Fri, July 4, USA Independence Day: As the US celebrates it’s birthday, there could be some sour notes
especially in regards to relationships: grudges, resentments, and
criticism. But these serve to let the enduring qualities of our love
to come out. (Venus semisquare Saturn)
As probably the most astrologically stressed and developmentally pregnant week of June, this could be a week to remember. So as Jupiter comes up to a minor hard aspect to Saturn on Thursday, June 26; the fire and enthusiasm that Jupiter contains will experience the “cold water” effect of the latter.
....To me the “battles” of life are “won” by rising above and beyond them; if I neutralize all fear and anxiety in my psyche nothing can unhorse me and I can accomplish anything I set my mind to in perfect aplomb....
It is not won by willpower alone, but the decisive factor is being able to enter into a state of mind not unlike that which Buddha did under the bo tree just prior to his entering into nirvana. He was unmoved in the face of all illusory images projected against him by Mara (the Devil), and then with a wave of his hand (actually touching the earth) he scattered Mara’s forces to the four corners of the universe....
Mars is the planet of war and the sparks of clashing steel and the clamor of boundless fervor.In more western circles the Nodes are associated with groups, relationships, and timely coming together of people and circumstances.Since all the points involved and their dispositors are in a bad state, I would say that associations, connections, and grouping forming under this astrology might be more troubled than would normally be so.There could be painful, unhappy, and turbulent episodes or developments.
It would seem that stock markets and a state of economic prosperity will be burdened making noticeable troughs in graphs.The price of gasoline driving up other costs and the ravages of inflation rise the prices of everything.The way government typically react to such problems is like trying to put out a fire with gasoline itself; infusions of money supply only stimulates more inflation of prices down the road and takes economies to the point of no return.
The news of the week astrologically is the transition of the slow moving outer planet Uranus from sidereal Aquarius to sidereal Pisces. Whatever is touched by Uranus, it seems to add an element of unpredictability; a status-quo-shattering, paradigm-shifting, new-methodology-creating kick; which adds a sense of excitement and perhaps a mild undercurrent of anxiety.
Without a doubt the surges in communications technology and computer-interconnectivity has greatly accelerated the pace of life, and shrunk the world, as it were, to the palm of our hands.
Hold on, whatever thoughts and mindsets you held onto regarding yourself, what’s real, and what is the world all about; are about to go through a radical change. I don’t think though that people are going to start running to the hills and singing songs about how wonderful everything is; some certainly will, but by and large it will be the very structure of society (Aquarius) that is going to have to flow apart and reform itself into a less “constricted” thing under Neptune. How would that happen....?
2007 moves into 2008. There is a great debate among motivational coaches about whether we should or should not make resolutions, this way we don’t set ourselves up for disappointment.
Time is divided up into compartments, notches on a ruler, or beads on a rosary. Each little notch or bead has a name: 1999, 2000, 2001, and so forth. But the one that is really important is the one called NOW. The past, the future have no meaning. What you were, what you will be all are irrelevant as compared to what you accept yourself to be RIGHT NOW....
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Current Retrogrades:
Mercury ( to June 19), Jupiter,
Uranus, Neptune, Pluto
Lunations:
Full Moon Jun 18
New Moon July 3
Full Moon July 18
Perigee/Apogee: perigee = closest to Earth
apogee = farthest from Earth
Jun 3 Moon at perigee
Jun 16 Moon at apogee
Jul 1 Moon at perigee
Jul 14 Moon at apogee
Perihelion/Aphelion: perihelion = closest to Sun
aphelioin = farthest from Sun
Jul 4 Earth at aphelion
Jul 11Venus at perihelion
Jul 21Mercury at perihelion