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!! OMG Stars: New Moon and Solar Eclipse in Gemini, June 2021 !!

» Posted By omg team On Thursday, June 10, 2021 | category: Life | 0 comments

Solar Eclipse/New Moon in Gemini, June 10th, 2021

If you or someone around you has been asking, “WTF is going on right now?”, rest assured that, astrologically, something is TF going on.

I’ll put it all in astrological terms, then I’ll translate after.

Today’s solar eclipse and new moon takes place conjunct Mercury, currently retrograde at 10º of Gemini. The sun, moon, and Mercury are all in a square to Neptune, a square that Mercury has been in for more than a week now. Meanwhile Saturn and Uranus are in their square, the second of three this year, and still around one of the tightest orbs they’ll make this year.

We also just got out of an opposition between Mars and Pluto, in Cancer and Capricorn respectively, in late cardinal degrees that were badly hit last year.

To translate into English: Things are a bit messy. Mercury retrograde is what we know it to be: a time of revision but also of things going awry, plans not working out, misunderstandings possible. Square Neptune, planet of confusion and mystery, the chance for misunderstanding is not just possible but basically to be expected. Neptune is in Pisces bringing a deeply emotional element to these misunderstandings.

Eclipses, meanwhile, tend to precipitate crises or major changes: we’re currently in eclipse season, having just had a lunar eclipse in Sagittarius two weeks ago. We fear eclipses as we fear change, and we dislike Mercury retrogrades as we dislike unpredictability. This astrology is a bit like the feeling of encountering a minor irritation while you are in a major personal crisis. Usually a flat tire on your bike, a transit reroute, an email problem, would be annoying. When you’re in major crisis, these things can be the tipping point.

To bring Mars and Pluto into the mix, their major action is already passed: the opposition was strongest last weekend. But that opposition occurred in parts of Cancer and Capricorn that were very active last year, particularly last summer during some very challenging astrology (and times): I had wondered, and am now noticing that, this opposition is bringing back some energies and thematics of last summer.

Particularly since combined with Mercury retrograde, which tends to be a very nostalgic time, we’re being drawn back into some conversations we maybe hoped we were done with.

The eclipse is making space for the change we were not ready for last year. Give yourself the space you need to process it, be kind to the people around you, and be slow with your speech.

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!! OMG Stars: Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse in Sagittarius, May 2021 !!

» Posted By omg team On Thursday, May 27, 2021 | category: Life | 1 comment

Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse in Sagittarius, May 26th, 2021

If you have been reading these horoscopes for awhile, you’ll know that my shtick about eclipses is that they are common. There are multiples a year, clustered into eclipse “seasons,” and they vary in type and visibility. This eclipse is a total lunar eclipse, in which the moon is briefly completely hidden by the shadow of the earth. Astrologically, they are regarded as portents of change, once considered to foretell the death of a king. Contemporary online astrology can get a little click-baity around them, predicting massive change or upheavals in your life.

Well, such things can certainly happen, but personally I shy away from predicting them. This eclipse comes right before a Mercury retrograde in Mercury’s home territory of Gemini, with the sun also in the sign of the twins and the moon in Gemini’s opposing sign of Sagittarius. This polarity is about information and learning; growth and expansion; ideas and action. This is the polarity of teacher and student, and the way these two roles are mutable and rely on each other.

In the spirit of the Sagittarius-Gemini opposition, and to hopefully dispel some Internet astrology myths, here’s some quick facts about eclipses and the moon:

-Full moon/lunar eclipse = sun and moon opposite

-Lunar eclipse = supercharged full moon

-New moons/solar eclipses = sun and moon conjunct

-There are about six eclipses a year: generally 2-3 lunar, and 2-5 solar.

-Eclipses happen in the same pair of signs for a period of about 1.5 – 2 years.

-The signs of the north node (also called the true node) and the south node are the same as the signs that eclipses will be happening in.

-Solar eclipse = supercharged new moon

Hopefully these factoids help clear up any lunation confusion. Wishing you all the best for this fun and exciting astrology.

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!! OMG, Billy Porter:“This is what HIV-positive looks like now” !!

» Posted By Igor On Thursday, May 20, 2021 | category: Celebs, LGBTQ+, Life | 1 comment

Having lived through the plague, my question was always, “Why was I spared? Why am I living?”

Well, I’m living so that I can tell the story. There’s a whole generation that was here, and I stand on their shoulders. I can be who I am in this space, at this time, because of the legacy that they left for me. So it’s time to put my big boy pants on and talk…

Pose star Billy Porter breaks his silence on living with HIV in hopes of inspiring others.

Check out his full interview with the Hollywood Reporter here! Good for him for using his platform to help fight stigma!

!! OMG Stars: New Moon in Taurus (May, 2021) !!

» Posted By omg team On Wednesday, May 12, 2021 | category: Life | 0 comments

New Moon in Taurus, May 11, 2021

On an recent episode of the podcast “What’s Your Sign?”, the three hosts go into a deep discussion about Taurus, in honor of this Taurus season. They dispel a lot of the mouths about the sign, and bring up some little-talked-about qualities. For example, they reject the idea that Taurus is lazy, and counter that the archetype is actually pretty active, given the Taurean love of the outdoors.

I’ll add to this with one of my favorite facts about Taurus: in my life outside of Astrology, I’m a dancer and choreographer, so a lot of my clients come from this field as well. Taurus is the sign I have noticed to be the most common among dancers. This is not to say that all dancers have important Taurus placements (I have none!) but rather that the large majority of working professional dancers I know have Taurus in an important part of the chart.

This makes a lot of sense to me: Taurus gets written off in meme astrology as pleasure-loving, obsessed with food and rest, but the reason Taurus loves those things is that Taurus is the sign most connected to the body. The sign most about the experience of being in a body, of feeling that body in contact with another surface. Dance as a practice ultimately is about being in a body and experiencing its sensations: of air against the skin, the floor underneath you, the proximity of other bodies.

This Taurus new moon is joined in the sign by Uranus, planet of innovation and upheaval, in a friendly sextile to Neptune, planet of spirit and confusion. While this is happening, Uranus is in a sextile of its own to Mars, the spicy boy. Although you may notice folks are a bit sensitive right now, and likely to be protective of themselves, it’s also likely to be a time to engage in some constructive rest and let yourself recharge.

This Taurus new moon, invite a renewal within your body. Slow down and notice sensations, and seek new experiences within them. The interior landscape alone can be thrilling.

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!! OMG Stars: Full Moon in Scorpio, April 2021 !!

» Posted By omg team On Monday, April 26, 2021 | category: Life | 0 comments

Full Moon in Scorpio, April 26, 2021

An interesting question Western astrologers face is that of the Southern Hemisphere: how, when this system was designed to describe the seasonal shifts in the Northern Hemisphere, does it translate to the opposite? When Scorpio season is there to describe death that accompanies the leaves falling off trees, how can it describe Springtime in Melbourne, particularly when so much of the Southern Hemisphere doesn’t have the same kind of cold and snow that is common in much of the North?

This week, I started thinking about how the full moons always occur in the opposite sign to the sun. So here in the Northern hemisphere, it’s spring and this is described by Taurus season: Taurus is Venus-ruled, has to do with the earth, gardens, and comfort. In the Southern Hemisphere, Taurus season describes a time of year of seasonal winding down, particularly in higher degree latitudes.

I’m often perplexed by this problem! But then I realized that it means the full moon takes on a different meaning. Instead of the sun’s sun describing the season, the moon’s luminous culmination describes the time of year.

Scorpio describes the process of death, but also of rebirth. It is transformation — in our body, Scorpio rules the reproductive organs and the expulsion organs… piss, shit and sex.

So, while the warm energy of the sun in Taurus signals to our bodies that it is time to plant, gather, and nourish, the cool reflection of the moon — our solar system’s other luminary planet — reminds us that these two do not exist without each other. The comfort of Taurus relies on the depths of Scorpio, and transformation is only possible when we feel safe enough to emerge.

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!! OMG, good advice: Your Friend Dorothy tackles tax time, pleasure from a distance, and good allyship !!

» Posted By Dorothy On Friday, April 16, 2021 | category: Life | 0 comments

Illustration by Eric Kostiuk Williams

Is there anything sexier than financial literacy? Okay, probably, but it’s a good life skill, and Your Friend, Dorothy is here to make those April deadlines (thankfully extended) less miserable.

She also provides inspiration for getting your long-distance pleasure motors running and shares her views on what it means to be a good ally to trans folks (supported by a quick ancient Roman history lesson).

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!! OMG Stars: Full Moon in Libra, March 2021 !!

» Posted By omg team On Monday, March 29, 2021 | category: Life | 0 comments

March 28th, 2021

I love astrological oppositions so much: I talk about them with all my clients in probably every session, and I’m certain I’ve written about my love of oppositions here before. Part of why I’m certain about it, aside from my obsession with them, is that full moons are actually an opposition: they are when every month, the moon is 180 degrees away from the sun, reflecting light back to us from the sun completely. So every month I think about oppositions while I write these full moon horoscopes, and I think, damn, I really love thinking about oppositions.

The zodiac is made up of twelve signs that form six oppositions, six polarities, axis, siblinghoods that describe parts of our being. The Aries and Libra opposition speaks to our need for autonomy and our need for connection: Aries says “I am” and Libra says “I connect.” What I love about oppositions is that they teach us what these supposedly opposite concepts have in common: opposites are not two things that are diametrically different, but two things that differ on what they relate about.

For instance, up and down are opposites about direction; big and small about size: but the two concepts need their difference in order to relate. Aries and Libra is about our sense of self. For Aries, determined and individualistic, for Libra, through connection and mirrored back to the self, but both ultimately about that quest for self knowledge.

Full Moon in Libra and Venus Cazimi

This full moon gets extra Libra energy because Libra’s ruling planet Venus is currently conjunct the sun in an astrological occurance called a cazimi: this happens when a planet is conjunct the sun, and brings the energy of that planet into bright light and focus. Venus is the planet that rules our connections and our care. Close to the sun, it means these parts of our lives feel in focus, and in the sign of Aries, we’ll be focusing very much on how these connections and feelings make *us* feel.

Presently, I’m writing this on the evening of the full moon, and looking out the window from my desk I see just a little glimpse of light coming from where the moon is hidden on a cloudy night. Our connections to each other are the most important and tenuous part of our lives, and they have been challenged so deeply in this past year.

In the wake of this full moon and Venus cazimi I hope you can hold your closest connections close to you, and recognize that letting someone in doesn’t threaten your own sense of self.

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