STAR/CHILD: The Astrology of Family

STAR/CHILD
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STAR/CHILD is all about how astrology shapes us and all our closest relationships. On this weekly reading, get into the family dynamics we’re born into, how be bring those into the families we find and create for ourselves (whatever that looks like), and the relationship we have with our inner child — and how the contours of all of it get brought to light by the week's astrology. It’s about unpacking how we were parented and how that affects every connection in our lives — not just with our kids but with friends, partners, and anyone who feels like family. Each week, we’ll talk through the astrology of the upcoming week and what it means for us and the important relationships in our lives. From decoding a child’s chart to figure out what makes them feel safe and supported, to asking hard questions about how to break cycles and show up better for the people we love — this podcast is about using astrology to make sense of it all. Whether you’re a parent, thinking about your own parents, or just figuring out how to not ruin the people you care about, we're talking to you here.

  1. 1d ago

    Weekly Reading for September 13 - 20: Venus squaring Pluto

    This is the week the fall's relationship curriculum stops being a rumor and becomes your problem. We've been talking about the Venus retrograde like it's weather coming in from three states over, and now it's in the driveway. Venus is in Scorpio, moving slow, sitting in her least favorite outfit, and on Tuesday she squares Pluto for the first of three times between now and December. Which means whatever has been feeling charged in your closest relationships since the end of August, the thing that seemed small but keeps poking something big and subterranean, is not a fluke and it's not going away. It's the opening scene. The syllabus is being handed out this week, and almost everything on it runs through mid-December, so if nothing feels resolved by Friday, that is not failure, that is the design. Venus in Scorpio doesn't want the pleasant version of anything. She would rather have one devastating conversation than a hundred lovely brunches, and she can smell a performance from across the room, including yours. The pressure showing up right now is information. Take notes, don't panic, and don't expect a verdict yet. Key moments of the week: Sunday, September 13: Mercury in Libra trine Uranus in Taurus (10:39PM)Monday, September 14: Sun in Virgo sextile Mars in Cancer (3:52PM)Tuesday, September 15: Venus in Scorpio square Pluto in Aquarius (2:34PM)Tuesday, September 15: Neptune in Aries sextile Pluto in Aquarius (9:46PM)Thursday, September 17: Chiron enters Aries (9:54PM)Friday, September 18: Mercury in Libra opposite Saturn in Aries (6:00AM)To read your, your kids', and your co-parents' daily horoscopes for this week, along with the detailed daily insights throughout the week, and personalized insights for every transit going on right now (plus deep dive parenting guides based on your specific chart and your kids' charts), pop over to the website or either app store: Get started on the website iPhone and iPad apps Android app

    Weekly Reading for September 13 - 20: Venus squaring Pluto

  2. Sep 7

    Weekly Reading for September 6 - 13: New Moon in Virgo

    This week is a Thursday with six other days attached to it. Almost everything that matters happens on September 10th: a new moon in Virgo, Venus leaving Libra for Scorpio, Mercury leaving Virgo for Libra, and Uranus stationing retrograde, all in one day, like the sky decided to do its whole quarterly review in a single afternoon. And unlike some weeks where the big headlines happen somewhere far away from your daily life, you're going to feel all of this. Venus and Mercury are personal planets. When they move, your life moves. Both of them are leaving signs where they're at their strongest. Venus has been home in Libra, Mercury has been home in Virgo, and for the past few weeks you've had access to your sharpest thinking and your most gracious relating, even if eclipse season steamrolled right over your ability to notice it. Now they're both heading into more complicated territory. Not bad territory, just territory with more texture. Venus in Scorpio wants depth, merging, the underside of the rock. Mercury in Libra wants to take everything that's been shaken loose and arrange it into something that makes sense. And Uranus, which has spent months rearranging the furniture in one specific corner of your life, is pausing to let you look at what it did. Key moments of the week: Tuesday, September 8: Venus in Libra trine North Node in Aquarius (12:37PM)Thursday, September 10: Venus enters Scorpio (4:07AM)Thursday, September 10: Mercury enters Libra (12:21PM)Thursday, September 10: Venus in Scorpio opposite Chiron in Taurus (1:15PM)Thursday, September 10: Uranus stations retrograde (2:27PM)Thursday, September 10: New Moon in Virgo (11:26PM)Saturday, September 12: Mercury in Libra trine Pluto in Aquarius (11:58AM)Saturday, September 12: Mercury in Libra opposite Neptune in Aries (12:37PM)Sunday, September 13: Mercury in Libra trine Uranus in Gemini (10:39PM)To read your, your kids', and your co-parents' daily horoscopes for this week, along with the detailed daily insights throughout the week, and personalized insights for every transit going on right now (plus deep dive parenting guides based on your specific chart and your kids' charts), pop over to the website or either app store: Get started on the website iPhone and iPad apps Android app

    Weekly Reading for September 6 - 13: New Moon in Virgo

  3. Aug 24

    Weekly Reading for August 23 - 30, 2026: The eclipses continue

    This is the week Pisces eclipses end, and they are not leaving through the gift shop. Friday's full moon lunar eclipse in Pisces is the last one we'll have in this sign for many years, and it's going out in a direct square to Uranus, which is a bit like a houseguest who's been staying with you since 2023 announcing their departure by pulling the fire alarm on the way out. If you've been here a while, you know the Pisces corner of your life has been under construction for years. Saturn moved through and made you grow up there. Neptune finally left after nearly a decade of fog. Last year stacked a Venus retrograde and a Mercury retrograde on top of it all, and eclipses have been detonating in this same territory the whole time. Whatever delusions, romantic thinking, or too-dreamy assumptions you were running in this part of your life, they've been getting stripped out one by one. It has not been comfortable. It has, however, made you extremely hard to rattle here. Give me what you got. We were raised in this asylum. So yes, an eclipse squaring Uranus means all bets are off. Eclipses are unpredictable by nature; Uranus is the planet of the plot twist; putting them together means something changes this week, full stop. Life speeds up around eclipses, the landscape shifts in a matter of days, and you look up on the other side going, wait, when did all of that happen. That's the deal. You don't get a vote on the timing. Key moments of the week: Sunday, August 23: Sun in Virgo trine Chiron in Taurus (3:29PM)Tuesday, August 25: Mercury in Leo opposite North Node in Aquarius (2:57AM)Tuesday, August 25: Mercury enters Virgo (7:04AM)Tuesday, August 25: Mercury in Virgo trine Chiron in Taurus (2:56PM)Thursday, August 27: Sun conjoins Mercury in Virgo (1:03PM)Friday, August 28: Lunar eclipse in Pisces (12:14AM)Friday, August 28: Full Moon in Pisces (12:18AM)Friday, August 28: Mercury in Virgo square Uranus in Gemini (3:24AM)Friday, August 28: Sun in Virgo square Uranus in Gemini (6:18PM)To read your, your kids', and your co-parents' daily horoscopes for this week, along with the detailed daily insights throughout the week, and personalized insights for every transit going on right now (plus deep dive parenting guides based on your specific chart and your kids' charts), pop over to the website or either app store: Get started on the website iPhone and iPad apps Android app

    Weekly Reading for August 23 - 30, 2026: The eclipses continue

  4. Aug 10

    Weekly Reading for August 9 - 16, 2026: Solar Eclipse in Leo

    We've been circling this week all year, and now it's here: the solar eclipse in Leo, Wednesday, midday, no take-backs. Eclipses are the astrology of "everything was fine and then suddenly it wasn't fine, it was different." They don't ask for your input. They just rearrange the furniture while you're still sitting on it. And this one is doing its rearranging with the south node, which is the part of the sky that deals in the old familiar stuff we cling to because it's known, not because it's good. The outdated ideas about who we are, what we're capable of, what we're allowed to want. The comfort zone that stopped being comfortable a while ago but we kept the lease anyway. That's what's up for release this week, and because it's Leo, it's personal. It's about you, your confidence, your visibility, the version of yourself you've been performing out of habit. The good news, and there is a lot of it, is that Jupiter is sitting right there in Leo making everything bigger, more hopeful, and weirdly more survivable. This is not the eclipse that takes something from you and leaves you sobbing in the car. This is the eclipse that takes something from you and you're like, yeah, fair, I was done with that anyway. Key moments of the week: Sunday, August 9: Mercury enters Leo (12:29PM)Monday, August 10: Mercury in Leo square Chiron in Taurus (1:15AM)Monday, August 10: Venus in Libra trine Pluto in Aquarius (2:08PM)Monday, August 10: Venus in Libra opposite Neptune in Aries (6:01PM)Tuesday, August 11: Mars enters Cancer (4:31AM)Tuesday, August 11: Mars in Cancer trine North Node in Pisces (5:50PM)Tuesday, August 11: Mercury in Leo opposite Pluto in Aquarius (9:19PM)Tuesday, August 11: Mercury in Leo trine Neptune in Aries (11:38PM)Tuesday, August 11: Venus in Libra trine Uranus in Gemini (11:45PM)Wednesday, August 12: Mars in Cancer sextile Chiron in Taurus (10:41AM)Wednesday, August 12: New Moon in Leo (1:36PM)Wednesday, August 12: Solar Eclipse in Leo (1:47PM)Wednesday, August 12: Mercury in Leo sextile Uranus in Gemini (4:47PM)Thursday, August 13: Mercury in Leo sextile Venus in Libra (12:22PM)Saturday, August 15: Mercury conjoins Jupiter in Leo (7:22AM)To read your, your kids', and your co-parents' daily horoscopes for this week, along with the detailed daily insights throughout the week, and personalized insights for every transit going on right now (plus deep dive parenting guides based on your specific chart and your kids' charts), pop over to the website or either app store: Get started on the website iPhone and iPad apps Android app

    Weekly Reading for August 9 - 16, 2026: Solar Eclipse in Leo

  5. Jul 27

    Weekly Reading for July 26 - August 2, 2026: Jupiter Cazimi

    Jupiter is why everything is currently printing at 200%. It moved into Leo a few weeks ago and started inflating whatever it landed on, and this week the Sun catches all the way up and sits directly on top of it. That happens once every twelve years. So whichever part of your life has been doing the most lately: it's about to do more. Worth being clear about what Jupiter actually does, because it has a reputation as the nice one. It is nice. It's also just an amplifier, and amplifiers are famously indifferent to what's being played through them. Jupiter takes belief and makes it conviction. It takes a good idea and makes it a plan. It also takes a mild worry and makes it a whole evening, and takes your sense of your own importance and blows it up past the point where you can see the edges of it. The one thing you will not be issued this week is proportion. You have to bring that yourself. Key moments of the week: Sunday, July 26: Saturn stations retrograde in Aries (3:56PM)Monday, July 27: Sun in Leo opposite Pluto in Aquarius (2:54AM)Monday, July 27: Sun in Leo trine Neptune in Aries (3:36AM)Monday, July 27: Sun in Leo sextile Uranus in Gemini (5:36PM)Wednesday, July 29: Venus in Virgo square Mars in Gemini (3:09AM)Wednesday, July 29: Sun conjoins Jupiter in Leo (8:17AM)Wednesday, July 29: Full Moon in Aquarius (10:35AM)Sunday, August 2: North Node in Pisces sextile Chiron in Taurus (8:03AM)To read your, your kids', and your co-parents' daily horoscopes for this week, along with the detailed daily insights throughout the week, and personalized insights for every transit going on right now (plus deep dive parenting guides based on your specific chart and your kids' charts), pop over to the website or either app store: Get started on the website iPhone and iPad apps Android app

    Weekly Reading for July 26 - August 2, 2026: Jupiter Cazimi

  6. Jul 21

    Weekly Reading for July 19 - 26, 2026: Final week of Cancer season

    This is maybe the biggest week in a game-changing year, and it’s no time to be timid (which, by the end of the week, you definitely won’t feel like doing anyway). The setup: Four of the slowest, heaviest planets in the sky have spent years crawling into a formation that finally clicks together now, all of them parked in brand-new signs, all of them in a weirdly cooperative arrangement that only comes around every few generations. The last time two of these particular ones got together like this, it was the 1920s. So, it’s big big. Key moments of the week: Sunday, July 19: Mars in Gemini sextile Saturn in Aries (2:10PM)Monday, July 20: Jupiter in Leo trine Neptune in Aries (3:22AM)Monday, July 20: Jupiter in Leo opposite Pluto in Aquarius (10:45AM)Tuesday, July 21: Jupiter in Leo sextile Uranus in Gemini (7:10AM)Wednesday, July 22: Sun enters Leo (3:13PM)Thursday, July 23: Sun in Leo square Chiron in Taurus (11:35AM)Thursday, July 23: Mercury stations direct in Cancer (6:58PM)Friday, July 24: Mercury in Cancer sextile Venus in Virgo (12:12AM)Saturday, July 25: Neptune in Aries sextile Pluto in Aquarius (1:48AM)Sunday, July 26: Saturn stations retrograde in Aries (3:56PM)To read your, your kids', and your co-parents' daily horoscopes for this week, along with the detailed daily insights throughout the week, and personalized insights for every transit going on right now (plus deep dive parenting guides based on your specific chart and your kids' charts), pop over to the website or either app store: Get started on the website iPhone and iPad apps Android app

    Weekly Reading for July 19 - 26, 2026: Final week of Cancer season

  7. Jul 14

    Weekly Reading for July 12 - 19, 2026: Mercury cazimi in Cancer

    This week asks you to start something new while missing roughly a third of the information, and it is dead serious about both parts. Mercury is retrograde in Cancer, which means the old emotional stories, the ones you've told so many times they calcified into biography, are getting pulled back out of the drawer and re-read with fresh eyes. Some of the details were wrong. Some of the narration was somebody else's voice. And right into the middle of that revision process drops a new moon in the exact same sign, tapping its watch, saying it's time for a fresh start on the very material you're still fact-checking. That's the tension, and honestly, that's the assignment. You are being asked to make a new beginning in your emotional life, in what safety means to you, in how you nurture and get nurtured, without waiting for the fog to burn off first. Cancer would rather not. Cancer is a crab for a reason, hard shell, claws, deeply committed to the familiar. But everything else in the sky this week is conspiring to make the leap feel less like a leap and more like a door that's already open. Uranus spends the week in close conversation with Neptune and Pluto, which is a rare combination that says: the wild new dream you've been circling is not a delusion, it has legs, it has staying power, go ahead and believe it. So the week holds both. Tender, foggy, guarded, ready anyway. Key moments of the week: Sunday, July 12: Sun conjoins Mercury (Cazimi) in Cancer (9:25PM)Monday, July 13: Venus in Virgo square Uranus in Gemini (10:26AM)Tuesday, July 14: New Moon in Cancer (5:43AM)Wednesday, July 15: Uranus in Gemini sextile Neptune in Aries (4:31PM)Saturday, July 18: Uranus in Gemini trine Pluto in Aquarius(12:45AM)Sunday, July 19: Mars in Gemini sextile Saturn in Aries (2:10PM)To read your, your kids', and your co-parents' daily horoscopes for this week, along with the detailed daily insights throughout the week, and personalized insights for every transit going on right now (plus deep dive parenting guides based on your specific chart and your kids' charts), pop over to the website or either app store: Get started on the website iPhone and iPad apps Android app

    Weekly Reading for July 12 - 19, 2026: Mercury cazimi in Cancer

  8. Jul 5

    Weekly Reading for July 5 - 12, 2026: Venus enters Virgo

    The week is basically front-loaded fun that turns into a lie-down. Sunday's Mars in Gemini trine Pluto in Aquarius is the strongest, most useful energy of the whole week, and it happens first, which is rude. After that, Cancer season keeps its foot on the emotional pedal the entire time (Sun in Cancer all week, Mercury retrograde parked in Cancer right next to it), so everything routes through home, family, and who's taking care of whom. Then the floor drops out twice midweek: Sun square Saturn on Monday makes everything cost more effort than it should, and Neptune stationing retrograde Tuesday turns the whole room to about 30% brightness. Venus slides into Virgo Thursday and spends the weekend making you audit the line between being helpful and being physically incapable of leaving something un-fixed. It closes Sunday night with a Cancer cazimi, the one legitimately clear moment in an otherwise soft-focus week. Key moments of the week: Sunday, July 5: Mars in Gemini trine Pluto in Aquarius (9:06AM)Monday, July 6: Sun in Cancer square Saturn in Aries (6:46AM)Tuesday, July 7: Neptune stations retrograde in Aries (6:55AM)Thursday, July 9: Venus enters Virgo (1:22PM)Friday, July 10: Venus in Virgo trine Chiron in Taurus (2:17AM)Saturday, July 11: Venus in Virgo opposite North Node in Pisces (9:09AM)Sunday, July 12: Sun conjoins Mercury (Cazimi) in Cancer (9:25PM)To read your, your kids', and your co-parents' daily horoscopes for this week, along with the detailed daily insights throughout the week, and personalized insights for every transit going on right now (plus deep dive parenting guides based on your specific chart and your kids' charts), pop over to the website or either app store: Get started on the website iPhone and iPad apps Android app

    Weekly Reading for July 5 - 12, 2026: Venus enters Virgo
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STAR/CHILD is all about how astrology shapes us and all our closest relationships. On this weekly reading, get into the family dynamics we’re born into, how be bring those into the families we find and create for ourselves (whatever that looks like), and the relationship we have with our inner child — and how the contours of all of it get brought to light by the week's astrology. It’s about unpacking how we were parented and how that affects every connection in our lives — not just with our kids but with friends, partners, and anyone who feels like family. Each week, we’ll talk through the astrology of the upcoming week and what it means for us and the important relationships in our lives. From decoding a child’s chart to figure out what makes them feel safe and supported, to asking hard questions about how to break cycles and show up better for the people we love — this podcast is about using astrology to make sense of it all. Whether you’re a parent, thinking about your own parents, or just figuring out how to not ruin the people you care about, we're talking to you here.

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