Astrology of Week June 17 - 22

 

The week starts with First quarter moon.  

 

 

Focus on:   What actions are you taking that speak to bettering your efficiency?    How are your communication abilities improved by a well-run schedule?   When you say YES to doing something how does inform your facts?  What new information do you learn?

 

 

Special Note

 

6/17: Moon in Scorpio square Pluto 

6/17: Mercury square Neptune.  Thinking is fuzzy, disillusioned, loss but also creative.  

6/17: Mercury enter Cancer.  Three weeks where our thoughts are long on emotions, cozy, family and home. 

6/17: Mercury conjunct Venus  0 Cancer 20.  Thoughts on love.  Values are in our brains.   Communicating love of things that are important to us. 

 

Gibbous Moon

June 18, 2024  

12:14 am  PDT    

 

 

Gibbous:

We refine our information.  We pick and choose, we discriminate, and we organize to be ‘Virgo’ like.  We sort through details.  Have we missed something?  How are we sifting through the information?  Go back and make sure something hasn’t been neglected.  Refine our actions.   How are we perfecting our goals? 

 

Focus on:  What refining can you do that impacts your resources?   How does perfecting your shared resources, impel you to dive down in new data? What have you been neglecting that impacts your resources?   What facts on the ground bring a new knowledge to your resources, finances, sex life, debt and taxes?    

 

 

Special focus

6/20: Sun square Neptune.  Fuzzy spirit.  Feeling a disconnect from reality feeling a blur into the universe can be disorienting.   

6/20: Sun enters Cancer.  Happy Summer Solstice.  

6/21: Mercury sextile Mars.   Thinking and actions are in synch.  Fun actions that are super practical.   

 

 

June 21, 2024

Full Moon

6:07 pm PDT 

1 Capricorn 07 

 

Separate post to come 

 

Special focus 

6/22: Mercury square N. Node.   Thinking that supports self-agency is fierce.  Sharp tongues today.  

Astrology for June 8 - Jun 16

 

 

 On the 8th we are still in the new moon phase.    Our intent still matters as we are seeding the lunar month.   Lean into Gemini with focus. 

 

This focus:    How am I getting information?  How am I communicating?  How am feeling stressed?  How do I get informed if I am feeling pressure?  How do I pivot?  How do I adapt?   Do I have to given anyone a Yes or No answer or can I give them a solid maybe?    

 

Special note:

6/8: Venus square Saturn.  (See separate post) 

6/8: Mars enters Taurus (See separate post)

6/9: Sun square Saturn (See separate post)

6/9: Mercury sextile N Node.  Our thinking gets a burst of energy.  Personal agency fills our thoughts. 

 

 

Crescent Moon Phase

June 9, 9:33pm PDT

 

 

Focus on: What are you learning about your strength?  What are you learning about your passion?  What are you learning about your ability to be daring?   What are you learning about being the center of attention?  What are you learning about pride?  What are learning about being a hero?   How are you researching the value of drama?  

 

 

Special Focus

6/11 : Mars square Pluto   (see separate post) 

6/12 : Mercury square Saturn (see separate post)

6/13 : Sun conjunct Mercury cazimi.  Fresh thinking.  Diversified thoughts.   We are mentally dexterous.   We are thinking of new ways to adapt.  

 

 

 

 

First Quarter Moon 

June 13, 2024 

10:18 pm PDT  

 

 

Focus on:   What actions are you taking that speak to bettering your efficiency?    How are your communication abilities improved by a well-run schedule?   When you say YES to doing something how does it inform your facts?  What new information do you learn?

 

 

Special Note

 

6/16 : Venus square Neptune.  Fuzzy love and values.  A feeling of love and money disappearing.  How do we find a new vision? 

6/16 : Venus enters Cancer 

6/17 : Mercury square Neptune.  Thinking is fuzzy, disillusioned, loss but also creative.  

6/17 : Mercury enter Cancer 

6/17 : Mercury conjunct Venus  0 Cancer 20.  Thoughts on love.  Values are in our brains.   Communicating love of things that are important to us. 

 

Saturn Doing His Thing

Saturn fresco House of Dioscuri - Pompeii photo by Carol Raddato 

 

June 8: Venus squared Saturn 

June 9:  Sun squared Saturn 

June 12: Mercury squared Saturn 

 

Rules and authority may be pushing on our love, money and values (Venus) then on our spirit (Sun) and finally on our thinking and communication (Mercury).     If everything feels hard, look to Saturn.   If you can pivot and tap intuition, go for it.   If you can’t, then breathe.  If you are getting nothing but “NO” then take a break and pivot to something else until this crunching period of hardship and struggle, (even if it is mental) wraps.      

Hot Zone - Pluto and Friends

 

Hot Zone with Pluto 

On June 8 Mars moves into Taurus and begins lining up its square with Pluto on June 11.  At the same time the Moon will be entering Leo.   As in previous lunar reports, we are watching the inner planets when they form tough aspects with Pluto.   This can give us a window to some themes for the next twenty years.  

 

  

June 9:  Moon in Leo square Mars oppose Pluto. 

June 11 : Mars (Taurus) square Pluto 

June 17: Moon in Scorpio square Pluto 

June 23: Moon conjunction Pluto 

June 30: Moon square Pluto 

July 3: Mercury oppose Pluto  

 

Between June 8^th and June 11^th is red flagged as an intense window. Roughly every two years Mars and Pluto form a conjunction which begins a new journey involving power issues.  

Mars is the warrior on the battlefield exerting power.  Whereas Pluto’s power is the covert assassin and/or covert mogul who funds the war.  Their last square occurred in October during the week of Hamas terrorist attack on Israel.   

Looking back on Feb 13, at the conjunction, the new Mars Pluto journey began at zero Aquarius.  At that conjunction, tech exploded with the launch of Open AI which generates life like videos that are by their nature fake but appear realistic.  This new technology can be rife with problems in a good year but in a year with elections it can be hyper troublesome.   Will we see an echo off Feb 13 during this window?    For terrific insights into this topic, check out The Astrology Podcast (March2024) with astrologers Chris Brennan and Austin Coppock who go deep into other mega Mars-Pluto mundane events (Rafah, Russian nukes in space, crowd torches autonomous vehicle, strikes in India and South Korea).   On a personal level, consider how in mid-February you tapped power?   How were you using strength and tenacity?  How might you tap it again around June 11^th?  How and where are you drilling down deep?   What is going on with your possessions?  What is going on with your properties?  How are your finances feeling pressurized?   What is happening that involves big tech and you?   How are you working with groups of people?  

 

Looking ahead we will see the next Mars/Pluto aspect on July 21 (Mars Trine Pluto) which is harmonious.  Then November 3 (Mars oppose Pluto) which may revisit the tension of June 11^th.    

 

On July 3, Mercury in Leo opposes Pluto which connects back to Feb 5 when Mercury also formed a conjunction with Pluto.  On the mundane level let’s watch the world for big news events where the actual reporting of the news may be the news.  Perhaps a merger of big media or a big scandal.   Journalism could be rocked.  When it comes to Leo versus Pluto, there is a push for dynamic personal expression but if it teeters on selfish, then Pluto in Aquarius calls it out.   There also could be a round of disinformation that has everyone in a dramatic tizzy.   There could be conversations that jump start a major self-evolution.   Maybe it is a conversation that is born out strength and resolve and sends blood through the body which launches serious changes.   “I think therefore I am” might be the result after a passionate (Leo) discussion.  

 

Looking ahead we will see the next aspect on October 13 (Mercury square Pluto) which will be tense and then on November 2 (Mercury sextile) we get a productive and healing aspect.  

Gemini New Moon: June 6, 2024 5:37am PDT

 

June 6, 2024 

5:37am PDT 

16 Gemini 18 

And now for something different and something else that is different and something else that is different...yep we are here---are you getting an idea of Gemini?     The Gemini Twins are always up to something and this 29 day cycle we will be very busy.   This year Saturn is bringing a patina of responsibilities and a bit of heaviness that is not something we normally say about Gemini. We will take our ability to pivot very serious.   This is the gift of Gemini.    Just keep cha-cha-cha-ing.   

You can read my full new moon article HERE. 

Saturn & Neptune: February 20, 2026

 

BTW - I am not sure why this video is age restricted.  

Saturn conjunction Neptune 

00 Aries 47  

February 20, 2026

6:38pm PST 

I have decided that one way to disseminate some of the bigger astrological aspects is to pull out discussions that I have read, followed, listened  or watched that I think you might find helpful.   I also think that getting way out in front of it, might also be an assist since it won't feel like any of us are cramming for an exam when the date is barreling down on us.  Let's start percolating on the aspect way in advance.    One such potent astro aspect in our future is the conjunction between Saturn and Neptune at 00 Aries 47.   Or the Zero-One degree of Aries. 

Saturn and Neptune forms a conjunction once every 36 years.  The last time they hooked up was 1989-90.   The two planets can conjunct in any sign but in the last two thousand years Saturn and Neptune have only conjunct in Aries a handful of times and only once at Zero-One Degree of Aries and that was in 4361 BCE.    That is a long time ago.   Accent on long.   Now we have it in our future.   

There are lots of discussions by various astrologers about how this could impact our world based on themes of the past.   I will find many of them that I will share with you between now and when the aspect takes place on February 20, 2026.   I thought I would start with this video because I think it is a good primer.    It is from the World Astrology Report with astrologers Dan Waites and SJ Anderson.   It was recorded in November of 2022.    The two of them talk a lot about calendars (created back in 4361 BCE) and the advent of coins,  international trade and important dates in Russian history.   I think you will find it all very interesting.  

  

Astrological Notes - June 1 - June 5

 

June 1st is the final day of the Last Quarter moon   We continue to do the last efforts on any seeds we planted at the Taurus New Moon.   We do the final call, actions, correspondence, etc.  We follow all the trails that came up that still make sense.  And we let the other parts lay fallow. It is a time of action but wise action.  It is a time for living “The serenity prayer” 

 

God, grant me the Serenity
to accept the things
I cannot change Courage to change the
things I can, and the
Wisdom to know the difference.

 

 

Balsamic Moon Phase

 

June 2, 2024 

12:14am PDT 

 

Balsamic:   We let go.  By releasing we can prepare for the new.  

 

 

Focus on:  How are you releasing your anger?  How are you releasing your independence?  How are you releasing your fire?  How are you releasing your self-agency?  

 

 

Special focus:

 

6/2: Jupiter Trine Pluto (see separate post) 

6/2: Mercury sextile Neptune.  Thinking and communication that is unworldly, dreamy, and creative.  

6/3: Mercury enter Gemini.  Communication speeds up.   Try not to rush. 

6/3: Sun sextile North Node.   Actions that benefit by independent thoughts and communication.   

6/3: Venus sextile North Node.  Love and creativity that benefits by independent thoughts and communication. 

6/3: Mercury trine Pluto (see separate post) 

6/4: Mercury conjunct Jupiter.  What’s the big idea?  What’s the fresh 10,000 foot view?   

6/4: Venus conjunct Sun.  Love and creativity benefit by fresh ideas and some adaptability.  (Superior conjunction) receptivity is heightened. 

Gemini New Moon - June 6, 5:37am PDT -  Write Up to come.