strange and whimsical astrology

Taurus: "welp, that relationship did not work out as I planned. Well let's go and garden some autumn flowers and also liven up my oldest friendships"

Gemini: "I don't fucking know how my mysterious, secret lover turned into a cinnamon-baking stay-at-home boyfriend of the century, but autumn is coming so hey let's just roll with it and he might make some apple cinnamon crumble for us"

Cancer: "This summer went by in a blink, and I am in love again, and I am heartbroken again, and I kinda don't get why these two always go hand in hand in my life"

Leo: "time to go on an autumn hike! And to a gala! Maybe not on the same day but maybe yes actually!"

Virgo: "It's TIME to REDECORATE! Okay okay where are my fairylights? Damn I gotta give grandma a call and ask for some garden pumpkins. Damn, did I just say 'damn'? I should really stop watching these drama TV shows... maybe 'Stranger Things' was just a little too much for me"

Libra: "Oh. My. God. It's almost September and I haven't restocked my favourite pencil set and my favourite notepads and my favourite markers and WOW there's a sale in the home&furniture section at Harrods brb"

Scorpio: "changing friends, living my best live, always being on the edge... You know my brand!" *sniffles*

Sagittarius: "Have you read the article that was in today's New York Times? What do you mean you haven't? I'll send you a link. And also a playlist to listen to while you read it. Have you seen that the new Lorde album came out?"

Capricorn: "let's go for a walk! An autumn walk near the sea. Man it would be nice to have a dog to walk right now. Wait let me ask the neighbor! Autumn is awesome. I'll pick some apples on my way to them"

Aquarius: "singing to keep the bad thoughts away, singing to be happy, singing to not think... not think about the apocalypse which will probably happen any day now and oh my lord now I'm thinking about it I can't stop the climate change is real I don't know what to do I will just keep - singing to keep the bad thoughts away..."

Pisces: "does anyone want gum? I got some from this nice lady at the park who always talks to the bugs"

Aries sippin' Margeritas, strolling on the harbour promenade of a mediteranean city, falling in love with a stranger under the light of fireworks of a wedding of people you don't know, hot hours in late-afternoon sunlight, making pita bread yourself, long red skirts.

Taurus vibing to music outside with a group of people. Watching the nightsky together with some close friends, and trying to spot falling stars. Eating home-grown tomatoes from the balcony. Staying in a cool room and playing a new videogame. Drawing your future plans out. Going to a festival.

Gemini cuddling close to someone you love and watching sunsets together. Experimenting with photography. Wildberry Lemonade. Crop Tops and big sunnies. Refusing to wear sunscreen even though you clearly need it. Bubbly chats when getting lunch in the city with a friend. Freckles.

Cancer partying way longer than people expect you to last. Being in the forest in the morning, getting some work done over the day and then going on a dress-up date at night. Eating seafood and feeling fancy. Letting the wind brush through your apartment. Discovering treasures in your grandma's attic.

Leo going to a wine tasting and getting hammered. Ankle chains. Laying in the tall-grown grass and enjoying the calmness of being by yourself. Getting three scoops of ice cream instead of just one. Wearing jeans dungerees and going skating. Doing a cannonball into a lake.

Virgo chocolate-dipped strawberries on a lovely evening with someone special. Fun-colored, very pigmented eyeshadow. Reading your book in the shadow of a tree. Bringing noodle salad for bonfire night. Giving someone a nose kiss. Twirling around and around in a field or corn, with the feeling that this summer will never end.

Taurus Springtime is an explosion of color. Walking through a field and the flowers are slowly growing bigger. Laughing out with your friends while having tea and hiding your face in your dog's fur when you're crying. Trainrides. Giving good tips to your barista.

Gemini Springtime is enjoying a sparkly cocktail on a weeknight without feeling guilty about it. Painting your fingernails in 3 different very pretty colors. Strolling through an art gallery, just longing to get to the gift shop. Sitting in a windowsill of a bookshop and reading expensive lifestyle magazines without any intention of buying them. Delicious time alone with your coffee in the morning.

Cancer Springtime is being surprised by some heavy rain, running home really fast, and then taking a hot shower and cuddling up with a movie and someone you love. It's getting a bouquet of lilys of the valley and arranging it on the livingroom table. Buying pink lipstick. Dancing to a song you've never heard and going absolutely crazy when the beat drops. Feeling love like if you had never experienced it before.

Part 2

Virgo Springtime is having croissants in a café with some friends and talking about books you read and concerts you want to go to. It's live shows in open air theaters. Talking to someone and getting so excited that you're blushing. Packing a bag to spontaneously leave the city, then reconsidering and finding everything you love about your home again.

Libra Springtime is about finding out different parts of yourself that you could love and that could be worth exploring. Baking a cake for a friend's birthday and being surprised at yourself at how well it turns out. Trying rockclimbing and being horrible at it, but at least you tried and overcame your fear. Enjoying boardgame nights with the group of people you went to school with. Feeling full of hope and promise.

Scorpio Springtime is about enjoying your own company, but also acknowledging that someone else there can make it better. Cooking for your family and the neighbours and being stressed in the process, but in the end it's really worth it. Picking up piano lessons again and secretly enjoying it when someone listens to you play. Getting a massage as a gift, and it's just heavenly. Trying new fun things with your makeup. Rediscovering how much you love to rollerskate. Listening to old music and being teleported back to the moment you first listened to that song.

Part 1

Capricorn Springtime is planning weekend trips to llama farms and to go raspberry picking in the woods. Laying in bed for half the day on weekends, eating breakfast in bed and binging a really good TV show. Getting either really good at card games, or really really bad to the point where it's surreal to anyone playing with you. Taking an evening to write down affirmations and actually enjoying the alone time. Making an evening way more fun by introducing some of your friends to each other. Trying to be open to new things, even if it's scary.

Aquarius Springtime is about living your creativity. Finding beauty in some simple poetry, cutting out black and white photos from the Art Pages of the paper and putting them up on your wall. Taking a walk, feeding the birds, looking up at all the branches of a tree, admiring its beauty. Going to the movies with a friend and not being able to shut up about the film afterwards. Trying a recipe you got from your mom, changing everything about it and still liking it a lot.

Pisces Springtime is about feeling calm in your own body and, at the same time, excited about the people you meet. Getting some sweaters in peachy colors and wearing an old butterfly handbag. Showing off your tattoos if you have some, of thinking about seriously getting one this year. Having empathetic conversations with people you haven't known for long, but who already feel like friends. Listening to music on good ear pods and getting completely lost in it. Apple crumble.

Part 1

Capricorn Springtime is planning weekend trips to llama farms and to go raspberry picking in the woods. Laying in bed for half the day on weekends, eating breakfast in bed and binging a really good TV show. Getting either really good at card games, or really really bad to the point where it's surreal to anyone playing with you. Taking an evening to write down affirmations and actually enjoying the alone time. Making an evening way more fun by introducing some of your friends to each other. Trying to be open to new things, even if it's scary.

Aquarius Springtime is about living your creativity. Finding beauty in some simple poetry, cutting out black and white photos from the Art Pages of the paper and putting them up on your wall. Taking a walk, feeding the birds, looking up at all the branches of a tree, admiring its beauty. Going to the movies with a friend and not being able to shut up about the film afterwards. Trying a recipe you got from your mom, changing everything about it and still liking it a lot.

Pisces Springtime is about feeling calm in your own body and, at the same time, excited about the people you meet. Getting some sweaters in peachy colors and wearing an old butterfly handbag. Showing off your tattoos if you have some, of thinking about seriously getting one this year. Having empathetic conversations with people you haven't known for long, but who already feel like friends. Listening to music on good ear pods and getting completely lost in it. Apple crumble.

Part 1

Virgo Springtime is having croissants in a café with some friends and talking about books you read and concerts you want to go to. It's live shows in open air theaters. Talking to someone and getting so excited that you're blushing. Packing a bag to spontaneously leave the city, then reconsidering and finding everything you love about your home again.

Libra Springtime is about finding out different parts of yourself that you could love and that could be worth exploring. Baking a cake for a friend's birthday and being surprised at yourself at how well it turns out. Trying rockclimbing and being horrible at it, but at least you tried and overcame your fear. Enjoying boardgame nights with the group of people you went to school with. Feeling full of hope and promise.

Scorpio Springtime is about enjoying your own company, but also acknowledging that someone else there can make it better. Cooking for your family and the neighbours and being stressed in the process, but in the end it's really worth it. Picking up piano lessons again and secretly enjoying it when someone listens to you play. Getting a massage as a gift, and it's just heavenly. Trying new fun things with your makeup. Rediscovering how much you love to rollerskate. Listening to old music and being teleported back to the moment you first listened to that song.

Part 1

Taurus Springtime is an explosion of color. Walking through a field and the flowers are slowly growing bigger. Laughing out with your friends while having tea and hiding your face in your dog's fur when you're crying. Trainrides. Giving good tips to your barista.

Gemini Springtime is enjoying a sparkly cocktail on a weeknight without feeling guilty about it. Painting your fingernails in 3 different very pretty colors. Strolling through an art gallery, just longing to get to the gift shop. Sitting in a windowsill of a bookshop and reading expensive lifestyle magazines without any intention of buying them. Delicious time alone with your coffee in the morning.

Cancer Springtime is being surprised by some heavy rain, running home really fast, and then taking a hot shower and cuddling up with a movie and someone you love. It's getting a bouquet of lilys of the valley and arranging it on the livingroom table. Buying pink lipstick. Dancing to a song you've never heard and going absolutely crazy when the beat drops. Feeling love like if you had never experienced it before.

Part 2

Libra planning a party with cocktails to cheer everyone up from the winterblues. Playing some beautiful tunes on your radio. Enjoying the silence that the snow brings. Trying out a new, unusual cookie recipe. Going on a little car ride too look at the snow in the landscapes around town, and taking someone with you.

Scorpio Partaking in a snowball fight. Cooking a really good meal just for yourself. Getting really passionate about a book and reading it in one sitting while it's snowing outside. Taking out an old instrument and trying out if you can still play it. Cuddling together with your friends with one big blanket, watching a show you've already seen several times, and feeling safe from the bad in the world.

Sagittarius Hiking up a hill in the snow, and while everyone calls you crazy, being really at peace when you finally see the view and no one else is there. Texting a friend you don't see too often and being really glad that this old connection between you two still feels strong. Watching a movie you badly edited yourself in high-school, full of photos and memories and some people you don't even remember. Political and Nature documentaries on a weekend. Dreaming of summer.

Capricorn Going ice-skating and trying to do pirouettes (it doesn't work right away, but you keep trying). Sitting in a clean room by the window and silently working at your desk, while daydreaming of traveling and having adventures. Buying an Art Print and hanging it up next to your mirror so it may inspire you each day. Picking out jewelery with your mom. Keeping fuzzy socks on the heater so you can wear them when they're all warmed up.

Aquarius going on a walk and holding hands with someone you might like more than initially planned. Watching quizshows in the evening and getting so passionate about the answers, as if you'd partake in the competition yourself. Calling the same friend every 2 days and still having something new to talk about each time. Brushing the snow off somebody's shoulders, cupping their face in your hands and looking at them like they're the only thing that matters.

Pisces Sitting in your grandparents' greenhouse and watching the tracer on the frosted windows. Planning the day ahead and taking some hot tea with you that you will need later, and that will warm you up at just the perfect moment. Wearing knitted gloves that someone made just for you. Looking outside at the snow and getting a hundred ideas what fun things you could do.

Aries seeing the first snow at 1am and immediately having to go outside, wintercoat over your pajamas, smiling up at the sky and feeling the cold air on your face. Hot tea and studying in the morning. Going on a sledge ride until your cheeks are red and you're out of breath from laughing. Twirling around in your warm kitchen while the storm is freezing cold outside.

Taurus Sitting in the kitchen through the whole night, playing cards and chatting with your roommates. Making snow angels. Coming inside from a long walk, patting off the snow, being glad to be home. When your hands are cold, having a friend offer to hold them in theirs and warm them up.

Gemini taking pictures of the sunlight shining through pretty icicles. Feeling very cute in dresses that you layer over sweaters and 2 pairs of wool tights. Having an afternoon to yourself and learning more about feminism. Everyone else having horrible hair from the hats and the snow, but yours just kind of effortlessly looks good.

Cancer looking at each snowflake that falls on your glove and being fascinated by their different beauty. Finding some old black and white crime movies in your mom's attic and watching them on a cold night. Wearing red and pink to contrast the snow. Listening to good audio books.

Leo Building the best and biggest snowman on the block. Eating caramelized apples. Not caring if it's February but still listening to Christmas songs because they are bangers. Thinking about getting a tattoo of a snowflake because you just love this winter (in summer, you wanted to get a tattoo of a sun. No judgment, you can have both).

Virgo every winter, feeling like as if you saw snow for the first time in your life. Hot cocoa and sitting in a reading nook, enjoying the solitude. Trying to catch snowflakes with your tongue. Having friends over for dinner and you're all feeling very safe inside, together.

Aries Scratchy Music Tapes. Jumping up from a bad dream. Black birds having a meet-up at the places you go.

Taurus Ghosts in the attic. Light switches having a mind of their own. A strange feeling of not belonging.

Gemini Tarot cards with only tragic meanings. Laughing that turns into screaming. Seeing something from the corner of your eye.

Cancer a chill on your shoulders on a warm evening. Having sudden memories of your childhood overrun you. Fresh footprints in the dusty floor of a long empty room.

Leo Tunnels of Horror. Gardens overrun by ivy. Someone trapped forever in front of a magic mirror, staring at their own reflection.

Virgo Classic Murder Mysteries like Murder on the orient express. Deep dives on academia with information you didn't want to know. A beautiful, pale woman in your nightmares.

Libra Ethical scandals yet to be uncovered. A house with a mind of its own. Gentle swaying of strange figures.

Scorpio being alone at home and getting Goosebumps on your neck, just as if someone was there. Unusual looks of familiarity on a strangers face. Biting your nails not knowing what you're nervous about.

Sagittarius The follow-ups of a hangover in a quiet night. Someone knowing a little too much about your personal life. The feeling of strong rattling of a train, deep in your bones.

Capricorn A long way home with a car, in a big dark forest. Creaky floors. A misty morning over the wetlands and a boat making its way through.

Aquarius Vague memories of a foggy past. A candle being gone just in the moment you had a realization. Suddenly having the urge to go to an abandoned place.

Libra cooling down with a ventilator while your friends ask you for forgiveness (they said it's unnecessary to buy it and now it's 86°). Discovering new music, but also listening to oldie summer hits. Laying in a hammock all by yourself. Going to a barbecue in a backyard. Wine cooler with fruit to drink as you watch a soccer game. Light thoughts and daydreams.

Scorpio laying in the shade, dreaming of someone fanning you with a big palm leaf (actually, it's not too unlikely that there is literally someone there to fan you). Drinking summer cocktails with fresh mint. Reading to forget the world a little bit. Playing the lottery. Chilling on a rooftop.

Sagittarius sliding down slides in the adventure waterpark. Rocking these seasons' colors. Going to the drive-in cinema. Collecting wildflowers to press in a book, then forgetting them there. Putting lemon slices and raspberries in your water. Going outside in the summer rain.

Capricorn Walking around with a parasol. Preferring smoothies to milkshakes. Napping in the afternoon. Enjoying walking home after a long evening of fun, as now the streets are empty and the air has cooled down. Baking apricot cake. Squinting at the sun.

Aquarius Lighter strands in your hair from being in the sun. A painting date with your best friend (changing the canvases every two minutes between you two, to create two Frankenstein-paintings). Making a fruit salad. Swimming in a lake while it's raining.

Pisces Propagating plants. Wearing all linen. Taking a bike ride to a really nice icecream-shop. Beach sports. Braided hairstyles. Watermelon as a cold snack. Sitting on a picknick blanket back-to-back with a friend and talking to each other. Sleeping outside.