Tuesday, June 21, 2011

July Begins with Fireworks





Before I begin I want to talk about the Cardinal Grand cross that we have been experiencing for the last year. It is the beginning time of a great deal of change, transformation. It is about the whole world while it is also about your own particular chart. The world can’t change without a change in individuals.


Don’t panic! Remember the 1960’s when Uranus and Pluto were together the last time. It happened in Virgo. It brought us fairness in the form of Civil Rights and Women’s Right. It lead the way in environmental awareness. Virgo is an Earth Sign.


It produced music of genius proportions and it kept coming and changing. We did have lots of change that was more difficult with assassinations and a really awful war. But we ended the draft because of it.


It created lots of good times and people really loving other people.  We worked together in new ways.  And it changed us forever.


Now we are having times like that again, a bit more so this time with Aries in it. Aries really likes to make things happen, but with Uranus there expect strokes of genius, new technology that changes things; and some really significant pushes toward new ideas.


We are breaking out from the old constraints of business and government and creating a new world. Begin to visualize this new world as you want it to be, so that you will be ready when it is time to do your part.


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July looks to be quite a month. It begins with a solar eclipse that is part of the Cardinal grand square. July first just ignites this difficult passage that is really a taste of a series of seven Pluto Uranus squares that begins for real next year. And although it is not exact yet, there are three really strong planets and both Lights involved. (Lights are Sun/Moon.) And that is a lot of power.


Saturn is sitting in Libra trying to balance it all out and provide some structure, but that is a lot to ask with the energy of the other planets involved.


Uranus demands change, new ideas, moving quickly from one kind of life to another, in Aries it can be genius. But it is also given lots of extra fire energy there and it will make noise, move things, change minds, change lives.


Pluto is the planet of deep transformation; it moves slowly giving enough time to let the transformations move us deeply. Pluto requires you to release whatever holds you to old ideas, old objects that tie you to those ideas and that shape of life. It does this in preparation for a new life that is larger and freer and more suited to whom you have become.


Pluto is in Capricorn, signifying transformation of government and business. I think that we can all see that those areas need some change.


These two working together will change not only your life but the world. And it kicks off July first, with the eclipse. An Eclipse is serious energy that creates a sensitive point for years to come. It means that the Sun and moon are not just passing by, but are literally on top of each other in the sky. It is a tidal power here on Earth.


The eclipse and grand square will affect planets from 1 to 12 degrees in Cardinal signs, especially but it will be felt at those degrees in any sign. That means most of us will feel this, especially in the first several days of July.


So the month begins with a bang. And it is not going to be over for awhile.


On the second, while the grand square moves off a bit. The exact square between the Sun and Saturn is in place now and a trine is formed between Venus and Neptune, a dreamy sort of day, ripe for creativity. The Saturn square can give substance to that creativity, but it can also block it a bit, but let it ripen and it will still be there.


Also in place and staying there for awhile is a Jupiter/Pluto trine. That is very nice for getting a hold of your power and using it for benefit. This is especially true if you have planets at 4 to 8 degrees in Earth signs (Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn), or to a lesser extent those degrees in any sign.


At the same time, Jupiter is squaring Mercury, so communication might be off a bit, but kind of interesting. Neptune can be the most spiritual planet. But like everything in the stare there is a shadow side and with Neptune, it is addiction. So keep your wits about you.


On the 5th Venus triggers the Uranus, Pluto tee-square with more happening in that area. But at the same time that it triggers that aspect it is still trining dreamy Neptune. So things could get weird. That makes all the transformational planets in a formation with Venus, art, love, relationship issues are getting changed deeply. Venus says in this position for a few days but Neptune leaves the game fairly quickly.


On the 9th, Uranus in Aries stations retrograde, often a day of powerful change.


Things kind of calm down after that but remember that he Moon moves quickly and about every week it is going to make a hard angle (square or opposition) to the Pluto/Uranus square. So it is not at all over, it is just beginning. And when it is not, it is making aspects to Neptune. All of the transformational planets are being aspected by personal planets now. If its not one thing, it’s another.


Toward the end of the month Mars makes a nice trine with Neptune. This forms as there is an opposition from Mercury to Neptune. Lots you want to do, not sure of how you want to do it. Creativity is everywhere. It is a good time to put some power into visualizing the world you want to create. Dream big. Make it be!