On masculine energy
I belong to a local gym that has become more than just a gym to me. Right before the pandemic, I joined and bought an expensive package of personal training sessions, but I didn’t get to use many of them during the lockdowns. Then early in 2023, I got a call from the general manager of the gym, inviting me to come in and finally use those sessions, and he would train me himself.
That was the beginning of a big adventure. It led to me finding a safe home base in a place where I felt like an isolated stranger. And this home base, like any gym you can find anywhere in the world, is bursting at the seams with masculine energy.
This turned out to be the perfect medicine for a girl who grew up without her father or any male influences at all. My trainer Greg, a martial arts master and influential teacher, musician, businessman, patriarch and all-around Renaissance guy, is also now my friend. He trained me back to strength after a long illness, and began to teach me self-defense and mixed martial arts. He bought me a pair of candy-pink boxing gloves and taught me how to hit and kick with “bad intentions.” Nothing feels more healing than knocking a standing bag down with a kick, learning to break out of a chokehold, and doing boxing drills until sweat pours into my eyes. I grew visibly strong. People started to notice, but the value wasn’t just in looking good. The magic was this wellspring of vitality inside me, and the sense that for the first time in my life, I was surrounded and protected by strong, good men.
In addition to Greg, I met Robert, a holy man and ex-Marine who teaches spirituality and meditation in recordings that Greg makes for him every week. Somehow, I’m lucky enough to be part of the small private audience, along with the gym’s owner Rob, a whimsical philosopher and former shot put champion. The rest of the characters are trainers and pro fighters, regular nice guys who work for Greg and Rob. There’s usually a mild sprinkle of conflict, like young bucks in a deer herd, that the father figures grumble about having to sort out. The gym is also full of women of all ages, remarkable in a way since the vibes are very get-huge and very no-frills. It’s not very posh, there’s no pool or sauna, but it’s a perfect little Temple of Mars.
During our workouts in this testosterone palace, I talk to Greg about astrology and my astrology business, which he encourages me in. Earlier this spring, I was chatting to him about what Saturn and Neptune in Aries might mean for the world, him personally, and all the squabbles he was managing in the gym. I said, “you know, it’s just not a very feminine time right now.” It’s funny that I chose the inverse expression– I could have said that we are now in an Officially Masculine Era.™️
With Saturn, Neptune, Uranus, and Pluto having recently moved from feminine signs into masculine ones, I think we’re all finally feeling it. And I think the expression of masculine energy that’s most in our face right now, exactly the way it likes to be, is the sign Aries, ruled by Mars. We can see this playing out everywhere in our culture.
Which brings me to Pedro Pascal. In 2025, he is the muse and he is the moment. His Vanity Fair cover issue arrived in the mail yesterday, but I had already seen it all over for weeks. In fact, my son just walked in, picked up the magazine, and asked “why is this guy everywhere?” It’s how the fame cycle works– Cancer Jacob Elordi and Aquarius Jeremy Allen White had this hype in recent summers, but I think it’s something else about Pedro and this moment.
One difference is his age, which means that he was born not just with the Sun but also Chiron in Aries, where Chiron is in the sky today, so he’s in his Chiron return– that hallmark of turning 50 and entering the company of elders. He’s splashed all over the media flaunting his devilish charm and bare muscled arms and irrepressible energy, but also his vulnerability, his failures, and his maturity. I think Pedro Pascal is here to help rehabilitate (Chiron) our image of a male, manly, masculine kinda guy (Aries). I’m also seeing a lot of Tom Selleck nostalgia, so I really think I’m right here.
It also caught my attention that another bold expression of masculinity is back in style, now for straight men too: the swim brief. Maybe Walton Goggins, another Mars-ruled man of the moment, will do a film called How to Stuff a Wild Banana Hammock. Hey babe, I know where your Mars is– I can see it from here. If any men reading this are thinking about embracing this new old trend, I bet it will feel insanely liberating, like when ladies ditched the wool long johns of the 1920s and 30s for a bikini. You deserve to feel the sun and wind on your thighs.
Please note that if Prince Pedro were to comment on a lady’s camel toe in her Alo yoga pants, he might be canceled immediately. More on that in my future writing. But Pedro never would. He’s a protector in his roles, he’s famously nice, he’s agreeable and attractive to men, women, and children alike. This is an Aries man fit for family consumption, not the dangerous Marlon Brando, roué Warren Beatty, or wild Eddie Murphy of the past. And I predict that the more aggressive archetypes will also resurface during this era, along with every other expression of Mars energy. Neptune in Aries will restore the glamour of being masculine.
I’m writing about the cultural and aesthetic expression of Aries, though war still rages in Gaza and we are constantly on edge about the next escalation. Many astrologers have written about the cycle of Neptune in Aries and war, and I think we’re all painfully aware of the belligerent, unstable state of geopolitics in 2025. But war isn’t human anymore. We kill by drone and jet and missile, there are no heroes, and we erase the victims.
This is why we need to find our way back to human heroes. We can dream and draw and dramatize them into existence, until real ones rise up in the collective. While female heroics are some of the best (Harriet Tubman always comes to mind), a hero is a Mars archetype. He is the leader, the warrior, the protector, and the avenger. Oh yes, back to Pedro– he’ll be in the next Avengers installment, alongside noted Aries bad boy of another era, Robert Downey, Jr.
It was just my intuition to connect Pedro to the present moment, but I see in his natal chart that he has the Moon in Capricorn, like today’s resonant Full Moon. His Moon actually fills in the fourth point of the 1975 cardinal t-square in his chart, which nearly everyone born in the first half of that year has. The annual Full Moon in Capricorn, which exactly opposes the Cancer Sun, is the moon that most reminds me of the black and white yin-yang symbol, called taijitu. Though both zodiac signs are feminine, it’s interesting that Mars is exalted in Capricorn (yang) and fallen in Cancer (yin), and it’s Mars and Aries that I’m talking about here. The Sun in Cancer and the Moon in Capricorn, both squaring Chiron in Aries, say grow up. See that Father and Mother are human and imperfect. Reconcile with them, have compassion for them. Feel how their brief togetherness allowed God to come through them to create you, a life-filled little baby. Let that baby (Aries) grow up secure and strong and brave, and become a hero to us all.
My teacher Greg is a hero to the many young men and women he’s trained, and the local kids he’s coached to become tae kwon do champions. And my teacher Robert is a hero who saved his buddies’ lives in Vietnam and returned home to spend his life teaching love and God to us. They’re both my heroes.
My son went with me to the gym today to have a trial lesson with Greg. He wasn’t enthusiastic about it, said he wasn’t interested in martial arts, and walked in wearing the resigned face that says “my mom made me do this.” He left smiling and invigorated, giving many thanks to Greg, having proven his strength and coordination to a master and experienced the thrill of knocking over that standing bag with a single kick. He told Greg he’s always dreamed of joining the military and Greg replied that he will turn him into a black belt, a strong officer candidate and a f***ing badass. I asked my son later, while I was writing this, if he could think of anyone he would call a hero. He said the military and athletes offer a lot of options, nobody he could think of specifically, but he’d let me know when he thought of one.
While we know and feel so much is wrong with the world in every direction we look, there just might be a seed of something right beginning to germinate, if we can find a way to see men as heroes again.
Whatever happens, the moment is masculine.
Dressing is a manifestation of knowing the self
Today I’m co-hosting an event with Saks, at the The Fifth Avenue Club at the Rosewood Sand Hill. I personally believe in beauty as a philosophy of life.
Today I’m co-hosting an event with Saks, at the The Fifth Avenue Club at the Rosewood Sand Hill. Our guests will have a 1-1 consultation with me, and the Saks private stylists will present them with a suite of looks based on their horoscope affinities. I’m excited that jewelry from Foundrae will be showcased, because I’m looking forward to seeing the pieces and because I think her concept aligns well with knowing yourself deeply. I’ve been dreaming of and working towards a collab like this for a long time, and thanks to the vision of Mandy Rivas, general manager of The Fifth Avenue Club across California, it’s happening today. Recently on Instagram, I watched a reel featuring older stylish women describing how well you have to really know yourself in order to dress like yourself. Style is self-expression, and like astrology, it's about the intentional alignment of your inner self with your environment.
I personally believe in beauty as a philosophy of life. I’ve always felt that once you realize what the cosmos actually is, there is nothing to do but celebrate it by creating as much beauty as possible. So I hope today, I’m able to help a few people see a little more beauty in their lives.
It’s also Juneteenth today. It’s an important part of my purpose to recognize and liberate people of color from oppression, so I’ve made a donation to Truthout and to DAIR to support their work, in honor of this holiday. I recommend and will also be giving money directly to Black Americans, and you can be on the lookout on Bluesky for opportunities to do so if you’re also interested.
