END OF SPRING ANXIETY ☀️
astrology + horoscopes for the week ahead
PSYCHO-COSMOS MONTHLY WORKSHOP [our next one is June 29, on the erotic, the death drive, and astrology’s 8th house—v. excited for this one.]
SATURN SESSIONS [Saturn has changed signs. So, it’s time. A handful of these 90-minute 1-1 sessions left in July.]
“Anxiety is freedom’s possibility; this anxiety alone is, through faith, absolutely formative, since it consumes all finite ends, discovers all their deceptions.” (Kierkegaard)
“The dream, the hallucination, or whatever it was, had a powerful effect on me afterwards.” (Anna Kavan, Ice)
On Monday mornings, I look at the astrology of the week ahead and write to you. I’ve also been making horoscopes (ways to mark the hour, the week) using whatever text the astrology evokes for me. Last week’s Sexual Personae-inspired horoscopes and week ahead take here. Today: my take on these final degrees of Gemini, end of spring anxiety, and horoscopes from Anna Kavan’s 1967 novel Ice.
We’re at the end of Gemini. Here, there is crisis, dark humor, paradox, parade, polarity. Spring’s weirdly lush finality. So bright it hurts, makes sunspots. A particular kind of growth over, overgrowth. “There is anxiety here,” Austin Coppock tells us in 36 Faces. End of spring anxiety, freaky: what excess must get cut down, forsaken so that we can focus on something, someone, else? The anxiety of options and sunlit crises. The images that populate these final degrees of Gemini in the old texts: ornamentation and weapon, laughter and chainmail, useless words and disclosures of secrets. The awful and alluring rattle before