Double Check Your Ballot: Horoscopes October 26-November 1, 2026

This week, as you go out to vote if you are in the U.S., double and triple check your ballot. Mercury was in pre-retrograde shadow for early voting, and many people were reporting and sharing videos of their ballot boxes changing their votes to force a Republican vote. While this may not be a mistake, it represents something going wrong related to communication, which is so Mercury retrograde.

Now, Mercury is fully retrograde, along with Venus, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Pluto is out of bounds, as well, which can contribute to the normal extremes that we’re used to becoming even more unpredictable and extreme. Double check, triple check.

I encourage people to vote both because I care about the outcomes for our local, state, national, and international communities, and also because your voice is important. By voting we honor that our voices matter in our communities. A lot of people will tell you that your voice did not matter if the outcome you wanted did not happen in a particular election. I would argue that is a sneaky and even devious way to silence people. Your voice matters even if you don’t like the options you have and even if you don’t like the outcomes you get.

This week is also Samhain, which is the witches’ new year, and a time when the veil between matter and spirit is thin. This is a time when we can connect with our spiritual and biological ancestors who fought for civil rights, including the right to vote, during times when dominant culture assumed that only a few voices mattered. Connect as it feels safe to you.

Thanks for using your voice in a way that is aligned for you this week!

Transits

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

• Monday, October 26, 2026:

  • The Sun in Scorpio squares Pluto in Aquarius at 5:11am Pacific. This is the closing square in a cycle between the Sun and Pluto, which will fully close with the conjunction of the Sun and Pluto in January 2027, beginning another similar cycle next year. The opening conjunction in the first cycle of the Sun and Pluto, after Pluto’s transit into Aquarius, happened on January 21, 2025, the day after inauguration day in the U.S. This square is an intense aspect and provides an opportunity for each of us personally to look at how we handle oppression, power, and threats around new technology. The Sun in Scorpio is at home in the intensity of deep truths and the cycle of life and death. In tension with the god of the underworld’s journey through the sign associated with technology, subverting hierarchy, and social reform, this can lure us toward conspiracy theories. Under this transit, if you feel drawn to secret truths that might heal humanity, remember to check in with your body and make sure what you are doing feels safe and healthy.

• Wednesday, October 28, 2026:

  • Venus retrograding in Libra opposes Chiron retrograding in Aries at 12:34am Pacific. Consider how you have complied with imbalances in your relationships rather than being authentic with what you truly need. When a baby cries because they are hungry, it is helpful information, not selfishness. On the other hand, when we, as adults, expect other adults to spend the energy on us that they would on a newborn, it is an indication that we need to care for our own inner child, rather than outsourcing that work. There are many ways to be authentic in our needs, while still understanding that it is our job to meet them before it is anyone else’s.

• Friday, October 30, 2026:

  • Mercury retrograding in Scorpio squares Mars in Leo at 10:20am Pacific. When we can find evidence of our thoughts, we start to believe they are True, to the exclusion of other thoughts. However, most of the time we can find evidence of the thought we think as well as a completely opposite thought. For example, at any given time, most of us can find evidence for the thought, “I did a great job this week” as well as “I didn’t do a great job this week.” In this way, looking for evidence from the past is often is not the most helpful way to decide what you think. Instead, this week, before you want to get into fights with other people about Truths, consider how your thoughts feel in your body and what those feelings motivate you to do or not do. Your job is to show up in alignment with your nature, not to convince everyone else to align with your Truths.

  • The Sun moves from Human Hesign Gate 28 (finding purpose through accepting the reality of death) to Gate 44 (releasing interference to access and build the hive mind) at 5:57pm Pacific. Understanding that you only live once in this body can be a source of freedom. Rather than trying to get everything right according to the systems and institutions surrounding you, pay attention to what is correct for you. In order to build something new and generative in the outside world, it is most effective in the long term to start internally. Then, meet people where they are to influence change, rather than expecting them to be different now.

• Saturday, October 31, 2026, is Samhain! Happy New Year, witches!

• Sunday, November 1, 2026, daylight savings time ends, so we gain an hour. Yay!

• The Moon travels through Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, and into Leo this week; Jupiter continues in Leo; Saturn and Neptune continue in Aries; Uranus continues in Gemini.

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Horoscopes

These are the principles to consider for the week of October 26, 2026. It is worth taking a look at both your rising and sun sign horoscopes (visit astro.com to find your rising sign):

Aries: It is common for people to hesitate to influence the world because we worry we might be wrong or cause harm. Meanwhile, billionaire narcissists are out creating schemes to influence people’s behavior with no qualms about whether it is right or wrong, so there is definitely more room for most of us to take risks. This week, you may alternate between having a lot to say and completely withdrawing out of fear of getting it wrong. The trick is to check in with yourself and make sure what you are saying is aligned to who you authentically, courageously are. Be brave with your words, but cautious when they tend toward controlling other people.

Taurus: We fight with other people for a spectrum of reasons, but they all involve some kind of common interest. We don’t fight with people if we don’t care about something they also care about. This week, notice any inclination to fight with the people closest to you in order to be understood or prove something about yourself. If people close to you misunderstand you, their outside perspective may contain something interesting or useful for you. It’s okay to fight, of course, and sometimes that can even mean you care, and also consider whether the perspective that misunderstands you offers a gift.

Gemini: The media we routinely consume is like the food we eat. Some of it feels good in the moment and impedes our long term health; some of it feels bad the whole time; some of it feels good and contributes to health. It’s a spectrum. This week re-evaluate your routines around the media you consume (including news, books, TV, social media, or other forms). If the media you consume activates you in a good way, now is a powerful time to make a difference in your local community. If it activates you in a defeating way, consider whether that serves you.

Cancer: Every person’s definition of “overshare” is different, and so each of us has to develop our own parameters for what we share publicly. Being authentic does not mean sharing everything about ourselves, but also some withholding some information can influence people’s decisions in a way that is deceptive. Each topic carries its own metric for this, too. This week, when you are sharing creative projects or talking about your children, reconsider how much you share to make sure it is safe for you and everyone involved. If you feel pressure to overshare, stop and take time to consider what is respectful of everyone’s privacy.

Leo: When we see ourselves as not having power, it can feel good because it absolves us of responsibility but it can also feel incredibly defeating. This week, catch any spaces where you tend to go into all-or-nothing thinking, like seeing yourself as powerless or helpless. If it starts to feel like nothing is going your way, stop and reconsider whether that is the narrative you want to tell yourself. You may be facing more challenges than normal, and that is an opportunity to strength train how you talk to yourself and about yourself.

Virgo: We have to subscribe to someone in order to cancel them. In that way, online bullying is a different thing than online “cancel culture,” but they often get conflated. The important difference is power. When we unsubscribe from routine media we are consuming that is no longer aligned with our inner belief system, we are withdrawing support from a system that has power. When we bully other people or ourselves, we are asserting power over others or parts of ourselves. This week, especially consider areas where the routing media you consume normalizes bullying self-talk. Re-write your self-talk script to make it kinder to you, even if you also allow it to be angrier overall.

Libra: When we feel vulnerable, we often distract ourselves from that feeling, or even cover over that feeling, with something we think is more acceptable to our family or friends (for example, anger, sadness, self-deprecation, or even just dissociation). This week, revisit how you handle money, especially the stories you tell about who you are related to money. When that feels vulnerable, notice any tendency to create or participate in drama with friends or children to distract from it. Allow any drama that comes up to help you sit in this vulnerable place, rather than distract you from it.

Scorpio: Engaging in blame is like doing a project with glitter: it gets on everything. When we blame other people for misunderstandings, problems, and even disasters in our lives, we usually start to cast blame on ourselves at some point, too. This week, as you notice the Mercury Retrograde problems coming up, consider whether part of you wants to engage in blame. Although it might feel good in the moment, it likely will not help you be understood better or accomplish more. Instead, consider the need you have behind the blame and how you can make sure you meet that need yourself when other people fail to meet it.

Sagittarius: What we hear people say and what they think they said is often quite different. This week, notice any inclination you have to argue with people about what they said and how it landed with you. Also notice any inclination you have to ruminate on what you think people said. Rather than trying to investigate what “really” happened, consider what your rumination says about your needs and how you talk to yourself. It is possible to speak to yourself kindly as well as truthfully.

Capricorn: Keeping secrets from friends is not inherently bad, but it does create impacts. Especially if the secrets you keep from friends impact the choices they can make around their money and values, this can lead to mistrust and resentment. At the same time, if you are failing to honor your sense of privacy, that can impact your values. This week, get clear with yourself about what healthy privacy means to you and where this can cross over to manipulation. Acknowledging your fears that if you are too authentic, people might not like you, make sure you care for yourself around any decisions you make.

Aquarius: Selfishness happens when we harm other people in pursuit of our needs, but this is tricky because no matter what we do in life, we impact other people and they may perceive that as harm. If one person wants to get married, but the other one does not, is it selfish to say no? Maybe, but that is healthy selfishness. This week, you have the potential to recognize and communicate great truths, especially in your work. If your wounding and worries around being selfish get in the way, define more thoughtfully what healthy selfishness looks like to you.

Pisces: In order to make our communities healthier physically, we need to shift value judgments we make about bodies, specifically our fear of bodies that look differently than what TV shows us. This week, notice any all-or-nothing judgments you make about how you, personally, spend your time related to your health. If you have a fixed ideal about how your body is supposed to look or how you are supposed to spend your time related to health, that may run into problems this week. When those problems come up, rather than defending your ideals and judging yourself, get curious about what would serve you and your thriving health right now better.

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Identify the Toxin to Find the Cure: Horoscopes October 19-25, 2026

This Venus retrograde has been intense so far! I don’t know about you, but I have been revisited by crowds of past versions of myself and past traumas, and she hasn’t even retrograded back into Libra yet.

Venus in Scorpio is in detriment, meaning she is far away from her home palace of Taurus. She living in the palace ruled by Mars in traditional astrology and Pluto in modern astrology. Either way you look at it, she’s in the palace of the assassin, rather than the palace of the empress, where she’s comfortable.

Her retrograde through the Scorpio section of the sky is associated with serious injustices and attempts to right those injustices, serious toxins and poisons and attempts to find their cure.

As we approach the Full Moon this week, I anticipate Venus will illuminate more poisons and toxins in our own lives, whether it is our personal habits or the behaviors we tolerate from other people. This week we are asked to look at these poisons and acknowledge them, so that we can then find cures. Then, the Full Moon intensifies all of this, with a t-square to Pluto. When we can acknowledge the secrets we’ve kept from ourselves, we can start to heal the wounds we’ve hidden. Be safe out there!

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Transits

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

• Monday, October 19, 2026:

  • The Sun in Libra moves from human design Gate 32 (embracing failure as a path toward wise investment) to Gate 50 (resolving internal programming errors to contribute to community equilibrium). In Gate 32, the energies invite us to acknowledge the actions we’ve taken that got something other than the results we wanted. In Gate 50, we have the opportunity to look at corruption in society and notice ways that our own thinking errors show similar corruption (think of it as corrupted data codes that have infected the cultural programming). When we resolve our internal programming, we contribute to collective healing.

  • Venus in Scorpio squares Pluto in Aquarius at 11:56pm Pacific. This is the second square in this retrograde cycle. In these signs, especially, this aspect is associated with intense, even obsessive, relationship connections. If your exes are coming back into your life through this retrograde, this aspect intensifies whatever those relationships represent and their karmic patterns.

• Wednesday, October 21, 2026:

  • The Sun in Libra opposes Chiron in Aries at 3:26pm Pacific. This is a good moment to care for yourself and contemplate the lessons of Gate 50. The wounding and dishonesty that triggers you in the outside world has a relationship to ways you compromise who you truly are.

• Friday, October 23, 2026:

  • The Sun goes into Scorpio at 2:37am Pacific. Scorpio brings an intensity, depth, and transformative energy to our overall experience. In Scorpio season, the leaves fall from the trees, revealing naked and exposed branches and coating the earth in a protective layer so that the soil can regenerate. In a similar way, we are asked to acknowledge what needs to decay to regenerate the garden beds of our lives.

  • The Sun in Scorpio conjoins Venus at 8:44pm Pacific. This is called a Venus cazimi, which means Venus is in the heart of the Sun, amplifying the experience of the retrograde. This invites us to revisit and reconsider how we relate to other people, community connection, and beauty. The ways we see our communities and personal relationships corrupted mirrors to us the work we all individually need to do to decondition from toxic cultural messages.

• Saturday, October 24, 2026:

  • Mercury stations retrograde in Scorpio at 12:12am Pacific. Mercury stays in Scorpio throughout this retrograde. Mercury in Scorpio brings a fixed and intense thinking and communication. As with any Mercury retrograde, things go wrong, errors happen, flights get messed up, and other snafus happen. Double and triple check what you create and allow the process to attune you to your intuition. Because Mercury in Scorpio brings intense and fixed thinking and communication, we can be inclined to take mistakes more seriously than we normally would, so be aware of that and look for the magick behind the mistake instead.

• Sunday, October 24, 2026:

  • Venus retrogrades into Libra at 2:09am Pacific. This brings a lighter energy to the retrograde that has been pretty intense so far. While Venus retrograding in Scorpio offers us the chance to look at how we take relationships seriously and personally, in Libra Venus retrograde offers us the chance to re-experience and revisit how we value others over ourselves. When we can allow ourselves to be genuinely present, with sensitivity, in the midst of our connection to others, we can better achieve equilibrium.

  • The Sun in Scorpio goes from human design Gate 50 (resolving internal programming errors to contribute to community equilibrium) to Gate 28 (finding purpose through accepting the reality of death). What can I say? Scorpio energy is intense whether you look at the astrology or the human design. Gate 28 offers us the chance to acknowledge the icy self-protection that Scorpio energy can bring, while we remember that we only live once in this body. Now is the chance to be truly yourself.

  • The Full Moon in Taurus happens at 9:11pm Pacific. This applies to a t-square, which is activating energy, with Pluto in Aquarius. The Sun in Scorpio in Gate 28 opposes the Moon in Gate 27 (nourishing what thrives in our communities, knowing it nourishes us too). This Full Moon is intense and offers us the chance to consider how we live in our true purpose, which allows us to contribute to the thriving of those around us. The Moon in Taurus wants to be cozy and nourished, while the Sun in Scorpio wants to cut to the truth of who we are. We’re asked to allow space for both.

• The Moon travels through Aquarius, Pisces, Aries, and into Taurus this week; Mars and Jupiter continue in Leo; Saturn and Neptune continue in Aries; Uranus continues in Gemini.

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Horoscopes

These are the principles to consider for the week of October 19, 2026. It is worth taking a look at both your rising and sun sign horoscopes (visit astro.com to find your rising sign):

Aries: A valid debate has existed, probably since the beginning of human expression, about whether there is room for ugliness in art. Many think art should comfort their sensibilities, but many believe art should inspire emotion of all kinds, including disgust. This week, make ugly art. When you have difficult moments with friends and partners, consider that ugly art as well. The more you are willing to allow expression to be ugly, the more you will understand yourself.

Taurus: Before anyone else has a chance to betray us, there is usually a moment where we betray ourselves. This can happen when we force ourselves to stay in situations that are misaligned, when we over-give, when we have expectations of other people we don’t acknowledge, or in hundreds of other ways. This week, if and when your partners don’t treat you how you want to be treated, use it as a clue to notice how you partner with yourself. Rather than trying to change the outside world, allow the intensity of the moment to reveal the loyal partner you are able to be for yourself.

Gemini: Our brains are biological organisms like our other organs. Our brains have significant control over our other organs, though, and in this way, they can seem distinct or more “us” than our livers, for example. But, ultimately, they are not “us” any more than our pinky nail is “us,” and also both are part of us. This week, revisit how you care for your brain as a biological organ, in addition to how you care for your mental health. Pay attention to giving it regular food, water, and other physical care.

Cancer: Cauldrons are a symbol of witchcraft, but they are also a symbol of nourishment, community resources, and healing. In order to heal from poisons or toxicity, we have to first understand what the poisons are that we are treating. In order to nourish the community, we have to invite them to the table. This week, think about what you have learned about the toxins and poisons your friends and social groups are facing and where they feel undernourished. Consider how these needs align with your purpose and how your creativity is evolving. Create something that shares healing and invite your community to share it with you.

Leo: Acknowledging personal betrayals is an important part of healing from them, but first it feels terrible. This week, you may start to experience obsession with the transformation your partners are experiencing in a positive way or a way that triggers personal betrayals. As we approach the Full Moon, you have an opportunity to look at your experience of personal betrayals and allow the discomfort to offer healing or to calcify into resentment. Rather than casting blame, I recommend acknowledging the betrayals you’ve experienced in the past, sitting with the discomfort of the feelings, and allowing them to process into deeper understanding and self-compassion.

Virgo: The expert advice we get is only as good as the information we offer. This week, if you need to seek medical or other expert advice, double or even triple check the information you are giving, not just to make sure it’s clear but to make sure it’s complete. You may have a tendency to unconsciously withhold information, even from yourself. Alternatively, if you have the inclination to share secrets, just make sure you’re sharing consensually rather than vengefully. Exposing secrets out of revenge might feel good in the moment, but create results you don’t want later.

Libra: Just because we are obsessed with something or someone does not mean we deeply value them, no matter how intense the feelings. A more reliable measurement for whether we value something is how we spend our time and energy, and why. For example, if we spend 10 hours scrolling on social media, it could mean we value community, connection, social validation, games, beauty, or any number of things, depending on our reasons for doing it. It may be dissociation, yes, but it also could be a clue to values we are repressing. This week, consider who you spend your time with most, in addition to what you do, and let that guide you toward understanding of values you may have hidden from yourself.

Scorpio: When we think about purpose, we often talk about it as though it is a monolith and each human has one purpose, like a meal with one flavor. Also, most of us never question our cultural conditioning and assume our purpose is found within cultural belonging. This week invites you to revisit and rethink how you share yourself with the world as well as your purpose in the larger context of your life. Think about who you thought you were when you were very young and what you have learned since then, which shapes who you are now. When an acorn becomes an oak tree, it does not diminish the value of the acorn. So, too, as you expand who you are, it is not a betrayal of who you were.

Sagittarius: Our most deeply held beliefs control our entire lives, but usually they are more simple than we think. They usually sound like, “I shouldn’t have to,” or “I’ll do the dishes later,” rather than the lofty and intellectual pronouncements many of us describe as our belief systems. This week, listen to what you say out loud in order to discover what your belief systems are. For extra credit, ask friends to tell you what they hear you say most often. You can always revise these beliefs if you are aware of them, but if they are hidden, they control your life without your consent.

Capricorn: When we are misunderstood or exposed, it can motivate us to create simple personas or versions of ourselves that we can easily explain to people. The problem with this is that no one has the opportunity to know the complexities of who we truly are. We essentially reject our complex selves before other people can. This week, if old friendships are coming back into your life, listen with curiosity to how people who used to know you describe you, even if they get you wrong. Consider that they might be describing one part of you if not the whole. Try to meet that part of yourself with compassion.

Aquarius: Discomfort is not necessarily a sign that something has gone wrong, but it is always an alert that is worth considering. You are undergoing a process of deep transformation around how you show up in the world, and this week brings all of that to the surface. The question is whether the discomfort signals misalignment or whether it signals that your cultural conditioning is sabotaging you. You are the only one who knows the answer, but whenever you catch yourself thinking something at your job or in your community should be different, consider it a sign post pointing you toward your personal transformation.

Pisces: One of the primary ways we fall prey to predatory narcissism is by assuming that other people’s motivations are the same as ours. When we are motivated to connect to other people, we assume everyone is. This can also leave us vulnerable to our own cultural conditioning, motivating us to over-give with the silent expectation that others do the same for us. Your belief systems and basic understandings of how life works can be fixed and even rigid, despite your flexible overall attitude. Let this week’s energies challenge any place where you are giving or connecting out of expectation that others do the same, rather than out of a personal sense of purpose.

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Ego and Arrogance: Horoscopes October 5-11, 2026

Ego is a healthy part of the human psyche that tells us who we are, protects our preferences, and helps us attune to our boundaries. It becomes unhealthy or arrogant, though, when we are unwilling to be uncomfortable and intolerant of what is outside of our preferences.

Last week, my social media feed was filled with people’s responses to the filing of the Jane Doe case against Cornell, alleging brutal violence at a fraternity. Having represented many Jane Does as a lawyer in many civil rights lawsuits, including some with similar violence, it made me sad to see the same conversations happening today that happened 10 years ago and 20 years ago, and probably before.

What we see, as we have seen in the past, is an evaluation of whether and how the perpetrators should be punished and counter-evaluation of Jane Doe’s veracity. When that is the conversation we have, it is all built around the ego reactivity of defensiveness and arrogance. And, also, the system sets those talking points up before anything goes on social media, so I am not saying any particular person is getting something wrong.

But, I do genuinely want this narrative to shift to how we support the strength of the young people (including the journalist who pursued this story) who had to go through so much effort to contribute to the safety of future students, when the adults in charge were indifferent to it. I understand the men who are doxxing the perpetrators and I don’t take issue with it (it’s very white women a la 2020), but that is still gathering attention to the men, which has also gathered support to them. Also, this often whiplashes back when the legal system gets involved and “exposes” that Jane Does are human and not angels. So, it’s tricky.

What I dream of is a day where we have an actual fund (not Time’s Up, no offense) to shower wealth on anyone advocating for true safety for the most vulnerable in our schools, workplaces, and communities. And I send my deep respect to Jane Doe and the journalist who pursued this story for their tremendous courage.

So, to bring this back to the astrology, this week we hare having transits between Mercury, Mars, and Venus, as well as a New Moon that create an opportunity to think about how we handle our deepest betrayals, desires, and just preferences. When we act out of pressure to prove we are good people, we reinforce the status quo to defend our egos. When we stay silent, afraid we will say the wrong thing, we do the same. To find the right answer, respect your ego, be uncomfortable, and experiment with what is right for you.

(Image from the movie Party Girl with Parker Posey getting ready to start her signature dance. Highly recommend watching this movie anytime, but especially this week if you want to capture the Mars in Leo square Venus in Scorpio vibes.)

Transits

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

• Tuesday, October 6, 2026:

  • Mercury goes conjunct Venus in Scorpio at 5:10pm Pacific. This is the deity of thinking and communication meeting up with the goddess of beauty and relationships. The hitch here is that Venus in Scorpio is Venus in an uncomfortable place where she faces restriction and so she has intensity about fulfilling her rulership promises. So, this may give you access to sharing feelings that have been building up, but this can also result in blurting out our communications in a more intense or pointed way than we intended. If you want to make a change, wait for Wednesday’s supportive energy, rather than reacting to Tuesday’s pressure.

• Wednesday, October 7, 2026:

  • Mars in Leo sextiles Uranus in Gemini at 3:41am Pacific. If you’ve been feeling frustrated by the energies lately, this offers a little movement in stuck places and supports making a change.

• Thursday, October 8, 2026:

  • The Sun in Libra goes from human design Gate 48 (accessing deep resourcefulness) to Gate 57 (allowing unease to point you to your intuition) at 2:18am Pacific. Gate 48 can be a time of superstitious and even paranoid thinking that leads us to remember we are able to access the resources we need. Gate 57 reminds us that when we feel unease, the tuning fork of our intuition can guide the way to clarity.

• Saturday, October 10, 2026:

  • The New Moon in Libra happens at 8:50am Pacific. The Sun and the Moon are both in the sign of harmony, balance, and relationship building. This energy encourages us to do the nice thing, rather than the true thing, so watch for indecision, and if you experience it, check in with your intuition. Intuition feels neutral and may have a pull or push to it, but anxiety is not intuition.

  • Mars in Leo squares Venus in Scorpio at 2:31pm Pacific. This aspect can involve sexual tension or flirtation, but in Leo and Scorpio, there is an underlying intensity to it. Our need for beauty and relationship is aloofly giving a side eye to our need for physical action and ego validation, and that might be the beginning of an intense flirtation.

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

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These are the principles to consider for the week of October 5, 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 change our boundaries, people who are used to our old boundaries often have a “change back” response. They subtly (or intensely!) remind us of who we were when we didn’t have boundaries. This week invites you to make new partnership agreements, starting with yourself. Consider how you can be a stellar partner to all of your parts, including your ego and your body. Then consider where there is room for clarity around boundaries and needs with other partners, including how you can mutually support each other.

Taurus: The sh*tty first draft rule of writing says that it is better to put something on a page that you can edit later than to censor yourself seeking protection or perfection in your first try. This week, especially with your partners and closest accomplices, make sh*tty first drafts of what you want to say and sit on them before you try to communicate your most intense feelings. The intensity is healthy, and also it might not always represent what you actually want to say. Let the beauty of everyday rituals ground you into what really matters.

Gemini: A private fact is something that is personal and nobody else’s business, while a secret is a private fact we keep to ourselves even if it may impact someone else’s decisions. This week, remember that not everything you create needs to be something that your friends or acquaintances know about. It is okay to start a creative project, knowing that that it is too vulnerable to share until it has a little time to grow. This week invites you to birth something new and share it with those who provide support without scrutiny.

Cancer: Whether we like it or not, our bank accounts reflect what we value most because money is a symbol of value and values (they also reflect systemic barriers we face, but those inform our values as well). This week, rather than pretending your values are “good person” values, be honest with how you see yourself handling money. Flirt with how you can express your values in your creative projects. At the end of the week, consider whether the restriction you impose around your career serve the beauty of your home and inner life. Do a ceremony to honor your harmonious inner self and home.

Leo: In marketing, sales, and job interviews you sometimes see people offering something in a flashy way that sounds like, “Hot dogs! Hot dogs! Get your hot dogs!” and other times, marketing and sales sound more like, “Is anybody hungry?” Strangely, dominant culture often values the flashy communication over the relational one, even though most of us prefer the relational one. This week, consider how you communicate to invite your closest friends to a party. Start applying that type of relational communication to achieving your most impossible goals.

Virgo: Often we (and by we I specifically mean you) can learn more about what we unconsciously believe about the world by listening to what we say out loud than by what we assume our worldview is. That is particularly true this week. If you record yourself talking in random places and play it back, you might be surprised by what you hear. At the end of the week, consider what this means about your conscious values and your unconscious beliefs and hold a ritual to anchor your values in your unconscious.

Libra: We can understand what we value most by looking at our actions, rather than thinking about what a “good person” values. This week, be deeply honest with yourself about the actions you take during your days and where you put your energy. For example, if you sit and ruminate about who has wronged you, call this “sitting,” rather than romanticizing it. If you write a love letter, call that “writing,” rather than “falling in love.” At the end of the week, make something beautiful (written, artistic, interpretive dance, or spreadsheet - whatever feels like you) to remind yourself of the values that are aligned to your true self.

Scorpio: Nobody falls in love without some kind of tension (otherwise we fall in sibling). This week, when things go wrong or you feel frustrated about your career and public facing life, consider how you would handle that frustration if it were a flirtation, not necessarily with one person but with the outer world. Leave a little mystery, but be a little vulnerable to get what you want and need. At the end of the week, look at any unconscious fear that comes up in this challenge and see how you can meet yourself with love in those spaces.

Sagittarius: The measurement of whether a belief system is healthy is not what other people think (including what deities think), but how it feels to you and what those feelings motivate you to do to impact the world. Your fixed worldview is being challenged right now, so notice any defensiveness that comes up when those challenges appear. If you defend poison, you get sick. If you are willing to adjust your worldview, especially as it relates to your friend groups, you can notice poisons packaged as medicine.

Capricorn: More discipline is not always the answer, even if it has worked for you in the past. Eliminating all boundaries is not the answer either. This week, to the extent you can, set aside the extremes of restriction and excess. Experiment with putting yourself in spaces that are beautiful and harmonious to you, as well as spaces that are deep and private, without trying to reach a conclusion about their moral value. At the end of the week, do a ritual to renew your relationship with how you want to relate to beauty and harmony in your career and public-facing life.

Aquarius: Ego is a healthy part of being human because it defines our preferences. It becomes unhealthy when we (consciously or unconsciously) expect other people to conform to our preferences or become overbearing to protect or defend our preferences. This often sounds in our minds like, “I should show them I’m not bad or wrong,” but on the outside looks defensive or domineering. This week, look out for that tendency with partners and in your public facing life. At the end of the week, consider whether defensiveness that comes up aligns with your ideals, and make any shifts to your relationship with your ideals that feel healthy.

Pisces: The term demis*xual means that we have s*xual attraction based in emotional bond, not just physical desire (as opposed to allosexual). In the spectrum of orientation, there is no right or wrong, and this is just one way to be. This week, consider any space where you may have value judgments that your orientation should be one way, without changing. Your body’s needs are loud right now, so listen to them, even if they are different than what they were in the past (not only related to s*x). At the end of the week, consider whether you want to welcome in new values around s*x and money based on what you’ve learned.

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Repair is Better Than Perfection: Horoscopes September 28-October 4, 2026

I was chatting with someone on social media a while back about a charged topic, and she said to me, “It sounds like you want a cookie for that.” In my mind, I was like, “Heck yeah I want a cookie! Who doesn’t? Maybe ice cream too.” And also, I was aware that in the context of that particular conversation, she was not the right person to give me the cookie.

I was raised to be an A++++ student, and I deeply love getting gold stars and stickers for my accomplishments. Who doesn’t? And also, this can lead to perfectionism, which stifles creativity and leads to worse results than experimenting.

My experience is that it is common for us to be pressured to both achieve impossible accomplishments, be humble about them, be grateful for praise about them however it comes, and not really expect anything in return. For example, many people socialized as women are pressured to do this around birth (impossible accomplishment, requiring humility and gratitude, and then becoming a person with no needs). That is just one obvious example, but there are many.

When we engage in a dynamic where we have to perform having no needs or expectations, including recognition, we often swing to the other side, unconsciously, and become demanding. Our secret or repressed needs come out in ways we don’t want that are sometimes violent or cruel.

Rather than trying to be perfect, though, it is more effective to learn how to repair when we’ve messed up, whether it’s related to relationships, work, or other topics.

This week brings up the expectations and secrets we’ve hidden away and triggers any reactivity we have around that. Rather than diving into conspiracy theories and acting out of paranoia, stay in touch with the immediate reality around you and the needs you have. Also, release perfectionism, which can be a path to paranoia. If you feel your privacy has been violated, address that need for privacy, and create safety for yourself, before deciding how to handle things with other people.

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

• Monday, September 28, 2026:

  • The Sun in Libra trines Uranus in Gemini at 9:21am Pacific. This can inject creativity and inspiration into your self expression. If the Full Moon we just passed created challenges, uncertainty, or conflict for you, this aspect can help you see things from a different angle. You may also encounter surprise or shifts in how you relate to others.

• Tuesday, September 29, 2026:

  • Mercury in Libra opposes Chiron in Aries at 8:14pm Pacific. This aspect offers us the opportunity to communicate and think through the woundings we have around Aries issues, which can include courage, authenticity, rage, violence, and innocence. If you’ve been bottling up your rage, consider finding an isolated space, maybe in your car, to rage on this day. Let your anger and authenticity have healthy space so that it does not come out in harmful ways.

• Wednesday, September 30, 2026:

  • Mercury goes from Libra into Scorpio at 4:44am Pacific. Where Mercury in Libra focuses on harmony and fairness, Mercury in Scorpio focuses on depth and facts. There can be a coldness and privacy to Scorpio, and Mercury in that atmosphere can be cutting and secretive.

• Friday, October 2, 2026:

  • The Sun goes from human design Gate 18 (the courage to have integrity between our ideals and actions) to Gate 48 (accessing deep resourcefulness). In Gate 18, we are asked to notice our judgments about ourselves and others and use those as a path to understand and access our own integrity. In Gate 48, we are asked to acknowledge the limitations and finite capacity of being a tiny human in a huge universe, and use that as a path to accessing a deep well of infinite resources.

  • Mercury in Scorpio squares Mars in Leo at 2:14am Pacific. This is a fighting aspect in general, and in Scorpio and Leo, these fights can touch on the spaces where we are most private and self-righteously protective. When we are reactive to this aspect, it can trigger us to say the cruelest thing that we have been harboring in secret. Be aware of the instinct to release resentment you have built up, make sure you like your reason for releasing it, and be prepared to repair relationships later.

  • Mercury in Scorpio squares Pluto in Aquarius at 1:42pm Pacific. Along with the square to Mars, this creates a shape called a t-square, which can be very activating and motivating energy or we can use it against ourselves. This part of the aspect brings an intensity of thinking and even doomsday communications. In these signs, this can specifically relate to secrets around advancements in technology and conspiracy theories about AI. Don’t believe everything you read, and be sure that the thoughts you are choosing feel healthy in your body.

  • Mars in Leo trines Neptune in Aries at 3:17pm Pacific. With this aspect, we should be particularly cautious around idealization of war and soldiers. Stories excite us and motivate us to action, whether they are true or not true. With this energy in the sky, it is important to remember that we are responsible for our actions and any violence we cause, whether or not we are following other people’s propaganda.

• Saturday, October 3, 2026:

  • Venus stations retrograde in Scorpio at 12:15am Pacific. Venus retrogrades for 40 days and 40 nights, and this retrograde is specifically associated with themes of equity for femmes and Black people in the U.S. It is associated with secrets coming out and toxicity being exposed. Where we have relationships that are unhealthy, this retrograde gives us the opportunity to revisit what we are hoping to get out of them, versus what we are really creating through them.

  • Mars in Leo opposes Pluto in Aquarius at 3:38am Pacific. This aspect is another that can bring open and violent conflict. Pluto digs to the depth of unhealthy power and martyrdom, while Mars uses violence to solve problems.
    When we are reactive to aspects like this, we can lash out and attempt to use violence to solve violence. This only creates more violence. Instead, if we are able to sit with the deep discomfort of the aspect and use it to find our own power, we can meet violence with courage.

• Sunday, October 4, 2026:

  • Mercury enters their pre-retrograde shadow in Scorpio at 2:09am Pacific. This marks the space that Mercury will return to when they retrograde on October 24, 2026. Themes that happen in the next few weeks will be revisited during the November retrograde.

  • The Sun in Libra opposes Saturn in Aries at 5:29am Pacific. This allows us to take stock of the consequences we are reaping from how we are showing up during Libra season. If we are people pleasing or avoiding conflict, rather than having integrity in how we show up with others, this day gives us the natural consequences of those actions. Likewise, if we are doing the challenging work of showing up authentically while making space for other people and genuinely relating to them, we will receive those consequences too.

• The Moon travels through Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, and into Leo this week; Jupiter continues in Leo.

These are the principles to consider for the week of September 28, 2026. It is worth taking a look at both your rising and sun sign horoscopes (visit astro.com to find your rising sign):

Aries: Just because other people are doing things differently than you does not mean that they are doing them wrong or maliciously. That might sound obvious, but this week it may feel extra urgent that the people around you do things your way. On the helpful side, that can show you your preferences. This can become unhealthy, though, if you feel like you need to change other people to make yourself safe. Focus on how you can show up authentically and support other people doing that as well.

Taurus: Most immovable objects and insurmountable challenges are that way because we are essentially pushing a pull door. This week, when you run into insurmountable challenges, consider whether your internal rigidity is actually the problem. Then, rather than getting frustrated, use the tension you are experiencing to experiment with different solutions. If you find yourself trying the same thing over and over again, take a nap or sit in the dark. Sometimes, we need fresh perspective to notice solutions.

Gemini: When we engage in learning to prove we are smart or right, it stays theoretical. This week, take what you have learned since November 2024 and implement it into your daily life. To start, take inventory of what you have learned, including how your philosophy of life has transformed, and either talk about it with someone or journal about it. Then, start making that actionable right now in your daily life.

Cancer: Money and creativity are both fluid and changeable energetic experiences that we develop structures and institutions around. This week, consider the ways that you become rigid about money and creativity or maintain standards that create stagnation instead of support for your prosperity. Sometimes rigidity provides a strong foundation for growth and other times it suffocates us. You can tell the difference by looking at whether your standards motivate action. Use frustration to generate movement and break out of any stuck container for money or creativity.

Leo: When nothing feels like it’s working, these are the two most common problems: either we are giving up too quickly or we are overcomplicating the process. This week, consider both problems. If you are too focused on needing to do the dishes before you start working (or finishing your work before you do the dishes), you may get stuck in process. If you give up after trying three things in service of your goal, you may be selling yourself short. Talk about your problems, try different solutions, and let it be messy.

Virgo: We often don’t know how we feel or what problems we have until we hear ourselves say them out loud. This is one of the reasons talk therapy is so effective. This week, rather than minimizing the problems you hear yourself say out loud, get curious about them. Even if you feel like you’re complaining too much, consider what would happen if you took your complaints seriously. Taking them seriously, even if they sound silly, is a good way to start solving them.

Libra: There is a traditional, WASP rule that it is not polite to talk about politics or money. At its best, this comes from a sense of privacy around sex, death, money, and politics. But, civil rights movements have shed light on how secrets about money perpetuate inequity and wealth hoarding. This week, consider the difference between privacy and shame, especially when it comes to money and your most deeply held values. If you wait for conflict to happen before you communicate those values to others, the communication may come off more intense or cruel than you mean.

Scorpio: Most things that happen in external reality are not about us, but you would not know that if you talked to any of our brains. This week, it is easy to feel like your privacy has been violated or that you are exposed, even when the conflict around you has nothing to do with you. Rather than allowing your brain to turn against you and make external problems mean there is something wrong with you, allow this to support your transformation and show you your own power.

Sagittarius: Confirmation bias happens to all human brains. It happens when we decide a topic is relevant to us, and then we notice it everywhere. For example, when you buy a type of car, you start to notice that type of car everywhere. The important part is that those cars where still there when you did not notice them. This week, your confirmation bias, especially around your most deeply held ideals, gets challenged. Instead of being reactive or defensive, consider how this could be a gift that shows you your own power.

Capricorn: Nobody is entitled to all of our information, and, at the same time, withholding relevant information from our friends to influence their decisions, can betray them and harm the friendship. This week, consider any spaces where you have been glossing over discomfort in order to get a result that you want, even if you think you are morally righteous in doing so. Getting ahead of this experience and balancing privacy with honesty could help you avoid rupture later.

Aquarius: Overwhelm is a feeling that happens because of our thoughts, not because of our observation of reality. In reality, we are always doing one thing at a time, and that means we are not doing many other things. This week, notice any inclination to be reactive around conflicts at work or with your partners, and step away from any all-or-nothing narrative about what people expect of you. Do the one next thing that is aligned to who you are becoming. Detach from the rest in the most respectful way you can manage.

Pisces: Spirituality and morality are different concepts, but within institutions and other spiritual groups we often overlap them. Spirituality is essentially connection to what is beyond the five senses, and not everything beyond the five senses is morally righteous. Morality is a system or code of conduct for how to interact on the material plane. This week, consider your structure for both. Care for your spirituality, and follow your parameters for how you engage with other humans, even when you feel reactive or betrayed.

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Gather Your Harvest: Horoscopes September 21-September 27, 2026

Most people treat conflict like a sportsball game, with winners and losers. In my 20+ years working in law and mediation, I found that conflict is more productively approached like a maze. The other people involved in the maze may be partners in navigating it with you, but they may also be booby traps. Resolving conflict is about our relationship with the conflict, not about defeating the other people involved.

In order to truly resolve a conflict and transform it into something creative, you have to enter the maze.

This week, the astrological and human design transits invite us to look at where we encounter conflict or adversity with rigidity and defensiveness and where we encounter what we do want with obsessiveness or defeatism. When we defensively shield ourselves against conflict, or obsess over one potential outcome, we create traps for ourselves. If we approach conflict with curiosity, it becomes a maze we can solve.

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

• Monday, September 21, 2026:

  • Mercury in Libra sextiles Jupiter in Leo at 3:50pm Pacific. This offers supportive energy for expansive and beautiful thinking and communication. If you have been wanting to do a creative communication project (write a poem, story, or song, for example), this is a great day for that.

• Tuesday, September 22, 2026:

  • The Sun goes into Libra at 5:05pm Pacific. This marks Mabon or the autumnal equinox. This is a time to consider what you have grown and harvested this year. Honor what you have created and what the Earth has provided for you.

• Friday, September 25, 2026:

  • The Sun in Libra opposes Neptune in Aries at 6:36pm Pacific. This aspect has a devotional quality to it. Neptune governs the beyond: spirit, confusion, other worldly topics. In Aries, this can relate to issues around the military, courage, authenticity, and war. In opposition to the Sun, what we devote ourselves to can be sources of our disappointment. The high we get from being drunk (whether we are drunk on wine or life) has a hangover after. If we are aware of our engagement with spiritual matters, we can engage safely. If we think our engagement with spirituality is a fixed observation of life, we can set ourselves up for betrayal later.

  • The Sun in Libra trines Pluto in Aquarius at 10:34pm Pacific. This provides supportive energy for deep introspection and transformation around our identities. When we see beyond ourselves in the Neptune transit earlier in the day, we may come back differently and need to transform our earthly lives as well.

• Saturday, September 26, 2026:

  • The Full Moon in Aries happens at 9:48am Pacific. The Sun here is in Libra and the Moon is in Aries, which brings up issues around the ways we are harmonious in our identities, while we are authentic and courageous in our emotional responses. Libra emphasizes partnership and harmony, while Aries emphasizes the authenticity of the individual. This can create tension around the security we need to show up as our true selves, and the harmony we want to create to connect with others.

    In this Full Moon, the Moon is conjunct Neptune, applying to a conjunction later that day to Saturn. In Aries, this can bring up a sense of insecurity and anxiety around having an idealized version of ourselves and our lives and a lot of brutal reminders about where real life does not meet up to that, so be gentle with yourself!

    This Full Moon happens while the Sun is still in Gate 46 in human design, just before it transitions to Gate 18 (see below). The Moon is in Gate 25 in human design (accepting the present reality as a path toward unconditional love). This invites us to accept where we are in order to attune to what is correct for us in the outer world.

  • The Sun goes from human design Gate 46 (being in the right place at the right time) to Gate 18 (the courage to have integrity between our ideals and actions) at around 10am Pacific. In Gate 46, we are tasked with noticing what resonates with us as abundant at any given moment and putting ourselves in that abundant place. Gate 18, then, asks us to look beyond what we already see in front of us toward what an idealized version of it could be. Then, it takes courage and integrity to align with that more idealized version, and we are invited to engage that courage and integrity.

• Sunday, September 27, 2026:

  • Mars in Cancer squares Chiron in Aries 4:58am Pacific. This can bring up our drive to enforce the safety of the close communities we are in and how that triggers our woundings around authenticity and courage. When we identify safety concerns in our communities, often the communities turn against us, seeing us as the safety concern and treating silence around problems as safety. When we are not healthy in our relationships with ourselves, this can bring up self-worth issues. When we are healthy, this invites us to come back to ourselves an care for our authentic uniqueness.

  • Mars goes into Leo at 7:48pm Pacific. Mars is in what’s called “fall” in Cancer, meaning he is not happy there and quite grouchy. This transition brings our conflicts and sense of assertion into a healthier space, which may mean they are more at the forefront and clear. Leo is a fixed sign, and so the god of war in a fixed sign can get us locked into battles and more rigid in how we handle them. On the other hand, fully expressing conflict allows it to burn through.

• The Moon travels through Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces, and into Aries this week; Venus continues in Scorpio; Saturn continues in Aries; Uranus continues in Gemini.

These are the principles to consider for the week of September 21, 2026. It is worth taking a look at both your rising and sun sign horoscopes (visit astro.com to find your rising sign):

Aries: Our closest partners and accomplices often see us more clearly than we see ourselves. This week, if conflict related to your home or family brings up wounding around your courage and authenticity, ask your closest accomplices to reflect back to you what they see about you and your situation. You are smart, tough, and amazing, and also, sometimes it takes an outside brain to catch areas where anxiety or rigidity are lying to us. Challenge yourself to be vulnerable, even when it is uncomfortable, with the people you trust most.

Taurus: The way to know if something is a message from your spirit, higher self, or intuition or if it is your mind freaking out, is how it feels. This week, if you start to feel superstitious or overly optimistic, check in with how your body feels. If it feels extremely energized or anxious, it is likely your mind freaking out. If it feels neutral and directs you towards health, then it may be spirit or intuition. Trust that you are in the right place right now, even if your feelings are uncomfortable.

Gemini: A fractal is a geometric expression that exists as the same pattern on a micro level as a macro level. When we have big ideas, in order to turn them into creative projects, we often have to understand how the macro idea exists in a micro form. This week offers you insight into that related to your creative projects. If vulnerability comes up in sharing your creativity with your friends, tap into the courageous integrity you have. The filter you have on your friends’ responses will be skewed, so intentionally skew it towards assuming that they love what you are creating instead of assuming the worst.

Cancer: When we keep our ideas in the visionary space, rather than turning them into tangible creations, it often seems like we are protecting ourselves from rejection. Actually, we are rejecting our ideas ahead of time. You are going through a phase where your career or public facing life is somehow both more nebulous and more concrete than it has been in the past, which likely creates anxiety that may make you want to delay action in your career space, while your home life is more calm. You have the opportunity to align the beauty you feel at home with the authenticity you are developing in your career so that you are yourself inside and out, including the woundings that brings up.

Leo: We culturally create hierarchies around learning, calling learning some “higher” than other learning. Really, the learning we do as a child (and a lot of the unlearning we later do about our childhood conditioning) is the most impactful in most of our lives. This week, your wounding, insecurities, and even ideals around learning come to the forefront. Remember that you are in the right place right now and lean towards learning that is courageously, authentically, aligned with who you are becoming.

Virgo: In capitalist culture, we center property ownership and money accumulation, but each of us typically does this according to our conditioning. By that I mean that each of us thinks our relationship with money is normal, but usually normal is defined by how our families handled money. This week, consider your relationship with money, as though money was a person you were meeting for the first time. Notice the assumptions you have and be curious about any unconscious assumptions you bring to that relationship.

Libra: The tricky thing about magical thinking is that it feels magical at the time. So, that seems good, right? And then the mismatch between the fantasy and reality kicks in, and we often have a crash landing. This week, if you feel the pull to idealize your partners and contort yourself to what you imagine they expect you to be, invite yourself to step into the courage of integrity. This can offset the harsh consequences of codependency coming from the outside. You have the energy and authenticity to practice this and step into a deeper level of what it means to be yourself.

Scorpio: Our bodies are the bridge between our minds, emotions, and spirits. That means that to grow beyond our current versions of self, the deepest work we can do includes and honors our bodies rather than abandoning them. This week offers you the opportunity to connect deeply with your spiritual knowing, and also if you leave your body behind, you will have swift consequences. It is deeply spiritual to allow your body to have needs, and those needs can be a path toward greater integrity.

Sagittarius: In order to build friendships, we have to work out a balance of showing up honestly as ourselves and allowing space for the other person. This week starts out with optimism around how you communicate with, and think of, your friends and social groups, and the end of the week may bring up some wounding around what it means to be yourself. Sometimes, being authentic in our relationships can start with doing the work of getting to know ourselves, even when it is uncomfortable.

Capricorn: We give the the misnomer label of “people pleasing” to the experience of feeling pressure to put on a certain type of face to the world, whether that face proves we are happy or proves we are harmed. It is a misnomer because usually nobody is pleased with it. This week brings up wounding you have around being authentic in your most public-facing life. Notice the the inflated way your mind shows other people’s thoughts about you and consider that other people are mostly thinking about themselves. This could give you permission to be more vulnerably you.

Aquarius: I’m not the kind of guy to say that you have to make peace with the advancements of technology because that’s likely not really your journey in this life. And also, it can be healthy to decide how you can orient to changes in technology you do not like so that you can maintain both your authenticity and your connection to the relationships and art forms that you value. If your loved ones are on social media or texting groups, it is worth considering how you can join them in a way that is structured to protect your boundaries and still honors your relationships.

Pisces: How we feel is always valid, but the thoughts that create our feelings are sometimes unhealthy. This week, be aware of any tendency to idealize what it means to be your authentic self and treat other people valuing your authenticity as a security issue. Authenticity is important and also it exists regardless of how other people behave around you. Other people do not have to recognize the beauty of your authenticity in order for it to be valid and gorgeous.

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Embrace Conflict to Create Peace: Horoscopes September 14-September 20, 2026

Most people treat conflict like a sportsball game, with winners and losers. In my 20+ years working in law and mediation, I found that conflict is more productively approached like a maze. The other people involved in the maze may be partners in navigating it with you, but they may also be booby traps. Resolving conflict is about our relationship with the conflict, not about defeating the other people involved.

In order to truly resolve a conflict and transform it into something creative, you have to enter the maze.

This week, the astrological and human design transits invite us to look at where we encounter conflict or adversity with rigidity and defensiveness and where we encounter what we do want with obsessiveness or defeatism. When we defensively shield ourselves against conflict, or obsess over one potential outcome, we create traps for ourselves. If we approach conflict with curiosity, it becomes a maze we can solve.

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

• Monday, September 14, 2026:

  • The Sun in Virgo sextiles Mars in Cancer at 12:52pm Pacific. This provides a practical boost for any healing work or practical care you want to provide to yourself and your community. The Sun in Virgo offers analytical support to look at the metaphorical dirty corners of your life that you’ve been avoiding, and Mars in Cancer provides an actionable boost to your ability to turn those corners into healing spaces.

  • The Sun in Virgo goes from Human Design Gate 47 (transforming ancestral oppression into healing) to Gate 6 (releasing defensiveness to allow peace) at around 10pm Pacific. This is a transition that offers us the opportunity to go from looking inward to our own healing around oppression to seeing how our defensiveness contributes to conflict. Rather than being judgmental and rejecting defensiveness as a blanket rule, we can integrate defensiveness and become more aware of how it shows up in our lives so that we can become intentional about it.

• Tuesday, September 15, 2026:

  • Venus in Scorpio squares Pluto in Aquarius at 11:34am Pacific. Pluto is one of the rulers of Scorpio, and with Venus there, she is “in reception” with Pluto under this transit, meaning she is communicating with the ruler of the sign she is transiting through. This transit offers the opportunity for us to reflect on the places where we are stuck related to the depth we expect from our social movements and rebellions, as well as our personal relationships and artistic circles. If we are expecting our activist icons to get everything right or understand trauma on a deep level, we may be limiting the progress we can make. Whether we want to put those limits on progress while we perfect our approach to deep woundings and the beauty of intensity is a question each of us may want to answer differently.

  • Neptune in Aries sextiles Pluto in Aquarius at 7:08pm Pacific. This is a transit that provides support around our ideals and sense of our own depth. The healthy side of this is the ability to deeply relax into our beliefs. That can also be the unhealthy side.

• Thursday, September 17, 2026:

  • Chiron retrogrades into Aries at 6:50pm Pacific. Chiron was last in Aries between 2019 and June of 2026 (this year). We’ve gotten a little sneak preview of Chiron in Taurus over the past couple of months, and now we’re getting another chance to revisit the woundings around authenticity and courage that come from Chiron being in Aries. Consider the woundings around authenticity and courage that came up for you over the 7 years of Chiron being in Aries. This is an opportunity for you to take final lessons from those experiences before Chiron goes into Taurus in April of 2027 for another 7 years.

• Friday, September 18, 2026:

  • Mercury in Libra opposes Saturn in Aries at 3am Pacific. This energy confronts us with the consequences of our thinking and communication. Whether what we think or say is true is a shallow question, and instead of asking whether it is true or dishonest, we can go deeper into this energy if we ask how our thoughts and words feel and what they create. This does not have to be a punishing inquiry, but instead can provide immediate direction to our most painful confusion.

  • The Sun in Virgo goes from Gate 6 (releasing defensiveness to allow peace) to Gate 46 (trusting intuition to put you in the right place at the right time) at around 4pm Pacific. There is an experience in releasing defensiveness in which we are afraid about what we will allow in and whether we will create misunderstandings. Once we can see defensiveness for what it is and be intentional about where we use it, we can uncover a wonderland of possibilities about how to encounter any moment. Gate 46, then, gives us the spark of understanding for what possibility to choose to move toward luck. It teaches that what we call luck is really deep connection to natural rhythms.

• The Moon travels through Scorpio, Sagittarius, and into Capricorn this week; Jupiter continues in Leo; Uranus continues in Gemini.

These are the principles to consider for the week of September 14, 2026. It is worth taking a look at both your rising and sun sign horoscopes (visit astro.com to find your rising sign):

Aries: Our homes are often the space in our lives where we are most comfortable having open conflict, and our families are the people who see that side of us the most. This week provides a good opportunity for you to practice showing up authentically and non-defensively, even within conflict, especially with your family. One rule in challenging conversations is to listen and repeat back what you think you’ve heard about three times more than you think you should with genuine curiosity. This is a great week to create other parameters for how you handle differences in conflict.

Taurus: Taylor Swift says that the thing about illicit affairs is that they show truth one time and then lie a million times. On the other hand, Shakespeare tells us that “the truth will out.” Part of what Taylor Swift means, I think, is that the truths we share in secret can feel more true than those we share publicly, but if we don’t like our reasons for keeping secrets, they can ultimately betray us. This week, consider what you hold in secret, what you keep private that is not secret, and what you expose publicly. All of them have value, and privacy is important. Also, true intimacy involves some exposure.

Gemini: There is a phenomenon that happens regarding creativity, where if people with knowledge on a particular topic are put into an intense, or sometimes dire, time limited situation and asked to solve an impossible problem, they come up with an innovative solution. In this way, the constraints we put on our creative projects matter as much as the freedoms. This week, consider what constraints you put on your creativity and experiment with manufacturing the intensity that forces you to see what you create in a new way. Your friend groups may be able to help.

Cancer: The difference between changing someone’s life in a helpful way and traumatizing someone is often consent. This week, write yourself a post it note that reminds you that the taboo, secret, obsessive, mystical, or simply angry things you have to share and create this week may be the key to someone else’s transformation. Write yourself a second note that reminds you to get consent first. You know that what is right for you is not necessarily right for everyone, but don’t let that hold you back from sharing. Just take a minute to ask for consent first.

Leo: Money is a neutral energy in the sense that it is a resource like water or air. Each of us has a relationship to money, whether that relationship is healthy or unhealthy. This week is a good opportunity for you to unpack your unconscious relationship to money. If you imagine money as a person, how do you treat your relationship to them? A lot of people talk sh*t about money and then hope money will want to hang out with them. Others obsessively stalk money and wonder why their other relationships suffer. The more intentional we are about our conscious and unconscious relationship with money, the more we can check in with its health and needs.

Virgo: Conflict exists because people have a mutual interest and different perspectives on that mutual interest. It cannot exist without mutual interest. This week, change and conflict that happen in your friend groups give you an opportunity to notice spaces where you feel defensive about who you are. You can see a friend’s perspective and still know yours is different. It also is a great opportunity to write down your values and even make a budget (consider a budget vision board if a regular budget feels too dry).

Libra: The more deeply we understand and love someone, the more fully we allow them to be free to be themselves. This is the essential difference between love and obsession. This week, consider how this applies to your creative projects, specifically, and children if you have some of those. The intensity and depth of your values, and your freedom of expression in your creativity have the potential to release something new into the world or to crush your projects under the weight of obsession. Check in with who you truly are and what is important to you if you find yourself ruminating on drafts.

Scorpio: Byron Katie says that defense is the first act of war. At the same time, sometimes enforcing our boundaries involves defending something in a healthy way. This week, consider what you want your identity to be in your friend and social groups, how it relates to your morals and ideals, and where any defensiveness may keep you from fully integrating the two. For example, if you want your friends to think you are smart and analytical, and your highest ideals include being community oriented and giving back, this week offers an opportunity to join the two together and release any defensiveness that may be keeping you from fully expressing that spectrum of care and capability.

Sagittarius: Religion is the term we usually apply to spiritual beliefs that have been institutionalized and codified. Most people belong to some type of religion, whether it is Christianity, Islam, the legal system, sports, science and academia, or in some other shape. We also have internal structures for our personal religions based on the thoughts we think all the time, like, “I should do the dishes.” This week, consider putting structure around your personal religion. Listen to what you say to friends to get insight into the core tenets of what your belief system is, as opposed to what you want it to be.

Capricorn: We often think of disciplined thinking as dry and non-emotional, or attached to a polarized right and wrong, which is quite false. Actually, disciplined thinking has a strong relationship with being able to understand and observe the impacts of a thought or belief system. This week, if you feel inclined to invest in a get-rich-quick scheme or passionate romance in your friend group, take a step back. Consider the impacts of even your mental investment in the intense and obsessive. This is a good week to allow clarity and non-defensiveness around your mental investments.

Aquarius: Overthinking happens when we allow our brains to ruminate on a topic we don’t like, without testing out how healthy or unhealthy the thoughts are. This week gives you a good opportunity to look at any obsessive thinking or even just overthinking you might be experiencing. It is a good week to write down the thoughts you have as they come up, not as a documentation of your experience of life, but so that you can look at them as separate from you. Test how they feel and what they create. If a thought is unhealthy, release it and choose something healthy.

Pisces: Most groups, and even some activities and friendships, are cults. The more your instinct is to deny that you are in a cult, the more likely it is that you are being influenced by cult mindset. Cult mindset happens when our group identification overtakes our ability to also individualize. This is not something to be embarrassed about, but just something to identify. This week, consider the intense connections you have and how you can also find ways to ease into freedom to express difference.

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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.

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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.

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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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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