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Your Horoscope This Week: April 4, 2021

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The week leading up to the new moon in Aries has very big to-do-list energy, and not a lot of time to get it all done the way we would want. Thank goodness Mercury leaves Pisces and moves into Aries, reminding us that it’s always a good time to practice saying “no” — especially when “no” will serve us better in the long run than the momentary good feeling we get from saying “yes.” In fact, candidness, directness, and drive are the name of the game as the planets start to stack up in Aries. And, it’s a good thing, too, that Jupiter forms a flowing aspect to Aries’ ruler Mars in Gemini. We can look forward to some highly informed decision-making, followed by a good deal of luck.

It’s important to recognize that while these influences are, for the most part, positive, they are in relationship to Pluto which continues to square the Sun and will form a perfect square to Venus in Aries on the day of the new moon. Pluto in Capricorn, we know, calls up the shadow of the structures and systems that make up our lives, and in the United States the shadow can be highly visible in our carceral system and our capitalist approach to healthcare. Venus in Aries is forthright and bold and Venus in Aries wants to protect what it loves at all costs. A tense aspect between these two signs is a trial full of power plays. Whatever you’ve heard about masculinity, patriarchy, gods of war, remember: Aries is a sign that fights for life, and celebrates it. Aries wants new ways of being, and rejects any structure that serves only the past.

**Aries Sun & Aries Rising**

The week leading up to the Aries new moon is an auspicious week for you, if you want it. You know as well as anyone that even good tidings can’t be forced upon a ram that’s not ready to receive them. But, if you are ready, if you’re willing, then good things are coming. How can you be sure that you’re open for new opportunities and how will you signal your readiness? Stay extra conscious of the agreements you make this week, the way you use your word; not just with others, but with yourself as well. Your word is a spell, so when you speak life into yourself, life is what you are calling forward. The more precious your word is to you, the more meaningful your interactions will be, and deeper insights will come from these interactions. Think of it as a positive discipline: To build the world you want, speak of it.

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**Taurus Sun & Taurus Rising**

It takes a while to figure out what it’s all for, the mementos and diary entries, the certificates you carry from city to city to feel proof of the lives you’ve lived and the possibility of future ones. This week, you’ll find that there’s a clear purpose for all you’ve been storing within you; there’s many ways for you to share what’s meaningful to you with the world around you. Unburden yourself, Taurus, of the pressure to find “the right moment.” Every step you take toward sharing the wealth of your inner world with your outer world — whether that be through public work or ritual, creative outlets or mentorship — the more you’ll find yourself in step with this idea of “timing,” rather than subject to it. In a parallel universe where everything has already happened and is always happening, it’s always the right time to catch up.

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**Gemini Sun & Gemini Rising**

When you have a lot of people above you and power trails you can’t see, signing on that dotted line can feel like signing away your value system. Even working for yourself offers myriad opportunities to put someone else first. Freelancers know the pain of saying yes to too much today lest tomorrow there is no well from which to drink. While these negotiations are a weighty part of being a person in the public sphere, they do not have to define your experience of it. In fact, chances are likely that this month has found you growing disillusioned with what you thought your work was, and motivated to figure out what exactly you want your work to be — on your own terms. The value you place on your offerings, your gift and your time, has a direct relationship with its impact and the people who stand to benefit from it.
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**Cancer Sun & Cancer Rising**

We talk a lot about generational wealth, how it gives people a leg up in their lives, but we rarely look at the way generational debt can hold people back. And, while it’s most tangible to talk about debt from a very literal money sense, the kind of debt a person can carry is much wider than the numbers on the bank statements. Our wealth is in direct relationship to how we conceive of our limits — what we have available to us, what we are capable of, what we are willing to risk and to lose in order to be free. This week, you can expect to find some clarity around the debts you have been working off and the old selves you are ready to work off, too. This clarity is necessary as you reassess your public role. This clarity will help you figure out how to honor the shadowy parts without letting them take the reins.

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**Leo Sun & Leo Rising**

Any time that you are in a position to learn more, you are also in the position to teach. Think of it this way: Relationships never flow in one direction. If you have found yourself pushed to redefine your boundaries, not only in regards to the behavior of others but also in accordance with your own impulses, then you are pushing those around you to respect what makes you “you,” and in turn need to respect what makes them who they are. Definition is a pleasure, isn’t it? Almost as pleasurable as losing oneself. Staying at the shoreline where water and sand mix is a sensory haven. But, when the current pulls, standing in the wet stands becomes untenable — rough. It’s good to know what the water is capable of, it’s good to know the true texture and temperature of the sand. It’s good to get to know the role you actively fill in your own life before you go looking to fill a role in someone else’s.
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**Virgo Sun & Virgo Rising**

I know you’re tired, dear Virgo. I’m tired too, just from looking at your schedule. It’s okay to be tired. It’s okay to admit that you’re a little burnt out and, as ever, feeling like you could get a little more bang for all that buck you keep spending energetically and… financially. The truth is, your efforts are far from drops in a bucket, or if they are drops in a bucket they are highly valuable drops in a very precious bucket. Your service to the communities you are a part of is enriching both the communities and you. You are learning to contribute from a place of empowerment and eagerness to learn more. These learning opportunities are the keys to not only shifting your relationship to wealth, they are helping you come to terms with the way all things must change shape in order to relate to a changing world — including you.

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**Libra Sun & Libra Rising**

It might sound counterintuitive, but the truth is, the more time you reserve for yourself, the more likely you are to spend quality time with others. Of course on some level, you know this already, but it can be hard to prioritize what brings you joy without trying to share that joy with others. You love to share and you love to spread that joy around. Collaborative joy is good — great, even — but setting aside some solo time to tune into your inner kid and create what might ostensibly be brain garbage is vital Libra operations mode. The more you write yourself into your schedule, the more aware you will become of fluctuations in your state of being: what inspires you, what challenges you, what bores you. In turn, you’ll grow more aware of how your relationships affect you and shape you. And, how you shape them.

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**Scorpio Sun & Scorpio Rising**

When most people talk about their relationships to their kin, they talk about a story. In the story there are set narratives, who people are and who they plan to be in relationship to one another. The story is always being written but as long as it’s being written by one person it’s unlikely to change. In the hands of another character, it’s obvious that the perspective would shift and the plot thicken. We know this but it’s hard to live by what we know, to not get hurt when people stop treating us the way they used to. Hard to remember, in the mundane everyday of dates and errands, pets and jobs, are countless opportunities for loved ones to change and that their change has very little to do with us. To build a life together is to be in a constant state of loss and acceptance, to want to live through change together?Illustration by Stefhany Lozano

**Sagittarius Sun & Sagittarius Rising**

As Aries season picks up power, especially with Mercury sliding into Aries this week, it’s a great time to shift from research mode into action mode. But, action mode for you isn’t the same as it tends to be for your fire sign brethren. Your research has played a vital part in your path so far, even the lessons that didn’t come from books. Crisis and heartbreak were worthy teachers, alongside your mentors and friends. The wisdom and approaches you’ve learned from them will serve you now, so long as you are able to recognize that your intuition and viewpoint are vital to any step you take. To express yourself is to honor the influence that your past and all the people in it have had on you. To share yourself and what you know with others is to share the work of all those teachers. It is an act of gratitude.
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**Capricorn Sun & Capricorn Rising**

There are many ways to feel wealthy in this world and, Capricorn, this week your opportunity to feel your wealth is meeting you at your door. It’s a great time to reach out to your networks of support, throw the bucket into the full well, tap a tree and lick it at the spout. You don’t have to sip champagne every time you get thirsty, but you can take a moment and appreciate all the ways you've called this kind of abundance in, working for it, doing your due diligence. Still, more feels like more when you feel safe and secure enough to share it, and sometimes it can be difficult to find people who are worthy of your trust. The good news is, the more you’re able to connect with the source of your abundance — which is renewable because it is who you *are* — the easier it’ll be to allow others to celebrate you and share their abundance with you. We enrich each other each time we come together, it doesn’t need to be forever.Illustration by Stefhany Lozano

**Aquarius Sun & Aquarius Rising**

It’s not inherently capitalist or whatever to want to differentiate yourself, to carve out a tiny piece of the pie and decorate it with your name. We don’t live in a collective culture, babe, and while some collective decision making might serve us, the cult of the individual is alive and well all over the globe. People have been writing love stories for a long time thinking that what they felt within their heart was an original flame, the first of its kind to burn and the first to extinguish so terribly. Without that belief we wouldn’t have the books we have. It’s important to acknowledge that you want to be the protagonist, that you want a big story, that you want it to matter. The wanting is essential work and the more you accept this part of you, the easier it’ll be to channel it into passionate projects. Illustration by Stefhany Lozano

**Pisces Sun & Pisces Rising**

Don’t let the turbulence faze you, dear Pisces; you know that the river can get choppy from time to time, but that doesn’t mean the hard times are gonna last. Part of being the Zodiac’s sign of surrender is knowing that sometimes the best way to fight a strong current is to swim with it. You might not know where it’s going to take you, but you can bet on the tides that it’ll be a lot better than where you’ll end up if you deny something that’s inevitable. Who you are and all that you have reserved for moments just like this will not only see you through, but will also act as a guiding light for those within your circle. Let your surrender be a kind of faith shelter for anyone who comes to you. Be the school of fish. What you offer will not deplete you, it will give you new insight into who you are.

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You’re About To Hear A Lot More About “Ghost Guns” — Here’s Why

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When Joe Biden was inaugurated, he became the president with the most comprehensive gun control plan and background in U.S. history. On Thursday, he unveiled his first action against gun violence: tighter restrictions on homemade “ghost guns” that allow gun owners to sidestep actions including background checks. “This is not a partisan issue among the American people. This is a view by the American people as an American issue,” Biden said in his remarks. “And I’m willing to work with anyone to get these done. And it’s long past time that we act.”

But, what exactly are “ghost guns”? The term describes firearms that owners can make themselves using parts, kits, and instruction manuals. Sometimes, these kits include guns that are basically whole: According to Everytown for Gun Safety, unfinished frames and receivers are often marketed as “80%” finished, and according to a former Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) special agent, they’re as easy to build as IKEA furniture.

What’s especially dangerous is that, because these kits and parts aren’t legally classified as guns, buyers aren’t obligated to undergo a background check. And because these aren’t sold as guns, they aren’t engraved or stamped with a serial number. This means that they’re completely untraceable, hence the “ghost” part of their name.

Biden wants “to see these kits treated as firearms” under the Gun Control Act, and will direct the Department of Justice to take action within 30 days. He didn’t outline exactly how this action will work but said that he wants manufacturers to add serial numbers to kits and run background checks on buyers.

In 2019, the ATF reported that around 30% of guns recovered in California didn’t have serial numbers. More than 2,500 ghost guns were linked to criminal cases from 2010 to 2020. “This is not just something for enthusiasts. This has become something for people that are actual practitioners of violence,” Graham Barlowe, an ATF agent, told The Trace.

Biden also outlined some of his other priorities, including enacting a nationwide “red flag” law. Under this legislation, a gun owner’s family can petition a court to have their firearms removed if they believe the owner poses a threat to people’s lives, or to their own. “We know red flag laws can have a significant effect in protecting women from domestic violence. And we know red flag laws can stop mass shooters before they can act out their violent plans,” he said. Studies have shown that these laws also help prevent deaths by suicide.

Finally, Biden also pushed Congress to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act, close the “Charleston” loophole, and pass new background check laws. “This is just a start,” he said. “We have a lot of work to do.”

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No, Revenge Porn Is Absolutely Not “Free Speech”

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Mandatory Credit: Photo by MediaPunch/Shutterstock (9959079ct) Katie Hill TheWrap’s Power Women’s Summit, Los Angeles, USA – 02 Nov 2018

On Wednesday, former congresswoman Katie Hill, who at one time represented California’s 25th congressional district before resigning in November 2019 in the midst of an ethics investigation, was dealt a blow to her ongoing efforts to hold those who participated in a “revenge porn” scandal accountable. Hill’s lawsuit against The Daily Mail, a British tabloid that ran naked photos of her in 2019, was dismissed by a judge, who argued that the photos were a “matter of public issue or public interest.”

“I sued The Daily Mail for their publication of my nonconsensual nude images. Today, we lost in court because a judge — not a jury — thinks revenge porn is free speech,” Hill tweeted. “This fight has massive implications for any woman who ever wants to run for office, so quitting isn’t an option.” (Refinery29 reached out to Hill for comment, but did not hear back at the time of publication.)

The lawsuit was one of many that Hill filed after reports surfaced that the former congresswoman had engaged in a relationship with one of her campaign staffers and hundreds of nude photos and intimate text messages, provided by her allegedly abusive ex-husband, were published online in the fall of 2019. Hill also filed lawsuits against her ex-husband, Kenny Heslep, Salem Media Group Inc., and RedState deputy managing editor Jennifer Van Laar, among others. In Hill’s resignation letter, she wrote that “having private photos of personal moments weaponized against me has been an appalling invasion of my privacy” before vowing to join the fight to “defeat this type of exploitation that so many women are victims to and which will keep countless women and girls from running for office or entering public light.”

“Dismissing Katie Hill’s case on anti-SLAPP grounds sets a dangerous precedent for victims of nonconsensual pornography everywhere,” Carrie A. Goldberg, Hill’s attorney, tweeted after the case was dismissed. “Anybody who dares enter the public eye should now have legitimate concern that old nude and sexual images can be shared widely and published by any person or media purporting to have journalistic intentions.”

Comparing revenge porn to free speech toes a dangerous line for victims. An ongoing 2020 study out of the U.K., New Zealand, and Australia found that as many as one in three people have been victims of revenge porn — partners or past partners sharing nude or intimate images and/or videos of them without their consent. That number is up from the reported one in five people who have been victims of revenge porn in 2016, according to the same study. And the commonality of revenge porn is being highlighted on the national stage even now, as current Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) has been accused of sharing nude photos and videos of women he claimed he had sex with, with other members of congress — sometimes on the House floor.

This is just one of the many reasons why the judge’s dismissal of Hill’s case against The Daily Mail is so disturbing. Not only did Judge Yolanda Orozco of Los Angeles County Superior Court argue that the photos were protected under the First Amendment, the judge argued that they were well within the rights of the publication to post because “they spoke to [Hill’s] character and qualifications of her position.”

In 2021, a woman deciding to engage in consensual sexual activity is somehow a mark against her morality, but a man sharing images of women without their consent on the House floor is not grounds for his immediate removal from office or resignation. (Gaetz has denied all allegations and has said he will not resign, and there have been no calls from leading members of the Republican Party for him to resign.) In 2021, a woman agreeing to taking private nude or explicit photos that are then used against her is insight into her character, but a man sharing those images is still invited to speak at a conservative women’s rally as a “fearless leader.”

The hypocrisy would be laughable if it weren’t horrendously cruel or indicative of the way women’s bodies and their sexuality is weaponized against them while simultaneously used by men as shameless fodder to boost their egos. The argument that revenge porn is protected under “free speech” and necessary in order to decipher the characters of women, is just another painful instance of how sexuality is used against women to boost the public perceptions of men.

Goldberg shared via Twitter that Hill plans to appeal the ruling, tweeting that her firm believes “an appellate court will disagree.”

“We’re up against a deeply misogynistic system that has to change,” Hill tweeted, “and it won’t until we force it to.”

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How Lady Gaga’s House Of Gucci Wedding Dress Compares To The Original

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Just when we thought the fashion in Ridley Scott’s upcoming film House of Gucci couldn’t get any better — think: Adam Driver as Gucci heir, Maurizio Gucci, in a cable knit, snow pants, and ‘70s aviators; and Lady Gaga, as his ex-wife Patrizia Reggiani, in a Pretty Woman-esque polka dot dress — Lady Gaga appeared on the set in Italy wearing a wedding dress. *Cues “Marry The Night.”*

The scene being shot? The 1973 wedding of Patrizia and Maurizio Gucci, of course. House of Gucci follows the rise and fall of the couple’s relationship — the fall being the eventual murder of Gucci in 1995 at the hands of Reggiani. (Sort of: Reggiani hired a hitman named Benedetto Ceraulo to carry out the job, for which she received a 29-year prison sentence.)

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Andrew Medichini/AP/Shutterstock (11849111a) Lady Gaga plays Maurizio Gucci’s former wife Patrizia Reggiani during the shooting of a movie by Ridley Scott, based on the story of the murder of Maurizio Gucci in 1995, in Rome Lady Gaga Gucci Movie, Rome, Italy – 08 Apr 2021

The dress worn by Gaga on the set of House of Gucci differs from the original one worn by Reggiani. While they are both long-sleeved, photos from the wedding ceremony show the “black widow” wearing an unadorned, high-necked gown with a tapered waist. Meanwhile, Gaga’s features a high-low hem, a sweetheart neckline, embroidered details, and lace sleeves. (Manolo Blahnik’s Hangisi heels, which came out in the ’00s and were popularized by the Sex and the City film, are also period-inaccurate.) Like Gaga, though, her lace and scalloped cathedral veil was attached to a swept-back beehive updo. Both carried a large bouquet of white-and-pink flowers.

Driver looked equally dapper, mimicking Gucci to a T in a black tuxedo jacket with tails, gray, pinstripe pants, and a silver tie. The only difference between the fictional version and the real-life look was Driver’s oversized, tortoiseshell eyeglasses. They’re very 2021 Gucci, though, so we’ll let it slide.

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