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Astrology of June 2008

by Henry Seltzer

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The Astrology of June features Mercury, Uranus, Venus and Pluto. Mercury remains in retrograde motion from the end of May, and while it regains its direct motion on the 19th, the day after the Sagittarius Full Moon, it stays within its retrograde shadow until early July, so the period of missed communications and mechanical breakdown might be expected to continue beyond the end of the current month. As Mercury stationed in Gemini last May 26th it squared Uranus almost exactly, coloring this entire period with surprising mental combinations and unexpected epiphanies. Mercury with Uranus brings the unexpected ideation, and reveals details of the architecture of the universe that we might normally be unaware of. As Uranus shines his lightening-like and fitful insight into the synchronicities of our lives, he brings the long arm of seeming coincidence into helpful aid for our understanding of cosmic principles. You might want to take a good look around you at whatever magical happenings seem to be taking place during this period, to catch the hidden meaning of these events. There will undoubtedly be lessons that we can all prosper from in figuring out where we are going and why.

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There is in fact a lot going on in Mercury's sign of Gemini this month. Mercury spends many weeks there, retrograding backwards though it until the 19th, and not regaining its lost zodiacal ground until after the July 4th holiday. The New Moon in Gemini on the 3rd is followed by a triple conjunction of the Sun, Mercury and Venus there on the 7th to the 9th. We might feel most intensely the blockage of normal communication flow along with the desire to relate to others around us, and the increased chance to look inward and reflect on our situation. This will be quite a magical period of time, the heart of the retrograde period, when our inner world might well prove more compelling than the outer one.

This month will also be an important time of looking into our depths and re-examining our relationship dynamics, because Venus is moving into exact opposition with Pluto around the time of the mid-month Full Moon. The First Quarter Moon of the 10th is a powerful time as well, since the Sun conjuncts Venus while the increase of tension indicated by Sun and Moon in square aspect with each other also triggers the nodal axis and the powerful sextile from Jupiter to Uranus that has been with us for several months now. Chiron occupies the midpoint in this current configuration, meaning that old patterns of relationship that have ruled us from below the level of our awareness might be ready to yield more or less gracefully at this time.

The June 18th Full Moon is quite intense also. Not only does the Sun conjunct Venus and oppose Pluto, while the Moon in late Sagittarius conjuncts it, but also Mars is directly across the Zodiac from numinous Neptune. This is a shape-shifting aspect, and it means that we will all be subject to our imaginal realms in odd ways. We can be chameleon-like at this time, appearing to ourselves and others in many different guises depending on the situation. We may be drawn into our own fantasy or that of others, since outright deception is one possible reading of the symbolism.

Then too, as we deal with the retrograde of Mercury in its own sign of Gemini this month, on June 13th Pluto slips back into the opposite sign of Sagittarius for one last pass before leaving it forever in favor of sterner Capricorn, which it re-enters in November. These times are therefore quite pivotal. The June 18th Full Moon in the last degrees of Sagittarius emphasizes this transit, which might be seen as a summing up of the last twelve to thirteen years of Pluto in Sagittarius, when fundamentalist religious ideas prevailed over common sense as we saw the best and the worst of what those ideas could come to represent. We may be pulled back into sectarian disputes of all kinds during this five-month period, unless we make the conscious effort to transcend them.

Transits to the U.S. Chart USA

As we mentioned last month, Mercury's station as it began its retrograde period on May 26th was in conjunction to U.S. Mars while transiting Uranus squared it and transiting Chiron/Neptune trined it, indicating the possibility of further questions regarding the role of the U.S. military in resolving disputes and that perhaps deceptions in that area as well might come to light at this time. There were also powerful aspects to U.S. Mercury, representing among others things the media in this country. Of course the big news on the ground last month in this regard came only two days after the celestial event, with the release of Scott McClellan's tell-all book about his experiences in the early days of the Bush White House as its spokesman. McClellan's commentary focusing on the run-up to the Iraq war touched off a firestorm, especially with his assertion that information was manipulated in order that the war be promoted and even forced into existence. He also gave further evidence of complicity at the very top levels of the Bush White House, if indeed any more were needed, in the matter of the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame. This is interesting from a purely research angle, since Chiron always seems to be involved in this incident. On the date of his book's publication, transiting Chiron was near the midpoint of transiting Jupiter and Uranus, trined by a stationing Mercury and opposing U.S. Mercury again representing the media. For more information, and some conclusions regarding the symbolism of Chiron in this shameful tale, see my article The Ides of June.

In the current month, the New Moon of June 3rd conjuncts the U.S. Descendant, indicating that foreign policy matters could come up for reassessment within the current Mercury retrograde cycle, while the First Quarter Moon of June 10th conjuncts U.S. Neptune as Uranus exactly opposes it. Since Jupiter is opposed to U.S. Sun and Mercury at this time as well, ultimately beneficial information of a surprising and even a shocking nature might well come up. An optimistic mood could possess the nation, perhaps even overly so. We know of course that the democratic presidential campaign is getting really hot at this time, so that there may be news that brings the high ideals of the country into sharper focus and may perhaps reveal the truth behind appearances in that context as well.

This is the time of the transformation of America, a process that is now only beginning. We may edge a step closer in the current monthly time frame, since Pluto ingresses back into Sagittarius, the sign of the U.S. chart's Ascendant, and as it does so makes a last pass on its sextile with U.S. Moon, signifying the public. Since the Full Moon that takes place on Wednesday, June 18th, activates transiting Pluto and U.S. Moon as well, this mid-month period may be important and lead us to further revelations of what is really going on in this land of dreams.

For more information on the U.S. chart and its Mars – Neptune square, see our new Zodiactivism section.

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You have been through many different phases lately, Aries, and this month is no exception. After recent roller-coaster rides of worldly success and its aftermath, the pendulum swings back once more to your personal life, as disenchantment leads you toward re-thinking your position. You will likely find yourself somewhat blocked in communication with others around you at this time, but the positive purpose lies in allowing you to reflect more deeply on your situation, especially with respect to important interpersonal connections. Confusion during the last half of the month as to your ultimate goals may have a similar silver lining. The universe is always pumping knowledge through to us but it is we who must rise to the occasion and make the most of what we encounter.

As the month begins, communication is the name of your game. With Mercury also retrograde in your sector of peer-to-peer interaction you may find that strange and missed communication is more the rule than the exception. You are growing in your self-expression, feeling your way into more vibrant connection with your inner warrior, and the information that you glean from others around you is one more arrow in your quiver as you set out on your own particular vision quest. The fact that the ideas and thoughts of the mundane world come slowly or not at all at this time may really be useful after all, if it serves to take you closer to a meditative acceptance of your vast interior spaces. With the New Moon of Tuesday, June 3rd, you are at the beginning stages of this journey. Your connection to everyone around you is taking place at an almost telepathic level, while the mundane surface content of your words just slips away. Perhaps it is best at this time to be content to catch a fleeting glimpse of the numinous out of the corner of your mental eye, rather than chase after the mistaken construct or the misunderstood logical conclusion. With the First Quarter Moon a week later, taking place on Tuesday, June 10th, a degree of tension is injected into your process of growth, even as you come into better understanding of it. Your openness to new ideas is still very much operative. You are finding that in spite of setbacks things are going quite smoothly in your life right now, especially from the perspective of higher purpose. Only work that satisfies you on multiple levels all at once will be a possible fit for you right now. With the Full Moon of Wednesday, June 18th, and the days immediately following, leading up to the Summer Solstice of Friday, June 20th, you reach an important turning point in which changing attitudes and belief system collaborations strongly affect your outer world performance. Perspective shifts that have been in the works for some time become crucial now. You are shape-shifting to meet the essentially otherworldly requirements of your true situation, and it shows. You are opening to the cosmos, and if this can be a scary time it can also be an exhilarating one as well, although there is also the possibility of self-deception, or tricks played on you by others. Most profoundly, through to the end of the month, you will find that there is magic in blending your outer world achievement with your inner feeling tone. There is also a danger that you will become confused by the deep game your soul is playing, but it helps when you can remember that everything you see and hear is both real and unreal at the very same time, both a part of your physical manifestation that must be paid attention on its own terms, and as well symbolic of a larger meaning.

This is an important month for you, Taurus, although you may find that nothing much is happening on the surface level. You have been conceptually challenged with substantial departures in the way that you make your way through the world around you and now your task is to integrate the information. You have tremendous energy at this time for moving forward and also for staying in your comfort zone, so that you are stuck between rocking your world and finding a soft landing place. Actually it is possible to have both, although not in the short term. For now, get ready to jump through some informationally rich hoops before settling down into a new basis for further action.

As the month begins, you are very much in your element, enjoying to the maximum the pleasures of the physical world, with at the very same time the idea of transcending them through your appreciation of the beauty inherent in all worldly manifestation. You are looking into the deeper meaning of your connection with the physical world all through this month-long period, connecting with the All That Is from your deep inside on out. You also are very taken during this monthly cycle with the idea of new worlds to conquer not so much through direct action but indirectly, through your expanding soul-level awareness. At the time of the June 3rd New Moon, you are fully energized for physical as well as inner connection, finding your world through figurative fingertips. The energy gets higher for mystical exploration over the week that follows, with one crux being the powerful configuration of the 7th, when your ruler Venus and the Sun form a triple conjunction with retrograde Mercury. The First Quarter Moon of Tuesday, June 10th represents another powerful time, when you will feel the pull of your future self quite strongly, and when you might well make the optimistic assessment that your spiritual journey into a new awareness awaits only your gesture to complete it. The Full Moon of Wednesday, June 18th, and the days immediately following, form another highlighted period when you are finding yourself in intimate connection with others. The depths that you explore at this time may be found in the eyes of another, or within your own psyche, or even in the principle that there is no distinction between these places. As the remainder of the month unfolds, thought like these will take you further out of your mundane world and into direct communication with the unknown gods or goddesses within than you would have believed a few short weeks ago. 

 

 


It is a two-edged sword that you are dealing with this month, Gemini. On the one hand, the New Moon in your sign signals a time of great energy and expansive positive vibrations, while on the other, with your ruler Mercury retrograde there as well, you might be getting that feeling of disconnection. It is definitely more a time for introspection than for outward assertion right now, although your reflective stance also has its uses when you recognize its quality. The peak days remaining of the retrograde period are those surrounding the 7th and also the 19th, when Mercury goes direct and starts to work its way out of its zodiacal shadow. Intimacy and partnership with important others in your life are also emphasized over the course of this month, as a measure of your own security needs.

As the month begins, you are definitely energized, feeling the excitement of the coming New Moon in your sign early in the first week and as well the aftermath of the last few days of May when there were some interesting curve balls thrown your way in terms of your public offering. This is a fascinating monthly period that is shaping up for you, especially in the first two weeks, with both your traditional ruler, Mercury, and your esoteric ruler, Venus, appearing in your sign, even though the first of these is retrograde. Although the Mercury retrograde period may pull you toward an introspective stance, and you are certainly warned not to make any definite new decisions during this entire month, this is only a relative factor. In fact, anything that you can think up at this time will have extreme relevance for your life as it unfolds over the next few weeks, only you must be aware that adjustments and course corrections will likely be necessary as you work out the details. The New Moon that comes along on Tuesday, June 3rd, brings plenty of positive communicative energy along with it that may last for days. You, who love to discuss your world with your circle of peers in any case, will feel the tide of interpersonal connection sweeping through you as you reach out intellectually to others around you. There is a mystical side to your verbal explorations at this time as well, and a sense in which greater profundity of relationship connection is fostered by the surface chatter, as you are called at this time to examine everything from a depth as well as a more mundane perspective. The triple conjunction of the Sun, Venus, and your ruler Mercury that takes place on Saturday, June 7th, gives you a brief peak of intensity of connection and of looking within also. It may help you to recognize this energy as a reflection of cosmic forces in action in your life rather than having no reference point. The philosophical reasons behind recent departures from the norm, stemming from the end of the previous month, will become more apparent as the weeks of these summer months roll on. The First Quarter Moon of Tuesday, June 10th, is another crucial turning point that is likely to present you with some tension in your process and recalls for you the new and in many ways positive surprising directions that your career and professional life has taken off in lately. The Full Moon a week later, taking place on Wednesday, June 18th, and the days immediately following, when Mercury changes direction and the Sun charges into your security sector, takes you to an even more mystical frame of mind. You are looking under the covers of every aspect of your life at this time, and finding treasure. There is a reason behind all these changes that you are currently going through that will emerge over time, the more so the more you can patiently watch and wait as you allow the dust to settle.


 

The way down and the way up are one and the same for you right now, Cancer. You are becoming more involved with the secret depths of interior spaces in order that you grow more whole. Your inner world speaks to you strongly at this time, and brings sudden epiphany along with your deep reflection. There is the knowing that comes from outer events and that is one form; and then there is the inner knowing that is mystical and intuitive. This more profound understanding may come over you suddenly during this time period, stemming from deep within your psyche. In the last week of the month you will have your coming out party and begin to reap the wisdom of the deceptively passive three weeks that preceded it.

As the month begins, you have loads of energy for your process, but you are more drawn to inner rather than to outer exploration. This internal and introspective stance continues over the first two thirds of the month, and represents a mystical and powerful time, as you move in an underground fashion through your deep interior spaces and examine everything that you see there. The New Moon of Tuesday, June 3rd, in your house of dream imagination is normally energizing for you and this month even more so, but energizing in the depths of your being, rather than the surface layers. Communication with others around you is intense at this time and serves the dual purpose of taking you further down your road of depth exploration and simultaneously keeping you distracted from what can be a overwhelmingly dark and solitary process for you. A few days later, on Saturday, June 7th, another peak of this darkly communicative energy comes along with the powerful conjunction of the Sun and Mercury in your twelfth sector, and on Tuesday, the 10th another turning point arrives with the First Quarter Moon. This may temporarily create some extra tension in your process of growing awareness, but also will serve to clarify in some ways as well, especially if you can focus your attention on the mystical information that will be contained within the practical aspects of your situation at this time. The universe is particularly available to your perception at this juncture, although it may also be true that no ordinary thinking will get you into closer contact with its secrets at this time. Your process of discernment will provide the key to unlock as many doors into your soul as you are fully ready to open for yourself. The Full Moon a week later on, taking place on Wednesday the 18th, and the days immediately following leading up to the Summer Solstice on Friday the 20th, are another crux of this period of time when you might be able to discern more deeply the motivations of others and yourself into the bargain, as you likewise you gain strength for pursuing your own pathway forward. This month is magical for you to the extent that you can see beneath the covers of the personalities of those around you and your own as well, through to the deeper meaning. 

An up and down monthly period commences with a bang for you, Leo. You are feeling very strongly the pull of your future self. The middle of the first week of the month represents the best chance that you will have all year to set intention for plans that you have been cooking up lately, although with Mercury also retrograde you will want to question any brand new ideas that you might have at this time until they have had another month to settle in. The period from the 7th to the 10th might be the most difficult. A potential disruption to the way you see your world can be also a cause of great joy when you turn it around and look at it the other way.

As the month begins, you are in a great position to vision new possibilities for yourself into being. With the June 3rd New Moon in your house of societal connection and future plans, the first two weeks of this month represent the best opportunity you will have all year for this endeavor, although of course with Mercury simultaneously retrograding through this same sector of your chart, your reflective and even introspective stance does complicate the picture. The best bet is to research new possibilities for yourself, especially ideas that have been brewing for some time, but not to take any new and drastic action until July. The energy of this New Moon is also terrific for social interaction and for getting a better handle on where you feel the urge to plug yourself in with respect to the social movement that surrounds you during these exciting days of chaos and potential social change. You are highly energized at this time and more than ready to follow up on activities that you began over the last few weeks. As the month flowers onward, the First Quarter Moon of Tuesday, June 10th, traditionally represents the time of tension in your progress. The days leading up to this juncture represent a strong charge of energetic connection to everyone around you, and the days surrounding the Quarter Moon itself may feel like a strain in which you strongly feel the conflict of security issues on the one hand and the urge to break out of an established rut on the other, a seemingly irresolvable dilemma. The answer may lie in surrendering to the mystery and fully embracing the paradoxical nature of your situation. Unlike so-called scientific verity, where black is not white and the collision of opposite views implies that only one is chosen, the soul's logic is more flexible and at its best can embrace the two poles of opposite intention for a win-win outcome that may represent a third or synthesized position. With the advent of the Full Moon of the following week taking place on Wednesday, July 18th, you may come to the crux. This is a time when you are strongly drawn to experience your world in a more mystical manner, to adjust your mundane expectations with the perspective of Spirit working through your life for an ultimate purpose that you can at present only dimly discern. The following few days bring more fluctuation, as Mercury changes direction representing one peak of the retrograde period and as the Sun enters Cancer with the Summer Solstice. Over the remainder of the month, you are drawn to action in the outer world at the very same time as you are powerfully magnetized to the overwhelming mystery of your own interior spaces. You come through with flying colors during this time if you can remain open to the possibility and the wonder as well as to the practicalities of your situation. 

 

   

This is an important and pivotal month for you, Virgo, when nearly everything is up for reassessment and reevaluation. Career initiatives are active as you seriously reflect on your public life priorities and perhaps re-think them. You are entering into a time of great joy and optimism, also potentially of chaos and disruption, as you jump the tracks of previous alliances and ways of thinking about your life path. Another month will see you through to a better understanding of where you're headed. It's ultimately an issue of trust in your powers; you may not know exactly where you are going, but you are certainly going for it, whatever form your journey may eventually take.

As the month begins, you are coming out in style. You are appearing upon the world stage in some important new fashion and yet since your ruler Mercury is retrograding through your career sector as well, you may find yourself looking back on the past for the themes of your outer presentation to be repeating in some way. The road to your eventual progress is never straightforward, but rather it loops around the mountain in switchbacks and morphs into a different form of path altogether before you are done. This monthly period represents one of the loops in your spiral. The New Moon that comes along in the middle of the first week of the month, on Tuesday, June 3rd, takes you further down your road than you have been before and lends enthusiasm for your current journey, although you are at the same time also reviewing and contemplating your priorities. You are philosophically invested in your present course of action, meaning that a new way of thinking and of perceiving the world is dawning for you these days based on real-world activities. On June 7th your ruler Mercury moves backwards through the zodiac to conjunct the Sun and Venus, making for a grand display of astrological fireworks. You are especially blessed at this time and magnetized toward achievement that is fully meaningful for you, the path with heart that Carlos Castaneda referred to so often in his mystical writings. The First Quarter Moon of Tuesday, June 10th, signals another crucial period, when you are drawn to finding the deficiencies in what you are attempting, and when outer events seem to conspire in bringing a creative tension to your process. In this case, you are being sparked with ideals of excellence and the conflict between public and private concerns. Important partnerships in your life provide some surprising information that could rock your basic concept of where you are headed with your life right now. The Full Moon that comes along another week later, taking place in the middle of the following week, on Wednesday, June 18th, and the days following, leading up to the Summer Solstice of the 20th, is also a climactic period of time for you, and give you the chance to see how far you have actually come in terms of your personal evolution. A summing up of past difficulties and triumphs takes place over these few days. There is a way that your past is repeating for you, as you circle once more around the mountain of your destiny, but with no doubt an entirely different perspective from your position that much further up the slope.


This is a month of ever-increasing awareness for you, Libra. Things may not work out just the way that you want but there will be plenty of food for thought in your process of discovery. The first two weeks of the month represent a time when you may question your basic beliefs and re-do travel or educational plans, while the time that follows the Full Moon of the 18th is a strong period of personal growth and reassessment of your life in general. There is a useful feeling at this mid-month time of sorting out what really matters from your life so far and what simply doesn't, sort of a psychic yard-sale that you are having these days. As the bard reminds us, "what's past is prologue."

As an exciting monthly period begins, you are feeling the philosophical ferment of novel conceptions, new ways of seeing your world. You have been exploring your depths lately with the idea of breaking out of a perhaps too narrow definition of self, although you may have been operating under its influence for many years now. There is a nostalgic quality to your mental inquiry at this time, since you are in the process of reviewing the past with an eye to transcending it. With Mercury retrograde in your house of higher mind, you may find that you are replaying certain concepts over again in your mind's eye and viewing them from a very different angle this time around. If so, then congratulate yourself, since the current month could be regarded as a good time for research into different approaches. The New Moon that comes along early in the month, on the 3rd, gives you new energy for these mental and philosophical speculations, and for finding your own way home out of the maze created by society's conditioning. The period from the 3rd to the 7th is particularly rich in this regard. Then, on Tuesday June 10th, with the advent of the First Quarter Moon in your sector of dream visualization, you are particularly drawn to express all that you have inside yourself, perhaps through actual dreams on that Monday night, perhaps through mystical conversations with close friends. You are exploring your day-to-day life from a different angle at this time, seeking the soul intention behind it. There may be some tension inherent in your process at this time, and you could strike sparks, but sparks are the source of the fire that consumes the past and lead to breakthrough. The Full Moon that follows a week later, on Wednesday, June 18th, and the days following, represent a time when you might start to apply these ideas to the practical aspects of life on this very thick planet. The remainder of the month is follow-through and more concrete realizations.


This is a month of constant adjustment for you, Scorpio. The ground beneath your feet may be shaky and the changes in perspective arriving fast and furious, but the eventual result will be a better degree of integration and greater peace of mind, the more so the more you are able to open to the new possibility. The Mercury retrograde period complicates the picture somewhat, meaning that you cannot be entirely sure of what the universe ultimately has in store for you until after a few more weeks have past, and the crucial period is from the 10th to the 19th. You will find that you possess new talents and personality traits that you never knew you had in stock, and also some that you might be ready to let go of.

As the month begins, you are moving forward with new ways to be in the world that involve your depths as well as your surface activities. This is an amazing month for you in terms of growth, not least because of your capacity at this time to open to the numinous possibility inherent in your situation. Partnership in your life is magical for you right now, and leads you through some interesting hoops to the prize at the rainbow's end, although these are not hoops of fire but rather of water. As you descend into the dark unknown and make friends with little attended portions of your personality you are also paradoxically motivated to be all that you can be in terms of goal-orientation and outer world performance. The New Moon early in the first week of the month, coming along on Tuesday, June 3rd, makes for an exciting time when outer and inner more fully mix. You are on a path of rapid development right now, and with the Mercury retrograde period in full swing, re-thinking your connections with others around you as well as those within your own psyche. The First Quarter Moon a week later, taking place on Tuesday, June 10th, is powerful for you and opens the door to fresh viewpoints, although also may provide some degree of tension for your process. You win when you remain as flexible as you possibly can and stay true to your inner vision, no matter what extraneous influences attempt to pull you off course. The Full Moon another week further on, taking place on Wednesday, June 18th, and the days following, leading through the Summer Solstice of the 20th, indicate for you that you are entering a new period of mental and spiritual growth. The first symptom is that you may not really know which way is up for a while. You are feeling your way through to a new set of priorities for yourself that is more internally consistent with your spiritual as well as your physical needs. All you can do is make your best attempt to get straight on what you are really trying to accomplish, deep down, and then let go and let goddess after that. The universe has its surprises but you'll find, after all is said and done, that it has been acting in your best long-term interest all along.

Your luck is still running, Sagittarius. It's been a good year for you financially in spite of potential setbacks. Now you are finding new purpose in outer world development as you engage in a month-long reassessment of the impact of partnership activity on your life. An essentially positive outcome may seem problematic in the steps taken along the way, but the turbulent waters will eventually clear if you can summon the patience to wait it out. You are slowly pulling yourself free of the past, entering into an entirely different universe. You may feel as though your world has been rocked one more time but each life movement quickens the birth.

As the month begins, you are exploring the meaning of partnership in your life, especially those potent relationships that have shaped you in certain ways over the years. Of course, always, there lies the important distinction between self and other, and the life-long process of adjustment and recognition in determining where you stop and another begins. With Mercury retrograde in your opposite sign right now, you are also looking backward to some extent, seeing how your past fits in with your present and leads you onward into a future characterized by what is hopefully a more conscious and less reactive mode. The New Moon of the first week of the month, taking place on Tuesday, June 3rd, may have the feel of reviving old patterns of connection with significant others. Along with this powerful New Moon in your relationship sector, Mercury is retrograding through there as well, to eventually make contact with the archetypal relationship energy of Venus. This configuration will be noticeable in its effects on your partnership understanding, especially when the Sun, Mercury, and Venus form their triple conjunction on the 7th. The other pole of relationship is of course represented by your deeper insight into yourself and this is another essential ingredient of the current mix of energies swirling around you these days. In fact, one way to look at relationship dynamics is that we are projecting the material within ourselves that we value but do not easily acknowledge to be a part of ourselves. We celebrate our own development and round out the corners of our rough gemstone nature by finding in others the traits that we possess inside ourselves in nascent form, and that we aspire to develop more fully. This is one vital component of this month's journey of self-discovery for you. You will be exposed to some of the inherent conflicts in your ongoing perspective in this area when the First Quarter Moon of Wednesday, June 10th comes along. At this time you feel the pinch of the tension between the point of view of significant others in your life and your own. Issues of self-mastery and fundamental security have been a noteworthy part of your thinking and planning lately and may come to the fore at this time. The Full Moon another week later on, taking place on Wednesday, June 18th, represents another point of crucial interaction both with others around you and within the misty confines of your own psyche as well. This period, leading up to the June 20th Summer Solstice, represents a powerful time of summing up, when new ways of perceiving the surrounding universe come fast and furious and when your realizations may coalesce into some freshly holistic form. Over the remainder of the month, you are given increased access to the numinous world of your unconscious process and challenged to make that world concretely available throughout your waking life.

This has certainly been an interesting year for you, Capricorn, one of ever-increasing and more profound personal transformation. You've been a long time coming to some difficult conclusions regarding life path and now the time has finally arrived when you can no longer ignore the evolutionary pressure for change. You are finding a renewed sense of purpose amidst the rush of circumstance, although you are not quite ready to take it to the bank just yet; that might have to wait another month or more. You are in the process of reconciling worldly with more lasting life goals. If you keep your eye on the prize, a potentially dicey passage from June 7th to 10th will yield rich rewards, at the very least in terms of increased understanding of your true situation.

As the month begins, you are finding your way through to a new concept of service to the world around you. You have been going through some major changes in these past few months, and this current cycle is particularly fruitful for getting clearer on what exactly you envision as your true mission in this lifetime, one that satisfies your achievement orientation as well as the more profound need represented by your deeper soul-level purpose. This is in many ways a paradoxical month for you. There is room for taking the lead with your on-going metamorphosis and for quietly sitting back and mulling over your possibilities. The New Moon of Tuesday, June 3rd, normally a call to action, in this case is tempered by the Mercury retrograde period that is currently in full swing, so that it makes more sense for you to internally contemplate the changes that you are going through, rather than put anything into drastic practice, much as you may feel tempted to by the energy of this lunation. A week later, at the time of the First Quarter Moon of Tuesday, June 10th, there is the possibility of even more conflict in the air, and as well the impulse for new ideas to swim into your consciousness and new conceptions to emerge as a result. You are being tested at this juncture and whatever mental flexibility you can muster will serve you well. At the time of the Full Moon one week further on, and in the days following, leading up to and through the Summer Solstice of Friday the 20th, you are being urged by the surrounding cosmos to consider alternatives to your point of view just as seriously a you consider your own, but not to the exclusion of following your own path thoroughly and completely. Partnership in your life becomes more important than ever at this time, and serves as a touchstone for you to explore the inner meaning of your experience. You may find, as the bard was fond of stating, that there are more things in heaven and in earth than you can normally even imagine.

This is the first month of the rest of your life, Aquarius. You are exploring your options in an entirely new way right now. Although reinventing yourself is nothing so surprising given your track record for rapid changes, this current cycle may be a little over the top, even for you. The weekend of June 7th and a few days afterwards may be the period of your most intense fermentation. After re-thinking your position for most of the current month you will be taking more definite steps come July with the help of active partners in your life, mirrors that help you to define the arc of your own development.

The beginning of the month finds you full of energy, cruising toward new heights of self-expression. With the Mercury retrograde period going on right now, however, you might find that some of your connections are missed and some of your schemes go awry. There can be a lesson even in the ideas that don't pan out, as Edison famously commented regarding failed experiments to find the filament for his electric light: now we know 200 kinds of material that don't work. The New Moon in the first week of the month, taking place on Tuesday, June 3rd, provides one crux of the energy of these times, and allows you to combine your active process in connecting to others with a more thoughtful and introspective stance that is appropriate to the powerful inner work that is also up for you right now. The First Quarter Moon a week later, coming on Tuesday, June 10th, represents an important turning point. This is a time when what you have seeded at the New Moon must face the difficulties of the real world in finding its fruition. In particular, at this time you will be faced with the tension between the old and the new, the established rut versus the experimental. Partners are helpful in actively supporting one or the other pole of your process, but at the most basic level you must confront the mystery of your own being at this time. Your life is leading you into some dark corners of the soul and it is up to you to integrate these factors as smoothly as may be. At the time of the June 18th Full Moon in the middle the following week, and in the days immediately following, you are brought face to face with your own higher self in any one of several guises, and before the month is finished will have taken one step closer to who you came into this lifetime to become. It may seem easy or it may seem incredibly difficult, but no matter how you wriggle you cannot get off the hook.


This is a time of taking stock, Pisces. Listening to the drum beat outside your door is not as rich for you these days as paying close attention to your own inner world. You are in the midst of major changes in finding how to operate in the world a way that is more consistent with what your inner guidance reveals to you. Your plans have likely changed somewhat in recent weeks, but you are still on task. As you make course adjustments based on environmental re-orderings on the home front, you do well to keep your ear tuned to that still small voice within you that always rings true, in spite of the changing circumstances.

As the month begins, you are entering into a new phase. You are filled at this time with the determination to follow your own unique path forward, no matter what it takes. Home and family issues and the psychological roots of your being are your focus now. You are likely reviewing the effects on you of these areas of your life in either the mundane or the spiritual dimension. Even if it is a remodel or real estate or a family structure consideration that concerns you outwardly, these have their symbolic layers of meaning also. They bond you through their very groundedness to important ideas of tribal connection, as you come to terms with the puzzling and powerful spiritual truth that at some level we simply all are one. The New Moon at nearly the very beginning of the month, on Tuesday, June 3rd, emphasizes these factors. With Mercury also retrograde in your fourth sector, you might find yourself mulling over the past as well, seeking to find the true meaning of events that have transpired and finding new ways to interpret existing patterns of behavior. When the Sun and