Astro-Archetype of the Week (June 9 - 15): The Personal Shopper
What have you seen someone else enjoy lately that you want for yourself?
Astro-Archetype of the Week (June 9 - 15): The Personal Shopper
Informed by the planetary energy, we focus our care through one archetype in order to see all of the parts of us more clearly.
Key Astrological Transits:
June 8 - 10 | Sun square Saturn
June 9 | Mars enters Taurus
June 10 - 12 | Mars square Pluto
June 12 | Mercury square Saturn
June 14 | Mercury cazimi in Gemini
This week, Mars moves into Taurus (June 9 - July 20, 2024) — a sign ruled by Mars’ counterpart Venus and where his “go go go” energy is turned toward the sensual and the physical. Taurus is possibly the most lush of the signs and when Mars’ gaze points toward the lushness, he is wont to covet. But let’s not talk about Mars like he’s not able to express himself healthily, okay? There are plenty of ways jealousy, coveting, wanting can be expressed in loving ways.
One pathway for jealousy to become a net positive moment is through celebration. A friend begins a relationship with someone who is thoughtful, sweet, and skilled? We can celebrate this as a blessing for our friend AND for a possibility for us in the future as well. Your cousin opens a shop that is wildly successful on the first weekend where she has to restock everything right away?! We can celebrate with her by helping her unbox and shelf the new merchandise.
Another pathway is to study. When you find yourself desiring what someone else has, you can study how they got there. You can make a plan to recreate these steps in your own life. You can feel brave and do it because you know it’s been done before. And with good outcomes.
Mars in Taurus, to me, looks like choosing:
Choosing to participate in the celebration.
Choosing to act in a way similar to the people who have what you want.
Choosing to experience what you desire.
Choosing the example to become your own life.
The cautions of Mars in Taurus can look like taking without permission or fostering undue resentment toward people who are currently rejoicing on their hill.
This week, I encourage us to look at Mars in Taurus as the conscientious Personal Shopper. The one who keeps a tidy budget, is clear on what their client (you!) desires the most, and wants to please you with the most perfectly curated items.
And so, what will you tell your Personal Shopper to seek out? What have you seen someone else enjoy lately that you want for yourself? Your Personal Shopper will go out and find what you want and need to feel, see, make, or do.
Mars in Taurus Horoscopes
The following horoscopes were a collaboration between tarot reader + fashion publicist Cory Sargeant (TikTok / Instagram) and myself.
Mars will be in Taurus from June 9 - July 20. Where Mars is transiting in your birth chart will give you a greater understanding of what you want to experiences with your senses, and where you can celebrate others’ as examples for your own pleasure.
For those who use the Whole Sign House System, look for your Rising sign’s horoscope. For other house systems, find which house Taurus is in your birth chart and read for that house’s horoscope.
Taurus Rising / 1st House
The shapes of your eyes, your face, your body are just perfect because it is you. This is the season for dressing with your shapes, not against them. Touch your lines. Trace them and see that the most glorious parts of this world look like you too.
Gemini Rising / 12th House
You have a choice. You can pitch the rotting fruit of your psyche with swiftness and ease like that friend of yours who so easily can say “I’m out” and make himself free. It’s glorious to be free of the attachments that make the whole of our inner selves putrid. And! You can replace these with fresh fruit — new ideas of self-love, belonging, and care. Like finding a new core belief to take the place of the old. Or, your other option is to hold with the sticky memories and emotions and find pleasure in working through them like a challenge that ultimately grows into richness and beautiful intensity. Or… you can do both.
Cancer Rising / 11th House
This might be the month-or-so where you’d want to take a break from The Feed. You see friends and friends of friends hanging out together, enjoying one another in that little box of bright colors. And you’re not in these photos and videos. What you could begin to forget is how many of your friends want to enjoy you. And how enjoyable you are. This Mars in Taurus is the season for seeking out the people who just can’t get enough of you. And for you to indulge in this. It’s likely you will see just how expansive your friend group is — how many hearts are ready to love you.
Leo Rising / 10th House
Where does your Example hang out? Where do the people you want to be a part of gather? Make yourself known in these environments. You don’t need to take a friend. You need to take yourself seriously — as someone who deserves to enjoy what your crushes, role models, and champions enjoy. This Mars in Taurus season is for you to be seen by the people you want to become. And for those people to see how bright you are.
Virgo Rising / 9th House
You only think those people know more than you do. Mars in Taurus wants you to collect everything you’ve discovered lately and to deliver the findings to the inboxes of all the people you admire who exist in your “niche.” It’s not enough just to gather, process, and ponder. You must also make your own presentation of what has been moving inside of you. And make it bold — make it full of your personality — make it aspleasurable to experience as you can.
Libra Rising / 8th House
My darling, there are dozens of ways to rest. And rest can be pleasurable. Rest can feel vibrant. Rest must feel vibrant for you this summer. Your personal shopper is looking for ways for you to express your exhaustion with colors, with flavors, with scents. Rest must be combined with you creative expression — whether you can see this creative expression or not.
Scorpio Rising / 7th House
It’s your turn to show people how you’d like to be dated. You will design the most delicious 3 - 4 hour experience for you and one other person this month. You will tell them where to show up and what to wear. You will plan out the perfect series of physically delightful activities. And you will include this person’s known favorite things as well. Mars in Taurus wants you to make what you want to feel and to include that other person in on the joys of it.
Sagittarius Rising / 6th House
Your body wants you to look inward. I am thinking about that trend of showing your “high maintenance routine in order to stay low maintenance.” Avoid scrolling for images for how to get clear skin or how to improve your muscle mass or anything that has to do with external beauty. Mars in Taurus wants you to hydrate. He wants you to move in ways that make your mind feel elated. He wants you to tidy your environment. He wants you to find pleasure in a cleared desktop. This is the season for shopping for systems that bring your pleasure internally. And for you to see very soon how this internal reality presents itself externally.
Capricorn Rising / 5th House
Set your gaze upon the ephemeral joys. When you drive by that tennis court with those friends grunting the ball back and forth, it’s a sign. [You can be one of those people too!] When you see someone journaling in the park: it’s a sign! You will see the signs of activities that “mean nothing” and crave them. And you will crave them for a reason. You will do things that have no other purpose than to experience them. Here’s your sign to play outside until the sun sets.
Aquarius Rising / 4th House
This is the season to bring out the heirlooms — the physical relics of where you come from, where you’ve been, your alma mater. Who made you? And how do you repeat this making in your current life? What dishes do you think about when you think about “way back when”? Make those dishes now. Watch those movies from your childhood. Invite your childhood best friend over to reminisce. This Mars in Taurus wants you to revel in what has made you into who you are, and to honor it.
Pisces Rising / 3rd House
You know that person who always finds the perfect words to say? With their ability to influence others through language and to say their message with the precise amount of passion and enthusiasm? That person who only brings people into their orbit, where you feel like you only repel others with what you say? Darling person, this Mars in Taurus season asks you to recognize that you have your own words and your own delivery. You, too, are calling in people and things in ways unique to your vibrations. No one can replicate your way of speaking. So, appreciate your friend who seems to have a thesaurus for every word and feeling. You do, too, and you learn about them from them. Where others get to learn about you from you.
Aries Rising / 2nd House
This month, you are called to make what you want. Make this a “No Buy” month. Alter, repair, remake what you already have. You have everything you need right here, right now. You have everything you want right now. There’s nothing like a little RIT dye for bringing freshness to your life. Or a splash of lemon juice. What you desire with this Mars in Taurus season is to use your hands to handle and care for what is in your physical realm. And you will feel double the pleasure if you found the ways to make and remake it yourself.
What’s happening:
In about a week, I’ll be heading to Porto, Portugal. I intend to paint, beach, and experience medieval sites while I’m there. I want to experience the senses as much as I can — and to rest, something I (Capricorn Rising with a Cardinal T-Square) struggle to practice. But I have faith Portugal will become a great teacher for me.
I love love love Cory’s TikTok. She just started posting her tarot readings for the collective and they’ve been so spot on. I’ve been away from social media for a while but I feel good coming back if I am seeing videos like these <3