Venus In Retrograde

03/11/2026

😬 me included

01/11/2026

Jennifer Lawrence launched her haircare brand mes° during Venus and Mercury retrograde, and on the surface that can look like bad timing.

But look closer and it’s not that bad. She’s in a 1st house profection year, so Jupiter runs her year, not Venus or Mercury. And Jupiter is sitting on her Sun right now.

If she’d waited until the retrogrades ended in mid-November, Jupiter would be right next to Mars and slowing down to station retrograde in early Dec.

Retrogrades aren’t a blanket no-go. Your own chart decides how much they matter.

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01/11/2026

Launching a beauty brand during Venus retrograde? On paper, it may seem like terrible timing. For Jennifer Lawrence, I’d read it the other way.

Remember Barbie and Oppenheimer? They came out right as Venus stationed retrograde in Leo, and they were the biggest films of the year. Retrogrades aren’t a blanket no-go.

Jennifer is in a 1st house profection year, which makes Jupiter the lord of her year. She answers to Jupiter, not Mercury or Venus, so these retrogrades don’t hit her as hard. If Venus or Mercury were running her year, it’d be a different story.

And right now Jupiter is sitting on her Sun. That’s a big green light.

She was also born with a built-in fixed square, Sun square Mars (Leo/Ta**us), and there’s a lot of fixed square energy in the sky right now. It’s echoing her chart, so in a way this is when she’s most primed to take action. Squares are assertive energy.

Would waiting have helped? No. In mid-November, when Mercury and Venus go direct, her ruler of the year, Jupiter, will be right next to Mars. You do not want your ruler of the year sitting beside Mars! Mars is in Leo with Jupiter now, but at a more acceptable distance. On top of that, by mid-November Jupiter will be slowing down to station retrograde in early December. Timing-wise, right now is actually much better for her.

Launching during Venus retrograde can also give you a second boost when Venus stations direct. It’s a bit like those of us born with Venus retrograde: at some point in our lives, our progressed Venus turns direct, and that’s often when things really take off.

Want to know which planet is running your year? Book a reading with me, or check out my new book and app, Rise & Align 🌹

30/10/2026

If you thought your Mercury retrograde was bad, poor Binance. $6.3 billion gone in 20 minutes.

Nearly 2,000 years ago Ptolemy wrote that Mercury and Mars together produce “evil-doers, forgers.” Add Jupiter and you get “busybodies, who meddle in others’ affairs and thereby gain their living.” Hackers, basically.

When Jupiter crosses your North Node, we usually think lucky break. Wrong. Jupiter just makes bigger whatever it’s handed.

Right now Jupiter is travelling with Mars, the planet of theft, and they’re both sitting on Binance’s North Node. Binance is also in its half nodal return, so the South Node is there too. And Mercury retrograde in Scorpio is squaring the whole pile.

The biggest crypto theft ever recorded. Talk about being Jupiterified.

29/10/2026

I’ve heard from so many of you that this Venus retrograde has been rough. Me too. But here’s the good news: Venus and Mercury station direct in just over two weeks, right as my new book Rise & Align comes out in the US 🇺🇸

And I get to celebrate it in New York! I’ll be at 92NY on November 17th, in conversation with Carole Radziwill. I can’t wait 🌹

24/10/2026

Anyone else feeling it this weekend? 🫠 Mercury is now retrograde in Scorpio 🦂 adding to the gremlin mode 🧌 of this weekend (Venus busted - see last video 👀).

Right now an innocent remark can become Exhibit A 🔎 in a much larger case involving ulterior motives, hidden agendas, or long-suppressed resentments. When we add a retrograde into this case file 🗂️, we could find ourselves reopening investigations that should have been closed long ago. This is a very important moment to keep in mind that not every unanswered text 📱 conceals a vast plot against you. Sometimes people (like me) are just wasting a weekend trying to figure out why their Insta360 camera won’t connect to their iPhone after a firmware update 🙃

Here is your guide as to where this Mercury retrograde is impacting you. swipe for your sign ➡️✨ Let me know if resonates 🤍🥀

24/10/2026

🌪️ Feeling all over the place? 💫 Blame Venus! ♀️✨

Wondering WHEN the right time is to take action? 🌙🔮 Sometimes, the key is understanding the planetary energies, finding clarity and learning to work with the right timing. 💖🪐

📚✨ Discover Rise & Align: Your Weekly Guide to Channelling the Power of the Planets

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23/10/2026

Berlin friends please join me for my book launch November 2nd!

Join Vogue Scandinavia astrology columnist & Soho House astrologer Clarisse Monahan for a talk celebrating her new book, Rise and Align!

22/10/2026

Dear Friends: Rise & Align is out today!! For the publication date, it’s on Thursday (Jupiter’s day) for luck and growth. Thank you to everyone who pre-ordered. Time to rise and align!

Link in bio, and I’m on tour now, so come say hi!

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21/10/2026

🎟️ Giveaway: 2 passes to the Bitcoin conference in Amsterdam (details below)

My entry into astrology was never mystical. My background is in economics and statistics, disciplines rooted in probability, inference, and the study of patterns. I specialised in quantitative techniques during my undergraduate degree, worked in investment banking for a few years, and later returned to graduate school to study philosophy, where my research focused on intimacy. My thesis was titled Getting Intimate with Discomfort, and it examined how vulnerability and exposure form the basis of authentic human connection.

Just when I thought I’d left finance behind, Bitcoin found me through philosophy. One of my professors, Dr. Paul Ennis, was super into it, and some of his classes touched on crypto. I’ve been intrigued ever since.

In retrospect, all of these threads (finance, probability, intimacy) were variations on the same theme: risk. Banking taught me that uncertainty can be modelled but never eliminated. Philosophy taught me that intimacy, too, is an act of investment, a willingness to risk one’s stability for connection. When I encountered astrology, it felt like an extension of all of it: another way of reading cycles, timing risk, and understanding what we value. So I’m thrilled to be speaking about the astrology of Bitcoin at the conference in Amsterdam 🪐🪙

And because connection is the whole point, I’d love to share it with you 🎟️ I have 2 spare passes to give away. To enter, comment and tag the friend you’d bring 👯‍♀️ I’ll pick the winner on Monday’s full moon in Ta**us 🌕 and send over the tickets.

See you in Amsterdam 🇳🇱