Weekend Entertainment Guide + Full Moon 6/21/24
Discovering common roots with Qveen Herby
This week, it worked out really nicely to have the Full Moon fall on a Friday so I could just cover it in Weekend Entertainment Guide. Being part of a group that meets on the New Moon and Full Moon, and being asked to regularly provide astrological analysis, has been good for giving me discipline and structure as a writer. It is sort of like being a pastor serving a congregation, which three of my four great-grandfathers1 were: you have to show up and preach a sermon every Sunday, regardless of whether you’re busy or not feeling well or whatever else.
I have been busy, though. Earlier this week, I submitted my essay on Cancer II for
’s tour of the decans. It should be published around the beginning of July.Working on the Cancer II essay then started a surprising new research binge for me. While fact-checking a statement about Seward, Nebraska, the town where my parents grew up, I wound up on Seward’s Wikipedia page and discovered the musical artist Qveen Herby, who grew up in Seward and is my age.
The first Qveen Herby music video I came across was “Thank Goddess.” I could not stop laughing, because I had pieced together by then that her grandfather was my parents’ confirmation pastor in Seward. The vibe is very different from our shared background, but I can sort of understand how it happened.
Qveen Herby, “Chakras”
Qveen Herby, “5D”
Qveen Herby is open about having Leo Rising, which I think plays into the flamboyant and colorful imagery of her music videos. She describes her interest in astrology in an episode of her podcast.
To get back to the topic of today’s Full Moon, the Sun is in soft and nurturing Cancer, while the Moon is in rigid and structured Capricorn. In terms of triplicity rulers, this Moon is in the decan of Capricorn ruled by Saturn, making it even more rigid and structured than usual.
Family life often has to balance these contrasting drives for nurturing and structure. Some sort of structure typically defines who is and is not part of a given family — and then, hopefully, nurturing happens within that structure.
I grew up regularly hearing about the long history of tight bonds within the German Lutheran community of my ancestors. Although discovering astrology shortly after college gave me certain forms of guidance that I needed and wasn’t getting elsewhere, one downside was that it made it harder for me to connect with a heritage strongly based on a shared belief system.
In my essay “The First Time” in Impossible Dreams: Hopes, Fears, and Expectations for Saturn in Pisces, I say:
Second-generation astrologers exist, but they are a minority within the astrology community. I more commonly hear narratives like mine, of becoming transformed by something very different from one’s upbringing as an adult.
The current vibe in the astrology world reminds me of genealogical research I’ve done about my ancestors coming to the United States from German-speaking lands in the 1800s and early 1900s. Like an adult immigrant to a new country, I may always speak astrology with a Lutheran accent.
It is the duty of the astrology community to transcend the sort of divisions that shouldn’t matter and bring together people from all the tribes of the world. Still, it has been a special treasure to finally find someone else who speaks astrology with the same sort of accent I have.
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, Astrologer's Being BurnedSommer shares troubling experiences about getting kicked off Mailchimp and then Stripe (Substack’s payment processor) on the grounds that both services apparently had astrology on a list of restricted businesses, though Sommer eventually did get reinstated on Stripe. Running Ctrl+F for the term “astrology” on Stripe’s Services Agreement and Prohibited and Restricted Businesses pages did not turn up anything when I did it, and I didn’t see anything obviously relevant scrolling through, so I would like to know if anyone else has another webpage about this.
Mailchimp’s Acceptable Use Policy, screenshot taken this morning below, lists “Daily horoscope reports” under the heading of “Content Subject to Additional Scrutiny.”
Both Mailchimp and Stripe refer more explicitly to prohibitions regarding cryptocurrency, another interest of Sommer’s. Still, this is an important story to watch. For the time being, Sommer prefers Patreon.
via , Cancer I: Acknowledgement of Innate ReciprocityApwah points out that the Sibly chart for the United States of America has a Venus-Jupiter conjunction in the Venus-ruled decan of Cancer I.
, cancer season: nourishment after a long journeyThis post notes that we have just entered the first Cancer season since 2008 without Pluto exerting a heavy influence from the opposite sign of Capricorn. Brief recommendations regarding what each rising sign should nourish during Cancer season are also provided.
, Lunar News: Full Moon in CapricornCosmographia points out that we get two Full Moons in Capricorn this year — and the one today forms an out-of-sign T-square with Neptune.
, the (first!) full moon in capricorn for writersKadlec gives a list of what might define the Capricorn story for each rising sign. I have Libra Rising, and family issues have indeed been huge for me throughout Pluto’s transit in Capricorn.
, Curiosity killed the cat... but satisfaction brought it backThis post focuses on the resilience of Jupiter in Gemini and other Gemini placements. The description of the author’s Gemini Moon response to depression was a great illustration:
, how to harvest a whaleWow, interesting! I’m depressed! I wonder why?! I should read articles on this, look up podcasts on depression, read a ton of books on it. I wonder what else I can learn about depression?
Mikinaak provides astrological charts for several events related to the Makah people’s efforts to continue their ancestral practice of hunting whales. For example, the January 1855 Treaty of Neah Bay, which guaranteed their existing right to harvest whales, had a big Aquarius stellium in its chart. (EDIT 6/25/24)
Freddie deBoer, Subscriber Writing, June 2024
I’m in here, as are fellow astrologers
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and Camm Cassidy will present a webinar on tertiary progressions through Kepler College on Saturday, June 22, 2024, at 10:30 am PDT/1:30 pm EDT. Register here.The fourth great-grandfather was also an ordained Lutheran pastor but wound up running a Lutheran college instead of serving a congregation.
Thank you for the mention here! Looking forward to checking out the others!!
Disturbing news about Adam Sommer. I thought Stripe's issues with astrology were in the past since Chani gave voice to this... Apparently not!