Welcome to your Queer Weekly Horoscope, a bite-sized look at the coming days broken down by your zodiac sign.
Fasten your seatbelts and get ready to go in exactly the wrong direction because Mercury is retrograde again. For the next three weeks, communication is unreliable and misunderstanding abounds. Technological mishaps are likely, too. In the immediate course of its backwards rampage, Mercury teams up with Venus. If Mercury was moving in direct orbit, this would result in communication breakthroughs around the topic of desire. With Mercury in retrograde, this conjunction is more likely to cause communication breakdowns in the realms of romance, attraction, and aesthetics.
In happier news, the Sun and Jupiter get together to facilitate some epiphanies of self-knowledge, as a treat. The waxing crescent Moon travels through Leo, Virgo, Libra, and Scorpio, and reaches the farthest point of its orbit from Earth in Libra. Try to stay strong in the face of shadow ruler Lilith’s urge to give in to your dark side!
Leo’s up first for this weekly horoscope, then we’ll go through each sign until everybody’s destiny is decided. If you know more of your placements than your Sun Sign alone (Moon, Rising, Mars, etc.), check their entries as well to get a full picture of your astrological forecast.
- Your sign ruler the Sun is in your sign.
- The waxing crescent Moon in your sign squares off against Uranus.
- The Sun forms a sextile with Jupiter.
You kick off the coming weeks of Mercury retrograde-induced miscommunication with a grumpy bout of feeling emotionally resistant toward progress. Bummer, y’all. But then, you’re graced with a happy flash of midweek luck! The whole zodiac may be mired in chaos, but in the midst of misunderstanding you enjoy an epiphany of self-insight that will expand your personal horizons in the weeks and months to come. Hang onto the certainty of that knowledge for comfort whenever you find yourself struggling in the immediate moment.
- Venus and your sign ruler Mercury are in your sign.
- In the earliest moments of the week, Mercury turns retrograde.
- The waxing crescent Moon in your sign passes through conjunction with Venus and Mercury, squares off against Mars and Jupiter, opposes Saturn and Neptune, and creates a trine with Uranus.
- Orbiting perspectively retrograde, Mercury passes through conjunction with Venus.
In the very first hour of the week — at least on Eastern Time in the U.S. — your ruler Mercury turns retrograde in your very own sign. For the next several weeks, miscommunication and technological mishaps abound, and your ability to shift and balance amid changing circumstances is absolutely borked. I would tell you “good luck,” but, um, that’s offline for you, too.
The growing crescent Moon in your sign paints your whole life in vivid shades of emotion. Desire? Yes, please! Effective communication about said desire? Haha, well, you crave it, but unfortunately everything you say is likely to be wildly misinterpreted. Motivation and good luck are your enemies, and responsibility and intuition are totally unreachable right now, but you are great pals with abrupt, unexpected instances of weirdness.
Mid-week, Mercury aligns in conjunction with Venus. At other times, this would open a happy channel of dialogue regarding your wants. Due to Mercury’s retrograde direction, however, conversations about desire could end in disaster, delivering the worst possible interpretations of good intentions. Sorry ’bout all of this, y’all. I truly hate it for you! But take heart: the suckitude won’t last forever.
- Lilith and the South Node are in your sign.
- Your sign ruler Venus is in Virgo.
- Retrograde Mercury passes through conjunction with Venus.
- The waxing crescent Moon in your sign creates trines with Pluto, Mars, and Jupiter; and forms a sextile with the Sun.
So, here’s the fun thing about Lilith: Like the South Node, Lilith isn’t actually a body in space, but a specific calculated point of the Moon’s orbit around the Earth. Lilith is the location where the Moon is as far from Earth as possible. The South Node is where the Moon crosses the ecliptic plane to dive down to the “lower” half of its orbit. Therefore! Every single time the Moon moves through your sign this year, your dark side is activated and you feel obsessive about your past. This week, that coincides with your sign ruler Venus’s potentially disastrous hook-up with retrograde Mercury, which comes with a high risk of miscommunication regarding desire.
The Moon’s current friendships with the representatives of reinvention, energy, expansion, and self-expression could help offset dire emotional outcomes this week. On the other hand, you might take all of that power and actively use it to level damage upon your relationships. Try to move carefully!
- Your sign ruler Pluto is retrograde in Aquarius.
- The waxing crescent Moon in your sign squares off against Pluto and forms sextiles with Mercury and Venus.
Oh no. Your Moon this week — which is on its way to First Quarter phase, but not quite there yet — is fighting with your own retrograde sign ruler, Pluto, but making friends with the disaster duo of retrograde Mercury and Venus. Near the end of the week, you’re likely to be tempted to double down on commitment to restrictive life circumstances you don’t even want. You’ll also be apt to initiate hurtful fights with the people you love best. Watch out.
- Your sign ruler Jupiter is in Gemini.
- The Sun forms a sextile with Jupiter.
Your signature Sagittarian luck rides to the rescue once again! While most of the zodiac is melting down all around you, it’s unlikely that you’ll escape entirely unscathed from the pain of secondhand consequences, but mid-week brings you a boon. You’re primed to experience a surge of self-understanding that will explain a lot of stuff about yourself, to yourself. You probably won’t be able to successfully share the news with anyone else until Mercury returns to direct orbit, but still! Knowing is half the battle!
- Your sign ruler Saturn is retrograde in Pisces.
Your sign ruler Saturn is retrograde and you simply do not have the patience for Mercury’s retrograde shenanigans. But here you stand, nonetheless! Your week is all about the attempt to maintain a semblance of normalcy while everyone else is flying off the handle. If you have any opportunity to take a staycation and just hide out at home — preferably pre-stocked with groceries so you don’t have to deal with other people at all — you should seriously consider a brief period of avoidance.
- Pluto is retrograde in your sign.
- Your sign ruler Uranus is in Taurus.
Your sign ruler Uranus, eccentric patron of innovation, is currently uncomfortably aligned with your own slice of the zodiac wheel. In your space, the wreck-it-all-and-start-again dwarf planet Pluto is chilling out in retrograde. You’re not in an ideal headspace to handle Mercury’s latest retrograde rampage, but here it comes anyway! Be mindful that others are likely to misunderstand your meanings, and remember that you, too, are capable of misinterpreting others’ words.
- Saturn and your ruler Neptune are both retrograde in your sign.
You’re just a little buoy of empathy, tossed about on the surface of a chaotic ocean of emotion. Your powers of organization and intuition are muted at the moment, so you’re not ideally prepared to handle huge waves of miscommunication and frustration. Try your best to protect your heart this week. Remember that other people’s unpleasant behavior often has nothing to do with you personally, and resist the urge to try to hang onto friends who are currently committed to bad choices. Just wait it out; you can give them a hand later, when they eventually decide on their own that they’re ready to get back up.
- Chiron and the North Node are retrograde in your sign. (The North Node is always generally retrograde.)
- Your sign ruler Mars is in Gemini.
You are still trying to climb onward and upward, progressing up the mountain of life. Unfortunately, nothing and no one else is cooperating with your goals at the moment. Keep moving — it’s not like you’re gonna stop and wait for better weather — but be aware that you’re operating in disadvantaged conditions, and don’t force yourself to the point of injury.
- Uranus is in your sign.
- Your sign ruler Venus is in Virgo.
- Retrograde Mercury passes through conjunction with Venus.
Your sign ruler Venus is blessed by a visit from Mercury! Or, it would be blessed if Mercury were behaving normally instead of insisting on a three-week stretch of Opposite Day. Venus is definitely still going to be visited by Mercury, but the experience may be more akin to a curse. Weirdness levels remain high with Uranus in your sign, and important conversations are likely to turn out poorly for you.
- Mars and Jupiter are in your sign.
- Your sign ruler Mercury is in Virgo.
- In the earliest moments of the week, Mercury turns retrograde.
- The Sun forms a sextile with Jupiter.
- Orbiting perspectively retrograde, Mercury passes through conjunction with Venus.
You’re in for some ups and downs — or more of a down-up-down pattern, rather. What else is new? Your ruler Mercury is back on its backwards bullshit. You know the drill. But this time around, you might learn something! When the Sun buddies up to Jupiter in your sign, you’re offered a valuable opportunity for personal expansion. Try not to lose this advantage when Mercury urges you to open a conversation that nobody else — hell, even yourself — is actually ready to have yet.
- Your sign ruler the Moon travels through Leo, Virgo, Libra, and Scorpio.
- The Moon reaches the farthest point of its orbit from Earth in Libra.
Your sign ruler the Moon is in a waxing crescent phase all week. Due to the dangers of Mercury's retrograde influence, you’ll experience a period of progressively building emotional energy that you could easily channel into conflict if you so choose. Adding to the problem, the shadowy whispers of Lilith become extra strong when the Moon reaches the farthest point of its orbit in Libra. Do your best to float through the treacherous waters without splashing around in panic and accidentally creating extra waves.
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