Full Supermoon in Capricorn: slave 4 no one ;)
This post originally appeared in Witch Way Magazine, written in April 2020 for the June issue đ„”
On the eve of a full moon in Capricorn, the last supermoon of 2021, news broke that Britney Spears asked for her conservatorship to be ended. Disturbing details were revealedâBritney told the judge sheâs depressed, she wants a baby but isnât allowed to have her IUD removed, and her longtime boyfriend canât even drive her in a car alone. Her human rights, bodily autonomy, and freedom are practically nonexistent. Britneyâs father, Jamieâs, lawyers claim that he is only trying to do whatâs best for her⊠she is 39 years old.
This comes in the wake of still more backlash against Amazon. Did you hear they literally force drivers to make deliveries on time to the extend that they legitimately had a policy and standard way for employees to ahem
âïžS H I T into a bag and P E E in bottlesâïž
Amazon, this is a Wendyâs, wyd
commodities arenât commodities when they sacrifice human rights.
2021 is all about de-commodifying human rights.
Could it even be possible that every strange, interconnected situation really is just kismet? I believe there is such a thing as coincidence⊠But if the moon controls the tides, and plants and animals respond to the resolution of the sun around our planet, then itâs hard to believe that they have no effect on us. If our bodies are comprised of 60% water, shouldnât we be physically affected by the shifts of the planets, too? The vibe is: eclipse season, iykyk ă°ïž
Astrological transits have contributed to a thriving culture of misogyny. Period. But trying to unravel how tf we got here is like opening a Pandoraâs box of issues that spill out like a matryoshka doll. Itâs impossible to get into all of the ways that astrology continually influences society and culture forever and ever, over and over again. There is no bite-size explanation. It would be just as hard to deny the fact that current events are shaped and defined by astrologyâlike, for example, couples getting back together during Mercury rx in eclipse season... Come with me down this rabbit hole.
In case you missed it, the empire of the patriarchy is scrambling. The deteriorating structures and intricate systems of power have been falling apart for decades but only now is the scrambling so totally obvious. Masculine energy is gripping its control for dear life, as feminine energy hums louder and louder. And what better way to stifle a very vocal and powerful woman than to put her under a conservatorship?
Letâs talk about Sagittarian, Britney Spears #freebritney. Some key astro points: Britneyâs natal Venus makes a difficult square with Saturn and Pluto, which has her constantly at odds between striving and settling. Sheâs so driven but can be easily taken down.
I canât stop thinking of the public slut shaming, as Our Lord & Savior Britneyâąïž, the original crop top queen, was ridiculed for having skin as a teenager. If you were anywhere near cognizance in the late 90s-early aughts, Iâm sure low rise jeans, tiny, midriff-baring tees, and ever exposed hipbones are imprinted on your mind. Nobody was safe from the exposed midriff. We were there. Britney wasnât the only, or first, person exposing her hipbones, but there they were on live national television blaming her for having a body and sexuality. Back to the point: anytime Venus, Saturn, and Pluto are activated in her chart, sheâs sure to have very public issues.
Britneyâs identity has also always wrapped up in her family (notably, her father, Jamieâs, control and the conservatorship that earns him millions of dollars, but even before that her relationship with her mom and little sister were in the spotlight on the tabs). Growing up in the spotlight as a young girl with so much family involvement has made it so she truly is incapable of being free as her authentic self while maintaining a strong relationship with who she feels is oppressing her. In other words, she canât be herself and also maintain a close relationship with Jamie without damage. She canât just shake things off and not let them affect her. So it makes sense that her âissuesâ in the public eye have tended to revolve around family values and her wholesomeness or supposed lack thereof.
Britneyâs Venus square Pluto activates oppressive dynamics within relationships. People with this aspect tend to have controlling or demanding partners. At the very least feel like they are trapped, and this is compounded by her Sun in Sagittarius which drives her to seek freedom and adventure. She feels dominated when sheâs not totally free.
On the other hand, sheâs the queen of the comeback. In April 2019, there was a hearing to end the conservatorshipâSaturn was square Britneyâs natal Saturn: a test and shock to the system. At that point, the judge did not remove the conservatorship but in 2020, a new co-conservator was appointed to share in the financial responsibilities with her fatherâthe previous co-conservator had been linked to Jamie. A small victory, but a victory, nonetheless. One small step forward.
The wise-beyond-her-years girl-next-door was only 17 when she released her first album and rose to fame so fast. Itâs especially worth nothing that Britney was one of the very first starlets to be under the constant flash of a camera in the age of the internet. She was stalked so severely by the paparazzi that she publicly broke down and shaved her head in 2003.
Rewind, though: in 1999, Britney and Justin Timberlake were, like, absolutely the cutest couple in the world⊠Iâm sure youâve seen the head to toe denim look because if not, youâre not even alive. But then in 2002, they tragically had a super public, nasty breakup where the intimate details of whether or not Britney was faithful or if she maintained chastity were on display for literally the entire world. This included, obviously, Britneyâs fans, a majority of which were younger girls, and rumors immediately ensued, Britney suddenly a sexy demon convincing all of us underlings to also become sexy demons.
Having absolutely no control over her narrative, Britney started to publicly unravel. Donât even get me started on that extremely cringeworthy, patronizing interview, lest I also open the can of Me Too worms. Just kidding, itâs open. In a 2003 interview, after her breakup with Justin, Diane Sawyer shamed and blamed Britney for hurting him so deeply. Oh, poor Justin, right? Cry me a river, lmao. Diane went in on Britney heinously, criticizing her for what she wore and how much skin she exposed, claiming that Britney kept âgetting burned by the fire she lit herself.â Ew. Girl, stop.
Okay, so, Me Too all started with a post on MySpace all the way back in 2006. Tarana Burkeâs post opened a forum for public exposure to the sad reality that most women/femmes (if not all), especially marginalized women, have experienced some form of sexual harassment or assault.
The momentum of the movement snowballed in October 2017, when Alyssa Milano popularized it by including #metoo on a Tweet about Harvey Weinstein. She asked, âIf youâve been sexually harassed or assaulted write âme tooâ as a reply to this tweet.â It became an overnight movement, and millions of women from all over the world, from all walks of life broke their silence publicly, sharing experiences of assault, rape, harassment, sexual pressure in the workplace, and more.
Another thing that happened in October of 2017: Jupiter entered the Scorpio, which is associated with the 8th house in astrology (secrets, sex, death, taboo, power). Itâs not surprising that this is literally when Alyssa Milano tweeted about Me Too, exposing the prevalence of sexual abuse and assault predominately amongst women and femmes. The 8th house is most deeply associated with revealing deep, subconscious wounds in order to heal them.
This Jupiter transit kicked off a whole series of events highlighting the need to heal the feminineâspecifically the way our culture sees, treats, and holds space for women and femmes. To put it simply, this is the first time in a loooong time that the Divine Feminine has had a major platform with the ability to transform and balance the binaries that has divided us for so long. Of course, all of the planets are always involved in any major cultural revolution, but this one instigated a necessary adaptation of our modern concept of society.
So with this transit, eclipse season, and a mid-summer retrograde, maybe weâll finally see some justice for Britney this summer. Maybe sheâll be totally freed from her conservatorship. Weâve just had a lunar eclipse in Britneyâs sun sign, Sagittarius, in May. Early in June, there is a solar eclipse in Gemini. These eclipses will work together for the collective to help dismantle systems that prevent freedom.
Im gonna say it again: lunar eclipse in Sagittarius (Britneyâs sun sign) + solar eclipse in Gemini = dismantling systems that prevent freedom⊠this works for the collective but especially for someone with a chart like Britneyâs. #freebritney or bust
Read: Britney Spears Quietly Pushed for Years to End Her Conservatorship: The New York Times
Listen: Oops!⊠I Did It Again in its entirety followed by Britney (2001)
Watch: Framing Britney Spears and then Crossroads
