Are dating apps actually killing American romance, or just exposing what was already broken? In this episode of WTF USA? The Astrology Behind the Madness, sexologist and astrologer Stefanie Iris Weiss and Professional Matchmaker and Muse miz Charli join me to dig into sex, power and relationship dynamics tied to commodification in the American chart. We trace Pluto's return through the second house since 2008 and what that says about capitalism infecting our relationship to literal bodies. I bring in the Mars-Venus-Uranus midpoint (in the 30th harmonic) to explain why this country is so overtly, boldly sexual and we get into the Saturn-Neptune conjunction at 0° Aries as a possible turning point away from patriarchy. This episode is raw, funny and it does not hold back.
Biggest Takeaways
Stefanie's read: Pluto's return through the second house since 2008 tracks with how capitalism has infected Americans' relationship to their own bodies and desire — we have to consciously strip that commodification out to access anything authentic
miz Charli's stat: after an estimated 30,000-50,000 conversations with people nationwide as a professional matchmaker, her consistent finding is that dating apps feel "trash"
My own read: the US Mars-Venus-Uranus midpoint (in the 30th harmonic) explains why this country is so overtly, boldly sexual — from Josephine Baker to Madonna — and it's the same placement underneath the current "national pussy drying" energy around American masculinity
Stefanie and Charli's shared theory: the Saturn-Neptune conjunction at 0° Aries this past February may mark the start of a multi-year reset away from patriarchy as a structuring force
My synthesis: sex lives in both the fifth house (casual, playful) and the eighth house (merging, power, coercion) — and the eighth house's darker themes of coercion, extraction, repression and secrecy map disturbingly well onto everything from the Epstein files to closeted political hypocrisy
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