Desired Constellations

Today is the first Eclipse of the year. 

It is a total Lunar Eclipse in Sagittarius and emphasizes surrender, letting go, and the closing of chapters. 

Revisit your weekly horoscopes to learn more about how this day will affect you. Let the energy come to you. See what is shifting without your control. 

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Horoscopes, 5.24-5.30.21

Aries: I suggest you place a premium on the small moments. On paying attention. On how you sit, walk, pour yourself a glass of water. The more you can expand into the details, the more you can ground yourself for larger shifts surrounding your beliefs and value systems. The more you stare at something familiar, the more strange it becomes, and vice versa. Don’t shy away from shadows or confusion. Just keep looking. 

Taurus: You are allowed to ask for support. You are allowed to take up space with your words. The key is to notice if you are spreading your efforts too thin. Take stock of what you actually need to feel resourced and when security becomes a prison. Where can you stand to be a little more fluid, a little more resilient? You have the ability to heal your wounds around lack, destitution and dissolution. Let your larger goals remain a little hazy; they will form into coherent thoughts when something beyond you, but in you, is ready. 

Gemini: This week you are being tested to see how much of your magic you believe comes from other people. Those that are not for you or only serve to helm you in with their fixed ideas are beginning to show the end of their usefulness. You don’t have to work to have power but simply recognize what is there all along. You bring in the beauty and grace and intelligence. You are a beacon of flowing compassion for all. Let yourself be a little porous this week. When people think of you from afar, let them think of an ocean. 

Cancer: “No one’s ever gonna give you a trophy/ for all the pain and the things you’ve been through,” Musician Weyes Blood tells us. “No one knows but you”. Similarly, the victories you experience this week may be quiet and difficult for others to see. Don’t worry so much about talking about it; simply be about it, about whatever shifts are arising. If you want help or guidance, tune into a teacher or book that has guided you before. Let yourself be influenced in ways you can’t anticipate. Let your work life be a bit more fluid as stale obligations fall away. Ask where the Real Work lies for you. 

Leo: You don’t need to cut off parts of yourself or fit yourself in a box to show up for your community; you must, however, let go of your limiting beliefs or projects that are no longer serving you. You must pare away what is extra until your barest truth is apparent to you, ready to be shared and joined with the world. Expect sweetness and guidance from those in your networks rather than rejection or exclusion and respond in kind. There may be opportunities for sharing resources so be open to new avenues of abundance. Just stay clear on your own values and intentions and notice who supports them. 

Virgo: A plant without proper roots cannot nourish itself. The same is true for you this week; focus on what is stopping you from feeling fully at home in your body, house, dwelling place and erect the proper boundaries to give you a sense of freedom in your private life. From there, it can begin to extend outward into your public life, where both new information and new relationships may be forming to further shape your calling. Don’t forget to call upon the support of your loved ones, but notice when they distract you rather than make you feel big. Trust what you feel is right then do it. 

Libra: Consider how your daily life needs to change. Consider what thought patterns or habits need to be let go of, in order to receive a bigger message or insight. Pay attention, accordingly, to the people in your life who are helping you on your journey or bringing more wisdom into your life. You have the opportunity to learn a lot from those around you and to find the erotic in the act of learning. Go after what you are passionate about. Get clear about your beliefs and begin to see your work life begin to align with this realization. Remember that surrendering is work, doing the right thing for you is work, communing with spirit is work. Adjust your schedule accordingly. 

Scorpio: If you find security in always being able to leave or defaulting to freedom, this option may not be available to you. You may be asked to stick around in what feels too real or uncomfortable. You may be asked to take the next step blindly, not knowing where it leads. Doing so will give you access to deeper wounds that need addressing, as well as deeper treasures. Look for people who want to hear about your shadows and see what sort of trust can be created when vulnerability is on the table. Your wisdom and fluidity is also found within these shared co-creations. See how you can take these teachings and express it, either via art, play, or just how you allow yourself to shine. 

Sagittarius: Find comfort in a void. Old parts of you or outdated images are being cleared away and I advise you don’t try to immediately fill them with something else. Instead, focus on what your intimate relationships and collaborations are bringing you. Is it sweet? Is it beautiful? Does it expand your mind or flip preconceived notions on their heads? Spend time in private considering how you want your relationships to fit into your life. Do they feel like an extension of home or do the necessitate your retreat and recharge? Be wary of past relationships popping up again; focus on the lessons, less on the person. 

Capricorn: For most people, showing up for work means giving up your rights. It means exiling certain parts of yourself in the name of productivity or “professionalism”. Old inner structures or assumptions are being shed and this process is not exactly a clear or inviting one. But it is one of the most beautiful gifts you can give yourself. It will help clear up bullshit in your working life and get more out of the tasks in front of you. By focusing more on the power and pleasure in your routines you insight into your larger journey or belief system can come to light, bringing goodness to every corner of your life. Get to the root, and it is so. 

Aquarius: Always one to value the power of “we,” dear Aquarius, you may have to take a step back from the influence your communities is placing on you. Certain connections or groups may be eclipsed out of your life (ha) or you may find yourself rethinking the values imposed upon you and your work by others. Get back to the source this week. Get back to your own voice and what feels good to make and create. Be curious, flexible, and don’t worry about prying eyes. This may feel at odds with what is practical, or what you feel you need to be secure, but how can your pleasure be part of your resource network? 

Pisces: It can be necessary to put up a sort of front when in public; it can be out of protection or rising to the occasion when other parts of us still feel scared. But you are being asked to peel back some of the layers this week. How are you when you’re scared or unsure? That’s the part others want to see. First, prioritize downtime, or time spent with alone or with “family,” whatever that may mean to you. Mentally organize your current experience and see how these inner parts can begin to be shown on the outside, being of benefit for all. Who you are is enough. It is a boon to all. 

Daily Weather, 5.19.21

Venus trine Saturn 

Today your love needs structure. Boundaries. Work. Venus, in the mutable sign of Gemini, is forming a supportive connection with Saturn in Aquarius. Already, these two air signs are concerned with relationships. People often neglect to mention the social aspect of this element; how it finds itself through exchange with others. And while Gemini wants to connect to as wide a variety of people as possible, Aquarius wants to relate to humanity as a whole, even while keeping its distances. With Venus in Gemini, we may be tempted to not look too deep into the connection we make, favoring breadth instead of depth. Currently traversing the middle decan of Gemini, this Venus wants to reconcile dualities. It wants to alternate times of work and times of play; times of loving and times of space. The energy of Aquarius can be helpful in maintaining this balance between the inner and the outer. The second decan of Aquarius is about the sovereignty we each have regardless of the power structures in place. If we trust our ability, ingenuity, and personal power enough, we can move freely through the world, enacting our wills without being beholden to conventional power structures. 

This detachment can be useful in handling this transit. Saturn, specifically, wants to be realistic about what we can provide others and how available we can be. It’s ok to say no or set up a boundary or have a conversation about you and your loved one’s needs. More than ok, it is essential to true relationship. If there is no dialogue, no meeting each other, then the meeting is not taking place. Practice ways of using right speech, such as nonviolent communication or radical honesty. Consider how you can set up a container that makes both you and the other feel loved. 

Check out the weekly horoscopes to tune into this more.

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Horoscopes, Week of 5.17.21

Poem of the Week: “Dear One Absent This Long While,” Lisa Olstein

June efforts quietly.
I’ve planted vegetables along each garden wall

so even if spring continues to disappoint
we can say at least the lettuce loved the rain.

Taurus: The role you want to play in the world has a lot to teach you about resources. What types of things, energies, people do you need around to enact your dreams? Use the goal as the guidepost and a way to commit to cultivating certain values. Be generous, in turn, with what you do have and see your pleasure multiply. You may be feeling the difference between what you have and what you want. Feel into the gap and find a way for it to be motivating rather than discouraging; your dreams are real for as long as you give life to them. Just try it’s more about following the feeling this weekend than knowing your exact next move. Let what feels right guide the rest.
Poem of the Week: “Islandia,” Maria Negroni
I may not know how to seduce but I will dazzle. (Nothing will distract me from pain.) You have to wait. Have to wait for me to renounce (brilliant) rigidity, for me to submit, hidden from my own eyes, to the shadow of desire. Half-way would be enough. The only imperative is that you go on waiting (…)
Gemini: If you are feeling lost at all this week, dear Gemini, you just have to find your compass again. You structure comes from being in touch with the wisdom or beliefs that guide your life, whether they be philosophical, magical or divine. Commit yourself to a current devotion or practice around expanding your felt sense of knowledge and see how it enhances your ability to draw the right things towards you. This will be especially useful as your immediate energy must contend with the bigger, more mysterious visions for you are coming to the surface. While being exact and impeccable with your everyday decision-making is recommended, give your public role a bit more breathing room to figure itself out. Notice what intuitive messages come forward around the right path or vocation. See yourself as a channel for all sorts of information, but take what you receive with a grain of salt. It can and will all change soon.
Poem of the Week: “Postlude,” Rita Dove
As usual, you’re not listening: time stops
only if you stop long enough to hear it

passing. This is my business:
I’ve got ten weeks left to croon through.
What you hear is a lifetime of song.

Cancer: This week asks that you find your information from the deep. Mysterious signs, old wounds and deep energetic exchanges all mark this week for you and demonstrate a deep power to be found in the spaces between knowing. To cultivate these gifts from the depths, I suggest you enact boundaries around relationships that tend to drain your energy; you need all you can get to draw the sweetness from the inside. This process will also lead into your restructuring of your belief system— a larger theme for you this season. What new fields of study or spiritual practices are calling you to become more of what you are? How can figuring this out be like listening? Just beware of diving too quickly into your journey; take time to reflect what is really for you and what is true.
Poem of the Week: “Near the End of April,” William Stanley Braithwaite
Near the end of April
   Twenty Mays have met,
And half a word and half a dream
   Remember and forget.

Leo: The more singular someone’s role is in your life, the more difficult it is to detach from unhealthy dynamics with them. Do you have people besides your primary partner with whom you share intimacy and support? Do you expect some imagined partner to be the authority of value in your life? Cultivating beautiful ties with all sorts of friends and acquaintances can be a healing balm for any restrictions you may be feeling in your committed relationship, so lean on them to help you remember what a truly equal exchange feels like and what it should bring you. Also look to your networks to help you come back to yourself when things get more confusing later on in the week. A strong support system can offer comfort and clarity. It can help you receive support from others in a way that is clean and generous. What autonomy are you willing to give up to be part of something larger? This doesn’t have to mean self-effacement, but only if nothing is rushed into. You have time.
Poem of the Week: “Ghost,” Cynthia Huntington
All that you saw and heard and could not find

the center of, those days growing into years,
growing inside of you, out of reach, now with you

forever, in your house, in your garden, in corridors
of dream where I finally tell you my name.

Virgo: In order to let your gifts shine, you must decide what work is worth your effort. Unnecessary toil or work that does not bring satisfaction may be difficult to ignore right now, so I suggest paring down your current obligations where possible. Be sure to include rest, care and recuperation under your definition of labor. You must have enough space to hear the messages coming your way regarding your vocation or social role. Use the abundance you receive from your close relationships to bolster your confidence and sense of possibility. You don’t have to do all the work or know all the answers. Be around those who encourage you to let the universe come to meet you too.
Poem of the Week: “Love Song,” Denise Levertov
The grapes
that need frost to ripen them

are amber and grow deep in the
hedge, half-concealed,
the way your beauty grows in long tendrils
half in darkness.

Libra: Be judicious with your pleasures this week. Notice which ones bolster your sense of connection with the world and which ones distract you from your truths. You are prone to receiving important messages this week, particularly from intuitive, numinous sources, so be sure to put in the work you need to be open to such sources. This can be ritual or devotion or simply sitting in the same spot every day. Whatever helps you be receptive to what you can’t see. Your efforts allow you to expand, especially if you don’t push too hard to know the results just yet. Simply keep track of the options available to you, of the wisdom around you, and let the work you do follow its own rhythm.
Poem of the Day: “Memory is Blood Soluble,” Brian Sneeden
I can’t remember which chord heals visions or causes them. Which summons a cloud of b­­­ees from the stone, or conceals your shape behind a flame. It is every guitar I have found in the gutter. Every name on the edge of being gone.

Scorpio: Your understanding of your inner depths is unparalleled right now. By getting in touch with your more hidden, potentially wounded sense of self, you have the ability to befriend the dark and receive its rich gifts. One of them will be a better understanding of what you need to feel safe. Spend time enacting boundaries around your private life and committing to deep rest or homemaking. Expect these deep messages to provide fertile ground for creativity and more honest sense of pleasure. Let your art be a site of vulnerability. Let it be diffuse and hard to pin down. Let it be what you need, even if you don’t quite know what that is yet. All will be revealed in time.
Poem of the Week: “Death of a Friend,” Scorpio
There is so much we’ve begun to pile upon you, more
than all the lives we’ve had and have lost. Nothing whatever
burns to ash. Years pass. Days, wisdom, the simple sadness.
A slow-moving ray of sunlight walks me backward
to a past turned magical by the virtue of its emptiness,
this part of myself that never fails to embrace us.

Poem of the Week: “House Empty Speaks a Loud Truth,” Iris Jamahl Dunkle

Capricorn: Being disciplined with your finances does not only mean compulsive saving. Knowing how to use our resources can be just as vital as how much we actually have. You may find yourself having to be more strict with your spending lately but don’t let that distract you from pursuing the work that feels best Enjoyment and stimulations are resources as well. You are being asked to consider not only your work routines but all the ways you spend your days. What new skills or practices are calling to you? How can you find refuge, peace, compassion, in the mundane parts of your life without sacrificing the detail-oriented work you must do? All you need is right here; yet there are things to do.
Poem of the Week: “Venetian Siesta”, Joseph Millar
He speaks of the world,
how it’s changed by art
and bread you can’t eat
powdered with light
where someone is toasting
their mother’s health
and someone is writing a letter to death
which makes things beautiful
in its way
and also makes everyone the same
as laughter does
or the late autumn rain.

Aquarius: You get to decide how you spend your time, or where you point your attention. Consider how you can recommit to yourself this week in the midst of potential distractions or overextensions. Try to prioritize your pleasure in this refinement process. See what new inspirations or creative impulses arise during this clearing. The one thing to be watchful over is your resources; you may be getting a sudden influx or you may be acting like you’ve had one. Be mindful of what you have been spending lately but also check in with your other resources. Are your emotions strong? Your courage? Your pleasure? Spend all you have available on saying and being exactly who you are. See where it takes you.
Poem of the Week: “How to Get to Fairyland,” Yone Noguchi
Lo, such greenness, such velvety greenness, such a heaven without heaven above!
Lo, again, such grayness, such velvety grayness, such an earth without earth below!
My soul sails through the waveless mirror-seas.

Pisces: You don’t have to travel far to not feel alone. Think of all the ancestors who brought you here, who are with you still. Be open to any messages from your past or lineage that may be arising, especially in moments of confusion or isolation. Over time, this week will show you how much power you have to bring abundance to both yourself and others. You just have to sink into the connection and possibility that is already there. This freedom may feel like its grinding against the inner comfort of mental clarity and detail-oriented planning. You can have both, as long as your focus your mind on your foundation and let the fertile openness dictate how you interact with the world.
Poem of the Week: “Nothing to Declare,” Robin K. Alleyne
You know the waiting
untended in you will surge toward her,
and you know something else will sink,
sulk itself into a familiar, necessary sleep.
You know yourself now only as the ocean
knows this island—always pulling away,
always, always, returning.

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Weekly Horoscopes, 5.17-5.23: Measured Flow

5.20
Venus trine saturn

5.21

Sun square jupiter
5.23

Mercury square neptune

Note: i will no longer be writing horoscopes everyday. Today marks the 1 year anniversary of my first entry and I am so grateful to have seen this endeavor through for a whole calendar year. However, there are other writing projects that are more alive for me and feel my energy will be better spent on writing beyond daily check-ins.
I do, however, plan on continuing with weekly horoscopes (including a song and a poem each week!) and will post daily about the weather of the day, so I won’t be going away! Just shifting energy. I will continue to put out more writing on astrology, as well as other projects in the future, so keep your eyes peeled for that. If you want to follow along with what I am doing, I recommend joining me elsewhere:
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We begin the week with the moon in Leo, adding a buoyancy and creativity to our emotional lives. By the time the Venus trines Saturn on Wednesday, the moon has moved int Virgo, creating a more analytic and critical view towards what we may have initiated during the Leo Moon.  We have the ability to refine our creative energies, but must watch for being too critical as the moon moves into a square with logical Mercury. We need to shift this hard eye to relationships, however, as Saturn values structure and boundaries. When sending harmonious energy to Venus, planet of value and pleasure, we are being asked to create the containers we need to love both ourselves and others at the same time. This means saying no. This means getting realistic about what we can actually give others and committing to no more than we can comfortably promise. Seeing a relationship through, even when it gets difficult, is a beautiful gift you can give yourself. Just make the the other person is putting in the effort too. Ending commitments is it own form of discipline.
The following day, the ambient energy of the world shifts from earth to air as the Sun makes its annual movement in the sign of Gemini. While we have already had a taste of the mutable air sign since Mercury and Venus moved into Gemini, we now have the warmth and drive to bring the sign’s significations into the forefront of our lives. Ruled by Mercury, Gemini values the free flow of information both inward and outwards. It wants to experience as much of the world as possible without trying to impose meaning or structure onto the chaotic vastness of existence. It wants to make connections between different people and ideas and values curiosity, friendliness and an openness to the new. The Sun’s movement into this sign also ushers in the first hints of Eclipse Season, which officially begins with the next Full Moon on the 26th. Begin considering what house Gemini occupies in your chart; prepare for changes and shifts to occur there.
On Friday, Jupiter makes its first aspect after entering Pisces. With a square to the Sun, there may be some tension between who we feel ourselves to be right now and what we are growing into. While the Sun in Gemini wants to focus on the particulars of our senses of selves — likes, dislikes, the steps towards a goal— Jupiter in Pisces wants to dissolve barriers between all things. This means trusting the process instead of trying to control or understand it. This means knowing that you already are what you want to become. While I would still call this transit an optimistic one, I would also say it will require dynamic action to meet the demands of both planetary energies. Stay realistic about what you can do right now while still holding onto the bigger vision. It will coalesce in time.
We end the week with a bit of confusion so be aware of how seriously you should take the information that comes your way. Mercury, planet of communication, forms a square with Neptune, the great dissolver. As the ocean planet goes to work dissolving boundaries and giving us all sorts of psychic, emotional information, it also conflicts with our ability to think clearly or use our best judgment. So while creative work and spiritual efforts will be enhanced, so will our confusion, anxiety and driftiness. Consider the limits of your mind in the face of so much vastness and trust that you don’t have all the answers.
Read on for your weekly horoscopes and ride the celestial waves.

Daily Horoscopes, 5.17.21

Aries: I hope what you value changes if it does not support you. Feeling safe and comfortable is not a luxury, even for someone who can sacrifice such things for their desires. Rather, you are being asked to go deep into how you present yourself to the world. Does it include your beautiful messiness or are you afraid of showing up imperfectly? It will be hard to keep up facades, so drop what you cannot control and focus on what you need to get through this juicy transition. Coming from a grounded and real place with others gives them the same empowerment to do so themselves. 

Taurus: Who are your teachers, dear Taurus? Who do you turn to for guidance and who has helped you shape how you live your life? Pay attention to any information surrounding them or your chosen belief system that may be exposed today. Perhaps it will spur you to go deeper into your own questions. Perhaps it will turn you off from any gods and masters from a while. Either way, let the revelations surrounding your knowledge system or mentors filter back into questions about yourself: who do you want to be or who are you already that just needs to come out? You do not need to announce your change; the right people will feel it. 

Gemini: Psyche did not need to know how her journey to the Underworld would end for her to be united with Eros, her true love. She simply had to keep walking. You too may find yourself on a path with no edges or light. Just know the light shines from inside you, guiding you by some invisible clock. You may get help from others along the way but it may not always be clean; consider how much you can give another without taking something away. Consider the energy sucks in your life and which you can no longer support. The more the shadow is swept the less oozes out into the light. 

Cancer: Who you are associated with intimately may be different than the sorts of people you meet in your wider community, but your relationship to both sorts of connections constantly inform each other. When I say there’s a darkness in your committed relationships, I don’t mean evil. I just mean mystery, shadow, something deeper to uncover. Notice if there is care from the other in this digging or if it just makes you feel farther away from them. Your ability to discern who can go the distance with you will determine how much energy you can give and receive in your larger circles. These are the people that help you further your dreams and shape your future. Let all who don’t really see you fall away. 

Leo: Any of the dissatisfactions, inefficiencies and meaningless work surrounding your daily routines are being exposed. Pay attention to your discomfort; there is a message in there. Work can reveal and work can cover up, remember. Allow your labors to be a site of revelation; your self care and rest too. By better aligning your daily routines with your sense of fulfillment, you are able to shine that much brighter. But trust there’s a simplicity to your social role. The more comfortable you feel in your body, the more you trust it, the more people can see your brightness. Don’t forget how the trees grow. 

Virgo: Your pleasures may not be so simple today. Any unhealthy habits or avoidant patterns around your creative life are being exposed and I suggest you heed them without judgment. What we don’t want is always inside what we want so be curious about what you desire in the first place. Let this inquiry lead you to deeper questions about your belief system. Does your life feel like it’s only yours or do you have a relationship with a system of wisdom or guides? Surrender the idea of knowing all the answers. Simply walk the long walk with an open mind. See where it takes you. 

Libra: Today asks you to go deeper with your inner life. Is there a discomfort or fear you have been avoiding feeling? Has solitude or privacy become a scary place? There’s a need to get right with your very foundations, though this can also include issues with familial patterns and inheritance. Consider how your own healing extends backwards and heals the pain of all the ancestors who could not do it themselves. Doing so will help you enact strong boundaries so that you can come together with other people without losing yourself. Enmeshment in and of itself can be a beautiful thing. It can also stoke past wounds. You get to decide how much you take in. 

Scorpio: If you’re looking to root out the secrets holding you back, don’t look very far. It’s in the way you think, what you encounter every day, the haunts that have become familiar. The very way you live your daily life is asking to be changed, as well as how you interact with friends, siblings, housemates and neighbors. Set the boundaries you need. Accept your limits. From there, you can better show up for your more intimate partnerships and collaborators. Yes, on some level your relationships should be easy in terms of getting support and love. But work must still be put in to show up clearly and lovingly. Make sure it’s happening on both sides. 

Sagittarius: To find the proper rhythm with your current work life, which is getting a lot of attention, you must remember why you are doing what you are doing. Are your values and resources being replenished by your labors? Does your body have room to rest and feel good? Do you believe you deserve this? Consider how what you value is changing, or see what beliefs limit your ability to pursue what you want to pursue. Life will always have its tasks but no one is helped when you busy yourself with what you do not know. 

Capricorn: How we express ourselves can never be “wrong” really, but it can reveal or occlude. What is the gap between who you feel yourself to be and what you present others? While you certainly get to decide what you are comfortable sharing, it’s worth interrogating if your joy or art is not all it can be because of some deeper part of yourself you are avoiding. Letting the truth of a difficult emotion or experience arise does not give it more power but allows you to flow with it, accepting it without becoming it. How can you bring more of this complexity into your creative practice? What gift can you give others by showing up exactly as yourself?

Aquarius: Superficial comfort is not so comfortable. While most of your energy is focused on your home spaces and inner life, there are deeper, more shadowy influences that must be allowed in for true inner harmony to be achieved. Solitude and listening is a good way to let these uneasy feelings come to light. So is allowing all of your emotional experience to arise without judgment. Give all of your parts a space that they can call home. Watch your home grow. 

Pisces: You are allowed to change your mind. You are allowed to break vows to futures that are no longer for you. Are there hangups tied up in your aspirations that are hurting you or holding you back? First focus on how you want to spend just a day. What would you eat? Who would you see? What would you do or read or practice? From there, let your dreams rearrange themselves. Focus on the feeling of possibility rather than scarcity. If you don’t start cultivating your mind set now, the negativity will follow you even as you do become successful. Trust lightness, joy, right here and now.

Daily Weather, 5.17.21

Sun trine Pluto

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Today the Sun makes its last aspect before it moves out of Taurus. Accordingly, this final transit takes us to the depths before we move onto the energy of Gemini. Normally, there’s a striving for simplicity when it comes to Taurus. It seeks fulfillment through intimacy with its senses, the natural world, and the rhythms between the two. But Pluto disrupts this lazy calm with deep probing and change that begins from the very roots and extends upwards. Already, in the third decan of Taurus, we are dealing with contingency and disappointment out of mortal control. We are being asked to practice humility and accept the limits of our efforts. But this surrender does not have to translate into futility. According to Coppock, Pluto helps us “strip away appearances” and “expose secrets”.

Forming a harmonious aspect to the sun, our sense of illumination is aided by the darkness. Our purpose is bolstered by exposing and dealing with our wounds. 

So, accept that thing may feel a bit more heavy today. It will not last forever, the feeling, nor is it without its uses. You have the ability to bring something forward the integrates your shadow and perhaps can even heal it. 

Read on for how to bring light and dark together. 

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Weekend Horoscopes, 5.15-5.16

Aries: We are often taught to prioritize efficiency, especially in our day-to-day lives. But when is this value preventing us from smelling the roses or paying attention? You are being asked to consider all the ways you flood your head with thoughts and from what you are distracting yourself. Can you see your daily attention as sacred? Try implementing anchors to remember that there is no rush; enjoying right now is the only way to happiness, presence, peace.
Taurus: Whether you were taught it or not, your thoughts have value. What you have to say is a beautiful gift, even if those around you don’t stop to let your grounded words sink in. Consider when your words are wasted. Save them for those who honor them. First, make sure you value yourself. The right people, the right relationships, will follow. You also have the ability to be flexible and inventive when it comes to money and resources. Where will you focus your mind?
Gemini: You owe no one a mind that never changes opinions. You are fluidity embodied, you are the deity that can travel to any place without belonging to any. Take some time this weekend to consider how well your agency is suiting you. Where do you feel stuck or far from your center? How can groundedness and complexity fit together in your vast life? You can never fall out of the universe, never not be yourself. What new selves are emerging now and which ones need your loving, curious gaze?
Cancer: There is a clear limit to thought. There are some parts of our lives that our mind cannot grasp or comprehend. Your mind currently exists in this liminal space, stuck between understanding and mystery. This can be confusing, certainly, but it is also what opens us up to change. Consider what old thoughts or habits no longer serve you and of which you must let go. You need not control the direction of your mind, but simply allow the thoughts to pour through you like rain. Solitude is helpful. Sleeping and dreaming too. You will dissolve at the edge and then come back stronger, if you let you.
Leo: You know so deeply in your heart how our lives are entwined. If I shine, it’s because you do too. But this weekend I ask you to go deep about what this interconnected, about what community itself, is for. What baggage do you still carry around rejection, conformity, exclusion? What thoughts are preventing you from connection and which thoughts do you need to feel protected? Pay attention to what you are learning from your networks. Pay attention to what you contribute. Even your presence is enough if you trust your own luminosity. Let others see it too.
Virgo: What people see of us is never the whole truth, but you would do well to pay attention to what you are letting them see. Does it feel sustainable? Does it feel aspirational? Is it clear? This weekend I ask you to consider if you avoid sticking to one public role or path out of fear of failure. What activities are muddling your larger mission? Remember we are all just trying, improvising, making mistakes. Let that be part of your offering too.
Libra: Pay attention to what beliefs or insights arise during this weekend. Expect to see them again and again for the next few months and let them bury deep inside of you. Though invisible, the beliefs that underlie our actions have major effects on how we work, rest, love, play. What belief brings out the dynamic, peaceful side of you? Which ones simply make you small? You get to decide what sort of world you want to live in. Choose accordingly, and be prepared to let the beliefs change you.
Scorpio: Expect a lot of activity in things over which you have little control. Old family issues or past wounds may come to the surface, asking for the next level of healing. Losses may haunt you. Partnerships may progress to the next level. Your job is to notice all the messages that come from these depths, letting it wash all over you. You don’t have to know what it all means, or how to best react. You just have to pay attention, sending gentle awareness to your tender heart. No matter how well we optimize our life, there will always be our wounds. Include them in your love.
Sagittarius: Without meaning to, we affect the people around us in myriad ways. Just by living your life, you set examples and teach others how to best be themselves. This weekend, you are being touched from the outside, particularly in your committed partnerships. New information is coming to light, asking for you to keep your mind open amidst the shifting. You have the opportunity to detach from old relationship patterns and set a new script. What will you and your loved ones co-create?
Capricorn: We don’t often talk about the labor it takes to express ourselves. There’s translating our feelings into words. There’s the potential for misunderstanding or revealing too much. It may take up too much of your energy. This transit is not asking you to overexert yourself to make yourself heard but consider when the effort to communicate is worthwhile. It’s about letting your edges help you grow. Remember to see your efforts as a process; it’s all trying and seeing where it goes. See what happens when you open the door a little farther. Maybe next time you won’t have to push so hard.
Aquarius: We tend to confine the process of art making to how much we are producing. But the work of creativity is also intimately tied up in our ability to notice, both inwardly and outwardly. What pieces of inspiration are catching your eye? Can you pay attention to exactly what is, knowing that creativity comes from no other source but our messy truths? Don’t forget to add a dose of fun to this weekend. Romance, good food, nice clothing— all of it can lead towards your creative spark. Expand what creativity looks like and be open to how the world wants to contribute.
Pisces: I admire your ability to flow with the shifting universe, dear Pisces, but we all need a solid foundation on which to stand. This weekend you may consider what holding feels like and the ways that security is not available to you. First, notice what it even feels like to be safe. What signs or signals do you receive? How do you think? Is there freedom in the protection? Detachment from others, especially those who stoke old familial patterns, is a crucial lesson this weekend. So is honesty. Say what needs to be said, then give yourself the comfort you need.