True Inside Data

The Solar’s Most cancers season encourages incubation, gestating specific concepts till they’re viable to be put to good use. However the Libra First Quarter Moon (June 26, 2023, 00:50 am PDT, 4º29’ Libra/Most cancers) compels us to take motion, and particularly to share one thing we’ve been occupied with because the New Moon – whether or not or not it’s totally hatched. We don’t essentially need to share it with your complete world, however possibly it’s time to share it with one trusted particular person.

The Libra First Quarter Moon is on the Sabian image, Man instructing true interior information, suggesting we’re referred to as upon not solely to share what we all know with the world, but in addition to be keen to hearken to what others need to say. And with the Solar and Moon in side to Neptune, the “true interior information” goes past logical understanding and into the a part of us that perceives what isn’t essentially apparent to our senses. So don’t be afraid to belief your hunches and your instincts, and hear rigorously to knowledge from others. Someplace within the center lies the true interior information.

Fidelity and Change

Mars and Uranus are an explosive and unpredictable mixture, particularly once they’re sq. one another (June 26, 2023, 2:23 am PDT) and within the rigid indicators of Leo and Taurus.

And but… what appears like stubbornness from one angle seems as fidelity and dependability from one other. In Leo, Mars desires to commit the facility of its sword to noble pursuits, and won’t be swayed in its goal; in Taurus, Uranus has demonstrated the problem to beat intransigence and transfer the very earth itself in an effort to change.

The stress of this side, then, is round reconciling the facility of fidelity with the inevitability of change. Each Mars and Uranus, at 21º29’ Leo and Taurus, are on Sabian symbols that includes birds; Mars is on 22 Leo: A service pigeon, and Uranus on 22 Taurus: White dove over troubled waters. One strikes with goal, the opposite sails effortlessly above tumultuous seas. However each supply a imaginative and prescient of what it’s prefer to disconnect from earthly wrestle and fly free, excessive above all of it.

When You Don’t Communicate at All

You’ve spent an extended, comfortable few weeks tramping by means of the countryside. Alongside the best way, you’ve totally loved assembly fellow vacationers, telling tales, and having fun with the contemporary air, tenting beneath sensible night time skies.

However after three weeks, you’re tiring of the wind biting your face, of by no means seeing anybody acquainted, of consuming nuts and berries. One night round meal time, you end up strolling previous a cozy-looking cottage, the scrumptious smells of dinner wafting out of the window and the curl of wooden smoke coming from the chimney. Somebody calls from the backdoor and the household canine bounds inside. You hear the acquainted sounds of youngsters complaining about their baths and a television murmuring. And all the sudden, you’ve by no means needed something as a lot as you’ve needed to be sitting in your personal little residence, with your personal little household – safe and beloved amongst individuals with whom you don’t have to say a phrase. You don’t need to make them giggle or entertain them along with your tales. They love you even while you don’t communicate in any respect.

That’s what Mercury desires because it leaves Gemini and enters Most cancers (June 26, 2023, 5:24 pm PDT – by means of July 10).

Gold Star

Have you ever been working onerous on some artistic mission since Might 28, when the Solar was sq. Saturn? This week, because the Solar trines Saturn (June 28, 2023, 6:42 pm PDT),  your efforts start to repay. Maybe somebody able of affect, somebody you knew or labored with previously, provides reward, otherwise you obtain a suggestion to function on a bigger scale. There’ll nonetheless be loads of onerous work concerned earlier than you attain the end line – that’s Saturn for you! – however that’s rather a lot simpler to do while you really feel the wind is at your again.

Mercury is the planet of data gathering, and its trine to Saturn the subsequent day (June 29, 2023, 11:23 pm PDT) favors long-range planning and techniques. It’s the day to ask your self the dreaded job interview query: “The place do you see your self in 5 years?” However when you’re making large plans, don’t overlook to present your self a gold star for the obstacles you’ve overcome and for all of your onerous work to date.

Tide is Out

Neptune stations retrograde this week (June 30, 2023, 2:06 pm PDT, by means of December 6, 27º41′ Pisces). It’s retrograde for roughly half of every 12 months, alternating in a kind of exaggerated model of day and night time. Retrogrades of the slow-moving planets are principally seen, I discover, within the few days both aspect of the station. Within the case of Neptune turning retrograde, these are moments when mysteries are unveiled, blind spots are eliminated, and we’re revealed to ourselves in new and sometimes stunning methods. The tide has gone out, leaving the shore suffering from all kinds of fascinating objects; it’s time to type by means of them and see what may be invaluable.

We’re extremely delicate when Neptune is retrograde. Preserve this in thoughts over the subsequent couple of days, because the Solar and Mercury sextile exuberant Jupiter. Simply because you are able to do All of the Issues doesn’t imply it’s a good suggestion to do them all of sudden. Be sure you honor the quieter rhythms of Neptune with loads of relaxation, quiet, and religious reflection.

State of Readiness

Even when the schedule is already packed, we’re out of groceries, and we’ve been carrying the identical garments for days as a result of there’s no time to do laundry, it may be surprisingly onerous to show down tempting alternatives to do much more. However the Solar’s and Mercury’s sextiles to Jupiter (July 1, 2023, 3:26 am and 00:10 am, respectively) are, like Neptune’s retrograde station earlier within the day, a reminder that we needn’t take each alternative that comes our manner.

The Solar and Mercury got here collectively the day earlier than (June 30, 2023, 10:06 pm PDT) at 9º08′ Most cancers, and each sextile Jupiter on the Sabian image, A big diamond not fully lower. Jupiter persuades us that if we don’t take possibilities, we’re unlikely to develop. However this Sabian image reminds us of the opposite aspect of that coin: if we set off on a journey earlier than we’re really prepared, it will possibly backfire on us. Depend on what you realized earlier within the week, because the Solar and Mercury aspected sensible Saturn, about your state of readiness.

Extra or Much less Free

Are you stunning? Worthy? Lovable? And who will get to determine that, precisely? Venus in sq. side to Uranus (July 2, 2023, 7:33 am PDT) provides a possibility to interrupt away from different individuals’s opinions about our worthiness and as a substitute, to rejoice our true, distinctive magnificence – of face, physique, thoughts, expertise, and spirit.

Venus can also be a monetary planet, and cash is one other manner of evaluating what issues – and what we ourselves – are price. Throughout her skirmishes with Uranus, we would encounter sudden beneficial properties or reversals (Uranus). That’s noteworthy from a sensible standpoint, but in addition as a result of our relationship with cash reveals scads about our confidence, safety, and values. Pattern questions: Are you giving greater than you’re getting? And is cash making you kind of free?

Writing and pictures © 2017-23 by April Elliott Kent

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