I pulled the real birth chart of every houseguest before a single feed opened, and all season I’m reading the house through those charts, week by week. This is the living recap. New week on top after every eviction, evicted players fade down the page. If you want the full read out loud, the podcast episode is embedded in each week.
New here? Start with the full cast board on the Reality TV hub, and grab the free BB28 birth chart cheat sheet so you can follow along with every placement.
Where the house stands right now: Leo season is running the show, Mercury just went direct, Jupiter in Leo keeps crowning the underdogs, and Saturn is sitting retrograde on the Aries degree that already took one houseguest. Haley holds the crown, Drew’s loyalty has him on the block, and two underdogs just teamed up to fight the machine.
The Weeks
Week 4: Jason Walks Out a Legend, Haley Takes the Crown
HOH: Haley · Evicted: Jason · Cosmic headline: Jupiter in Leo crowned the underdog on his way out
Jason lost the blockbuster and left the house, but he walked out a legend, top three in America’s vote every single week he was in there. That is Jupiter in Leo doing exactly what I’ve said it does all season, blessing the bold, sympathetic underdog even while the house buries him. And the way he left, banging the teapot himself and reclaiming the whole bit, is pure triple-Libra showman refusing to leave on anyone’s terms but his own.
Haley won the next HOH, and it’s the most telling power win of the year. She’s a double Virgo with Venus and Mars in Leo, which is critical, always-sure-she’s-right paranoia fused with a need to be the star. So she targeted Taylor for the crime of looking at her during the comp. She’s also exactly the HOH the powerful players wanted, so disliked that all the heat lands on her instead of them.
And here’s the fall I’ve been calling since the Tool Shed formed: Drew is on the block, and his own alliance is steering him out while he still doesn’t see it. His Mars in Taurus is the most loyal, most immovable placement there is, so he locked into these people and won’t believe they’d turn. His loyalty is the exact weapon being used to end his game.
One serious note this week: real-world footage of Kamu resurfaced that has nothing to do with the game and everything to do with who he is. I talk about it in the episode with care. The chart describes patterns, it never excuses cruelty, and I’m not going to pretend otherwise.
[Embed the Week 4 / Episode 5 podcast here]
Week 3: The Tea Party, and Who the Story Serves
HOH: Kamu · Evicted: Jason (backdoor) · Cosmic headline: an Aries king ruled with cruelty and the sky billed him
Kamu took the crown just as Saturn stationed retrograde in Aries, and he used it to throw a literal tea party and publicly call out Jason, the one openly queer person in the house. It landed with an hour of awkward silence, his HOH rating tanked, and his popularity crashed. That’s the reckoning Saturn in his own sign was always going to bring. Punching down is not a power move, it just looks like cruelty with a crown on.
Meanwhile Devens landed the overpowered Diamond Power of Veto, exactly the kind of golden ticket Jupiter in Leo hands to the pre-loaded star. And Dee, the Libra with Venus and Mars in Leo, gassed Kamu up to self-destruct on purpose, then watched it half-backfire and singe her too.
[Full write-up: link to the tea-party post] · [Embed the Week 3 podcast here]
Week 2: The Bill Came Due for Rome
HOH: Devens · Evicted: Rome (backdoor) · Cosmic headline: Saturn crossed his sun and collected
I told you Saturn was sitting right on Rome’s Aries sun, and the week it crossed, the whole house organized into the eight-person Tool Shed and backdoored him. The triple Aries who felt like the president of the house two weeks earlier went out nearly unanimously. That’s the textbook Saturn-on-the-sun fall, right on schedule. And the alliance that took him out has zero water signs in it, which is exactly why they chose the loud, theatrical move over the safe one.
[Full write-up: link to the bill-came-due post] · [Embed the Week 2 podcast here]
Week 1: The Whole House, Charted
HOH: Dee · Evicted: Ashley · Cosmic headline: talks like air, fights like fire
I charted all 17 houseguests before feeds opened, and day one proved it. This house talks like air but fights like fire (nine of them have Mars in a fire sign), it’s stacked with restless Gemini moons that can’t sit in silence, and it’s starving for emotional water. Dee ran a clean first HOH, Ashley went out 14-0, and every pattern I called started landing immediately.
[Full write-up: link to the cast-astrology post] · [Embed the Week 1 podcast here]
Want to go deeper?
Every placement, Sun through Saturn, for the whole cast is in the free BB28 birth chart cheat sheet. And if you want your own chart read the way I read the house, start with the Seasonal Blueprint Mini.
Curious how the signs behave in this format in general? Read The 12 Zodiac Signs as Big Brother Houseguests and Which Zodiac Signs Win Big Brother the Most.