Is 2025 auspicious for you so far? The Full Snow Moon on February 12 in the sign Leo, my sign helloooooo meow roar, meant lots of drama, flirtation, generosity and pure fire right before Valentine’s Day. Oooohlala. March 14’s full moon in Virgo will give us the urge to astrologically spring clean – a perfect time to reorganize those kitchen cabinets or the shelves of your soul. But it’s also a full Blood Moon Eclipse, ultra visible from all of the Americas (except the Bay Area which will be cloudy waaaaah), so prepare for this exciting agent of chaos and unveilor of hidden truths. Are you a ballerino secretly masquerading as an opera aficionado? When you shop at Chanel is your subconscious craving Bulgari? Let’s find out! 2025 gives us much to celebrate celestially: 4 eclipses and 2 supermoons!
You might be wondering what the stars hold for you this year. Luckily I am here, All-Seeing Stephanie, and I can tell you with complete certainty how you should fill your 2025 social calendar based on your sun sign. Ready? OK!
ARIES
My little sister’s sign, I am quite familiar with your, ahem, characteristics. You are ruled, it has been painfully obvious to me, by the god of war, planet Mars. You can’t, you won’t back down from a fight or change your opinion ever. Not even the irresistible charms of a lovely Leo can sway you. Harump. My bold, courageous, brutally honest and determined sister adores a San Francisco classic: Hardly Strictly Bluegrass in October. You definitely need to be fierce to carve out a blanket spot in Golden Gate Park. You also need chutzpah for another SF classic, Bay to Breakers on May 18. Someone needs to proclaim and demand the group costume! And no one puts baby in a corner at the annual SF International Hip Hop Dance Festival in November. Not even an Australian Olympian.
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TAURUS
You adore the finer things, you have excellent taste, and you adorn yourself in luxury. The boudoir is well-appointed, which bodes well because your kinky minxy ways require a lavish play area. Is the riding crop by your bed Hermes? Of course! The real punishment would be if it wasn’t bespoke. I see your social calendar as a menage à trois of events: The Folsom Street Fair in September bien sur. Wink wink. I also see you at a ball. Not a ball gag but a gala-type ball. For a flirty night out, The Guardsmen’s annual Tree Lot Party in December is for you. Or why not laissez les bon temps roulez at Grace Cathedral’s sumptuous Carnivale, a Mardi Gras Masquerade on March 4? Fully stocked bars upon the religious pulpit? Drinking cocktails beneath the Rose Window amongst pews? It’s delightfully provocative – too much to resist!
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GEMINI
Two faces? Then you can go to twice the parties! Ideal! Look, I know you don’t like being thought of as two-faced. When I think of you, as I often do, I think of the first friend I ever made in my life: Emily. She is the quintessential Gemini, an astoundingly erudite communicator. Silver tongued, beguiling with her educated words, she became a literary agent. Astrology is real! You simply must socialize with creatives so you will need to attend the SF Public Library’s and Villa Albertine’s Night of Ideas this spring. Another magnificent banter topic is fine art; you will adore the Fine Arts Museums Annual Gala supporting the de Young and Legion of Honor Museums in April. Or Litquake, that annual largesse of author events around the city. Dress (your opinions) to impress!
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CANCER
Oh my sensitive intuitive nurturing beings. Your tender heart makes you the perfect benefactor of the Meals on Wheels Chefs & Vintners Gala on May 18. Making lives better is your work in this lifetime. Please tuck a tissue into your couture gown sleeve because as the testimonials flow, so will your tears. Dear to my failing pancreas, the Breakthrough T1D SF Hope Gala on March 8 supports the dream of a cure for Type 1 Diabetes, a very stupid chronic disease I have. Your heart will also sings its song back to the hearts around San Francisco, beacons of the SF Hospital Foundation. One would look great on your patio! The San Francisco General Hospital Foundation’s Hearts in SF Gala and Hearts After Dark Party every year in early February.
Clinician and Philanthropist CLARA SHAYEVICH, SF Department on the Status of Women Director KIMBERLY ELLIS, Fashion Designer VASILY VEIN
LEO
Me, me, me, me, me! Oh is it my turn I hadn’t noticed! Well as long as you’re here let’s completely focus on ME! We liony Leos looooove the spotlight, it makes us absolutely purrrrrr. Center of attention? Yes please! Generous hearted? Absolutely. Being celebrities ourselves, what better gala for us than the SFFilm Awards Night (December) and International Film Festival (April), where we allow other A-listers to see us? How else can we get all eyes on us? Why, in a parade of course! We may have snaked our way into the Alaska Airlines Chinese New Year Parade this month. And we are already gathering glitter for June’s epic Pride Parade – tune in to see which floats float our boats! Unshy of the spotlight, come see my comedy showcase every third Wednesday at SF’s notorious Boom Boom Room presented by Value Culture. Fellow Leo Stroy Moyd has an entire comedy club of his own – be sure to check out The Function every night of the week on Market Street.
Comedian and Business-Owner STROY MOYD, Comedian STEPHANIE BLOCK
VIRGO
Oy, my mother. Her love language is PICK UP YOUR ROOM. Finicky Virgos are happiest when everything is in its place and completely optimized. Perfectionism abounds in the house of Venus. Because precision makes your heart take flight, there is no better event for you than SF Fleet Week with the US Navy Blue Angels in October. Fastidious military uniforms, spit shined shoes and fighter jets in perfect formation with only 18 inches wingtip to wingtip? DId you choreograph this yourself, Admiral Virgo? The San Francisco Symphony is also a marvel of well-rehearsed harmonies. You simply must attune yourself to the SF Symphony Gala in September. You will certainly kvell over the perfectly appointed Decorator Showcase house presented by SF University High School late April to late May, a marvel of decor where every room in the manse is bedecked by a different interior designer.
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LIBRA
The scales of justice, plus equality, diplomacy, a strong moral compass, mediation- you are an idyllic courtroom without the drama. You see sides, all the sides, and the angles of the sides, and you try to reach equilibrium at all times. Want to avoid conflict? Then don’t call my sister haha or any Aries, ever. Or a Leo on a bad hair day. But seriously, you adore fairness, and what is more meritorious than sports? San Francisco hosted the NBA All Star Weekend this month, and what a wow that was. And when our first-ever WNBA team is unleashed this May, you must secure floor seats to the Valkyries home opener at Chase Center! What an embarrassment of sports riches we have here – don’t forget the SF Giants Opening Day!
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SCORPIO
Ooooh you brooding alluring tantalizing dangerous Halloween seasoners. You are both trick and treat. You’re positively ghastly and I can’t live without you! All the drama, intrigue and unguaranteed outcomes make you perfect for the San Francisco Opera Ball in September. You are the very best friend and lover until suddenly, out comes the stinger. Strike first, ask zero questions later. I respect that. Daggers, death, devotion, destruction? Just another Tuesday for you, darling. Your high octane heart might adore the Sears Point Raceway NASCAR Series at Sonoma Raceway this summer. I see you seducing the entire pit crew and for no reason suddenly pelting them with lug nuts. Or indulge in a gothic tale of unmitigated horror in SF Ballet’s presentation of Frankenstein in March.
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SAGITTARIUS
Hello explorer! You are an adventurous, globetrotting soul. Your home is wherever you happen to be. Carefree, optimistic, open minded and improvisational, the perfect gala for you is SFJAZZ Gala, June 12. You would also be up for summertime’s Stern Grove Festival, a romp in the park with whatever fantastic musical guest they have on the Sunday you’re in country. And don’t miss the outrageous big wave competition at Mavericks in Half Moon Bay most winters.
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CAPRICORN
Ok now we get to my Dad, my hard working, deeply integritous, did I mention hard working?, workaholic, super driven fella. You will probably want to work late every night, but let’s reframe socializing as furthering your ventures. Maybe there’s a VC out there you need to meet, or some kind of hot M&A action? You can leave the office, or the home office, or the cafe office, for that, right? There is excellence out there – go find it. The perfect gala for you is Dress for Success Holiday Soirée. Seeing others chase success who just need a little help, well that is corporate catnip to you. Your relentless pursuit of excellence also resonates with the greatest project manager the world has ever known: Santa. That hustle is ridic! You simply must SantaCon. Another famously prolific worker was author Charles Dickens; don’t miss his eponymous 41st The Great Dickens Christmas Fair at the Cow Palace.
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AQUARIUS
It’s your age! Almost! We are in the transition phase from the Age of Pisces into the Age of Aquarius. Did you hear what I said? Oh Aquarius you were off thinking big thoughts again? What nebula or parallel universe did you just visit? You have five ideas for how to change the world? Only five? That’s low for you. Yes, Aquarius, the landscape in your beautiful mind is so alluring that you have a second home there. I think you should go to Dreamforce. Get it? Haha. A big-idea lover like you definitely can’t miss the Tipping Point Benefit raising money for poverty solutions. Yet to truly plumb the depths of life, the universe and everything, indeed the entire world as we know it, or don’t know it, you must stuff your electric Winnebago with furry bicycles and steampunk goggles and head out to Burning Man.
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PISCES
Speaking of the fifth dimension, you saw Aquarius there? How was your lunchtime astral projection? Intuitive sensitive dreamy, besot with universal connections and the whole weight of the fleeting world, a happy happening for you is the summer Haight Ashbury Street Festival. How about a mind-bending lecture series at the JCC, its Arts & Ideas programs, or City Arts & Lectures? What is the best season for unmooring your consciousness to flit about the galaxy? Why not conflate it with Opening Day on the Bay in April? That seems like a sensible start time for being asea. The perfect soundtrack to dimension dancing has to be the Portola Music Festival in September at Pier 80, which is 8 in numerology, which means prosperity and success, which means microdosing with a Capricorn. It all comes together, doesn’t it?
AI Expert and Berkeley Lecturer MATTHEW STEPKA, Philanthropic Powerhouse SHARON SETO, Sherith Israel Rabbi JESSICA ZIMMERMAN GRAF
I hope this helped you plan your astro-social calendar of 2025 and beyond! See you in the Cosmos… drinking cosmos!
XOXO Stephanie Block @howdyblock