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  The Season Changes, and So Do the Terms This week brings us the first day of autumn as the Sun enters Libra on September 22. The equinox is the point of balance between light and darkness, but astrology’s version of balance is not always peaceful or particularly polite. Libra season turns our attention toward relationships, justice, reciprocity, and the agreements that hold our lives together. It asks whether there is a genuine exchange happening…or whether one person has been bending over backward while everyone admires how flexible she is. We begin the week with Mars conjunct Lilith in Cancer and opposing Juno in Capricorn. This puts home, family, caregiving, bodily autonomy, and emotional labor directly across from commitment, responsibility, and the contracts we have made with other people. Protective anger may rise around the places where care has quietly become coercion. The question is not whether we love people or take our commitments seriously. The question is whether th...

For Bitchscopes, I combine traditional Jungian astrology, feminist concepts, and shadow work.  I don’t track just the planets, I also track goddess-named asteroids- I recently added the Dolly Parton and Gloria Steinem asteroids to the goddess pantheon.  If you are interested in deepening your relationship with the Divine Feminine, willing to work in your shadow, and want to empower your life, please join the Bitchcraft Blanket Fort! Patreon.com/Bitchscopes   This week asks a fairly simple question that may have a very complicated answer:   Which commitments support the life you are building—and which ones survive only because you have been afraid to disappoint someone?   Juno stations direct in Capricorn on September 16, so relationships, contracts, promises, and obligations that have been under review begin moving forward again. But Juno is squaring both Vesta and Eris in Aries, which means we cannot recommit by sacrificing our purpose, autonomy, or righteous ...

We lost another warrior this week, and this one was a personal hero of mine. Gloria Steinem died on September 2 at the age of ninety-two, only eight days after Dolly Parton. Apparently the universe has decided to conduct some kind of brutal staff reduction in the Department of Women Who Made It Possible for the Rest of Us, and I plan to write a strongly worded message to management. Dolly and Gloria carried different kinds of swords. Dolly wrapped hers in rhinestones, humor, songs, and a generosity that somehow never required her to give away ownership of herself. Gloria carried a pen, a microphone, and the radical conviction that women describing their own lives could change the world. One reached people through culture and story; the other helped build the language and political structures of a movement. Losing them so close together feels like losing two different expressions of the same force: women insisting that we belong to ourselves. Gloria Steinem was a journalist, activist,...