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Aires   (March 20 - April 18)  Fire.  Ruling planet Mars.    Top

This is a very social month for you, Aries, and yet with a compassionate twist. You are really putting yourself out there, with bubbly effervescence and high philosophical discourse, and also looking seriously at how you can make a difference in this world. The way that you plug yourself into the gears of societal motivation is a changing landscape for you right now, and inevitably a confusing one. When you have faith in your process and persevere it is amazing what wonders you can manifest, without having had the slightest idea of where you were actually headed.

As the month begins, your communicative awareness of others is high, with also the valiant attempt to understand the further dimensions of your experience. Your relationships have a dark and inexplicable flavor to you at this time, and exploring these takes you closer to the mystery of life. You are attempting to unravel the basic riddle of existence, and showing up for those around you in an honest way in the process.

By the time of the Last Quarter Moon however, taking place on Friday, June 8th, there could be some tension in the mix of energies. This is also a time of strange surprises, startling twists of fortune and entertaining interior revelations. The veil between the worlds parts ever so slightly, and for one brief instant, “things you’ve never seen will seem familiar.” You are also in the midst of determining at this time which of your dreams and schemes will bear fruit and which must be abandoned. Giving up cherished illusions might be another theme of this first half of the month, but as always, something remains in the wisdom gleaned from the experience.

The New Moon that comes along almost a week later, on Thursday, June 14th, puts you into direct connection with the numinous forces of otherworldly dimensions. You are realistic at this moment and yet also wildly impractical, intent on major self-transcending. The energy is there for powerful written or spoken communication, and also for looking deeply into the paradoxical situation that we humans find ourselves in at this time, at the same time saint and sinner, prayerful supplicant and predatory competitor, as we walk about in our Earthly shoes.

The Mercury retrograde period that immediately follows the New Moon is excellent for thoughtful introspection of this kind, not so good for getting out there and getting things done. Whatever you choose during this second half of the month will be up for revision and review by the time the end of July rolls around.
When the Summer Solstice comes along on Thursday, June 21st, with the First Quarter Moon following a day later, there is transformation in the Air for you, decidedly, whether you consciously will it or not. The best lesson to take from this powerful and transitional monthly period is to be ready for anything.

Taurus   (April 19 - May 19)  Earth.  Ruling planet Venus.    Top

Exploration of your roots eventually leads you to a longer-lasting sense of security, Taurus, but you must put yourself through some changes first in order to get there. You have been engaged in some deep thinking lately and that process continues. You are seeking a more compassionate involvement with the world around you, and taking an introspective stance in order to more fully explore inner as well as outer realities. Where you will emerge from the tunnel only time will tell, but you will be very glad that you at least embarked upon the journey.

As the month begins, you are riding the wave of the Full Moon from the last day of the previous month, both filled with hope and imbued with the practical concerns natural to the uncertainty of the modern world. You are getting in touch with your inner world, and your psychological roots, in a different way. You are focused on compassionate outreach to others around you, concentrating on exploring new facets of communication that take a deeply interior point of view more firmly into account. Only the path with heart will truly satisfy you at this time, but the contrary point of view regarding the power and limitations of the purely physical is also present.

The Last Quarter Moon taking place on Friday, June 8th, brings these disparate ideas into sharper contrast. This may be a time of tension in striving for the ideal versus the restrictions of real-world necessity, and you may be forced to make some tough choices. A vision of the future beckons, but it may seem difficult to actualize.

The Gemini New Moon that follows almost a week later, on Thursday, June 14th, is a dramatic one, and takes place in your resources sector. The ruler of Gemini is Mercury, and when Mercury retrogrades the very next day, it may potentially signal a shift in your finances. It is best not to push the river with new initiatives during this period, and you may not fully emerge from the tunnel until nearly the end of July.

The Summer Solstice of June 21st and the First Quarter Moon that follows a day later, on Friday, June 22nd, also represent a major turning point in the energy of this cycle; a time when you will see what can and cannot be accomplished in what you are trying for. The major theme of this entire period lies in handling the conflict between ideal and merely mundane concerns. Don’t give up on your dreams, even when they are temporarily driven underground. They will surface later on, and with even greater force, if they are fully in alignment with what Spirit has in store for you.

Gemini   (May 20 - June 20)  Air.  Ruling planet Mercury.    Top

This month you are continuing to explore your relationship dynamic with others, Gemini, while seeking a better and more balanced sense of self in the process. Your resources, including financial ones, are the subject of deep reflection and introspection at this time, as you simultaneously attempt to ferret out the solution to the dilemma of your existence. You may come to the conclusion that the only answers to be found in this regard are further questions, and it might be that the process of discovery itself provides the necessary motivation to continue. However illusory they might prove to be in the end, destinations can be entirely useful in the act of setting sail.

As the month begins, you are feeling the comfortable vibration of the Sun in your sign. It is truly a time for you to shine, with Jupiter also feeding your energy at this juncture. You are likely to experience fortunate benefit directly from others right now, and the impetus for positive changes. Significant partnerships in your life are especially meaningful at the very beginning of the month, in the wake of the May 31st Full Moon in your relationship sector.

As the lunar cycle builds toward its mid-month climax, one turning point comes on Friday, June 8th, with the Last Quarter Moon. At that time you are likely to find new understanding in the limits of a particular approach that you have been attempting, and where your belief system must make adjustments. There are also likely to be surprising revelations in the workplace for you at this crucial time. In one way, you are open to the brilliant new idea that has been making itself felt more and more insistently in your consciousness, while in another way you are feeling the contrary undertow of your resistance to change. These times are certainly fraught with insecurity and we participate in those feelings of uncertainty at all levels. You would not be fully living if you did not share in the ambiguity.

The New Moon that comes along on Thursday, June 14th, emphasizes the twin horns of your dilemma, even as you begin to move past them. There is plenty of time in the mid-month weekend that follows for reflection, as your ruler Mercury turns retrograde and you question your values as well as the resources that are actually available to you. Ideal solutions are offering themselves to your mind and your imagination, and the trick is to separate the potentially possible from what might turn out in the end to be a form of illusion. The rest of the month represents a playing out of these musings and makes for a better time for introspection than for action in any particular direction.

The Summer Solstice of June 21st and the subsequent First Quarter Moon may intensify the questioning nature of this period of time for you. You are summoned by the gods of change, placed on the rack of obedience to practical necessity and yet filled with the undiluted hope for greater things.

Cancer   (June 21 - July 21)  Water.  Ruling planet is the Moon.    Top

You are learning how to survive in mid-air, and that has its advantages for you these days, Cancer. You are looking for solidity and failing to be entirely satisfied that you have found it, as you engage in a soulful process of interior exploration that becomes even more pronounced in the latter half of the month. You are stretching to include within your belief system the concept that paradoxical reasoning has its place at the table of your inner work. Even the resolution of opposites makes sense from a sufficiently elevated perspective.

As the month begins, you are finding a fresh sense of dedication to the mystical part of yourself. Your participation in the innermost workings of the universe is becoming more obvious, as you in-dwell in the misty places behind and beyond your conscious mind. There is a paradoxical juxtaposition that everyone is facing right now and that you are feeling particularly strongly, regarding what makes sense from a practical and real-world oriented point of view versus what makes sense from another and more mysterious standpoint altogether.

As you are feel the thesis and antithesis of this conundrum you intuitively seek the synthesis of a third option.
In this regard the lightening flash of inspiration is key, and you may feel that spark of epiphany that unites the seeming opposites most particularly at the time of the Last Quarter Moon on Friday, June 8th. This is when the possibilities of what you have been working out come up against the pressure of real-world limitation. Although you may feel some degree of tension in the mix of energies at this time, this is also a time when your wisdom soars in response to what you have been trying for whether or not that attempt has actually succeeded.

The New Moon that follows almost one week later, on Thursday, June 14th, brings a powerfully active mental process to bear on your situation. You are active and yet also very much operating on internal levels at this time.

With Mercury also retrograding through your sign starting the next day, on Friday June 15th, you are likely to be mulling things over rather than jumping into decisive action, and that is the best way to approach this time period. Mercury will be less than fully available for outer directed thought process for five weeks or more, when you include the period of the retrograde shadow.

Even when the Sun enters your sign with the Summer Solstice, although this is normally a time of outer-directed thought and activity for you, the planetary configurations call for thoughtful stillness and deep transformation. This latter half of the month is a crazy-making period from the standpoint of the consensus, and of the impatient part of you that just wants to get things done. But sometimes the best way to do is to be.

Leo   (July 22 - August 21)  Fire.  Ruling planet is the Sun.    Top

It’s tricky being you these days, Leo. Intimate relationship is powerful for you right now, and terribly confusing as well, and yet somehow productive of high-quality insights into your own character and the important spiritual evolution that you are currently engaged in. This month is great for getting plans made and visions planted, not so good for executing on those plans. The latter half of the month and on into next is a good time to make final adjustments to the vision that is alive for you right now, and to meditate on where you’ve been and where ultimately you are heading.

As the month begins, you are riding the wave of the powerful Full Moon in your self-expression sector from the last day of the previous month. Possibility is endless for you right now, and it all lies in the choosing. You are being herded toward discrimination in your dealings with others at this time, and as difficult and as painful a lesson as that may prove to be, it is also entirely rewarding. You are finding new horizons within your psyche, exploring the land down under your skin and taking the recovered treasure back to make better arrangements with yourself concerning the way that you do your career and other forms of partnership with others.

The Last Quarter Moon of Friday, June 8th, represents a few bumps in the road toward progress in all these areas. There is a certain degree of tension in resolving issues of self and other, or even unique isolation versus group participation, and as well some unexpected pleasures to be found in the journey. It may be best to take everything that happens as it comes and not to try to put to fine an analysis on it, since the situation is still in flux.

The New Moon comes almost a week later, taking place on Thursday, June 14th, and represents a birthing time for new ideas of how to resolve your dilemma, and yet presents its own fresh difficulties as well, since Mercury is just standing still in the sky, and will have the effect of making your dream life and even your goals run backwards for a while.

The retrograde takes place the very next day, and lasts for five weeks or more, counting the shadow period. During this entire period it is best not to push the river, but rather to watch and wait, in so far as that is possible amidst the busy life that we all lead these days. Unexpected wisdom comes from meditating on your situation at this time, and through facing events squarely, with as much grace as you can muster. Through all of this trial and growth, your will is bending, bending, to meet the altered circumstances. But it’s all right; it really is just all right, in spite of everything, or perhaps even because of it.

Virgo   (August 22 - September 21)  Earth.  Ruling planet Mercury.   Top

It’s a roller-coaster of emotion and outer success for you this month, Virgo. Your career path is shining but you may need to make some adjustments along the way. Your plans are likely to change mid-month with the retrograde of your ruler Mercury, lasting well into July, and you may well develop a more introspective and also more compassionate attitude. Your fellow man or woman is increasingly on your mind these days, as you seek the path of true service to others. One fruitful subject of your meditations over the latter half of the month might be that willing self-sacrifice on your part does not dissolve into mere martyrdom.

As the month begins, a new and more all-inclusive perspective is slowly coming into focus that takes heart-felt service to the surrounding collective more firmly into account. The Full Moon from the last day of May is both energizing and difficult, especially if you were born in late May or early June, or with the middle degrees of Virgo Rising in your chart. You are attempting at this time to handle two opposing sides of life, public and private, as gracefully as possible and without losing traction on either side. Something deep within your soul is calling out for acceptance and acknowledgment as you seek a balance between forging your own totally independent path forward and potentially over-extending yourself for the sake of others around you.

These issues may come to a head around the time of the Last Quarter Moon of Friday, June 8th. This powerful configuration provides illuminating surprises, perhaps through partnership concerns relating to important others in your life, and emphasizes the basic challenges of this monthly cycle for you. It is a time of decision and of letting go, and goes better the more willing you are to face up to changing circumstances.

The New Moon a week later, taking place on Thursday, June 14th, represents a fresh start in career and public expression, and also a powerful nexus of new energy for change. The dilemma that drives you most at this time concerns finding your path forward in a way that corresponds to your most important spiritual truth, your highest purpose for yourself, in spite of the currents from the consensus that continue to buffet you. You have a good chance to achieve everything that you desire, so long as your desires line up with inner rather than outer priorities.

The second half of the month will be a more meditative period of time, as Mercury retrogrades through your sector of wishes and hopes and societal connection. It is best to watch and wait at this time, rather than spring for any radically different future plans.

The Summer Solstice of June 21st also catalyzes transformation. The difficult thing about this period of time is that, like it or not, you must change some part of your approach; and that is the good thing about it also.


Libra   (September 22 - October 22)  Air.  Ruling planet Venus.    Top

You are in for an edgy and potentially enlightening time in the course of this month’s journey, Libra, especially with regard to educational and travel goals, complete with accompanying shifts in your perspective. Your communication skills are excellent right now, which is definitely helpful. The beginning of summer on June 21st each year is normally powerful in terms of career initiatives for you, but this time around you might find yourself re-thinking your position. A new sense of self is dawning that takes a broader, and even a higher viewpoint more fully into account.

As the month begins, and following a mandate for change from the previous cycle, you are seeking a form of internal communion with your higher self that can serve to work out some of the particulars. This is a powerful time for you right now and indeed for everybody else as well. The unclaimed future beckons, together with the determination to make it substantially different from the past, to heal wounds of separation from your own divine energies and to enter into a philosophy of life and of living that better suits your real needs going forward.

An issue or two may crop up at the time of the Last Quarter Moon on Friday, June 8th, when the intensity of the moment is matched by your response, and when tempers may flare, at least for a little while. Surprises may manifest in the area of health or of service to your highest ideals for yourself and finding your path through life. The new information gleaned at this time may also serve you well, and promote a clearer grasp on the practicalities of your present condition.

The New Moon that follows almost a week later, on Thursday, June 14th, is another powerful time, when you are feeling your way forward to a better plan that includes your own unique way of looking at things, possibly with the help of active partners. You are on the brink of a spiritual commitment that may be difficult to integrate and that flies in the face of what you have been previously willing to accept.

The Summer Solstice of the following week, taking place on June 21st, and the First Quarter Moon of the next day, emphasize the changes that you are not only willing but ultimately almost forced to make at this time of your life.

Since Mercury is also retrograde in the second half of the month, there may be unexpected reverses in your best-laid plans, but these may only represent temporary set-backs. An essentially reflective period of time that lasts from mid-June until after mid-July prepares you to see things differently.

Scorpio   (October 23 - Nov 21)  Water.  Ruling planets Mars, Pluto.   Top

Life has certainly been entirely interesting for you lately, Scorpio. Just when you thought you had it made, the bottom drops out and there you are, once more confronting your existential dilemma. You are transforming in your life yet again, and making a move more in line with your highest expectations for yourself, the role that you came into this lifetime to fulfill. You may feel caught between your mind and your heart at this time, between satisfying the outer form and digging down deep inside yourself to embrace a cosmic knowingness about your situation. The solution may lie in a third way that is neither here nor there.

As the month begins, you are riding the wave of the Full Moon from the very last day of May. You have been actively concerned with coming to a better understanding of your true purpose here on planet Earth, the unique role that you are seeking to fulfill in this lifetime, and this period of time leads you closer to it. There is opportunity inherent in this month’s cycle of increasing awareness, and it is that you tune in to your transformational possibilities, and find the spiritual and physical resources that will need for your journey. These are readily available to you, only a motion away, although they may seem at times as though they were on the other side of the Moon.

The Last Quarter Moon of June 8th heightens the tension. All bets are off, and you can be whatever you want to be, although still constrained by the responsibilities of outer form. You are investigating your possibilities mightily at this time, and feeling your way into closer connection with the divine within. There is a paradoxical pressure in the mix of energies right now that leads you toward the prize, and yet in another way, everything is very easy.

The New Moon the follows in almost a week, on Thursday, June 14th, represents a fresh start with career and public life, and with your more inner directed priorities as well. You are launching yourself on the Waters of intimacy in a new way at this time, and you are also making progress on discovering your path of true service to the surrounding collective. Any temporary setbacks may only serve to further your understanding.

You are entering a thoughtful period of time in the latter half of the month with Mercury retrograding through your higher mind sector. The retrograde period begins on the 15th, and lasts for five weeks or more when you take the retrograde shadow into account. This is a time for reflection and discrimination, for trying to peer through the veil at the true essence of your life path, but not a good time for rushing into new decisions.

With the advent of the June 21st Summer Solstice and subsequent Quarter Moon, your life gets more complex, and even richer in food for thought, as your outreach to others around you transforms and grows. Through all your changes this month, you are seeking to blend the responsibilities of outer constraints with the pearl of inner contentment that emerges at last from Earthly trials. The universe will provide. The dew-drop of wisdom is ready to slip into your heart if only you will let it in.

Sagittarius   (Nov 22 - Dec 20)  Fire.  Ruling planet Jupiter.   Top

This is quite a month for mulling over your possibilities, Sagittarius. Partnership of all kinds with others definitely looms large in your perspective, and brings you valuable information, but the real question is what you’re going to do with it. Faced with necessities, you respond in the only way that you know how, which may inconveniently involve radical changes in lifestyle and attitude. This is something that you already know in your heart of hearts, but only now have you begun the process of valiantly attempting to wrap your mind around the idea.

As the month begins, you are still coming at the world from some very deep places inside yourself. This type of internal activity is in fact likely to intensify into the current cycle since Mercury is retrograding through your intimacy sector later on in the month. As far as the first two weeks, you are wrestling, or hopefully dancing, with issues of self and other, how to mediate the challenge of integrating another’s point of view together with your own powerful conception. It may be a question of ego, and the dropping away of ego in favor of merging with a higher perspective, and both are healthy expressions of our basic humanity. Too much or too little can be equally damaging.

The center of this two-week period, the Last Quarter Moon of Friday, June 8th, is the time when the rubber meets the road with interpersonal relationships and also with your intended course of action. Surprises and consequent instability are in the offing at this time, and the contrast of mystical and practical ideas and belief systems. If there is friction, the tug of war of opposing viewpoints, perhaps it can be resolved by taking the higher perspective of a third way that circumvents the entire argument. It helps to remember that you are never angry for the reason that you think you are.

The New Moon almost a week later, taking place on Thursday, June 14th, represents a shift in the energy, although the crucial thrust of these powerful cycles of growth are still impacting you. You are being asked to transform in some new fashion, in alignment with your higher purpose, at least as far as you are able to discern it at this time.

The Summer Solstice on the 21st and subsequent First Quarter Moon represent another time of potential tension and trial. Since Mercury is retrograde for the second half of the month, and on into mid-July, your relationship connection might be the subject of deep introspection as well as surface communication. You are striving to re-align yourself with Spirit inside you, and coming at your connection with others in an entirely different way as a result.

Capricorn   (Dec 21 - Jan 19)  Earth.  Ruling planet Saturn.   Top

You have been engaged in a form of spiritual metamorphosis lately, Capricorn, and you are still stretching. You are likely to run into some hurdles along the way to formulating a new and more daring sense of self that takes other people and even your interior dimensions more firmly into account, especially in the first part of the month. You are being asked to keep faith with your process, not always easy, and to make a service orientation your fundamental guidepost. These developments may go against your normal grain, and the security situation may be shakier than you would like, but a more loving and thoughtful point of view is struggling to emerge and continuing to fight the tide may no longer work for you.

As the month begins, you are engaged in the serious and yet also somehow light-hearted business of putting down new roots in place of what has been swept away by the recent tides of change. You have a right to be confused by these happenings, and that is one potential outcome, but you also may rise to the occasion by resorting to a sense of wonder to replace the lost certainty of your situation.

These feelings are exacerbated somewhat by the time of the Last Quarter Moon of Friday, June 8th, when you will find that everything that possibly can happen, will. The downside is interrupted and fragmentary communication and over-commitment to the attitudes of others, but there is a potential upside in terms of a more vibrant connection with yourself at all levels.

This is a testing time, preparing the way for the New Moon, which follows almost a week later, on Thursday, June 14th, and represents new beginnings. There is again the potential for confusion as you take on the multiple dimensions of your true situation, with an active awareness of your own inner workings and a re-dedication to your own unique pathway forward, into the destiny that only you can fulfill. There may be a form of internal violence that surfaces at this time, perhaps based on the past and the ways that you were left unsatisfied in some earlier phase, but your more mature abilities can handle these feelings gracefully. You may have to suspend belief in any type of concrete solution that you have previously advocated, at least for a while.

The Summer Solstice of June 21st and the Quarter Moon of the next day represent another shift in your responses and another chance to rise above. Something is struggling to be born in you and it will take time to sort everything out completely. Fortunately, time is exactly what you have got.

Aquarius   (Jan 20 - Feb 18)  Air.  Ruling planets Uranus, Saturn.   Top

You are in the midst of transforming your goals, Aquarius, and deciding who you want to be when you grow up. Figuring out what you really want may be half the battle, since you have some powerful medicine operating on your behalf that will guide you safely into the harbor once you do. There is a process of greater awareness slowly dawning within your psyche, and it involves partnership with others and also looking under the covers of your deeper motivation to find the hidden wellsprings of your actions. It may take weeks of research to get clear. Only then, with a more informed viewpoint, is an intelligent decision really possible.

As the month begins, you may find yourself examining your future. The Full Moon from the very end of last month calls you to this task. You are feeling the joy of discovering new possibilities for yourself, and yet also the weight of restrictions that have been imposed by the demands of the real world context that you inhabit. You are ready to cast off previous limitations, but still clinging to them, creating paradox.

The time of the Last Quarter Moon, taking place on Friday, June 8th, exacerbates these conundrums. You are in conflict between the priorities of others and your own intention, although that intention itself may seem mystical and vague at times, and difficult to champion. You must seek a third way that blends them both, although that might be easier to say than to actually accomplish. You are finding wisdom at this time in the parts of your plan that don’t work out as much as in those that do, and you must keep faith with yourself through this process.

There is more awareness to come, especially at the time of the mid-month New Moon that comes along on Thursday June 14th. This is of course a time of new beginnings, and you do well to choose your course wisely now. You are steering between the poles of self and other, and real-world practicality versus mystical acceptance of your situation.

When Mercury retrogrades the next day, you may experience a shift in your thought process regarding your situation and in determining where, exactly, it is that you are heading. It may be best to explore your alternatives throughout this latter half of the month without really committing to any one direction. It is as if you are preparing for some great change in you that is still to come.

In some sense you are being reborn over the course of this month’s journey, and over the course of the next few months as well. It’s good to remember that the universe is essentially on your side and only waiting for your gesture to meet you halfway.

Pisces   (Feb 19 - March 19)  Water. Ruling planets Neptune, Jupiter.   Top

This is a very special time of reassessment, Pisces, as success comes your way in paradoxical forms. Digging down into home and family concerns has been easier at times, for sure, but never so productive of valuable insight. You are coming to a vastly different and more complexly rich sense of self more by a process of questioning assumptions than by making new ones to take their place, but maybe that’s a good thing in the long run. It really is going to be all right; that’s what you keep telling yourself and what you are finally starting to believe, in spite of all appearances to the contrary.

As the month begins, you are riding the wave of the powerful Full Moon from the last day of May that stimulated your career sector. Outer world prominence is yours for the asking at this time, only you must be careful to pay equal attention to the more private parts of your psyche that are perhaps also crying out for your attention. There is a potential conflict between inner and outer, public and private, that is shaping up for exploration during the course of this month’s unfolding cycle of awareness.

By the time of the Last Quarter Moon at the end of the first week in June, you are likely to feel this rift quite strongly. You are at this time perhaps caught on the horns of the dilemma of whether to exercise your personal will and follow your inner yearnings or to be present to the priorities of the outer world that can be so trying. The only answer is a third alternative that lies beyond the conflicting demands of two worlds, but the doorway is not easy to find.

The New Moon that comes along late in the following week, on Thursday, June 14th, represents a fresh start, a time to gather your strength and push yourself through the hole in your garden wall.

The last half of the month that follows may be a rather internal time period for you, since Mercury also retrogrades the next day in your sector of self-expression.

The Summer Solstice and subsequent First Quarter Moon of Friday, June 22nd, represents another time of potential trial and also of yielding further insights regarding your true situation. You have a real chance for break-through during this time period; the more so the more you keep you head above Water and begin to really pay attention. If you continue to put one foot ahead of the other and concentrate on deeply observing everything that happens to you at this time, you will be able to make the most of your opportunities during this mystical passage.

Aires   Taurus   Gemini   Cancer   Leo   Virgo   Libra   Scorpio   Sagitt   Capric   Aquar   Pisces   Overview   Top

Overview of the Planets this month:                                Top

The Astrology of June focuses on the numinous other worldly energy of the outer planets in contrast to the hard-nosed and practical reality represented by Saturn, as the Saturn – Neptune opposition returns for its last exact configuration of this cycle. The transformational energies of Uranus and Pluto are also present. Pluto, representing necessary transformation that often sweeps everything before it, is highlighted by the opposing Gemini New Moon, while wild-card Uranus also participates in June’s planetary alignments, being in separating aspect to Saturn near the beginning of the month and conjoined by the Last Quarter Moon that ends the first full week of the month.

Neptune opposed to Saturn means that we must somehow mediate the uneasy balance between Spirit and matter, and avoid being brought down by the apparent contradictions (does God really care?) and try to encompass both the unreality of the spiritual solution and as well its equally obvious over-arching presence.

The June 14th New Moon trines Neptune and sextiles Saturn, while it opposes Pluto, so this mid-month period represents a time when we have the opportunity to transform by really tuning in to the paradoxical nature of the human condition in general and our own situation in particular.

Mercury retrogrades on the 15th, just after the New Moon. This Mercury retrograde period in Cancer, lasting until late July when the shadow period is finally completed, augments the Neptune emphasis of the month, taking us to a more internal place. We may participate in our own version of aborigine dreamtime, where the world “out there” is seen as only part of the story, and the smallest part at that. In this condition we can embrace the spiritual assumption that our ideas are fully capable of moving mountains, if we can actualize our true nature. The environmental disaster we face as an Earth tribe would melt away if only we could all get on the same page.

The elemental balance is also interesting this month, with the Earth element missing, and the Water element limited to Uranus in Pisces and a retrograding Mercury in Cancer, at least until the Summer Solstice. There is an emphasis on thought process and intuitional growth of a more or less introspective nature, as we try to see more closely into our own deepest motivations.

The Summer Solstice of June 21st, when the Sun enters Cancer, a Cardinal point in the circle of the zodiac, is therefore placed within the context of this deeply internal and paradoxical period of time, reflecting a nature that is less outgoing than the season would normally demand. We in the West are at the point culturally when we must begin to wake up to the madness of our surrounding institutions and begin to do something about it, or else lose the beauty of the Earth that ultimately sustains them. There is plenty of food for thought in all this, in the scenes that we see all around us, and in the landscape of our own hearts and minds, where we are collectively so blind and yet, somehow, all-seeing.

Current Configurations

The Sagittarius-Gemini Full Moon of May 31st that precedes the current month trines Mars and conjuncts Jupiter, making for an intellectually active time and setting the tone for the next two weeks.

The Last Quarter Moon of Friday, June 8th, is powerful, with the Moon conjunct Uranus and the Sun opposing Jupiter. The Saturn – Neptune opposition is coming to its last exact pass and is aspected by the Sun and Moon, so this last quarter phase represents a paradoxical and intellectually charged period of time. Although inspired by our dreams we are stymied by the conflict between desire and actualization, and the gap leads to wisdom. The Sun also trines Chiron, so we may choose to see our past woundings in a different light at this time, and attempt to gracefully transcend them.

The Gemini New Moon of Thursday, June 14th, is another powerful lunation, coming at the 24th degree of the sign. The Sabian Symbol for this degree casts some light on our present condition: Children skating on ice. This is the nature of the times that we in the West find ourselves in currently, fraught with uncertainty, but still intent on having our fun. This New Moon squares Uranus, bringer of unexpected events and cosmic epiphany, and also closely aspects Neptune and Saturn, drawing ever nearer to an exact opposition. As we have been saying for months now, Saturn with Neptune represents both the dark despair at never realizing our fondest wishes for ourselves and our world, and as well the opportunity to rise above the seeming paradox into the bliss of a new order, one in which we can concretize our ideals of spiritual union without losing ourselves and our physical plane presence in the process.

Mercury retrogrades on June 15th for a period of slightly more than five weeks, counting the shadow. The direct motion is on July 9th, and the original degree of Cancer is reached once more on July 24th.

The Summer Solstice of June 21st and subsequent First Quarter Moon of Friday, June 22nd, form the nexus of another powerful turning point, when Saturn opposes Neptune almost exactly, and Mars trines Pluto. The Sun – Moon square also aspects Pluto, with the Sun nearly opposite, and Venus opposes Chiron exactly. The indications are once more present for a time of tension and transformational change.

The Cancer – Capricorn Full Moon that comes at the end of the month, on June 30th, features a Venus – Saturn conjunction and also takes place at the height of the Mercury retrograde period, as Mercury sextiles Mars in Taurus. This will therefore be a time of slowed responses and mechanical and communicative break-down, but will be a good one for providing plenty of food for thought, grist for the mill of our process of growth during these climactic times.


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