With Mars in your money sector (ka-ching), the Sun arriving in your domestic 4th house and Venus arriving on the 13th, it’s a great time to focus on romance, domestic needs and travel. A supportive Mars-Jupiter aspect later in the month brings the possibility of pleasant getaways, short road trips or last-minute invitations.

Tap into your wanderlust with LGBTQ author Lauren Hough’s latest book Monster of a Land. In this autobiography/travelogue, she reenacts John Steinbeck’s legendary Travels With Charley through road trip adventures with her own pup Woody.

With Venus in your domestic 4th house, June is the ideal time to focus your energies on the environment around you. Revamp your garden with colorful flowers. Surround yourself with luxe yet comfortable materials like soft cotton and cozy linen. Stock your pantry with everyday luxuries, maybe some bittersweet marmalade, homemade jams or tapas fixings that you can enjoy al fresco.

If you need a little inspo, Instagram and Pinterest are always your friends. And home design books abound. The Renovation Husbands’ Good Character may be the perfect fit for your loyal, dependable and sensual sign. David and Stephen St. Russell deliver room-by-room tricks for experimenting with color, mixing the old and new and exploring structural and decorative touches that bring out your home’s personality.

As we start the month with the Sun in your sign, you’ll want to look and feel your best. Take inspiration from Elizabeth Hawes: Radical American Fashion. Featuring contributions from five fashion and textile mavens and award-winning writer Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, this exquisite biography explores the life and career of one of America’s most experimental and forward-thinking designers.

She opened her first couture salon in New York City in 1928, wrote a bestselling book Fashion Is Spinach in 1938, became a union activist during WWII and anticipated trends that wouldn’t fully materialize until the 1960s and beyond.

June is the time to rediscover your personal style. With Mars moving into your sign on June 28th, you may enjoy an extra boost of energy, which is great if you’re planning a big project. Finances may improve as the Sun enters your income sector on the 21st, helping to advance your goals for earning and saving. You may find that you have a little extra cash to spruce up your wardrobe.

Dear Cancer, you may feel a touch of magic this month, with Mercury, Venus and Jupiter in your sign. Saturn in your career zone gives you some extra mojo for networking, promotions and lifelong goals. Meanwhile, Venus moves into your money sector on the 13th.

On the 14th, take some time to pamper yourself with face masks, a manicure or a massage during the New Moon. A little self-love and self-care will help you prepare before the Sun arrives in your sign on the 21st. Cancer season is almost here!

The end of the month marks a time to close the cover on matters that no longer serve you while manifesting great things for the year ahead. Tap into the magical power of belief with Hannah Murray’s artful memoir The Make-Believe. The writer and Skins and Game of Thrones actor explores trust, need, mental health and what it means to be well.

Usually bold, generous, confident and charismatic, the stars invite you to slow down this month. It’s the perfect season to enjoy some quiet time and light social activities. With Venus in your sign starting on the 13th, friendship becomes an important focus. Maybe it’s time to meet new people or reach out to someone you haven’t spoken to in a while.

Capture some of the magic of powerful female friendships with Backstabbers, Eliza Jabore’s suspense/thriller/horror/slasher. Best friends Jade, Staf and Zoe hike the remote Bones Hollow Trail in Washington State.

When Stef injures her ankle, the trio’s unease is amplified by the true crime podcast they’ve been listening to about the serial killer who used to stalk the very same woods. What will happen when they approach a sinister cabin and meet the man inside?

Ever practical and analytical, your business skills and professional magnetism are amplified under this month’s transits. With the Sun in Gemini, it’s time to focus on friendship and networking.

The New Moon on the 14th may be your sign to apply for a new job or promotion or set some personal goals for everything that could become possible when Mars enters your career sector on the 28th.

In preparation, dig into executive coach Caroline McKenna’s new book Lead Self First: 7 Lead-Inspired Steps to Unlock Next-Level Growth. Across seven chapters, she covers top topics like self-care, self-awareness, self-purpose and strategies for sustained success. Don’t wait for life to happen. Success starts with YOU.

(Almost) everything is going for you this month, dear Libra. Three powerful planets, Mercury, Venus and Jupiter are in your house of reputation. When Venus enters Leo on the 13th, it’s high time to plan a party and spend quality time with friends.

Later in the month, with a Venus-Saturn trine, you may want to take a special relationship to the next level. What are you waiting for?

Sought-after event planner and Forbes 30 Under 30 Amber Mayfield Hewet serves up the perfect tips and tricks in Your Turn to Host. She covers everything from making your home the ideal gathering place to planning the perfect finishing touches that will leave your guests eager to return.

This month, the Sun shines a light on your budget, encouraging you to trim unnecessary expenses. Maybe it’s time to cancel some unused subscriptions or review those pesky recurring charges. Meanwhile, Venus enters your career sector on the 13th, followed by a New Moon on the 14th that could illuminate exciting new possibilities.

With Mars in Gemini and Jupiter in Leo, the things you manifest now could change your life over the next 12 months. If your naturally strategic sign struggles to believe in the power of manifest destiny, check out Kristy Greenwood’s latest cowboy rom-com Romantic Hero. You may have something in common with protagonist Gertie Bickerstaff.

After heartbreak leaves her with a bad case of writer’s block and a looming deadline, she participates in a manifestation ceremony under the full moon. The following day, she finds her novel’s antihero River Oakley on her couch and hatches a plan to win back her ex Henry by making him jealous.

June promises sweet surprises for Sagittarius. The Sun adds warmth to your partnership sector while Venus, Mercury and Jupiter lend powerful support.

Ready to book a romantic getaway, launch a spicy summer romance or take your current relationship to the next level? The stars are in your favor mid-month with Venus in Leo and a New Moon on the 14th. It’s a great time to update your dating profile or spend time with your special someone.

If romance feels out of reach, a romance novel like They All Fall in Love at the End certainly isn’t. Like a true Sag, MFA student Cat St. Clair has an open mind when she asks her boyfriend to open their relationship. But she ends up falling for not one but two people who should be off limits. With Venus in Leo giving romance fiery main-character energy and a magical trine with Neptune occurring on the 16th, be careful what you wish (or ask) for.

Venus pops into your joint resources sector on the 13th. Combined with supportive aspects from Mercury and Jupiter, it’s a powerful time for expansion. Jupiter arrives in Leo on the 30th, setting you up for a strong year financially.

Luckily, under your responsible sign, money and success are easier to handle wisely. You may find yourself balancing responsibility as relationships need extra attention when the Sun moves into Cancer on the 21st and Mars enters Gemini on the 28th.

When I’m in Your Arms proves that you can have work-love balance. Step into 1930s Hollywood in this Golden Age Queer romance from Sarah Wallace. Jesse Morgan only knows hardship, but after he inadvertently impresses a bigshot producer with his dancing feet, his whole world turns upside-down.

He finds himself working with Cal Campbell, the movie star he admires most. Burnt-out and overworked, Cal is looking for a break when he is cast in a musical that he’s convinced will ruin his career. And to make matters worse, he has to show newcomer Jesse the ropes. Soon, their relationship deepens into something more.

With the Sun in your romantic, creative 5th house, Mars in your domestic sector and Venus in your partnership sector, it’s the perfect time to reevaluate your home and your love life.

June may give you a sudden urge to refresh your wardrobe, redecorate your abode or dive into a long overdue deep clean. When you’re done, chill out with this newly released romance manga from Ai Yazawa, the beloved female author and illustrator behind the enduring Nana series.

Midori attends a brand new high school with only freshmen. She falls for Akira after she sees him rescue a cat, but his heart may belong to someone else. Together, they run for the student council and start a new legacy at their new school.

This month, the Sun tours your domestic scene for three weeks, which could mean more entertaining and action on the homefront. Mars arrives later in the month and will hang around until August, bringing fun and excitement to family gatherings, backyard barbecues and afternoons by the pool.

With the Sun in Cancer starting on the 21st, you can expect more warmth and nurturing in your closest relationships. While it’s a great time to work on your health and fitness goals or even update your resume, as Jupiter enters your work zone at the end of the month, your compassionate, imaginative sign may benefit from respite from all the activity at home.

Why not unwind with thought-provoking poems from Pulitzer Prize winner Carol Dennis, who explores traditional virtues and how they affect our search for meaning in life?

A dazzlingly inventive account of kinship and dispossession by a two-time Minnesota Book Award-winning author

In his first work of nonfiction, poet chaun webster blends memoir, archival research, visual poetics, and cultural criticism to trace the ways structural anti-Black violence has shaped his inheritance, and grapples with the question of how to know–and mourn–the kin he was never able to meet.

Webster is particularly drawn to his grandfather Reginald, who worked for years as a Pullman porter, who was denied rest while his labor enabled rest for others and who died without receiving a pension before webster was born. Returning to the figures of Reginald and the train, webster explores the relationship between comportment and confinement, speaking in tongues in the Pentecostal church, the ancestral meeting place of dreams, his fraught relationship with his mother and moments with his own child.

Throughout, webster also reflects on nonbiological kinship, tethering his and his predecessors’ lives to those of several historical Black figures — Harriet Jacobs, John Henry, Henry “Box” Brown and Henry Dumas, a writer who was killed by New York City police while riding the subway. Attempting to exhaust the possibilities of the sentence and the grammar of anti-Blackness, Webster riffs and rails on the debris within reach. Part elegy, part archival detective story and part visual poem, Without Terminus is a philosophically rigorous and deeply moving text that takes us beyond the archive of loss.

An instant classic of nature writing and breathtaking blueprint for a more expansive view of animalkind, inspired by the profound sense of awe that accompanies an expedition into unknown lands

“Shatters the notion that humanity holds a monopoly on civilization.” — Joaquin Phoenix

“This book will leave you feeling like a vital member of the broader world of animals–a cosmopolitan citizen of the zoopolis.” — Robert Moor

From far-flung forest settlements in Canada’s “beaver belt” to disputed territories of clashing Argentine ant armies, Ryan Huling’s around-the-world odyssey takes us to places most people don’t even know exist. Along the way, we meet renowned ecologists, anthropologists, geographers, and historians whose work has uncovered vast sub-Saharan tunnel complexes, booming animal metropolises nestled within the urban sprawl of the American Southwest, and ancient Silk Road-style migration routes that traverse the Eurasian Steppe.

When humans settle in an area, it is deemed, by definition, populated. By contrast, the millions of other species we share this planet with have long been viewed as fleeting ephemera, living brief and transitory lives in “uninhabited” wilderness. Over the course of a year, Huling investigates how technology is rapidly changing that perception by deepening humanity’s understanding of our fellow animals and their unique relationships with the land, air, and sea. His immersive account fuses with vivid full-color maps and hand-drawn sketches by award-winning cartographer Oliver Uberti, revealing a radically reimagined version of our world and illuminating its true contours for the first time.

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER

New York Times bestselling author and poet Maggie Smith distills creativity and the craft of writing with a practical guide perfect for fans of Elizabeth Gilbert’s Big Magic and Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird.

Drawing from her 20 years of teaching experience and her bestselling Substack newsletter, For Dear Life, Maggie Smith breaks down creativity into 10 essential elements: attention, wonder, vision, play, surprise, vulnerability, restlessness, tenacity, connection and hope. Each element is explored through short, inspiring and craft-focused essays, followed by generative writing prompts.

Dear Writer provides tools that artists of all experience levels can apply to their own creative practices and carry with them into all genres and all areas of life.