Cosmic Medicine for June
Celebrate Life and Love, Nature and Nurture in these confusing times....
Everyone, it’s time to have some fun! The New Moon on May 30th is happening in the sign of the twins – Gemini and this is the part of the zodiac where our psyches love to connect, chat, party and generally have a nice time. Gemini is curious, changeable and childlike – which suits those social occasions where we openly get to make like a butterfly and flit from person to person. It’s all about making connections right. Okay so Monday might not be the best party day of the week but why not change the ol’ routine up a tad and make it – if not a party – at least a day for a social gathering of sorts. And in your part of the world, the New Moon may just fall on Sunday, the 29th. (It occurs at 11.30 pm NZST on the 30th – which is 11.30 am GMT).
Now frivolity aside, this New Moon chart sets the tone for the month ahead. It is like a gong sounding and the vibration sent forth now will resonate through the weeks ahead. So what do we know? Well, firstly the horoscope for the New Moon has a distinctly personal emphasis – with most of the planetary line-up in the first four signs; Aries through Cancer. These are known as the personal signs and they are concerned with individual needs and preferences. An abundance of planetary energy in the sign of Taurus this month point us in the direction of self-nurture. We will want to be seeking out the comforts in life that make us feel safe and secure. And that’s great because we may be wise to look out for our physical and emotional well-being this month….
I can’t help but notice the stand alone placement of Pluto, ‘god of the underworld’ out there in Capricorn, in this chart. Here Pluto forms a handle to the bucket of planets in the personal signs (bar Saturn in Aquarius). Thus, energy is somehow going to be channeled through deep, dark, secretive and subterranean realms. At least the energy has an outlet, but there is always with Pluto the potential for things to become a little tense. Resistance to Plutonic energy is usually futile so it is best to play a straight bat and avoid power-tripping secret squirrel behaviour. Transparency and honesty – even if it hurts, is the best policy this month. The planets might all be in the ‘me first’ signs, but acting like a baby wont help.
Mercury has been backtracking for three weeks and is due to go direct again on June 3. Yay. I think. The day after, Saturn decides to turn around and go backwards. It is almost like the brakes come off and we are mentally in the flow again, and then they go back on. True to Gemini form, this month is a contradictory, can’t make up its mind mix. Mercury of course is the ruler of Gemini and so this ending of the retrograde signals more free-flowing communication (which works well with the Sun in Gemini.) Make the most of it because on the 21st – the Winter Solstice here in the southern hemisphere (and Summer in the northern) sees the Sun crossing into Cancer and we are back to turning inwards. Cancer is about reflection and the month from the 21st will give us more opportunity to do so. The solstice itself is a perfect time to nourish our bodies and souls with delicious food and lashings of love.
June sees Black Moon Lilith and Ceres together in Cancer making a square to Mars and Jupiter in Aries. Black Moon Lilith represents the creative energy uniting sex with spirituality. She is about a hidden or dark (Pluto-like) energy that exists in the creative processes and she is in each sign for about nine months – interesting correlation with pregnancy. Ceres symbolizes our universal mother/matrix – the nurturer of life! Both in the sign of the mother (Cancer) and challenging warrior Mars with amplifier Jupiter in Aries (sign of the warrior!) it seems we have a strong but dangerously wounded mother energy coming into a fight for survival. I did mention Pluto intensity didn’t I? Sparks could fly. I have a hunch. We are beginning to see in the real world the impact of the engineered food shortages. Ceres’ domain, as significator of the mother matrix (the real matrix of life that is, not the simulated matrix of the interlopers), is of course food. Creator, nurturer and sustainer of life, mother nature is being violated on so many levels in these times. Now they’re going for our food. This cosmic energy seems to be bringing things to a head, or at least, to the battlefield, as our mother, Gaia-Sophia arouses the fight for survival in all of us. Jupiter is standing close by Mars, exaggerating our survival instinct but perhaps too, amplifying the aggressor energy that stands in the way of our most basic of needs – to feed ourselves. Goddess help us.
Pallas Athene, another name for the ‘goddess’ Wisdom, symbolizes the perception and power of the creative mind, healing, justice and intelligence. She meets up with Venus and together they conjoin Uranus on the 6th and 12th of the month. Sparks and flashes of wisdom and motherly insight come upon us and could be precisely what we need to help us see true now. Uranus is the great revealer, liberating us from all untruth. Deception and inversion are tools of the dark ones but we, the people, are awakening – to the evil history and litany of lies that have brought us to this point. The cosmic energy seems to be suggesting a show-down of sorts in this manipulated, simulated reality system. It really is time for truth to prevail. But what is true? We have been conned and propagandised by powerful control mechanisms for so long that for many the cognitive dissonance is insurmountable. What is true is Nature. Nature does not lie. She is ruthless with her violators, but she is our loving and protective mother. She created us after all. This configuration in the heavens in June could be the ignition point we need to launch us into our new world. Not of order, but of freedom.
On the 14th Mercury moves into her own sign of Gemini and the same day is a full Moon – in Sagittarius. Abundant energy to enrich our communications, talk, discuss, share, find meaning and understanding in it all will serve us well on our truth Quest. Then on the 16th warrior Mars meets up with ‘wounded healer’ Chiron. Mars energises what it touches and here, it is our collective wounding. The upshot is we are given the fuel we need now to feel outraged and act accordingly. We have been wounded for millenia. And it is time for it to end.
At the end of the month, the 28th, nebulous Neptune begins to backtrack in Pisces. Hmmm, looks a tad like collective confusion. Or is that collective denial? Is it all too hard? Have we all got a bit too used to the comfort of our discomfort zones? Neptune going retrograde takes us inward – with all our confusion and uncertainty and unanswered questions. Just when we were hoping for some truth and action. Intellectually sizzling June fizzles out as the blue planet of transcendence and oneness gives up the ghost for while - until December in fact. Our perception of reality is going to be challenged. It seems to me that this is precisely what we need. What is reality anyway? We have been so thoroughly ‘illusioned’ (pure Neptune) – and now, the last half of 2022 - we are going to be dis-illusioned. The dissolution and disillusion of all we heretofore believed reality to be, has to be the evolutionary impulse we need right now to transcend the ‘crooked truths’* we have been told.
Here then, let us make a toast this New Moon, to the wisdom of Gaia-Sophia with her weaving of the cosmic threads so perfectly and compassionately designed to usher us into a new world where, instead of deception and inversion, we will be held in love, beauty and truth. Blessings fellow travellers and revellers for the effervescent and mixed up cosmic ride of the month of June. May the Feminine Force be with you!
*Acknowledgement to Enna Reittort and her brilliant book ‘KRIVDA – The Godtrix Against the Matrix”. (Krivda means crooked truth).
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