Mind Blowing - June 2024
Gemini season blows the doors off our minds whilst Venus changes to her Goddess of Love mode and the shift into Cancer is smoother and more caring.
to 3rd June: Jupiter Trines Pluto @ 1’
Jupiter, newly in Gemini is working beautifully, breezily, even intellectually with Pluto in Aquarius in the first days of June. I see this as a total upgrade in our thinking… whether you like it or not. The wifi could be turned on to ‘burn’ setting or the 5G suddenly becomes widespread and indiscriminate. Or indeed, since these two planets are in air signs, ‘something’ could be sprayed into the air…chemicals to keep us trapped in a compliant mindset or filters to block out the sun. Either way, the air is sizzling with both facts and perhaps substances and, if we are alerted to it and atuned, sacred codes and wisdom for us to imbibe. The mind chatter and not a little bit of anxiety could ensue, due to these signs’ propensity to over-think. Yet to sit quietly and consider the noise would be beneficial, as whatever is charging the air, has the possibility to change your mind and the scene dramatically.
3rd, 4th June: Mercury, Sun And Venus At Play
After the 3rd June we have a few lucky and ‘well starred’ days…Venus and the Sun are travelling together through Gemini, initiating play time and flirting. We like this jolly couplet, and in Gemini they bring out the light-hearted fun of the twins, making all that thinking and connecting activity much HAPPIER, much more palatable and easy flowing. Lies can be delicately revealed. Truth can be expressed freely. Layers of obfuscation made digestible, since information circulating at this point, has to get closer to our heart-felt values…bringing what we really care about to the table. Venus demands that we try on several different views – one size does not fit all, and this draws us away from the dualistic defensive arguments and cancel culture we have seen lately.
And whilst this is happening, brain-powered Mercury, ruler of Gemini, meets up with expansive Jupiter, so we really are in for a download of ecstatic, exciting, mind-blowing information. It seems like good news and who is to argue… especially if you have planets in Gemini, or very early / mid the other air signs.
5th June: Venus Transit Sun In Gemini @ 15’
On 5th June, Venus actually moves past the Sun @ 15’, which should bring more good news as her sweetness takes over…Venus is the Goddess of Love, Beauty Money BUT also the Goddess of War…and in modern sense we don’t connect to her like that…we have Athena or Artemis for that. However, for the last 18 months Venus has been the morning star, rising at dawn and therefore the Goddess of War…and boy have we been meddling deep in that stuff. Now as she transits the Sun, she will disappear for 47 days or so, to then reappear as the EVENING STAR around 22nd July, and we will see her at dusk before she sinks below the horizon..and therefore she becomes the Goddess of LOVE. This is bound to change the dynamic of the raging war machines, and let’s see if it does, because we will then have evidence of Venus’ dual nature which must be at its height in Gemini. But still, Sun conjunct Venus is a surge in heart felt passions, a super creative inspiration that we want to express in delightful ways, and also find the chutzpah to deliver.
6th June: Gemini New Moon Conjunct Venus
AND of course, the next day, 6th June, we have the Gemini New Moon, which of course is exactly conjunct Venus, now in her Goddess of Love mode for extra thrills and fun. Have you got any planets or angles around 16’ air signs that are ready for an influx of excitement, new thinking, new people, new information…I certainly am. This is a day to commit to writing your book, to making a start on a project by which you have to apply your brain, or make an analysis. It’s also the day we get a revelation of more data that could have deeper ramification and even be life changing. We are aiming for Venus to deliver some value and kindness to our thought processes and more nuanced conversations for the entire globe, yet Gemini duplicity will prevail a while longer as people continue to take sides.
8th, 9th June: Sun And Venus Square Saturn
And on 8th and 9th, both the Sun and Venus make a square to dull old Saturn. With all this Gemini activity, stately Saturn does seem rather dull and restrictive. And as this is a square aspect, we might be forced against something that pulls at our emotional or even romantic landscape, because Saturn is in dreamy, loving Pisces. Saturn here in the feeling space of the fishes, is the champion of the oppressed (or the ‘in love’)…this square is a signpost and directive TO DO THE RIGHT THING…do the right thing when nobody is watching…act with true integrity.
BUT…Venus and the Sun, are still in New Moon mode, and are very excitable. They want fun, they want frivolity, they wouldn’t mind some of the gossip too. But Saturn is like the old man saying, “you have to look after your little sister”. My sister still hates me for that order, to this day. Yet this is the due diligence we have to muster here, no matter if it feels like being wrung out and heavy. There is the possibility that the little sister, or our inner child, the devastated population, gets looked after by the inspired and loving Gemini thinking.
11th – 14th June: Mars And Mercury Aspects
As Mars moves into Taurus on 11th (where he can really strong and defiant), he squares, or rather, ’kicks arse’ to Pluto, and this could be argumentative, angry and explosive. Mars in Taurus is the stubborn stance in wilfully not budging from their course of action. This clashes against the power of the people that Pluto represents in Aquarius, rising to make its own frustrations known and felt. Mercury and the Sun meet in Gemini, to add extra force to these volatile conversations - expect furious conversations to breakout on masse during this week.
17th June: Venus And Mercury Conjunct Ingress Cancer
Mercury and Venus are hand in hand when they both step over the boarder to softer, sentimental Cancer on 17th which will be a relief! The synchronicity of their joint ingress makes for a more powerful change of scene, even a cease fire. It’s like the (Gemini) conversations are now over, feelings are going to win the day, and empathy for our fellow man has to increase exponentially. The levelling up of emotional outcry and even tears will reach epic proportions at this flood of feelings, and of course this is just the beginning, as Cancer season starts a few days later (and the Cancer New Moon on 5th July will again increase this intensity).
20th to 22nd June: Sun Ingress Cancer And Capricorn Full Moon Square Neptune
The Sun triples up on this ‘emo’ factor on 20th June by joining Mercury and Venus in Cancer, the big emotional sign of the family and mothers. As soon as the Sun arrives in Cancer, the Full Moon immediately forms opposite at 1’ Capricorn (which is at 2:08am, 22nd UK time, so it will be 21st in USA). The Full Moon is a culmination of Capricorn themes: authority, big business and global politics. Is this a final warning to governments, doing what they like with the populace’s tax dollars? And since this Moon is square to Neptune, a dissolving and disempowering factor, we may see a dissolution of authority and power in their corporate ruled hands. It feels like empathetic connections, family centred values, including care for people in other lands with other beliefs, will take much more of a centre stage. Saturn rules this Full Moon and is already activated. But in Pisces, his forces have to be directed to the oppressed and the more delicate, which feels like another tactic to close the doors on over the top political power. Use this time for constructive creativity and fast forward your personal projects that feed a deeper part of your soul.
22nd to 29th June: Mercury And Venus Aspects In Cancer
As our thinking planet Mercury, travels through Cancer, we are duty bound to tap into our more empathetic and sentimental thinking, yet this isn’t as easy as it looks…Mercury makes a quick succession of aspects to force us to dig deep into where we got our prime beliefs from…like tapping back into childhood to discover why you have avoidant/abandonment/anger/boundary issues. Venus is following Mercury to repeat these same aspects so wave after wave of Cancer’s watery world and its drama, gets washed up at our feet. There is a stirring of existential ideas about our lives here on planet earth: perhaps increasing resistance to the direction the world is heading (with the Aries North Node) and furthering the understanding that we need to make a plan for those who are oppressed (Saturn in Pisces) and deepening sensitivity to our own role (Chiron in Aries), but where does this lead to?
30th June: Saturn Retrograde 19’ Pisces
The heavyweight authority of Saturn, hyped-up from his Full Moon, now stations retrograde mid-Pisces and in doing so, underlines and enforces the pain of hardship against all odds. Saturn is emphatic that we delve into the reasons why we lose our direction in life, where we get lost or leave ourselves open to others’ energy. What we discover during Saturn’s retrograde are karmic paths, winding towards these life-affirming challenges and situations. Saturn is retrograde until mid-November, and whatever slows down, gets refused or even turns sour, around the end of the month is a sign to let go and recapitulate during the whole process. Saturn’s work force will be applied on the forward progress and these things can come back far better than we had imagined. Let’s hope that goes for the world too.