Horoscope: sponsored by Mercury

Cancer New Moon, 2024

Hello! Welcome to Moonthly¹ Horoscope number two!

I’m cutting back on the stuff up top. There are so many wonderful horoscopes that will give you a very long walk through of all the movements each moonth, so I’m working on this being something else. This email is still very long. I haven’t figured a good way around that. The best way to read it is in the Substack app or by clicking the little link at the bottom to “see full email” or whatever it says. Deepest apologies to the signs that are below the fold.

You’ll also notice I’m starting with the sign into which the Sun is moving this cycle (Leo). The rest are beyond the paywall, another new feature I’m trying. We’ll see! Let me know what you think. Reply to this email with any questions, clarifications, or stories—I’d love to hear it all 🧡

goodbye to pride 🥰

For the Leo Risings among us… two big, big exciting things are happening that aren’t “cadent” which is my general focus in these horoscopes. That said, when there’s a Big Event™ we won’t ignore it. 

I’m happy for y’all to have Venus and the Sun enter your First House. Last year when this happened, we were in a Venus Retrograde and boy was it an explosion of all the feminine Leonine energy we could imagine. We saw the first round of Taylor Swift’s eras tour, Beyonce also broke records, and the Barbie movie proved that women and girls remain viable commercial audiences. It was a tricky time that certainly elevated many traditionally “feminine” events while also neglecting some others. We’ve continue to lose access to reproductive rights in the United States, two wildly incompetent men are hobbling toward the White House, and drag performers (as well as queer people generally) remain under attack. So: what do you do with that?

I think there are a few important questions to consider. What from last summer do you need to bring back to the fore? What from last summer isn’t finished? Now that you’ve had a year to digest some of the lessons from last summer, what can you offer to the wider world that will help spread more of Venus’s best qualities, like her ability to connect, her love of natural beauty, and her capacity to push for justice?