This Week in the Stars ❤️‍🔥 3.3.25 - 3.9.25

There is a (very small) part of me who loves the idea of New Years Resolution and a very large part of me who thinks the Gregorian calendar is BS and setting goals in the dead of winter for a year ahead that could contain any number of speed bumps is just another form of modern self flagellation. That said, I think there is magic to be found in the mini-cycles that nature and astrology offers us - each year we move through 4 series of cardinal - fixed - mutable cycles. If this is gibberish to you, let me break it down real quick. Every astrological sign has both an element (water, earth, fire or air) and modality (cardinal, fixed, mutable) that it is governed by. The cardinal signs (capricorn, aries, cancer and libra) begin. This is emphasized by them marking the start of new season. The fixed signs (aquarius, taurus, leo and scorpio) sustain and the mutable signs (pisces, gemini, virgo and sagittarius) alchemize. As we welcome the gregorian turning of the page each year, we are in cardinal capricorn, so there is an innate urge to begin or commit to something - but these cycles of beginning, sustaining and alchemize are only 3 month chunks - not an entire year. Thus, I find it silly to commit to one resolution for the entire year, when in reality we are constantly beginning again throughout the year. All this to say that this year I decided to commit to one practice/resolution/whatever you want to call it each month. And for the month of March I have committed to starting my day with movement, ideally a hot-girl walk sans phone. On todays walk I noticed that a few plants in my neighborhood are bearing the promise of spring, look at these cute lil buds. Just full of potential. The death of winter surrounds them yet they don’t give a fuck. They persist. They are resilient (snow is in the forecast this weekend after all).

As we float through the liminal season of Pisces, with one foot in winter and one foot in spring, doing our best to navigate the absolute overwhelm the outer world is flooding us with, I invite you to reflect on the buds that persist in your life despite it all.

As Venus retrogrades from headstrong Aries into mystical Pisces over these next six weeks, we're invited into a unique form of remembering. The arts and crafts you used to love to do that have been collecting dust in your closet (or imagination)? That friendship you let fade because life got too busy? That style of self-expression you used to love but somehow forgot? Venus retrograde gives us the keys to re-magnitize these parts of ourselves back to us.

In these times of collective uncertainty, this remembering becomes a radical act of joy. There is serious magic in reacquainting with our desires when everything around us feels unknown. Who knows what connections, projects, or skills you might uncover and what profound value they'll hold through the uncertainty ahead? While the world spins in chaos, reclaiming your creative spark, your forgotten pleasures, or lost connections becomes an act of beautiful defiance.

This Venus retrograde cycle, I invite you to rediscover the blossoms you thought had passed, yet somehow persisted. I'll be sharing a full guide to this transit soon (along with do's and don'ts), but for now, pay attention to what's quietly budding beneath the surface of your life, even with snow in forecast.