As the editor of the Astrology Arizona newsletter, I compose an overview of each month. Today we take a look at the primary factors for the month.

The Overview for June

This year the month of June begins with all planets in direct motion except Pluto, and both Saturn and Neptune slowing down to go retrograde in the last half of the month.

The late May T-square with Pluto sprouted the seeds of revolutionary social and spiritual developments related to the global transformations promised by Pluto’s entry into Aquarius. This month Pluto slips back into late Capricorn, showing the past will “come to present” between now and January, when Pluto returns to Aquarius.

This month brings the second non-lunar opposition since last November when Venus opposes Pluto in the first week of June. This will bring an echo of the Mars/Jupiter/Pluto T-square, though it will be a "staggered" effect as Venus doesn’t square Jupiter until June 11th. Still, whatever happens during those days will in some way be related to the May T-square.

Because this month is still under the influence of Mercury’s direct station at 6 Taurus, be open to being a good bridge builder in group situations. We’re all bridging a gap in some way which is preparing us for Jupiter’s transit of the same retrograde span this Autumn. Just remember that a major theme for the entire period of April 2023 through March 2024 is that old answers are inadequate to confirm the new conditions of existence, and old approaches aren’t adequate to deal with what’s happening. So find new approaches, new attitudes, new understanding, and don’t worry about the past; focus on finding new means to get things done.

With so much Gemini and Leo, the month should be light, bright, and creative! Add Jupiter’s sextile to Saturn the entire month, and it offers high productivity to those with planets in the first 10 degrees of Taurus, Cancer, Virgo, Scorpio, Capricorn, and Pisces. Toward the end of the month the Sun and Mercury will form sextiles to Jupiter and trines to Saturn, helping stabilize and secure our gains.

This month all the inner planets transit Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, and Leo, with Mars in Leo heralding transits of Venus, Mercury and the Sun. That means the outer planet occupied zone of Pluto in Aquarius/Capricorn, Saturn and Neptune in Pisces, Jupiter in Taurus, and Uranus in Taurus is now extended into Gemini, Cancer, and Leo, putting all the planets in half the zodiac, creating a “Bowl” Jones pattern when the Moon is between late Capricorn and late Leo.

When the inner planets transit the outer planet span it is a time to pull the energies inward, and when they’re outside the span it creates different dynamics in how the energies express. Because the inner planets are now outside the outer planet span, many things have renewed themselves in recent months and we can confidently enter into new discoveries, new ways of experiencing our life, and new forms of natural expression. When the Moon is between mid-Capricorn and Leo, we’ll feel more “enclosed,” whereas when the Moon is between late Virgo and late Scorpio, it will be the focus for all the other planetary energies as a nozzle pointing us to right action.

Remember the first 17 days of the month are still under the influence of the May New Moon at 29 Taurus, helping us gain a different perspective and a more constructive blending of intuition and lower mind. This will come to fruition after the Full Moon “World Teacher Festival” at 14 Gemini/Sagittarius on June 3. The last 2 weeks of the month is under the influence of the June 17 New Moon at 27 Gemini, helping us see a distant future we may have longed for, whether we knew it or not.

When Jupiter entered Aries in May 2022 we launched into a new era which became a dominant theme when Mars conjuncted Jupiter in late May at 4 Aries. That conjunction began a 2 year cycle of learning how to enjoy life more naturally on our own terms. When Jupiter revisited that conjunction point in the third week of January it accelerated the growth of that energy, renewing its fiery expression. This month helps develop the themes of that conjunction to further the potential which has built this past year.

Jupiter moving through Taurus gives a Taurus backdrop to planets we have in Sagittarius and Pisces, as well as the houses where we have these signs on the cusp. As it now rules Saturn and makes the productive sextile all month, this should keep things slow and steady as we say goodbye to an old life and hello to a new one!

Saturn goes stationary retrograde in mid-June, and continues to bring deep and vast feeling energies to planets, points, or house cusps we have in Capricorn and Aquarius. Saturn’s station promises all of us “a call to renewal” wherever we have early Pisces. This is the beginning of a new life which will unfold quickly in early 2024.

Speaking of another long wave Aries energy in our charts, Jupiter launched a major healing and mentoring cycle when it conjuncted Chiron at 15 Aries on March 11. That began a long wave Chiron cycle which will last until the Summer of 2036. As an aside, when Chiron transits between Aquarius and Gemini, it moves relatively slowly and has conjunctions with Jupiter about every 13 years. However, it can take 19-20 years for the next conjunction after Gemini or Cancer. That means once the conjunction at 16 Gemini happens in the Summer of 2036, then we won’t have another conjunction of Jupiter and Chiron until the Spring of 2056 in Aquarius.

Because Jupiter rules Pisces, this month Saturn will have a steady Taurus feel. As Jupiter is heralding where Saturn will transit in a few years, we’re all getting a sense of corners to be turned later this decade when Saturn transits Taurus and makes the waxing square to the December 2020 Jupiter/Saturn conjunction point at 1 Aquarius. That conjunction ended a 200 year Earth era and began a 200 year Air era, and set the sociocultural conditions for the greater Aquarian 20 year era now developing.

Planets Slowing Down, Speeding Up, or Shifting Signs

This month Mercury is at maximum speed through the Superior conjunction with the Sun on June 30 at 10 Cancer, after which it will slow until it goes retrograde in mid-August. Venus has begun to slow down, preparing to go retrograde in late July, and Mars continues to accelerate since it went stationary direct at 9 Gemini in mid-January. Jupiter continues at maximum speed, Saturn and Neptune both are slowing to go retrograde, and Uranus is gradually slowing through its retrograde station in late August.

In June we have four planets changing signs. This month the Sun, ruler of Leo and Cancer, will give us two (Gemini and Cancer), and Mercury, ruler of Gemini and Virgo, will give us three (Taurus, Gemini and Cancer. Venus, ruler of Taurus/Libra, will give us two (Cancer and Leo), and Pluto, spiritual ruler of Aries and Scorpio, will give us two (Capricorn and Aquarius).

Mars

As noted, Mars continues to pick up speed by the week. It went stationary direct at 9 Gemini in January, with a theme of being a Zen archer, sure in your aim as a result of your training between September 2022 and February 2023. This will be a theme for this year and the next. Mars is now in Leo, helping us be lighter and brighter in our expressions.

Mars is activating the house(s) where we have 7 to 24 Leo. Mars is happy in Leo, since that sign is in harmony with Mars’ Aries nature and is ruled by the Sun, which is exalted in Mars-ruled Aries. As the Sun is septile Mars the second and third weeks of the month before heading toward the semisquare at the end of June and early July, we’re in the harvest phase of their cycle, with important changes indicated by mid-month.

The first week of June, Mars is in the Leo decan of Leo, ruled by the Sun with an extra dose of Saturn. From June 6 through 23, Mars is in the Sagittarius decan of Leo, ruled by Jupiter with an extra dose of the Jupiter. The last week of the month, Mars is in the Aries decan of Leo, ruled by Mars with an extra dose of Mars.

Between June 1-10, Mars will prove agitating to those with planets between 7-12 degrees of Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius. Between June 11-20, it will have the same effect on planets between 12-19 degrees of those signs. And between June 21-30, it will agitate planets between 19-24 of Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius.

Again, Mars making a septile with the Sun most of the month is a major "fork in the road of destiny" influence for those with planets near 22-26 Gemini, 13-17 Leo, 5-9 Libra, 26-30 Scorpio, 18-22 Capricorn, 10-14 Pisces, and 1-5 Taurus. Mercury makes a favorable binovile, quintile, and sextile to Mars in the first 3 weeks of June before it also makes a septile around June 26-28, activating the above zones but advanced 6 degrees. The biggest friction comes from Mars quincunx Saturn at the beginning of the month and Mars square Uranus during the last week of the month.

As I’ve offered before, when Mars is within a degree of forming or separating from a hard aspect with a planet, slow down and show deliberation and caution in how you use force. Hard aspects to/from Mars always require that we moderate or antidote impulsiveness and impatience.

Sign Focus

This month the sign focus is on the signs occupied by the inner planets plus Jupiter, since Taurus and Leo are strong throughout the month. We begin the month with Mercury in Taurus, the Sun in Gemini, Venus in Cancer, and Mars in Leo. By the second week Venus is in Leo and by the third week Mercury’s in Gemini and Pluto has slipped back into Capricorn.

So the first week is spread out in Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, and Leo, with Venus shifting from Cancer to Leo. The second week Mercury strengthens Gemini while Venus strengthens Leo. That emphasis holds through the Solstice when the Sun enters Cancer followed quickly by Mercury entering Cancer. This month has shifting sign emphases, because we begin with at least one planet in Aquarius, Pisces, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, and Leo by the end of the month Taurus, Cancer, and Leo are the main players.

We’re Actors On A New Stage With A New Set

We’re still in the initial years of a new era in human evolution. The Grand Mutation of Jupiter conjunct Saturn at 1 Aquarius began a new 20 year Aquarian Era in December 2020, as well as a new 200 year era, moving global energies out of Earth and into Air. We’ve begun to grow beyond the materialism of the past 200 years and have entered two centuries of Air emphasis, with its qualities of relatedness, receptivity, versatility, movability, lightness, and cooperative ideas, visions, and ideals.

We’re still "under the beams" of the Solar Eclipses we experienced in 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022, and these “cosmic recyclers” continue to remove all that we no longer need in our lives. Take note of where you have 1 Cancer, 24 and 13 Sagittarius, 20 Gemini, 11 Taurus, and 2 Scorpio, since 1 Cancer aligns us with a larger reality, 24 Sagittarius helps us find happiness, 13 Sagittarius gives us a new identity and love, 20 Gemini removes what cannot be assimilated or communicated, 11 Taurus will help us remove “weeds from our garden of Life and Mind,” and the recent one at 2 Scorpio is helping us release attachments from the past as we enter a more complex social experience.

The May 2022 eclipses with Sun in Taurus have begun to shut down old value systems in that sector, as well as the Scorpio sector via the May Full Moon Wesak Festival eclipse. November’s Total Lunar Eclipse Full Moon at 17 Taurus/Scorpio is helping us tap our spiritual power and focus it through “hearing our inner God” and allowing our Higher Self to transform our lower self and our worldly expression. The Scorpio Solar and Lunar eclipses are already leading us to say goodbye to the past, giving up some old ideals, and finding a new perspective on how and when to do things. You can find out more about the Solar eclipse and Lunar eclipse by going to any of the recent articles on how eclipses work.

Last month’s eclipses have begun to work their magic on our Aries and Libra sectors for quite a while to come. The Solar eclipse at 30 Aries is sure to shut down some elements wherever we have that in our charts, and the eclipses later this year will be the last in the Taurus/Scorpio sector with another one coming in our Libra sector.

As we study how successive Eclipses have affected various areas of our charts and lives, we can get a sense of the utility of these “Cosmic Recyclers” in removing what we no longer needed in those areas, creating a void which attracted new life experiences. They invite us to look back, and then forward, to see the continuity of “letting go, taking in, letting go, taking in” across the years.

The Grand Irrationality

In June, the 7-pointed “Star of Destiny" I’ve termed The Grand Irrationality is about to come to the end of its 30 year run in our lives! This month the configuration is in play around the time that Mercury conjuncts Uranus and septiles Neptune in early June, activating all 7 zones. Early July will be the final activation as Mercury and the Sun both biseptile Neptune and shortly after septile Uranus. (Of course, there are a number of eclipses and other celestial events in play which featured this configuration, so it’s still active in what’s being shut down for years to come.)

All of the septile-series 7th harmonic aspects from the inner planets to the outer spiritual planets represent turning points at the hard edge of revolutionary change we’ve been going through for a while. Obviously, this is activated every time the Moon moves through one of the seven “hot zones” of this evolutionary configuration. All septile-series aspects are non-rational degree relationships representing “forks in the road of destiny” in any larger cycle. I have written extensively about “The Grand Irrationality,” a configuration which has been active since 1994, at my main website http://www.aquariuspapers.com where I explain why all of humanity is forging its future destiny at this time. If you have a planet or point near any of the seven zones, your life is sure to be affected. In June these zones are around 5-9 Aquarius, 27 Pisces-1 Aries, 19-23 Taurus, 10-14 Cancer, 1-5 Virgo, 22-26 Libra, and 13-17 Sagittarius.

During the periods these 7th harmonic aspects are in play, if things get weird or crazy, be clear about the choices you’re making. While a lot won’t “make sense,” it doesn’t have to; just be clear about what you’re doing and why. Even though there may be interactions with unreasonable or irrational people, we still have the power to respond in productive ways.

As with “hard” aspects to and from Mars, if that planet (or really any planet) is involved in any non-rational aspect, whether one to our natal Mars or transiting Mars making a non-rational aspect to one of our natal, progressed, or solar return planets, it’s a time to be cautious during the period when the aspect is within a degree of forming or separating. Things have a way of getting strange during 7th harmonic aspects, so those are times to be especially deliberate and thoughtful in choosing our responses.

Primary Action Beats for the First Half of the Month

June begins under the influence of the May New Moon at 29 Taurus. Where that falls in our charts shows where we are learning perspective through “the battle of the pros and cons.” The first week of the month shows Mars quincunx Saturn, Venus trine Neptune, Mercury conjunct Uranus, and Venus entering Leo. While June 1 has some difficult aspects, the Moon in Scorpio opens up a Grand Water trine on June 2. The Full Moon “World Teacher Festival” happens on June 3, with the Global Wisdom distributed by the Light of Telepathy expressed as “the power of spiritual ancestry.”

As the first week of June has the Moon between Scorpio and Aquarius, by our sensitivity we’ll open new vistas of experience and begin to reflect on the past 3 years. Venus trine Neptune gives us emotional clarity the first week, with innovative or original thinking favored June 3-5. Venus entering Leo and opposing Pluto on June 4-6 cautions us against corrosive people, or those which are getting us lost in loose ends or deflected from the gains we should be making.

The second week of June features the Moon in Aquarius, Pisces, Aries and Taurus, showing the Moon is buried in the outer planet occupied span, so things will feel more self-contained. Major aspects that week include Mercury sextile Neptune, Sun sextile Chiron, Mercury trine Pluto, Venus square Jupiter, and Venus quincunx Saturn. As that quincunx duplicates the Mars quincunx Saturn on June 1, by the adjustments and sacrifices we make early in the month we’ll see the value in why they had to happen. Stay balanced, see the new beginnings already happening, and embrace the roles you were born to play!

There’s a Lunar Fixed T-square echoing the May T-square on June 7, which gives way to a very productive period between June 9 and June 13. This is a good time to operationalize the innovative or original ideas of June 3-5 mentioned above. Pay attention to the signals you’re getting on June 14, since it portends Summer squares between planets in Leo and Jupiter.

The second week of June shows Mercury shifting from Taurus to Gemini, its home sign on June 11, the same day that Pluto slips back into Capricorn. That makes Mercury extraordinarily powerful during the short 15-day run in that sign. Venus square Jupiter on June 11th can bring a favorable release of Jupiter energy, so hang in there and don’t overdo it while thoroughly enjoying yourself. As Jupiter is in its shadow zone, if there’s conflict, it’s because you have to “officiate over a Mystery Ritual” of some sort, and/or tear yourself away from the known and familiar.

Again, during this month Jupiter is in favorable sextile with Saturn, bringing productivity and harmony in the houses where we have early Taurus and early Pisces, with the effect of harmonizing the transiting rulers of the houses where we have Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces.

Primary Action Beats for the Second Half of the Month

The second half of the month begins a very intense time, as Mars builds to its square with Uranus during the entire time. We also find Mercury square Saturn, the last of the three squares from Gemini to Pisces this year, challenging us not to worry and to have a sense of humor. That third week of June also shows Mercury sextile Venus, Sun square Neptune, Jupiter sextile Saturn, Sun quincunx Pluto, and Mercury sextile both Mars and Chiron.

Mercury sextile Venus, Mars, and Chiron is very harmonizing for planets or points we have in the middle degrees of Aries, Gemini, Leo, Libra, Sagittarius, and Aquarius. Sun square Neptune is an emergent point where we externalize our ideals, or realize we aren’t clear about a role we’re playing. In any case, “the Light” is at odds with collective consciousness, so take advantage of the sextiles to make productive moves in what may be a confused time.

During the third week of June, the Moon moves from Taurus through Leo, putting the focus on the inner planets in that span. There are productive aspects June 15, 16, and 17 in the “old moon” phase just before the New Moon on June 17 at 27 Gemini. That will be an important “turning point” New Moon, as it’s square Neptune. That Lunation requires that we express our originality in refined ways, and if necessary, demonstrate will power to deal with a problem.

June 17 also shows Saturn going stationary retrograde which is a major “sea change” promising new beginnings to all who “hear the call to renewal.” Overall, it’s a fairly productive week which ends with the Northern Hemisphere Summer Solstice on June 21. With the aspects in that Solstice chart, we should all have a productive and healing Summer!

The fourth week of June finds the Moon between Leo and Scorpio. When in Libra and Scorpio, the Moon becomes the “nozzle” to focus all the other planetary energies. When in doubt, make sure you’re balanced with a healthy perspective and be willing to let go or charge forward, depending on the circumstance.

That week there are very productive and harmonizing aspects in play June 21, 22, 23, and 24. There can be some confusion on June 24-25 due to the Moon in Virgo making a T-square with Mercury square Neptune, so keep it light with a sense of humor. That immediately leads into Mars square Uranus, so go slow and be very careful from June 24 through 29. There are many quincunxes in play on June 26-27, so make adjustments and sacrifices while staying balanced. That week ends with great aspects on June 29 as a Grand Water Trine from the Moon in Scorpio to Sun in Cancer and Saturn in Pisces stabilizes the areas of early Water and Earth signs in our charts.

June ends with Venus trine Chiron, Mercury trine Saturn, Neptune stationary retrograde, the Superior conjunction of Mercury with the Sun, and both Mercury and the Sun sextile Jupiter. All in all a fairly positive time, though when Neptune goes retrograde, it always marks a major sea change in the world. In any case, by the end of June we’re on the threshold of a much different experience than we’ve had the past several months!

Evolutionary Development

This is the seventeenth month of the North Node in Taurus era! We’re now in a time of our greatest development coming through the sign of appreciation, value, and enjoying the best life has to offer. The recent eclipses are already assisting us in letting go of strong feelings related to the past, as well as all which blocks us from going deeper into our connection to Source. With Taurus growth and Scorpio release, keep it simple and steady, showing what you know by releasing what needs releasing and attracting what needs attracting.

As I noted at the beginning, Mars conjunct Jupiter in Aries in late May 2022 began a 2 year adventure in opening to new ways of enjoying life and new freedom to be as authentic as we need to be. That cycle and other Aries cycles are already in motion, bursting into a bright flame thanks to the inner planet conjunctions with Jupiter and Chiron.

Our wise friend Saturn brought us to the threshold of radical transfiguration and entry into a greater field of conscious Light/Life in March, and now we’re in the deep waters of Pisces. This is a time of demonstrating a greater empathy, sense of connection, intuition, and compassion. Specific Saturn themes for June involve hearing the call to a life renewal!

The Sun in Gemini is a time to see the Light of being able to discover whatever we need to and find information we require to turn the corner when the Sun enters Cancer and brings new allegiances. This month we continue to move forward, building bridges using new information and new approaches, with opportunities for creative releases and a lot of fun.

We now continue our third year of the new Aquarian era, having renewed that energy via inner planet transits for this year. With Jupiter now in Taurus, it is finding new “expansive ground” which will sustain the process into the future. Move into the future, stabilize what you can, and make the most of the productivity promised this month.

The new 2023 Aquarian energies powered up the last four months, with rapid developments in March when Saturn entered Pisces and Pluto made its first appearance in Aquarius. As Jupiter is racing forward at maximum speed, embrace the future and don’t clutch as some things accelerate while we begin our review of Saturn’s lessons this year. This month begins our 2023 surfacing of the Aquarian vision, with a very dynamic Summer of Venus and Mars in Leo!

As we’re now at the beginning of the third year of a new 20 year and 200 year cycle, remember a new era has dawned. Have courage and take the initiative to leave the Earth and fly free into the Air of what’s opening as the Grand Mutation expands its promise into the Divine transfigured ideal of a more just truth and future. This month brings the enjoyment of adventures embraces the past few weeks, so remain focused, be willing to find new arenas of effective activity where you can work and play with other Light Spirits, and take heart as we stand at the dawning of the coming Pluto in Aquarius era.

We have now collectively transfigured into a greater vision of the one Light/Life we all are together. Continue to find your heart strength and new forms of genuine happiness appropriate for who you are now, and who you are becoming relative to just a few months ago.

The 2022 Capricorn and Aquarius transits began a new chapter of utilizing forms of personal power in Capricorn to serve the emerging Aquarian ideal. A huge part of the past died in 2021 and 2022 and a new expansive inspired energy came in via the Mars conjunction with Jupiter in Aries. The past is over and we all have begun our trek into a new world of new potential, new adventures, and new ways to enjoy being ourselves while doing our work of Destiny. Open to the abundance of the process of growth, since we are all on a rocket ship to the stars!

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Since I also include this in the newsletter, I’ll offer it to you here:

PLANETARY MOTIONS IN JUNE 2023

SUN – 11 Gemini to 9 Cancer
MERCURY – 16 Taurus to 7 Cancer
VENUS – 26 Cancer to 21 Leo
MARS – 7 to 24 Leo
JUPITER – 4 to 10 Taurus
SATURN – 7 to 8 Pisces
URANUS – 21 to 22 Taurus
NEPTUNE – 28 Pisces (all month)
PLUTO – 1 Aquarius back to 30 Capricorn
CHIRON – 19 to 20 Aries
TRUE NORTH NODE – 4 to 2 Taurus

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SIGNIFICANT ASTROLOGICAL OCCURRENCES IN JUNE 2023

(Bold entries are the ingresses, stations, and lunations. Non-bold are significant aspects.) NEW MOON; May 19; Sun and Moon at 29 Taurus
MERCURY LEAVES SHADOW ZONE; June 1 at 16 Taurus
FULL MOON; June 3; Sun 14 Gemini; Moon 14 Sagittarius
MERCURY CONJUNCT URANUS; June 4 at 21 Taurus
VENUS ENTERS LEO; June 5
VENUS OPPOSED PLUTO; June 5 at 1 Leo/Aquarius PLUTO RETROGRADE RE-ENTERS CAPRICORN; June 11
VENUS SQUARE JUPITER; June 11 at 6 Leo/Taurus MERCURY SQUARE SATURN; June 15 at 8 Gemini/Pisces SATURN STATIONARY RETROGRADE; June 17 at 8 Pisces NEW MOON; June 17; Sun and Moon at 27 Gemini
SUN SQUARE NEPTUNE; June 18 at 28 Gemini/Pisces SUMMER SOLSTICE; SUN ENTERS CANCER; June 21 AAZ Meeting; June 24
MERCURY SQUARE NEPTUNE; June 25 at 28 Gemini/Pisces MARS SQUARE URANUS; June 26 at 22 Leo/Taurus NEPTUNE STATIONARY RETROGRADE; June 30 at 28 Pisces SUPERIOR CONJUNCTION OF MERCURY/SUN; June 30 at 10 Cancer VENUS SQUARE URANUS; July 2 at 22 Leo/Taurus FULL MOON; July 3; Sun 12 Cancer; Moon 12 Capricorn

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