{ "article": { "title" : "Hope Without Illusion: Astrology of Liberation, June 2025", "author" : "Jonathan Dent", "category" : "essays", "tags" : "", "url" : "https://everythingispolitical.com/readings/astrology-of-liberation-june-2025-horoscope", "date" : "2025-06-14 12:01:00 -0400", "img" : "https://everythingispolitical.com/uploads/Dinner-for-One_Sarah-Saroufim.jpg", "excerpt" : "The astrology of June 2025 unfolds with a sacred tension between care and grief. As the month begins, the two most positive planets in Astrology, Venus and Jupiter, move into their home signs of vitality, nourishment, and abundance. Venus enters Taurus on June 6, and Jupiter enters Cancer on June 9. These transits would typically suggest relief, abundance, and restoration. But in our current world, where Gaza has been starved of aid since March 2 and genocide has ravaged not only Gaza but also the Sudan and Congo, the question becomes: how do we hold hope in the face of so much devastation? Astrology teaches us that we must attempt to hold both truths: the potential for growth, and the reality of grief.", "content" : "The astrology of June 2025 unfolds with a sacred tension between care and grief. As the month begins, the two most positive planets in Astrology, Venus and Jupiter, move into their home signs of vitality, nourishment, and abundance. Venus enters Taurus on June 6, and Jupiter enters Cancer on June 9. These transits would typically suggest relief, abundance, and restoration. But in our current world, where Gaza has been starved of aid since March 2 and genocide has ravaged not only Gaza but also the Sudan and Congo, the question becomes: how do we hold hope in the face of so much devastation? Astrology teaches us that we must attempt to hold both truths: the potential for growth, and the reality of grief.Venus in Taurus and Jupiter in Cancer will bring our attention to the themes of resources, security, and the emotional sanctuaries we are still trying to build amidst collapse. These are soft transits, but softness does not mean weakness. In a time of global brutality, tenderness and community care are revolutionary. This month’s astrology asks us to reclaim communal care as a form of resistance.VENUS ENTERS TAURUS – JUNE 6, 2025Venus will remain in Taurus until July 5.Venus in Taurus is sensual, earthy, and life-affirming. Venus rules Taurus, and when in this sign, Venus wants to feed us. Literally. Taurus governs food, land, pleasure, and resources. How poignant that this ingress happens while the people of Gaza are being starved. While we cannot promise that astrology will provide material aid, Venus in Taurus reminds us of what must be prioritized: dignity, sustenance, and beauty in a world that has forgotten how to care.This is a time to ask: What are we hoarding? What are we willing to share? And what beauty are we still allowed to create in defiance of erasure?JUPITER ENTERS CANCER – JUNE 9, 2025Jupiter will remain in Cancer until June 30, 2026.Jupiter is exalted in Cancer, which means it is able to function with great dignity here. The planet of expansion, wisdom, and spiritual truth moves into the sign of ancestral memory, home, and emotional protection. In its highest expression, Jupiter in Cancer helps us expand our capacity to care, for ourselves, our families (chosen and blood), and our communities.But exaltation does not guarantee ease. Jupiter in Cancer will amplify whatever it touches, including grief. Cancer is a sign of both fierce protection and deep sensitivity. We are likely to see increased emphasis on borders, nationhood, and homeland throughout this transit. This is particularly poignant given the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Jupiter’s presence in Cancer will continue to raise global attention to humanitarian crises, but it will not undo them.We began 2025 with Mars retrograde in Cancer, a transit that brought the god of war into the most intimate of places, the home. We witnessed devastation, dislocation, and a spiritual exhaustion that only comes when the sanctuary is no longer safe. Then came the eclipses. We had the Virgo Lunar Eclipse on March 14 and then the Aries Solar Eclipse on March 29, which only intensified the genocide in Gaza. But now, finally, Jupiter enters the same terrain Mars ravaged. There is potential here for restoration—not in the sense of naive optimism—but as a spiritual reckoning. What have we lost? What are we still capable of rebuilding?FULL MOON IN SAGITTARIUS – JUNE 11, 2025The Full Moon in Sagittarius peaks at 3:44 AM ESTThis lunation is one of the more promising moments of the month. Sagittarius is ruled by Jupiter, and with Jupiter now in Cancer, this full moon is ruled by an exalted Jupiter, a powerful indication that a restoration of some type may be underway. Full Moons are revelations. And Sagittarius governs global affairs, justice, and the pursuit of higher wisdom.We may see moral awakenings, whistleblower revelations, or large-scale protests take center stage under this lunation. Already, more people in the U.S. and around the world are breaking their silence around Gaza. The atrocities are no longer deniable, and as the veil lifts, we are watching people risk jobs, reputations, and even safety to speak for Palestine and for the dream of collective liberation.This Full Moon echoes a truth that many have long held close: the path to healing requires unflinching honesty. We must understand the architecture of harm so intimately that we can begin to dismantle it from the inside out. The walls of silence are cracking. And from those cracks, truth pours in.Ask yourself: What truth am I now ready to live by? What story must be told? What risk am I willing to take for the world I want to help create?SUMMER SOLSTICE + CANCER SEASON BEGINS – JUNE 20, 2025The Summer Solstice marks the longest day of the year and the beginning of Cancer season. It’s a spiritual turning point that reminds us of the ongoing cosmic dance between light and darkness. Solstice energy is sacred across cultures because it affirms that cycles are real, and I hope that this Summer Solstice will indicate a departure from a cycle of devastation and the emergence of a new cycle of restoration.NEW MOON IN CANCER – JUNE 25, 2025The New Moon in Cancer occurs at 6:31 AM EST.The Cancer New Moon is an invitation inward. It brings us back to the emotional center of all this astrology. This is the first New Moon with Jupiter in Cancer, and it opens a new cycle of nurturing, remembering, and rooting.New Moons are planting moments. Let this one be a prayer. What needs to be protected? Where is the emotional ground you want to grow from? Set intentions around home, healing, lineage, and community care.CANCER IN YOUR CHART: WHAT TO WATCH FORSince the sign of Cancer will prove to be one of the main characters during June 2025, it’s important for you to track where you have Cancer within your own birth chart. We all have Cancer in 1 of our 12 Whole Sign houses. Below, you’ll find where you have Cancer in your chart based on your RISING sign, and also a few of the significations of that house. It’ll be helpful this month to reflect on the significations of your Cancer house, and to plant seeds of action on the Cancer New Moon that you can take within these life areas. ARIES RISING: Cancer in your 4th house — Home, ancestry, family, roots TAURUS RISING: Cancer in your 3rd house — Writing, communication, siblings, neighbors GEMINI RISING: Cancer in your 2nd house — Money, values, survival, self-worth CANCER RISING: Cancer in your 1st house — Self, body, personal rebirth, appearance LEO RISING: Cancer in your 12th house — Grief, solitude, spiritual renewal, hidden enemies VIRGO RISING: Cancer in your 11th house — Community, social impact, future dreaming LIBRA RISING: Cancer in your 10th house — Career, public roles, long-term goals SCOPRIO RISING: Cancer in your 9th house — Wisdom, publishing, teaching, travel SAGITTARIUS RISING: Cancer in your 8th house — Shared resources, debt, death, rebirth CAPRICORN RISING: Cancer in your 7th house — Partnerships, love, clients AQUARIUS RISING: Cancer in your 6th house — Work, physical health, daily routines, coworkers, pets PISCES RISING: Cancer in your 5th house — Creativity, children, erotic power, child-like joyThe Astrology of June 2025 is infused with transits that speak to the possibility of restoration and community care amidst the heaviness of grief. Let this month be a return to the soul of what matters. To hope, not as illusion, but as a decision we make to keep showing up for each other.May Palestine be free. May Sudan be free. May Congo be free. May all of the places currently struggling against the cruelties of imperialism become freer. May nourishment return. May community care guide us.And so it is." } , "relatedposts": [ { "title" : "Neptune Frost", "author" : "Saul Williams, Anisia Uzeyman", "category" : "screenings", "tags" : "", "url" : "https://everythingispolitical.com/readings/eip-screening-neptune-frost", "date" : "2025-07-12 16:00:00 -0400", "img" : "https://everythingispolitical.com/uploads/netune-frost-movie-poster.jpg", "excerpt" : "Join us on Saturday, July 12 for a special screening, followed by an exclusive Q&A with the directors of Neptune Frost. Part of our member screening series, tune in live or anytime in the next 24 hours, from anywhere in the world!", "content" : "Join us on Saturday, July 12 for a special screening, followed by an exclusive Q&A with the directors of Neptune Frost. Part of our member screening series, tune in live or anytime in the next 24 hours, from anywhere in the world!Multi-hyphenate, multidisciplinary artist Saul Williams brings his unique dynamism to this Afrofuturist vision, a sci-fi punk musical that’s a visually wondrous amalgamation of themes, ideas, and songs that Williams has explored in his work, notably his 2016 album MartyrLoserKing. Co-directed with the Rwandan-born artist and cinematographer Anisia Uzeyman, the film takes place in the hilltops of Burundi, where a group of escaped coltan miners form an anti-colonialist computer hacker collective. 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Set between states of being – past and present, dream and waking life, colonized and free, male and female, memory and prescience – Neptune Frost is an invigorating and empowering direct download to the cerebral cortex and a call to reclaim technology for progressive political ends." } , { "title" : "Socialist Girl Summer: How Capitalism Spent Billions to Demonize Socialism — And Why That Spell Is Breaking", "author" : "Céline Semaan", "category" : "essays", "tags" : "", "url" : "https://everythingispolitical.com/readings/socialist-girl-summer-demonize-socialism-why-spell-breaking", "date" : "2025-07-03 22:00:00 -0400", "img" : "https://everythingispolitical.com/uploads/EIP_SocialistGirlSummer.jpg", "excerpt" : "As the founder of Slow Factory, I design everything you see—every typeface, every framework, every campaign. I don’t outsource the vision. I shape it. And I started Slow with one goal in mind: to rebrand socialism, justice, and environmentalism—not as niche causes, but as cultural movements essential to our survival. Design isn’t just about aesthetics. It’s about power. And I use design as a tool to imagine, demand, and build better worlds.For nearly a century, the United States has spent billions of dollars, media bandwidth, and educational muscle to ensure one thing: that the word socialism would strike fear in the public imagination. That’s not because socialism failed. It’s because socialism threatens power—especially the kind of power that hoards land, labor, and life for profit.But something is shifting. The re-election of Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani in New York—an openly socialist organizer who unapologetically defends tenants, workers, and Palestinians—marks a rupture in that narrative. A new generation no longer flinches at the word. They embrace it. They are building it. They are winning.But before we can move forward, we must understand what we are up against.", "content" : "As the founder of Slow Factory, I design everything you see—every typeface, every framework, every campaign. I don’t outsource the vision. I shape it. And I started Slow with one goal in mind: to rebrand socialism, justice, and environmentalism—not as niche causes, but as cultural movements essential to our survival. Design isn’t just about aesthetics. It’s about power. And I use design as a tool to imagine, demand, and build better worlds.For nearly a century, the United States has spent billions of dollars, media bandwidth, and educational muscle to ensure one thing: that the word socialism would strike fear in the public imagination. That’s not because socialism failed. It’s because socialism threatens power—especially the kind of power that hoards land, labor, and life for profit.But something is shifting. The re-election of Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani in New York—an openly socialist organizer who unapologetically defends tenants, workers, and Palestinians—marks a rupture in that narrative. A new generation no longer flinches at the word. They embrace it. They are building it. They are winning.But before we can move forward, we must understand what we are up against.A Propaganda Empire Built on FearFrom Cold War cinema to first-grade civics books, socialism was rendered as the enemy. Not because it endangered democracy, but because it questioned private property, militarism, and capitalism’s sacred cow: unlimited profit.The U.S. government, backed by its capitalist elite, responded with a sweeping cultural war. The Red Scare and McCarthyism turned union leaders, civil rights activists, and artists into traitors. The FBI surveilled and imprisoned people for organizing against poverty and racial capitalism. Hollywood blacklists sanitized storytelling and sold capitalist mythology as aspirational truth. CIA coups, from Chile to Iran to the Congo, dismantled democratically elected socialist governments because they dared to nationalize oil, land, and education. This wasn’t a fear of failure. It was a fear of redistribution.Why the Spell Is BreakingCapitalism made big promises. But it delivered gig work, burnout, debt, climate collapse, and endless war. A growing number of people—especially Gen Z and Millennials—aren’t buying the myth anymore.According to Pew Research (2023), 70% of younger Americans support some form of socialism.Mutual aid groups, public power campaigns, and tenant unions are taking root in cities across the U.S.And politicians like Mamdani, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Summer Lee, and others are bringing these values to governance—publicly, unapologetically.This isn’t a rebrand. This is a return. A remembering.Designing LiberationDesign has always been political. It’s a tool used by empires—and also a tool of resistance. Every successful propaganda campaign used design to criminalize solidarity and glorify capitalism.Mid-century posters showed socialism as monstrous: Stalin as an octopus devouring the planet. Red flags engulfing American homes in flames. Inspectors peering through windows. These visuals weren’t neutral. They were weapons.But today, we’re flipping the frame.As a designer, I use visual culture to demystify and disrupt these fear-based narratives. We design not just what we see—but how we see. And when we shift that perspective, we make new futures possible.My work at Slow Factory has always been about this: telling stories rooted in care, equity, and ecological justice. Whether through open education, cultural programming, or climate justice campaigns, I’m reprogramming what power looks like—and who it belongs to.Zohran Mamdani and the Future of StorytellingMamdani’s victory isn’t just electoral. It’s cultural. He won while calling for an end to genocide in Gaza, organizing with workers instead of corporations, and speaking openly about the harms of capitalism and imperialism.He won while the establishment poured millions into defeating him.His win is proof: the old script is wearing thin.Reclaiming the Word, Reclaiming the WorldSocialism has always been about care—public housing, free healthcare, universal education, the right to rest and exist without fear. These are not fringe demands. These are the bare minimum for a livable planet.The villain was never socialism. The villain was the empire that told us we didn’t deserve care unless we could afford it.We are entering the Possible Futures era. And it’s being led by people who no longer fear justice—but are terrified of its absence.Designing that future means unlearning propaganda and replacing it with stories of survival, resistance, and imagination. We must reclaim the visual language of dignity—transforming symbols of domination into frameworks for liberation.We don’t just need to rebrand socialism.We need to remember it.And redesign everything." } , { "title" : "Who’s Profiting from Genocide? What Francesca Albanese’s Report Reveals—and Why It Matters for the Climate", "author" : "EIP Editors", "category" : "essays", "tags" : "", "url" : "https://everythingispolitical.com/readings/profiting-from-genocide-what-francesca-albanese-report", "date" : "2025-07-02 18:33:00 -0400", "img" : "https://everythingispolitical.com/uploads/EIP_Francesca_Report.jpg", "excerpt" : "Let’s be clear: genocide is never just a military operation. It’s an economy.", "content" : "Let’s be clear: genocide is never just a military operation. It’s an economy.This week, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese released a groundbreaking report—“From the Economy of Occupation to the Economy of Genocide” naming dozens of global corporations complicit in and benefitting from Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. The report makes what many of us have long known impossible to ignore: multinational corporations are not just “doing business” with Israel—they are profiting from displacement, resource theft, and mass death.And it’s not just harming people. It’s killing the planet.Albanese’s report lays out how corporations across defense, tech, finance, construction, and agriculture are directly enabling Israel’s assault on Gaza. This is not indirect. This is not abstract. These companies are not passive observers—they are profiteers. Weapon Manufacturers like Lockheed Martin, Elbit Systems, Boeing, BAE Systems, and General Dynamics are supplying the bombs raining down on hospitals and refugee camps. Tech Giants like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, and Palantir provide the cloud computing, AI surveillance, and targeting software that power Israel’s military intelligence. Construction Firms like Caterpillar, HD Hyundai, and Volvo provide bulldozers used to demolish Palestinian homes—often paid for with public funds or foreign aid. Hospitality Platforms like Booking.com and Airbnb list vacation rentals on stolen Palestinian land, laundering settler colonialism into leisure. Financial Institutions including BlackRock, Barclays, Citigroup, JPMorgan, and Deutsche Bank fund Israeli military bonds and invest in all the above sectors. This is what an economy of genocide looks like: global, profitable, and deeply entrenched in the status quo.Genocide and Ecocide Are Two Sides of the Same CoinThe same companies enabling genocide are actively destroying ecosystems. This isn’t a coincidence—it’s a pattern.Caterpillar, already infamous for displacing Palestinian families, is a major contributor to fossil fuel extraction and mining projects that poison Indigenous lands in the Global South.Palantir, which boasts about using AI to “optimize” military surveillance, is also deployed by ICE in the United States to track, detain, and deport climate refugees and migrants.Netafim, an Israeli irrigation company profiting off stolen Palestinian water, is celebrated as “sustainable innovation” in the ag-tech world—masking eco-apartheid as green tech.In short: genocide and ecocide share a supply chain. And we need to cut the cord.Elbit Systems, an Israeli weapons manufacturer, supplies drones and surveillance tech to police at the U.S.-Mexico border—and to ICE.HP and Google provide AI and cloud infrastructure for the Israeli military while also marketing themselves as “green tech” leaders.Chevron and ExxonMobil continue to fund and extract from the Eastern Mediterranean, leveraging Israel’s military occupation to secure infrastructure.This is greenwashing meets genocide—a deadly symbiosis between environmental harm and militarized violence.What This Means for UsThis moment calls for more than statements. It calls for a total redefinition of what sustainability means—because there is nothing sustainable about silence in the face of genocide.If you are a brand, an artist, a designer, a policymaker, a curator, or a student: you are being called in. Your work, your budget, your institution may be entangled—knowingly or not—with the companies Albanese has exposed. Now is the time to do the work.What We Must Do—Now1. Follow the MoneyStudy the companies listed in Albanese’s report. If you work with—or fund—any of them, ask questions. Divest. Cut ties.2. Demand Institutional AccountabilityMuseums, universities, nonprofits, and sustainability conferences are often quietly sponsored by companies profiting from Israeli apartheid. Push for transparency. Refuse complicity. Call it what it is.3. Connect the StrugglesThe fight for Palestinian liberation is not separate from climate justice. This is all one system: extraction, occupation, militarization, profit. As we say often: everything is political—because everything is connected.4. Build and Invest in AlternativesMutual aid, abolitionist design, food sovereignty, fossil-free infrastructure, and Indigenous stewardship—these are not just buzzwords. They are the way forward. Center Global South leadership. Fund frontline communities.5. Say PalestineRefuse the pressure to sanitize. Refuse the pressure to stay neutral. In the face of genocide, neutrality is complicity. If your liberation practice does not include Palestine, it is incomplete.A Propaganda Crisis, TooThese companies aren’t just selling tools of war—they’re shaping narratives. They sponsor art exhibitions, climate conferences, design summits. They greenwash occupation and brand apartheid as “security innovation.”The most dangerous lie today is that “sustainability” can coexist with genocide. It can’t.No climate justice without Palestinian liberation. No sustainable future while apartheid is profitable.So What Can We Do?DivestCampaign for your workplace, university, or city to divest from the companies named in the report. Check your retirement funds. Audit your donors. Pull the receipts.ExposeIf your favorite brand or cultural institution is collaborating with Amazon, Palantir, or Caterpillar—say something. Publicly. Email them. Call it what it is: complicity.Cut the Narrative LoopRefuse to use language that normalizes occupation: “conflict,” “both sides,” “retaliation.” This is genocide.Build AlternativesSupport community-owned energy, Palestinian agricultural cooperatives, and local solidarity economies. Join land back and degrowth movements—they are connected.Organize for PolicyPush for legislation that bans military trade with apartheid regimes and prohibits companies from profiting off human rights abuses.Tell the Truth, ConsistentlyUse your platform to amplify the names, the facts, the systems. Share this report. Write your own version. Make the invisible visible.The Link Between Genocide and Climate HarmWe can’t talk about genocide without talking about resource theft, land colonization, and environmental destruction. The same weapons being used to bomb hospitals and schools in Gaza are being manufactured by companies who also profit from climate collapse—polluting ecosystems, propping up fossil fuel economies, and creating the conditions for displacement that militarized borders are then built to contain.We must hold the line. Genocide is not inevitable—it is designed. And anything that is designed can be dismantled. If we want to build a just, livable future, we must start by divesting from the machinery of death—and investing in life.Let this be the beginning." } ] }