The Labubu Craze Is Your Fifth House in Disguise

As we integrate the Libra New Moon and move into the first days of Scorpio season, which happens to light up my fifth house, I’ve been thinking a lot about something I keep seeing everywhere lately — the Labubu craze.

Let’s talk about Labubu.

Adults are lining up, trading collectibles, obsessing over tiny creatures with big personalities. This isn’t about a toy. This craze is s symptom of a way bigger undercurrent of our culture and what we need.We are craving JOY. We need emotional connection through shared delight. We are collectively screaming: “Let me feel alive again.”

Because astrologically, Labubu = pure 5th house energy:

• Play
• Creativity
• Romance
• Self-expression
• Inner child
• Pleasure
• Joy without purpose or productivity

And the reason it’s blowing up now? Because the outer planets have suppressed the 5th house for YEARS.

🌑 Why We Forgot How to Play (Outer Planet Truth Bomb)

The outer planets — Pluto, Uranus, and Neptune — move so slowly that they don’t just shape us individually, they shape entire generations. They set the cultural tone, sculpt the systems we live in, and redefine what we value. When one of them changes signs, it’s like the background music of the world shifts. Pluto transforms power, Uranus disrupts stability, and Neptune dissolves illusion. Together, they tell the collective story of who we’re becoming and this year, all three have changed signs, rewriting everything we thought we knew about work, pleasure, and play.

For almost two decades Pluto in Capricorn taught us how to build and re-structure empires, but it also taught us to wear armor. We learned to climb, perform, and perfect. We traded curiosity for control. Every structure became a ladder and every ladder led to exhaustion. Pluto’s work there was necessary; it stripped away our illusions about power and stability. But in doing so, it left us dry, tired, and terrified.

Now as Pluto edges into Aquarius, the armor begins to crack. The system is no longer the authority; we are. Aquarius asks us to reinvent what power looks like. To trade hierarchy for humanity, perfection for participation, performance for play. This is the era of creative rebellion, of joy as resistance, of turning self-expression into revolution. The fifth house, our creative center, is where that rebellion begins.

Uranus in Taurus has been shaking the ground beneath our routines. The comforts we clung to—money, safety, predictability—have all been rattled loose. We realized pleasure wasn’t safe if it depended on stability. Taurus reminded us that true safety lives in the body, in the moment, in the simple act of feeling good. When Uranus moved into Gemini, that stability shape-shifted again. Gemini is bringing curiosity, conversation, experimentation. The medicine becomes lightness. The invitation is to stop bracing for impact and start dancing with change. To think, speak, and create like it’s recess again.

Then there’s Neptune, dissolving boundaries in Pisces, blurring dreams and reality. For years we’ve escaped into screens and fantasies, mistaking consumption for connection. But as Neptune drifts into Aries, the fog begins to lift. Inspiration demands embodiment. We can’t just dream the life; we have to live it. Neptune in Aries says that creativity is divine action. Joy is not a luxury. It is proof you are alive.

Together these outer planets tell the same story. We’ve spent years building cages of control, and now the universe is rattling the keys. The revolution begins with remembering how to play.

🪞The Fifth House: Remembering What Makes You Feel Alive

In astrology, the fifth house is where joy, creativity, romance, and self-expression live. It’s the part of your chart that remembers how to play. It governs everything that makes life feel worth living like the belly laughs, the sparks of inspiration and the projects that pour straight from your soul. It’s also where we meet our inner child, the version of us that creates without agenda or fear of failure.

The fifth house is deeply tied to the Moon, because joy and emotional fulfillment are intertwined. The Moon rules how we nurture ourselves and what helps us feel safe. The fifth house shows what brings us alive. When those two are connected, life starts to feel like art again. When they’re disconnected, we chase happiness but never quite feel it.

For me, this work is personal. Scorpio is both my fifth house and my Moon. Which means my creativity and my emotional life are one and the same. When I’m suppressing pleasure, when I’m not making or expressing or sharing, I start to dry out emotionally. But when I lean into creativity — when I write, design, dance with ideas — my whole inner world softens. Scorpio teaches that joy can be deep and transformative, that play can be healing.

That’s the heart of this moment we’re in. The outer planets have pushed us to rebuild everything on the outside. Now the fifth house invites us to rebuild the inside. We need to remember how to feel joy and to let that joy ripple outward through everything we create.

In the next section, I’ll walk you through how this energy comes alive for each rising sign as your guide to rediscovering what makes you come alive.

Every fifth house holds a different kind of magic. Some of us come alive through adventure or laughter. Some through depth, beauty, romance, or craft. Your rising sign reveals the zodiac sign that rules your fifth house showing the unique flavor of play, pleasure, and creative expression that refills your energy and reconnects you to your emotional center.

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