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Aires       

Welcome to the transformational stew, Aries. Your self-expression is blossoming, but with some stress in the mix, and coupled with a serious cast of mind. You are ripe for long-term adjustments in the way that you think and feel, as a new perspective slowly comes into focus. You are taking what you gather from coincidence, as the poet says, and running with it. You may find an otherworldly point of view, as the merely mundane loses much of its appeal. Communicating your deepest truth to those around you becomes your escape valve and your life raft to maintain sanity and even to rise above it.

As the month begins, you are exploring new communication initiatives with others around you. At the time of the First Quarter Moon of the first weekend of the month, taking place on June 3rd, your self-expression is blossoming, enabling you to more effectively reach out to others, although nagging doubts regarding your effectiveness in a group setting may contribute to a sense of loss as well. You are balancing within your psyche the concepts of group participation and individual contribution, attempting to determine how you can take up your own authority, in your own unique way, versus obedience to the authority represented by others, or by the surrounding society. There are messages that come to you on this first weekend of the month that may help you to tune in.

With the Full Moon the following weekend, on Saturday, June 11th, you are again caught up in the balancing act of self and other, with an eye to transforming your viewpoint of your entire situation. A shift is underway in the way you see your world and your place in it, and it may take years for its final completion. Right now, as you mediate between standing on your own and joining yourself to society's mechanism as a willing cog, the resolution of the conflict facilitates your own metamorphosis.

These issues become even more intense at the time of the powerful Last Quarter Moon of the following weekend, taking place on Sunday, June 18th. Then your philosophy and system of belief may feel stretched in unexpected ways, and educational or travel initiatives that you have had in the works for some time may become more challenging, as you seek and eventually find a new synthesis.

The New Moon of the last weekend of the month, on Sunday, June 25th, brings new directions to your search for meaning, as you engage in taking a closer look at your inner process, emerging out of the tunnel of this challenging period of time into a brighter day.

Taurus      

You are in the midst of a challenging and fruitful period of time this month, Taurus. Your garden is blooming as you marshal your resources, but there are still struggles with helpful partners to contend with, and maybe a few brushes with an emotionally distant authority. You are in the midst of an important restructuring of your home environment, and your recognition of who you are at center, and something has to give. You are already finished with giving in to the authority of voices other than your own, although it might take you quite a while to realize that.

As the month begins, you are likely to be finding solace in creature comforts and material things, riding the energy of the New Moon from the end of last month in your resources sector, and the entrance of your ruler Venus into your sign. This is a time for you to concentrate on yourself and on knowing more fully just who you are, as you are also undoubtedly drawn towards simply finding contentment with your circumstances. In another way however, you are wrestling with personal issues that mirror those that plague our society at this time, and with discerning the true nature of partnership in your life and how to better apply your own core level focus to reach out with compassion to others around you. There is a synthesis that can be reached but it does not come easily, and you benefit by staying patient and waiting for the stream to clear.

The Full Moon of Sunday, June 11th, is a time when a deeper integration is possible. You are in the process of great changes below the surface at this time, affecting the way that you connect with intimate others, and at the time of the Full Moon you may find yourself making some movement toward more fully sharing yourself with important partners.

The powerful Last Quarter Moon of the next weekend, taking place on Sunday, June 18th, may lead you to greater consciousness of your situation in general and with respect to close connection with others in particular.

All month long you are also likely to be dealing with issues of old patterns of authority and your reaction to it, and these may also come to a head at this time, commingling with partnership concerns. The changes that you are putting yourself through at this time will have their eventual outcome in a more solid acceptance of previously walled-off portions of your psyche, and in a better sense of integration of all your parts. Remember that it's a long road that has no turning.

Gemini     

You are still in the midst of big changes this month, Gemini, no surprises there. In this your birthday time of the year you are finding new ways forward into wholeness with a better understanding of the resources required for your journey. You may have in the past blindly obeyed the ideas of others when it is your own that truly matter. Finding the right balance becomes your challenge, and your reward. Relationship with significant partners is still a changing landscape, a staging ground for your own deep transformation. Slowing down your normally rapid-fire communication patterns may help you to make a more lasting impression.

The beginning of the month is likely to find you in an exuberant state, following the New Moon in your sign from the end of May. You have also more serious cast of mind than usual, being more committed to responsibility in areas of your interest, less prone to be the dabbler. This month is an excellent time for writing and journaling, and if you take advantage of the opportunity represented by this juncture your subject matter is likely to reflect a mystical philosophical stance, relating to changing belief systems and following the beat of your own drum as opposed to taking on the desires and needs of others around you.

The First Quarter Moon of Saturday, June 3rd, is likely to provide additional insights and may precipitate sudden career moves as well.

The Full Moon of Saturday, June 11th, may signal the crest of another wave of profound change, as you wrestle through relationship concerns that have just come to consciousness, not for the first time, surely, but maybe this time with a different awareness regarding how they fit into a bigger picture. Issues of self and other are very prominent for you in this monthly cycle, especially at this time of the Full Moon in your opposite sign.

Another powerful trigger for your own movement toward greater awareness and spiritual growth comes along with the Last Quarter Moon in your career sector on the very next weekend, taking place on Saturday, June 18th, when your relationship dynamic and your values generally are subject to a massive overhaul.

By the end of the month, as your ruler Mercury moves into your communication sector, you will see the distance you've gained. Although there are challenges inherent for you during this important timeframe, the rewards are there for you as well, to the extent that you can open to them, as you forge a new conception of your life path based on the serious commitment to eliminate old patterns and more fully explore the deeper meaning of the events of your life.

Cancer      

This month is about discovering the magical incantation, Cancer, that allows you to gracefully enter into your next phase. New realms of self-expression take you literally out of this physical world. Interior dream visions and reexamining your past is bringing you closer to a true understanding of where you are headed. An old pattern of intimate connection is finally ready to yield, perhaps. The split between relying on your own values and resources versus taking on those of others around you may adversely affect your ability to grow and change. Toward the end of the month you'll find the key that fits, and suddenly you'll feel it turning in the lock.

As the month begins, you are somewhat lost to the outside world, riding the wave of the New Moon in your sector of dreams from the end of last month. Going to the inside for important answers is a valuable technique that serves you well at this particular juncture, as you tune in more and more precisely to old dysfunctional patterns of intimacy that have outgrown their usefulness in the present era. You are making an important stand for yourself in this regard as the month unfolds.

The First Quarter Moon of Saturday, June 3rd, is a time when communication with others around you becomes vitally important as a way of processing new found awareness and perhaps even as part of coming to some startling conclusions regarding your situation.

The Full Moon of Sunday, June 11th represents one culmination of the arc of development that you are currently engaged in, when you might feel even more impelled to share your process with others and when you might discover that you can't go back to an old way of being and doing that simply isn't working for you anymore. You are transforming your idea of service to others at this time, and your concept of the path you must take to fully inhabit your own future. No one can help you find your way at this time but you, although it is tempting to let them try.

The Last Quarter Moon that takes place on Sunday, June 18th, is another important turning point in coming to a better understanding of the road that you and only you must take. Cosmic epiphany is your friend at this time to the extent that you can open to new possibilities in your life, and the enemy of your old form of being. This is a time when you must embrace your future or suffer greatly.

When the Sun enters your sign at the Summer Solstice a few days later on the 21st, and with the subsequent New Moon the following weekend, you are being propelled through the birth canal into a different universe.

Leo           

Your future is calling, Leo. You are getting serious about your presentation as you work through how you come across to others. You are somewhat stuck in your self-concept at this time, and advancing your on-going exploration of your innermost soul to a potentially more powerful intensity, as you fight through old patterns of relationship interaction that no longer serve you in the present moment. Or perhaps it has something to do with your relation to authority. The good news is that this is the best chance you'll have all year to imagine new possibilities for yourself and to dream them into concrete reality, especially in the first ten days of the month.

As the month begins, you are likely to be making a fresh start on societal connections that you favor, and also on your goals and future plans, following the New Moon from the end of last month in your sector of group affiliations. Looking more closely into how you fit yourself into society has important consequences for you at this time, since you are also exploring yourself at base level. You are in the process of coming to a more thorough understanding of exactly who you are, and how and why you take up your own authority, independent of how others see you.

There may be a period of tension to deal with at the time of the First Quarter Moon, on Saturday, June 3rd, when surprising new information comes to light that concerns the way that you experience closeness with significant others in your life.

The Full Moon that takes place on the following weekend, on Sunday, June 11th, is also a time of challenge and change regarding your self-concept, and your creative self-expression. You are integrating some powerful feelings during the course of this monthly cycle, and going through a transformation of the way that you see yourself, going forward. You may run up against nagging worries over self-worth, or perhaps issues of partnership trauma from the past that still remain, inappropriately, to haunt you in the present moment. There is a benefit to coming to terms with these difficulties however if you can muster the courage to face them squarely.

The powerful Last Quarter Moon of Sunday, June 18th, also represents an important turning point, when you will come to a form of crisis regarding these and other issues, and when you will be called upon to rise to the next level of your consciousness regarding them. These are difficult times for you, no doubt about that, but your reward lies in the wisdom that comes from working through them, and from the resulting greater integration of the hidden parts of your psyche, as you gain in understanding and self-acceptance.

Virgo      

A fresh start in outer world activities has you exuberant and communicative right now, Virgo. What it is about for you is far more than mundane achievement; you are going for the gold ring of your highest intention for yourself. There may be some painful places inside that you are finally coming to terms with right now. Sorting through the gains and losses of the past, you are about to experience finding the right combination that opens the door to a future that you can really live not only with but for. The secret lies within.

As the month begins, you are experiencing the refreshing new viewpoint on your goals and activities afforded by the New Moon from the end of last month in your sector of career and professional life. You are communicating your deepest truth to others around you with an intention to unlock prior patterns of reaction to authority, or perhaps service to a greater cause than yourself, that may have been preventing you from the fullest use of your powers all this time.

As the First Quarter Moon of Saturday, June 3rd, draws near, you are likely to see things differently than you had just a few short weeks ago. You are preparing for some new moves that will come your way toward the end of the month, and the revelations you receive at this time from others in your life are only the beginning.

The Full Moon of Sunday, June 11th, also speaks to you of deep-seated changes that may be happening below the level of your conscious understanding. Getting more conscious is one goal of life, and picking up on the subtle signs of shifting core-level awareness at this time leads you to a better integration of all your parts, as you open to a radically different life plan.

The powerful Last Quarter Moon that comes along a week later may put the finishing touches on a better understanding of where your life is leading you at this time, into new directions, and an accompanying higher mind shift in values that is in the works for you as well, perhaps through the agency of the significant partners in your life.

The New Moon that follows one more week later in your sector of wishes and hopes, on Sunday, June 25th, represents the best chance that you will have all year to vision new possibilities for yourself in all these areas. This is an exciting and world-changing month for you, the more so to the extent that you can leave prior conceptions behind and fully embrace your future.

Libra     

You are preparing for your next stage, Libra. Intimacy issues that you have been unraveling lately have taken you over the threshold of your quest for meaning, leading the way to reevaluation of your worldview through this monthly cycle. Your plans for the future are seriously optimistic right now, and by the coming to a head of old and outmoded patterns of showing yourself to your best advantage, and of your interaction with intimate partners. By the end of the summer you will have come a long way up the side of your particular mountain and the view from that height is very different than from where you started.

As the month begins, you are coming into a whole new way of looking at the day, in the wake of the New Moon from the end of last month in your sector of higher mind. Studies and educational ideas and also travel initiatives may be on your immediate agenda. Relationship with significant partners in your life is another area of great interest at this time, even more so than usual. You may also be feeling the pain of getting into old issues, as dysfunctional patterns of behavior from the long-dead past come up for acceptance and eventual healing.

As the Full Moon of Sunday, June 11th, approaches, there is more pressure to take serious stock of these ancient traumas. It may help that you are also prone to sharing yourself with others at this time. The material realm and sticking to the surface layers of your own agenda has its charm for you these days, but only as part of a larger whole. You are facing your future and the way that you connect with society around you more seriously than perhaps ever before, seeking a new synthesis. In communication with others around you share a deeper truth about yourself, and explore new territory.

The Last Quarter Moon of the following weekend, taking place on Sunday, June 18th, is a powerful time of recognition and reconciliation, when questions of authority and control could come up for you, and as well issues of how you get your point across to others without overpowering them in the process. Coming from a place of full acceptance of yourself, even with all your deficiencies and drawbacks on record, could be a good start.

The New Moon that takes place one week later, following the Summer Solstice, on Sunday, June 25th, represents a new day, and another cycle of development.

Scorpio      

This is your time to shine, Scorpio. You are really going for it in the outer world of events right now. The processes in your life of outer and inner actually feed off and support one another, since it is impossible to have one without the other. As the month unfolds, you might encounter old painful patterns of where you are caught in your self-concept, preventing true intimacy, and other more family-oriented issues could arise as you sort out the information that living brings. You may find that you need to acknowledge and nourish a culminating sense of deep inner knowing rather than becoming distracted by the glitter of public achievement.

As the month begins, you are coming to some definite and different conclusions regarding your situation, expanding your concept of closeness with intimate partners in your life, and reaching out for a better and more inclusive understanding of your world and your higher mind engagement with it.

The First Quarter Moon that takes place on Saturday, June 3rd, signals an increased participation in the world around you, with the potential for career initiatives and renewing your life plans generally.

The Full Moon taking place a week later, on Sunday, June 11th, is an important time for you, when you are taking your projects to another level, and when difficulties and slow-downs that arise will have the effect of making you stronger in the long run, although they could be annoying short-term. You may find yourself adjusting your values in a way that is consistent with others' attitudes, although you must be careful not to be bound by them. The authority that you seek is your own and no one else's although discovering that simple fact may take up a major part of your time and energy over the next few weeks. These are core level issues that keep coming up for resolution and it is getting to be time to stop everything and just deal with them.

Your concerns may reach another crux at the time of the powerful Last Quarter Moon of Sunday, June 18th, and the Summer Solstice that follows a few days later on the 21st, when partnership with significant others and issues of intimacy are put into potential conflict with making your own way in the world, so that it might be tricky to know which way to turn. You may just need to ride the waves of circumstance, and do the best you can to keep your head above water. The conclusions regarding your life that you can draw at this time are totally valuable, and will serve you in good stead long after the pain of their difficult genesis has become a distant memory.

Sagittarius     

You are taking a higher mind approach to outer events, Sagittarius. You are after enlightened relationship with your own inner world and with significant others in your life as well. There are also issues stemming from early peer-to-peer encounters and communication that has left its residue in your consciousness that you are seeking to integrate. As these perhaps difficult early experiences form a more coherent whole, you shift your big picture understanding of past traumas and missteps in a major way. A decidedly spiritual and forgiving viewpoint informs your connections with others, and your resulting actions.

As the month begins, you are experiencing a greater degree of partnership with others around you and also within your own psyche, as you find yourself exploring some deep waters following the New Moon in your relationship sector from the end of last month. Old patterns of the way that you communicate with others that have long outlived their usefulness in the present era are beginning to yield, although not without considerable effort on your part. You are striving to get a better handle on old pain, coming to a new sense of who you are on the inside, and learning to love the person that you find in this process.

The Full Moon of Sunday, June 11th, recapitulates questions of self and other and how these issues inform a deeper sense of your own transformation. You are seriously revising your values and your perspective in the light of your current circumstances, as ancient traumas that may have been walled away long ago behind iron gates within your psyche come up for greater acceptance and eventual healing.

The powerful Last Quarter Moon of the following weekend, taking place on Sunday, June 18th, and the days following, leading up to the Summer Solstice of Wednesday, June 21st, are climactic ones for you, and represent a time when your consciousness of who you are at the core grows in proportion to how squarely you face your issues.

You are changing in both your inner world and your outer presentation at this time, responding to the lessons of the past but not bound by them, finding your freedom through a painful process of initiation. If you stay true to yourself the rewards are great in terms of greater integration and wholeness, and indeed you have no choice but to move forward with your life, since to paraphrase the poet, one who is not busy dying is busy being born.

Capricorn    

You are getting a new handle this month on your ability to be of true service in this world, Capricorn, finding a deeper level of integration. You are also taking stock of old patterns of insecurity, based on an essentially optimistic assessment of where your life is headed and what you can concretely do about making more of your dream vision an actual reality, and your life more directly in line with your ideals. You may be tempted in the course of this month's journey to reflect on prior traumas or even to wallow in them, but you might also find the determination to focus on the upside and simply forge ahead.

As the month begins, you are seeking a broader definition of your life purpose, what it truly means to be you in this world. You are feeling your way forward into greater sense of connection with others in your life, although at times this isn't easy. Old patterns may be coming up at this time to betray you, and you are of half a mind to abandon ship on making necessary changes of attitude that you are in the midst of, but in the final analysis you are likely to choose your own growth.

The Full Moon energy of the second weekend of the month, culminating midday on Sunday, June 11th, reminds you to integrate both sides of your nature, the more single-minded and detached and the mystical. You are coming into some important realizations at this time concerning self and other, surface and deep hidden interior layers of your psyche, and intent on taking cosmic change along with you to the next level of understanding. There may be feelings of insecurity that you must face as you enter the tunnel of your metamorphosis, but what else is new? The rewards of the journey are worth the hardships and somewhere inside yourself you have always known that.

The very powerful Last Quarter Moon of the next weekend, taking place on Sunday, June 18th, brings all your issues to bear on your situation. You are facing self in some entirely new and different ways, through others, and through the dark doorway of your own internal landscape. It may be hard to understand why you are putting yourself through these trials at this time, but your higher Self has a reason, although one that it may be extremely difficult to see from where you stand on planet earth.

The New Moon taking place in your relationship sector the following weekend, on Sunday, June 25th, represents another turning point, when partnership becomes your overarching mantra. The lessons of the past build upon themselves and each contributes to a more livable future as the spiral path unwinds.

Aquarius      

Welcome to the roller-coaster ride of your life, Aquarius. You are in the midst of a thoroughgoing transformation of the way you put your best foot forward, and how you fit yourself in with society at large. Good fortune smiles on your career at this time, which can only enhance your experience and spark up your aspirations in this area of life. Some painful traumas from the past are up for revision and review, with the goal of acceptance and eventual healing, as you take in the responses of important partners in order to mediate your own. It's ultimately about creative expression for you right now, and getting your feet more firmly planted on the spiral road of your destiny.

As the month begins, it finds you getting serious about partnership commitment and at the same time shucking old patterns of behavior that no longer serve you, which is mostly a blessing, depending on the way that you take it. There may be some that stem from ancient reactions to childhood trauma that are essentially dysfunctional in terms of your present understanding, and that conflict with the way that you approach partnership with significant others in your life. Your mission, and you have no choice but to accept it, lies in mediating the differing requirements of self and other as gracefully as possible, while never taking your eye off of the eventual goal. You are coming into yourself in some very new and different ways as a result of the intensity of the life lessons that are piling up on your doorstep at this time.

At the moment of the June 3rd First Quarter Moon, financial considerations may become a factor, with your ruler Uranus starting to change direction in your resources sector, which could also represent a new attitude regarding the material world and its creature comforts.

The Full Moon energy of the following weekend, taking place on Sunday, June 11th, may accompany new awareness regarding your plans and goals for the future, which are likely to be undergoing a form of transformation in the course of this monthly cycle. There is increasing pressure to make lifestyle changes in the way that you operate as the weeks roll on.

The Last Quarter Moon, of Sunday, June 18th, is climactic and brings new perspectives into play. You are seeing things more clearly, less through a dark glass, than when the month started, as you assimilate the increasing information to your ultimate benefit.

Pisces    

You are in the world but not of it these days, Pisces. Home and family concerns dominate your feeling process right now. You are on an important journey of discovery deep inside your psyche and it can be a little isolating. It is as if you see the world on the other side of a glass doorway that you alternately pass through and then refuse to enter. Your mission, and you have no real choice but to accept it, would seem to be finding out how to subscribe to the to the world around you in a more meaningful way, a way that is consistent with the purpose that you came into this lifetime to fulfill.

As the month begins, depth explorations into your family patterns and your psychological roots are beginning to reveal glimpses of a new core-level understanding of where your life is taking you at this time. You may be thinking of travel or other form of opening to new horizons, while at the very same time you are serious in your contemplation of the task that lies before you, that is to find your unique way, independent of other voices than your own. You are gradually learning that to be in the world and to enjoy the fruits of that activity need not directly conflict with what you have come to regard as your spiritual mission in it; the two competing visions of your earthly activities can merge into and support one another.

The First Quarter Moon of Saturday, June 3rd, may bring up more of the conflict than the resolution, but the resolution is there waiting for you to discover the compromise that leads you to it.

One week later, the Full Moon of Sunday, June 11th, brings you to a culmination of sorts in following the many threads of your activity at this time, and promotes deep-seated changes in the way that you operate in career or professional life that have been waiting in the wings for your own readiness to accept them. There is a way that you are coming to grips with these days of uniting head and heart in the pursuit of your profession and also of your sense of a higher purpose in your life.

The quite powerful Last Quarter Moon of the following weekend, on Sunday, June 18th, and the days following, leading up to the Summer Solstice, represent an important turning point, when you gain perspective on what you are attempting, and more fully settle in to changes in the way that you pursue your work in the world that are a natural consequence of these adjustments.

The New Moon of the last weekend of the month, on Sunday, June 25th, in your creativity sector constitutes a fresh start in your discipleship to your highest intention for yourself, going forward. This entire monthly cycle of development in fact represents a series of exciting new beginnings, as long as you willingly open to the changes being thrust upon you at this time, which you must otherwise assimilate more slowly and with greater difficulty.

Overview of the Planets this month:

The Astrology of June features Jupiter and Saturn, along with Chiron, and with a touch of transformative Pluto getting into the act at the time of the June 11th Full Moon. This is a time when we must face ourselves and find the spiritual opening that permits greater integration and freedom in our lives.

The basic conflict this month is between optimistic and expansionist Jupiter, who helps us to rise above and to have faith in our process, versus the very different and difficult energy of Saturn that represents a super-realistic orientation and maintaining the status quo. Chiron, the Wounded Healer, also prominent, symbolizes the difficult places inside us that we need to accept in order for healing to take place, and where we then have the empathy to be able to reach out toward others.

The Sunday, June 11th, Full Moon and subsequent Last Quarter Moon of Sunday, June 18th, emphasize Pluto by direct aspect (opposition by the Sun and then squared by the Last Quarter Moon) and bring personal transformation into the picture (the big picture). In Sagittarius, and nearly conjunct the Galactic Center, Pluto now represents the transformation of our basic belief structures. We might want to ask ourselves where we are overly caught up in beliefs that no longer serve us, or that serve, like blinders, to block an essential part of our vision for us and our world. Pluto at this time is asking us to rise to the challenge of inclusiveness, seeing beyond the current limitations on our thinking to take in a wider perspective.

Pluto's mission on a personal level may be summed up in the words "to understand all is to forgive all." Since Pluto is linked to numinous Neptune at this time, this phrase is entirely appropriate and speaks as well to the concept of right relationship with each other and with the hidden parts of ourselves, symbolized by Chiron, that do not receive the benefit of our conscious awareness.

Relationship with others, symbolized by Venus, is also emphasized in June as Venus moves into her own sign of Taurus, representing the pleasures as well as the lessons of the body and of the material world. Since Venus squares both Mars and Saturn in the early days of the month, leading up to the Full Moon, while opposing Jupiter, these are important lessons for our times indeed.

The Summer Solstice taking place in the early morning hours of Wednesday, June 21st, is accompanied by a double Yod to Pluto, a Mars–Saturn conjunction and a Grand Cross in fixed signs formed by the Moon, Mars/Saturn, Jupiter and Chiron. This dicey configuration represents another culmination of the powerful energy of this cycle, stressing personal transformation (Pluto) and a strong hit of the Saturn-Chiron opposition that has been building all month.

Saturn and Chiron are opposite throughout June, bringing back once more the wound of misplaced authority, or where we give over to an authority that is untrustworthy, as strongly reflected in our nation's current leadership. Since Jupiter squares both Saturn and Chiron at this time, in a so-called T-square formation, this Saturn-Chiron opposition is even more powerful than we have seen in recent weeks. We might be prompted in the course of this month's journey to reflect on where and why we have given our power away to others, and how we can take it back. As astrologer Carolyn Casey declares, we must own our power, or there will be outside agencies that will emerge to take it from us. The conflicts inherent in these current configurations are difficult, but character building, as throughout the month we feel the limitations of Saturn, stern taskmaster that enforces discipline and gives us the determination to achieve our goals in spite of everything.

Current Configurations

The New Moon from the end of last month that signaled the beginning of this month's cycle, at 5 plus degrees of Gemini, sextiles Saturn and trines Chiron and so contributes to the T-square between Saturn, Chiron and Jupiter that lasts the remainder of the month, getting closer as the cycle nears its end. Since Jupiter is slowing down and preparing to change to direct motion in July, he stays in his place, square to both Chiron and Saturn, all month long. Saturn and Chiron in opposition may be thought of as the wound of misplaced authority, as has been discussed, and Jupiter and Saturn are also opposed principles, bringing social considerations to bear at this time, and also highlighting the potential loss of faith accompanying disaster and contrariwise the necessity for that strong element of positive outlook in the face of adversity.

The First Quarter Moon, taking place at 13 plus degrees of Virgo on Saturday, June 3rd, exactly opposes Uranus in Pisces, also getting ready to station, and which is therefore slower and more powerful. There may be surprises at this time, depending on where the Virgo-Pisces axis falls in individual charts.

The Full Moon of Sunday, June 11th, conjuncts Pluto in Sagittarius, and highlights the Saturn - Chiron - Jupiter configuration since Pluto resides at the Chiron/Jupiter midpoint, aspecting all three planets. The Full Moon traditionally represents a culmination of the energy that has been building up to that time, and brings others into our process as well. In Gemini and Sagittarius, there are likely to be issues raised of big picture idealism as contrasted with the energy of the here and now and just getting on with it in our lives. This T-square is quite significant for us, emphasizing as it does both where we are wounded by our earlier situations and where we can have the faith to rise above and assimilate new viewpoints, including new levels of self-acceptance; but through the path of struggle rather than the path of ease.

The Last Quarter Moon of Sunday, June 18th, combines a more intense triggering of the above configurations with a Mars - Saturn conjunction, as the T-square moves into even closer alignment, and as the Moon in Pisces squares Pluto while Venus and Mercury each form an inconjunct to it. This aspect pattern, know as a Yod or Finger of God formation, highlights the transformative nature of Pluto in Sagittarius, which is also strongly aspected by Mars, Saturn, Jupiter and Chiron, as well as the Sun and Moon. With Pluto we are always being forced to change those patterns in our lives that have outlived their usefulness for our present circumstances. In the case of the current world situation, we have many things to work on, and much to eliminate from our modes of activity in order to heal ourselves and the earth surrounding us.

The Summer Solstice, when the Sun enters Cancer, takes place on Wednesday, June 21st, and since the Moon resides in Taurus that day speaks to the issues of the earth as the summer season comes upon us. The Moon in Taurus opposes Jupiter exactly at the moment of the Sun's entrance into Cancer, forming a Grand Cross with Chiron and Saturn.

The New Moon in Cancer follows a few days later, on Sunday, June 25th, and brings the healing principle of water to bear more strongly in the mix of energies swirling around us in these climactic times. Venus has entered thoughtful Gemini. We are asked to take the lessons of the past weeks to heart and use them to form a new pact with each other, and with ourselves, as we do our best to come to a greater sense of wholeness.

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