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Astrological Forecast for Sun in Cancer
Jun 21 through Jul 22
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Fahrenheit, Kelvin and Celsius have no scales to measure the rising temperatures in our spiritual lives at this Solstice. The astrological event of the year ¥ may "officially" be over, but the ripple effects will go on, remaining as strong, as hopeful and as positive as anything the clueful among us could have reasonably expected.
( ¥ = the exact Aquarian Jupiter/Chiron/Neptune [J/C/N] communion from May 20 to June 10, for all intents and purposes the official dawning of the Age of Aquarius)
As with any planetary movement or combination, the J/C/N communion has not only been happening "out there," but within ourselves as well. Jupiter, Chiron and Neptune in the same Aquarian degree for the first time in over 2,009 years has been showing us all the ideal path forward on both personal and global levels. Big-time (Jupiter) spiritual (Neptune) healing (Chiron) could have easily been the norm rather than the exception, yet some misguided folks have taken this glorious opportunity to instead work hard against their own karmic best interests, as well as against the beneficial flow of the Universe.
Call it "evil" if you will, but this would be anyone still seeing fear, separation and violence as the easiest path to take. Whether it be physical, emotional, political or social violence, these unfortunate souls have been utilizing the shadow aspects of the J/C/N communion by over-inflating (Jupiter) their own delusional (Neptune) pains (Chiron). At the risk of sounding judgmental here, stealing an election in Iran, killing a doctor who has been performing legal medical procedures for years, or shooting-up the Holocaust Museum in DC just ain't right.
Don't worry too much if you haven't yet determined which side of this defining moment you've been on. Slow-moving Neptune and Chiron will be loitering about this same cosmic Aquarian region for another year, so radical (Aquarian) psychic/spiritual (Neptune) healing (Chiron) will be freely available for anyone seriously looking for it. All three have begun moving retrograde, with expansive Jupiter in particular moving into His retrograde doldrums phase, signaling that it's never too late to jump on board this love train, this most exalted example of the dawning of the Age of Aquarius.
Each of the inner personal planets (Mercury, Venus and Mars) are fully moving direct this month for the first forecast of this year, while all of the outer planets except Saturn have (or will) begun moving retrograde. This can be a month for "right thinking" on the individual level, while the collective whole (the outer planets) necessarily needs to reflect upon the problems facing the greater sum of our individual parts. In other words, we can all come to a greater level of understanding of what we as individuals can selflessly do for the rest of humanity, not to mention what our greater karmic responsibilities are for the environmental challenges facing our own home planet.
On a separate, yet highly connected note, it is consistently disheartening to know of how many people (especially younger ones) have felt so isolated because of their intuitive, spiritual and/or psychic abilities. It's as if their hearts are telling them one thing, while the rest of the world "says" that they are somehow wrong or crazy by doing so. Such an energetic in one's life leaves the psychic/intuitive soul feeling cold and lonely, or worse, absolutely despondent, wishing their "gift" would somehow magically disappear. Leading from the heart (Cancer) can be troubling when opposed to the authoritarian constrictions of Capricorn, one hundred and eighty degrees away.
In this regard, with a rare three Cancerian lunations (New and Full Moons) for this month, the Universe can provide some necessary guidance for anyone who wants to stop running around in circles, and begin to spiral upward.
Full forecast
The Solstice of June 21 is the day with the longest amount of sunlight for we in the Northern hemisphere. More significantly though, the Divine Feminine planet Venus regains the lead over the inner Warrior Mars once again in the truly natural order of things. If the past few months have seemed topsy-turvy in our emotional attachments (the people and things we once valued the most), we'll have a better chance for right thinking by placing those memories in the past where they truly belong - gone - back in the there-and-then.
The Moon overtakes Mercury in it's ruling sign Gemini within an hour of the exact Solstice, a further signal that everything is once again right in the world. Simply by commanding "make it right" in any given here-and-now moment has a greater chance of happening, rather than waiting for the right thing to drop into our laps. These moments of an almost celestial inner perfection are the lead-up to the New Moon of June 22, which begins this month with a wonderfully magickal and transcendent Sabian* image, "A man on a magic carpet hovers over a large area of land."
The archetype of a man on a magic carpet of course springs from the image of an Islamic mystic meditating on a prayer rug, utilizing his own ancient wisdom, but it can easily be transferred to any meditational technique that sends our souls flying while we never actually leave the ground. Any worthy meditational practice of the here-and-now is the only place and time where everything of any true value really matters. Being fully within the here-and-now can send us to places we could never otherwise possibly imagine, such as a magic carpet ride would.
Joining this New Moon of June 22 (at two degrees Cancer) is the major asteroid Vesta, the Goddess of the Hearth and Protectoress of the Home Fire. This is a clear affirmation that no matter where we call our physical home, our spiritual home is always wherever we are within every here-and-now moment. Like the crab, whose shaped-like constellation gives us the word Cancer (from the Greek kankeri), a crab's physical shell is always where it's home is, showing us that indeed, home is where our hearts (Cancer) are.
This Sun/Moon/Vesta conflagration is almost exactly opposed (180° away) from transformative Pluto in Capricorn, with Uranus as the focus of a T-square at this opposition (more on that later). The opposition aspect is usually considered to be a stressful one, however, being situated 180° away from anything is also a perfect position to be in to allow us the ability to see our problems face-to-face. Transcending whatever ails us can therefore open us up to transform our Cancerian heart of hearts where our true home is. In this regard, we can more clearly understand what the Christ meant in the Gospel of Thomas when he said, "...the kingdom of heaven is (already) inside you...," and we don't need to be constantly looking for heaven outside of ourselves.
As a backdrop to this New Moon, the spirit world has been very busy these days with the J/C/N communion and the recently concluded Venus retrograde cycle. Both events have been urging us all to remember and appreciate the wisdom of the ancient past - our past-lives - a time before the forces of civilization separated us from our reverence of the natural world. These images of a much more complete and holistic world-view are back, back with a vengeance some might say, and we'd be much the wiser to heed their calling.
Our past-lives might easily be screaming out to us on June 27 when the Moon and "dwarf" planet Ceres join Saturn at seventeen degrees Virgo, with the Sabian image of "A volcanic eruption, the explosive energy of long-repressed contents of the subconscious." The Sabian images are symbolic representations of the inner and the outer (as above, so below) and aren't meant to be taken literally. However, we will probably be seeing more examples of misguided souls blowing themselves up (as well as innocent souls) in symbolic eruptions of their own tortured souls the last week of June. On the other hand, enlightened souls can experience eruptions of the purest love emanating from our hearts as well - it all depends on what we want to stand for - the positive forces of unity or the demons of separation.
The Moon and Saturn have obviously been visible to the naked eye since before time began. The wild-card here is the unseen Ceres, the former asteroid recently elevated in our consciousness to planet status by astronomers, placing Ceres in the same essential category as Pluto. "Dwarf" planets or not, Ceres and Pluto are both forces to be reckoned with. Ceres is symbolic of our own nurturing Mother Earth, conveniently residing in the asteroid belt between our Warrior Mars and expansive Jupiter. Ceres and Saturn in the same degree for three days represents the need for us to take responsibility (Saturn) for nurturing (Ceres) our home planet back to sustainability, much like our distant ancestors - our past-lives - would have us remember.
Putting this Moon/Ceres/Saturn conjunction into context, revolutionary Uranus as the T-square focus of the June 22 New Moon (in opposition to Pluto) reminds us to place this lunation cycle into greater perspective, the bigger picture of the past year and the next. Uranus turns retrograde on July 1, tellingly the last of the outer planets to do so. This leaves the Good Professor Saturn as the only outer planet moving direct, setting the stage for the next exact Saturn/Uranus opposition in September - Phase Three. (Phase One was November 4 of last year and Phase Two was this past February 5.) This Summer promises to be a time of unrest and squabbling among those who are selfishly clinging to the status quo - the shadow side of Saturn - while rebels and anarchists will be demanding change (Uranus' shadow) for change's sake.
The higher path belongs to those of us who can stand in the center, simultaneously holding each of the exalted aspects of Saturn and Uranus within our selves, and within our lives. Advocates for responsible (Saturn) and inventive change (Uranus) should be encouraged and emulated in order for positive momentum to develop toward sustainability, otherwise we could all sink into chaos and authoritarianism, the shadow sides of Uranus and Saturn.
Mercury moves into emotional Cancer on July 4, and Venus moves into sociable Gemini on July 5, allowing us to more clearly communicate (Mercury/Gemini) what we truly value (Venus) on emotional (Cancer) levels. This is the beneficial background radiation for the annular Lunar eclipse of July 7. Our life-source the Sun at this Full Moon (at 16° Cancer) describes the remarkable Sabian image of "A man studying a mandala in front of him, with the help of a very ancient book." This clearly reiterates the overriding feel of this mini-era we find ourselves in, when ancient wisdom is struggling to find it's way back into our current awareness. Yet significantly, the Moon (at 16° Capricorn) is finding the unlikely outlet for all of our mandala/navel gazing in the image of "School grounds filled with boys and girls in gymnasium suits."
In other words, we're seeing an advanced spiritual Soul delving deeply into the occult (unseen) mysteries of a mandala, alongside the wisdom of an ancient instruction manual, while the opposite of that particular form of soul-searching is children at play. It's important but not significant to note that these children are wearing uniforms of sorts, a Capricornian construct of where these children are playing, but that these uniforms are not overriding the pure joy inherent in child's play.
How do we possibly incorporate such deep metaphysical searching, while seeing children playing games? By realizing - by making it real - that we're all essentially still children, no matter what our age number might be. This is about loving our inner child while we're still trying to be responsible adults. Herein lies a great mystery that every spiritual Master throughout history has learned to incorporate into their own lives, and tried to convey to us with mixed results. This gives us a perhaps different meaning to "...and a child shall lead them," in our current level of understanding. A childlike outlook on life can lead us to where the really significant and magickal stuff is. The true artist already knows this about their work - I mean, play.
For instance, children can see a limitless future of unending potentials, unbound by the fears and constrictions their parents and society are about to dump on them. "From the mouths of babes" we get great questions like "Why can't we all just get along?" and, "Why is there poverty? Why do people hate the immigrants, the Arabs, the poor, the rich, the Africans, the ( fill-in-the-blanks) ?" The "grown-up" response of "You will know when you are old enough to understand" won't cut it any longer, as if it ever has. Such pat answers only perpetuate the "original sin" of not knowing why we unconsciously live the way we live, and do the hurtful things we do. Venus in Gemini opens the door to talk about such things with our families, friends and acquaintances, and this Capricorn Full Moon of July 7 can allow us to walk right on through that opened gate.
Mars follows Venus into Gemini on July 11 where they will remain evolving for the duration of this month. The origin of Gemini the Twins may well be from the Roman twin boys Castor and Pollux, but feel free to consider members of the opposite gender to be our spiritual twin souls. Bonus points are awarded to anyone unafraid to recognize and appreciate the opposite gender within our selves, realizing that every one of us has an inner male (Mars) and an inner female (Venus), regardless of what body parts may be on our out-side.
This month with the Sun in Cancer gives us a rare third lunation, a total Solar Eclipse on July 21 in the last degree of Cancer. The Sabian image, "A Daughter of the American Revolution," is loaded with symbolism on many different levels, and is a relevant image to consider for everyone, no matter what our nationality might be. It speaks indirectly to where our true homes are - within our hearts where heaven is. The concept of hell can also reside within each of our hearts, so it is dependent upon each and every one of us to determine how our hearts will express our true inner selves.
First, the planets have no use for patriotism or nationalistic self-worth - they're all very neutral and impersonal in this regard. Neither does the Universe bestow "divine providence" on any given country over another. For instance, even Hitler had astrologers working for him, ostensibly telling him what the Universal energetics were dictating, but they were only really telling him what he wanted to hear, no doubt in fear for their own lives and the welfare of their families. Such are the potential pitfalls when any light-worker misuses their gifts for power alone.
Second, the Daughters of the American Revolution only represent one particular style of American patriotism. As an organization, the DAR is generally seen as an ultra conservative institution of old biddies, yet the Colonialist leadership were also at the forefront of the Age of Enlightenment, advocating the separation of Church and State for example, who would today be considered quite liberal in their beliefs. The Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and the US Constitution were truly radical documents for their time.
Third, it's a woman depicted here, probably not a soldier or a veteran herself. Perhaps she reveres her female ancestors who helped nurture their revolutionary fathers, sons and spouses, but the vast majority of American heroes of the eighteenth century were all male. Betsy Ross, the seamstress who sewed the first American flag as a major heroine of the American Revolution? Hmmm, perhaps not so much.
Fourth, this DAR woman has never even met her ancestors, she only has an idealized concept of who they might have been, or what they actually did to accomplish their ends. Her ancestors were in fact treasonous felons in the eyes of the British, the owners of the existing laws at that time. And it must be stated that no violent revolution has ever been free of inhuman atrocities committed by either side, and it can't be forgotten that history is always written by the winners, historians who almost always gloss over inconvenient facts.
The exalted meaning of this symbol lies in the vision we may have of our distant ancestors - our past-lives - with some needed clarity. These were ordinary folks, much like we are, who worked hard and sometimes fought to make the lives of their children and future generations better than the lives they knew. In particular to the American Revolution, certain freedoms and rights were denied them by an empire across a wide ocean of separation. Yet, the inconvenient fact of slavery was an essential part of the freedoms they were willing to fight and die for. Go figure. Everybody's ancestors were as deeply flawed as we would admit ourselves to be in those rare moments of speaking our deepest truths.
Here's a big word, and probably the most dangerous word our species has ever known: filiopietism, "...of or relating to an often excessive veneration of ancestors or tradition." (Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary). When taken to extremes, filiopietism can result in holding onto belief systems that can't possibly withstand the revelation of inconvenient new facts. Galileo for example was threatened with death for proving that the Earth orbited the Sun, and not the other way around like the authoritarian class of the day would have us believe. Further, every war and invasion ever fought on ideological grounds involves an unbridled filiopietism of some sort, and every bloody revolution has been waged against this same authoritarian concept.
I think we can all get behind the American Dream statements that all men are created equal, blessed with certain inalienable rights such as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness (forgiving the gender-specific tone), but I doubt the founding fathers of the USA could have foreseen how influential these essentially radical tenets would eventually become. They were only tapping into their awareness of their (and our) essential birthrights of the nature of free-will - how we can ideally become who we want to become for our selves first and foremost - regardless of what some overseas tyranny would say ought to be so. And there is no way possible that their idea of the pursuit of happiness would include being enslaved to a TV or computer screen for eight hours a day, but that's become the reality of things, no?
Further, we all know slave owners Thomas Jefferson, George Washington et al, couldn't possibly imagine that an African-American would ever rise to the Presidency of their new nation, yet this is essentially at the heart of the American Dream - where absolutely anyone can rise to attain the heights of their potentials. Someone has to say it: extending an olive branch of peace to the entire Islamic world - which no US President has ever done before - entails an exalted vision worthy of the J/C/N communion, where big-time spiritual healing can begin.
Let's face it - this is where we all are right here and right now - at defining moments we only agreed to on the karmic/subconscious levels. Democracy has been an imperfect and messy experiment against the tyrannies of filiopietism, but everyone who can speak should have a voice, right Ayatollah? Oh well, we can all endeavor to persevere in the knowingness that everything is connected.
Off my soapbox - see y'all next month.
(* The Sabian symbols are from Dane Rudhyar's "An Astrological Mandala," 1972.)
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