Chart Readings for Subscribers #2
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Question 1
hi friends,
hoping you may be able to give some insight!
sun: aries moon: virgo rising: capricorn venus: pisces mercury: aries mars: leo jupiter: sagittarius saturn: pisces
i'm just in a weird spot in my life. i'm an author, and i've been lucky to have a number of books published, but they've gotten less and less support from my publisher and it feels like i'm flopping. my agent and i have sent something out in a new genre, and it's normal, but so far we're only getting rejections. i feel like writing is my purpose. i've always believed this. i can do a lot of things creatively, but my career is so important to me (maybe the most important thing for so long) so lately, the feeling of decline and failure is crushing. i don't know how to believe in myself again. i'm also just now beginning a new form of therapy, and i think that's both helping and making things more difficult in the short term? i'm dissatisfied with my day job and finances and trajectory. i guess i always figured i'd be a full-time author by now?
luckily, i have a wonderful partner who is super grounding and supportive and stable—a truly secure and positive portion of my life. there's a sense of comfort that comes from him, and from my family and friends who help me feel like i'm more than my successes or failures.
lately, though, i've just felt like too much. like i'm too sensitive to failure. like i can't control everything—or anything, even. i send pitches. write more. apply to things. i'm always trying, and it feels overwhelming and exhausting. i want to be grateful for what i do have, but i'm obsessed with the fact that i haven't gotten my 'big break,' no matter how hard i try?
my saturn is in the second house and i'm nearing the end of my return. thinking this is all impacted by this somehow. not sure what i'm even looking for in terms of advice, but any insights are appreciated!
thank you in advance!
xx, very aries
Dear Aries,
Of course you’ll keep going! Even you know that. But we totally understand the frustrations and challenges you’ve laid out. Every artist deals with these, even if they have gotten their break. I think one thing to realize is that, unfortunately, being an artist today, in 2025, there’s always a “limitless more” that we’re somehow told we’re supposed to strive for, no matter where we’ve arrived. But the truth is, just being an artist and making work and continuing is winning. And if it’s not winning, it’s certainly what an artist should do—continue.
You’re an Aries with a Virgo moon and it’s likely that moon behind all this pressure about metrics and success and breaking through. Virgo moons can be rough because there’s no critic like you. You’re very tough on yourself and it likely has to do with the fact that you also work very hard and have specific expectations for yourself. Your Capricorn rising definitely has a bottom line, too. The challenging thing with these placements when you’re an artist is that, as you know, making art and everything that comes with it isn’t linear. Your best work could be the one no one paid attention to. Your breakthrough could be something unorthodox, that you made as an experiment.
The pull of your Virgo moon and Capricorn rising will soften after your Saturn Return (the first one). Those placements are always going to be holding you accountable. But after your return, which is a kind of second life, you’ll feel stronger. Just by having made it this far as an artist, something will shift.
There’s also a lot to say about an Aries sun and art making, too. It’s a powerful energy. Self-starting, eager to make things, passionate, optimistic at the beginning—but Aries do need a lot of affirmation after that beginning. They also need diversion and pleasure more than they think. Taking a solo trip in service of a project you’re working on may be interesting. A time for yourself and your art away from your usual setting, and without an end goal in mind, with just inspiration and doing the work as a pursuit.
If there is anything we can encourage you to take from this, it’s that. See doing the work as the success itself. And the pleasure you get from doing it. Most people don’t have this. The majority of people in the world don’t have something that pulls them together the way art does for you. You also have to remind yourself that you just never know what will happen, creatively, and that’s one reason among so many to keep going. The poet Anne Carson got her big breakthrough in her 40s. Dorothea Tanning after painting, started writing poetry in her 90s. You could be one book away from something transformative. Maybe financially, maybe personally. Or two books away. Or ten years away. But you just have to keep going. And you’re an Aries. We know you will!
Lots of love,
The Astro Poets
Question 2
dear astropoets,
I am in a very unique situation, that despite being somewhat unbelievable in nature, is one I’ve been prepared for because I always sort of knew it was going to happen. I could go into my whole philosophy of noticing patterns, synchronicities, etc. but I feel as though that concept is already well understood here.
This person that I am involved with is someone I have known for a decade. We only see each other every now and then, but we’ve been seeing each other every now and then for… a decade. Where my Sun, Venus, and Mercury are in their 1st, theirs are in my 12th. Due to several, almost unreleased circumstances, us being together in really any capacity would be entirely inappropriate unless they literally changed who they were as a person entirely.
Which, because they are someone who I love dearly, would not want them to do for me, or for anyone but themselves for that matter. This person does not want anything as serious as I do. For most of the time we’ve known each other, neither of us have really acknowledged the tension. It has just gradually gotten worse over the course of years, while we, at the same time, became closer as actual friends. Like this hidden subplot.
In any case, recently, it’s gotten… worse. Nothing has happened between us. We have never been alone together, we have never been physical beyond hugs and maybe a kiss on the cheek (which is common in our country, so it’s actually stranger that it’s a maybe). Despite nothing having ever happened, and me not even kind of being a relationship, if I were to be, I feel like it would be inappropriate to bring that person around this person who I clearly have SOMETHING going on with.
This is not somebody who usually has to wait very long to be with the people they want, either. They can’t approach me the way they usually would. But they also shouldn’t. But also I kinda want them to even though we both know they shouldn’t. But also what if wanting something is better than having it sometimes anyways? And if I have it, then I don’t get to want the thing I’ve gotten so used to wanting over the years? No matter what happens I know everything will work out for the best, but I do wonder what’s been happening and what’s happening now that’s made it different. As well as if it might be worth the risk (the consequences are the likely one that are symptom of the fact that we are incompatible despite having high chemistry).
I love you by the way! I have been following since 2017 (maybe 2018? It’s a bit of a blur!) and haven’t always been able to afford being a subscriber but am so grateful to be able to now.
Love,
An Aries Gemini Rising Aries Sun Aries Moon Pisces Mercury Gemini Venus Sag Mars (If it helps, they’re a Pisces Rising, Gemini Sun, Mercury and Venus, Capricorn Moon, and Cancer Mars)
Dear Aries,
Wow, this was a mind twister! So much mystery. So much longing. So much at stake.
We can’t help but repeat this question you yourself posed: But what if wanting something is better than having it sometimes anyways?
We wish we could answer this for you, or even tell you the question itself is after some kind of truth, but we’re not sure it is. Honestly, this question feels like it’s keeping you prisoner and extending a very tortured longing.
First: you need clarity. You need to have a talk with this person and be really honest. Nothing will change in your dynamic if you don’t initiate change. And even though you’re trying to convince yourself you may not want change—you definitely do. You wrote to us.
If you want something more, and the other person doesn’t, and they’re content with whatever the exchange between you two is, but you aren’t, and you keep doing it anyway—you’re mentally hurting yourself. It’s a kind of psychic, romantic pain, really. And the only thing that can dispel it is clarity and being honest with yourself, and with the person you’re interested in.
Aries and Gemini are a highly compatible match. Your charts look good together and there is definitely some kind of intellectual and philosophical bond there. But it sounds like you want more than that. You want the physical. And you should get what you want. You shouldn’t just pine. We want you happy! Don’t let yourself believe that you can’t have something better, that the longing itself is the prize. It’s not!
Aries love to torture themselves. Sometimes they even believe the suffering itself is proof of intensity and proof of passion. It’s only when they turn in another direction and feel something else among a new place, a new person, a new prospect—that they see the self-torture was warping their thinking. There’s real pleasure out there!
A lot of love,
The Astro Poets