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Astrologer and relatively chill person.

[zenithabovemarshland]

The Mercury-Jupiter mess has been absolutely off the wall.

- creativity like crazy! I've started three more writing projects this week alone & my dreams are actual novels

- my fandom server had to be slow-locked because of how fast everyone was talking about fandom drama

- a few of us had an idea for a fandom fest and in four hours had a month-long event completely organized, down to the graphics, the scheduled posts, and the networking

- formed a book club

[zenithabovemarshland]

Yo the new moon made me sick and let me go from my job lmao now there's some 6H action. #astrologergood but gotta say it dont feel so good

[zenithabovemarshland]

The Virgo Suns I know are kind and self-contained and good collaborators. It's easy to assume they don't need your help or attention. (Though of course that's something of a cruel assumption.)

The Virgo Moons I know are constantly moving, even in rest. They tend to always have an answer to a problem. They have an anxiety about them. Opposite to my experience of Virgo Suns, my experience of Virgo Moon is of someone others need to be mindful of, and follow the imperatives they set for themselves. It feels like one must let go of one's need to control their environment and let the Virgo Moon nest it, instead.

The Virgo Risings I know are very diplomatic. They mostly see themselves as non-confrontational and unproblematic. They are polite and thoughtful when you meet them, but there is an awareness of not being privy to their true selves.

[zenithabovemarshland]

Happy Virgo Season!

Some reflections on Virgo energy...

Virgo season is when we lean into the incoming fall. Everyone I follow on Instagram is getting their kids ready for back-to-school, listening to the folklore and Red albums, or re-watching Gilmore Girls and the Harry Potter series right now. And of course there's the academia ~aesthetic~ in those shows, with Hogwarts and Yale, and book-loving Rory and Hermione, which suits Mercury-ruled Virgo well. But these beloved shows are even more about atmosphere.

In Virgo season, we revel in atmosphere.

Which is such a Pisces word, atmosphere. As the opposing sign, Virgo lies in the shadow of Pisces. Virgo is agitated in inconjunctions with Aquarius, the sign of righteousness and identity, and Aries, the sign of action and imperative.

Virgo rests inside, and relies upon, its atmosphere to function. It defines itself by its dynamic within an environment, and its righteous use of environment.

Stars Hollow, Luke's Diner, Yale. Hogwarts, The Burrow. These are places of deep history for the main characters and their families.

If the usual question of Virgo season is what can we do and organize and pick at and solve, I'd like to propose instead that we think about where we belong, and where we want to belong.

This year, this feeling is particularly strong because the Sun will oppose Saturn and Neptune in Pisces, and will sextile Mars in Cancer--water's drive to contain, be safe, and make story are strong.

Use Virgo season to facilitate belonging.

[zenithabovemarshland]

This Leo season, think about what you've been trying to amputate from yourself. And ask yourself why. Why that thing?

Is it because it's not efficient? Is it because it doesn't get you closer to a dream? Is it because it's embarrassing or hypocritical or would get you rejected?

The bigger our society becomes, the rules become stricter. To adhere a greater number of people, social control increases. But we can't live as individuals with that level (and that unbalanced skill) of Saturn inside of us.

Stop cutting off the thing.

[talonabraxas]

Arcturus, Saturn & Venus

[zenithabovemarshland]

Thoughts about Leo in Leo season...

I get a lot of astrology newsletters, and the theoretical consensus seems to be that Leo season is about passion, boldness, and our big creative dreams. “Magic is in the air.” Yet, when I look around socials and what the poets say about August, we seem to live this time of year like in a sad dream.

This time of year feels a little bittersweet, doesn’t it? Summer vacation is coming to a close, and there’s this urgency to squeeze out all of the last dregs of satisfaction from the sunny evenings, from our bikini bodies, from our vacation days… Even when we aren’t diving into a new school year in the fall anymore, when that part of our lives in long over, we still feel an incoming wave of responsibility and we push away from it. We remember those desperate last days of summer vacation as children. And from there, we remember every other desperate thing we did and felt as children.

Back when I was in school, I treated every new academic year like it was my time to become a new person. It felt easy then to forget every bad habit I had, every very real limiting belief and fear I had about myself, and recklessly invest in the person I wish I was. The commitment never lasted. And every year my back-to-school haul became clutter that reminded me of my failure to change my own life.

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The Leo Suns that I know put their whole selves on the line in everything they do. From the outside it looks like conviction—an illusion of correctness, even. But inside I think they’re terrified that life is so unforgiving. I think they often reach out for the lifeguard to help them back to shore.

The Leo risings I know seem to be sort of ghostly in how they flex and morph through their lives, despite the fixed-ness of the sign. And ghostly in how they come to latch onto humility to get them through. Maybe even to help them “fit in”.

The Leo Moons I know seem to be mortified by disappointment. When stewed in it they dry out and shrivel up. Saturn wins, and they bury their spirit under a rock.

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So what does the Sun illuminate for us in Leo season? Unless your Leo house is thriving, which in this society I doubt, I think it illuminates what we’re burying.

“How have we failed ourselves” is not a question that I think the Sun or the Leo house should be asked. I don’t even think the question should be “what do I want to bring into the world”, because Leo comes from a place of what we already have and who we already are.

I think the question should be “What about me do I believe doesn’t fit the space I’m given?”

Self-consciousness is a quality of the Moon, Venus, and Saturn, not the Sun. When we feel self-conscious it’s because of one of those planets, not our Sun. Our Sun describes how to make good decisions that give us a good life, and how we express our good life. The Sun is innately arrogant and self-centered. Our Sun tells others “we should do it this way”. And that’s not necessarily a bad thing. (Collaborating as a skill takes creativity to supernova levels.)

So what are you cramming in the bottom of your backpack? What are you biting down on to keep yourself from doing, saying, telling? When we share the thing we’ve lost, that we’ve bitten off, that we’ve stuffed down, then it’s out there, and the space is already there to accommodate it. You’ll be surprised how easy it is to live in a world that’s altered by what you put into it.

[zenithabovemarshland]

2024-06-12: I've been studying my lunar return charts like a demon. My Mars in Virgo's like, spreadsheet? 🥺🙏📊💫

[zenithabovemarshland]

2024-06-09: I try to quiz my true crime astrology chops sometimes. I did pretty well this time! 🤓

[zenithabovemarshland]

2024-06-07: Finished the progressions section, now onto the section on return charts 💫

[novy2sirius]

i’ve noticed a lot of people who don’t resonate with their chart, with kind regards, don’t even read it properly. they’ll often mix up planet meanings i’ve found and not understand aspects or the houses/signs energies very well

[corvoidea]

PSA:

@zenithabovemarshland is an incredible Astrologer, better than I can ever dream of being. Please go follow her. ♥️

[zenithabovemarshland]

wtf I didn't see this!! Thank you, lovely. That's so sweet of you to say. But don't sell yourself short! The research you do is so exciting and interesting; you're in a class of your own! Love you <3

[lakevida]

griffith observatory / hubble’s ultra deep field

[itsfullofstars]

[traverse-our-universe]

Our cratered moon

NASA on Instagram

[spacewonder19]

Neptune's rings & moon Triton © Voyager 2

[zenithabovemarshland]

Reflections, listening to the March 2024 Forecast from the Astrology Podcast:

Pluto in Aquarius: Society forever changed by... tech?

Sometimes I feel like an emphasis on technology is made too strongly when we talk about Pluto Aquarius. @corvoidea forwarded me an awesome talk (link to part 1) from Steve Judd on Youtube, and at one part he says astrologers have in some ways missed the target by overemphasizing Pluto's quality of destruction over its quality of transformation. One example (of many) he gives is Pluto Capricorn, and how astrologers were saying that it will be the end of democracy and government, and what we got was corporate government instead.

Aquarius, in my opinion, will be about the relationship between the individual and society. Tech may be just one way in which we play this out, but I don't think it's gonna be all Terminator. (Austin always brings up the quote about not studying technology, instead studying how people behave around technology. And 100% this.) It's probably gonna be a lot more about labour and the kind of life we humans have the right to live. (UBI, anyone? Wouldn't that be nice.) Art is definitely a focal point of that, as we're seeing. There's a question of "legion", a collective, and also who is ostracized.

Augmented Reality, Class Consequences, and Saturn-Neptune

Bringing up Saturn in Pisces co-present with Neptune is really interesting. As they were describing the AR headsets, walking through rooms and having a window open on the side, I thought of those adaptable furnitures for shoebox apartments. Murphy beds that become desks, for example. Furniture that has many uses and fits in a small space. There were arguments about this furniture causing issues, that landlords could charge higher for smaller space because of such furniture. I wonder how this AR stuff can relate to that.

For many years Pluto will be in the bounds of Mercury in Aquarius, and then it will come to the bounds of Venus. I know I've referenced this video before on my blog but World Astrology Report did a video about how Pluto moving through the bounds of Aquarius last time played out. In France, when Pluto came to the bounds of Venus, there were issues with agriculture and the price of bread became out of control.

Anyway, as an aside, I was thinking about how I feel a keyword for the Saturn-Neptune energy could be "euthanasia". Easing misery and shame. Soothing or disguising indignity. How all this AR may be the working-class "luxury" that soothes the shit of society, or justifies being short-changed.

"But Dad, I Love Them!": Humans in love with non-humans

Chris says debates around human and non-human relationships will emerge in Pluto Aquarius, and Austin brings up what I was thinking, that these already exist. On a similar vein, Dan from World Astrology Report has argued that the Venus term of Aquarius could see VR porn that is tailor-made for each person, and thus a surge in porn addiction.

What I think is worth being brought up is how these debates will go within a society that, I believe, will encourage this kind of intimacy, but delegitimize and disparage so many other experiences of human-ness.

Coming into Pluto Aquarius we have the vicious attack on trans people, especially in the USA. Just in the last couple months, failed IVF is declared murder. We're seeing an ongoing dehumanization campaign against Palestinians in a genocide, and watching "first world" governments, corporations, and thought leaders (like gd Brene Brown, of all people) support Isreal in word and/or funding. We're getting all this AR tech, but I wonder how much of it is really going to be given to people who would seriously benefit from it, like people who need transplants, assistive devices, interpersonal/ social/ emotional support, etc.

In Canada, people who are relatively young and happen to be chronically ill have been applying for euthanasia for the last few years. (The first case I remember seeing in the news was in 2022, I think.) Because doctors do not take mystery illness seriously, because women's bodies are grand mysteries to medicine, and/or because these people can't afford to live with their illness.

So yeah. I agree that this is a very plausible debate to have. But I don't think it's going to be about whether we think it's "ok" or "socially acceptable", or that we need to define "humanity" to determine what is "human enough" to be in love with. I think it's going to be about how the only people who are encouraged to live full, loving lives are the heterosexuals who happen to not struggle with fertility, and people in hetero-presenting relationships with non-humans. The debate about human-ness will be there.

(Cool sub-argument begin brought up: debates about the experience of love. Some Leo being brought in here!)