June Horoscopes

Astrology of June
Current Configurations
Past Months

Aries	Libra
Taurus	Scorpio
Gemini	Sagittarius
Cancer	Capricorn
Leo	Aquarius
Virgo	Pisces

June 2009

Current Astrology

	The Sun is in Gemini
	The Moon is in AquariusThe Disseminating Moon is in Aquarius: All day
	Next Mercury Retrograde Aug 23 - Sep 15

Current Configurations

by Henry Seltzer

June 7th Full Moon
This dynamic Full Moon in Sagittarius squares Saturn, and with the Sun also squaring Saturn, forms a T-square. Saturn in Virgo is about achieving perfection through diligence and discrimination. We will feel the limitations but also the lessons of these terrible and yet beautiful times that we are privileged to be living through. Venus, newly in her own sign of Taurus, begins there to conjoin Mars, tightening up by the time of the Cancer New Moon. As they draw closer together throughout the first three weeks of the month, they conspire to support the idea of right relationship and equality between the sexes. Meanwhile, Mercury, now direct, squares the Jupiter-Chiron-Neptune triple conjunction in Aquarius, which is therefore rendered even more powerful. The theme expressed is of idealism and tremendous optimism, coupled with the need to go your own way with your ideals and find the magic touch that is just right for you, rather than continuing to reluctantly subscribe to ideas received from early conditioning or consensus thinking.

June 15th Last Quarter Moon
This time of relative tension in our ongoing process of development signals a shift in attitude – the "crisis in consciousness" of which astrologer Dane Rudhyar spoke – wherein we are able to see what has and has not worked out for us over the three proceeding weeks of the lunation cycle. This time the Moon in Pisces conjuncts Uranus, emphasizing forward motion over stagnation, over collapsing back into the same old patterns that we are ready, or in some cases more than ready, to discard. Sometimes, knowing what you need to do is at a one hundred percent level while actually doing it remains at fifty, but the consciousness of necessary change is still the most important part of the battle for control and integration.

June 22nd New Moon
The Cancer New Moon takes place just two days after the Summer Solstice and packs plenty of punch, since the Sun and Moon almost exactly oppose Pluto while Mars and Venus, now fully conjoined, are also aspected by Pluto, the New Moon and Saturn. Pluto is even more greatly emphasized since both ends of the opposition square the Aries point, or zero degrees of the Zodiac. Uranus is getting closer and closer to conjuncting the Aries point as well, although we are still a year away from that powerful event. As has been more than evident since the beginning of 2008 when it entered that sign, Pluto in Capricorn represents the on-going transformation of the structures of our lives. With Mars and Venus in conjunction also involved in this New Moon configuration, we will be taking a closer look at all our relationships and attempting to sort out the true nature of our motivations in this important area. In and increasingly smaller planet, it is only by getting along with each other that we will get ahead, survive and even thrive in these tumultuous times that we are currently living through.

June 29th First Quarter Moon
This configuration with the Moon in Libra square the Sun in Cancer emphasizes the themes from the New Moon and brings them to a relative boil, since the Sun�s opposition to Pluto is still active and the Moon squares both. This stage of the lunation cycle, which Rudhyar called a �crisis of action,� brings our attention even more firmly to the issues that we are dealing with at the present time, so fraught with significance for each of us individually and for the collective experience that we share in common.