Week Vibes: May 26, 2025 Edition
Where will my curiosity take me this week?
Last week's transits were all about amping up curiosity and increasing our spice tolerance. Good thing, too, because this week might bring some spicy data.1
Once again, most of the action this week takes place in Gemini and Aries. The new moon in Gemini on Monday occurs near Mercury, within hours of Mercury's sextile with Saturn-Neptune and its trine to Pluto. On Thursday, we're treated to a Mercury cazimi—an exact conjunction with the sun—and on Sunday, Venus meets up with Chiron in Aries.
Monday's new moon is ruled by (and less than four degrees away from) the planet Mercury. Mercury in Gemini is both chatty as fuck and conversationally adaptive. Mercury in Gemini solves problems not because problem-solving is even its goal or purpose, but because it can't help asking questions.
Remember “Mmmbop,” the 1997 multi-platinum banger by Hanson?
A new moon in Gemini near Mercury is a great time to set an intention to stay curious. What if a question became your anthem—"Can you tell me/what flower's gonna grow?/Can you tell me/is it gonna be a daisy or a rose?"
And, as the song goes, "No you can't, cuz you don't know"—buuut there's a chance you might actually find out on Thursday when Mercury meets up with the sun.
A Mercury cazimi often clarifies something. Puts insight into words. Dumps some fresh intel into your lap. This particular Merc cazimi might bring an answer to a question you hadn't even figured out how to ask—or perhaps you'll finally put that question into words. That's where the magic happens, after all. As Einstein said, "Given one hour to save the world, I would spend 55 minutes defining the problem and 5 minutes finding the solution."2
Or, like, maybe you'll binge all the RuPaul's Drag Race “Reading Challenges” that you can find on YouTube.
You could do worse.
That would be a fitting segue into the Venus-Chiron conjunction on Sunday, actually.
When the planet of connection, relationship, and beauty meets up with the centaur of indelible wounds and perpetual healing, we have an opportunity to hold and be held in compassion for the relational wounding we carry. Like, maybe that anxious-avoidant attachment style you're rocking doesn't mean you’re broken or undeserving of love and connection. Maybe it just means you're human.
Venus conjunct Chiron in Aries might also reflect an opportunity to recall an insight or engage a practice that we picked up the last time we encountered a certain flavor of suffering. Triggers, flares, and narrowed states are rough—but (and) they're different each time because we bring into our current experience all the lessons (lol, "lessons") we've collected before.
And those lessons are especially accessible if we've been strengthening our curiosity muscles.
Here, have a little more Einstein: “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence.”3
if there's one word I'm happy to be accused of overusing in the discussion of 2025's astrology, it's "spicy" lmao
Einstein probably didn't actually say this, but hey, it's fun to pretend
this one Einstein did probably say 😜