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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lucille Bluth in Arrested Development enacting covert narcissism.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Send Your AI Boyfriend Flowers: Horoscopes April 20-26, 2026

Even aside from the harms to artists and the environment, I have a hard time with the creepy way AI communicates. There’s being nice, and then there’s wanting to wear someone’s skin, and I always get the feeling that AI and the people who use it want to wear my skin.

Having said that, this week is start to what is likely to be a major escalation in technology innovation. I tend to be someone who believes change is evolution and therefore essentially something I am in favor of, but also in experience it is not something I love.

And, at the same time, often innovation and evolution in humans centers weapons, violence, and environmental destruction. With any new technology comes new responsibility, but this week puts more focus on centering what is new. So, send your AI boyfriend flowers, but ask him if he can please use less water and contribute to environmental repair instead of destruction.

Even aside from the harms to artists and the environment, I have a hard time with the creepy way AI communicates. There’s being nice, and then there’s wanting to wear someone’s skin, and I always get the feeling that AI and the people who use it want to wear my skin.

Having said that, this week is start to what is likely to be a major escalation in technology innovation. I tend to be someone who believes change is evolution and therefore essentially something I am in favor of, but also in experience it is not something I love.

And, at the same time, often innovation and evolution in humans centers weapons, violence, and environmental destruction. With any new technology comes new responsibility, but this week puts more focus on centering what is new. So, send your AI boyfriend flowers, but ask him if he can please use less water and contribute to environmental repair instead of destruction.

Photo by Aman Pal on Unsplash (EVE robot surrounded by flowers)

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

  • Mercury in Aries goes conjunct Saturn on Monday, April 20, 2026, at 4:22am Pacific. What lessons have you learned and what structures do you want to take away from last week’s transformations? The god of communication and the god of discipline team up, and this aspect asks you to create structure out of the transformations you experienced last week.

  • Venus goes conjunct Uranus in Taurus on Thursday, April 23, 2026, at 6:58pm Pacific. This is a last sweet visit of the goddess of relationships and beauty to the space of biggest change and instability in your life. Since 2018, Uranus has been traveling through Taurus, a fixed space that does not like change, and just as Uranus moves into Gemini, Venus pays one last visit of blessing to this area of great and uncomfortable change. This can also bring a need for freedom in relationships and surprising changes.

  • Venus goes into Gemini on Thursday, April 23, 2026, at 9:03pm Pacific. Relationships don’t have to be hard! Sometimes they can just be light and fun. Venus in Gemini can see all sides to the relationship and can’t be tied down to one way of being or she feels crushed and stuck.

  • The Sun in Taurus squares Pluto in Aquarius on Saturday, April 25, 2026, at 9:32am Pacific. This aspect can trigger our survival-level fears and even create obsession or rumination about survival. The transformation and revolution Pluto is creating in Aquarius makes a tense aspect with our sense of self and overall identity. In these signs, it can bring up fear of change, inflexibility, and defensiveness. When your survival mechanisms are triggered, how do you care for yourself?

  • Uranus goes into Gemini on Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 5:51pm Pacific. This transition is likely to mark exponential growth in technology. Uranus is much more comfortable in Gemini than Taurus, and so the areas of change for you this transit sparks will likely feel more natural than they were in Taurus. At the same time, when Neptune was last in Aries and Uranus was in Gemini, we saw U.S. Civil War and World War II.

  • Venus in Gemini sextiles Neptune in Aries on Sunday, April 26, 2026, at 10:42am Pacific. This supportive aspect allows you to play with the dreams, imagination, and ideals Neptune is offering to your Aries house. This would be a good transit for a romantic date, confessing a crush, or doing something beautiful for yourself (even a spiritual practice). Your idealization is unlikely to go to far or come back to bite you.

  • Mercury in Aries squares Jupiter in Cancer on Sunday, April 26, 2026, at 11:33am Pacific. This tense aspect between the god of communication and the god of expansion can make us likely to stretch the truth and exaggerate in our communications and thinking. Remember, nothing is black and white, all or nothing, either/or. Check your thoughts and communication to make sure they reflect shared reality.

These are the principles to consider for the week of April 20, 2026. It is worth taking a look at both your rising and sun sign horoscopes (visit astro.com to find your rising sign):

Aries: Utopian socialism was widespread in the late 1800s, which was another time when Pluto and Uranus were in air signs. Utopian socialist societies envisioned a collective in which members cared for each other through mutual aid. This birthed what we now see as democratic socialism. The deep transformational work you are doing around how you see social groups, combined with the inspiration you are stepping into related to close community make you a key visionary in how we create sustainable community. Make sure the technology you use to create a new and better world aligns with your values.

Taurus: Technology is different than science in that the relevant question for technology is whether it works and the relevant question for science is why it works. In this way, you may be stepping into new technology related to your money and values and find it works (or does not) work in ways that you can’t explain. The relevant test for you is whether your values and money create lightness and ease, and you can come up with the explanations about why later. The transformations you’re experiencing in your career provide depth to the changes to your values.

Gemini: At the Stonewall protest, the official chant was, “Say it loud, gay is proud!” However you find yourself on the spectrum of queerness (including if you’re totally straight), this week invites you to say it a little louder and prouder and queerer and freer. The transformation in your ideals that started in early 2025 is getting charged up by who you are in both your most private, subconscious space and your most front-facing area of life. This is a long process, and the destination is being fully free to be yourself. Why not teleport to that destination now? You’re allowed.

Cancer: Witchcraft teaches that everyone has psychic skills in the sense that everyone has sensory perception that reaches beyond the 5 senses. Whether you have long practiced your psychic perceptions or have avoided that topic, your extra-sensory flair is in for a boost starting this week. Your role as the grounded, reliable one in social groups may put this in tension, and that is something to consider. Ultimately, you are allowed to test new ways of being out and consider what is safe and inspiring for you.

Leo: Therapists sometimes talk about holding people in different rings of friendship, from most intimate partnerships to friendly acquaintances. Astrology does something similar, dividing spheres of life into intimate partnerships, close community, and social groups. Who you are in social groups is getting a super charge of change and may even be likely to become more tech focused than it has been. We’re all tired of zoom rooms, but if you get invited to an eco-friendly VR party, maybe try it out! (I don’t know how we tech socialize, so talk to the kids for details.)

Virgo: Most futuristic novels are dystopian, as far as I have seen, and too often these dystopian novels have called into being some fresh horror we are facing now. (No blame on Orwell and Collins, but stop it.) If there were ever a time for you to write the great utopian novel, it is now. The transformation you’re experiencing in your daily habits supports your use of technology in your public facing life to create a better world.

Libra: Astrology is ancient math, first appearing around 1800 BCE; democracy was created around 507 BCE; democratic socialism was created in the late 1800s; and human design is a system downloaded in 1987. I say this because systems that work can be old, new, or in between. This week starts a process in which your ideals and higher learning can be downloaded through bursts of inspiration. The transformative process your creative projects are going through supports this. They can be new and still just as effective as ancient math.

Scorpio: Hollywood Medium Tyler Henry emphasizes that mediumship is about validation that our loved ones are still with us beyond their passing. Often, however, understanding our psychic gifts happens without validation at first. You have the cosmos’s support for stepping into a new experience of receiving downloads and bursts of insight. Sometimes this comes in the form of mediumship, though you are in charge of this whole process and your boundaries around it. Listen to what is safe for your body as you experiment with the information you receive.

Sagittarius: Love requires a balance between trust and freedom, and the spectrum of how each of us strikes that balance is vast. Your appreciation of freedom and change in partnership is getting a jolt of electricity and a kiss of beauty this week. Embrace the weirdos in your life. The way you handle partnerships is starting a long-term change process, and it is best to welcome that, knowing that freedom to change, in itself, can be a core part of your partnership orientation.

Capricorn: One of the threats of dystopian technology that some people think of as a utopian ideal is the ability to download consciousness into a computer. If that opportunity presents itself, and you think living outside of your body sounds great, just consider that it’s a terrible idea. Your assignment is to live inside a human body in this life, not to have your consciousness absorbed into social media or other tech. And, if your daily habits of caring for your body could use a boost, rely on medical advice that is grounded and trustworthy.

Aquarius: The BDSM community requires consent to be specific, enthusiastic, and clear. Within those parameters, two consenting adults can choose how they express their sexuality. In astrology, how we express creative sexuality and how we create in general are often interpreted together. For you, how you create is getting an electrical bolt of change, mixed with some beauty from the goddess of relationships. If things get queer, celebrate it!

Pisces: There is a difference between being changeable and being unreliable. Your reliability has gone through a process of consequences, and if you have not followed through, those consequences may have felt harsh. Don’t let this scare you from embracing change and evolution. Your home is a space where you need freedom to try new things, and this week starts a long process of that need for freedom at home becoming more important than ever.

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