{ "article": { "title" : "Hope Without Illusion: Astrology of Liberation, June 2025", "author" : "Jonathan Dent", "category" : "essays", "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" : "Black Liberation Views on Palestine", "author" : "EIP Editors", "category" : "essays", "url" : "https://everythingispolitical.com/readings/black-liberation-on-palestine", "date" : "2025-10-17 09:01:00 -0400", "img" : "https://everythingispolitical.com/uploads/mandela-keffiyeh.jpg", "excerpt" : "", "content" : "In understanding global politics, it is important to look at Black liberation struggles as one important source of moral perspective. So, when looking at Palestine, we look to Black leaders to see how they perceived the Palestinian struggle in relation to theirs, from the 1960’s to today.Why must we understand where the injustice lies? Because, as Desmond Tutu famously said, “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”{% for person in site.data.quotes-black-liberation-palestine %}{{ person.name }}{% for quote in person.quotes %}“{{ quote.text }}”{% if quote.source %}— {{ quote.source }}{% endif %}{% endfor %}{% endfor %}" } , { "title" : "First Anniversary Celebration of EIP", "author" : "EIP Editors", "category" : "events", "url" : "https://everythingispolitical.com/readings/1st-anniversary-of-eip", "date" : "2025-10-14 18:01:00 -0400", "img" : "https://everythingispolitical.com/uploads/WSA_EIP_Launch_Cover.jpg", "excerpt" : "Celebrating One Year of Independent Publishing", "content" : "Celebrating One Year of Independent PublishingJoin Everything is Political on November 21st for the launch of our End-of-Year Special Edition Magazine.This members-only evening will feature a benefit dinner, cocktails, and live performances in celebration of a year of independent media, critical voices, and collective resistance.The EventNovember 21, 2025, 7-11pmLower Manhattan, New YorkLaunching our End-of-Year Special Edition MagazineSpecial appearances and performancesFood & Drink includedTickets are extremely limited, reserve yours now!Become an annual print member: get x back issues of EIP, receive the End-of-Year Special Edition Magazine, and come to the Anniversary Celebration.$470Already a member? Sign in to get your special offer. Buy Ticket $150 Just $50 ! and get the End-of-Year Special Edition Magazine Buy ticket $150 and get the End-of-Year Special Edition Magazine " } , { "title" : "Miu Miu Transforms the Apron From Trad Wife to Boss Lady: The sexiest thing in Paris was a work garment", "author" : "Khaoula Ghanem", "category" : "", "url" : "https://everythingispolitical.com/readings/miu-miu-transforms-the-apron-from-trad-wife-to-boss-lady", "date" : "2025-10-14 13:05:00 -0400", "img" : "https://everythingispolitical.com/uploads/Cover_EIP_MiuMiu_Apron.jpg", "excerpt" : "Miuccia Prada has a habit of taking the least “fashion” thing in the room and making it the argument. For Spring 2026 at Miu Miu, the argument is the apron; staged not as a coy retro flourish but as a total system. The show’s mise-en-scène read like a canteen or factory floor with melamine-like tables, rationalist severity, a whiff of cleaning fluid. In other words, a runway designed to force a conversation about labor before any sparkle could distract us.", "content" : "Miuccia Prada has a habit of taking the least “fashion” thing in the room and making it the argument. For Spring 2026 at Miu Miu, the argument is the apron; staged not as a coy retro flourish but as a total system. The show’s mise-en-scène read like a canteen or factory floor with melamine-like tables, rationalist severity, a whiff of cleaning fluid. In other words, a runway designed to force a conversation about labor before any sparkle could distract us.From the opening look—German actress Sandra Hüller in a utilitarian deep-blue apron layered over a barn jacket and neat blue shirting—the thesis was loud: the “cover” becomes the thing itself. As silhouettes marched on, aprons multiplied and mutated—industrial drill cotton with front pockets, raw canvas, taffeta and cloqué silk, lace-edged versions that flirted with lingerie, even black leather and crystal-studded incarnations that reframed function as ornament. What the apron traditionally shields (clothes, bodies, “the good dress”) was inverted; the protection became the prized surface. Prada herself spelled it out: “The apron is my favorite piece of clothing… it symbolizes women, from factories through to serving to the home.”Miu Miu Spring 2026 Ready-to-Wear. SuppliedThis inversion matters historically. The apron’s earliest fashion-adjacent life was industrial. It served as a barrier against grease, heat, stain. It was a token of paid and unpaid care. Miu Miu tapped that lineage directly (canvas, work belts, D-ring hardware), then sliced it against domestic codes (florals, ruffles, crochet), and finally pushed into nightlife with bejeweled and leather bibs. The garment’s migration across materials made its social migrations visible. It is a kitchen apron, yes, but also one for labs, hospitals, and factories; the set and styling insisted on that plurality.What makes the apron such a loaded emblem is not just what it covers, but what it reveals about who has always been working. Before industrialization formalized labor into factory shifts and wages, women were already performing invisible labour, the kind that doesn’t exist on payrolls but sits at the foundation of every functioning society. They were cooking, cleaning, raising children, nursing the ill. These tasks were foundational to every economy and yet absent from every ledger. Even when women entered the industrial workforce, from textile plants to wartime assembly lines, their domestic responsibilities did not disappear, they doubled. In that context, the apron here is a quiet manifesto for the strength that goes unrecorded, unthanked, and yet keeps civilization running.The algorithmic rise of the “tradwife,” the influencer economy that packages domesticity as soft power, is the contemporary cultural shadow here. Miu Miu’s apron refuses that rehearsal. In fact, it’s intentionally awkward—oversized, undone, worn over bikinis or with sturdy shoes—so the viewer can’t flatten it into Pinterest-ready nostalgia. Critics noted the collection as a reclamation, a rebuttal to the flattening forces of the feed: the apron as a uniform for endurance rather than submission. The show notes framed it simply as “a consideration of the work of women,” a reminder that the invisible economies of effort—paid, unpaid, emotional—still structure daily life.If that sounds unusually explicit for a luxury runway, consider the designer. Prada trained as a mime at Milan’s Piccolo Teatro, earned a PhD in political science, joined the Italian Communist Party, and was active in the women’s rights movement in 1970s Milan. Those facts are not trivia; they are the grammar of her clothes. Decades of “ugly chic” were, essentially, a slow campaign against easy consumption and default beauty. In 2026, the apron becomes the newest dialect. An emblem drawn from leftist feminist history, recoded into a product that still has to sell. That tension—belief versus business—is the Miuccia paradox, and it’s precisely why these aprons read as statements, not trends.The runway narrative traced a journey from function to fetish. Early looks were squarely utilitarian—thick cottons, pocketed bibs—before migrating toward fragility and sparkle. Lace aprons laid transparently over swimmers; crystal-studded aprons slipped across cocktail territory; leather apron-dresses stiffened posture into armor. The sequencing proposed the same silhouette can encode labor, intimacy, and spectacle depending on fabrication. If most brands smuggle “workwear” in as set dressing, Miu Miu forced it onto the body as the central garment and an unmissable reminder that the feminine is often asked to be both shield and display at once.It’s instructive to read this collection against the house’s last mega-viral object: the micro-mini of Spring 2022, a pleated, raw-hem wafer that colonized timelines and magazine covers. That skirt’s thesis was exposure—hip bones and hemlines as post-lockdown spectacle, Y2K nostalgia framed as liberation-lite. The apron, ironically, covers. Where the micro-mini trafficked in the optics of freedom (and the speed of virality), the apron asks about the conditions that make freedom possible: who launders, who cooks, who cares? To move from “look at me” to “who is working here?” is a pivot from optics to ethics, without abandoning desire. (The aprons are, after all, deeply covetable.) In a platform economy that still rewards the shortest hemline with the biggest click-through, this is a sophisticated counter-program.Yet the designer is not romanticizing toil. There’s wit in the ruffles and perversity in the crystals; neither negate labor, they metabolize it. The most striking image is the apron treated as couture-adjacent. Traditionally, an apron protects the precious thing beneath; here, the apron is the precious thing. You could call that hypocrisy—luxurizing the uniform of workers. Or, strategy, insisting that the symbols of care and effort deserve visibility and investment.Of course, none of this exists in a vacuum. The “tradwife” script thrives because it is aesthetically legible and commercially scalable. It packages gender ideology as moodboard. Miu Miu counters with garments whose legibility flickers. The collection’s best looks ask viewers to reconcile tenderness with toughness, convenience with care, which is exactly the mental choreography demanded of women in every context from office to home to online.If you wanted a season-defining “It” item, you’ll still find it. The apron is poised to proliferate across fast-fashion and luxury alike. But the deeper success is structural: Miu Miu re-centered labor as an aesthetic category. That’s rarer than a viral skirt. It’s a reminder that clothes don’t merely decorate life, they describe and negotiate it. In making the apron the subject rather than the prop, Prada turned a garment of service into a platform for agency. It’s precisely the kind of cultural recursion you’d expect from a designer shaped by feminist politics, who never stopped treating fashion as an instrument of thought as much as style.The last image to hold onto is deceptively simple: a woman in an apron, neither fetishized nor infantilized, striding, hands free. Not a costume for nostalgia, not a meme for the feed, but a working uniform reframed, respected, and suddenly, undeniably beautiful. That is Miu Miu’s provocation for Spring 2026: the work behind the work, made visible at last." } ] }