What’s Happening in June-July 2024

New Moon coming soon! The next month will be a time when we rise on a tidal explosion of new energy, new ideas, and new perspectives.

This sets the stage for the massive friction in August when Mars conjuncts Jupiter on the degree of this New Moon with both square Saturn and sesquisquare Pluto! The next 4 weeks gives us clear information about that conflict, so do your purifications.

This Lunation introduces a new focus wherever we have 17 Gemini, a degree of an outreach of the mind transmuting instinct into the ability to build thought forms. Though the occupied span is now 135 degrees wide, it puts 7 planets between late Aries and mid-Gemini so that will be the focus of activity for the next 4 weeks.

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 distributive, interactive, curious and restless New Moon at 17 Gemini occurs at 5:38 am PDT, 1:38 pm BST on June 6. This is the next phase of Lunations with Pluto in Aquarius, showing us the sprouting of Aquarian seeds of the future which will impact generations to come. This one in Gemini is agitating to Pluto which went retrograde on a degree of defiance, rebellion, and refusal to obey authoritarian patterns.

In Jan/Feb, Mercury, Venus, and Mars all conjuncted Pluto and set new forms of 1 Aquarius into motion. These are core Plutonic principles related to the global future oriented work in motion since 2020. Any conjunction with Pluto brings pinpoint clarity and a penetrating insight to the core of whatever is coming together.

The heavy Gemini presence brings lots of activity to that part of our chart, with tremendous opportunities awaiting us when Jupiter crosses this Lunation point in August, boosted by Mars at the same time. Mercury’s still speeding up, helping us accomplish a lot this month.

With the Lunation at 17 Gemini, we’re invited to share our discoveries with others and allow our minds to be shaped into a more powerful instrument. This is a time for faith and creativity, and with Venus adding Her grace, charm, and wisdom to this New Moon, there’s no doubt many things of beauty and value will be shown to all of us. The square to Saturn is an emergent force of discovery and exteriorization of the Wisdom shown by Saturn’s degree.

We are now in a time of the Sun shining Light on all of us in our Gemini sector, giving us lots of opportunities to learn what we need to learn to continue the momentum into the future. We’re still “stretching out” from the last Grand Compression for 330 years, and much we’ve been through between late April and now will crank up once Mars enters Taurus in a few days and then crosses the degree of the April Jupiter conjunction with Pluto.

This New Moon will jumpstart Gemini energy wherever it falls in our chart. As that sign is now a focus of activity, along with a healthy dose of late Aries, use your power to move into your new role you’ve been practicing for the past year as you learn to relax and enjoy the ride that’s unfolding. Have faith, do what you must, and you’ll have greater mental powers by the end of June.

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 Magician/Questor, we can learn and teach, experiment, see things objectively, and perfect our spiritual understanding of both high and low. Just remember there are many alternatives to examine before making a crucial decision.

The Lunation is ruled by Mercury in its home sign of Gemini, making it exceptionally powerful as it rules the stage! So Mercury rules the Sun, Moon, itself, and Venus. Mars is in its home sign of Aries. Jupiter in Gemini is ruled by Mercury, Saturn in Pisces is ruled by Jupiter, Uranus in Taurus is ruled by Venus, Pluto is ruled by Saturn, and as usual, Neptune occupies its home sign continuing as a long wave “standalone” dispositor of itself, ruling the fogs and mists of the current collective consciousness.

So this month all the planets are ruled by either Mercury or Mars, which are both “final dispositors” of all the others except Neptune. 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.

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. Each pattern has its importance in the Soli-Lunar sequence, and at the end of each period of the Natural pattern we shifd into a pattern which “bridges the Light” across two different Light signs in the Lunation cycle.

We are now in a time when the New Moon Sun sign is different than the Sun sign of the following Full Moon. The New Moon Solar eclipse at 30 Aries in 2023 was the first in the current 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 of a Gemini nature, the fulfillment in form at the Full Moon illuminates Cancer energy. This New Moon falls at 17 Gemini, and the Full Moon two weeks from now falls at 2 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.

Eclipses Effects in Play

The 2023 and 2024 Solar eclipses have been removing parts of our lives where we have 30 Aries, 20 Aries, and 22 Libra. We just finished many months under the influence of the October 2023 Lunar eclipse at 6 Taurus/Scorpio and have begun several months of “Cosmic recycling” wherever we have 6 Libra/Aries. We now care about other things, have a new focus, and can join with others for mutual strengthening. We continue to eliminate old ways of self-expression and equivocating in relationships, and now will begin to see the results of what we visualized before now, or see the need for a more careful visualization of what we want to see made manifest.

We are now freed of many old ideals and areas we used to work within. All of these eclipses ask us “What is the purpose to what you leave behind and what you’re moving into?” Certainly the recent Total Solar eclipse is going to shut down some things in our Aries/Libra sectors so we may grow toward the stellium conjunct the North Node in Aries. Time to move in new directions with new people!

Jupiter and Saturn

Jupiter’s conjunction with Uranus at 22 Taurus began a new 13 year adventure into new lives. That conjunction theme is about us seeing “the white dove flying over troubled waters” which promises that our ordeal is completed and we are or will see a sign from Spirit announcing a new day, a new land, and a new life wherever we have 22 Taurus.

Jupiter is now in Gemini and has been trining Pluto, giving us a pathway to see to the core of things. We’ve all opened to a new process of discovery, and now can begin to formalize some of our ideas into enduring structures. Having enjoyed a year of Jupiter in Taurus, we now get to discover all there is to discover as we reach out into the new world and life promised in January and set into motion in April.

Saturn is extraordinarily important in this New Moon as it is on a degree of “walking with our wisdom” and in a spiritually emergent relationship with Mars. The New Moon stellium is square Saturn, giving us great power to articulate our wisdom, or use it to grow in our mental abilities. As the voids are 17-19 Sagittarius and Virgo, renew, appreciate what protects you, reorient and if necessary “move to distant lands,” allowing your “will to wholeness to break up your old complexes” as you learn to trust your inner guidance.

June 2023 through February 2024 called us to forms of life renewal, and now we’re in a new sector of Pisces. We’re now solidly in the next stage of our life renewal as we experience “non-local awareness” with our Spiritual Sisters and Brothers within the One Life. We’re still in a time of “walking with our wisdom” en route to finding “what nourishes us at the end of our day of labor.” Saturn in Pisces certainly tests our compassion for everything and everyone!

Looking Back, Looking Forward

This is the sixteenth New Moon of the Saturn in Pisces era. We are now in the fifth 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, evaluating what in our Self-discipline and limits worked and which didn’t. Whatever happened then will erupt in new forms this year and next thanks to Pluto!

2021 involved spiritual acceleration by getting a vision and a plan, with “New mutations” arising from Cosmos in late 2021 and all of 2022. June 2022 marked a threshold in our emergent Aquarian work when we began to learn how to administer “spiritual power” effectively. We then had to "rise to some emergency" and overcome something “out of control" between October 2022 and March 2023. Since the Summer of 2023 we’ve gone through a renewal, and now are in a time of revising many ideas.

One of Saturn’s divine qualities is understanding as a door to wisdom. With Jupiter’s transit through Aquarius in 2021 leading the Saturn transit in 2021-2023, 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 the first 4 months of 2022.

Who Leads the Light?

At this time, Mercury at 7 Gemini is the “gateway to the Light.” This indicates the “entry to illumination” involves an awareness of alternative views and the need for faith in following through on actions we know will bring up what we need in the way of nourishment.

Mercury will continue to lead the Sun (except when the Moon is between it and the Sun) until Mercury conjuncts the Sun on June 14. After that Jupiter will resume being the Gateway to the Light until the Inferior conjunction of Mercury and the Sun on August 18. At that point Mercury will be the gateway to the Light until the next Superior conjunction of Mercury and the Sun on September 30. The study of which planet leads the Sun is a crucial but often overlooked part of understanding how the planets work in sequence.

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. This is a powerful restructuring spiritual force wherever we have mid-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.

Between 2018 and early 2023, Saturn taught us to be more spiritually effective within a group work than we were before that period. We’ve used those skills since then in our Capricorn and Aquarius areas to achieve closures, helping us prepare for the new era coming when Saturn enters Aries in May of 2025.

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.

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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 mentioned earlier, we’re now in the fifth 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 on the same degree. 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. Since then we have deepened with Saturn in Pisces. As always, Saturn in the harvest signs at the end of the zodiac challenge us to ask “What is our purpose? What structures and self-disciplines do we need to fulfill the ideal of that purpose?”

Neptune in Pisces and Chiron in Aries

In this chart, Chiron is direct at 23 Aries, the same degree as its recent Mars conjunction. This is giving us a look at this social-emotional span in Aries as it prepares to go stationary retrograde at 24 Aries, promising us all a “concentrated dose of spiritual energies” this Summer. Chiron is said to help us “heal into our Higher Self” and the themes of 23 Aries involve following through on something and carrying it to completion.

Some will be given opportunities to mentor or be mentored in assisting or being assisted related to these themes. This will help us focus our potency or move us toward our potential. Chiron is now moving us forward in the level of social or emotional potency, eventually going SRX at 24 Aries.

In the bigger picture, Jupiter’s conjunction with Chiron in early 2023 began a very long wave healing and mentoring cycles wherever we have mid- Aries. Because Chiron’s last direct station was at 16 Aries, it means in 2024 Chiron is mentoring us and teaching us how to heal into our Higher Self through getting a new inspiration while seeing the relationship between the conscious and unconscious sides of life.

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 recently conjuncted Chiron in Aries in 2024, which I explained in Mars Conjunct Chiron at 16 Aries. The other major Chironic cycle was 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 Jupiter/Chiron cycle which began at 15 Aries in March 2023. 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.

This New Moon shows Neptune at 30 Pisces, a degree of “dreaming the pre-formed future” and its stationary retrograde degree. This is the threshold where the future is just around the corner, so be clear about what you want to see made manifest in the next era. We are in a time which is a prelude to a new collective mindset coming in mid-2025. We began an acceleration in this “disintegration” energy when Mars conjuncted Neptune on this degree in late April. 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 to 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 early 2022 is now being made real by Saturn.

We’re now at a stage where, having heard Saturn’s “call to self-renewal,” we have been flowing into our mastery, our archetypal Self, and our part to play in the bigger picture of our spiritual journey. With Saturn in Pisces, while endings may feel heavy, the immediate lightness which follows helps move us into a new life adventure.

We are now solidly in the dawning of the emergent Pluto in Aquarius era, with new work to be done and new lands appearing. This is a turning point in our relationships, so express your heart, your play, your creativity, and see how all of these are related to relationships in the past. We are now on a new adventure, so enjoy the clarity of Jupiter trine Pluto. This stabilizes and expresses the dawning Plutonic seeds of the emerging Aquarian era, so things will be very “transitional” from now through 2025.

Summing Up – The Immediate Picture

With so many planets in Gemini, we’re stretching out in countless ways toward a future we’re just now understanding. The primary focus for the next month is the span between Uranus at 25 Taurus and the New Moon plus Venus at 17 Gemini. The Nodes show us that we’re learning to see all of life as a dance between the inner/outer male/female parts of us and others, demonstrated by an ability to adjust to the rhythms of Nature for rest and regeneration. Remember that in this North Node in Aries/South Node in Libra era, Aries wants to get it in gear and Libra wants to look good doing it! As the North Node is in Aries, be willing “to boldly go where you’ve never gone before.”

Because of so many planets in such a short space, it may feel like a crowded house wherever we have Pisces, and Gemini. These signs are where our transpersonal orientation in Pisces is anchored by the information acquired in Gemini. Show Divine Grace and forgiveness when you can, and express new ideas, perceptions, and understanding of what larger vista is opening. Remember with Pluto being trined by Jupiter, it's purification time!

Final Thoughts

In 2020-2022, Capricorn helped us to find new forms of social power, while Aquarius took it into a much vaster context of a greater good. As you journey into the “new lands” promised by the recent Jupiter conjunctions with Uranus, 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 3 years we’ve broken away, broken free, and broken through whatever used to block our flow. We approach a new cooperative era, and we’re now in a time of new initiatives!

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

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