Exalted

by Anna Dorn

Everyone just wants to hear they’re special in very specific language, and astrology is a perfectly nebulous vehicle for this.

This is the great lesbian conundrum. At the same time you’re lusting over a body, you’re also comparing it with your own, hoping it’s not as good. And either way, you lose.

I remember why I’m so drawn to astrology: because it gives me an out for being myself.

“What’s exalted?” she asks. “It means the planet is exactly where it’s supposed to be, where it functions best,”

Freud just gives cloaked terms to universal aspects of the human experience, kind of like astrology. Freud is just astrology for men.