A June Month of Passion, Transcendence, and Transformation

The astrology of June is quite powerful, in part because of outer planet conjunctions and combinations that bring unconscious passions and proclivities to the fore in some crucial alignments. This begins with the Gemini New Moon from the last week of the previous month, its thirty-day lunation cycle governing most of June. This volatile New Moon aspected Saturn and Neptune in their newly potent conjunction of basically antithetical planetary archetypes, and also featured Chiron and Eris in extremely close conjunction, plus the highlighted presence of confronting transformation represented by Pluto in Aquarius. The dynamism of this month continues with the entrance of Jupiter into Cancer in the timing of the June 11th Sagittarius Full Moon, joining Mercury there in tight aspect to Saturn-Neptune at the beginning of Aries, and making another close connection to Pluto. The transformational qualities of Pluto in Aquarius have been discussed by many astrologers, in essence with respect to the alterations that this potent singular archetype of far-reaching change brings to each of us individually and to the collective. Aquarius is an Air sign which rules the Internet, science and computation, and all of secular society, which we find in greater global communication and interconnection than ever before. Another key configuration of this June month especially intense in its impact is the many splendored Cancer Solstice of the 20th which signals the beginning of summer in the Northern Hemisphere. This features both the Sun the Moon at the 0-degree mark of their respective signs of Cancer and Taurus, thus aspecting Saturn-Neptune, and twin yod formations with their focus of Mars and Pluto, signifying extreme energy just below the surface layers of our psyche, ready to explode.

Saturn and Neptune in early Aries get closer to perfection in these first two months of summer, June and July, and then drift farther away until 2026 when they perfectly conjoin in February. Seminal 21st century astrologer Richard Tarnas, writing about this outer planet combination, describes them as fostering polarity, red states and blues states, where neither side can see anything redeeming whatsoever in the attitude of the other, and indeed this seems an accurate portrayal of our global and US national politics at the present time. The period of influence for this current conjunction, or “world transit” as he terms these outer planet combinations, incidentally, would be 2024-2027. As indicated above, the current month features this potent combination in many of its major configurations, including the Gemini New Moon that sets the stage for almost all of June, wherein the Sun, Moon, and Mercury are in sextile to Saturn and Neptune, near the midpoint of their trine to Pluto in early Aquarius. Then there is the Sagittarius Full Moon of the 11th, when Jupiter and Mercury in Cancer, four degrees apart, have their midpoint in partile or same-degree square to Neptune, and, most particularly, the Cancer Solstice of the 20th when these two antithetical outer planets are closely aspected by Uranus, Sun and Jupiter conjunct in early Cancer, the Moon at 0° of Taurus, Mars at 2° of Virgo, new 21st century KBO planet Haumea at 1° of Scorpio, and Pluto at 3° of Aquarius. This is obviously a very volatile configuration, signaling that the following three months of Northern Hemisphere summer could turn out to be quite intense ones, similar to this current June month.

The Pluto- Haumea square is also fully active in this month’s configurations, throughout, and especially in the timing of the Cancer Solstice of the 20th, when so many planetary alignments are in the first few degrees of their respective signs, as indicated in the above paragraphs. This has been shown by recording many instances to be a case of lies becoming exposed, because Haumea loves the truth, while Pluto is implacable in dredging up the seamy underbelly of any particular situation. It is possible that this monthly cycle will see many further instances of “deception unmasked,” which is also another keyword of Saturn-Neptune.

In another difficult and yet ultimately hopeful outer planet combination, Chiron and Eris are exact to the minute of a degree in the Gemini New Moon that governs the month, both at 25° 28’ of Aries. Additionally, in the Sagittarius Full Moon configuration, Chiron lies in partile trine with Mars at 26° of Leo, and in a wider grand trine with the Sagittarius Moon. It could be, therefore, that inner wounding is in the cards to come up in one way or another during this June cycle and be life changing when some progress can be made. If so, the opportunity is to get more familiar with yourself in these dark places within, the likely residue of early childhood trauma, occurring at a time when it could not be properly dealt with. Now, in your more adult maturity, acceptance and loving care of isolated walled-off hurt places deep within your psyche can go a long way toward healing these, which is also, in reality, life-long. This process, once begun, does over time give you the results you vitally need for eventual greater integration and happiness.

So, with everything that is going on, we can only say that the tides rise and then the tides turn, so that staying calm and resourced is the best way to handle whatever it is that comes up; trusting in the universe, together with your own inner guidance, to see yourself through. When the going gets tough, the tough get going, as they say, and truer words were never spoken for these fractious times that we are all currently living through. Or, to put it in another way in words which are also, not by chance, a Grateful Dead lyric, “We will survive.” Yes, we will. And go on to better times that lie ahead.

A June Month of Passion, Transcendence, and Transformation

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