they are harmful. Especially, pay attention to the harmful messages about yourself. Healing a wound can mean experiencing the pain of the wound first. Commit to speaking to yourself in kind and nurturing ways.

Virgo: Dr. Maya Angelou said, “People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel.” During this Mercury Retrograde, that message is one to remember. Look to how it feels to be nurtured and experience loyalty in your social groups, and intentionally start a new cycle of honoring that. Incorporate that feeling into the changes you are experiencing in your career, even as you allow discomfort of change.

Libra: Casting spells is most effective when you focus on shifting your experience and release anyone else’s. For example, it gets better results to cast a spell for a career that has particular qualities than for a particular job. This week, cast a spell for the qualities you want your career and public-facing life to have. Make sure you include how it nurtures you and meets your needs first, before any other loyalties come into the spell.

Scorpio: Thinking about billionaires becomes extra bizarre if you substitute collecting money for any other substance. “Oh, yeah, Jeff Bezos collects beanie babies. He has a few billion,” is a cause for mental health concern, not envy. “Taylor Swift’s tour is so popular that she’s collected a couple of billion gallons of water.” No. It’s weird. This week gives you the opportunity to change how you encounter other people’s money and resource hoarding and be direct about what you need, even if you can understand their perspective.

Sagittarius: People who travel to other countries and live there for a length of time often have a different philosophical understanding of security than those who stay in the same place. Based on race, we used to label these people as “ex pats” or “immigrants” to signify hierarchy. This week, consider how other people’s values influence your philosophy of how secure you are around change. Specifically, if partnerships do not have to maintain status quo for you to be secure, consider how you would see the world differently. Learn from how other cultures view partnership.

Capricorn: We can learn more about what we value by studying how we spend our time than imagining what perfect values might be. Similarly, we can learn a lot about how we partner by looking at how we care for ourselves. This week is a good opportunity to cast a spell for developing a nurturing and trustworthy partnership with yourself. Your understanding of what you value is transforming, and showing up authentically in your most private spaces (with yourself) is a supportive part of that.

Aquarius: Humanity has evolved with strong fear signals that are meant to protect us from threats, but also make it hard for us to hear information outside of what is familiar to us. Communicating in simple language is often more effective than nuance because of this fear experience. This week, consider how you can integrate the transformations you are experiencing into a simple sentence (or 3-5 words) that represent who you are becoming. Turn that into a creative project that engages your body.

Pisces: Overwhelm and procrastination often have somewhat similar mechanisms because they are systems to back us into a corner until the fear of the corner is more intense than the fear of taking action. This week, you have an intense amount of creativity available to you, and you may feel backed into a corner enough to use it. If you start to overthink, stop and use your energy to create something that is supposed to be ugly and messy and real. Cast a spell to initiate a new cycle of creative projects.

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Cosmic Pentacle: Horoscopes July 13-19, 2026

A pentacle is a symbol of protection and prosperity. It is a five pointed star with a circle around it.

If you work with tarot, you will be familiar with it because an entire suit of the cards is called Pentacles. That suit is associated with the element of earth, which is also associated with the astrological signs Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn.

The lore says that a pentacle is at least in part associated with prosperity because when you cut open an apple core horizontally, the seeds and the shape of the core form a pentacle. Although apples have been associated in with evil in capitalistic mythology, that was not always the case. The pentacle’s relationship with the apple asks us to remember that nature provides enough, though the extraction principles of capitalism create scarcity.

As this applies to astrology, the cosmos creates a giant pentacle in the sky this week in a cosmological event that is unbelievably rare. If you want to learn more about interpretations related to this, it is called Barbault’s Basket in the astrological research. This is because an accomplished French astrologer, who made very accurate predictions in the 20th Century doing the math by hand (props!), cited this configuration as significant for ushering in a new era of consciousness. I respect the prediction, but I think if we are going to usher in a new era of consciousness, part of that needs to be that we stop naming natural and cosmological events after men who talk about them (no offense specifically to Barbault). I’m choosing to call this the Cosmic Pentacle.

Most configurations like this, which only involve outer planets, especially in supportive aspects, are not configurations we feel immediately, but instead are ones we look back on later as significant. (For example, as the configuration that initiated Covid into the world happened, most of us did not feel the impacts for a few months. This aspect is supportive, while that was restrictive, overwhelming, and transformative.) This week, you are more likely to feel the New Moon, the Mercury retrograde, and Venus’s aspects than you are to feel the outer planet alignment. But, this week is a good time to initiate a new way of being.

This week, focus on what you do want to create, bring into the world, birth, or initiate. Cast your spell for a new way to nurture the collective. Notice where you are resisting old forms of being, rather than embracing new forms of being. For example, if you tell someone to “stop running” (resisting the old form) there is neurological and behavioral research saying that they will hear “running.” Instead, if you say, “Please walk,” they are more likely to do what you ask. If you model walking in stead of running, they are even more likely to do the same. In the same way, consider how you, personally and individually, show up to support your community blossoming into what you want it to be. Call in the cosmic pentacle to protect you in this process and bring prosperity to it.

Photo from Astrotheoros (chart cast for July 19, showing the Cosmic Pentacle)

For horoscope principles this week, I am primarily looking at the following celestial events:

• Venus in Virgo squares Uranus in Gemini on Monday, July 13, 2026, at 7:26am Pacific. Both Virgo and Gemini are influences that are good at seeing different perspectives and component parts. As this transit happens, consider the component parts that make you unique in your relationships. You are not just one way of being, so consider even seemingly contradictory parts.

• The New Moon in Cancer happens on Tuesday, July 14, 2026, at 2:43am Pacific. I consider this transit the initiation of the aspect pattern that is commonly called Barbault’s Basket. Even though this New Moon is not technically part of that aspect pattern, it is a significant initiation point, which we are likely to feel more significantly than the aspect pattern. A New Moon in Cancer is a time when how we collectively show up and how we see security is nurturing and loyal. Barbault’s basket is a supportive pattern for redefining what that means.

• Uranus in Gemini sextiles Neptune in Aries on Wednesday, July 15, 2026, at 1:35pm Pacific. This aspect aligns the shifts we are making collectively in integrating different perspectives with how we see authenticity. It is possible to be authentic, courageous, and open to conflicting viewpoints. Where we struggle with that is a space we have support to change right now.

• Uranus in Gemini trines Pluto in Aquarius on Friday, July 17, 2026, at 9:43pm Pacific. This aspect supports integrating multiple perspectives and major change into the collective transformation that is available to us.

• Mars in Gemini sextiles Saturn in Aries on Sunday, July 19, 2026, at 11:10am Pacific. This aspect brings practical action to the center of the transformation happening. Initiate tangible action toward the structural foundations of the new collective you want to see.

• The Sun and Mercury continue in Cancer. Mercury is still retrograde.

vThese are the principles to consider for the week of July 13, 2026. It is worth taking a look at both your rising and sun sign horoscopes (visit astro.com to find your rising sign):

Aries: Conflict on the internet is something that many people take incredibly personally, leading to backlash about “cancel culture.” Most of the ramifications of “cancel culture” are caused by the person being “canceled” choosing defensiveness over curiosity. This week may bring out some fights or bickering for you (bonus points if it’s on the internet). And, in the midst of that, notice the nurturing home spaces you have created. Cast a spell to pull that nurturing energy around you whether conflict exists or not.

Taurus: When we see all perspectives, we lose all perspective. Perspective is unique and your perspective is yours, even if other people disagree, and even if those disagreements are valid. This week, consider how your creative projects align with your values. Your money and values are in a period of change, and that means you can release what is not aligned for you. Consider what feels nurturing to you in your closest community, and that might give you insight into what you value most. Release creative projects that are not aligned with your values and honor ones that are.

Gemini: Money is energy all around us, like water. Many of us want more money, or more fairness around money, but we also hang onto fear of it or aversion to it. This week, consider your relationship with money as though money was your friend. If you gave a friend as much attention as you give money, consider whether they would stay friends with you. This New Moon is a chance to cast a spell calling in money as a source of nurture and comfort.

Cancer: When birds make a nest, they take little (or big) twigs, and carefully stack them and other fun materials, all the while turning around in a circle to snuggle into it. As you consider new foundations and boundaries in your career and public facing life and have fast changes in your thinking, this is like generating a new nest for yourself. Make sure you are treating these changes as a nest that is meant to incubate you. Release any inclination to bring punishment into your nest because that would not serve the new self you are incubating.

Leo: Defensiveness often comes up when we are self-identified with a topic or behavior that someone else questions. If I say, “You have exposed electrical wiring,” and you become defensive, we know you don’t want to fix the electrical wiring, and that may become dangerous. This week, notice what harmful cultural messages you might be protecting unconsciously because it feels to sensitive to see they are harmful. Especially, pay attention to the harmful messages about yourself. Healing a wound can mean experiencing the pain of the wound first. Commit to speaking to yourself in kind and nurturing ways.

Virgo: Dr. Maya Angelou said, “People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel.” During this Mercury Retrograde, that message is one to remember. Look to how it feels to be nurtured and experience loyalty in your social groups, and intentionally start a new cycle of honoring that. Incorporate that feeling into the changes you are experiencing in your career, even as you allow discomfort of change.

Libra: Casting spells is most effective when you focus on shifting your experience and release anyone else’s. For example, it gets better results to cast a spell for a career that has particular qualities than for a particular job. This week, cast a spell for the qualities you want your career and public-facing life to have. Make sure you include how it nurtures you and meets your needs first, before any other loyalties come into the spell.

Scorpio: Thinking about billionaires becomes extra bizarre if you substitute collecting money for any other substance. “Oh, yeah, Jeff Bezos collects beanie babies. He has a few billion,” is a cause for mental health concern, not envy. “Taylor Swift’s tour is so popular that she’s collected a couple of billion gallons of water.” No. It’s weird. This week gives you the opportunity to change how you encounter other people’s money and resource hoarding and be direct about what you need, even if you can understand their perspective.

Sagittarius: People who travel to other countries and live there for a length of time often have a different philosophical understanding of security than those who stay in the same place. Based on race, we used to label these people as “ex pats” or “immigrants” to signify hierarchy. This week, consider how other people’s values influence your philosophy of how secure you are around change. Specifically, if partnerships do not have to maintain status quo for you to be secure, consider how you would see the world differently. Learn from how other cultures view partnership.

Capricorn: We can learn more about what we value by studying how we spend our time than imagining what perfect values might be. Similarly, we can learn a lot about how we partner by looking at how we care for ourselves. This week is a good opportunity to cast a spell for developing a nurturing and trustworthy partnership with yourself. Your understanding of what you value is transforming, and showing up authentically in your most private spaces (with yourself) is a supportive part of that.

Aquarius: Humanity has evolved with strong fear signals that are meant to protect us from threats, but also make it hard for us to hear information outside of what is familiar to us. Communicating in simple language is often more effective than nuance because of this fear experience. This week, consider how you can integrate the transformations you are experiencing into a simple sentence (or 3-5 words) that represent who you are becoming. Turn that into a creative project that engages your body.

Pisces: Overwhelm and procrastination often have somewhat similar mechanisms because they are systems to back us into a corner until the fear of the corner is more intense than the fear of taking action. This week, you have an intense amount of creativity available to you, and you may feel backed into a corner enough to use it. If you start to overthink, stop and use your energy to create something that is supposed to be ugly and messy and real. Cast a spell to initiate a new cycle of creative projects.

Thanks for reading and fulfilling your natal promise! If you like these horoscopes, don’t forget to hit the like button and share them with someone who might get something out of them.

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Good is Better Than Done: Horoscopes July 6-12, 2026

My first assistant as a lawyer was a woman who had 30 years more experience than me and had previously worked for people who became very influential judges in my community. She was a perfectionist to say the least, and I found myself saying to her, “Done is better than good!” when we needed to move projects alone even if they were not perfect.

This week, I find myself giving the opposite advice. This week, good is better than done. As Mercury is still retrograde, Jupiter approaches an opposition with Pluto that creates a t-square to Chiron, asking us to look at how overwork relates to our wounding around having personal needs. Along with the other transits below, this asks us to slow down and look at how we overdo, hoping to get our needs met that way.

More isn’t necessarily better. Creating a lot, hoarding a lot, working a lot, thinking a lot does not make things better. This week, use your analytical, critical thinking skills to evaluate how you honor your needs and create authentic structure to nurture yourself. Use your structured and analytical side to form a foundation for your future, and question any instinct to pressure yourself to overdo with the hopes it will time travel you to that future. Overdoing just ruins the present.

Photo by imsogabriel stock on Unsplash (plant shoot uncoiling from the ground)

For horoscope principles this week, I am primarily looking at the following celestial events:

• The Sun in Cancer squares Saturn in Aries on Monday, July 6, 2026, at 3:46pm Pacific. This is a moment where you have the opportunity to notice the results you have created since the Summer Solstice, when the Sun went into Cancer. Mercury has been retrograde and the Mars/Uranus conjunction just went exact over the holiday weekend. Take stock of how you have been able to handle frustration, annoyance, urgency, and conflict. What structures and rules do you have in place to make sure your life nurtures you?

• Neptune goes retrograde in Aries on Tuesday, July 7, 2026, at 3:54pm Pacific. Outer planets are often retrograde, and they do not have the same impact, in my experience as inner planets going retrograde. However, this is a good time to look at your Cardinal planets in early degrees because they might be getting a hard revisit from Neptune’s influence, which can include tiredness, anxiety, and the need to push pause and go slow. A transit from Neptune can also bring connection to our spirits and intuition.

• Venus goes into Virgo on Thursday, July 9, 2026, at 10:22am Pacific. Venus, the planet of beauty, has been in Leo, the space in the sky where she is flashy, showy, deserves to be the center of attention, and puts on a show. She is moving into the more analytical, particular, and grounded space of Virgo. This can feel more secure, but it can also be an experience where we have to clean up after the party.

• Venus in Virgo trines Chiron in Taurus on July 9, 2026, at 11:17pm Pacific. Right as Venus goes into Virgo, she connects in a supportive way with our wounding around having needs. Often when we are partying and having fun, as Venus does in Leo, there is a performance involved that is not bad, but does not acknowledge our deeper needs. Venus in Virgo asks us to acknowledge we have needs and meet them.

• The moon is void of course from Saturday, July 11, 2026, at 3:11pm Pacific until Sunday, July 12, 2026, at 3:46pm Pacific. This is a more than 24 hour period, where the moon is not making any aspect before it goes from Gemini to Cancer. I love to follow the moon cycles, but I do not include them in horoscopes because the moon moves so quickly. When the moon is void for more than 24 hours, though, it is significant. This is a time to avoid initiating anything, unless it is something that you want to have fly under the radar and not make significant impact.

• The Sun in Cancer goes conjunct Mercury retrograde in Cancer on Sunday, July 12, 2026, at 6:25pm Pacific. This is called a Mercury cazimi and usually happens twice during a Mercury retrograde. This is a moment to evaluate your retrograde experience and see what is coming up for you. Where are you seeing mistakes, misunderstandings, redos, revisitings? Listen to what your body and your intuition are telling you about the lessons from these experiences.

• Uranus and Mars continue in Gemini; Pluto continues in Aquarius.

These are the principles to consider for the week of July 6, 2026. It is worth taking a look at both your rising and sun sign horoscopes (visit astro.com to find your rising sign):

Aries: Even the most extroverted person needs alone time sometimes. Many of us set up unconscious rules where we are only allowed to rest if we are sick, depressed, or in crisis. That leads to a downward spiral, where we have to stay in unhealthy situations in order to earn rest. Right now, you might feel frustrated with your closest community and siblings, and that is a signal to check in with your rest. Give yourself more nap time than you think you need, and you’ll be better able to use your energy to create needed change in your community rather than using it against yourself.

Taurus: It is vulnerable to admit we have needs, and so many of us spend a lot of energy meeting other people’s needs instead of acknowledging our own. This week presents an opportunity to use your creative abilities to honor your own needs. This might look like a letter to your inner child, a painting or vision board that honors what you need most, a spreadsheet and flowchart organizing your needs, a calendar system for honoring your needs, or whatever other creative option strikes you. Your money situation doesn’t need to change in order for you to honor your needs.

Gemini: Rules and boundaries do not have to be rigid in order to be effective. You are in a period of time where you are experiencing massive changes in how you understand yourself and show yourself to the world, and that requires an adjustment to your rules of engagement. Make an art project that represents what you value most deeply and consider the adjustments you could make to the boundaries and rules you use in your social group to honor and nurture what you value most.

Cancer: Sensitivities are alerts about certain substances or experiences. When we want people to be compliant with toxic behavior or tolerant of toxic substances, we teach them that sensitivities are bad. This week, check in with the information your sensitivities are giving you. Put into place structure (usually this means rules and boundaries) in your career that would better support those sensitivities. If you find yourself engaging in mental debates about what your boundaries should be, check in with your body and ground your rules and boundaries in your sensitivities.

Leo: There are some things that you are not supposed to figure out or solve and one of them is how to be high vibes all the time. Only AI is universally high vibe, and that’s one of the creepy things about AI. If you have wounds around being a support for everyone around you at work, but not having your needs met in return, look at your inclination to overwhelm yourself to solve this. Overwork will not meet your needs, but acknowledging them and getting clear about what you truly value is more likely to help your needs get met.

Virgo: The amount of influence we have on other people has more to do with how much we listen to them than how much we explain about ourselves. If you feel frustrated or agitated at work and misunderstood in your friend and social groups, allow those feelings to be present, and also check in with how much you are listening. If you are offering scrutiny instead of support, it will be difficult for people to receive your sage analysis.

Libra: Pardon me while I cheese it up, but you can’t have a healthy partnership with another person unless you have a healthy, intimate partnership with yourself, including your most judgmental parts. While the boundaries you have with your partners about your career is not the only connection between your self-partnership and your partnership with others, this week you have a chance to re-evaluate that facet. Honor your analytical side and meet your own needs first.

Scorpio: When we overwork and overthink, we often do it because we think it will solve problems, though unfortunately it often usually problems on top of other problems. To be most effective this week, rather than creating more problems through overwork, check in with what you love most about your friend and social groups. If you can define what works best in that space, you can translate it to overall rules and boundaries you can use, especially when it comes to having your needs met in your partnerships and habits.

Sagittarius: Alignment means that our bodies, minds, emotions, and spirits are working together, even if they are offering different information. It is easy to get so focused on higher ideals, reason, or intelligence that we forget that our bodies are an important component of our human experience. If your expectations of yourself require you to ignore your body’s needs, it’s time to reevaluate that. Slow down and care for yourself if you want to be more effective.

Capricorn: More isn’t always better. If you have more garbage, you have more work to do to take out the trash. There is a difference between accumulation and wealth hoarding, which is what we see with the billionaire class, and abundance. If you want to be understood in your partnerships, this week offers you the opportunity to evaluate how authentic you are being. The more authentic you are about what is correct for you, the more you will be able to handle misunderstandings in partnership.

Aquarius: Too much of a good thing is still too much. You are entering a period of time where your partnerships and your personal transformation can create a sense of overwhelm. You are better served this week using your critical analysis skills to determine the needs you have in your personal life than allowing your partnerships to take over your life.

Pisces: In order to change our lives, the small changes we make to our daily experiences make as much difference as the major revelations we have. This week gives you the opportunity to evaluate the rules and boundaries you have around money and what you value and how this impacts your creative projects and children. If you try to get your needs met through the habits you have always had, you will get the same results. Use your analytical skills to decide what you need to shift to get results that are more aligned with what you deeply need.

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Stop Thinking; Feel Feelings: Horoscopes June 29-July 5, 2026

In astrology, there are three modalities, which are called Cardinal, Fixed, and Mutable, and each sign falls into one of those modes.

Cardinal signs initiate action, and they are associated with the start of a new season (e.g. Aries starts spring). Fixed signs maintain the status quo, and they are associated with the mid-point of a season (e.g. Taurus is mid-spring). Mutable signs adapt to change, and they are associated with change in season (e.g. Gemini transitions into summer).

I say this because you have each of these modes in your chart and they are all being activated in uncomfortable ways this week. This week has the violence of life breaking through the husk of a seed to climb toward the sun. Unfortunately, I am here to tell you that even if you want to be reactive to the pokes, prods, and overwhelms of the universe this week, your best move will be to feel your feelings and allow uncomfortable change. Thinking things through and being reactive are less likely to get you the results you ultimately want. And, once you process your feelings, by all means take action to make the changes we need for our collective growth!

Photo by imsogabriel stock on Unsplash (plant shoot uncoiling from the ground)

For horoscope principles this week, I am primarily looking at the following celestial events:

• Mercury goes retrograde in Cancer at 10:35am Pacific on Monday, June 29, 2026. This is a time when things don’t work quite right. You have enough small snafus and misunderstandings that they pile up and everything seems frustrating. The lesson for a Mercury retrograde, especially in Cancer, is to slow down and savor each experience, including the ones that “go wrong.” Behind each mistake is a magical door waiting to take you to something better than your original plan.

• The Capricorn Full Moon happens at 4:56pm Pacific on Monday, June 29, 2026. The Sun is in Cancer, opposite the Moon in Capricorn for this aspect. This focuses on how we nurture, both privately and institutionally. While our security might feel tied to institutions, our private expression of life has sensitive intuition that can tell us whether that is healthy for us or not. Loyalty is great, but make sure you are loyal to yourself first.

• Jupiter goes into Leo at 10:52pm Pacific on Monday, June 29, 2026. This is the planet of expansion and growth and so look to where Leo is in your chart for the area of life where you are invited to expand through this transit. Jupiter has been in Cancer for the past year, and the Mercury retrograde invites you to revisit the growth you have had in that area of your chart, while you enter into a new period of expansion. Cancer is more private than Leo, and so your private loyalties may have expanded over the past year, while you are stepping into a more public expansion.

• Jupiter in Leo squares Chiron in Taurus at 7:23pm Pacific on Wednesday, June 1, 2026. Right as Jupiter goes into Leo, he squares Chiron, the wounded healer. This invites you to look at your wounding around the idea that you are too much and need too much.

• Mars goes conjunct Uranus in Gemini at 11:07pm Pacific on Friday, July 3, 2026. This transit is building starting on June 28, when Mars goes into Gemini, and it brings a sense of restlessness, instability, and uncertainty. When we are reactive to that feeling, it can lead to violence and harm. If we can sit with the experience of instability and restlessness, we can allow it to transform us and bring clarity around the changes we need to make in life and the actions we can take to be more free. The peak of this transit is not the best time to take those actions, unless they have been building for some time. Be wary of reactive change and allow your patience to stretch.

• Mars in Gemini sextiles Neptune in Aries at 5:44pm Pacific on Saturday, July 4, 2026. This is a supportive aspect for taking courageous action toward your ideals. Mars rules how we show up in terms of taking action, and he has just moved from slow and deliberate Taurus to quick moving Gemini. Neptune rules idealism, and in Aries this idealism applies to courage and authenticity. Together this allows us to take courageous action to create our ideals, which likely involves enforcing boundaries.

• Mars in Gemini trines Pluto in Aquarius at this 6:06am Pacific on Sunday, July 5, 2026. This aspect incorporates deep transformation into the work Mars is already doing in your Gemini house. Pluto is asking us to transform how we handle our duties to the collective, and Mars is ready to take action to create more freedom. Capture these aspects to take action toward a more equitable community.

• Venus continues in Leo; Saturn continues in Aries.

These are the principles to consider for the week of June 22, 2026. It is worth taking a look at both your rising and sun sign horoscopes (visit astro.com to find your rising sign):

Aries: When we look to governments and institutions to change, it can be completely justified and even helpful, and also the first change we have control over is the change in our personal lives. If our government is run by predators and we want that to change, we can start with refusing to tolerate predatory behavior in our personal lives. Even predatory or self-harming thinking is something we can stop tolerating. Big change is coming to your most intimate community. May it involve healthy boundaries.

Taurus: Energetic boundaries are just as important as physical and emotional boundaries. Energetic boundaries honor the sacred nature of your personal energy and sovereignty. This week, showing up with your closest community will give you information about your energetic boundaries. If you are giving away your energy, that’s information about what shifts you want to make, not judgment about your worth. Make time to add beauty to your home, and it may give you other insight into the energetic shifts you need.

Gemini: I’m not saying this to personally attack or offend you, but no matter how rude this truth is, things do not have to be fast in order to be worthwhile. You are entering into a period, as Mercury slows and goes retrograde next week, where checking in with your most vulnerable and nurturing values is more important than knowing the fast and right answer. This does not mean you have to be reactive to your feelings, but they may give you more reliable information than pressuring your thinking to be quick.

Cancer: Just like you are not your kids and you are not your partners, you are also not your career, what you produce, or your public reputation. You are something much more complex and private than any of those facets or images. This week, look at the results you are getting in your career and consider whether there are any boundaries you want to enforce to protect the sensitives paces of who you are and allow you to be more fully yourself. Welcome revelations and downloads from your unconscious.

Leo: All parts of us need rest and nurture. You are entering a season where it is important to listen to the signals that you need rest. One of those signals may be feeling sad, depressed, or lower energy than usual. You don’t need more coffee, you need a nap and some alone time. Your ideals and expectations of yourself are one piece of information about who you can become, and having boundaries with your inner task-master is just as important as having boundaries with any person.

Virgo: Feelings are one source of data about any situation. Most of us were raised to be suspicious of feelings and believe thinking is superior to feelings. But, you are going into a time period where honoring your feelings without overthinking is important. If something feels off to you, you don’t need to find a good reason for that, just leave the situation. Use your strong analytical skills to find spaces that feel nurturing to you, rather than turning them against yourself.

Libra: Intimacy with others is sacred, and so is your individual experience of authenticity and courage within relationships. This week invites you to look at the boundaries and structures you have put into place in your partnerships since the Spring Equinox, and whether they support the safety and nurture you deserve in your public-facing life. Take that as neutral information and then consider what about your ideals may need to shift so that you can embrace more freedom.

Scorpio: Our ideals represent a higher sense of our potential, and also we can understand what we truly value by looking at our daily lives. When our habits and routines don’t reflect our higher ideals, that is good information to have. This week, the cosmos is giving you tangible information about where your ideals may be in tension with your health. When in doubt, treat your body with care as the sacred vessel it is, rather that pressuring it to conform to ideals that don’t serve you.

Sagittarius: The difference between enforcing a boundary and exerting coercive control is that you enforce a boundary in response to what comes into your space. It does not require other people to conform to your expectations. This week, evaluate the boundaries you have related to your children or creative projects, and how they use other people’s money. Because this is about other people, be conscious of the difference between a boundary and control. Changes are coming related to your partnerships, so practice healthy ways to process anger and frustration when people act outside of your expectations.

Capricorn: Understanding consent in personal relationships starts with understanding and respecting our own boundaries. When we do not respect and enforce our own boundaries, it is hard to understand or hear other people’s. This week, evaluate whether you are getting the results you want in your partnerships, and if you want to get different results, make sure you are clear about your own boundaries and receptive to other people’s. Consider being open to being open (even hesitantly) to changing how you think of boundaries because what you are doing now could seriously impact your health in July if you are not open to change.

Aquarius: Revolution is a daily practice of transforming our expectations and personal relationships, not primarily an acute moment of action, though it may include that. This week, examine whether your daily life supports and reflects the revolution you want to see in your community. As we go into July, the cosmos gives you the opportunity to create what your community needs to transform into a structure supportive of the most vulnerable. Take the call when it comes. What is healthy transformation for you is also healthy for your people.

Pisces: Often people resist feeling love, even though they are the only ones who experience the feeling, believing that love means absence of boundaries. In fact, love includes respecting our own boundaries and those of other people. If you have had a hard time establishing your boundaries related to money, especially with your children and creative projects, now is time to take stock. If you feel frustrated or angry at home, allow those feelings, but take stock before you act on them.

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Courageous Reality: Horoscopes June 22-28, 2026

Happy Solstice and Litha, witches!

When I was representing injured people as a lawyer, one of the red flags about potential clients that I often saw was the potential client who guaranteed they had a multi-million-dollar, sure-win case. The reason this was a red flag was not that they exaggerated their injuries or the wrongdoing involved. It was because they had a fundamental misunderstanding about the legal system.

I have seen this same misunderstanding related to churches and spiritual communities, coaching programs, and even jobs.

The misunderstanding is that systems are built to benefit the people within them and prevent and correct harms when they happen. It is hypothetically possible to build systems that do that, but most systems in the U.S., including the legal system, most religious systems, jobs, etc. are built to generate, process, and hoard money, not to benefit or protect their constituents.

Now, don’t get me wrong, money is great and I still believe injured people deserve at least access to healthcare and compensation for harms. But, in most instances we are far from offering that, especially to our most vulnerable and most severely injured in the U.S.

I say that not to be depressing, but to say that this week, the astrology gives us the opportunity to look at our boundaries and the results we are getting from the systems we support, whether we are supporting through love or hate. This week prepares us to step into a time of revolutionizing our personal lives to reflect the world we want to create. Long term change requires small, brick-by-brick efforts to build something new.

Photo by David Cain on Unsplash (hand holding a brick and building a wall)

For horoscope principles this week, I am primarily looking at the following celestial events:

• Venus in Leo trines Saturn in Aries on Thursday, June 25, 2026, at 5:01am Pacific. This is a supportive aspect for building structure around relationships and beauty. If last week was tough and confusing in your relationships, this aspect could be a good opportunity to decide what type of structures you expect and want to build.

• The Sun in Cancer squares Neptune in Aries on Thursday, June 25, 2026, at 3:38pm Pacific. This aspect happens as the Venus trine to Saturn is happening, and it asks you to be honest with yourself about the spaces where you have compromised your boundaries, expecting experts or gurus to know more than you about your life. Neptune can entice us to merge and sacrifice our own sense of self and inner knowing, but the lesson is to pay attention to our bodies’ signals and our results in the physical reality in order to have stronger boundaries.

• The Sun in Cancer squares Saturn in Aries on Friday, June 26, 2026, at 8:26am Pacific. Right on the heels of the opportunity to check our boundaries, this aspect gives us a reality check about our actions and the results they’re getting. If your actions or inactions are not getting you the results you want, be realistic about that data and make a shift.

• Mars in Taurus sextiles Jupiter in Cancer on Saturday, June 27, 2026, at 9:50pm Pacific. After checking in with your boundaries and results, this aspect supports making shifts and taking intentional action toward the results you do want. Most of us think that if we try 3 things to get the results we want, that is enough, but in reality sometimes it takes 100 tries. Get up and go after it!

• Mars goes into Gemini on Sunday, June 28, 2026, at 12:29pm Pacific. This means that Mars is applying to conjunction with Uranus, which signifies major, explosive change. When we repress anger and resist change, this aspect can become explosive and unhealthy. When we embrace anger as a healthy human experience and allow change, we can harness these energies for the personal shifts we need to create the lives we want.

• Mercury continues in Cancer, getting ready to go retrograde on June 29; Uranus continues in Gemini; Pluto continues in Aquarius.

These are the principles to consider for the week of June 22, 2026. It is worth taking a look at both your rising and sun sign horoscopes (visit astro.com to find your rising sign):

Aries: When we look to governments and institutions to change, it can be completely justified and even helpful, and also the first change we have control over is the change in our personal lives. If our government is run by predators and we want that to change, we can start with refusing to tolerate predatory behavior in our personal lives. Even predatory or self-harming thinking is something we can stop tolerating. Big change is coming to your most intimate community. May it involve healthy boundaries.

Taurus: Energetic boundaries are just as important as physical and emotional boundaries. Energetic boundaries honor the sacred nature of your personal energy and sovereignty. This week, showing up with your closest community will give you information about your energetic boundaries. If you are giving away your energy, that’s information about what shifts you want to make, not judgment about your worth. Make time to add beauty to your home, and it may give you other insight into the energetic shifts you need.

Gemini: I’m not saying this to personally attack or offend you, but no matter how rude this truth is, things do not have to be fast in order to be worthwhile. You are entering into a period, as Mercury slows and goes retrograde next week, where checking in with your most vulnerable and nurturing values is more important than knowing the fast and right answer. This does not mean you have to be reactive to your feelings, but they may give you more reliable information than pressuring your thinking to be quick.

Cancer: Just like you are not your kids and you are not your partners, you are also not your career, what you produce, or your public reputation. You are something much more complex and private than any of those facets or images. This week, look at the results you are getting in your career and consider whether there are any boundaries you want to enforce to protect the sensitives paces of who you are and allow you to be more fully yourself. Welcome revelations and downloads from your unconscious.

Leo: All parts of us need rest and nurture. You are entering a season where it is important to listen to the signals that you need rest. One of those signals may be feeling sad, depressed, or lower energy than usual. You don’t need more coffee, you need a nap and some alone time. Your ideals and expectations of yourself are one piece of information about who you can become, and having boundaries with your inner task-master is just as important as having boundaries with any person.

Virgo: Feelings are one source of data about any situation. Most of us were raised to be suspicious of feelings and believe thinking is superior to feelings. But, you are going into a time period where honoring your feelings without overthinking is important. If something feels off to you, you don’t need to find a good reason for that, just leave the situation. Use your strong analytical skills to find spaces that feel nurturing to you, rather than turning them against yourself.

Libra: Intimacy with others is sacred, and so is your individual experience of authenticity and courage within relationships. This week invites you to look at the boundaries and structures you have put into place in your partnerships since the Spring Equinox, and whether they support the safety and nurture you deserve in your public-facing life. Take that as neutral information and then consider what about your ideals may need to shift so that you can embrace more freedom.

Scorpio: Our ideals represent a higher sense of our potential, and also we can understand what we truly value by looking at our daily lives. When our habits and routines don’t reflect our higher ideals, that is good information to have. This week, the cosmos is giving you tangible information about where your ideals may be in tension with your health. When in doubt, treat your body with care as the sacred vessel it is, rather that pressuring it to conform to ideals that don’t serve you.

Sagittarius: The difference between enforcing a boundary and exerting coercive control is that you enforce a boundary in response to what comes into your space. It does not require other people to conform to your expectations. This week, evaluate the boundaries you have related to your children or creative projects, and how they use other people’s money. Because this is about other people, be conscious of the difference between a boundary and control. Changes are coming related to your partnerships, so practice healthy ways to process anger and frustration when people act outside of your expectations.

Capricorn: Understanding consent in personal relationships starts with understanding and respecting our own boundaries. When we do not respect and enforce our own boundaries, it is hard to understand or hear other people’s. This week, evaluate whether you are getting the results you want in your partnerships, and if you want to get different results, make sure you are clear about your own boundaries and receptive to other people’s. Consider being open to being open (even hesitantly) to changing how you think of boundaries because what you are doing now could seriously impact your health in July if you are not open to change.

Aquarius: Revolution is a daily practice of transforming our expectations and personal relationships, not primarily an acute moment of action, though it may include that. This week, examine whether your daily life supports and reflects the revolution you want to see in your community. As we go into July, the cosmos gives you the opportunity to create what your community needs to transform into a structure supportive of the most vulnerable. Take the call when it comes. What is healthy transformation for you is also healthy for your people.

Pisces: Often people resist feeling love, even though they are the only ones who experience the feeling, believing that love means absence of boundaries. In fact, love includes respecting our own boundaries and those of other people. If you have had a hard time establishing your boundaries related to money, especially with your children and creative projects, now is time to take stock. If you feel frustrated or angry at home, allow those feelings, but take stock before you act on them.

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Safety is Romantic: Horoscopes June 15-21, 2026

I’m a huge lover (pun intended) of romance novels. I love a romantasy, a romantic mystery, a cozy romance, a witchy romance. Pretty much you throw romance into the story, and I’ll probably be into it.

Last year, a friend, who is a man, read a popular romantasy novel and told me he was surprised how few s*x scenes it had. My first thought was that romance novels are not really about s*x, although in some ways they are. “What are they about if not sex?” I wondered.

And the more I read, the more I realized they are about safety. They are about the dream of finding someone who values our safety over their own comfort.

Outside of romance novels, in reality, we must value our own safety over other people’s comfort before we expect others to do that. This week, the astrology reminds us that all the ways we express and dream of love are valid, and also healing and romance both start with listening to and meeting our own needs.

Photo by Jamie Street on Unsplash (red rose)

For horoscope principles this week, I am primarily looking at the following celestial events:

• Venus in Leo sextiles Uranus in Gemini on Monday, June 15, 2026, at 3:52pm Pacific. This is an aspect supportive of change or happy surprise in relationship, romance, and beauty. Embrace your flair, whatever that means for you, and plan a spontaneous date (and never forget a date with yourself is just as special as a date with another person!).

• Venus in Leo trines Neptune in Aries on Tuesday, June 16, 2026, at 8:40pm Pacific. Romantic ideals and the daily experience of supportive love are two different experiences, and both have value. This is an aspect that is supportive of indulging in the romantic ideals. Just remember to honor yourself first. How can you romanticize connection that has healthy boundaries?

• Venus in Leo opposes Pluto in Aquarius on Wednesday, June 17, 2026, at 1:38pm Pacific. Obsession and love are two different experiences. Love honors yourself and the other person or people involved. Obsession seeks to connect, whether or not it is respectful. Under this aspect, we can be drawn to obsessive romanticizing. Be sure to check the reality of who your crush is and what is safe for them as well as you.

• Chiron goes into Taurus on Friday, June 19, 2026, at 2:20pm Pacific. Chiron is an asteroid, but a very large one, and so he is often considered among the major planets. Chiron represents the space where we have been wounded and never quite heal, but we are able to use our wounding to heal others. He revolves around the Sun between Saturn and Uranus, and collectively this speaks to how hard it is for us to allow change. Chiron moving into Taurus shifts our collective emphasis from wounding around authenticity and courage to wounding around productivity and having needs.

• The Sun goes into Cancer on Sunday, June 21, 2026, at 1:24am Pacific. This is also summer solstice, so happy solstice, witches! The summer solstice is the longest day of the year, which tends to be associated with being seen and visible. Cancer is energy of nurturing, loyalty, patriotism, and protecting the vulnerable. Cancer is a water sign, and the symbol is the crab, so it is energy of vulnerability, surrounded by a hard outer shell. This year, Cancer season asks us to decide what loyalty and patriotism means to us personally, and what best protects the most vulnerable.

• The Sun in Cancer sextiles Chiron in Taurus on Sunday, June 21, 2026, at 2:47am Pacific. Right as the Sun goes into Cancer, we are asked to look at our deepest woundings around productivity and having needs. Where has capitalism taught you to subvert your needs to the system’s expectations? Where has capitalism taught you that your productivity is your value? This solstice gives you access to shifting and healing some of those wounds (or at least developing awareness over them).

• Mercury and Jupiter continue in Cancer; Mars continues in Taurus; Saturn continues in Aries.

• The sky forms a bowl shape this week, with Chiron as the focal planet, drawing in Scorpio energy. You may want to look at the Scorpio area of your chart and see if you feel any extra need in that house.

These are the principles to consider for the week of June 15, 2026. It is worth taking a look at both your rising and sun sign horoscopes (visit astro.com to find your rising sign):

Aries: Sometimes ugliness accentuates beauty, dissonance accentuates harmony. Other times, beauty stands alone, and absorbing it does not require contrast. Your creative projects and interactions with children are a space to draw in beauty, creativity, flexibility, and depth this week. Let your play be play without requiring it to follow rules or provide you money. And also, ask for what you need without requiring yourself to work for it.

Taurus: As the benevolent queen of your home and family life, it is important to treat yourself as one of your subjects, who has needs and preferences like everyone else. This week offers you opportunities to align your home with your shifting values, your spirit’s insight, and the transformation your career is undergoing. Remember that you are human and allowed to have your own needs in this process.

Gemini: The term “coven” is a relatively new term that is used to describe a small group of people gathering for ritual and magickal purposes. It is a trusted, close group. This week, consider who your closest coven is, whether the shakeup you are experiencing in how you show up in the world might reveal a new coven to you, and what boundaries you want to have around who you allow to be close and trusted. It is also worth considering what an ideal coven would look like to you, even if that is not what you have right now.

Cancer: One lie that I tend to associate with capitalism is that money has a relationship to good and evil. This looks like narratives that say either rich people are the hardworking inventors or rich people are the greedy oppressors. While there may be examples of both, this week consider money as one part of an abundant life. Consider how your inner child, boundaries in your career, and spiritual insight contribute to your abundant life.

Leo: We are often surprised to find out that celebrities, who seem to “have it all,” experience depression or other mental health stressors. We think that because they appear energetic and supported by fans, that describes their entire life. You, like other celebrities, are more than one thing at a time. This week, beauty visits how you appear to the outside world, but inside might feel more moody. It is okay to be both. Acknowledging that you have needs, even in your most public-facing life, is healthy.

Virgo: What we repress, especially when it comes to feelings, re-emerges at the most inopportune times. This week asks you to look at how you partner with yourself when you are alone. If you were to evaluate the way you treat yourself like you evaluate your romantic partners, consider what needs to change in your career and daily habits to make yourself an ideal partner to yourself.

Libra: Shakespeare tells us, in admittedly a rather gloomy way, that “all the world’s a stage.” This week, the cosmos offers you that message, but in a way that asks you to shine. If you were the queen of your social groups and ruled an ideal kingdom, imagine the boundaries that would require you to have in your partnerships and the creative transformation it would ask of you. Honor your spiritual needs as you start to manifest this social queendom.

Scorpio: Most of us believe that other people are like us, and we attribute our motivation to their behavior. We over-give, expecting others will give back; we over-take, expecting others will also look out for themselves. This week, the wounding you have around having needs in your partnerships is invited to start a process of painful healing. You may appear to have it all together, and in some ways you do. And, you are still allowed to share your needs with those closest to you.

Sagittarius: Ideals without action are often a form of self-harm. When we have a vision of how things “should” be, that are not how things are, it seems like it will motivate us to make a change, but usually it generates criticism of ourselves and others. This week, allow yourself to indulge in romantic ideals, and also honor that your body has needs and your health is an important part of being human.

Capricorn: Social safety net is the term used for the resources we, as a community, are willing to provide every human. This week, romanticize about learning of a long-lost relative whose death surprises you with millions of dollars (so mote it be), and also consider the practical boundaries you have with your family and the changes you would need to make in your daily routine to welcome abundant wealth into your life. Rather than relying on the romance, allow the transformation that needs to happen to create this for yourself, even if it is painful and vulnerable.

Aquarius: Most of us were taught or modeled that we should pursue cis, straight marriage, have children and then be quiet. A huge amount of stories romanticize this goal as being the solution to life’s problems, especially for women, but also for other genders. This week, allow yourself to romanticize about partnership, and also turn it into something creative external from you (art, stories, food, etc.), rather than obsessing. The perfect partner will not meet all of your needs, but if you try and get creative, you will be able to meet your own needs.

Pisces: Capitalism tells us that rich and skinny equals superior. This week, you might feel seduced into idealizing or romanticizing “perfect” health (whatever that means) or magazine bodies. If that happens, try to show yourself the beauty of the opposite (find fat beauty and abundance outside of money), not just on social media, but also in your family. Emaciated bodies can’t fight capitalism, but nourished ones can. In order to unlearn the harmful programming of starvation, show your brain alternatives, rather than obsessing about fixing yourself.

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Happy Pride!! (Horoscopes June 8-14, 2026)

Pride Month started with protest and violent police action against people being honest about who they truly are. I say that because every pride story involves courage. Every time we say who we truly are, say what we truly love, say what attracts us, it is a moment of courage. Pride is a specific form of courage, and it models for all of us how to build the courage of sovereignty over our lives.

One time, I was talking to a friend about authenticity and he his objection to being more authentically himself was, “What if I find out that who I am is bad, though?”

And, listen, we are all someone’s villain. We are all bad to someone else, no matter how much we cover up who we are. The more we notice and embody what we love, though, the more the people who should hate us are the ones who do.

This week, the astrology offers us the opportunity to expand what we love and also notice the consequences of how we think and talk. Notice and honor what you love.

Photo by Tristan B. on Unsplash (Pride parade with rainbow flags and baloons)

For horoscope principles this week, I am primarily looking at the following celestial events:

• Venus goes conjunct Jupiter in Cancer on Tuesday, June 9, 2026, at 12:59pm Pacific!!! Happy Pride, everyone!! This is a special day, where the two celestial benefics come together in the sweet and loyal sign of Cancer, and so this is a tender time for growth in how you see beauty. And, listen, that doesn’t mean you have to have a good day. This is a great day to lean into growth around beauty wherever Cancer lands in your chart, but part of beauty is acknowledging ugliness, part of healing is acknowledging pain. Allow beauty when it finds you without putting expectations on yourself. This conjunction starts a new cycle in the relationship between Venus and Jupiter, and so be open to receiving information about what growth will look like for you over then approximately 13 months.

• Mercury in Cancer squares Saturn in Aries on Tuesday, June 9, 2026, at 10:38pm Pacific. This is a good opportunity to look externally from yourself to see the impact of your thoughts and words. During Pride Month, an incredibly important thing all of us can do is take seriously the consequences of the ways we limit ourselves from full self-expression. Being who you love and doing what you love adds more love. This transit is a good time to question narratives that have restrictive or self-harming impacts.

• Mercury goes into its pre-retrograde shadow in Cancer on Friday, June 12, 2026, at 5:53pm Pacific. Ok, gang, this may be my toxic trait, but I love a Mercury retrograde. I think every snafu during a Mercury retrograde is an opportunity to notice a portal opening into something magical. The pre-shadow is when we get a hint about what the topics of the retrograde will be.

• Venus in Cancer squares Chiron in Aries on Friday, June 12, 2026, at 10:23pm Pacific. When we experience growth, especially the growth associated with Venusian topics like love, money, and beauty (which the Venus Jupiter conjunction earlier this week initiates), it usually brings up our vulnerabilities and insecurities. It feels vulnerable to be a bigger version of who we are. This Venus/Chiron square reflects a trigger of that vulnerability that reminds you to integrate your wounding in service of your growth.

• Venus goes into Leo on Saturday, June 13, 2026, at 3:46am Pacific. The Venus transits through Cancer and Leo frame both the vulnerability and the flair that Pride Month holds. Leo is a fire sign, represented by the lion basking in the savannah. Leo brings the flair side of pride. Venus in Leo knows she’s beautiful for just being herself, so be loud and proud with who you are under this transit!

• The Gemini New Moon happens on Sunday, June 14, 2026, at 7:54pm Pacific. Welcome changes and allow freedom. The Sun and Moon meet each other in Gemini, the sign that expresses multiple perspectives and reminds us that two things can be true at the same time. Find the security and safety it brings to express your multiplicity.

• Mars continues in Taurus; Uranus continues in Gemini; Pluto continues in Aquarius.

These are the principles to consider for the week of June 1, 2026. It is worth taking a look at both your rising and sun sign horoscopes (visit astro.com to find your rising sign):

Aries: How we see ourselves and how our family sees us is often quite different, no matter how close we are with our family. And, the reflection your family (including chosen family) offers you is valuable information that you should listen to right now. You are going through a period of swift consequences, and those are meant to show you the impact you make on the world. If you don’t like the impact you have, it doesn’t mean you are bad. It just means you are allowed to change so that you like your results better. Now is a great time to make any changes or tweaks that get you better results.

Taurus: Other people, even the people closest to us, don’t know our needs until we communicate them. Allow your unconscious limitations and woundings around how you communicate your needs to your closest community, and how you allow them to be met, come up this week. Look at what those unconscious limitations create and how your closest relationships may heal some of those wounds. The New Moon at the end of the week allows you to shift what abundance means for you and how you relate to what you value most.

Gemini: Business strategist Jim Rohn says that you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. This week, consider how your friend and social groups impact your values and how abundance shows up in your life. Rather than using your friends as a ceiling for how expansive your abundance can be, consider surpassing them, even if it’s uncomfortable. The New Moon at the end of the week offers an opportunity to welcome a new, more free version of yourself.

Cancer: One of the lessons that Pride Month offers is that being uniquely you is special and the more yourself you are willing to be, the more it helps all of us. This week, if you believe the limitations imposed by your career interfere with being fully, expansively yourself, consider how those constraints can push you into creativity instead of stagnation. Imagine your future self, including the new problems she has, an how she solved the problems you have now.

Leo: Institutional ideals train us to leave behind or reject parts of ourselves in order to offer cheap labor to the system. Your relationship to your inner child, who absorbed these messages at a tender age, has had the opportunity to grow over the past year. This week, that cycle ends and a new growth in that area starts. Relate in a new way to the triggers you have around institutional judgment. While this sounds heavy, the end of the week offers you an opportunity to refresh how you see fun in your friend and social groups.

Virgo: The 8 of Swords card in tarot reminds us that most limitations exist in our minds, while in reality our lives are abundant. This week, the expansion you have experienced in your friend and social groups ends a cycle and starts a new one. Even if your mind tells you that other people are judging you, look to your external reality and ask what gifts (tangible or intangible) your social groups are offering you, not what judgments other people might have about you. The reality of judgments may also contain gifts.

Libra: Bigger isn’t always easier. You have been experiencing expansion of how you show up in your career and public facing life, and this is a tender place in your chart. This week, consider how you can expand the protections and boundaries that make your vulnerability safe, even as you start a new cycle of expanding how your vulnerability looks publicly. Communicate with your partners the support you expect and need, rather than bypassing the ways they trigger you.

Scorpio: Hermetic wisdom teaches, “As above, so below.” This means that our internal experience, our daily lives, and the the cosmos are all reflections of each other. And, none of these typically reflect our ideals. This week, your ideals are upgrading. What you imagine is possible is completing a cycle and starting a new one. If you notice that the limitations of your health and daily life don’t match your ideals, use that as information, not as reasons to shut down your dreams. Be open to messages from your guides and ancestors.

Sagittarius: Pride Month celebrates that s*x**lity and gender are not and have never been one thing, but exist on a spectrum. The same is true, especially for you, with partnerships. This week, script your own coming out or s*x**l awakening, no matter how old you are or how long ago you came out the first time. If something about how young people handle their relationships triggers you, use that as information about the growth available to you over your next year. Allow freedom to be a form of safety in your closest partnerships.

Capricorn: How we treat ourselves teaches other people how to treat us. We grow up with romantic messages, telling us that if we find our soulmates, they will heal us, but really, you are your first partner and first soulmate. Consider what ideal partnership would look like to you this week. Then, do something tangible to provide that to yourself, without expecting any other people to participate. If you are worried about judgment from your family, remember that you are your most important family and partner. Make the changes to your daily habits to implement ideal self-partnership.

Aquarius: Annie Dillard offers you this wisdom: “How you spend your time is how you spend your life.” This week is particularly expansive in how you handle your daily routines, and sometimes that can lead to overwhelm. When in doubt, pick the most loving and beautiful option. If you are worried that your close community won’t get it, redirect your thinking towards all of the examples of weirdness around you. You know how to show up as truly, weirdly you every day. This week challenges you to elevate what that means.

Pisces: Scarcity and maturity are two different experiences, and you can know which one you’re engaging in by paying attention to how they feel in your body. This week, you have the chance to abundantly support the young people around you in whatever their authentic sexual identity is. Don’t let your scarcity thinking get in the way of the learning from the abundance young people’s optimism models for you.

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Poetry of Reality: Horoscopes June 1-7, 2026

I’ve been a big sleep talker all of my life. One time, when I was around 6 years old, my brother and I were both sleeping in a loft that had two beds in it (I actually think it had three, but that’s too many beds so I’m fixing the memory for you).

My dad fell asleep reading to my brother, who was around 3 at the time. In the middle of the night, my brother started sleepwalking and saying he wanted to sleep in my bed. Then, I got up, still fully asleep, and said it was fine, and that we could swap beds. My dad was flummoxed trying to convince two sleepwalkers to get in their own beds.

There is similar confusion in the air this week around feelings. Often, whether we are empathic or not, we are more comfortable telling people how they feel than communicating how we feel. “You’re annoyed with me,” “You’re mad at me,” or “You like them better than me,” we think and even say instead of saying, “I feel insecure” or “I feel vulnerable.” This week that type of confusion comes up to remind us that other people’s feelings are not our business until they communicate them to us or ask them to read them in a professional exchange. Your business is to process and (sometimes) communicate your own feelings. Consent and boundaries create healthy relationships even (especially) for empaths!

Photo by Marcos Paulo Prado on Unsplash (a person writing in a journal)

For horoscope principles this week, I am primarily looking at the following celestial events:

• Mercury goes into Cancer on Monday, June 1, 2026, at 4:55am Pacific. Mercury represents how we think and communicate. Mercury is going from Gemini, where they rule and are comfortable with speed and changeability, to Cancer, where things are more touchy feely and emotional. Mercury in Cancer has a poetical quality and sensitivity, unless under threat, when things can become dark.

• The Sun in Gemini sextiles Saturn in Aries on Tuesday, June 2, 2026, at 3:48pm Pacific. This provides some structure for you to use to put into place the changes and releasing you allowed on the Sagittarius Full Moon last week.

• Mercury in Cancer squares Neptune in Aries on Wednesday, June 3, 2026, at 5:18pm Pacific. In the pursuit of sensitive communication, you may just be confusing. Sometimes, what seems harsh to say provides needed and supportive clarity. Notice when you are drawn to imaginary ideals and interpret communications in a pretty way. Reality may feel harsh but, sometimes harsh is healthy. On the other hand, this is a beautiful day for song and poetry writing.

• Mars continues in Taurus; Jupiter continues in Cancer until the end of June; Uranus continues in Gemini; Pluto continues in Aquarius.

These are the principles to consider for the week of June 1, 2026. It is worth taking a look at both your rising and sun sign horoscopes (visit astro.com to find your rising sign):

Aries: One of the most foundational magics you can practice is making friends with the spirit of the land where your home rests. If you are nomadic, this is still important and may include myriad spirits. The structure and support your home offers allows you creativity and freedom to dream and structure your reality. This week gives you access to bring beauty into your home. Even if it doesn’t look how you wanted at first, experiment with expressing yourself at home.

Taurus: Sometimes the spiritually true and the technically true are different but both are important to understand and hold. For example, when you are talking to a narcissist, they often will be able to point out that they did not technically say something, even though the impact of what they said is consistent with the problem you are raising. This week gives you access to speak in poetry, and also the structure to check in with reality, especially when it comes to your money and values.

Gemini: The most effective way to figure out what you value is to look at how you spend your time. When we do this, we often realize that the reality of our values is different than what we imagine them to be. This week gives you the opportunity to compare what you imagine your values to be with what they actually are. This can bring up sensitivity around how you fit in with other people, so be safe and nurturing with yourself should you choose to engage with this process.

Cancer: Toxic positivity happens when we value positivity over reality or truth. This week, you may feel some pressure to idealize your experience of career or public-facing life. If you find yourself valuing potential over reality, check in with your sense of safety and security. Give yourself the security and safety you need to acknowledge reality, even if you aren’t ready to talk about it yet. Courage usually means acknowledging our fears and sensitivities.

Leo: In order to be whole and have integrity, we have to integrate the parts of ourselves that culture has told us are unacceptable or undesirable. This week is a good time for you to hold a meeting with your inner child, inner critic, and higher self. If you assume each of these parts of you is important and has value, how can they integrate more effectively to support your whole self? How you show up in your friend groups might provide practical insight into this puzzle.

Virgo: Romance novels are usually more about the dream of someone caring about the main character’s safety over their own comfort than they are about s*x. In this way, we can romanticize friends and work colleagues as much as we romanticize partners. And, also, it is fair for all of us to expect others to care about our safety over their comfort. This week, check in with the reality of the supports in your life and what they say about your boundaries, even as you allow romantic ideals to flourish.

Libra: In Sleepless in Seattle, Nora Ephron wrote, “You don’t want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie!” This week, pay attention to the difference between being in love and being in love in a movie. Our partnerships deserve romance and reality, and it is healthy to know that they are not always the same thing. If you were to write a romance novel about an ambitious career woman finding supportive partnership, what is the biggest challenge your main character would need to overcome? How are her struggles your own (whatever gender you are)? Take the advice you would give her when it comes to the reality of her struggles.

Scorpio: Our daily routines and habits say more about what we truly value than our conscious ideals. This week, be open to allowing the foundations you’ve laid this year for how you want to structure your routine to receive some insight from your spirit. There is value in communicating your romanticized ideals, and understand the difference between ideals and the reality of the daily actions you take. The more you are aware of how you show up, the more you can align that to your ideals.

Sagittarius: There is an energetic rule that says “one soul per energetic body.” When we are experiencing transits like you are, we have the tendency to want to merge to create intimacy. This can come through as avoiding safer s*x, or through wanting other people to hold your emotions while you hold theirs. One of the beauties of relationship, though, is that the other person is separate and unknown. Intentionally listen to what is different and even ugly about the people you love and honor that, rather than only noticing what seems comfortable to you now.

Capricorn: Just because you say something or expect it of your family and partners this week does not mean that it is true or real. You may feel the urge this week to think or communicate a beautiful ideal that makes you feel safe, but true safety is found in paying attention to reality and allowing it to exist. If you do not like how people are treating you, make sure you are taking responsibility for your own boundaries, rather than trying to control your partners and family.

Aquarius: When we try to write for everyone, centering what the masses will think of us, we end up writing for nobody. This week is a good opportunity, even though I think you will hate this advice, for you to try out a daily journaling practice that is nurturing for you. You are private and sensitive in your daily habits, and would probably rather joke around than write about what is vulnerable to you, and that’s a place to start. Compile your best jokes into a journal, then talk to your therapist about what they reveal about how you nurture yourself.

Pisces: When we know what the boundaries are, we can be truly creative. For you, this is especially true related to your boundaries around money and how you show up with children and creative projects. Journal or chat with a friend about your dreams of what abundance could be for you, and then be honest about your reality and what you can create to make that happen.

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Get Hurt, Have Fun, Be Two Things At Once: Horoscopes May 25-31, 2026

I took a required freshman class in college called “Constraints and Creativity,” and the professor was high on Valium most of the time, so it was somewhat of a mystery. As sometimes happens, at the very end of the class, I realized what it was about: the relationship between limitation and expansion. Sometimes, it is the limitations imposed on us that create the greatest growth.

This week, the energies reflect that concept. Pluto makes intense aspects with Mars and the Sun, which can show up as both power and oppression. Oppressive experiences ask us to look at our own power, though. The Full Moon at the end of the week charges up the areas of our charts where we play games for fun and play games to win.

If there is no winning, we get to choose whether to still have fun. If you are experiencing oppression or unfair power, pause, allow yourself to see your own power, and let the constraints force you into creative solutions.

Photo by Nadine E on Unsplash (a glass ball showing a skyline upside down)

For horoscope principles this week, I am primarily looking at the following celestial events:

• Mars in Taurus squares Pluto in Aquarius on Monday, May 25, 2026, at 9:01pm Pacific. This is an intense and charged transit, where the energies of anger, war, and violence, are in tension with the energies of depth, transformation, and power. When we resist these energies or repress them, they come out violently and destructively. When we can notice them and allow them, they quickly transform what is not healthy for us.

• The Sun in Gemini trines Pluto in Aquarius on Tuesday, May 26, 2026, at 8:52am Pacific. This transit offers depth of knowing about who we are in our core. In Gemini, it invites us to look at a space in our nature where who we deeply are has many parts and is changeable. This offers depth of insight into who you are at your most free and changeable.

• Venus in Cancer squares Saturn in Aries on Thursday, May 28, 2026, at 8:02pm Pacific. Venus governs how we connect and create beauty, and Saturn governs limitation and discipline. This transit can bring limitation and reality to relationships that we might have idealized, and it can also bring dependability and stability (even if we don’t want that). In Cancer, Venus asks for nurturing and loyalty, and in Aries, Saturn shows us consequences where we fail to be courageously authentic. This can bring tension between a space where we want to be nurtured and experience consequences for compromising our integrity.

• The Full Moon in Sagittarius happens on Sunday, May 31, 2026, at 1:45am Pacific. This is a Blue Moon because it is the second Full Moon of this month (the first Full Moon was a Scorpio Full Moon). The Sun is in Gemini and the Moon opposite in Sagittarius. This creates tension between the security we find around a tangible version of truth and the knowing we have that different perspectives bring multiple truths. If we are in a post-truth era, this Full Moon invites us to consider that multiple perspectives can also be valid truths, even if that is in tension with our security.

• Mercury in Gemini sextiles Chiron in Aries on Sunday, May 31, 2026, at 5:32pm Pacific. This is a supportive aspect for communicating about the woundings we’ve experienced related to courageous authenticity. Who you are authentically is valid, even if other perspectives exist about your woundings.

• Jupiter continues in Cancer until the end of June; Uranus continues in Gemini; Neptune continues in Aries.

These are the principles to consider for the week of May 25, 2026. It is worth taking a look at both your rising and sun sign horoscopes (visit astro.com to find your rising sign):

Aries: When Jennifer Lawrence won an Oscar, she famously tripped and fell on the steps walking up to accept the award. Rather than ruining her reputation, it endeared her to many people and made her magnetically vulnerable. The transformation you are experiencing in your friend groups is infusing power into your closest community this week, but it may come with snafus, unfairness, or even damage related to your money and values. Talk with your closest people about woundings you’ve experienced around showing up authentically and allow the transformation to show you your own power.

Taurus: People pleasing is essentially saying “no” ahead of time to what is correct for you and what you want. If this week starts out unpleasantly or even terribly for you, look at ways you are disconnected from your own needs and desires, especially related to security and vulnerability. Consequences and even injuries this week can bring insight into what it means to nurture yourself. Later in the week, your values and the freedom you need to hold your values lightly are infused with power. Be willing to shift to bring in abundance.

Gemini: When loyalty is misused, it becomes devotion to abusive situations; when it is used well, it becomes loyalty to ourselves and that which is healthy for us. This week, your ideals and higher learning infuse with power the changes you are experiencing in how you present to the world. While you may not primarily think of yourself as powerful, it is important to allow the power to come through, even if you worry that it will threaten your security in partnerships. Communicate about the woundings you’ve experienced related to being authentic in your friend and social groups because the changes you are experiencing can heal others, as well as you.

Cancer: The thinking that we choose creates emotions, and those emotions impact how we show up in our everyday lives and even our health. This week, you experience limitations from your career that impact the loving and nurturing way you show up in the world. The more you can work with your unconscious mind to identify and communicate woundings you’ve experienced related to authenticity in your career, the more you can create security in your everyday health and life.

Leo: If it’s fun, do it, even if you’re tired. I am not usually one to buy into the “I’ll sleep when I’m dead” theory of rest, but this week, Leo, you are infused with power, and the key to that power is making it fun. This Full Moon may bring out vulnerability related to your children and creative projects that creates tension around fully showing up as your fun self in your friend and social groups. You are gifted a special ability to communicate about the woundings you have related to authenticity, though, and my advice is be vulnerable and host the party.

Virgo: If your job were a multi-player game, how would you make sure you not only won, but also had the most fun possible? This week, if you are too focused on winning being the only form of security, you may miss the opportunity to create real teamwork and connection. The Pluto transits connect your career and public facing life with power related to the transformations your health and daily routine are undergoing. Use that power to create fun and also to share vulnerably about woundings you’ve experienced related to authenticity in how your partners have handled money.

Libra: In her book Beyond Anxiety, Martha Beck recommends these steps to creating a “beautiful, practical, and magical” life: calm yourself, wander around, catch fire, practice deeply, get stuck, trust. This week the universe is offering you those steps, maybe not in order, to embrace and enhance the beauty of what you are offering to the world. It is constraints that push us to true creativity, and also for you, seeing multiplicity of reality informs your ideals. When you feel limited or backed into a corner (or even shamed), let it push you toward the bursts of insight waiting around the corner.

Scorpio: One of the rudest things in life is when you are incredibly intentional about how you show up in a situation, and it unexpectedly goes awry anyway. You are incredibly intentional about how you show up at all times, and this week, no matter how intentional you are, it does not go how you wanted in your partnerships and home life. That is because who you are in those areas is ready to transform. The more you see your own power and allow it to transform into something new, the more you’ll be able to use these energies in your favor.

Sagittarius: Many people hate participation trophies because if everyone wins, nobody wins. This week, when competition comes up, notice whether you are playing the game for fun or whether winning feels like a survival-level need. Even though partnerships are fun and natural to you, you have power in them, which can be challenging to acknowledge. This week asks you to look at whether you use that power to prove you are worthy or for the benefit of the whole community. The more intentional you are, the more your power benefits those you care about most.

Capricorn: One way to learn what you value is to think about the past two weeks to a month and how you spent your time. The more realistic you are, the more accurate you can be about what your values are (as opposed to what you want them to be). As your values transform over then next 18 years, your actions will change to reflect that, including what you create in the world. This week, as you look at your values, examine whether the boundaries you have in partnership and at home are really boundaries (actions you take to create safety and reward in your space) or control (expectations of other people). The more you release others and are intentional with yourself, the more you will use this energy in your favor.

Aquarius: The line between having standards and having entitlements is thinner than most of us think. The difference is whether we are applying the standards to ourself, understanding that we can release relationships that are not correct for us, or to another person, expecting them to conform to our will. This week asks you to look at how you engage with power. If you use it to control others, while expecting freedom for yourself, you will continue to face insecurity. Own your power and use it intentionally.

Pisces: Seeing all perspectives can be an incredibly valuable skill, and it can be something that leads to indecision and even learned helplessness. Each of us is fixed and stubborn in some areas and flexible in others. This week challenges you to transform in areas where you are stubborn, have boundaries where in the past you have merged, and allow yourself to be both one unified person and many parts. Ultimately, check in with your body as your guidance system for what is right for you as you go through this testing. It might not be what you expect.

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Imagine and Become Your Most Courageous Self: Horoscopes May 18-24, 2026

It struck me this week that it is common for people with power to want to prove they are victimized by people without as much power. And this can become a narcissistic cyclical way to accrue power.

Healthy power comes from owning that our actions have consequences and that we are sovereign within our energy. And, that means different things for each of us.

This week sees a lot of planetary shifts and supportive sextiles that allow us to see things differently. If we take advantage of these energies, we can show up more courageously and with healthier boundaries. We can also receive bursts of insight.

However this applies to your chart, imagine how your child self dreamed of their future. Imagine how, at the end of your life, you will dream back onto who you are now. Take small, practical action to step into your dream self and look for portals that quickly transfer you to that timeline. This week they are waiting for you.

Photo by Juliette Dickens on Unsplash (little girl in a fairy dress with wings and a wand)

For horoscope principles this week, I am primarily looking at the following celestial events:

• Mars goes into Taurus on Monday, May 18, 2026, at 3:25pm Pacific. Mars governs how we take action, and Taurus brings a more slow, deliberate, steady, reliable pace of energy.

• Venus goes into Cancer on Monday, May 18, 2026, at 6:05pm Pacific. Venus rules how we relate to each other and what we value, and Cancer energy is nurturing, loyal, and emotional.

• Mercury in Gemini sextiles Neptune in Aries on Monday, May 18, 2026, at 9:04pm Pacific. This is a supportive aspect between the planet ruling thinking and communication and the planet ruling imagination and spirituality. This is a good opportunity to communicate your ideals around who you could be if you fully embrace your courage, keeping these ideals authentic to who you are at your core. Brainstorm what this would look like and don’t get bogged down in finding one answer.

• Venus in Cancer sextiles Mars in Taurus on Monday, May 18, 2026, at 10:37pm Pacific. This supportive aspect between a nurturing Venus and stable, deliberate Mars allows us to tend to the gardens of our community. What relationships around you need nurturing? What practical actions could you take to nurture yourself more fully?

• Mercury in Gemini trines Pluto in Aquarius on Tuesday, May 19, 2026, at 3:52pm Pacific. Mercury is its own home in Gemini, and this supportive aspect between Pluto and Mercury allows for deep and quick-moving insight into how you communicate around community and social responsibility issues.

• The Sun goes into Gemini on Wednesday, May 20, 2026, at 5:63pm Pacific. Gemini is an air sight, and so this brings lightness and communication into the forefront. Gemini can see all sides of an issue and turn anything into a debate or a joke (whether it’s a good joke is up for debate! Ohhh see what I did there?).

• Venus in Cancer squares Neptune in Aries on Thursday, May 21, 2026, at 11:31pm Pacific. This aspect can be romantic, but the kind of romantic that you might hate later. In Aries and Cancer, we can decide what we want someone to be based on their potential, and then deeply commit to the bit. Unfortunately, that does not change who the person truly is or force them to become their potential, and so we face disappointment that the reality and the ideal don’t match.

• The Sun goes conjunct Uranus in Gemini on Friday, May 22, 2026, at 7:26am Pacific. Sometimes, change happens so fast that you’re a new person before you had time to say goodbye to your old self. Those are Uranus moments. Sudden insights, sudden realizations, sudden complete overthrow of reality comes from Uranus. Gemini is flexible and set up for change anyway. Allow the insights to come, even if you don’t like them. Something on the other side could solve a problem you didn’t know you had.

• Mercury in Gemini sextiles Saturn in Aries on Friday, May 22, 2026, at 11:02am Pacific. The changes that have been happening in this area of your life are getting support from the authentic foundations you have built. The more true to yourself you are, the more courageous you are willing to be, the better you’ll be able to communicate about the changes you’re initiating and experiencing.

• The Sun in Gemini sextiles Neptune in Aries on Sunday, May 24, 2026, at 7:22pm Pacific. This is a supportive aspect for seeing an ideal, courageous version of who you authentically are and trying on that version of you. What if stepping into that version could be easy?

These are the principles to consider for the week of May 18, 2026. It is worth taking a look at both your rising and sun sign horoscopes (visit astro.com to find your rising sign):

Aries: Your skill in overcoming obstacles requires obstacles to exist. Building muscle requires resistance, and your soul has muscle. This week lets you rethink that dynamic. What if your boundaries were so attuned to your needs that you flew past the obstacles without struggling with them? When your friends and coven members offer you deep insights this week, listen, even if you don’t understand at first. Make time for home and family because your closest people will support you in overcoming challenges that do show up.

Taurus: In Tarot, the Page of Pentacles is a card that recommends we slowly, deliberately plant seeds after we’ve been disappointed by the deaths of the flashy, enormous hothouse plants we thought were sure wins. Not everything needs to be flashy to be important or successful. With Mars moving into your first whole-sign house, you may run into obstacles, but remember that small, daily efforts overcome these sometimes more effectively than huge gambles. Your closest community offers support for this process. Welcome insights into your changing values and relationship with money.

Gemini: When marriages (or even friendships) conclude, there is a cultural stigma that calls them “failed,” instead of “complete.” Being authentically you means living outside of either of those concrete definitions, and instead, you have a special ability to be two versions of yourself at once. That is not deception or lying, but instead authentically embodying multiple parts of self. This week puts special emphasis on allowing yourself to be multiple things to multiple people and thereby being fully yourself.

Cancer: In my decade of work with people litigating civil rights cases and mediating harassment and discrimination issues, one thing I have learned is that most people say their biggest fear is losing money or reputation. But, underlying that, most people’s actual fear is feeling vulnerable. As a Cancer (rising or sun) you have a superpower of vulnerability and that is an immense gift you offer to yourself and others. Right now, the stars are blessing that gift with Venus, the Moon, and Jupiter joining your natal Cancer placements. Take advantage of your strong connection to emotion and bless your most loyal community with your nurturing presence.

Leo: “They” say that we are the sum of the five people we are most often around. With Gemini in your eleventh whole-sign house of friends and groups, you have the gift of being five different people at any given time in any group (and all are authentically you). The Sun is joining Uranus and Mercury in Gemini this week, and that offers you bursts of insights about who you are in your social groups. If you have a message to share with someone you know socially or with an organization you work with, don’t hesitate. You don’t need to be all things to all people, but all the versions of who you are have something worthwhile to offer.

Virgo: Problems don’t get solved until they’re ready to be solved. For you, this week, the solutions to problems that you’ve been pondering in your career suddenly fall into place (or at least the insights you need to solve them appear). Let the insights come and the solutions happen. Your eleventh whole-sign house of friends and groups is also seeing a boost with Venus and the Moon joining Jupiter there. Say yes to the insights and the parties this week.

Libra: Appreciate the safety and beauty that you’ve built in your career. This week brings the blessings of Venus and the Moon to your tenth whole-sign house of career, where Jupiter has been expanding how you show up publicly. While there are always problems in life, there are also always places of ease and beauty. You are also invited to allow insights into the depth of what you are creating and the ideals you hold.

Scorpio: Confronting problems allows them to shift, even if it makes other people uncomfortable. Mars is entering your seventh whole-sign house of partnerships this week, which provides relief to your health and habits, but stirs up activity in your partnerships. The blessings and expansion you are experiencing of your ideals provides support for helpful conversations about partnership problems.

Sagittarius: Inheritance, whether genetic, cultural, financial, or other is one experience, and what we make of it is another. If you inherited fears around security or patriotism from your ancestors, you are going through a process that invites you to expand beyond their limitations. Our ancestors are not just our biological family, but also our spiritual, mental, and emotional mentors and forebears. Focus on the beauty and nurture you have inherited and you will create more of it.

Capricorn: Enforcing a boundary means taking action to create safety inside of your space, not making demands on other people. Your home and family life is going through a process of redefining boundaries, and this is in tension with the blessings and expansion you have access to in partnerships. Allow deep insights to come related to health and daily routine this week, even if they require change.

Aquarius: Anything can become a cult, and anything can be a church. Whatever cults and churches you belong to (whether they are a type of music, sportsball, capitalism, spirituality, or political) is a space where it is important to you to be authentic. But, what are the boundaries around that? This week especially look at how your habits and creative projects interact with the churches you value. Welcome insights about how boundaries could nurture and protect your authenticity.

Pisces: Culturally, we often set money- and power-hoarders up as examples of abundance, but real abundance is much more straightforward. Real abundance happens not when we hoard, but when we honor what is truly in affinity to us—what deeply resonates with us. For me, hibiscus tea is an example of this. I deeply love a glass of hibiscus tea, and it brings me back to myself. If you envisioned a relationship with your creative projects and children that was fully abundant, but not hoarding, what would it be? This week insights from home and family might help you imagine healthy boundaries around abundance, especially in this area.

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Does Trauma Make You Funny? Horoscopes May 11-17, 2026

Happy Mother’s Day to you, whether this day is full of celebration or grief. This week’s astrology brings up the topic of trauma and humor. I did not plan that for Mother’s Day, but it does tend to be a relevant topic….

Most of us have had the experience of surviving a terrible or traumatic situation and realizing after that it forced us to grow in ways we would not have otherwise.

Does that make trauma worth it? My take on that is no. It does not make trauma worth it and that there are many ways to grow that do not involve people harming each other. More trauma makes more trauma and more growth makes more growth. Even if we transmute trauma into growth, it does not mean we need to look for trauma to create growth or be grateful to abusers for the harm they caused.

However, the universe clearly did not consult me about my suggestion that we stop the trauma in its current set design, and most, if not all, of us experience trauma.

If we accept that wounding and vulnerability happen, even if we don’t want them to, what then?

While the early part of this week is calm, the weekend of May 16-17 allows us to take our wounding around authenticity and courage seriously and then find the humor in it. When we are fully in our authority over our lives, there is room for both. How people respond to our authenticity and humor around wounding is information about them, not us.

Lucille Bluth in Arrested Development enacting covert narcissism.

For horoscope principles this week, I am primarily looking at the following celestial events:

• Mercury in Taurus sextiles Jupiter in Cancer on Tuesday, May 12, 2026, at 9:43pm Pacific. This is a great day for big, practical thinking; nurturing conversation; or releasing that instructional video you created that describes how you planted your garden. The god of communication and thinking is in a supportive aspect with the god of expansion.

• Mercury goes conjunct the Sun in Taurus on Thursday, May 14, 2026, at 7:24am Pacific. This is called a “cazimi” and is thought to be a time of insight. Because this is in Taurus, the insight may be practical and sturdy, but slow to come.

• Mars goes conjunct Chiron in Aries on Saturday, May 16 at 7:24am Pacific. This is the last time this aspect will happen (and the last time we have conjunction between Chiron and a planet) in Aries for 40 years. If you look back at July 2020, June 2022, and May 2024, it will give you insight into the lessons this aspect is trying to teach you. For me, the lessons are about whether it is safe to show up authentically as myself, even if that is contrary to what other people want. I imagine that lesson will apply to many of our experiences with Chiron in Aries.

• The New Moon in Taurus happens on Saturday, May 16, 2026, at 1:00pm Pacific. The Full Moon this month happened on the same day as Mercury conjunct Chiron and this New Moon happens just after Mars conjunct Chiron. This asks you to embrace a new cycle in how you practically show up as yourself, even when it is vulnerable or triggers your wounding.

• Venus in Gemini sextiles Chiron in Aries on Sunday, May 17, 2026, at 11:03am Pacific. This is a sweet, supportive aspect between the goddess of love and the place where we are wounded around authenticity. Venus in Gemini brings lightness and fun to a space that has been hit by wounding. Does trauma make us funny? Venus in Gemini says yes.

• Mercury goes into Gemini on Sunday, May 17, 2026, at 3:26am Pacific. Mercury rules Gemini, and after slowing down in Taurus, they will likely be very ready for the trip into their fast-moving home. If your thinking and communication has felt bogged down, it will start to speed up.

• Mercury goes conjunct Uranus in Gemini on Sunday, May 17, 2026, at 11:03am Pacific. Mercury and Uranus are different than each other, but they are both related to the element of air in a certain way. Mercury rules thinking and communication, and Uranus rules electricity and the sky. Sometimes, these two together can create overload or fry out our thinking and electronics. However, this can be an opportunity for real invention and sudden bursts of insight.

• Neptune and Saturn are still in Aries; Pluto continues in Aquarius.

These are the principles to consider for the week of May 11, 2026. It is worth taking a look at both your rising and sun sign horoscopes (visit astro.com to find your rising sign):

Aries: You are too much for some people, and those people are not your people. Also, there is a difference between people not being correct for you and learning to respect other people’s boundaries. Both are important lessons in life. Early this week, you have the opportunity to receive brilliant ideas and have inspiring conversations around growing your money and home. Later in the week, the New Moon and Chiron aspects invite you to acknowledge where you are wounded around being too authentic, blunt, and courageous. Your closest coven members can help you sort the lessons from the hilarious jokes that come from this process.

Taurus: Telling the truth and saying the productive thing can be different, but often overlap more than we think. Just because someone likes you does not mean you were honest with them or that your communication was helpful. But, communicating from a place of deep authenticity and truth can be a space of wounding for you. Early in the week, you have support for showing up with the productive face you show to the world, but later in the week, the actions you take trigger your wounding around deep authenticity. Then, Venus reminds you that you value humor and lightness, and even deep authenticity does not need to be that serious.

Gemini: Internal Family Systems and astrology say that while we are one person, we are made up of many parts. As a Gemini, you have many faces you present to the world and understand many perspectives, and also it is important to you to be authentic with your friend and social groups. When who you truly are has many facets, this can create wounding around what it means to be authentic. Early in the week, your values around nurturing support your practical inner world. At the end of the week, action in your friend groups triggers your wounding around authenticity. Then, the universe reminds you that not everything needs to be serious, and a pivot is always an option.

Cancer: You know who you are and integrity in how you show up in your public-facing life is important to you. And, also, each person has a line where courage becomes martyrdom and hard work becomes overwork. This week supports you in showing up as your full, nurturing self in your friend groups early in the week. As the weekend comes, your wounding around showing up authentically and courageously in your public life gets triggered. Your unconscious remembers that being authentically you was never one fixed thing. You’re allowed to shift toward self-compassion and healing.

Leo: The great Madonna (the pop star one not Jesus’s mom) advises you, “Don’t go for second best, baby” but instead to “express yourself.” Early this week, her advice is particularly relevant to you, giving you the opportunity to express the expansion your unconscious is undergoing. Later in the week, activity related to long-distance travel or higher education brings up wounding around what it means to be authentically and courageously you. Your friend groups remind you that authenticity is not one thing, and bring humor in the midst of wounding.

Virgo: When you live in a country that is not the one you were born in (whether this is temporary or through immigration) you start to see the ideals you were raised with differently. A lot of people experience this as a sort of enlightenment experience and return to their home country with a sense that they’ve been given other-worldly wisdom. Early this week, you have the opportunity to communicate how higher education and travel have expanded who you are and your friend circles. Later in the week, wounding around taxes, other people’s money and values, or sex comes up, but your career supports you in integrating that wounding.

Libra: Harmony requires multiple perspectives, just like discord does. If you think about musical notes, the notes that are closest together create discord, but with space, notes create harmony. This week offers both discord and harmony to you. Early this week, the expansion you’ve experienced in your career supports how you communicate about sex, death, taxes, and other people’s money and values. At the end of the week, though, activity related to how you authentically partner brings up wounding. Remembering your ideals around freedom and lightness can bring healing to that wounding.

Scorpio: Some people say that what is good for you is good for everyone, but often, when we are authentic to who we truly are, other people are pretty mad at first. It may be good medicine for them, but people don’t always love medicine. Early this week is supportive in how you communicate the expansions you’ve had around travel, higher education, and ideals. As we get later in the week, though, your wounding around centering yourself in your daily routine comes up.

Sagittarius: You’ve probably heard of the concept of having a stage persona that is different from who you are to your friends and family (Beyonce as Sasha Fierce, for example). For you, on the other hand, it is important to be authentic in your creative endeavors and projects, as well as with your human children if you have them. In the early part of this week, your partners’ expanding values (or influx of money) supports how you communicate about your daily habits, but the weekend brings up wounding about how you authentically show up with creative projects or children. Rely on your partners to help transform your wounding into something light and even funny.

Capricorn: While we might want life to be black and white, unfortunately two things can be true at the same time. Early this week, the expansion you’re experiencing in how you partner, or your partners themselves, support how you communicate in your creative projects or with your children. Later in the week, though, action in your home and family triggers wounding you have around being authentically and courageously yourself. Find healing and lightness in your daily routine and habits.

Aquarius: Most people join cults because they are drawn in by promises of community, but one of the draws of community is ultimately the ability to outsource responsibility for our actions. I say this because you are typically not like that, and it is very important to you to show up authentically and courageously in your close community, but your wounding around what happens when you do that is coming up at the end of this week. While you are receiving support early in the week in your communications at home and with family, later in the week look to your creative projects or the children in your life to bring healing related to your wounding around authenticity in community.

Pisces: Our covens are our closest chosen communities. This week, how you communicate in your coven is supported by the expansion you are experiencing related to creative projects, children, or sex. Later in the week, activity related to your money and what you value triggers wounding you have around authenticity and courage. Look to your family, especially femme family members to turn that wounding into something lighter and funnier that offers healing.

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Take Action Even If You Fail: Horoscopes May 4-10, 2026

I used to challenge myself to tangibly fail 5 times every month as a measurement of whether I was actually trying and learning or hiding. This was advice I first heard Ramit Sethi give on a podcast, and I will say it completely transformed how I saw failure.

In this exercise, I could only get credit for a failure if I took action toward one result and got a different result. I was not allowed, for example, to call it a failure if my boss was just unhappy.

This is a good week to consider that exercise. How many times recently have you taken so much action toward something you care about that you have actually gotten a different result than the one you wanted? How many times have you stopped yourself from taking action because you’ve been afraid you might get a result you didn’t want?

This week, release fail avoidance and reward yourself for doing the thing.

Photo by Kid Circus on Unsplash (person leaping over a pond)

For horoscope principles this week, I am primarily looking at the following celestial events:

• Mars in Aries squares Jupiter in Cancer on Monday, May 4, 2026, at 7:08pm Pacific. This is generally a favorable aspect, but it could involve overdoing it. If your to-do list is too long, focus on what is most fun to you instead of sitting and being overwhelmed, scrolling socials. Take one small action toward what you love instead of forcing what you don’t love.

• Mercury in Taurus squares Pluto in Aquarius on Tuesday, May 5, 2026, at 3:08pm Pacific. This asks you to speak and think into being the transformation you are having around what social justice means. How we restructure community to be supportive and safe for the most vulnerable is not theoretical, but the first step to make it practical is to speak about it. What does community mean to you? Even if others disagree with you, speaking about this in practical ways is worthwhile.

• The moon is void for most of the day on Thursday, May 7, 2026. This is a good day to rest, self-nurture, and continue with projects you’ve already started. Avoid scheduling any important starting times or meetings on this day.

• The Sun in Taurus sextiles Jupiter in Cancer on Sunday, May 10, 2026, at 7:13pm Pacific. After you’ve processed the deep thinking you do earlier in the week, consider how you can put that into practice, starting with yourself. Expand into a new version of you who expects to have their needs met.

• Neptune, Saturn, and Mars are still in Aries; Venus and Uranus are in Gemini.

These are the principles to consider for the week of May 4, 2026. It is worth taking a look at both your rising and sun sign horoscopes (visit astro.com to find your rising sign):

Aries: Marketing advice says that a third of people will love everything you do no matter what, a third will hate everything you do no matter what, and a third could be persuaded. Which of those categories do you fall in about yourself? As an Aries, it is your divine right to be too much for some people, and this week might find you being too much even for yourself. Instead of listening to your internal haters, though, look at the practical external results you get and be open to shifting how you act and what you say to make sure those results are in line with what authentic abundance means to you.

Taurus: Part of understanding what is correct for you and what is not correct for you is accepting that you have judgments, especially about the people who are closest to you. When those judgments start to veer into deciding people in your life are all good or all evil, you can start to turn against yourself and buy into limitations. Just because someone’s actions are not correct for you does not make them evil. This week, express who you are authentically, and when these judgments come up, consider what they say about who you are and your preferences, rather than trying to control the people around you.

Gemini: A sugar mama is someone who provides financial resources to another person as part of being in relationship with that person. This week might have you questioning whether you are a sugar mama in your friend and social groups and whether that is sustainable for your resources. Consider whether the money and resources you are pouring into friendship are based in drama or math. If you were required to expect every financial investment you made to return money or energy to you, would you make the same choices?

Cancer: Overwhelm is a feeling many people take pride in, as though it indicates they are hard working. Most of the time, though, overwhelm leads to us avoiding work and ruminating on how much there is to do, rather than taking action. This week, there is too much to do at work, and it interferes with the personal expansion you are experiencing. Even if you feel like there is not time, make a list of what you need to do and cross off the least important things. Make space to have deep conversations with friends.

Leo: A trigger is an external experience that may on its own be neutral, and it brings up wounding we have, whether it is conscious or unconscious. The terrible thing about triggers is that they are uncomfortable. The good thing about triggers is that they show us where we have wounding to intentionally heal. This week, triggers around your ideals bring up unconscious wounding, and you are invited to think deeply about how you partner and how that impacts your career. Embrace your divine right to be the center of attention.

Virgo: Our ideals are often inherited from our families, communities, and favorite television shows and movies. They are usually based in lore and fable. If you are intentional this week, the deep transformative process you are experiencing around your health and daily routine supports you in thinking through whether you want to shift your ideals. If you were the center of your ideals, and you were the creator of them, what would they be?

Libra: Conflict exists when two people have mutual interest and dissonant perspectives. As a Libra, it is important to you to relate to others and honor their perspectives. Just be careful to authentically represent your perspective in conflicts with partners this week. Being authentically yourself is your only job in your close partnerships because this allows conflict to transform into understanding. Expansion in your career may trigger activity with partners, and so focus on what is important to you and be honest. How you think and talk about sex is evolving, and this week is a good time to experiment with your practical and creative communications about that topic.

Scorpio: Buckle your seatbelt and look before you leap. The ninth house in astrology tells us about our relationship with long-distance travel, higher education, and ideals. These are experiences that exist beyond our local and immediate experience, but nevertheless are meant to be tangible. You are experiencing expansion in that area, and this week it is important to be cautious because problems with your health or daily routine can interfere with that expansion. Test out new and practical ways of communicating with your partners and family, and later in the week your ideals provide luck and support to being truly yourself in partnership.

Sagittarius: There are probably as many different definitions of what sex is as there are people. To you, sex is a nurturing and authentic way to express yourself and connect with another person. This week, the way you connect is supercharged, which sounds great, but can become stressful if you let it become pressure. If you focus on what brings you the most joy and communicate practically, by the end of the week, you will feel healthier and more expansive in how you meet your own needs.

Capricorn: Conflict is healthy because it allows two people to authentically share their perspectives and create a new understanding from that mutual sharing. This week, the expansion you are experiencing in how you see partnership and the conflicts in your home and family life may become overwhelming. Come back to what is authentic for you and respect other people’s boundaries. Both are important. If you communicate practically and deeply in your creative projects, this may also support a transformation in how you see yourself.

Aquarius: People are more likely to sue doctors because of issues with bedside manner than issues with medical treatment. This week you may experience challenging communication around your health and daily habits. If that happens and becomes overwhelming, don’t pressure yourself to follow advice that is not right for you. Ultimately, listen to medical advice, but it is okay to wait until it feels correct for you. Communicate your needs vulnerably, practically, and honestly, even if they feel private or you make a mistake. This supports your transformation around who you are, including who you are related to your most private needs.

Pisces: Capitalism tells us that abundance means dominance, control, and hoarding. True abundance is more authentic to who you truly are. This week, what you create is in tension with activity or conflict related to what you value. At almost the same time, the practical ways you communicate with your closest community is in tension with transformation you are experiencing in your subconscious thinking. Articulate your needs and what abundance is to you, even if you get it wrong or it creates conflict. It will ultimately support how you show up in close community.

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Design Your Utopia: Horoscopes April 27-May 3, 2026

Blessed Beltane! Spring has been truly beautiful in Oregon, and despite the global horrors, I hope you have had time to stand in the sunshine.

With Uranus in Gemini, Neptune in Aries, and Pluto in Aquarius, astrologers have been talking for a few years about how 2026 repeats some of the astrology we saw in the U.S. Revolution, Civil War, and WWII. In some ways, this can bring up fears around global violence, which is fair and accurate to the genocides we are seeing, so I do not want to minimize that.

What is easy to miss, though, is that these were also times of revolutionary thinking in terms of social reform.

From the U.S. Revolution, we saw the creation of the U.S. Constitution, and whether or not I think it needs to be revised (I do), it is document that changed how we think of governance globally.

While the U.S. Civil War was bloody and devastating, around that same time, utopian socialist thinkers laid the groundwork for what is now democratic socialism.

WWII changed the landscape of governance in Europe, Asia, and the U.S., including development of agencies in U.S. governance.

I say this because bloody war is not necessary for reinvention of social systems, but the aspects right now associated with terrible wars also coincide with reinvention of how we structure governance and society. This week, dream up your own utopia, and don’t forget to imagine the sewer systems.

Photo by Alexandre Brondino on Unsplash (sign over a city calling it “Rep. Utopia”)

For horoscope principles this week, I am primarily looking at the following celestial events:

• Venus in Gemini trines Pluto in Aquarius on Tuesday, April 28, 2026, at 9:39am Pacific. The Persephone and Hades story is usually told as a story of power, violence, and victimization. The god of hell takes the goddess of spring into the underworld against her will and only allows her to return to earth for a short time every year. Interactions between Venus and Pluto always bring that concept up for me, even though Venus and Persephone are different goddesses. But, a trine is a supportive aspect. When Venus and Pluto are trine, they are in supportive collaboration and agreement. I’ve been reading the Hades+Persephone romantasy books, and while I can’t wholeheartedly recommend them, their reimagining of this story as a morally ambiguous love story tracks with a Venus trine Pluto. Venus brings beauty, and Pluto transforms through power and oppression. Persephone and Hades collaborate to rule the underworld together while she’s not traveling to earth. This offers beauty that is both shallow and deep, shadow and light.

• The Full Moon in Scorpio happens on Friday, May 1, 2026, at 10:23am Pacific. Listen. This is a lot of energy, and Friday is busy (see below). This Full Moon isn’t exact to a Pluto square, but it’s six degrees away from a Pluto square, and that is intense. Personally, I’m planning to take both Friday and Saturday off to let this energy happen. In a Full Moon, the Sun and Moon are opposing energies. This means that how we want to show our conscious identities and how we feel secure are opposed to each other. Then, Pluto is giving that dynamic a side eye. All of this is happening in places in your chart that are fixed and do not like to change. This can bring overstimulation, insecurity, resistance, and compulsion all at the same time. Just because you feel something does not mean you need to act on it.

• Venus in Gemini sextiles Saturn in Aries on Friday, May 1, 2026, at 11:45am Pacific. This is another supportive Venus aspect, in which the goddess of beauty and relationship collaborates with the god of limitation and discipline. This supports both creative thinking and understanding the structures that can implement the new ideas.

• Mercury in Aries goes conjunct Chiron on Friday, May 1, 2026, at 1:07pm Pacific. This is the last time Mercury goes conjunct with Chiron in Aries in many of our lifetimes (it will be another 40 years before Chiron is in Aries again after it moves into Taurus in 2027). This is an opportunity to sit with any wounding you have inherited related to thinking and communicating honestly and authentically. What do you think and say that is truly authentic to you versus what do you think and say that is cultural conditioning or ancestral inheritance?

• Mercury goes into Taurus on Saturday, May 2, 2026, at 7:56pm Pacific. Mercury in Aries is quick thinking and brash, to the point of blurting out nonsense sometimes. Mercury in Taurus is much more slow and deliberate. Communication becomes practical, stubborn, and much more slow.

• The Sun is in Taurus; Neptune, Saturn, and Mars are still in Aries, copresent with the Mercury/Chiron conjunction; and, Jupiter continues in Cancer.

These are the principles to consider for the week of April 27, 2026. It is worth taking a look at both your rising and sun sign horoscopes (visit astro.com to find your rising sign):

Aries: Two of my favorite classic storylines are the one where the most dramatic person gets excluded from the party, thereby creating exponential drama (e.g. Vanity Fair, Real Housewives) and the one where a ragtag band of misfits bonds together over a common enemy (e.g. Scooby Doo, Buffy, Firefly). If your friends, social groups, and close community were a classic storyline, what would it be? This week dream or write a story about your community and coven. Make sure you authentically include yourself in the story, wounds and all.

Taurus: In capitalistic circles, the word “values” is often described in terms of “good values” and “bad values.” If you have “good” values it usually means you are compliant with dominant culture’s expectations that you work and expect nothing in return. This week, dream deeply about your values, releasing judgments about “good” and “bad,” and instead asking how your career and values serve you. How can they more authentically express who you deeply and authentically are (even the parts of you that are vulnerable).

Gemini: A butterfly is neither a caterpillar nor a butterfly nor a chrysalis at its most true essence, and yet it is also all three at all times, even though it only shows us one version at a time. A common misunderstanding of Geminis says that they are inconsistent. “You told me you were a caterpillar and I relied on that,” the Cancer tells the Gemini, “But now you are something else.” Change and transition can be hard, and people tell us to stay one thing, but for you, that advice would be like telling a butterfly to stay on the ground and pretend to be a caterpillar. Instead, dream toward ideals of what how your friends and social groups might be able to see who you authentically are in all your variations.

Cancer: Some people say we are spirits living in physical bodies, and other people say we are physical bodies living inside of larger spirits. This week is a good time to dream about what you believe related to your spirit. While the chaos and activity in your career may feel like it’s draining you and bringing up wounds, it also is supportive of you looking deeper into the understandings you have beyond the physical realm. Listen to your instincts while you also watch the results of your actions.

Leo: If you were raised in the U.S., like me, you were likely offered some kind of information about the benefits of tolerance and diversity. And yet, most of us as we were growing up also saw adults act out of survival-level instincts when they actually faced difference of identity or opinion or had their authority challenged. This week you experience a range of difference from those that are fun and inspiring to those that trigger survival-level fears. Showing up with self-compassion and curiosity is the key to encountering them responsively instead of reactively.

Virgo: In procedural TV shows, they usually have a few episodes where someone gets killed who works in a techno-fabulous work environment, where there are sleep pods and ping pong tables and all-you-can-drink energy drinks. If you watch enough of those shows, you develop a reasonable, but probably Pavlovian, fear of overly idealistic workspaces. And, yet, this week, your survival level fears around control of your health and daily routine are supportive of redesigning your career. If your career were a video game, what would the next adventure be?

Libra: When we imagine a sunset, it often looks very different than when we try to paint a sunset. This week, though, the communication is smooth and supportive between the deep, transformative process your creative projects are going through and your ideals. Including other people in this process may bring up wounding, even if they are trusted people, but that wounding may also offer something valuable toward transforming your ideals into creation.

Scorpio: There is a building being torn down near the campus of the University of Oregon, and even though it is a building I have only visited three or four times, I think it has existed longer than I have. I’m strangely unsettled about it whenever I drive by the construction. The spaces that felt like roots in your life are similarly undergoing long-term demolition, and that is tender and activated this week. Where other people offer kindnesses or new opportunities, be open to receiving the comfort available. Get rest where you need it.

Sagittarius: In many cultures, the concept of partnership is paired with the concept of ownership. This means that when we are partnered with someone, we have some kind of control over them and they over us. For you, that is contrary to how you naturally partner, whether that means romantically or otherwise. This week, consider your agreements with those closest to you and what needs to transform in order for them to become completely free and completely trustworthy.

Capricorn: One way to understand what we truly value is to look at our most consistent actions and habits. We may think we value money, for example, but how much time do we spend with money? How much journaling do we do about money? How much do we hold money in our hands, talk about it, or look at it in our bank accounts? I say this because your daily routine is undergoing transformation, and this is a good week to look at what your current routine says about your values. Then make changes that align with the values you want to have.

Aquarius: They say that pressure makes diamonds. But anyone who has gone through the kind of pressurizing process you experience this week might opt to forgo diamonds if given the choice. If it feels like the stress is coming at you from work and home, even if it does not feel like there is time, try to make space to be creative. Sometimes, when we create, through art, writing, hobbies, or whatever creation means to you, it gives us access to a new perspective that shows us our autonomy in the situation.

Pisces: They say, “Think global, act local” (or at least they used to say that?). This week asks you to look at how you see your own power related to your local community and the global community. If your home were a microcosm of what you imagine as a utopia for the world, what would you change? How could you redesign even your bedroom to reflect what you wish for the most vulnerable around the world. It is not your responsibility to solve everything for everyone, but creating a visionary home space for yourself has ripple effects on how you show up for your community.

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