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When a lot of your time and energy is already being directed by outside forces such as caring for others, meeting deadlines and fulfilling obligations, it's only natural to feel compelled to rebel against your own goals or routines, just to feel like something is under your control. Who could blame you for trying to reclaim agency in ...Read more

Your environments (physical, digital, emotional) affect your behavior and performance even more than usual in the days ahead. If it's full of distractions, clutter, bad lighting, the wrong people or unhelpful systems, even the most motivated version of you will struggle. Willpower won't be enough. The Mercury transit into Virgo suggests we get...Read more

Life isn't always fair, but at least the division of labor can be -- maybe not in the world, but in a household, friend group or department? It seems like it should be doable. The Labor Day Saturn transit into empathetic Pisces reminds: If one person keeps picking up the slack, frustration builds. Take a moment to check in: Is everyone doing ...Read more

One event is time standing still. Two different events is time passing. Time is events in an order, and the order is always forward. On the day before a Saturn transit (in this case, retrograde Saturn leaving Aries the warrior for Pisces the dreamer), hope launches. "Father Time" whispers cosmic wisdom today: to understand time in the most ...Read more

Constraint often generates excellence. In many disciplines, the restriction itself is what makes the work beautiful. In this moment of Virgo Season, the rules rule. Whether the endeavor is art, sports, professional or social life, the lack of freedom will be the point. Ballet, orchestras, baseball, banking -- the beauty and skill come ...Read more

People construct an idea of us. Sometimes it's generous. Sometimes it's reductive. Always it's incomplete. Can this be helped when we are all walking around as versions of ourselves in someone else's perception? In each moment we give a mere snapshot, often outdated, simplified, and based on one interaction or season or need. Considering all ...Read more

Remember when you rushed to define a relationship or label a role, wanting a little more control and certainty in a situation? On a day like today, we remember such occurrences and laugh at our clownish scrambling. Oh, the futility and immaturity of defining the unknown. The unknown is like an awkward kin you accept and probably also embrace.....Read more

As soon as Venus pounced into Leo, she got to work on an agenda even she may not fully grasp. The realms of love, beauty and desire follow their own mysterious rules -- rules that exist well beyond the cramped walls of logic. Now, with Venus tugging at Pluto in a profound opposition, trying to make sense of love's logic is about as futile as ...Read more

What's the first thing Venus does in her Leo journey? Form a fire sign trine to Neptune -- a flame reflected in the pupil of a lion just before the hunt. Because before we get what we want, we have to want it. And before that, before we even know we want it, that's the instinct that ignites the body, flares in the belly, seeks fuel for the ...Read more

Do you hear the wild call? There are many worlds within this one, each governed by its own pulse. Even chaos has choreography. If you're the least bit curious about the raw texture of aliveness, you needn't travel far. Just show up fully to the life you've got, and the wildness in your soul will meet you there, ready to play, hunt, dazzle and ...Read more

The part of us deciding what to remember about these past few weeks is not in our control. So set the scene just right -- the lighting, the words, the brush of a hand, the smell of dinner in the air. You want them to remember it all. But memory isn't obedient. It saves what it wants. A glance, not the speech. A chair, not the kiss. You can ...Read more

The idea of originality has been debated for as long as humans have had the urge to speak. Some of history's greatest minds -- from the ancients to the avant-garde -- have argued that every "new" idea is simply a remix of something older. Originality isn't about inventing from nothing; it's about how you remix what moved you. This New Moon in ...Read more

What makes people feel grounded? Getting back to the basics -- yes, nutrition and sleep -- but also resolving inner tension. One powerful way? Asking yourself: What am I doing that goes against who I am? Virgo season begins with a new moon that clears the emotional slate and sets the tone for practical clarity. This lunation supports grounding...Read more

Cats, famously, land on their feet -- whether leaping from rooftops, chasing shadows or tumbling mid-play. Whether tossed by fate or pouncing on prey, they land. Famously. On their feet. Has life thrown you for a loop? That's what life does to the open-hearted, the wild ones, the fiercely ambitious. The moon kisses Mercury as the season of the...Read more

The cat moon will be kind on this day of lucky lunar trines and alignments. Our interconnectedness shines in these final days of Leo season. Even a relationship that seems to be between two people never really is. It's part of a larger web. Every shift -- a new friendship, a goodbye, a change in closeness -- ripples outward, touching more than...Read more

With the Moon squaring Mars and cozying up to Jupiter, the day has a slapstick quality -- high emotion, big reactions and the occasional metaphorical pie to the face. If you feel like the fool, take heart: Clowning is sacred work. History's brightest minds and boldest lovers have worn the red nose. It takes courage to play, to feel, to be seen...Read more

The moon is bringing the tense and tumultuous angles today, first to Saturn, then to Neptune, which has the effect of doubt. Are you being delusional, or can you really have what you want? If so, should you ask for it outright or in a roundabout way? And more importantly, how do you know you want the right thing? The positive side of doubt is ...Read more

It's a cosmically calm day in the final run of Leo season, setting the tone for a week that will close plot loops, tie loose ends and generally wrap up the party. If you could wave a magic wand over your life, what would you most want to button up, put a bow on and send? That's where to focus yourself as we head toward the Virgo new moon.

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Social intuition is the thing to test today. You can focus fate's fortune by asking for more than you think you will get as the moon moves into daring Gemini. There's a lunar conjunction to Uranus, too, promising a surprise that helps you become more attuned to the reality of dynamics. If you don't like the first answer, adjust and try again. ...Read more

The lunar square to the Leo sun illuminates matters of external validation and internal meaning. Fast rewards are fun because they leave little room for second-guessing. But when the success doesn't come so quickly, doubts can drop in, which is uncomfortable and yet it's exactly what draws us deeper, toward the personal resonance of our own ...Read more