Your Queer Weekly Horoscope: September 9-15

If you suspect that you, too, might have a second “birth” chart, you might consider taking a peek at it this week to see if it tells you anything interesting about yourself.

What the stars are up to:

• The First Quarter Moon in your sign squares off against Mercury, Saturn, the Sun, and Neptune; forms a sextile with Venus; and opposes Jupiter.
• Your sign ruler Jupiter is in Gemini.
• The Sun squares off against Jupiter.
• Venus creates a trine with Jupiter.

What it means:

Finally, some astrological action for Sagittarius: prepare to feel conflicted! The First Quarter Moon in your sign is friendly with Venus, indicating some agreement between your emotions and desires, but it also brings discontent in the areas of communication, organization, self-perception, and intuition. This Moon is directly opposed to your sign ruler, Jupiter, so the potential for growth feels distant. Later, the Sun snags up discordantly with Jupiter (yuck), but then Venus becomes happily cooperative with your enormous boss planet. You might feel as if you’re outgrowing yourself — never a comfortable sensation — but at least you know what you want!

What the stars are up to:

• Pluto is retrograde in your sign.
• Your sign ruler Saturn is retrograde in Pisces.
• The waxing gibbous Moon in your sign opposes Mars; creates trines with Mercury, the Sun, and Uranus; forms sextiles with Saturn and Neptune; squares off against Venus; and passes through conjunction with Pluto.

What it means:

Your Moon is a bit complicated, but mostly pleasant. Motivation and desire may dwindle temporarily while the waxing gibbous Moon is distant from Mars and angry with Venus, but intelligence, organization, self-confidence, creativity, and idealism are all in excellent shape. By Friday morning, you feel emotionally prepared to cope with the constant necessity of change.

What the stars are up to:

• Your sign ruler Uranus is retrograde in Taurus.
• The waxing gibbous Moon in your sign creates trines with Jupiter and Venus.

What it means:

At the tail end of the week, the waxing Moon in your sign blesses you with excellent luck and a powerful dose of beauty… and that’s pretty much it for you right now. Enjoy!

What the stars are up to:

• Saturn and your ruler Neptune are both retrograde in your sign.

What it means:

Other than flickers of emotion while the Moon makes its usual rounds, approving, disagreeing, and extending peace to your sign ruler Neptune by turn, there’s not a lot going on with you this week. Take advantage of the unsupervised alone time and feel free! You can relax, you can frolic, you can take a really long nap with no alarm set! Have fun.

What the stars are up to:

• Chiron and the North Node are retrograde in your sign. (The North Node is always generally retrograde, that’s normal.)
• Your sign ruler Mars is in Cancer.
• Mercury forms a sextile with Mars.

What it means:

You’re still focused on healing and scampering toward the future with Chiron and the North Node in your sign. You catch a boost to your communication stats mid-week, when chatty Mercury becomes buddies with your sign ruler Mars. Take advantage of the extra eloquence to talk down any obstacles that may be hindering your path.

What the stars are up to:

• Uranus is retrograde in your sign.
• Your sign ruler Venus is in Libra.
• Venus creates a trine with Jupiter.

What it means:

At the end of the week, you’re granted a boon of good fortune when your sign ruler Venus makes friends with lucky Jupiter. Consider performing the equivalent of emotional stretches in the days leading up to that happy moment, loosening up and getting limber before it arrives. You’re not actually in danger of a sprain, since your heart’s only metaphorically swelling, but the giddy delight might feel contrarily uncomfortable if you’ve grown accustomed to locking your feelings down in the meantime.

What the stars are up to:

• Jupiter is in your sign.
• Your sign ruler Mercury moves from Leo to Virgo.
• Mercury forms a sextile with Mars.
• The Sun squares off against Jupiter.
• Venus creates a trine with Jupiter.

What it means:

You might be seized with an urge to type out a few immensely long messages on Wednesday night. Go for it! Just hold off on sending for a couple of days until you have time to edit with a more taciturn eye. You may suffer a period of insecurity about all of the blessings in your life, temporarily feeling unworthy or undeserving of happiness, but it won’t last long. On Sunday, you’re scheduled for astonishing expansion in the realm of aesthetics. Get ready to look and feel good!

What the stars are up to:

• Mars is in your sign.
• Your sign ruler the Moon travels through Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, and Aquarius.
• The First Quarter Moon in Sagittarius squares off against the Sun.
• Mercury forms a sextile with Mars.

What it means:

The First Quarter Moon in Sagittarius is kind of a meanie, beefing with the representatives of adaptability, responsibility, ego, idealism, and expansion. Instead of these things, it plans to infect you with an inescapable current of low-key yearning. Yikes! But as always, the Moon moves relatively quickly, and the unwanted emotions will pass. During mid-week, you are bestowed with incredible powers of yapping when talkative Mercury teams up with motivational Mars in your sign.

What the stars are up to:

• Your sign ruler the Sun is in Virgo.
• Mercury leaves your sign and moves to Virgo.
• The Sun squares off against Jupiter.

What it means:

You’ve sheltered Mercury safely through its latest diabolical retrograde and back to safety again. Now, it’s time to hand the troublemaking little planet over to its favorite earth sign, Virgo. See you next time, asshole! You enjoy a few days of peace before your sign ruler the Sun picks a fight with generous Jupiter. Take a quiet day filled with gentle distraction to avoid falling prey to self-doubt. Your confidence will return shortly, and then you’ll be able to get back out there and continue expanding your horizons.

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