STAR/CHILD: The Astrology of Family

STAR/CHILD: The Astrology of Family

by STAR/CHILD

Parenting Relationships

Season 2

Weekly Reading for October 4 - 10: New Moon in Libra

Venus stationed retrograde on Saturday, so we're now one full week into the stretch of the year where everything we want, everything we value, and everyone we're attached to gets dragged into a windowless conference room for a performance review. Venus retrograde never stops at asking what you want. It asks why you want it, and then it sits there with its arms crossed, unimpressed by "because I've always wanted it" or "because that's what a person like me is supposed to want." It wants the answer underneath that one, and probably the one under that. The reason this one hit so hard right out of the gate is where it stationed: right in the middle of a T-square. Mars in Leo is opposing Pluto in Aquarius, and Venus and Mercury are both sitting in Scorpio squaring the two of them. Translated into plain English, how we act, how we think and talk, and what we love are all being held in a chokehold by the planet of power, fear, control, and the stuff we buried in the backyard years ago and planted hostas over. And every one of these planets is in a fixed sign, which is basically the astrological equivalent of saying "this is just how I am" with your whole chest. This is how I do things (Leo), this is how I think about things (Aquarius), this is how I feel about things (Scorpio), and none of it is up for negotiation, thank you. Key moments of the week: Sunday, October 4: Sun in Libra opposite Saturn in Aries (8:28AM) Tuesday, October 6: Mercury conjoins Venus in Scorpio (8:10PM) Wednesday, October 7: Mars in Leo sextile Uranus in Gemini (6:41AM) Saturday, October 10: New Moon in Libra (11:49AM) Saturday, October 10: Venus in Scorpio square Mars in Leo (5:30PM) 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 27 - October 4: Mars enters Leo and Venus stations Retrograde

Here’s hoping we're all walking into this week without having burned any bridges we didn't mean to burn over the full moon in Aries weekend. If you did, you're in good company, and the rest of the week isn't exactly planning to calm down. Mars changed signs on Sunday. Mercury changes signs on Wednesday. And on Saturday, Venus stations retrograde, which I've been talking about for a month and which is finally here. Almost everything else this week is either setting those up or reacting to them. Mars and Mercury both hit Chiron at the very last degree of a sign right before they leave it, so the week keeps pressing on an old bruise and then immediately moving on. Mars gets louder and prouder. Mercury goes underground and starts digging. By Friday they're colliding with each other and with Pluto, and then Venus stops in the middle of all of it and turns around. Key moments of the week: Sunday, September 27: Mars in Cancer square Chiron in Aries (7:58AM) Sunday, September 27: Mars enters Leo (10:49PM) Monday, September 28: Sun in Libra trine Uranus in Gemini (12:21PM) Monday, September 28: Mercury in Libra trine North Node in Aquarius (5:08PM) Tuesday, September 29: Mercury in Libra opposite Chiron in Aries (11:14PM) Wednesday, September 30: Mercury enters Scorpio (7:45AM) Friday, October 2: Mercury in Scorpio square Mars in Leo (5:14AM) Friday, October 2: Mercury in Scorpio square Pluto in Aquarius (4:42PM) Friday, October 2: Mars in Leo trine Neptune in Aries (6:17PM) Saturday, October 3: Venus stations Retrograde (3:16AM) Saturday, October 3: Mars in Leo opposite Pluto in Aquarius (6:38AM) Sunday, October 4: Sun in Libra opposite Saturn in Aries (8:28AM) 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 20 - 27: Libra Season begins

Libra season starts Tuesday evening, and every year this is the stretch where we take stock of what's out of balance, what's getting too much of our energy, what's getting none of it, and why we've been letting it ride. It's harvest time, we're heading into the last quarter of the year, and the question on the table is what still needs doing and what's the best use of our time and effort from here. Libra likes to sit with that question, weigh everything, get it exactly right before moving. This week does not give it the chance, because Saturday brings a full moon in Aries, and Aries charges first and strategizes never. So the week works like this: the first few days make it obvious what's out of whack, and the weekend deals with it much faster than anyone was planning to. Key moments of the week: Monday, September 21: Mercury in Libra sextile Jupiter in Leo (6:50PM) Tuesday, September 22: Sun enters Libra (8:05PM) Friday, September 25: Sun in Libra opposite Neptune in Aries (9:35PM) Saturday, September 26: Sun in Libra trine Pluto in Aquarius (1:34AM) Saturday, September 26: Full Moon in Aries (12:48PM) Sunday, September 27: Mars in Cancer square Chiron in Aries (7:58AM) Sunday, September 27: Mars enters Leo (10:49PM) 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

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 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 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 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 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 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 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

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