This is another interesting and intense month, Cancer, signaling transformational change. The recent late Taurus New Moon from May 19th indicated an ongoing metamorphosis in the way that you see your future unfolding, and your societal contribution rising to meet the challenge of your internal values in juxtaposition with your outer world activities. There may well be movement in some way in the direction that inner intuition prompts you to take. This also involves important partners as a significant focus, including issues of relationship intimacy to include deep diving within your own psyche to achieve greater intimacy with yourself as well. Your friendships and your group affiliations have likely been the subject of a good deal of reflections in recent weeks, with the potent passage of Mercury in retrograde motion through that sector of your solar chart, a period that has now finally ended. You are therefore ready to move forward in new ways with social connections that you favor. All in all this is a time of the unification of inner emotion, instinctual feelings of right action, and outer service action, coupled with a vital emphasis on allowing necessary changes in habitual behaviors and attitude to transpire in your life.


The following was written by our guest columnist Alea Balzer. You can write her at alea.balzer@gmail.com


Last month's Taurus New Moon from May 19th took place in your sector of friends, community, and higher aspirations, the effects of which continue to play out in the first half of June as you navigate simultaneous needs for autonomy and belonging. The massively transformational effects of Pluto were featured in this lunation, continuing into the current month. Mercury escaping its retrograde shadow indicates an increased understanding of the relational ecosystem you exist within and your evolving individual values. This month supports the continued exploration of authentic connection, meaning, and future aspirations as you expand your horizons outward.

On June 1st, Jupiter joins the Lunar North Node in Taurus in your social sector. While the insatiable quality of this transit could suggest a night of Dionysian revelry, it speaks to social cohesion more broadly, ushering in a deeper sense of connection with others.

The June 3rd Sagittarius Full Moon occurs in your sector of health, service, and daily schedule, highlighting the importance of mental and physical wellbeing. This lunation invites you to consider how outdated social habits or daily patterns may restrict you from pursuing larger life dreams. The influence of Mercury's conjunction with Uranus in Taurus in this New Moon may also reveal the conditioning of your environment and culture, perhaps allowing you to care less about what others think or manifesting as an urge to disrupt oppressive systems through activism. This transit suggests sparks of connectivity and friendship – you may feel the call to harness creative synergy for collective goals and collaboration.

Venus enters Leo on June 5th, joining Mars already there, in your sector of personal values and assets, possibly corresponding to an lusciously extravagant spike in spending as you delight in the finer things in life and share your generosity with those you love. The magnetism of the cosmic lovers might infuse confidence into your business dealings and skill set. Venus's opposition with Pluto upon entry into Leo might clarify something you yearn for or lay bare issues like financial autonomy in partnerships, inheritance, or debt. Consider looking honestly at where you expend money, energy, attention, and time and how well this aligns with your broader values. This transit can potentially bring up your shadows related to women, sexuality and gender expression, or appearance, be that to do with your own experiences or the standards you hold for others. It may also suggest volatile power dynamics within intimate relationships or summon past situations of disempowerment. Pluto in your personal transformation sector offers evolution within intimacy, and also may involve working through deep psychological matters or the legacy of your family and cultural lineage.

Pluto returns to Capricorn, your partnership sector, on June 11th, possibly requiring you to eventually release some part of your patterns with this area so that you can move unburdened into the future. This transit could signal a change or end within certain partnerships. Mercury's trine to Pluto from its final minute of Taurus, combined with the simultaneous square between Venus and Jupiter, suggests a dynamic social period. While your resources might be somewhat depleted, you will likely enjoy yourself and make beneficial alliances.

The Gemini New Moon on June 17th shifts the focus to the unseen realms of dreams, shadows, and the subconscious. This New Moon in your twelfth sector of unconscious process and inner work asks you to prioritize mental and spiritual health by listening to yourself with the same openness and empathy as you would a close friend. You win when you can go beyond rationality and embrace solitude for self-reflection. Stream-of-consciousness journaling may be helpful for processing emotions or connecting to your intuition. Mercury's sextile to Venus in Leo supports any behind-the-scenes creative projects or learning endeavors related to writing or communication – which could likely be productive for you or even generate income.

This Gemini New Moon is modulated by action in your sector of higher mind, education, foreign travel, and spirituality, with Saturn's station retrograde in Pisces the same day and the Sun and Moon making a square aspect to Neptune there. The Pisces influence may indicate inertia—perhaps a sense that you don't know where you are going in this world or a feeling of yearning for greater meaning. It may be wise to avoid intoxicants around this lunation and instead spend time dreaming, or near a body of water, or escaping into a book or a film. Saturn's retrograde encourages a reassessment of how experiences in your past have formed your foundational belief system that may be dictating your current reality. Over the next few years, you may be called to prioritize spiritual, philosophical, or intellectual exploration to update your own systems of meaning.

The Sun's ingress into your sign on June 21st invites you to center personal health and happiness as it moves through your sector of identity, vitality, and appearance. Supportive aspects to Saturn in Pisces the following week encourage reconnecting to neglected dreams and facing any fears that may prevent action.

The fixed sign square between Mars and Uranus that occurs on June 24th to the 26th takes place across your personal assets and community sectors, and in the context of the Moon’s first quarter. This may raise charged topics related to autonomy or material security, or clashes of values you feel compelled to fight for. Mercury's ingress into your sign, today as well, indicates the tension may feel highly personal, so be mindful of reacting from an unconstructive defensive space. The Libra First Quarter Moon in your sphere of home and family also suggests a conflict that could feel threatening to your safety or bring up unresolved familial wounding. While this transit might incite confrontations or accidents, so beware, try to approach conflict with curiosity and harness its qualities of courageous liberation. This might have the effect of loosening outdated social identities or ties that compromise your values.

Mercury's conjunction with the Sun in your sign on June 30th could offer a jolt of insight, optimism, and clarity about your life and its purpose. Supportive aspects from Mercury and the Sun in Cancer to your higher mind and social sectors indicate that you may soon encounter allies to join you on a journey, actual or metaphysical, of learning, travel, or the spiritual. June has been a time of exploration and mental expansion, and this continues into the following month. Neptune's retrograde station in your higher mind sector today could also underline the need to put your faith in something higher, perhaps through studying astrology or another wisdom system to help connect to a wider cosmic matrix of belonging.

This is another month of transformational impact, Libra, when you are entering into another stage of your ongoing developmental evolution. over these past five weeks you have been asking yourself questions, perhaps confined to the deeper layers of your psyche, about relationship and intimacy, and you are now taking a new step forward based on the internal revelations of the past few weeks. Partnership agreements are part of this as well. Relationship is a changing landscape for you right now, and includes new takes on old situations where something must be let go, and other patterns augmented. With the Sagittarius Full Moon of June 3rd, corresponding to your sector of curiosity and learning, you may find yourself articulating more of what your deep principles and true values are all about, which, in these fractious times, might also connect to environmental concerns or ideas about social activism. You have lately been exploring your connection to Nature and to elements of natural law, and the New Moon of the 17th might bring all this more directly home for you, as you mature in the metamorphosis of your worldview and bring in further dimensions of your goals for a more vibrant future.


The following was written by our guest columnist Alea Balzer. You can write her at alea.balzer@gmail.com


The effects of the recent May 19th Taurus New Moon in your personal transformation and intimacy sector reverberate into the first half of June as you explore the energetic and material give and take of life. Your creativity, sense of identity, and community involvement are all in a state of flux this month, following the huge Pluto emphasis of this recent lunation. Mercury finally escaping its retrograde shadow as June begins also indicates you have more clarity about what you want to give and receive in your deeply merged relationships. While change may have been thrust on you, June also has a sense of freedom through endings as you continue to navigate the ways you are bound to others and yet also to your own developmental process and your psychological depths.

On June 1st, Jupiter joins the Lunar North Node in Taurus bringing a redemptive sense of faith in life and its inherent generosity. As you navigate a period of profound personal and relational transformation, you may feel that you don't have to shoulder everything alone and can embrace the support and gifts of those around you.

The June 3rd Sagittarius Full Moon in your communication and local environment sector indicates your world is expanding again. This lunation highlights the meaning you find in the familiar and the joy you take in the unfamiliar and that both are spaces of learning for you right now. You may also recognize how your local environment and the people you share it with impact your well-being. Shifts within your eighth sector have likely freed up emotional, energetic, or material resources, possibly quite suddenly, after a long period of feeling stuck. This sudden shift is indicated by Mercury's conjunction with Uranus in Taurus, which suggests your perspective is also changing and that you want to voice this within relationships. This lunation welcomes expansive conversations about exciting new dreams, travel plans, and friendships you now have the resources to invest in.

Your ruling planet, Venus, enters Leo on June 5th, joining Mars there, corresponding to your sector of friends, community, and higher aspirations. Put on a fabulous outfit; this is likely a fun and flirtatious time when you feel seen and appreciated by your social circle. The cosmic lovers infuse confidence into your connections with others and a sense of inspired synergy that supports collaborations and leadership opportunities. Venus' concurrent opposition with Pluto located in your sector of self-expression and joy suggests you are in the process of significant metamorphosis, which includes changing how you want to be seen and express yourself in the world. This transit highlights your creative potency, which may be fueled by your inner explorations, and is now manifesting as a physical, aesthetic, or artistic transformation.

On June 11th, Pluto returns to Capricorn, your sector of your home, family, and your psychological roots. This ingress may prompt a reexamination of past patterns and structural conditions within your family and ancestry. While it may be painful, deep foundational shifts are possible. You may also be experiencing major domestic changes regarding cohabitation, home renovations, or a move. Mercury enters Gemini the same morning, and in its trine to Pluto encourages you to express your needs and assert boundaries regarding things you will no longer tolerate, even if it temporarily disrupts the peace.

Also on the 10th and the 11th, the square between Venus in Leo and Jupiter in Taurus reiterates the power of articulation. You possess the creative energy to build a life you want to live – sharing your ideas will likely attract allies or benefactors who want to join forces.

The June 17th New Moon in your sphere of outer world exploration opens a new cycle of learning and curiosity, with perhaps a sense of rebirth after a period of uncertainty or feeling stuck. A same-degree sextile between Mercury in Gemini and Venus in Leo supports connecting with kindred spirits and collaborators through new learning, travel, or spiritual pursuits. The New Moon is modulated by action in your sector of health, service, and daily schedule, with Saturn's station retrograde and the Sun and Moon making a square aspect to Neptune in Pisces. Both transits reflect a need to clarify what and in whom you want to invest your energy and call on you to prioritize habits that support health. This may also prompt conversations regarding responsibilities, care, and boundaries with those in your daily life.

The Sun moves into Cancer on June 21st, shining its light on your vocational sector. Your hard work and adjustments in your daily routine may now yield growth or a sense of excitement about your professional goals. You might also feel a sense of belonging amongst your colleagues or, in the absence of this, note that camaraderie and connection are a priority in the future.

On June 26th, the First Quarter Moon in your sign therefore falls in your identity, vitality, and independence sector, suggesting that a process will enhance your sense of agency and be palpable. The fixed sign square between Mars and Uranus in this quarter Moon continues the conversation between your community sector and that of deeply merged relationships. This combination carries a powerful energy that can spark intense physical connections or trigger instinctual responses related to trust, autonomy, or past intimacy wounds. This lunation has a quality of liberation through severing outdated patterns of relating to others or release from painful ties to the past.

Mercury's conjunction with the Sun in Cancer on June 30th brings revelation and excitement to your public image and professional aspirations. It's an opportune time to share ambitious ideas or potentially receive recognition and rewards for your expertise. Neptune's retrograde station this same day prompts caution around idealistic workload expectations and the need for continued clarification around shared responsibilities. However, supportive aspects between the Sun and Mercury to Saturn and Jupiter in the days surrounding the conjunction indicate you have resources at your disposal, allies who want to invest in your vision, and the work ethic to get there.

This is another transformational month for you, Capricorn, like so many others over recent years. One element of this is that, as of June 11th, Pluto – having turned to retrograde motion on March 23rd – makes his way back into the last degree of your sign. The Lord of Death and Rebirth will not re-enter the next sign of Aquarius until January. So that is one factor of the current transformational stew, a return to issues such as identity and life intention that you may have felt you had in some sense settled with. You also are experiencing a metamorphosis in the area of values and resources, including finances. Your inner principles are shifting and coming more out into the open; your attitude to the material world in general might be massively changing as well. With the Full Moon of June 3rd, mystical realities intrude upon the practical, mostly for good purpose, while your communicative outreach may spark unexpected creativity, and vice-versa. Depth researches within you might affect family issues at home, as well as of your psychological roots, perhaps involving inner wounding, or your family of origin. Over the month’s final two weeks new patterns may begin to emerge.


The following was written by our guest columnist Alea Balzer. You can write her at alea.balzer@gmail.com


Last month's powerful Taurus New Moon, from May 19th, took place in your sector of self-expression, children, and joy, also placing significant focus on your financial and partnership sectors. A powerful Pluto placement implies transformation in all three of these areas. Aided by Mercury escaping its retrograde shadow, June also offers emerging clarity as you realign your relationship with creative fulfillment and pleasure, with a focus on projects you are birthing into the material world, including topics related to any children you may have. Your communicative outreach, curiosity, and learning are also powerfully affected.

On June 1st, expansive Jupiter aligns with the Lunar North Node in this same sector of your creativity, lighting the way there for increased focus on your projects.

The June 3rd Sagittarius Full Moon falls in your sector of dreams, shadows, and the subconscious, indicating that for the remaining two weeks of this lunation cycle your creative path will be even more greatly nourished by establishing a deeper connection with your spiritual nature and intuitive process. It may point to the value of hermetic spaces of retreat, be that a studio or a quiet place of reflection. Prioritizing time within your daily schedule for creativity without aim, introspection, or any activity that makes you happy may help you cultivate joy and connect with your deep self. Mercury's conjunction with Uranus in Taurus, in your self-expression sector, influences this lunation, possibly sparking solutions to creative blocks or offering unexpected news regarding children or projects. Consider taking an experimental approach with your creative work around this time, including harnessing technology to better create, share, or sell your work.

On June 5th, Venus enters Leo, joining Mars already there, in your sector of intimacy and shared resources. The cosmic lovers encourage the exploration of sexuality and desire, individually and within existing relationships. Venus' opposition to Pluto in your personal values and resources sector may raise issues around power dynamics, financial autonomy, and attitudes toward money. This transit supports the continued exploration of intimacy, trust, and scarcity within your own psychology as well as the long chain of intergenerational cause and effect that you exist within, which may help transform how you bond with others. It may also indicate you are contemplating changes in your appearance or gender presentation or navigating significant financial shifts.

June 11th sees Pluto return to your sign, corresponding to your sector of identity, appearance, and independence, for the first of two final revisitations in a long season of personal metamorphosis. While it's likely you now inhabit a very different reality to that of 2008, when Pluto first entered your sign, Pluto's circuitous path toward growth and healing seems to require in this 2023-2024 timeframe that some long-running issues be finally put to rest. Mercury's trine to Pluto, occurring in the culminating degrees of Taurus and Capricorn, suggests the path to the future is through that most ambitious artistic project of all – creating the life you want to inhabit. This transit offers potency through focus, which you may want to channel into creative work or psychological integration – a process that may include casting off outdated personal standards about success or your physical appearance and realigning your relationship to value and abundance. This personal renewal could also involve exploring embodied pleasure, as indicated by a square aspect between Venus and Jupiter across your intimacy and self-expression sectors. This transit supports sexual co-creative frisson or a bold aesthetic revolution. It also suggests that nocturnal dream realms and intuition may be powerful resources that you can benefit from harnessing creatively.

Mercury makes a square from your sector of health, service, and daily schedule to your ruling planet Saturn in Pisces on June 15th, which begins a dialogue between your spheres of local environment and mind, or communication, that continues for the rest of the month. This sector of your solar chart has been a significant focus since March, possibly indicating a new cycle of learning or a need to address fears or issues of confidence related to cognition or communication.

The Gemini New Moon on June 17th brings increased focus to your sector of health, service, and daily schedule, along with your social and your communications sector. This lunation welcomes new routines that promote well-being and a review of outdated habits and thought patterns. You may find that your deeper principles guide your way to a renewed assessment of your plans and goals moving forward. Mercury's sextile to Venus in Leo supports communication with intimate partners about shared responsibilities and resources. It also suggests you might find value in regular deep conversations with a trusted confidant.

This New Moon is modulated by action in your resources and personal values sector, with Saturn's station retrograde and the Sun and Moon making a square aspect to Neptune in Pisces. Their combined influence could bring up concerns of mental and emotional stability and health. You may be reassessing your approach to communication, including your own internal narrative, as well as habits of disassociation, such as scrolling on your phone or substance use. These patterns can illuminate a need to connect to fantasy within the symbolic layers of your psyche. Prayer, divination, music, ritual, or simply placing your bare feet on the earth may help you feel both grounded and connected in a more powerful way to the numinous.

The fixed sign square between Mars and Uranus on June 24th to the 26th takes place across your intimacy and self-expression sectors, in the context of the Moon’s first quarter, a tension that could manifest as a sudden accident, an explosive rupture around collaborative creative work, or electric sensual passion. This transit may raise charged topics related to autonomy or value clashes that you feel compelled to fight for, possibly associated with continued shifts in your identity that may be causing tension within established relationships. The Libra First Quarter Moon takes place on June 26th in your sector of professional ambitions also suggests this conflict could involve your public profile or career. You may want to try to approach conflict with curiosity and harness its self-liberating qualities, which could release you from unhelpful relationship patterns and help you move through creative blocks by unseating self-judgment.

Mercury's conjunction with the Sun on June 30th offers a jolt of optimism, clarity, or unexpected news regarding your partnerships. Supportive aspects from Mercury and the Sun in Cancer to Saturn and Jupiter in your communication and creativity sectors support the cultivation of sensual enjoyment, leisure, and empathetic dialogue. Such conversations could facilitate inspired solutions to conflict and a more profound sense of commitment regarding shared projects.

Neptune's retrograde station in your mind and local environment sector this same day reminds you of the value of emotional, intuitive, and spiritual intelligence. Both of this month’s powerful lunations have emphasized that embracing a connection with the divine will not only enrich your creative work but also nurture your mental and emotional well-being as you head into your next evolutionary stage.

Another month of transformation is in the works for you, Aquarius, with Pluto sitting relatively stationary on the first degree of your sign. The recent late Taurus New Moon was all over your chart, affecting ideas of identity, your dwelling space, family connections and psychological roots, plus partnership and career considerations. You are entering into a new phase this month, taking the fruit of what has been brewing inside you for the past five or more weeks and forging from this new destinies to inhabit. The June 3rd Sagittarius Full Moon in particular brings your creative self-expression more poignantly into play along with serious consideration to your goals and planning for the future. Your communication channels run deep, and you will want to take both surface logic and profound intuitional information into account as you do. It is possible as well that you might benefit from internal studies regarding the role of inner wounding based on a residue of undigested early trauma. With the final two weeks of the month, kicked off by the Gemini New Moon in your creativity sector, you are coming into yourself in a new way as your enhanced productivity shows.


The following was written by our guest columnist Alea Balzer. You can write her at alea.balzer@gmail.com


Last month's Taurus New Moon took place in your fourth sector of home, family, and your psychological roots, the effects of which continue to play out throughout the first half of June as you explore what feels foundational amid ongoing shifts in your identity and close partnerships. Transformational Pluto was extremely highlighted at the very beginning of your sign, indicating the intensity of metamorphosis regarding how you feel about who you are and the way that you show up in the world. Mercury escaping its retrograde shadow by the beginning of the current month indicates you can now shift your focus forward with action around family issues, real estate or home renovations, cohabiting dynamics, or your living situation.

Jupiter joins the Lunar North Node in Taurus on June 1st, infusing a redemptive sense of optimism into your vision for life. This may be welcome after a challenging phase of upheaval or confusion, where immediate circumstances regarding home, family, or security have likely consumed much of your energy.

The June 3rd Sagittarius Full Moon in your sector of friends, community, and visionary goals amplifies this buoyancy, urging you to connect with your big-picture vision and collaborate with others in building it. Mercury's conjunction in this Full Moon with Uranus in Taurus tones the message of the lunation, encouraging an attitude of domestic experimentation and paying close attention to intuitional understandings. It's likely the familial kinship of your community nourishes you in many ways, including with regard to your family of origin. You may feel the abundance of bustling energy or collective activity in your home; or perhaps you have dreams of reconnecting with your heritage by living overseas. You benefit by welcoming innovation. The stable growth of Jupiter is blessing your home and family sector to ground and is there to grow your wild ideas into form.

On June 5th, Venus enters Leo, joining Mars already there, Leo corresponding your partnership sector. This ingress might be encouraging you to delve into your desires within relationships – and it might interest you to know that you might be highly magnetic right now. This transit will likely infuse your current relationships with vitality and excitement, so embrace the fun and allow it to deepen your connections. The plot gets deeper due to Venus's immediate opposition to Pluto in your identity sector. This transit asks you to be courageous in your honesty within relationships, including your one with yourself, as your needs evolve. Though perhaps only a feeling of emerging potential, the past three months marked the start of a very long process of personal metamorphosis. You may have to release attachment to what you thought you were going to be or feel as you start to live into new aspects of yourself that you value. While it might feel threatening to the stability you have created, your relationships must allow you the freedom to explore what is emerging.

The square between Venus and Jupiter from June 10th to the 11th may highlight potential tensions between your relational and domestic roles, possibly due to changes in your living situation or family expansion. However, these transformations are generative of positive outcomes that can ultimately support your individual needs.

On June 11th, Pluto leaves your sign, returning to Capricorn and your sector of unseen realms of dreams, spirituality, and the subconscious, and perhaps offering respite following the recent period when you may have felt intense pressure to get things done or experienced significant upheaval or change. Mercury simultaneously enters Gemini where it feels more at home, making a supportive trine to transformational Pluto. This transit suggests you spend regular time in solitude to locate yourself outside the relationships, responsibilities, and roles you assume in the world. Engaging in creative or spiritual pursuits, taking time to rest and reflect deeply, or even taking daily walks free from distractions may help deepen a connection with your inner self and psychological roots. Mercury's trine to Pluto brings your creative self-expression into this picture, which might be humming right now.

A cerebral Gemini New Moon on June 17th shifts focus to your sphere of creativity, children, and self-expression, offering both the thrill of an inspired vision that may have prompted excitement around the Full Moon and a reality check. This lunation asks you to get down to the details of what you want to create, with Mercury's sextile to Venus in Leo indicating a spark of energized collaboration within close partnerships. With Saturn's station retrograde in Pisces and the Sun and Moon making a square aspect to Neptune in Pisces, your enthusiasm may be dampened by a reality check from your resources sector. While their combined influence indicates a current of anxiety around material realities, you are also able to harness the pragmatism of your ruling planet Saturn to assess the resources you do have at your disposal.

The Sun moves into Cancer on June 21st, shining its light on your sixth sector of health, service, and daily schedule. This may prompt significant focus on the day-to-day running of things, including responsibilities regarding family and service or care work. This transit asks you to consider how you nurture yourself by exploring new routines that support your emotional and physical health and perhaps reflecting on habituated comfort-seeking patterns.

Mars and Uranus square off on June 24th to June 26th across your sectors of partnership and home. The charged tension in the air could manifest as an explosive battle of egos, electric erotic energy, or an energetic home transformation spree. The Libra First Quarter Moon the same day in your sector of the higher mind suggests that diplomatic exchanges, focusing on shared beliefs and philosophies, can resolve relational conflicts. When united with a willing partner, you are likely highly dynamic in this end of the month period of time, and can accomplish much.

Neptune's retrograde station on June 30th in your personal resources sector supports a focus and a conscientious approach to managing your assets and their security, and could also indicate fantasies or perhaps worries about money. Mercury's conjunction with the Sun in Cancer, combined with supportive aspects to Jupiter in Taurus and Saturn in Pisces in the days surrounding it, indicate that novel solutions to old issues may arise. Heading into July, things are perhaps shifting into a new gear following he transformational import of the last couple of months. Perhaps you will find work from home, monetize your domestic assets by taking in a renter or housemate, receive support from family, or simply create a more realistic budget.