Astrology for week of 6/16-6/22

MONDAY 6/16 MOON DAY

Aquarius Moon trine Gemini Sun, sextile Chiron in Aries, square Uranus in Taurus and opposing Mars in Leo

Moon enters Pisces at 2:08pm EST

Moon in Pisces trine Jupiter in Cancer

We start this Moonday with the Moon residing in Aquarius making some stressful aspects to Mars and Uranus as well as it being our first full Monday with Jupiter splashing in Cancer. Maybe this morning we have to deal with the traumatic and inhumane political happenings, maybe it’s just a personal sense of unrest or separation or maybe it’s a feeling of detachment to where we can sense and understand the bigger workings and reasonings. Maybe it’s just a tension and anxiety in the body that you ain’t got time to deal with today. As the Moon shifts into Pisces in the afternoon we might feel the emotional swell and we have the real time opportunity for the direct experience of our emotional truths, where will it lead you?

TUESDAY 6/17 MARS DAY

Mars Enters Virgo at 4:35am EST

Sun in Gemini crescent phase sextile to Chiron in Aries

Moon in Pisces sextile Taurus Venus and trine Cancer Mercury

Mars has been existing in the signs of Cancer and Leo since last September, due to his retrograde cycle, his last round in Leo started in April. Mars in Evolutionary Astrology shows how we participate with life, how we make choices and decisions, how we act, our personal will, our desires. As Mars shifts from Leo to Virgo it’s a very humbling energy; Mars in Virgo emphasizes the experience of personal discrimination, to help us understand the actual reality of ourselves and others. Mars in Virgo desires self-improvement, often times it’s an energy of constant crisis that pushes us into analyzation and that lead to self-knowledge. Mars in Virgo can feel like there is way too much to do and it doesn’t know where to start, the key is to just keep going and not hyper fixate on individual issues. Mars in Virgo can be very self-critical and critical of others, but again it stems from the core desire to adjust and improve.

So today we have a choice, to either avoid and distract ourselves from whatever crisis is arising or we can put on our analytical caps and try to discover what the meaning is, why are these lessons here and where can we personally adjust and improve.

Mars in Virgo is also a good opportunity to start adjusting routines, maybe you do something different today or maybe you finally go through the pile of junk building up on the kitchen table.

WEDNESDAY 6/18 MERCURY DAY

Mercury in Cancer at 18*

Mercury in Cancer in disseminating trine to Juno in Scorpio

Moon in Pisces square Gemini Sun and sextile Taurus Uranus

Moon enters Aries at 7:07pm EST

Moon in Aries conjunct Saturn and Neptune, square Jupiter in Cancer

Jupiter in Cancer first quarter square to Neptune in Aries

As Mercury journeys through Cancer we’re more cognitively aware and invested in our emotional states, the comforts of home, and in our families (disruptions therein ). With the Moon starting the day in Pisces and Jupiter coming closer into aspect with Neptune we could have a definite experience of overwhelming or confusing emotions, feeling sleepy or out of it, maybe it’s an experience of inspiration or a deeper understanding, or maybe it’s empathy for ourselves and others in this human event. As the Moon enters Aries it could switch to being more emotionally reactive, very attuned to the immediacy of wanting to feel safe and comfy NOW. It’s also a beautiful day for inspiration on any level, getting into the dreamy and mystical side of the energy. Mercury trine Juno is about our dedication and duty to try to map and learn about the deeper aspects of our inner psychological workings/motives and emotions; asking the “why’s”. Considering the whole of planetary energies, I think today is an opportunity to learn more about our emotional experience and reactions, to come into a deeper understand of ourselves and to maybe see something in the past under a new light; how life happens for each of our souls personal development and not as a punishment.

THURSDAY 6/19 JUPITER DAY

Jupiter in Cancer at 2*

Moon in Aries crescent phase sextile to Pluto in Aquarius

Mars in Virgo gibbous phase inconjunct to Saturn in Aries

The Jupiter/Neptune square is still active from yesterday and the Moon is still trecking through Aries so we could all still be feeling very sensitive and emotionally reactive with the heavy immediacy of wanting everything to chill out or maybe we still riding the inspiration. Mars gibbous inconjunct to Saturn emphasizes the need for self-improvement and self-adjustment and prolly some crisis sprinkled in there to encourage us to put in the effort and employ self-leadership, self-discipline, and self-control. Do you usually keep everything bottled up? Suffer in silence? Maybe the adjustment is opening up and talking about it, asking for support. Maybe it’s finding a new way of expressing anger or just exploring new ways to deal with the tough emotions. It could also feel like depression, too much to do and you just feel you don’t have the grit to even get started, or even filling your time with trivial tasks to stay busy so you don’t have to deal with the deeper work. Perfection isn't real, it’s about the journey and the process. Follow your heart!

FRIDAY 6/20 VENUS DAY

Venus in Taurus at 15*

Moon in Aries square Mercury in Cancer, conjunct Chiron and sextile Gemini Sun

Moon enters Taurus at 9:52pm EST

Sun enters Cancer at 10:42pm EST

Venus in Taurus is pleasure seeking, she just wants to feel safe and comfy and secure. Adding on the Aries Moon, we could just be following our feel good instincts. We are still dealing with the cosmic call to adjust and improve so we need to be conscious and careful of our emotional reactions if our comfort gets disrupted today. Sun at the last degree of Gemini we could be feeling some mental unrest/anxiety or maybe we’re just super chatty. Maybe we’re just noticing new stuff about ourselves and our lives. Today is about tending to our needs, our bodies, our emotions, nurturing ourselves in a way that we are curating a self-security to deal with the insecurity of life.

SATURDAY 6/21 SATURN DAY

Saturn in Aries at 1*

Moon in Taurus sextile Jupiter in Cancer and square Pluto in Aquarius

Mercury in Cancer first quarter trine to North Node in Pisces, disseminating trine to South Node in Virgo

As Saturn journeys through Aries the societal conditioning around the right/wrong appropriate/inappropriate ways of expressing masculine energy is being highlighted. We’re all dealing with aspects of shame and guilt around being aggressive/being in charge/taking decisive action/expressing anger. It’s also highlighting gender issues around those ideas; like it’s ok for men to be sexually aggressive but not woman kinda thing. It’s also about the societal expectation to overwork and overcommit ourselves, get to work and make it work; coming into more of a self-alignment and self-authority. Some of us are afraid to be in charge, afraid to do something wrong, afraid to get in trouble, afraid of being bad and upsetting others. Then others of us are pushy and aggressive and selfish, the childish adult forcing their will on others. This is a very nuanced transit and it’s encompassing so many different things, but the core of it is we’re reworking the societal and personal constructs of the masculine energy.

With Jupiter, Mercury and Sun in Cancer currently I think today we’re focusing on the conditioning around expressing emotions and family dynamics. We’re taught to keep it to ourselves, push the feelings down and keep going. Maybe it doesn’t have to be like that. Are your emotions really disruptive to others or are others just uncomfortable with emotions in general?

Also HAPPY SOLSTICE!

SUNDAY 6/22 SUN DAY

Sun in Cancer at 1*

Moon in Taurus conjunct Venus, sextile NN in Virgo and Mercury in Cancer and conjunct Uranus

Mars in Virgo crescent phase sextile to Jupiter in Cancer

Sun in Cancer first quarter square Saturn in Aries

Moon enters Gemini at 10:57pm EST

As the Sun swims through Cancer we are orientating toward our emotions, our self-image, our sense of home and safety. Moon in Taurus today is helping us slow down and ground into a sense of inner security to process the emoceans. Or the Taurus Moon has us on a feel good/masterbatory vibe, avoiding any and all discomfort and indulging any pleasure impulse.

Sun in Cancer square Saturn in Aries is asking us to look at our conditioning around how we navigate our emotional selves and needs. What have you been taught about the “right or wrong” ways to be emotional. It’s deconditioning around ideas of home and family, of asking for help vs doing everything yourself. Two different people can come from the same exact place or home but they both hold different ideas of what that home is. It’s looking deeper at this fear of “being bad” or “doing something wrong”. It’s also about slowing down and taking your time; you don’t go to therapy just once and get healed it takes time and effort. It’s about emotional maturation, not taking the easy way out. The Mars/Jupiter sextile is reinforcing this idea of slowing down, looking closer, making the long term plans, focusing on the process and not the outcome, analyzing the rules and regulations you’ve been fed. We’re integrating our experience on the emotional level.