Astrology for week of 6/23-6/29
MONDAY 6/23 MOON DAY
Moon in Gemini sextile Saturn and Neptune in Aries, trine Pluto in Aquarius and square Mars in Virgo
Sun in Cancer first quarter square to Neptune in Aries
With this Gemini Moon today we’re more orientated to talking it out, processing feelings with another or maybe it’s just journaling. We’re making connections, looking for more info or another perspective, asking questions.
With the Cancer Sun square Neptune in Aries, playing off Sun square Saturn yesterday, it’s taking us deeper into the process of dissolving old constructs and navigating life in a more natural and authentic way; if you need rest then rest and do your work later. It’s nurturing ourselves and tending to our emotions, not just doing what’s expected of you and repressing your needs. And tying it back to Gemini Moon, it’s a good day to ruminate on these societal and cultural ideals and expectations. Who shamed you for being emotional or maybe it was an “incorrect” display of emotions. How has that reverberated through your life? Who said you need to prioritize work over mental health? Who said you have to sacrifice your body for a paycheck? Who said you can’t ask for help or that it’s a sign of weakness?
TUESDAY 6/24 MARS DAY
Mars in Virgo at 4*
Mercury in Cancer first quarter square to Chiron in Aries
Moon in Gemini square the Nodes and sextile Chiron in Aries
Sun and Jupiter conjunct in Cancer
The Sun/Jupiter with Mars in Virgo and Pluto in Aquarius are in a close enough Yod aspect today, also called the finger of god. All aspects are pointing toward a deeper look and analyzation, a paying attention to the details of our emotions and our inner life. An illumination and greater awareness of our emotional truth. Today we can grow and evolve by being vulnerable and exploring the normally unseen places within ourselves. Being a Mars day, it is a choice. We can choose to step within our emotional realms for self-exploration or we can deny and ignore and continue on with trivial tasks. Or maybe crisis forces you into facing your emotional depths. It can all be very scary and overwhelming, maybe we feel we don’t have the emotional maturity to deal. Be gentle with yourself, talk it out with someone trusted, ask for help, offer help, remember we are all humans trying to figure it out, we all have things to work on, no one is perfect. With the Mercury square Chiron maybe today we initiate our healing process, maybe today we are brave enough to admit that something is wrong or that we simply desire to do better.
WEDNESDAY 6/25 MERCURY DAY
Mercury in Cancer at 29*
New Moon in Cancer at 4*
Cancer Moon square Neptune and Saturn in Aries, conjunct Jupiter and sextile Virgo Mars
The Yod I wrote about yesterday is still in play today. The New Moon in Cancer is about a new start, new beginning of a cycle, a new phase. Considering all the aspects and the Nature of the Cancer archetype, this New Moon is about initiating an emotional journey, a pilgrimage to discover our emotional truth, exploring the depths our early emotional imprinting and how it’s effecting us now, getting deeper into our self-image and how we know ourselves. It’s about dedicating ourselves to putting in the effort to do better, to become more emotionally mature, to become more self accountable with our emotional experience, to be more emotionally honest and authentic, to learn to better take care of ourselves and to just know and understand ourselves on a deeper more intimate level. It’s about cultivating the inner strength and courage to face our vulnerable parts. It’s about expanding our definition of home and even of self.
It’s being a Mercury day; Mercury is the ruler of the transiting south node, so a key point for our current evolution, and Mercury is also at the final degree of Cancer today. So as the South Node is now passing through Virgo, it’s points back to an emotional (and very much an idea of self-image and identity as well) adjustment and improvement which may or may not stem from analysis brought on by a crisis. Definitely a day for self-reflection and self-care.
THURSDAY 6/26 JUPITER DAY
Jupiter in Cancer at 3*
Mercury in Cancer crescent phase sextile to Uranus in Taurus
Sun in Cancer last quarter phase sextile to Mars in Virgo
Moon in Cancer sextile Venus in Taurus, sextile NN in Pisces and trine SN in Virgo
Venus in Taurus present phase sextile to NN in Pisces and disseminating trine to SN in Virgo
Mercury enters Leo at 3:09pm EST
Jupiter in Cancer, we’re on an emotional journey to discover our truth and authenticity, we’re expanding our understanding of self and home. Jupiter in Cancer asks that we take risks, emotional risks; to be vulnerable and honest with ourselves and others.
Mercury present phase sextile to Uranus could be upsetting news, or maybe liberating. Going back to Jupiter and risk, we have to give something up for something else to come in. It could be something as simple as a deeper self insight as well. Its could also just feel like restless mental anxiety.
Sun last quarter square to Mars in Virgo is asking us to shine the light differently and get a new angle on what we want and what the heck we’re doing, it’s taking a new approach or just finally putting ourselves out there and do the thing. Or maybe it’s highlighting the crisis and where self-improvements need to be made.
As Mercury enters Leo we could get a burst of confidence or even a new found interest in our personal experience, more of a thrill of the journey. This energy switch could also bring some drama and theatrics to the already stirred up emotional waters. With the New Moon energy still residing I think today is about taking the risk to participate with life today, to be vulnerable with ourselves and honestly look at where we are and where we wanna be.
FRIDAY 6/27 VENUS DAY
Venus in Taurus at 22*
Moon enters Leo at 2:05am EST
Moon in Leo conjunct Mercury, trine Saturn and Neptune in Aries and opposing Pluto in Aquarius
Mercury in Leo first quarter trine to Saturn in Aries
Venus is in balsamic phase to Uranus in Taurus, the conjunction happening July 4th. On a personal and physical level this next week we could be feeling especially anxious, ungrounded, even electric in our bodies. It’s a challenge to survive, to sit with the uncomfortable, maybe it’s even trying to shake us out of our comfort zone. Specifically today, with both Mercury and Moon being in Leo, our subjective personal experience and emotions and feelings are loud and upfront. So it’s not just that we may be feeling unease but a more theatric and dramatized experience, like the feelings are refusing to go unnoticed.
With the Mercury first quarter tine to Saturn it could be the confidence boost to claim our power, to claim our anger, to claim our experience, to take up space, to express ourselves, to be heard. For the already aggressive take-charge type this could be a power grab transit (ie political drama ensues), but for the rest of us today is an opportunity to learn more about what we are truly capable of, that we have the power to choose. On this Venus day, while we’re confronting the uncomfortable feelings, part of it is looking at the how’s and why’s of what we’re doing, it’s bringing in the complexity of this human experience and trying to figure out our part within it. For example maybe today you indulge and sleep in cause hey it’s a Venus day and you wanna feel good, then you feel guilty cause there were things you could have been doing; where does that guilt come from? Was it a parental standard? A societal expectation? Adults don’t sleep in, that’s just lazy. Think about where that comes from and does it resonate with your personal truth?
SATURDAY 2/28 SATURNS DAY
Saturn in Aries at 1*
Moon in Leo square Venus in Taurus
Mercury in Leo first quarter trine Neptune in Aries
On this Saturn in Aries Day, with the moon still in Leo, and Mercury trine Neptune the energy today is about learning more about the deeper creative purpose and meaning of our lives and experiences, a main character moment when we can see there is more to life and our existence than struggle and conflict. Maybe even a disillusioning moment where the veil drops and we see things for what they really are. It could be an inspiration and redirection moment, or the opposite where we feel just depressed and at a complete loss of meaning and personal power. It could also bring in some delusions of grandeur, where we overestimate our importance and power; taking the main character moment too far.
All in All, these days are wildly complex and unstable. Forge your path and make your mark but remember the struggle is universal, we need to help each other out not try and beat one another to the finish line.
SUNDAY 6/29 SUN DAY
Sun in Cancer at 8*
Moon in Leo trine Aries Chiron and square Uranus in Taurus
Moon enters Virgo at 7:43am EST
Moon in Virgo sextile Jupiter in Cancer, conjunct Mars and sextile Sun in Cancer
Sun in Cancer, our purpose during this season is to feel our emotions, listen to them and nurture them, let the tides ebb and fall. Societally we have not been taught how to do this we’ve more than likely been conditioned to ignore them and stuff them down. So now we have to deal with all the psychological distortions we have as a society from being emotionally constipated and/or immature, mental illness is so prevalent and when one does enter and emotional period of time it’s encouraged to take a pill to make it stop. What if today we gave ourselves a space to emote in safety without judgment and guilt. What if we had a conversation with little versions of ourselves, what if you went back to a time when little you needed emotional attention that went unheard and you meet those emotional needs for yourself in that past moment? The Moon in Virgo can help us pay attention to those little details of ourselves, it can help us mentally take things apart and analyze them and get some deeper self-knowledge. It can be very very scary to sit with our feelings, afraid that maybe our feelings are wrong or that we’ll get swallowed up by them. Be gentle with yourself today, go with love.
