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Dear Friends,

Perhaps something that has been hidden from you has been exposed recently.  This is what we would expect from a lunar eclipse like the one we just had on June 26, especially one that conjuncted Pluto: secrets come out, new information is revealed.  Perhaps you simply have choosen to see something in a new light that you have been aware of, but avoiding, for some time.  Either way, these issues have been brought up so that they could be dealt with, healed, and put to rest.  The past belongs in the past.  Carrying the corpse of the past around with us prevents us from living in the present.  Either we are too focused on the weight of the past, or we are fantasizing about a future where the past is no longer plaguing us.  Either way, we are not giving the present the attention it deserves.  The present is all we have that is alive and growing, changing and progressing.  We must embrace what is happening to us right now!  Now is where we live, where we breathe, where we grow.  Whatever has been uncovered, it is only information.  Use the information to put your demons to rest and enhance your ability to live in the present.

We begin Saturday, July 3rd with the Moon conjuncting Uranus and Jupiter is Aries.  We will all want to do whatever we want to do, and probably without compromise.  It would be a good idea to make some time for ourselves on Saturday so that we can indulge our own personal and specific desires and needs.  Impatience and anger will be the result of thwarted ambition, so make time to do whatever it is that you want to do on this day.   Get to know yourself again.  I’ll bet you haven’t made time for yourself in a while.

Mid week brings a yod, or finger of God, into our sights.  This aspect occurs when two planets are linked by a 60 degree angle (sextile) and each of those 2 planets are linked by 150 degrees (quincunx) to a third planet.  When we have this formation, it appears that an arrow is pointing directly to the planet receiving the quincunx angles.  We could say that this arrow is pointing to the answer, or at least to the place where we should be focusing our attention, or to the tool which we should be using at that moment.  There is also the implication that the planets linked by sextile are there to serve as assistants, working together to help us use the primary tool indicated.  The two assistants in this aspect are Mercury in Cancer and Saturn in Virgo.

Mercury has just moved ahead of the Sun in the sky, indicating that there are grand ideas or perspectives to be considered.  Cancer is the sign we associate with safety and security, nurturing and parenting, and protection, as well as passive aggression.  Safety is certainly a big concern for many of us: the Oil Spill in the Gulf continues to threaten our shores and our national psyche, the wars in the Middle East continue to rage on with no end in sight, and the Stock Market continues to fall, bringing with it fewer jobs and more foreclosures.  The sextile to Saturn at 29 Virgo makes it clear that adjustments are not simply necessary, but crucial.  Paying attention to the details has not been this important for a very long time, since the last time Saturn was at 29 Virgo in September 1980.  Virgo is the mutable earth sign, which means that practical adjustments enabling processes or routines to work more efficiently are to be employed.  The 29th degree of any sign points out that it is a now or never scenario:  there is nowhere else to go, there is no room left in that sign.  If we do not make the necessary adjustment, then the planet moves on to the next sign, carrying the dysfunction with it, kind of like dragging the past into the future, which we know from the recent eclipse is not the answer.

The planet receiving all of this energy is Neptune, a tricky guy, for sure!  Neptune can be inspiring or conspiring, inspiration or delusion.  Neptune rules photography.  Are photographs real?  When we see an arresting photograph, what exactly is it about the photograph that holds our attention?  What interests us about it?  Its interesting that photographs reveal things we cannot see with our own eyes.  Neptune is in Aquarius, a Saturn-ruled sign which calls our attention to the details of technology, networking and community, as these are Aquarian themes.

So putting it all together,  we need to adjust (quincunx) our thinking (Mercury) by paying attention to the details (Saturn in Virgo) and using technology (Aquarius) to inspire (Neptune) our sense of community (Aquarius).  Or we could say that networking is the way to develop (Saturn) community and provide for our security.  Or we could even say that our reliance on technology creates the illusion that we have a community and undermines our feelings of safety and security.  Think of it as a word puzzle.  There are no right or wrong answers.  Mercury in Cancer is more about intuition than logic.  Arrange these words using the aspects as a guide and see what feels right for you.

The important thing to remember is that the space between the most recent lunar eclipse on June 26 and the upcoming solar eclipse on July 11 is a time to connect with your intuition, face the ghosts of your past, and heal what needs to be healed so that you can be present for whatever needs attention right now.  There are no shortages of problems, issues, and dilemmas to tackle, but how can we if we are still fighting the ghosts of our pasts?

With love,

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