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  The Crown Becomes a Signal If June was about protecting what mattered, July is about revealing it. This month begins with a bruise and ends with a beacon. The opening days of July carry the tension of Jupiter newly in Leo squaring Chiron in Taurus. The desire to expand, create, lead, and take up space collides with old stories about worthiness, security, and whether you’re “allowed” to want more. Many of us will find ourselves standing at the edge of something exciting while simultaneously hearing the voice of an old wound asking us to stay small. The lesson is not to eliminate the fear. The lesson is to move anyway. The goddess landscape echoes this transition. Much of the month begins in Cancer, where Hygiea, Psyche, Aurora, Aphrodite, and other feminine bodies emphasize emotional health, protection, care, intuition, and the wisdom of the heart. Before you can step into the spotlight, you must know what is worth protecting. On July 7, Neptune stations retrograde in Aries. The f...

One of the strange and entertaining things, my brain is fond of doing is personifying the planets and their activities. I enjoy making them into characters. It just helps my brain digest things better when a planet in a sign has a personality and a wardrobe.  So I was getting ready to write this article about Chiron moving into Taurus. Despite the fact that I use voice text every single day and I’ve been writing astrology and horoscopes for many years now,  voice text still cannot figure out what the fuck a “Chiron” is. So it misspelled it as “ Kyron ”. Instantly my brain ran with this and had an absolute blast figuring out who Chiron with a K is.  Chiron = ancient wounded healer, wise centaur, keeper of sacred wounds. Kyron = guy in a quarter-zip carrying a Stanley cup and explaining gut health. ****** - Maybe he’s the regional manager of a crystal shop. People just call him “K”:  “K…are we out of purple fluorite?” - Or he’s the wellness coach who teaches ...

🏳️‍🌈June didn’t become Pride Month by accident. It was chosen to honor the Stonewall Uprising of June 1969 — the nights when queer people in New York City, led largely by trans women of color and drag queens, fought back against a police raid on the Stonewall Inn. From that rebellion grew a movement, and from that movement grew a month. Every parade, every flag, every rainbow display in a store window traces its roots back to that moment.🏳️‍⚧️ But queer history didn’t begin at Stonewall. It couldn’t have. Love, desire, and identity don’t wait for political permission. And the further back you look, the harder the record gets to find — because for centuries, people who loved differently learned very quickly to hide. Some of them hid in plain sight. Some of them hid in code. Anne Lister was born in Yorkshire, England in 1791. By most external measures of her era, she was mostly unremarkable: a landowner, a businesswoman, a traveler, a diarist (those things actually made her quite rema...