Jeanna Kadlec

New York

HERETIC: A MEMOIR (@harpercollins). Queer Midwesterner in NYC. Not regularly active here! Find me at: https://t.co/1Rd9ygcLnG

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generous & generative: the week of june 22, 2025

1 week ago | jeannakadlec.substack.com | Jeanna Kadlec

Astro-wise, this week is glorious and also busy AF — including Wednesday’s New Moon, there are 10 major astro events this week.
on cancer & capricorn: the axis of lineage & legacy

1 week ago | jeannakadlec.substack.com | Jeanna Kadlec

Happy Summer Solstice, beloveds. The sun enters Cancer at 10:42pm Eastern tonight. By way of honoring the solstice and the arrival of Cancer season, here’s the fourth issue of the zodiacal axis pairings, exploring the archetypes of Cancer and Capricorn through the concept of lineage & legacy (and also: Beyoncé, ancestor veneration, and queer descendants).
freedom is a practice: the week of june 15, 2025

1 week ago | jeannakadlec.substack.com | Jeanna Kadlec

Happy No Kings weekend, beloveds! The culture-defining events of the present moment are reflected in this week’s astrology, including — tragically — the politically-motivated assassination of Minnesota’s Democratic House leader and her husband, and another attempt on a Minnesota state senator and his wife. We often see headlining violence during Mars-Uranus squares, but this was one of the greatest tragedies of this transit in recent memory.
on the full moon in sagittarius & speaking up

2 weeks ago | jeannakadlec.substack.com | Jeanna Kadlec

🗽 NYC! I’m reading at Patchwork Literary Salon in Brooklyn tomorrow evening, June 11th at 7pm — come thru! 900 Fulton St. Brooklyn! It’s free, and there are snacks!🏳️‍🌈 Queer & trans writers: Have you signed up for my 4th annual Pride Publishing Q&A yet? June 25th, 1pm Eastern, totally free, register at the link. My agent Dana Murphy of Trellis Literary will once again be joining me to speak to your questions on the agent front!And she’s spicy.
speak from the heart: the week of june 8, 2025

2 weeks ago | jeannakadlec.substack.com | Jeanna Kadlec

This week, we dive head-first into new, more emotionally forward collective energy. Jupiter enters Cancer alongside Mercury, that planet that is so important to writers. Speaking from the heart is the phrase for the week.
on the claws of jupiter in cancer

3 weeks ago | jeannakadlec.substack.com | Jeanna Kadlec

Astrology for Writers is exclusively supported by readers like you. Paid subscribers have access to an active Discord as well as to (new!) upcoming live monthly meetings. 🗽 NYC! Come see me read in a stacked lineup at Patchwork Literary Salon in Brooklyn next Wednesday, June 11th at 7pm (900 Fulton St. Brooklyn!). 🏳️‍🌈 I’m thrilled to be hosting my 4th (!!) annual Pride Publishing Q&A, a totally free event for LGBTQIA+ writers, on June 25th at 1pm Eastern.
integration & application: the week of june 1, 2025

4 weeks ago | jeannakadlec.substack.com | Jeanna Kadlec

Integration is the theme of this week. After this last week’s intensive energy that drove us toward prolific output and inspired us through intentional inputs, we are … not slowing down, precisely. But the planets are, mostly, keeping to themselves this week, which gives us time in this still-waxing lunar phase to integrate and maybe even apply our insights to the everyday.
on the new moon in gemini: the best week of the year for writers

1 month ago | jeannakadlec.substack.com | Jeanna Kadlec

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time to fly: the week of may 25, 2025

1 month ago | jeannakadlec.substack.com | Jeanna Kadlec

✨ ’s and my 4+ hour (!!) Creativity Through the Houses lecture drops TOMORROW! all times are easternJust ahead of Monday’s New Moon, we get an additional burst of Gemini energy with Mercury, its ruling planet, flying into the sign of the trickster-twins. Every single planetary aspect this week is one being made by Mercury. This is a week for soaring high and swooping low, for paying attention to what is above and what is below.
saturn in aries 101 for artists & writers

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