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!! OMG Stars: Horoscopes for June 2025 !!

» Posted By omg team On Friday, June 6, 2025 | category: Life | 0 comments

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Happy June, everyone.

Every time Pride rolls around these days I love to constantly be reminded that Pride began as a riot. The bricks, the fighting, the chorus line of men taunting the cops, I love this stuff of legends. This year as Jupiter prepares to move into Cancer (on June 10th), I’m thinking about the interpersonal elements of the event, which itself took place during Cancer season, the sign of home and family. I’m thinking of how Stonewall was a riot of homeless youth, queer and trans people, and sex workers facing the possibility of having nowhere else to go: Stonewall was a home, and the first pride was a rebellion to save it.

Cancer is the most vulnerable sign of the zodiac, and wherever we have it in our natal chart is our most vulnerable side of ourselves. For people with Cancer in very public parts of the chart (your sun, rising, or midheaven), it means constantly facing the world with your vulnerability in front. In some ways the opposite of the notion of pride. Pride as a celebration started the year after Stonewall, but the event itself was about anger, justice, and protection. Stonewall occurred with the sun in Cancer, the ascendant in Aries (anger), and the moon in Sagittarius (Justice). This month, Sagittarius’ ruling planet Jupiter moves into Cancer, and our collective desire for justice, growth, knowledge, and opportunity all shift into the lens of this family-oriented sign.

In more recent gay history, I also love the overused meme of a blubbering RuPaul earning her Emmy with the phrase “we as gay people, we get to choose our family.” With Jupiter moving into Cancer, where the giant will stay for a year, I invite this to be a year of considering your relationship to home and family. Jupiter is also about abundance (or of too-much), and about opportunity (or of burnout), and its movement into Cancer will definitely be a relief for Cancerian people.

Jupiter’s move out of Cancer also means a move out of Gemini, where it’s been for the past year, and whose season it currently is. Gemini, you of thoughts, of much to say, of chitchat and research. How has having Jupiter in this sign affected us? I think much will be said of the explosive growth of generative AI (easily the most mercurial and Gemininian recent invention) during the year that the planet of growth was in the sign of communication, but in your personal life, look at what house Gemini rules in your chart and think about how you grew, expanded, and learned in that area of your life.

These horoscopes offer invitations for things to consider with this astrological shift, and spaces for opportunity over this next year. I hope above all hopes that this year can be one of liberation and reconnection. Move your meetings to in-person and connect with your people in real life. It’ll be lucky this year.

Happy Pride,
Amelia

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!! OMG Stars: Horoscopes for Taurus Season 2025 !!

» Posted By omg team On Friday, May 9, 2025 | category: Life | 0 comments

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Happy May, happy Taurus season, happy Spring to you all!

I started writing these horoscopes the day before the Taurus new moon, and they tucked back into bed for a bit while my other life took over for a couple weeks. Their emergence will be just before the Scorpio full moon on May 11th, making these horoscopes a little baby lunar cycle project.

For your astrological edification, a trick: new moons are always when the sun and moon are in the same sign, and full moons are always when they are in opposite signs, so if you ever want to impress a date, you can look at the sky and say “oh, it’s a new moon in Taurus/Full moon in Scorpio/insert sign names here” depending on what season it is and what the moon looks like. New moons are about new energy, beginnings, times to plant seeds, so I hope that this emergent springtime finds you on the cusp of hopeful beginnings.

This Taurus season we finally get a break from the exhausting astrology of the first months of this year. We started 2025 tough, with a series of retrogrades from all three of the personal planets, Mercury, Venus, and Mars. People have been irritable, depressed, isolated, neurotic, angry, and lacking the skills to work through those feelings. I am happy to report that we are moving out of this astrology.

We don’t get a complete break from the tough feelings, but we have better capacity to choose what to do with it. The end of April closed out the worst of the Mars related astrology: after a retrograde to start the new year, we dealt with an existentially long time of Mars in the sensitive and vulnerable sign of Cancer (where the planet of anger and will does not so much love to be). After all that, Mars will spent several days in opposition to Pluto. These two planets are both very intense, with Mars being our interpersonal intensity and Pluto being more societal and geopolitical. This opposition well-describes the way that living in a very scary and challenging time in the world affects our bodies, our selves, and our relationships.

Here now in May, Mars will be direct in Leo, taking the tough lessons he’s learned over the past few months forward into the creative energy of Leo. This is a great spring for making art, or just expressing yourself in general. Mercury and Venus are now in Leo’s fellow fire sign Aries: lots of fire, this Springtime. With lots of Aries happening currently in the sky, we move into a place of bravery, individualism, and more open attitudes to conflict. I’m hopeful this could be helpful, but I do have to give the fair warning that there are obvious hard things about this kind of astrology. Neptune is just in its early days of its long transit through Aries that will see us into 2039, so we’ll all need to work extra hard to fight against toxic individualism and towards collective liberation.

Overall readers, I hope that this astrology can give you hope. Here in Toronto it’s been a very long and difficult winter, but the bulbs blooming are getting me through. I’m looking for the metaphorical bulbs all around me right now, which is a perfect thing to do in this astrological and meteorological season of flowers.

Amelia

PS: You may notice that I go back and forth on indicating that these horoscopes are for your rising vs. sun sign. I made a reel about this on my Instagram recently, you can see it here.

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!! OMG, WATCH: Paul Reubens’ private legacy is immortalized in HBO’s new ‘Pee-wee as Himself’ documentary !!

» Posted By Igor On Thursday, April 24, 2025 | category: Celebs, Film, LGBTQ+, Life, Time Machine | 1 comment

Paul Reubens became an icon thanks to his comedic character Pee-wee Herman, but who really was the man behind the cringe comedy laughs? Two-part documentary “Pee-wee as Himself” dives into Reubens’ legacy and controversial celebrity status, with auteurs such as Tim Burton, Judd Apatow, and Benny and Josh Safdie immortalizing both Pee-wee and Reubens himself.

Directed by Matt Wolf, the documentary premiered at Sundance. The feature is billed as the “definitive portrait” of Reubens that offers a “window into his never before discussed personal life.” The film was crafted from over 40 hours of interview footage filmed before Reubens’ death in 2023 at age 70, and includes clips from more than 1,000 hours of archival footage, as well as tens of thousands of never-before-seen photographs from Reubens’ personal collections.

Wow. This look incredible! Check out the brand new trailer above!

!! OMG Stars: Horoscopes for Aries Season 2025 !!

» Posted By omg team On Tuesday, April 1, 2025 | category: Life | 1 comment

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Happy Aries season!

Aries, the first sign of the Zodiac, is a cardinal fire sign: Cardinal signs begin, and fire signs energize. This first month of the zodiacal year is about new beginnings, new energy, new opportunity, and doing it all first. Aries is a newly lit match, ready to turn into any multitude of possibilities.

This year is a major, major, major year for Aries as a sign. At the end of March, Neptune moves out of Pisces, where it has been since 2012, and into Aries, where it will stay until 2038. This feels unfathomably far to me, but I guess that’s just as long as it’s been since 2012. Neptune was in its ruling sign in Pisces, so a move into Aries brings us out of that home territory. Neptune rules mystery, spirituality, consciousness, and dreams. In dysfunction Neptune can be escapist, and (as is Pisces) is associated with addiction of any kind. Under Pisces we saw a tremendous surge in the legalization of mind-altering substances, and pandemic lockdowns that saw a lot of people drinking and using drugs more than they normally would. I remember a New York Times article about a trend of people microdosing MDMA in their homes on weekday afternoons just for something to feel. This energy was extremely Neptunian, extremely Piscean.

Moving out of that and into Aries, we get the devotional energy of the gas giant occupying the identity-driven and competitive energy of the teeny baby ram. I think we’re going to see a tremendous rise in individualism, as well as the potential for hero-worship (frankly, as someone who reads a ton of science fiction, I would love a hero figure to emerge any minute now).

The journey of Aries doesn’t end with Neptune this year, though. For my first horoscopes of the year I shared how all the outer planets would be changing signs this year (following Pluto having already done so in November of last year). Saturn will also move into Aries this Spring, in May, joining Neptune and kicking off the Saturn-Neptune conjunction, one of the big astrological stories of 2025-26. These occur approximately every 36 years, so it’s the first time many people alive will be experiencing this as the last such conjunction happened in 1990. Saturn builds while Neptune dissolves, so this is the kind of astrology where our dreams meet our realities and vice versa.

All in all this points to a big year (and coming years) for Aries and all the Cardinal signs, and for anyone who has these signs at an important point in their charts. Given how many people that is, it’s a good example of the way that global transiting astrology (the state of the world) has effects on our own charts (our individual lives).

Dear readers, I wish we were in easier times. Our astrology describes the tumult and constant change we are facing. I want (us all) to experience joy, calm, ease, but I also need to experience and express anger at the world preventing those things. Ruled by Mars, Aries is a sign of anger and of immediate expression. These horoscopes are related to anger, and how I might suggest you express it. You can read for your Mars sign as well.

These words by Aisha Sasha John help me when I need to let anger steam and erupt out of my body:

My anger is hope for my own righteousness.
I have to be angry to have any hope of being good.
For anything to mean I have to
Be angry, i.e., sad
I have to
Weep so I don’t
Die

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!! OMG Stars: Horoscopes for Pisces Season 2025 !!

» Posted By omg team On Tuesday, February 25, 2025 | category: Life | 0 comments

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Happy Pisces season 🐟

Pisces is the end of the zodiacal year which implies that the sign is the oldest and holds the most wisdom—if the zodiacal year is a parable for our lives, shouldn’t that be old age? But Pisces instead is the afterlife, the everything that comes once we die, about which we know nothing—so Pisces has the greatest wisdom of knowing how much there is we don’t know.

The archetype of Pisces rules the mystical, the romantic, and the creative. Pisces rules art, spirit, and meaningful service. Pisces must do what it believes in but is open to belief changing. Pisces is the mutable water of the middle of the ocean, with water all around you and below you and heavens above.

All mutable signs are concerned with change and adaptability, and Pisces exemplifies this by being about the constancy and the fluidity of change. As the final sign in the zodiacal year, Pisces underlines that stories go beginning, middle, and change.

The difficulty of Pisces is that all that belief, all those options, all that spirituality can be overwhelming. Pisces can tend towards inertia, needing to lie on the couch for hours because it simply cannot do anything else. Whether or not you are a Pisces, you are deep in the shadows of Pisces every time the couch pit of overwhelm happens to you. The shadows of Pisces include addiction and escapism.

Pisces’ ruling planet Neptune has spent the last fourteen years in its home sign, describing both the way that a kind of woodland elf aesthetic has gotten really popular in the last decade, but also how we are doing a lot more drugs than we used to. This coincides with the legalization of Cannabis in Toronto, ketamine therapy being popularized, mushrooms being something that health influencers take, and many of us drinking rather a lot. Luckily for me, it’s also coincided with increased interest in astrology and the occult. This year Neptune moves into Aries and we enter a new 14 year Neptune cycle where belief and vision shifts to the individual, to bravery, to self expression and to action and energy. This is a bit spooky to me given *everything* but I also think it can teach us that conflict in and of itself isn’t bad, and that sometimes we simply must stand up for ourselves.

These horoscopes focus on your own Pisces side, based on your rising sign. If you don’t know your rising sign you can read for your sun sign, or read through them all and see which you identify with the most (and if you want to know why I recommend you read for your rising sign, read this.)

I hope those of you local to me are able to enjoy how pretty this snow is, and those of you not are keeping pace with the transitional season we’re in.
Amelia

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!! OMG Stars: Horoscopes for Aquarius Season 2025 !!

» Posted By omg team On Thursday, January 30, 2025 | category: Life | 1 comment

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Happy 2025, and happy Aquarius season, readers!   Before we begin, I must apologize, primarily to my Capricorn readers, for my neglect of the previous season’s horoscopes. The holiday season grabbed me by the hair and dragged me into the new year. I spent a lot of time thinking about the irony in how Capricorn season starts during the holidays. A sign about diligence and discipline opening up some of the most gluttonous days of the culture I live in. This also explains my laziness in getting these horoscopes out, so I thank you for your patience, particularly you Capricorns waiting for your shout-outs.

With that said, these horoscopes are going to focus less on Capricorn (or Aquarius) and more on the astrology of the new year. I’ll still give compliments to Capricorn and Aquarius in your own horoscopes, but I would be remiss to ignore a 2025 update for you all since there is so, so, so much to talk about.

2025 is astrologically unique because after the 2024 movement of Pluto into Aquarius, all of the other outer planets are also changing signs. I’ve been digging around the internet looking for a clue about a time when this last happened, and the only answer I’ve found is 578 BCE from star-loom and even that only has 3 of 5. If you know of another year this has happened, let me know, but it’s mathematically very unlikely: Jupiter changes signs every year, Saturn every 2.5, Uranus 7, Neptune 14, and Pluto 12-30…I’m not good at that kind of math but perhaps if one of you is you can tel me the likelihood of such a thing. Suffice it to say, you don’t need to be an astrologer to remark that the world seems to be changing a lot, and while I firmly believe astrology doesn’t determine our lives, it absolutely describes them very well.

Of the slower moving planets in that bunch, all of them changing from water and earth signs into fire and air signs, this is moving from inaction to action, from emotion into expression, from detail into system. This is astrology about the exposure of things that have previously been hidden, things that have previously been held to be true and inevitable and that might turn out to not be so. The signs getting the bulk of this big action—Aries, Gemini, and Aquarius—are all action oriented signs, and all with a lot of propensity for chaos. I don’t mean chaos in the Internet-speak way that the word has become a substitute for “crazy”; I mean the true unexpected, disordered, and unruly.

These horoscopes will focus on the houses which will be newly occupied for you over the course of 2025. For some of you, the nature of the houses will be at odds with the nature of the sign—such is the complexity of astrology. For all of you, for all of us, I invite us to watch the unfolding events of this coming year with protection, clarity, and hope.

Happy new year,
Amelia

PS: These horoscopes get a bit technical because there’s so much going on: Here is an “astrology for dummies” cheat sheet.

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!! OMG Stars: Horoscopes for Sagittarius Season 2024 !!

» Posted By omg team On Friday, November 29, 2024 | category: Life | 1 comment

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Quick emergency glossary:

Mercury = thought and communication

Mars = energy, will, anger

Retrograde = period of planet appearing to move backwards in the sky, denoting a “turning inward” on the energy of that planet

Happy Sagittarius Season!

It’s no surprise that this time of year is generally full of parties and holidays, despite being the darkest month in the Northern Hemisphere. Sagittarius teaches us to find hope, joy, and fun under all circumstances.

This year the season brings some extra energy, with both Mercury and Mars retrograde in fire signs alongside the sun, and the first weeks of Pluto’s long, long, long station in Aquarius. This is a lot of astrology about the unpredictability, about changes, about revision, about hidden anger coming to light, about justice, about truth, about confusion. This is a lot of astrology that will likely make people feel confused, frustrated, hurt, sensitive, nostalgic. This is a lot of astrology that will highlight the way that tension in our daily lives is a reflection of the larger world we live in—I’ve been thinking lots about the (now nearly twenty-year-old song) by $100 (heads know) “Paris is Burning”:

“…the men in the Commons, they keep getting taller/despite the battles we wage, they keep getting stronger/so we fight the ones we love, yeah it’s all for nothing/but the release of something that we cannot contain.”

And then there is Sagittarius: who rules Justice but not the Law. Who rules growth but not leadership. Who rules both learning and teaching. Sagittarius the competent, the energetic, the expressive.

Each of us have every one of the signs of the zodiac somewhere in our chart, with or without planetary placements. Each of us has a Sagittarius side – each of us has a part of our life about which we are adventurous, curious, and eager.. This part of ourselves (and if you have Sagittarius placements, this part will be louder) is a part of yourself you can learn from. This is a part of yourself that begs to be shared with, and begs to see, the world.

Your Sagittarius side can teach you, in the immortal words of noted Sag Britney Spears*: “I don’t need permission, make my own decisions, that’s my prerogative”.

Happy Sag season,
Amelia

*there are some forms of historical revisionism I support: one is that Britney Spears wrote the song “My Prerogative.”

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