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Yahoo
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Everything You Need to Know About the 3rd House in Astrology
You've made it through the front door (1st House) of your birth chart, walked through the foyer (2nd House), and now here you are—welcome to the living room. In astrology, the 3rd House is associated with communication, your immediate environment, siblings (and sometimes cousins), early education, and short-distance travel. ICYMI, your birth chart is divided into 12 sections called houses, and each house rules over different areas of life. The 3rd House represents socialization that occurs quickly and without much thought. It's where social interactions unfold effortlessly, akin to the living room's role in a home. 'Member the viral challenges of the 2010s, from the Cupid Shuffle to the Harlem Shake? These pre-TikTok sensations mirror the 3rd House's essence: Quick to catch on, easy to share, and reflecting the mirroring nature of relationships. In the 3rd House, wisdom and wit passes between peers and family as easily as comments on the latest viral dance. Your birth chart's 3rd House thrives on this dynamic interplay, echoing the ongoing dialogue between us and our immediate world. Any drop of wisdom, trendy catchphrase, or backward wisdom falls into the 3rd House of astrology. You're going to need your birth information: Your date of birth, time of birth, and location of birth. Once you have that information, you can go ahead and download one of your favorite astrology apps to figure out what's going on with your 3rd House. If you want to make your life even simpler, use the astrology calculator below and keep reading for more information. Look at the way your birth chart is divided into 12 numbered sections, then see which zodiac sign corresponds with the 3. This birth chart calculator was created by in collaboration with astrologer Narayana Montúfar. Learn more about Narayana's work on her website The 3rd House of astrology, ruled by fast-moving Mercury and vibrant Gemini, is a playroom of basic communication and interaction. Imagine it as a lively living room filled with a diverse mix of games—from the tongue-in-cheek jest of Cards Against Humanity to the strategic negotiations of Monopoly and the fast-paced decisions of Uno. This House is where we pick up the popular slang, vibe-defining catchphrases, and stumble upon unexpected wisdom amidst giggles and debates. Studying the astrological living room is like shuffling through a mixed bag of fun facts, jokes, and life hacks, where learning comes through the fun exchange of ideas rather than the meticulous study of rules. The 3rd House prefers the engaging TL;DR (too long, didn't read) summaries instead of getting too deep. Think instinctual thought vs. intuitive knowledge. Basically, the 3rd House is a living room of interesting ideas, where every brief chat, new dance, and funny phrase has the potential to catch on as an inside joke or social trend. Just keep in mind that just because an idea is passed with confidence—from an older brother or a charismatic friend—doesn't guarantee its truth. In this ever-evolving living room setting of the mind, visitors learn the art of communication, entertainment, and simplistic social bonding. As I mentioned, the zodiac sign and planet associated with the 3rd House are Gemini and Mercury! Mercury is literally the fastest-moving, bittiest, and most susceptible planet within our solar system. In fact, Mercury is only a little bit bigger than the Earth's Moon. Can you imagine being on Mercury? The Sun shines at least seven times brighter on Mercury than it does on Earth; retinol never stood a chance. Mercury's sensitivity to the Sun's influence can be compared to a summer's day–on the schoolyard. As you astro-experts know, in astrology, the Sun represents our ego, and Mercury represents communication. Philosophically speaking, without social expression, our egos or sense of self may cease to exist! The 3rd House represents how we begin to feel united with others, our instinctual icks, and our intuitive preferences. As the Sun of our siblings, peers, and early childhood figures shine their light on us, our sense of self and how we communicate is funneled through their social differences and similarities. Being associated with the zodiac sign Gemini places further emphasis on the swiftness in which we develop our 3rd House's tricks, treats, and quirks. Oh yummy, you have planets within your 3rd House of astrology? The planets within your 3rd House represents how you receive and comprehend rapid information. See it as a prompt to consider how nimble you are. For example, if you have Saturn in the 3rd House, perhaps you could benefit from considering how quickly you decide to adopt new catchphrases and behaviors. Accidentally saying a phrase out of context and inappropriately could cost you major cool points! With Saturn in the 3rd House, the astrological message might be that as astonishingly swift as Mercury is, you gain wisdom from slowing down the process. Have you ever heard the question 'if all your lil friends jump off the bridge, are you going to jump too?' (please tell me this isn't just a Black Mom thing, lol). The moral of that question outlines how Saturn in the 3rd House can be an absolute strength. Some of your friends or haters might call you 'slow' or joke about how you live under a rock, but you received the universal gift of critical thought. You're not going to dive into a bad situation just because everyone else is doing it. Another planetary example is the Sun in the 3rd House, which basically means that *you* are the subject of quick trends and communication. Perhaps you're frequently copied or are the trendsetter of your friend group. Popular, much? To have planets transiting your 3rd House is to have the universe take you by your inner child and say, "Hey, dude, remember that cringy moment when you thought mustaches were cool? Yeah, so you put mustache stickers on everything, because everyone was doing it, you kept doing it after everyone stopped and no one gave you the memo. Creeper!" A transiting planet within your 3rd House is akin to having a visitor chilling in your living room. You know they're going to leave eventually, but while you're there, you start picking up and potentially appreciating their vibe. For example, let's say you know that Venus is coming over. If you're an introspective cosmic cutie, then you know you should probably clean up your astrological living room by observing 3rd House themes unique to you and getting yourself in order. When studying planetary transits within your 3rd House it helps to know about the planet paying you a visit. Venus is the planet associated with beauty and love, therefore, once she enters your living room, you can expect to reflect on how you've learned to flirt, ideas gained from siblings that inform your perspectives on dating, and that hot little thing you do with your face because you casually picked it up during locker room talk. As the planet comes and goes from your living room, the themes associated with that planet will cause you to reflect on how you picked up certain patterns, behaviors, and habits. Maybe this transit is urging you to stop using your tongue to tie cherry stems into knots, because this you're not in undergrad anymore. You Might Also Like Here's What NOT to Wear to a Wedding Meet the Laziest, Easiest Acne Routine You'll Ever Try
Yahoo
05-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
I Can't Stop Thinking About How Weird These 5 Millennial Trends Were
Now that most of us are over 30, a lot of us millennials have found that we are a little... uncool. In fact, you might even say that we are – and were – cringe. Personally, I am a huge proponent of being cringe-but-free. I don't mind that I am mortifying to my younger Gen Z sisters and I know that I will always have a little bit of twee embedded in my DNA. However, there are some trends I look back on from the 2010′s that were just a bit... weird? Most of which were before things got really weird, so I'm not sure what our excuse is to be honest. There was a period of time that we just... started planking on random parts of our hometowns and cities, then uploading the photos to social media. According to the BBC. while the fad took off in 2011, the earliest practitioners were Gary Clarkson and Christian Langdon in 2000, who started lying down in public places in Taunton in order to be photographed. They called it the lying down game. I honestly don't know why we did it but it was very, very silly. Speaking of silly... For a pre-TikTok era, this was a very TikTok vibe. The meme started when YouTube comedian Filthy Frank took 'Harlem Shake' by producer Baauer and played off a dubstep drop 15 seconds into the song. The 'dance' involved an otherwise calm environment with one singular person dancing breaking out into dance, often with costumes on, once the beat dropped. Then... It blew up. Everyone was doing it. Offices, diving teams, even the Norwegian Army joined in. There was something about it that was so addictive. Just watching it happen again and again across the world united us in a strange way. Briefly, of course. This 'challenge' was exactly what it sounds like: stand still like a mannequin, no matter what you're doing. It started in a US high school before going viral and even making it onto the Late Late Show. Weird, but a fun reminder of what it used to mean to 'go viral'. I will be honest, I think about this one more than any other. If you weren't around in this era or simply, somehow, don't remember, people genuinely did get pedicures done by fish. The pampering treatment involved dunking feet in tanks filled with Garra rufa fish that can nibble away dead skin. This usually was done in the middle of shopping centres for some reason. It was huge! People loved it! They went out of fashion very quickly but according to PETA, the treatment is still legal in the UK despite being illegal in many other countries. Ick. This is a trend I will defend with my LIFE because yes we were so cringe but it's actually very cute to look back on. 3D glasses from the cinema with lenses poked out, t-shirts with the word 'GEEK' or even just moustaches on them, not to mention the moustache finger tattoos people got... Yes, it's cringe and yes, extremely twee but you know what? Bless us. 20 Ways Millennials Used The Internet That The Gen Z Mind Couldn't Comprehend Millennials Are Sharing Phrases They Heard All The Time As Kids, But Gen Alpha Will Never Be Told Why Do Millennials Appear To Be Ageing Slower? Here's The Answer.
The Independent
28-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Singer-songwriter Chloe Moriondo: ‘I've been embarrassed by my online past selves – but most kids are cringy'
When Chloe Moriondo was born, her mother made her dad go and buy fresh oysters from her favourite restaurant. They were eaten gratefully in the hospital room. Those weird little sea molluscs came back into the 22-year-old alt pop star's life after a bad breakup. Moriondo kept thinking, sadly, 'My world is my oyster,' like if she repeated it enough times she would believe it, and then magically she did. Oyster was the perfect title for her new album about love, loss and turning suffering into beautiful art to present to the world. Its floaty songs are the sort of soft, glitchy pop that I imagine mermaids might make. We're facing each other on a Zoom call, both with a plate of oysters in front of us; I'm in London, she's in her label's New York office, framed by a backdrop of skyscrapers. An oyster is tossed down her throat elegantly, then she winces: she put too much horseradish on it. 'I need to lock in on my ratio,' Moriondo laughs, fluttering her long, fake eyelashes. She styled herself like a freshwater pearl for the interview: in all creamy white with a big scalloped collar top and giant pillowy purse. Across her eclectic pop output so far, she's been fond of aquatic imagery. 'I grew up in Michigan, which has lakes, not oceans, but I've always really loved the water,' she explains. 'I was lucky enough to have had a swimming pool in my backyard; my Grandma told me I was going to grow gills one day.' She still lives in Detroit, Michigan, to be close to her mother, friends and creature comforts but is considering a move to New York when her lease ends in August. Moriondo launched her career on YouTube as a 12-year-old heavily involved in its musical covers scene; she uploaded content at the tail end of a pre-TikTok world when record labels looked to young kids performing cover songs (sometimes with an acoustic guitar or ukulele) like Justin Bieber, Charlie Puth and Halsey, as future stars. In Moriondo's case, it was the latter, since her small fingers couldn't stretch to bar chords on guitar. 'I did not get much feedback for a very long time,' she smiles of her cover videos. 'There was one subscriber I remember who would comment on every video and, to this day, I still see them sometimes in my [Instagram and TikTok] lives, which is crazy because it's been 10 years.' Everything changed in 2017 when she posted her first original song, the soft and playful ukulele-accompanied ballad 'waves'. It's reminiscent of Billie Eilish and written about a family holiday she spent dreaming about a girl she had romantic feelings for back at home. At the age of 17, she signed with Elektra/Fuelled By Ramen, the home of Paramore, Panic! at the Disco and Fall Out Boy, which was extremely exciting for her as someone who grew up on emo and pop punk; that quirky pop confidence is apparent in her own music. She starts to laugh about how much she loves the first Panic! at the Disco album, A Fever You Can't Sweat Out: 'The burlesque, the weird cabaret situation – it makes me freak out, it's so cool. The lyrics were so wacky, I don't know how anyone could come up with that.' As someone who came of age as a child online, especially as a content creator, Moriondo has reams of images and videos of all her phases for every fan or hater to see – and she admits she's had many vivid phases. 'I've had a lot of feelings about the different versions of myself that are permanently online for people to either love or scrutinise. I've been embarrassed of my past self a lot because I was cringy – I was a kid. Most kids are cringy; that's kinda how we start,' she explains. 'But now I think I've kinda accepted that this is how it works if I want to make things and live off it. I was definitely a little more insecure at points.' Now, in oyster mode, she's got a newly girly look, her bottle blonde shoulder-length hair neatly curled up at the ends. 'I always felt like I was not like the other girls, but not in an 'I'm special way', in an 'I'm bad' way',' she says carefully. 'I thought I wasn't pretty enough. I was definitely less feminine and [more] boyish back then, and now I'm enjoying being feminine and thinking about beautiful art like The Birth of Venus. The ocean in general is a feminine space.' A few years ago, her fledgling career was in a positive place, off the back of 2021's pop-punk album Blood Bunny, straight into 2022's hyper-pop SUCKERPUNCH. Then, suddenly, she pretty much disappeared on the internet. That break was self-imposed: after she got back home to Detroit from the SUCKERPUNCH tour, she experienced a 'life-ruining' breakup with her childhood best friend turned girlfriend, Samantha, a visual artist who works under the name Virtual Flesh and namesake and inspiration for Moriondo's song 'Samantha'. They had been in each other's lives for 10 years, collaborating intensely across Moriondo's visuals, merch and creative direction. 'I started living alone for the first time – I was feeling depressed, lonely, I wasn't eating right, I wasn't sleeping right. I definitely needed time,' she says, temporarily leaving her food to one side. 'My manager and entire team could tell at that point without me even saying anything that I needed a break. I took one until I was ready to start writing about what the hell I'd been going through for the past two years.' It took time to process the difficult feelings and listen to the friends who told her she needed to be out of a relationship that had been unhealthy for both parties. 'In some ways I still don't feel super normal. It was very complicated. That's not an easy thing to let go of,' she says of her ex and former best friend. 'Eventually, I kissed some strangers and got over it, at least enough to write some songs.' Moriondo wallows deeply on piano-led autotuned ballad 'pond' and unpacks her nuanced experience of heartbreak on pulsing single 'shoreline'. Writing about what happened has been cathartic, she says, adding that even making joke TikTok videos about her pain has been fun. I watch one in which she faints to the floor; the caption overlaid on the screen says: 'How i feel when someone requests the love song i named after my ex while i'm promoting the one about our break up'. It has also been enjoyable to be fully in charge of the visual elements of her work for the first time: she crafted her own Pinterest boards with the more feminine oyster visuals and styling, collaborating with Japanese artist Tetsuhiro Wakabayashi for the album cover. 'We had so much creative entanglement,' she says of her ex-partner, who she's now able to reflect on with positivity. 'We worked really well together, and I'm grateful for the time we had together, but it was important for me to do this on my own and learn to be more confident in talking to my team in what I want and like.' Though plenty of artists over the last few years, from Phoebe Bridgers to Chappell Roan, have taken to criticising their bossy, scary or presumptuous fanbases, Moriondo feels so grateful for hers who have stood by her during this hiatus that she starts welling up. 'I started from YouTube – I would be nothing without these people,' she says in tears. Besides, Moriondo adds, her fans are really polite, shy and sweet – this is where I think: quite like her – the sort to meet her for the first time carrying tiny gifts. 'I'm going to be having a lot of oysters this week,' she says, speculating about possible gifts, with a pause to look at her record label-supplied oyster lunch, and a laugh when I express concern that accepting oysters from fans might not be a bright idea. Her fans' generous behaviour in all guises gives her hope, she says. 'They show me that people can just be normal sometimes.'
