Astrological and Metaphysical News and Views for June 2011
Robert of Mayflower’s
Astrological and Metaphysical News and Views for June 2011
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“O joy that Life is lasting
To endless life above;
Now larger longing tasting,
With sense transformed in love
The starry world melts flowing
Into life’s golden wine,
To feed our souls a-glowing,
Till we as starlight shine.” -Novalis, Hymn to the Night
Weird Weather and/or Stormy Days include 11th to 16th, 19th to 22nd, 26th to 28th. (Heavy Rains, storms, hurricanes, lightning, and even quakes or volcano activity are possible.)
“Use your breath, breathe through fears or walls. ‘Stillness listening’ and ‘love looking’ is the ‘way to go’. -robert of mayflower
- June 1st, Solar Eclipse in Gemini. Eclipses good for ridding self of negative habits or conditions, eclipsing or cutting off something. In this case, it may be time to rid oneself of outworn thinking. Eclipses are infamous for some major event or person being eclipsed or cut off. Eclipses make one more sensitive. The effects of virtuous and non-virtuous activities are enhanced and multiplied at such times according to a few tibetan lamas I’ve talked to. In other words, you make twice the good or bad karma depending on your virtuous or non-virtuous behavior. Eclipses intensify the energy. In Gemini, it intensifies communications, networking, connections with family and friends; or its opposite manifests in breakdowns in communication, electricity, communications, satellite stuff. Eclipse hits southern Japan, along with other places such as eastern Asia and north Canada and Alaska. Let’s hope Japan’s troubles don’t worsen.
“All is seed.” -Novalis Notebook
- June 3rd Mercury square Neptune (Neptune going retrograde). This influence to 11th, and again 19th to about 23rd when Mars squares Neptune). Be CLEAR in all communications. Spiritual intuitions and idealistic feelings (or lack of) run high, intensified. Beware of lies, wrong turns, getting lost, confused, or uncertainty due to wrong thinking, diet, environment. It’s a bad time to shop or make major decisions unless forced into such, or of necessity or pressured; or divinely inspired. Weird toxic weather in some parts of the world. Need to be practical and realistic in the face of inflated dreams or self image. If one can channel this energy, spiritually inspired and intensified courageous thrust and outpouring of energy. Otherwise, these Neptune aspects are known for escapism, wrong or misuse of medications, emotional and psychotic reactions, feeling drained or vampired tired, worn down, along with fantasy or hallucination. Inflation followed by deflation on psychic, emotional, and even certain economic conditions often prevail.
- June 4th Jupiter enters Taurus which makes for sensuous yet practical down to earth experience. Also, a need to think and act for what is right here and now, the immediate physical need. All the while keeping one’s eye on the big picture or larger vaster goals. A tendency in the coming year for asset inflation, though certain things may have a further fall or deflation until Jupiter enters Taurus further. Land and buildings should rise in price over the year to come. A sense of wanting to get back to work, so to realize practical plans and ideals.
- June 7th to 11th Jupiter sextile Neptune/Venus squares Neptune; lunar perigee; followed by June 12th Saturn goes direct from retrograde; to 16th, Lunar Eclipse on 15th. Watch for moody extremes in weather and emotions as feelings clash with practical Saturnian rationality. On the upside, good time for Platonic ideals, higher love, socializing and summer play. Good time to fix a difficult situation or two. Don’t avoid needed communications. Don’t put off what could be completed now.
- Lunar Eclipse June 15th at 24th Sagittarius. Good time to make good on past mistakes. Communication that is compassionate, and not too frank or hard, would be wise. Avoid inflating stories or personal animosities. Travel for some is crazy, for others a dream come true.
- June 17th to 19th; Mercury squares Uranus and then opposes Pluto. Watch the wagging tongue that tells either unwanted truths, or shocking insights. Wild winds of change foresighted here. Slips of the tongue can rearrange the room or playing field. Freedom and deep security needs or fears clash. May the day come when truth and love prevail. Alone, one is a hammer and nail, the other the receptive or not so receptive wood. There is no religion higher than truth, no science deeper than love, no art greater than being yourself. Good Luck Jeddi Knights…! The Secret? Throw the ring in the fire, not the fire in the ring O ye little hobbits. Anyways, this aspect is precurser to 26th Sun/Uranus aspect making for shaky ground for some; for others, breakthroughs to new territory and experience, stormy weather, and intellectual escapades, discovery, and research discovery. “Gentlemen and Gentlewomen; the way is up and down, stick to the middle way and voyage and voyage where ye will” -Captain Bob of the Good Mayflower.
- June 21st, Summer Solstice, Moon in Pisces, Mercury in Cancer squares Saturn in Libra. Plans to part or separate from some person, situation, or place. Practical and solid work and thinking prevails. Facing realities. Persevering through negative thinking or difficult environs. Success through diligence, patience, perseverance, and persistence. Ideals meet everyday needs or troubles due to ideals being too far from practical here and now needs. Cardinal Signs, Libra/Capricorn/Aries/Cancer affected primarily. Need to see the sweet in the sour, the positive learning in the difficult or retarding or inhibiting. If you feel you are talking to a wall, you may be. Try making a door, a bridge. Otherwise, patience and long but sure road maps may help.
“Every human being has his years of martyrdom.” Novalis
- June 22nd Mars square Neptune (especially affects Gemini and Pisces). Work to be clear, practical, honest, and futuristic, participatory. If things seem too crazy, make quiet down time to listen for the silence to awaken new views. Good time to be inspired in the arts or more spiritual and compassionate activities. On the other hand, (Sagittarius and Virgo, and mutable signs and houses especially) need to take extra care of being swindled or fooled, bamboozled or flap doodled noodled in waste of time and money things. All mutable signs (and houses in chart) need to avoid letting past and falsely idealized future, cheat you out of the present moment, time, or money. Misguided or greedy intentions and actions during this time can lead one to folly and mishap. Be cautious of going unconscious. Tendency to fling oneself into a midsummer night’s dream or imaginative venture. Can also be a rejection of ideals or otherliness, situation, or environment. Tendency to not see the whole picture or to be under an illusion. Denial of situation or cover up, lies. Misdeeds and mishaps due to false premises or foundation. Destructive tendency, infection, wrong or tainted food, air, or water. Imaginative pleasures. Need to avoid living in pictures, gambling on something outside oneself, or forcing one’s thinking or actions on another. The need to protect the environment and little ones. Spiritual ideals clashing with physical reality. Tendency to escape or be distracted from one’s true nature or goals. All aspects have a positive and a negative potential. The idea is to work for positive expression of planetary influence. Yet, when reading or hearing the news at these critical and difficult aspects, it is inevitable that the worst and highest valued events take place simultaneously. There is a choice to be made, and a responsibility for that choice. Neptune aspects can tend to make one fall asleep to one’s higher self or virtue true. Mars/Neptune particularly can be seductive. Also, foul weather, pollution and bad food, and thinking; also inflammatory events, tricks and illusions, wanting something for nothing. Yet, Mars/Neptune is also active imagination and courage indeed. The inspiration and imagination of the ideal, of the gods. Neptune being the god of the sea, may also indicate rain or storm or oceanic, even space, disturbance; or spiritualization. Mars/Neptune can be fires or suffocating toxic situations. It can be the addiction to porn and gambling and the marital troubles it brings. It’s spectator sports and watching your life go by. Or is it divine inspiration to think, feel and do. It can also be the Great Mother of Compassion and her spiritual warrior side of justice. This whole month is a Neptune vibe, along with attempts to break into a new spirit for life. Let’s Feng Shui the planet!
“Inner Space, the last and first frontier and wilderness!” -Captain Bob of the Mayflower Ship
- June 26th to 29th influence, Sun square Uranus, and Sun oppose Pluto, respectively. Upsets, reversals, quakes or volcanic activity; shock surprises or accidents followed by heavy burdensome reactions or clamp downs. Avoid getting carried away with exaggerated or inflated actions. Courage and bravado at cutting out negativities, perhaps a dampening bad habits, repeat offenders, and thugs. Pluto involves secret weird doings as well as events affecting the masses. On positive side of things, a call for renewal, new awareness and heightened consciousness, success of good over evil, so to speak.
“No-thing is spiritual ground, no one sees the true earth, one can only be it; that is, Truth it, live it.” -Trebore Tau Bodhi, notes to myself
- June 30th, Moon occults or eclipses Venus. True love always supports long-term goals of spiritual and moral/virtuous behavior. True love does not support negative habits and emotions that do not work to better or heal the situation. This may be a time of deepening connections to loved ones, friends; or cutting the ties that bind one. Avoid overeating or overdoing. Either really good purchases, or really bad purchases at this time (few days around date). If attuned, good time for love and social activity that carries a personal touch or depth to it.
- July 1st, Solar Eclipse in Cancer. This is an extraordinary time to initiate new ideas and plans. It is also an extraordinary time to come to complete realizations about self and others, the world and spiritual need. Endings and new beginnings accompany eclipses. If one listens to one’s deeper heart well enough at this time, if one also listens to the call and necessities of the world at this time; one can reach sure realizations concerning self, fate (karma), and destiny (new freedoms) now. The world is at this time, this month, in cosmic attunement with what is right in thinking, feeling, doings; and what needs fixing or will never be fixed, so we need to learn to live with it till next lifetime or bardo. All the Planets except Saturn and Pluto are within 10 degrees of sextile to each other from the signs Pisces thru to Cancer, being contained in a Trine or Harmony Aspect. Pluto and Saturn make harmonious and rough aspects to all these planets (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune). This interesting aspect suggests many new connections and hook ups, many integrated encounters, many karmic and dharmic weavings. Also may reveal strong endings or separations during this month. Furthermore, Saturn and Pluto occupying one half of the Astrological Signs and Zodiac of Stars indicates a strong need to align oneself with safe and sure long-term planning or investing of one’s self and energies. It also may suggest many a hardship to come for some; chronic conditions, slow but sure ending or decay; a real need for facing inevitables and a willingness to rediscover oneself in a bigger or much different picture than previously experienced. Good for long term goals for both work, home, relationships, and health. Many visions and precipatory insights into future events, such as 2012-13 come at this time. Also occurring at this time–the approximate aspects of—
- Uranus midpoint Jupiter and Neptune (huge windfalls, gain or opposite, bankruptcy and loss). Sudden collapse of situation, or sudden arousal of new concerns and direction. Concerns over debt and new ways of breaking out of old situations. Some experience at this time a sudden sense or feeling of new found freedom or truth. New ability to act in innovative new ways.
- Jupiter midpoints Mars and Uranus (fanatic endeavor to expand, gain, spend, extend, grow, overcome. Strong fluctuations in the market place and social political response to crisis or emergency. Good luck in difficult or bad situation. The sweet in the sour/bitter experience arises. Wisdom and Compassion in the face of challenging times. Happiness or success through sudden superior action or doings. Joining others for higher purpose or cause. Big prize or surprise events. Tendency to over do, whether virtuous or non-virtuous acts. Positive collective experience or response. Lots of lucky breaks or sudden turn of events. A highly entertaining aspect that can do much social good.
- Mars midpoints Sun/Moon and Jupiter; (late June into July influence) Assertive or aggressive flamboyant and affective actions. Militaristic actions to conquer or champion a cause. Good for making good cars, making good point, and throwing oneself into good cause. Courage and forthright boldness to speak the truth, but danger of overaggressive speech and criticism. (Talk radio loves this kind of aspect, as does all news stations). Avoid anger and negatively charged situations if at all possible for things can get out of hand overdone or explosive exploitive. Good time to take noble or right action when inner and outer situation, experience, warrant. High time for pregnancy or birth, positive vibes. The joy of mothering or fathering others. Happiness due to virtuous action or deed. Luck and good fortune favors here the brave, bold, virtuous, the well endowed or right holy minded. Happiness from engaging others or participating in higher motivated activities. Positive solutions or assertive actions as to business, relationships, job and inner work, even war and economics
- Jupiter midpoint (rough aspect) Neptune/MC and Sun/Moon. Dreamy and lucrative time. Social and Spiritual time. Luck through manifestation of ideal or dream. Happy sleep. Need to take caution around gas or bodies of water.
“And Love is freely given;
Nor is there parting more;
The full life rolls in Heaven,
A sea without a shore!
One night of bliss unending,
One everlasting Hymn
While God’s face o’er us bending
Shines sun-like, never dim.” -Novalis, 5th Hymn to the Night
- July 7th Jupiter trine Pluto. Positive development, change, metamorphosis, or transformation. Wanting to be unstuck, unaffected, or un-reactive to negative something or some one. Strong urge to rise to the top. Taurus and Virgo benefit most from this aspect; possibly Capricorn, Pisces, and Cancer too! Cancer, Scorpio, Capricorn, and Libra need to be brave of change and positive opportunity; yet cautious (not paranoid) of close associates or friends who have their own problems or unresolved issues/habits/negativities that may trip on you, consciously or accidently. Check in your own personal chart for earth sign houses where the strong urge for success and growth, maturing and deepening now occurs.
- July 9th, Uranus goes retrograde, joining Neptune and Pluto already retrograde. Good time to retreat or turn inwards with long-term goals in mind. Good time to meditate, do yoga, and inwardly turn one’s view and listening ability. Good time to make sure the deeper inward feelings and person is attuned to outer doings and circumstances.
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