What’s Happening in June-July.

New Moon coming soon! The next month will be a game changer in many ways due to the Lunation being septile Jupiter and Mars, while also being exactly square Neptune. It’s a time to free ourselves from the ghosts of the past while hearing a call to renewal.

This Lunation introduces a new focus wherever we have 27 Gemini, which brings another individual spiritual focus as we anticipate a new way of living and a clearer sense of our roles to play. The next few weeks challenge us to accept the need to refine some things as we express the power of our personality, as well as have a sense of humor as we express our creative uniqueness in enduring ways. It is also a time to see the beauty, whether of yourself, your life, or any other aspect of your existence.

An Overview of the New Moon

Today we’ll do an overview of the Lunation and some of its primary qualities. In part 2 we’ll cover Sabian Symbols, aspects, distributions, and patterns.

This communicative, distributive, clarifying and transitional New Moon at 27 Gemini occurs at 9:37 pm PDT on June 17, 5:37 am BST June 18. We’re now in full expansion modes as we prepare to review our Saturn lessons on the threshold of its retrograde station at 8 Pisces, challenging us to “hear the call to renewal.” Recent eclipses have already begun to remove and recycle parts of our lives where we have 30 Aries and 15 Taurus/Scorpio, so redirect your focus to a new “duck pond” to play on in the future.

Be joyous, as this is the threshold of a new life. The Lunation in Gemini indicates this month is about dialog while letting go of old approaches and attitudes. With Venus and Mars leading the way into Leo, we can expect a lot of activity in that part of our charts, so look for the beauty in action and the beauty you can bring forth at the end of processes. As all the inner planets are concentrated between 12 Gemini and 17 Leo, that’ll be the focus of the next month.

We now begin an expansion of all things Gemini while Jupiter takes us back to “ancient roots of Being.” Uranus is opening a new time, new way, and new day, so stay open to unexpected turns of events which throw you into a new life. Just remember that one of the major themes for 2023 involves realizing old answers can’t solve the current questions. Still, as Jupiter brings its energy to the sign which enjoys life to the fullest, accept the expanded capacity for a greater joy taking birth.

This New Moon will jumpstart Gemini energy wherever it falls in our chart. As Gemini will be a focus of activity, remember it’s a time to be open to learning and communicating, understanding past, present, and future from multiple angles of exploration. While there may be a need to conform to some things as they are, it’ll still be an intensely adaptive and mobilizing period, with abundance in the air for those who are clear.

Occupied Signs and Oppositions

In the past 4 weeks we’ve had the first of many non-Lunar oppositions to be made this year with Mars and then Venus opposed Pluto. The next ones will be when Mercury and then the Sun oppose Pluto. Of course we’ll have oppositions to Saturn and Neptune from Virgo and oppositions to Jupiter and Uranus from Scorpio between late July and the end of the year.

Of course, those with planets in very late Cancer and early Leo, early and late Virgo, and both early and late Scorpio are going through some VERY long wave outer planet oppositions, with potential for very high awareness of how to ground new ideals, new public expression, and new ways to related to your larger spiritual group. The various types of the “Tension of Opposites” involved in those signs will come to the fore as the recent Eclipses take away old Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn and now Aries patterns, allowing newer ones to take shape.

The Sun/Moon Sequence and Its Shifts

There are two patterns: one with the Sun in the same sign as the Sun in the following Full Moon (New Moon between 1-15 degrees of a sign), and one with the Sun in a different sign than it’s in at the following Full Moon (New Moon between 16-30 degrees of a sign). I term these the “Natural” pattern and the “Alternate” pattern, since the Natural pattern shows a continuity of the Light, whereas the Alternate pattern bridges the Light across two signs.

Nineteen months ago we began the pattern which just ended in April where the New Moon Sun was in the same sign as the following Full Moon Sun. Each pattern has its importance in the Soli-Lunar sequence, and with the end of the Natural pattern, we now shift into a pattern which “bridges the Light” across two different Light signs in the Lunation cycle.

The New Moon Solar eclipse at 30 Aries was the first in the new sequence, as the subsequent Full Moon Lunar eclipse was at 15 Taurus/Scorpio, indicating the Light of the seed forms of that New Moon was illuminated in the next sign energy two weeks later. This month the New Moon Sun is in Gemini while the Full Moon Sun is in Cancer. This indicates that while the seed forms of the New Moon are Gemini, the fulfillment in form at the Full Moon illuminates Cancer energy. This New Moon falls at 27 Gemini, and the Full Moon two weeks from now falls at 12 Cancer/Capricorn.

The New Moons and Full Moons are “God’s footprints in time.” Each shows the next in the 12 phases of how things come to be each year. The cycle could be described as follows: Life energy is initiated in Aries, substantiated in Taurus, explored in Gemini, grounded in Cancer, renewed and creatively expressed in Leo, refined and ordered in Virgo, balanced and made pleasing in Libra, purified and focused in Scorpio, expanded in Sagittarius, organized in Capricorn, solidified into a vision in Aquarius, and ended/perpetuated in Pisces.

Jupiter and Saturn

This is the fourth New Moon of the Saturn in Pisces era. We are now near the middle of the fourth year of the cycle set into motion at Saturn’s rare and very powerful conjunction with Pluto in Capricorn in January 2020, which I discuss a few paragraphs down.

Taking a look back, 2020 brought a “cosmic visitation” which mobilized us to “escape from adverse conditions.” That year Nature challenged us to listen, look, and learn that we are not separate from Her, and evaluate what parts of our Self-disciplines and duties work and which ones didn’t. 2021 involved learning techniques of spiritual acceleration by getting a vision and a plan, as well as “the way within to outer success.” “New mutations arising from Cosmos” came forth in late 2021 and all of 2022, unrelated to past or local conditions.

We hit a threshold in our emergent Aquarian work in June 2022, when we began to learn how to administer “spiritual power” effectively. That took us through the trials which forced us to "rise to some emergency" and overcome something which threatened "to burn out of control" in the Autumn up to now.

One of Saturn’s divine qualities is understanding as a prelude to wisdom. With Jupiter’s transit through Aquarius leading the Saturn transit, Saturn tracked what Jupiter opened. As Saturn traverses the span where Jupiter has danced, it will crystallize its understanding of what that span of experience is about, and how we can use it wisely if we find the right structure and discipline. This year and next Saturn structures what opened when Jupiter was in Pisces.

Jupiter in Aquarius gave us a broader awareness which we’re learning to feel more deeply in Pisces. The new initiatives we’ve launched since May 2022 are taking off like rocket ships at this point in the year. We’re definitely on a 20 year journey into Aquarius experiences based in the two 2020 conjunctions of Mars/Saturn and Jupiter/Saturn at 1 Aquarius.

As Jupiter is at 7 Taurus, we’ve hit a major turning point in the emergent Aquarian process which is becoming more action oriented on the social and emotional levels of life. Jupiter is currently building and gathering what it will need to expand its focus next year in Gemini. It’s now in a highly actional phase relative to the larger Aquarian era launched in December 2020.

Because Mercury leads the Sun and in Gemini is the final dispositor for all other planets except Neptune, it dominates this chart. It is in a part of Gemini which weighs, judges, and balances ideas and perspectives, but also has to juggle competing Mars energies. At least Mercury is sextile Venus and Mars, making for a very productive, beautiful, and creative mindset!

So What Rules the Lunation?

This New Moon in Gemini has Mercury as its ruler. As Gemini is in the axis of the Archetype of the Questor/Magician, it puts the focus on open-mindedness, communication, experimentation, exploration, and engineering. As Mercury is extraordinarily favorable in this chart, it should be a very productive and at times playful few weeks ahead.

Besides the planets we’ve discussed, Venus and Mars in Leo are ruled by the Sun in Gemini which is ruled by Mercury. Jupiter is ruled by Venus, Saturn is ruled by Jupiter, Uranus is ruled by Venus, and Pluto by Saturn. So this month we have one “Final Dispositor” ruling all the other planets except Neptune, which as usual Neptune still occupies its home sign continuing as a long wave “standalone” dispositor of itself, ruling the fogs and mists of the current collective consciousness. You can find out more about dispositors in general, chains of dispositors, and mutual reception by going to dispositors and Mutual Reception at the link.

Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend

Because Saturn now sails the open seas of Pisces, the part of us learning how to be spiritually mature and grateful for our understanding of healthy boundaries and self-disciplines is now in a seascape of the collective feelings of all humanity over all time. Though no longer dominating the stage of Life from its home signs of Capricorn and Aquarius, it’s still a powerful force wherever we have early Pisces in our chart. Saturn now leads us in a Master Class in compassion and forgiveness practices, and learning a sober view of the collective human condition.

As this is the fourth New Moon in 5 years where Saturn hasn’t ruled itself, Pluto, and sometimes all the other planets except Neptune, take a moment to reflect on what you’ve learned since 2018 and how you’re more spiritually effective than you were. Saturn is our wise friend and guide who brings us out of ignorance and fear into understanding and “response-ability.”

Making friends with our inner Saturn is the most important thing we can do to fulfill our spiritual destiny. If you want to know more about your power to throw off oppressive chains, limitations, and fears, please give yourself the timeless gift of my book, Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend. We all need to make friends with our inner Saturn if we would claim our power to fulfill our higher purpose for being alive as Spirits in the material world.

This book shows you the way to take command of your power to steer your life in a conscious way, using Saturn’s strengths and skills to be led to mastering life on our own terms. As Saturn is such a dominant energy at this time, by owning our ability to manifest the best of Saturn's virtues in our world, we take command of our destiny and become the living purpose we were born to make manifest!

It was written for both astrologers and non-astrologers, and will assist your understanding of how your life experiences assisted your Soul growth and power to turn away from unhelpful karmic cause and effect patterns. Each time you re-read any part of it you’re sure to find undiscovered gems of insight helping you throw off attitudes which frustrate your ability to live your higher Purpose on your own terms.

A Look Back - The Great Compression of 2020 in Capricorn Still Affects Us

As I mentioned earlier, we’re now in the fourth year of a long term focus wherever we have late Capricorn and early Aquarius in our charts. In the first 90 days of 2020, we had a “Great Compression” of planets involving Sun, Moon, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto all making conjunctions in the last decan of Capricorn, setting off a number of Saturn cycles, one of which will last 33 years! We then began an accelerated phase of our collective spiritual evolution which will take us from the threshold of the Age of Aquarius into the Age itself.

You can find out more about the very powerful Sun, Mercury, and Saturn's conjunctions with Pluto by revisiting The Great Compression of January 2020 – Mercury, Sun, Saturn and Pluto all Conjunct in Capricorn. That lays out the long wave patterns set into motion then.

Because of the Capricorn conjunctions set in motion in 2020, we reorganized our lives wherever we have late Capricorn in our charts. These cycles will impact all of us for some time to come. Especially with three Jupiter conjunctions with Pluto that year, it’s easy to see that for better or worse things were “expansively purified.”

When Mars conjuncted Saturn at 1 Aquarius on March 31, 2020, it set a cycle into motion which began to expand into a global system at the December 2020 Grand Mutation. That Jupiter/Saturn conjunction launched both a new 20 year Aquarian cycle AND a new 200 year era of Jupiter/Saturn conjunctions in Air signs. That means less materialism than the past 200 years, with more focus on our commonality and ability to share ideas over the next 200.

Saturn in Aquarius led us to understand a more timeless role to play to help create a better world. What is your purpose? What structures and self-disciplines do you need to fulfill the ideal of that purpose? We began work on those structures in 2020 which led us to a greater vision in 2021.

With Saturn having completed our Aquarius lessons in maturity, structure, discipline and understanding, Saturn in Pisces now brings a more compassionate set of lessons which affects how the 2020 conjunctions will express at this time. Saturn’s still a major player behind the scenes, which impacts all conjunctions in Capricorn and Aquarius, past and present.

Is the Grand Irrationality A Factor in this Full Moon?

Because this configuration will end its 30 year run in a few weeks, I created an article which sums up the three versions of the Grand Irrationality in play these past decades. I discuss what it is and which zones of the zodiac have been most impacted and when. You can find all you need to know about this configuration associated with widespread irrationality and hard-edged “forks in the road of destiny” we’ve all confronted at various times by going to The Grand Irrationality is Over (1993-2023).

Any transit making multiple 7th harmonic aspects put this “7-pointed Star of Destiny” evolutionary configuration into play, bringing choices and changes affecting our future. The generic configuration is why things seem so crazy and hard-edged at this time in history, and why humanity seems to have been at an unending “fork in the road of destiny.” In this chart Uranus is at the end of its last septile to Neptune, with no other planet activating the configuration. It will activate a final time when Mercury and the Sun septile Uranus and biseptile Neptune at the beginning of July, which will formally end the pattern.

This evolutionary configuration has been activated over the years when any planet moved through any of the hot zones of the configuration. However, even though it’s about to end remember that almost everyone on Earth born in the past 30 years has this in their charts! And all the eclipses these past years have also had it, including the April and May eclipses. So we’ll still have it working in the background for years to come.

Neptune in Pisces and Chiron in Aries

In this chart, Chiron is moving forward at 20 Aries, the degree where it will go stationary retrograde in mid-July. This month is about linking with others in compassionate service or assistance. Be joyous as you help others who are struggling.

In the bigger picture, Jupiter’s recent conjunction with Chiron began a very long wave healing and mentoring cycles wherever we have mid- Aries. Because its last direct station was at 12 Aries, those themes will be extremely important through the Summer. This means Chiron is mentoring and teaching us how to heal into our Higher Self through seeing the trajectory of “the flight of our Soul” linked to other Souls sharing our flight path.

This continues our adventure related to Chiron’s healing and mentoring energies in the second decan of Aries. We now have two major Chironic themes in play: one was set into motion when Mars conjuncted Chiron in Aries last year, which I explained in Mars Conjunct Chiron at 16 Aries, and the other was just set into motion when Chiron went stationary direct, which I wrote about in Astrology Healing Cycles - Chiron Stationary Direct at 12 Aries.

So Aries continues to dominate the Mars/Chiron cycle, with a new long wave Chironic pulse added at the recent Jupiter/Chiron cycle which began at 15 Aries on March 12. This began a new cycle of “the expansive healer,” “opportunities to mentor and be mentored,” and "healing and teaching through humor." The last Jupiter/Chiron conjunction happened in late Aquarius in 2009, and this one lasts through 2036 when they meet again at 17 Gemini. This is an important cycle which will help us “heal into our Higher Self” at crucial points over the next 13 years.

Neptune now approaches the end of its depth immersion in its home sign of Pisces, and now is in its long term stay in the last decan, ruled by Scorpio with an added dose of Mars. This is “the end of the end” of the 360 degree “Whole Cycle,” and so encompasses all of the ghosts and unfulfilled mysteries of this past 150 year cycle since it was last here. It also allows us to purify and forgive much of the past and move into a deeper compassion regarding suffering humanity.

Since last Summer, we’ve all been awakened to an expanded tactile awareness, giving us more of a kinesthetic experience of learning. You can learn more about the primary and secondary methods of how we learn all we learn by going to The Seven Different Types of Learning Styles – Pt. 1 and The Seven Different Types of Learning and Teaching Styles – Pt. 2

This New Moon shows Neptune at 28 Pisces, the degree where it will go stationary retrograde in just a few weeks. This is a degree of “abundance” and harvests which are perfect for our individual needs. Look at the “aliveness” in the world around you, as well as your “garden of Life and Mind,” and listen to the Earth – you could find a deep mystery which will lead you to abundance this Summer! The end of Pisces allows us expanded “non-local knowing.”

Summing Up - The Big Picture

The Capricorn conjunctions of early 2020 continue to condition the long wave cycles unfolding since then even as we simultaneously build a new Aquarian social-spiritual ideal. Jupiter raced through Pisces and Aries at perihelion after its time in Aquarius and opened infinite potentials which will be actualized over the next 20 years. What Jupiter opened in 2021, Saturn crystallized in 2022, and the promise of fortunate endings made when Jupiter was in early Pisces May through July 2021 and again in January 2022 is now being made real by Saturn.

We are now on a new adventure! Having set a lot into motion since 2020, we now get to settle into a somewhat comfortable groove as Jupiter sextiles and quintiles Saturn through the end of the year. We’ll experience a much more comfortable pace which will help anchor the dawning Plutonic seeds of the emerging Aquarian era, so things will be very “transitional” from now through 2025.

All of us have been learning to listen to the inner voice and finding things to be grateful for. We’ve had several months of a new spontaneity resulting from cleaning out our mind’s attachments to perceptions and interpretations, and now are in a year when the old answers will not be adequate “to confirm the new conditions of existence.” The old ways and explanations no long apply, and now that we’ve been challenged to rise to some occasion, we can follow what we’ve seen or heard and find a newer way of living life.

Last year and early this year we trained in using spiritual power effectively, and learned to apply the power of gratitude and appreciation since December. This is a turning point in our ideals and sense of the roles we’re here to play. This time brings “white dove flying over troubled waters,” so expect a sign from Spirit showing you that your ordeal is over.

Summing Up – The Immediate Picture

Recent Solar and Lunar eclipses continue to remove old elements of our old “field and focus” so we may move into new ways of doing our Being. Much is opening at a rocket’s pace, and there will be quick endings of old limitations over coming months! This month allows us to project Aquarian energies in creative forms as we release ourselves from ghosts of the past while sticking up for our rights. Saturn is bringing a call to self-renewal, so as you return to your “ancient source of Being” you will find yourself attracted to your symbolic “volunteer church choir.”

We are revisiting the last echoes of the dying Pluto in Capricorn era, with new days dawning and new lands appearing. This is a turning point in our relationships, so express your heart, your play, your creativity, and prepare for a review of all these things and more when Venus goes retrograde in a few weeks. This is a time of steady productivity but also playful creativity in the realm of ideas and approaches. Let time be your ally.

Because we have the planets spread out while clustered in Taurus, Gemini, and Leo, the primary focus on the next month is in the 100 degree span between Jupiter in early Taurus and Mars in mid-Leo. As per the Nodal positions, Scorpio wants to go deeper into our connections with others, but as the North Node is in Taurus, remember to enjoy the “field of clover in bloom” at the end of your quest!

Because of several extraordinarily favorable aspects, this should be a very fortunate 4 week period if we can manage the forks in the road shown by the septiles. With Saturn in Pisces, while endings may feel heavy, the immediately lightness which follows will help us move easily into a new life adventure.

Final Thoughts

Due to our training in 2021-2022, we know how to use spiritual power and/or magnetism wisely. During that time we cultivated new heart strengths as a result of “spiritual linkage through emotional stress” and “the blessings which come forth after the death of useless things.” We’re now living new roles in new relationships as we play our part in the Aquarian energy field growing stronger by the month.

Continue to ride the waves of a gigantic future opening to you wherever you have Aquarius, Aries, Taurus and Leo in your chart, welcoming the new, the promise, the protection, and the adventure even as you let go of all which is slipping away. Remember enlightenment is a verb, not a noun, and our connection with the World Soul allows us to act in harmony with “All That Is.”

Because of our total immersion in Aquarian energy in 2021-2022, we’ve received innovative ideas and know who our spiritual allies are. In the past 2 years we’ve broken away, broken free, and broken through whatever used to block our flow. We approach a new cooperative era, and the next few weeks substantiate the positives in play since December 2020!

We’re still becoming more conscious of our interrelatedness within the spiritual field and moving through an immersion in a new sensitivity to the generic human condition. The new era dawning will show us that we are in fact individual sparks of Light within an infinite ocean of Light. We are not separate from any other thing, since all things are Light and therefore we are one with All.

This is the beginning of the beginning of a new 200 year era. The powerful forces being released at times may be chaotic, violent, intractable, and irrational, but there is power in our unified vision of a better future. Stay clear about what your vision is, and let go of all which prevents you from flying free with your Spiritual Brothers and Sisters into a better future. Keep the course steady despite the compressed tensions of this time, and know we’re on our way into the future together!

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Because Venus occupies 11 Leo in this Lunation chart and sextile Mercury and triseptile Saturn, it will provide beauty and inspiration to our ideas and a sense of maturity as we let go of whatever is ending. Also, with Venus triseptile Saturn sounding the call to renewal, this should include elements of play, fun, opening, and nobility as well as heart strength. Those with a planet or point near 6-10 Pisces, 27 Aries- 1 Taurus, 18-22 Gemini, 10-14 Leo, 2-6 Libra, 23-27 Scorpio, and 14-18 Capricorn. If you have something in one of these zones, you could be meeting someone creative or who warms your heart and makes you open up!

Venus is now solidly in Leo and preparing to go retrograde in that sign in late July. That means this year we have 4 months of learning to like all things Leo! This will bring beauty or something of value to wherever we have Leo in our charts, and people with significant Leo planets or points will love the fire they’re feeling in their interactions.

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It has chapters on the qualities of each sign’s natural mate, the qualities of Venus in each sign, and when crucial choices and changes are made, affecting who we attract in the future. It was written for both astrologers and lay people, and as it has a thousand gems for better relationships, with self, others, and Source, please consider getting your copy by going to the link above! (And when you’re done, please leave a review on Amazon, since it helps the book and all other books on astrology as well!)

See you soon with part 2, which will cover Sabian Symbols, Jones patterns, element distribution, and a whole lot more!

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