Welcome to your Queer Weekly Horoscope, a bite-sized look at the coming days broken down by your zodiac sign.
You thought Virgo Season would end on a sedate, boring note? Hahaha, please! This week is packed with a whole month’s worth of drama.
Over the next seven days, Venus dislikes Chiron, and no one wants to think about healing. The Earth shades the Full Supermoon in Pisces with a partial lunar eclipse. Usually, lunar eclipses mark endings, but this one is so dainty that it will probably just inspire some temporary consideration of abandoning your bad ideas. (That’s still a good thing: baby steps are important!) Mercury is an asshole to Saturn and Jupiter, ensuring that everyone is irresponsible and unlucky in communication. Mars hates the future, the past, and the psychological shadow with equal disdain. The Sun falls in love with Uranus and Pluto, the rulers of disruption and destruction, but is totally disinterested in listening to Neptune’s dreamy intuition. Venus loudly declares that it disapproves of change, then only hours later moves from Libra to Scorpio, infecting the whole zodiac with brooding, mysterious desires. Oh yeah, and on the last day of the week, the Sun moves out of Virgo to kick off Libra Season at the Autumn Equinox.
Virgo starts this weekly horoscope, then we’ll address each sign in turn until the full picture of fate is revealed. 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.
- The Sun and your sign ruler Mercury are in your sign.
- The Full Moon in Pisces opposes the Sun.
- Mercury opposes Saturn and squares off against Jupiter.
- The Sun creates a trine with Uranus, opposes Neptune, and creates a trine with Pluto.
- On the last day of the week, the Sun leaves your sign and moves to Libra on the Autumn Equinox.
One thing about Virgos: Y’all really know how to create a dramatic climax! First up is the Full Supermoon in your sibling sign, Pisces. Your drag mother Earth casts a bit of shade on the Moon in a dainty, demure little lunar eclipse that coyly threatens some sort of ending. Good riddance to whatever needs to get gone! …except that it’s probably going to continue sticking around.
Your sign ruler Mercury is a crabapple throughout the last week of your season, avoidant of responsibility and positively disgusted by the existence of happiness. (This will probably have an effect on your conversational vibe.) The Sun is absolutely loving rebellion and proactive demolition, while being entirely disinterested in heeding any warnings from your intuition. This isn’t necessarily bad, just, you know… a lot.
The plot will be plotting hard this week; threads will be knotted off only to unravel out into fresh new storylines. You will launch into Libra Season with a lot of fresh missions to pursue.
- Lilith, the South Node, and your ruler Venus are in your sign.
- Venus opposes Chiron and squares off against Pluto. Then, Venus leaves your sign and moves to Scorpio.
- Mars squares off against the South Node and Lilith.
- On the last day of the week, the Sun leaves Virgo and moves to your sign on the Autumn Equinox.
It's your time, Libra! (Well, on the last day of the week.) Your moment in the spotlight comes after Venus, the planet that governs your personal essence, grows unreachably distant from the representative of healing and fights with the inevitability of change. And also after Mars, the planet of action, clashes with your current preoccupations: your past, and your psychological shadow. Then, when the Sun finally deigns to shine on your sign, your own ruler Venus leaves you for Scorpio. What the hell?! Y’all are going to have to scrap and claw your way into Libra Season, because this week will not be easy.
You simply won't want to do good things for yourself. Little treats? Sure. Wise life choices? HELL NO. See you on the other side, once you’ve officially been instated as the star of the new season!
- Your sign ruler Pluto is retrograde in Capricorn.
- Venus begins the week in Libra, where it squares off against Pluto. Then, Venus leaves Libra and moves to your sign.
- The Sun creates a trine with Pluto.
You’re pretty much chilling until the last day of the week, when Libra Season starts. Shortly before the Sun leaves Virgo, it takes a moment to beam beatifically upon your antisocial iceball sign ruler, Pluto, bestowing you with some bright self-realization. That afternoon, fickle diva Venus throws a fit on Pluto, which is simply trying to mind its own business. Then later on the same night, Venus decides it likes your vibe and sashays over from Libra into your sign. Venus in Scorpio creates a mysterious atmosphere, where everyone in the zodiac suddenly finds the look of leather and latex appealing for Libra season.
- Your sign ruler Jupiter is in Gemini.
- Mercury squares off against Jupiter.
Mercury, the supreme arbiter of puns, decides it’s mad at your sign ruler during the early hours of Saturday. Don’t stress too hard if nobody appreciates your jokes. The fault is in your stars!* (*Planets. Whatever.)
- Pluto is retrograde in your sign.
- Your sign ruler Saturn is retrograde in Pisces.
- Mercury opposes Saturn.
- The Sun creates a trine with Pluto.
- Venus squares off against Pluto.
The powers of yapping (platonically) and flirting (perhaps non-platonically?) are not with you this week. Speak carefully! The regular talking bit affects your professional sphere. Choose your words judiciously and avoid piping up unless you have to — colleagues are likely to just miss your points entirely. Flirting might be safe if it stays very casual. Anything more serious is liable to result in an unfortunate case of the ick.
- Your sign ruler Uranus is retrograde in Taurus.
- The waxing gibbous Moon in your sign squares off against Uranus.
- The Sun creates a trine with Uranus.
I just finished reading the memoir of Julia Fox, an Aquarius born February 2, and it was 🎶 “so Julia!” 🎶. Are all Aquarians’ inner monologues delivered in a frantic tone of present tense at all times, even during the act of memory? It is thrilling, to be sure, but now I am vicariously exhausted. I wish Fox great happiness and hope she enjoys a pleasant week, but I fear that a brief midnight spat between the Moon and Uranus might inspire her — and possibly you — to react with a disproportionately outlandish outburst of chaos. But you’ll bounce back after a few days, when the Sun takes up for your patron planet!
- Saturn and your ruler Neptune are both retrograde in your sign.
- The Full Supermoon in your sign creates a trine with Mars, opposes Mercury and the Sun, passes through conjunction with Saturn and Neptune, squares off against Jupiter, and forms sextiles with Uranus and Pluto. The Earth shades the Full Moon in a partial lunar eclipse.
- Mercury opposes Saturn.
- The Sun opposes Neptune.
Eclipses usually signify endings and new beginnings. But this season’s lunar eclipse is just a cute lil’ partial eclipse, in which the Earth gets in the way and casts a shadow on only a small patch of the Moon. Therefore, this eclipse’s ending will probably be just a little less final than usual. Maybe you want to tie a bow on some situation in your life and be done with it, but there’s still something keeping you attached. Like, you’re moving out and moving on, metaphorically… but you still leave a toothbrush behind just in case you catch yourself visiting again.
However it all unfolds, you’re unlikely to be able to talk your way out of the conundrum: Mercury opposes responsible Saturn, which is already taking a sabbatical in retrograde. You’re on your own to cope with the consequences here! But take heart. Endings are difficult, and it often takes a few stages of establishing and adjusting to new boundaries to eventually cut the cord for good.
- Chiron and the North Node are retrograde in your sign. (The North Node is always generally retrograde, that’s normal.)
- Your sign ruler Mars is in Cancer.
- Venus opposes Chiron.
- Mars squares off against the North Node and Lilith.
- The waning gibbous Moon in your sign squares off against Mars and Pluto, forms a sextile with Jupiter, and opposes Venus.
Your favorite word this week is “no.” Not necessarily in a positive, boundary-enforcing sense, but also not in a destructive way — just no to everything, all across the board. You don’t want it! You aren’t dealing with it. What even is “it”? You don’t care! Hole up and distract yourself until the uncharacteristic resistance to action lightens up. You’ll be ready to emerge and do stuff again once Libra Season starts.
- Uranus is retrograde in your sign.
- Your sign ruler Venus begins the week in Libra, where it opposes Chiron and squares off against Pluto. Then, Venus moves from Libra to Scorpio.
- The waning gibbous Moon in your sign forms sextiles with Mars, Saturn, and Neptune; creates trines with Mercury, Pluto, and the Sun; and passes through conjunction with Uranus.
Your ruler Venus is just not having it this week, and thus, neither are you. Healing? Not interested. Life change? Absolutely not, you will fight it! You’re ready to dig down and grasp onto a constant, unceasing undercurrent of desire when Venus moves from Libra to your sibling sign, Scorpio.
Your Moon this week is pretty cool, though. It’s friendly with every other celestial influence it greets, including the rulers of action, discipline, intuition, communication, reinvention, and self-understanding, and it’s especially tight with the representative of creativity.
- Jupiter is in your sign.
- Your sign ruler Mercury is in Virgo.
- Mercury opposes Saturn and squares off against Jupiter.
- On the last day of the week, the waning gibbous Moon enters your sign.
You aren’t great at organizing your thoughts this week. Okay, so what? You’ll live. Much worse: your typically brilliant ability to talk your way out of trouble is compromised. In fact, attempting to do so is likely to make your situation even worse. Try to keep your opinions inside of your brain, rather than giving them free reign to fly out of your mouth. At the end of the week, the Moon joins you to greet the dawn of Libra Season.
- Mars is in your sign.
- Your sign ruler the Moon travels through Aquarius, Pisces, Aries, Taurus, and Gemini.
- The Full Supermoon in Pisces opposes the Sun. The Earth shades the Full Moon in a partial lunar eclipse.
Brace yourself to begin an ending. You want to close this chapter, you swear, and you’re not lying! You really do — but only a little bit. You just can’t suppress the overwhelming amount of emotion involved, and you’re more likely to snip just a few threads of connecting cable rather than fully cutting the cord. You’re squicked out by the temptations of your own dark side, but also resistant to moving forward, and your feelings are large, looming, and unignorable. You’re going to have to make the best of where you’re at for now, but baby steps are important! The seemingly small shifts you enact this week will eventually help you break the chain.
- Your sign ruler the Sun is in Virgo.
- The Full Supermoon in Pisces opposes the Sun.
- The Sun creates a trine with Uranus, opposes Neptune, and creates a trine with Pluto.
- On the last day of the week, the Sun moves from Virgo to Libra on the Autumn Equinox.
Your schedule this week goes as follows: ominously bright emotion, benevolent disruption, fantastical disconnection from reality, then major life overhaul. Good times! It’s unlikely to feel peaceful as it’s actually happening, but on the whole, your program of activities should result in positive outcomes. At the end of the week, the Autumn Equinox arrives to usher you into Libra Season.
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