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This past April had some of the toughest astrology I’ve noticed in awhile, with the major themes being around both conflict and confusion. We saw a Jupiter-Uranus conjunction in Taurus, conjunctions in Pisces between both Saturn and Neptune with Mars, and of course a Mercury retrograde and that little old eclipse. This is astrology that speaks to sudden change, obfuscation of truth, confusing conflict, being told no, and attention where we might not want it. It doesn’t take an astrologer to tell you that.

May eases up quite a bit. We have a brief Neptune-Jupiter sextile between Pisces and Taurus, two signs that love creativity and romance, and both Mars and Venus in their home fields of Aries and Taurus respectively.

But as this month got started I noticed that many people close to me are reeling from April, and that many people are going through major life changes.

So while we head into more easeful astrology, it’s important to think about how this might be more a time of recovery than opportunity. Flowing astrology can be hard to notice, and I have to quote my astrology teacher once again who reminded me recently that the things we want are almost always stressful when they happen—a fact I regularly share with my clients who are applying to jobs and school when I see stressful transits in their future.

With Pluto still moving around the early edges of Aquarius, we are on the precipice of tremendous global change—again, it does not take an astrologer to tell you that. Change is usually really stressful, even if it’s not personally affecting you. However the most recent astrology had the distinction of being both globally stressful and interpersonally irritating. Minor irritations hit worse when it feels like everything is falling apart, and with the kind of intense situations I am watching many of my loved ones go through, they can be hardly bearable.

I do feel like much of this is stuff I repeat all the time, about how change is hard and the world is going through it and everyone’s annoyed. In general, as an astrologer I focus more on the past and the individual’s natal chart than I do on the future, so my horoscopes are always written from this perspective… and the not-so-recent past has largely been about change and people going through it.

So, with some astrology of relative calm, take a breather. It makes a lot of sense for the rest of Taurus season anyway.

Free Palestine,
Amelia

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The last time I wrote horoscopes (all the way back in July) they were a deep dive into Venus and her retrograde movements. This happens to me sometimes: I laser-focus on one element of the astrological weather and go deep looking into it.

Three hours into writing those horoscopes I hadn’t done anything more than track Venus’ movement back about 200 years. The horoscopes were a careful and pretty mathematical look at where Venus would be in your charts and how you might feel her.

I mention this now as an announcement of my intention to now do the exact opposite. This current astrology is busy. Mercury is about to station retrograde; Venus is moving through the dregs of Scorpio where she will oppose Uranus in Taurus; Mars (who has been conjunct the sun for weeks) is in Sagittarius where he is about to square Neptune during those weird days between Christmas and New Years; Saturn is newly back in Pisces;  The astrology of this month is like a huge party: everyone’s there:

Venus is drunk texting her ex and flirting with both Jupiter and Uranus. Mercury and Mars are doing shots, but Mercury was supposed to be in charge of ordering the food and got too drunk instead. Mars got in a fight with Neptune and Saturn but those guys are huge and Mars bit off more than he could chew. He’s gonna leave the night with his tail between his legs and wake up in January with a killer hangover (in Capricorn). It’s all a lot.

So instead of writing about a specific aspect, part of your chart, or prediction, I’m going to speak about how your sign deals with overwhelm through this extended metaphor of a party and somewhat arbitrary gender associations for each sign.

These particular horoscopes are flexible and you can read for different parts of your chart as feels useful or interesting. They were fun to write: I hope they’re fun to read in this busy, intense month.

As for me, I’ll have my Cancer-rising self huddled at home until it’s over.

Amelia

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Dear readers,

Often when I sit down to write horoscopes I think about whatever I’m seeing people talk about a lot on astro-internet. Sometimes an eclipse, a planetary transit to a new sign, some sort of change worth noting.  In a slow astrological news time it’ll be something rather commonplace—perhaps like a retrograde—so when I began to notice that I was seeing a lot of buzz about the summer’s Venus retrograde in Leo, I got ready to put on my grumpy astrologer hat and mumble about how retrogrades are commonplace.

I picked up my ephemeris for the 21st century and started looking for the last time Venus stationed retrograde in Leo. I found quickly that she was there in 2015—but that she began her trip backwards in Virgo, and only moonwalked (venus-walked?) back into Leo. So I started flipping back… and had to get my 20th century ephemeris down… and after a few hours of tracking, I got to 1900 and she still hadn’t stationed retrograde in Leo.

By this point I’d made a spreadsheet and had three books open around me and was digging around for Internet ephemerides. After some time with more charts, I made it back to 1850 without finding the last time she had done what I was looking for and decided to message Pallas K. Augustine, expert on Venus cycles. She told me that the last time Venus did what it’s about to do was 1812! 1812!!!!

I was so ready to say in these horoscopes, “Venus last did this station in year XYZ, so think about what was going on for you then and what has changed.” I can hardly ask any of you to consider what you were up to in 1812. Engaging in cannonfire somewhere in British North America? Tending to Napoleon’s indigestion? Being born, if you’re Charles Dickens? Anyway, suffice it to say I spiraled a bit.

Part of the magic of astrology for me is the way one can use it to time travel. Horoscopes are forecasts for the future, sure, but I tend to be more interested in historical lenses. As I flipped through the 1910s I started to feel this really viscerally, imagining all these astrological stations in a time when no one I know was alive. It felt a bit like looking through a century-old agenda for the whole world and spying on the mundane, as opposed to the highlights of history.

Anyway—what is this significance for your life? Keeping in mind that with retrogrades, any word with a re-prefix is helpful: re-asses, re-consider, re-do. Venus retrogrades mean a re-x of Venus’ favorite things: values, creative pursuits, romance, and comfort. For these horoscopes, I’m going to focus on the house that houses Leo for each of the rising signs, and talk about how a summer of re-xing in this part of your life might look.

As for me—I personally have Venus in Scorpio, so rooting around the past is nothing if not delicious for me.

Happy summer,
Amelia

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It’s been a minute (almost a year!) since I last wrote horoscopes for OMG.BLOG but I’m happy to be back for the summer! I’ll be sharing astro-thoughts (and being an astro thot) throughout these hot months.

This month, I’ll be focusing on Jupiter and his new move into Taurus. This transit technically started in May but is still in the very early degrees of Taurus throughout this month so it remains news.

Jupiter is about expansion, growth, opportunity. When Jupiter transits a sign I often describe it as being like a spotlight on those ideals; in your chart, it’s a spotlight on the house it sits in. Taurus is about the physical needs we have in our life—comfort, food, resources—and Jupiter in this sign speaks to a focus on these needs.

Uranus, planet of instability and chaos, has been in Taurus since 2018, bringing visibility to the inequality of resources resource distribution. Later in Jupiter’s transit through the sign, Jupiter and Uranus will form a conjunction and this instability will be front of mind worldwide—but now Jupiter is just getting reacquainted and none of those complexities are quite yet in play.

For this months’ horoscopes I’m writing about the impact of Jupiter in the part of your chart where Taurus lives. As always, horoscopes are written for your rising sign, but if you don’t know that, read for your sun sign and see what resonates.

Happy to be back,
Amelia

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