sort of poems with songs.

you may find the song associated with each sign to be more relevant to your rising sign… or not. it’s pisces season.

pisces

a sober pisces is a sad pisces.
that’s just how it is.
but you are double-bodied
half is hope, half is sad
in between is magic and outside is skill.

the skill of sadness
is the strength
to be present with what is.
the tool of sadness is that real presence crafts change.
the more here you are,
the more you literally become change.

listen to “Quit it” by (ultimate Pisces stellium) Miriam Makeba.

move with the thing you’re quitting,
let its departure make more room
for the space between
your double-bodied wholeness.

aries

you are brand new!
but feeling old.
the hotness of old is how
cynicism becomes wisdom.

a different type
of bad-assery awaits
it looks a little bit
like walking through a swamp
where actually
resistance and yesteryear’s sludge
make muscles.

let awkwardness be
a social work-out
slow progress is still sweat.

listen to “Silent Shout” by The Knife

do a goodbye dance that becomes a
hello dance that becomes a wtf dance
that becomes a dance of readiness.

taurus

an electric plop at the top
of your brain is raining.
and you can’t see it
but you can feel it
and just feeling
is doing
something
don’t stop, what you’re doing
and
don’t rush, what you’re doing

confusion is an erotic dance
with the way forward.

listen to “Beautiful Life” by Gui Boratto.

listen to how steadiness grows.
listen to how rhythm is a series of interruptions.

do an erotic dance with confusion, let it be very very very weird.
cry if you need to. 

gemini

little tensey-wensey sparks
and then some other kind of huge thing
boulder through your prayers,
the church
that is your belief
readies itself
for renovation
god is a mutating creature and
wants to be your friend.

the tensey-wensey
sparks make shadows
that show you your silhouette
you looking at you
from all sides makes you more you

listen to Quindon Tarver’s cover of “When Doves Cry” from the Romeo & Juliet Soundtrack

let all of the yous that are you become a choir
that sing your tension through.

cancer

holy words go backwards and forwards
and to the beyond and the below
and that’s what makes them holy.

you’re tired and busy and resetting and restarting
and that’s why
water.
always water.
in the cloud, in the tear

because of heaviness
cracks tell stories and that’s why again:
holy words, seek them.

listen to “Le pas de l’eau (Cheshmeh) by Constantinople & Ablaye Cissoko

and drift, hover, rain, flow but mainly
look for a holy word.

leo

u r
reeling from the one standing
right in front of you
and all your ghosts
want the tea.

let out a yell…
consider hell
take back something you gave
but didn’t want to actually give.

trick the sacrificing
part (of you)
in the dark that
itches you into selfishy.

listen to “The Past is Grotesque Animal” by of Montreal.

be weirdly soft and gritty as you dance to the silent sound of what
the last three years have instruct

virgo

talk with your mouth closed
let it laugh you,
then reach over and hold their hand

non-sense is
type of sensing that
can make sense and
send things back and forth.

things are lost in translation but so
many
things
are found
in translation.

listen to “Mouthfeel 2” by Sam Gendel & Josiah Steinbrick.

and try to bounce up and down under water.
missed connections
make magic magicky.

libra

bodies are disgusting
and weird and excellent.
they are bad at telling lies
but full of deceit and tricks.
their honesty
offers dilemma and surprise,
astounding us
with joy and horror.
listen carefully to its jokes.

give rest to your body like
candy to child,
with naughty glee.

when the damp
of your spectacular vessel is full
and un-stagnant, the whole world
becomes your home.

listen to “Body” by Megan Thee Stallion

let it upset something so you spill.

scorpio

there is a kind of taking
it is subtle,
it is a taking
that gives.
take something that gives something

oh!
chaos is a reality that you understand
better than most,
you can wield it to work for you,
(tho exhausting)
even when all is impossible. some how…
so!
don’t let reality’s current chaos
take things from you that don’t give.

a little game, a little play, a little back
and
forth. do it.

listen to “Shark Smile” by Big Thief

do a small whoop to yourself as you take you

saggitarius

in between sinking
and floating is a kind of
being
and in between
a kind of being,
is a kind of home.

let your home be kind to you
let your ghosts be kind to you

there are homes and ghosts
that love you, even if

you think not.
think not of what you don’t know

listen to “To the Last” by James Blake.

and let your arms open into
something, things need to be some things.

sink like anchor into trust.

capricorn

busy busy can be spacey spacey
space is more busy
than we think and also more empty,
than we know.

tap around your room,
and the rooms of your neighborhood

overwhelm is natural
even logical
but it makes the interesting
something to fear and the surprise a villain.

what if a villain is your secret friend?

you have many secret friends.
they’re secret because you forget them
or because you are looking at overwhelm instead.

listen to “Secret Friend” by Paul McCartney

and do a little shuffle with all your secret friends.

aquarius

eat and sleep
deep and rich
seek out water to dip
in your feet and toes.

because all major openings
all big changes
take more energy.

so float and rest before you
fly and shake.

see world go slow-mo,
at least once (try the mornings)
before you raise your heartybeat
to keep cool your groundyfeet.

listen to “Halcyon and On and On” by Orbital.

let time take you elsewhere,
let beats make your nervous system a casual river.