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INDIGO CHART READING
“I have spent a long time in the dark searching for answers to what I want and who I am. I call this artwork Indigo,” says Namjoon (RM) in one of the teaser clips for his debut studio album Indigo, out on December 2nd. This is a dive into the astrology of that artwork, and what it might reveal about the colors, textures and stories Namjoon has chosen to offer us.
SCORPIO SEASON
Happy Scorpio season, friends! Even if you live somewhere without stark seasonal changes, the sun entering this fixed water always brings a shift, a subtle sense of sloughing off skin, of settling in for processes of growth and decay. This rawness requires both acknowledgment and protection.
5 Years with Love Yourself: Her
Happy 5 years and anniversary to Love Yourself: Her, the first in BTS’ series of LY albums! This album was a turning point for BTS in some ways – the start of a new arc in their story, and sonic changes in their music.
ACE OF SWORDS
The Ace of Swords represents a moment where we’re presented with a kind of understanding – a truth revealed, a sudden mental connection, new data, a primordial idea. When it shows up for us, all we have to do is be curious and open to what’s happening in our life. It might not be obvious, but try to pay attention to any shifts, omens or messages. What conversations, sources and thoughts are coming through? Give them the space they might need to bloom.
JACK IN THE BOX BIRTH CHART ANALYSIS
On July 15th, we’re getting Hobi’s new album Jack In The Box - and it promises to be both fascinating and darkly brilliant. This is a look at the astrology of JITB, and what it says about Hobi’s artistry as well as the themes we might see in this album.
CANCER SEASON
Happy Cancer season! Time of feeling everything deep in your chest, letting it out into the world, pursuing emotional connection, giving and receiving care, and tuning into our intuition. Cancer is the tide, the place where ocean meets land, this point of contact that’s always in flux. Ruled by the moon, it describes the space of cyclical change where we meet the world around us, where we exchange thoughts, feelings, and sensations.
MERCURY RETROGRADE IN GEMINI
On the 10th of May, Mercury stations retrograde in early Gemini before dipping back into Taurus. With this transit, the planet of information, communication and mental processes temporarily leaves its own home sign to revisit a very different space. In many ways, it feels like a reminder to stop and reflect before moving forward full-speed. As we saw in the overview of this Taurus season’s astrology, Jupiter’s move into Aries the day after Mercury’s station marks the beginning of a significant change in the astroweather. Most notably, we’re entering an initiatory, catalytic, fire-starting, fast-moving season with a summer heavily influenced by cardinal and mutable energy.
TAURUS SEASON
Happy Taurus season! With the sun moving through this Venusian fixed earth sign we’re thinking about processes of growth. Specifically, what they feel like. The ease and pleasure of a slow stretch, seeing seedlings break out of the soul, the unfurling of a rose bud, feeling a song’s bass vibrating through your body. There’s a steadiness about Taurus that is rooted in the body, in the material of being alive. Taurus season teaches us about being meticulous without gripping; careful about our desires while giving them space.
FOUR OF SWORDS
The Four of Swords is a card that quite literally offers us a pause amongst the challenges of its suit. Traditionally, we see images where someone is lying still and at rest, whether literally or symbolically. When we take this in the context of the suit of Air, we can understand the Four of Swords as being about finding ways to quiet and calm the mind.
ARIES SEASON
Happy Aries season – time of being bold, being a little (or a lot) reckless, trailblazing and generally Going For It! The sun moves into the cardinal fire sign on March 20th, shifting the spotlight into its place of exaltation from the dreamy waters of Pisces. In Aries, the sun encourages us to embody that initial spark of fire, pursue our desires shamelessly, and have fun in the process.
FIVE OF SWORDS
The Five of Swords isn’t a light card, even by this suit’s standards. Like the other Fives, it represents a kind of crisis point – in this case, we’re working with the mental aspects of difficult emotions. As with many of the Swords, the Five really shows us how tricky our relationship to our own minds can be. It’s often when something goes wrong and/or we feel hurt that we’re most prone to getting tangled in the noise of our more unhelpful thoughts.
Happy Birthday Suga!
There is so much to say about Yoongi – genius producer and writer, resident BTS water sun, sharp-tongued rapper, and secret marshmallow. In many ways he embodies contradiction through his fluidity – even as I try to write about him, he shapeshifts and resists definite terms. There’s always an impulse towards change about Yoongi.
THREE OF PENTACLES
The 3 of Pentacles is about putting effort towards building something tangible and long-lasting – something bigger than the sum of its parts, whether it’s a project or a space. It speaks to collaboration, asking us to understand our unique skills and abilities. Beyond a capitalist understanding of productivity, this card draws our attention to what we can contribute and put into the world, brick by brick.
EIGHT OF SWORDS
The 8 of Swords, like its siblings in the other suits, is about choice and having faith in the process of change. Often, it depicts situations where we’re kept stuck by our own thoughts, fears and lack of perspective. Our brains are wired to feel that what’s familiar, even if harmful, is safer than the alternative of the unknown, and this card asks us to work on rewiring those patterns so we can grow.
PISCES SEASON
Happy Pisces season! This is the first one in a few years where Jupiter is guiding the Sun from its home sign. It might feel more possible or necessary to dream, grow, create, learn, explore, collaborate, and fantasise as the Sun shines a spotlight on the Pisces part of your life.
THREE OF SWORDS
The image of the 3 of Swords is perhaps one of the most striking in traditional decks. We see a heart pierced through by three swords against a rainy background – not the most comforting imagery. And it is a challenging card, but it’s no omen of doom.
ACE OF PENTACLES
As Anaïs said, a seed is the perfect symbol of the Ace of Pentacles to me. In truth, I often say that of all the Aces, but when it comes to this suit, I mean it very literally. As the first cards of the four suits, they are often described as the pure energy and potential of a suit. A divine spark; a drop of springwater spilling from underground rock; the first gust of wind clearing the sky. They carry the information, memory, blueprint and fuel needed to sustain their growth. We have the choice to do with that what we desire.
MERCURY RETROGRADE IN AQUARIUS
Mercury retrogrades are very common. They happen consistently, three or four times a year, when the planet’s apparent motion makes it seem like it is moving backwards. This means that they are a kind of transit we’ve moved through up til now – before we were even aware of them – and will continue to move through for the rest of our lives. We know how to live with them. This doesn’t mean we don’t feel their impacts, but those tend to be more short-term.
JUPITER IN PISCES
Tae is special. He’s an eccentric who is at once unplaceable and larger than life. He follows a particular set of personal standards while being unpredictable. He’s a lover of classical, timeless things who values surprising us with his individuality. He’s cheesy and cliché, and he gets away with it because he understands the power of what he presents and how he conveys meaning. Tae is a contrarian; what you see is what you get, but it always feels like he hasn’t shown us all of his cards just yet. All of this is to say that he represents what it means to be Jupiterian and Saturnian at the same.
VENUS RETROGRADE
Venus stations retrograde at 26 degrees of Capricorn on the 19th of December, its motion appearing to reverse through the sky until the 29th of January 2022. When a planet is retrograde, linearity has less of the usual grip on its function. Instead, the motion is a kind of wandering, searching and excavating which can unearth essential hidden information.