STAR/CHILD: The Astrology of Family

The week is basically front-loaded fun that turns into a lie-down. Sunday's Mars in Gemini trine Pluto in Aquarius is the strongest, most useful energy of the whole week, and it happens first, which is rude. After that, Cancer season keeps its foot on the emotional pedal the entire time (Sun in Cancer all week, Mercury retrograde parked in Cancer right next to it), so everything routes through hom...

The thing to understand about this week is that it's wired to double back on itself. Mars charges into Gemini wanting to move fast, talk fast, win the argument — and the second it lands, the sign it now takes orders from stops dead and starts walking backwards. Same trick on the other end: the Full Moon's landlord is Saturn, currently squatting in Aries, a sign it can't stand and can't pace itself...

June has been a generous little exhale and this is the week the exhale completes before everything detonates again. Gemini season had us mentally lit up, auditioning new ideas, talking to strangers, updating the entire internal narrative on the fly — and frankly our brains are cooked. Cancer season rolls in Sunday morning like the lights coming up at the end of a party you mostly enjoyed. The ener...

The New Moon in Gemini kicks this off with the most usable fresh-start of the year so far, and the sky around it is mostly opportunities that won't bother to chase anyone down. The second half of the week opens up a long healing project that'll be running for the next seven years. So: don't sleep on Sunday night's new moon, don't panic at Wednesday's gut-check, and don't miss Sunday morning's prev...

On paper this is a soft week. Two of the most genuinely lovely pieces of astrology in the entire year land right in the middle of it, and you'll feel them — a warmth that settles into the part of you that's about home, safety, being held, being fed, being from somewhere. And yet this same week is going to locate the one tender spot you'd half-forgotten about and lean on it, because that's apparent...

2026 doesn't let up. It's been cycle after cycle turning over, things ending, things starting, the ground rearranging itself under us about once a week, and all of us trying to absorb that as the soft, finite, easily-overwhelmed water-bags we actually are. A lot of it has been genuinely thrilling. It's also been exhausting, and if you've spent part of this year horizontal on a bathroom floor recal...

This week is a tale of two completely different vibes and honestly, thank god for that, because if it were just the first half on repeat for seven days we'd be unwell. We're starting the week locked in, jaw set, ready to fight whoever needs fighting. And we're ending the week stumbling out of somewhere at 1am yelling that we love our friends. Both versions of you are correct. Both versions of you...

Four planets change signs in the span of about 72 hours. Mercury, Mars, Venus, the Sun: all of them, in a row, switching costumes between Sunday and Wednesday. None of this is a chill little pivot. By Thursday you will look up from whatever you were doing on Sunday and feel like someone changed the channel on your life. Different show, different cast, different lighting, different mood. You're sti...

This is one of the nicest weeks of the year, genuinely, and after the absolute meat grinder of Aries season — all that knives-out, white-knuckled, fighting-for-your-life chaos that had us crawling across the finish line — the sky is finally handing out a soft landing with actual room to feel it this time. The first half of the week has this quietly hopeful, things-are-possible quality to it where...

After months of astrology that has asked us to summon endurance we didn’t think we had, this week is pretty chill. Last week's Full Moon in Scorpio dragged us by the hair to the edge and made us look at every dead thing in our lives. We did that. We're tired. May has the audacity to just be...mostly fine. May and June are sneakily the most forgiving stretch of the year, which doesn’t mean it’s ent...

Friday's full moon in Scorpio is going to do what full moons in Scorpio do, which is hand you a flashlight and point it at the thing you've been avoiding. This week's episode also goes deep into the big news of the moment: Uranus officially left Taurus and moved into Gemini on April 25, where it'll live until 2033. The bulk of this episode is a deep dive into what that actually means — what the la...

We had Mercury and Mars and Saturn coming together at the peak of that very, very intense, combustible, energetic signature that was happening right as the sun was moving into Taurus. Normally, the beginning of Taurus season is like, welcome to the soothing bathtub of the year. This is where we're going to just stay nice and grounded and focus on what is stabilizing for us, what feels good and ple...

Last week was a building collapsing in real time and this week is the morning after, where you're standing in the rubble with a coffee trying to figure out what's load-bearing and what was always going to fall. The opening days are still inside last week's blast radius — Mars and Saturn are sitting on top of each other in Aries on Sunday evening, Mercury catches up to them by Monday, and the whole...

April has the most intense astrology of the year and this is the week it stops being a forecast and starts being a lived experience. But before anyone spirals, intense is not the same thing as destabilizing, and we have already done destabilizing, extensively, for six straight weeks of eclipses and a Pisces mercury retrograde where nobody could think or communicate or figure out what they were fee...

This week is the exhale after the exorcism. Last week had us elbow-deep in our relationships doing the kind of emotional surgery that leaves you simultaneously lighter and needing to lie down for three days. We did that work. We went into the dark, uncomfortable, sticky parts of how we relate to other people and came out with something that actually feels like clarity instead of just exhaustion dr...

It’s very possible March kinda ate you alive. The eclipses, Mercury retrograde in Pisces, Venus grinding through Aries like she was being forced to attend her own surprise party — it was a month of feeling like every relationship conversation was happening in a language you only half-spoke, while simultaneously being asked to make major life decisions with the cognitive clarity of someone who just...

So last week broke everything open, and if you consume any astrology content at all, you've heard the word "reset" so many times that your brain is probably leaking out of your ears by now, but the thing is, it really was. Equinox, Mercury finally stationing direct after what was genuinely one of the gnarliest retrogrades in recent memory, the new moon in Pisces closing out the very last sign of t...

March has been composting us alive. Like, not in the cute way where you turn your vegetable scraps into something that smells like earth and possibility — in the way where you are the vegetable scrap. Pisces season came in and just... dissolved the load-bearing walls of our executive function, our patience, our ability to form a sentence that means what we actually mean. Mercury retrograde made su...

We survived eclipse season. Barely, probably. Something between "emerged victorious" and "crawled out of the wreckage holding one shoe," and now we're here, on the other side of it, blinking in the light like we just woke up from a nap we didn't mean to take that somehow rearranged our entire personality. Key moments of the week: Sunday, March 8: Venus conjoins Saturn in Aries (9:39AM) Monday, Mar...

This week is doing something specific and it's doing it on purpose. It starts underwater — Pisces season, retrograde Mercury, everything slightly blurry and unresolved — and by Sunday it lands somewhere that actually has edges. That's the arc. Dissolution into form. Confusion into clarity. Not because something got fixed, but because enough things completed that you can finally see what shape the...

We're in the soupy middle of eclipse season, Mercury is about to retrograde in Pisces, and nothing — literally nothing — in your life is settled right now. Cool. Great. Love that for us. But actually, kind of, yeah. Because this week has this really specific arc that's genuinely useful if you work with it instead of white-knuckling through it. We start Sunday in this pocket of sweetness that feels...

This is one of those weeks where we would love to tell you it's chill and manageable and that you can just coast through it with your iced coffee and your Spotify playlist and your illusion that you're running this show. We cannot tell you that. This week is genuinely unhinged in terms of how much is happening, and — here's the part that's actually fascinating — the eclipse on Tuesday isn't even t...

This week is a changing of the guard. Saturn is leaving Pisces on Friday — for good this time, not that little summer fling with Aries last year — and Venus is sliding into Pisces on Tuesday to take its place. The energetic difference between those two tenants is almost funny. It's like your most intense, boundary-obsessed landlord finally moving out after three years of structural inspections, an...

We're coming off a Leo full moon that was, let's be honest, kind of a lot. Full moons are always a lot. Full moons in fire signs are always a lot a lot. And this one had the Sun, Venus, Mars, and Mercury all piled up in Aquarius on the other side, staring it down, while the whole mess sat in a tense square to Uranus. So if this weekend felt like your emotional containment system just... gave up? I...

Okay so here's the thing: we've been marinating in a kind of collective fog since 2011. Neptune in Pisces had us all doom-scrolling through our own lives, curating little custom realities, checking out because checking in was just... too much. Boundaries? What are those. Clarity? Couldn't find her. We've spent fourteen years soaking in this soup where the line between fantasy and reality got so bl...