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New York Post
5 days ago
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- New York Post
When Venus enters Taurus this week, these 3 signs should trust in lust
On Friday, June 6, Venus, our planet of attraction, attachment and aesthetics, is trading the flaming codpiece of Aries for the brocade bathrobe of Taurus. Venus will loll around in these pleasured pastures until July 4. Named for the Roman goddess of love and fertility, Venus is the fine, divine feminine counterpart to aggro jockstrap warlord Mars. According to myth, Venus was born from sea foam and the severed member of Uranus, emerging fully formed and boobs busting out in a scallop shell — with pleasure as her governing principle. Venus in Taurus 2025 6 On June 6, Venus, our planet of attraction, attachment and aesthetics, is trading the flaming codpiece of Aries for the brocade bathrobe of Taurus. – As the planetary ruler of Taurus, this transit is Venus coming home and basking in the typical and the tactile. Here in the herd, the planet of love is rapturously incarnated. Earth is luscious, movement is languid, the body is an altar — and in lust we trust. Those born with Venus in Taurus are natural-born hedonists. The inclination here is to revel in the pleasures of the animal body; consuming and consumating are the orders of the day. If Venus in Taurus were a fabric, it would be velvet. Meaning of Venus in Taurus 6 Named for the goddess of love, Venus colors attraction and attachment, assets and aesthetics. wowinside – If Venus in Taurus were a sexual position, it would be 69, because everyone gets to feel good while lying down. Venus in Taurus wants the delicious and the dependable, something or someone steadfast, cash, and/or a fairy tale ending. In turn, this transit makes us hungry for the stable and the sensual: a devoted lover, a piece of fruit ripe and warm from the vine, a fistful of wildflowers, a lavish meal, an unhurried afternoon. For the video embodiment of Venus in Taurus, see the recording of 'Rich Girl,' performed by Hall and Oates circa 1977. In terms of aesthetics, Venus in Taurus is tactile luxury, statuary-inspired silhouettes, and a general invocation of a Renaissance painting. For evidence, see Venus in Taurus natives Lana Del Rey, Princess Diana, Deborah Harry and Megan Fox. The great lesson of Taurus is that pleasure cannot exist without presence. In the ugly, capitalist, 'more' motivated world in which we live and toil, pleasure is often cheapened to a quick thrill and disappearing dopamine; in other words, fast food and a swipe right. In velvet revolt, Venus in Taurus refuses to rush what feels good, as it's not waiting for what's next or distracted by what's been — it's hungry for right now and exactly what it already has. 6 Venus in Taurus calls to mind the image of the horned Egyptian goddess Hathor, the patron saint of fertility, joy, dancing, drunkenness and, above all, gratitude for what gratifies. Kristina – The underbelly of the Venusian bull is indulgence that begets inertia and desire that becomes polluted by possessiveness. We cross this threshold when we move from wanting to hold to needing to own. Venus in Taurus calls to mind the image of the horned Egyptian goddess Hathor, patron saint of fertility, joy, dancing, drunkenness, and above all, gratitude for what gratifies. With this in mind, we are all called to not only take what we need but to honor the source of its delivery, be it the body of another or the earth itself. While we'll all be under the influence of this decadent transit, three signs will feel the effects most acutely. Read for your sun and rising sign. 6 Knstart Studio – Venus has come home to your first of the self, Taurus. A wise friend shared with me her philosophy that, as humans, we are meant to consciously create, not unconsciously consume, and when we lean into the latter, we are not only starved of the meat of what matters, but destined for depression. As an embodied earth sign, a child of Venus, and ruler of the second house of values and valuables, this transit is here to remind you that the process of making is endlessly more nourishing than the state of having. 6 Knstart Studio – You love hard and hold tight, Scorpio, preferring suffering to severance. Yet, Venus in Taurus asks you to imagine that relationships can and should be a joyful pursuit, that devotion is not measured in sacrifices made but pleasure exchanged. In this sense, every disaster that has befallen you, every fissure in your delicate heart, has brought you to the brink of right now and the knowledge that love is not a thing to hold or be held down by, but a constant resource for renewal. 6 Knstart Studio – Ahoy, Sagittarius! In his poem 'The Body,' Charles Simic writes of the body as if it were a shore to be explored: This last continent Still to be discovered. My hand is dreaming, is building Its ship. For crew it takes A pack of bones, for food A beer-bottle full of blood. It knows the breath that blows north. With the breath from the west It will sail east each night. The scent of your body as it sleeps Are the land-birds sighted at sea. My touch is on the highest mast. It cries at four in the morning For a lantern to be lit On the rim of the world. As Venus in Taurus turns the lovelight on your sixth house of ritual, self-care and the body, I implore you to think of the latter, and the other, as a continent unto itself and devote yourself with a poet's ardor to your own edges. Astrologer Reda Wigle researches and irreverently reports on planetary configurations and their effect on each zodiac sign. Her horoscopes integrate history, poetry, pop culture, and personal experience. To book a reading, visit her website.
Los Angeles Times
07-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
On ‘No Worries If Not,' Riki Lindhome rewrites her hero's journey to motherhood
Riki Lindhome never intended to go solo. Since 2007, the comedian, actress and musician has performed as one half of Garfunkel and Oates, a raunchy comedy duo also starring Kate Micucci. But as the COVID era set in, Micucci became a new mom and started writing children's music, and Lindhome began to reevaluate her own path. At first, she felt frightened. But Lindhome is, by her own admission, naturally predisposed to find the positive in everything. 'Before, it had to be something that was true to both of us,' Lindhome told The Times. 'So I started thinking, 'What only applies to me?'' The answer turned out to be right in front of her. Now 46, Lindhome, who started acting professionally in the early 2000s with bit roles in 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' and 'Gilmore Girls' and has since appeared on 'The Big Bang Theory,' 'New Girl' and 'Wednesday,' had been on a yearslong, often demoralizing fertility journey. It started when she was 34 and decided to freeze her eggs, an experience Lindhome chronicled in song (the Emmy-nominated 'Frozen Lullaby') and on Garfunkel and Oates' eponymous IFC show, which ran for one season in 2014. 'I think we were the first show to do realistic egg-freezing storylines with the shots and stuff,' she says. 'There are so many medical shows, but [we] couldn't find the shots for IVF at the prop house. Our prop people had to make them from the pictures I took of my IVF drugs.' Lindhome ended up writing the rest of her fertility story into a one-woman musical, 'Dead Inside,' which premiered at last year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival and has currently been running on a semi-monthly basis at the Elysian Theater in L.A. As she workshopped the show around comedy clubs and small stages, Lindhome also realized she had a solo comedy record on her hands; now, her debut album, 'No Worries If Not,' came out on April 4. Across its 11 tracks, which feature contributions from Fred Armisen (Lindhome's husband since 2022), Nicole Row, Eric Jackowitz and production trio Polyglam, Lindhome traces her maze-like 'hero's journey' to motherhood while poking fun at other quadragenarian quandaries. For instance, on the Barry White-styled 'Middle Age Love,' Lindhome jokes about sex after 40 ('F— me like an animal, if that animal's a turtle / You can c— inside me, it's OK — I'm infertile'). Elsewhere, on 'Don't Google Mommy,' Lindhome imagines her future child Internet-stalking her one day ('Because mommy writes comedy songs that are a teensy bit obscene'). Lindhome also includes a few songs that didn't make it into 'Dead Inside' — '90 Percent Sure,' a back-and-forth duet with fellow comedian Ken Marino, looks back at the comedian's breakup with an unnamed ex-boyfriend. After trying to conceive naturally, experiencing a miscarriage and spending thousands on a few failed attempts at IVF, Lindhome and her ex parted ways when he told her that he wasn't up for having more children. (Lindhome's ex had two children from a previous relationship.) '[My ex] said that he was only 90 percent sure he wanted to have a baby and he deserved to be 100 percent,' Lindhome says. 'So I wrote a song about all the things that I'm only 90 percent sure I'm going to do to him. But don't worry, because it's not 100, so it could never happen!' Meanwhile, on 'Infertile Princess,' Lindhome adopts the lens of a Disney heroine: 'Pocahontas got pregnant just by talking to a tree … If I was like Ariel, I'd be fine, because she makes 20,000 eggs at a time.' While Lindhome solo retains her trademark singsong, sweet-and-sour delivery, the themes within her work have deepened to reflect a more complicated stage of life. For instance, Garfunkel and Oates wrote expletive-laced, satirical pop ditties about bad and embarrassing sex, religious 'loopholes' (IYKYK) and self-satisfied pregnant women, among other things. But Lindhome takes the formula one step further by getting ultra-candid (but no less acerbic) about the social isolation around trying – and failing – to conceive. 'There's so much blaming,' she says. 'When I was going through all of my stuff, a lot of people's first reaction was to give me advice. Like, here's what you're doing wrong. Despite their best intentions, they were making me feel like it was my fault. That should not be it. Your first reaction should be, 'I'm sorry that's happening. How are you?' 'I was feeling so overwhelmed [by the advice] that I stopped telling people what was happening,' Lindhome continues. 'Then I felt super isolated. I'm like, where is the middle ground? From that point, I was like, 'I refuse to be ashamed about this.'' As she prepared to debut 'Dead Inside,' Lindhome remained uncertain that it or its accompanying album would connect with audiences who had not undergone fertility struggles. That's why she called the album 'No Worries If Not.' 'My old music was more crowd-pleasery, not in a bad way. It was just for more people,' she says. 'And this one is about menopause and fertility trauma — such specified things that [I feel], like, 'If you don't like it, I get it!'' Much to her surprise, however, a range of audiences responded to 'Dead Inside' and its music with overwhelmingly positive feedback. 'When I started [performing] in Edinburgh, I was a little taken aback at first, because it would be a lot of women sharing their experience, and I was very touched,' Lindhome says. 'And it was raining all the time. So I always found myself standing in the rain, hugging and crying with people.' What's more, Lindhome has been fascinated to learn how audiences she never expected to relate have connected to the material. '[A] number of straight men without kids who felt included in this were like, 'I understand the feeling of not having information and not knowing my way out.' And I'm like, 'Oh, right, that is universal.' I'm talking about it in a fertility sense, but everyone feels like there is some key that they don't have, that they can't get through the door they need to.' Lindhome's personal story has a happy ending, too. In March 2022, Lindhome welcomed a son, Keaton, via surrogacy and a donated sperm and egg. And while she fully expected to be a single mom, she reconnected with an old friend, Fred Armisen, while filming Netflix's 'Wednesday' in Romania. The summer after Keaton was born, they got married. 'My life changed so much so quickly,' Lindhome says. 'It was funny because when I fell in love on set and had a baby and all this stuff happened at the same time, I was like, 'This was so fast.' And my 'Wednesday' costar Jamie McShane was like, 'Well, if you look at the physics principles, you lost everything in a day and you gained everything in two weeks. It's equal-opposite reactions. This is actually the right cadence for you, scientifically.' Looking ahead, Lindhome is still tweaking 'Dead Inside,' which she wants at least another year to develop. ('Dead Inside' will run in New York on April 3; Austin on April 12; and back in L.A. on April 23.) 'Things change every performance,' Lindhome says. 'I want more time to make it happen. My goal would be to do an off-Broadway or off-off-Broadway run. Then after that, maybe think about trying to film it.' For now, Lindhome hopes 'No Worries If Not' will help people to laugh about the things that are outside of their control. 'I hope people feel seen,' she says. 'When I listen to comedy music, I just want to have a good time. And then if they come to see the show, I want them to feel less alone, especially women who've gone through that stuff. I want them to feel like it's not your fault. I think that's true with most things in life. So much is luck … But you just keep going.'
