Astrology Now in June 2005 - Conflict, Culmination, and Radical Changes for Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces

by Robert Wilkinson

This weekend through next Thursday, June 16, represents a time when multiple storms will affect all signs. In the next seven days, we have: Venus square Jupiter and Mercury square Mars (today!), Mercury and Mars both changing signs with Moon opposed Neptune (Sat), Sun opposed Pluto (Mon), Uranus stationary retrograde with a mutable T-square (Tues), and Mercury square Jupiter with Moon opposed Mars (Wed.). Given that the hot zone for any difficult aspect is a degree and a half separating, we have big shifts coming in the next week. Ride the storm out with patience and strength of heart and Spirit, and remember that with the Mercury afflictions, there's a good chance that others may be disinclined to listen, so be sparing of words, and don't jump to conclusions. Definitely avoid quarrels or hasty speech, since it will backfire on those who fail to take into account that others have a whole different take on things.

We are challenged to find the right motive that can give a boost to our initiatives while letting go of idle or wishful thinking or superficial distractions. Cultivate looking at things realistically, keep developing the possible to the actual, and find the right means to carry out your desires while getting the understanding you need. If communicating with others, put yourself in their place, or make them aware by putting them in yours. Self discipline and deep insights will show you the way to purify the power of your light. Do nothing dishonest, and expose it to the light wherever you encounter it. Exteriorize your recent discoveries, find friends and allies to communicate with, even if there's disagreement and/or confusion. Focus so that the scattering impulses do not cause you to lose your sense of direction. That said, he're something for each sign:

Aries: Don't get aggravated by your environment or those who are polarized and scattered. You're on the edge of a major life renewal, and so only need to be moderate and purify your lower impulses. You'll soon find a new self expression or form of play, and radical new ambitions and friendships. Be humorous and imaginative.

Taurus: Values or self-expression conflict with your motives or your ability to grasp opportunities. In some ways you need a new idea to break free of an old inertia. Avoid excess. Your sense of direction is about to change in a big way over the next several months. Find a new magnetism, be thoughtful in what you say to friends.

Gemini: You're at your peak of divergent energies, and should decrease any aggravating behaviors or thoughts. There is a huge exaggerated effect due to your ruler being square Mars and Jupiter. Slow down! Get organized, be mature, know appropriate limits, and take responsibility not to be hectic, impulsive, or argumentative. Read Virgo.

Cancer: This time shows you the future of a greater truth, a path to be followed. Flow through the general agitation, try to find a different way to think about or view things so that the extreme energy of this week doesn't blow your fuses. You're reversing an old karma, and preparing for a whole different way to live. Achieve peaceful closure.

Leo: It's a test of how to use power wisely through self-discipliine and deepened insight. Shifts in friends, goals, resources, desires, magnetism, and ways of expressing yourself. Don't allow your imagination to take you places not in line with your ultimate interests. You're being introduced to a whole new way of relating to others.

Virgo: Everything said for Gemini is also true for you. Both signs are at a peak and probably too hassled by too many things going all over the place. Try to achieve some calm, sever what must be severed in an organized fashion, and don't worry about things that won't be solved by worrying. Avoid disputes or you'll have created a problem.

Libra: Great for new truths and motives to fulfill old opportunities, ways of being with others, or valuing something of collective value. Your self expression is about to change in a big way forever. Finish up old ways of connecting to life, say goodbye to old friends and ambitions while bringing new power to bear on your most authentic goals.

Scorpio: New ideas destroy old self images. Your health crisis is past, but you still need to let go. Find new ways to play. New goals and friends beckon, as do new desires. Take a new look at why you're aggravated by old hassles. If you overreached in the past, it's time to find a new way to relate to your desires. Clarify, back off.

Sagittarius: New information, ideas, communications stimulate self expression. Don't get on your horse and hastily ride in too many directions simultaneously. Your higher truth is revealing something about using your power wisely or unwisely. Shift your way of relating or how your view your public self. Open your mind to feeling the flow.

Capricorn: Be careful at work, especially regarding hasty speech or action. Time for a shift in your health, motive, or old heaviness. A regeneration is on the way, but you have to adjust. You're being introduced to a new value in communication and perception. New ideas regarding goals, friends. Be wise in how you use power.

Aquarius: You're at the threshold of a whole new way of life. Slow down, take it easy, refuse to ovebook, and take a chance at a new way of expressing yourself. Don't do more than you should, or push yourself beyond safe limits. Your interactions with friends show you how you're being true (or not) to your stated ideal.

Pisces: Hang in there as you feel all that you feel. Keep putting your best self forward, and don't allow recent antagonisms to become set attitudes. It's a shift in resources, values, self-image, way of being with others, what you offer your world, and how you live your most spiritual self. Relax, decrease feeling high-strung. Breath easy.

© Copyright 2006 Robert Wilkinson. Last update: 8/27/2006; 10:53:28 AM.