Thursday 15 June 2017

Astrology: Summer Solstice June 21 2017 12:24 pm


Burning Down the House
As the Sun passes from Gemini to Cancer at the Summer Solstice, it is joined in a strong conjunction from Mercury, ruler of Gemini, also in conjunction with the Mid Heaven – this is good for new business ventures, sharpness of mind but also self-absorption and restless tension. Moreover, it makes for very strong-wills and brings much attention from authority, for better or worse, and public recognition from work, reputations can thrive or fall.
Sun/Mercury - Chiron - Saturn T-Square
However this high profile, upbeat energy gets a serious reality check from Saturn, which brings a sense of alienation and inhibition and possible negativity, gloominess and hypercriticism. Indeed, Chiron enters the scenario and will form a Sun – Saturn – Chiron T-Square making for a very intense focus on personal identity, self-esteem, repressed feelings and childhood wounds as well as difficulty getting a message across.
A very sensitive period for ego-based issues as weaknesses can be brought to the fore that may require attention. The Sun-Uranus Trine should help alleviate things with a sense of open-mindedness, self-awareness and intellectual creativity. Surprise sudden events can occur. And the long-standing Saturn-Uranus Trine should also help stabilize the new changes.
Mars-Jupiter-Pluto T-Square
If the previous T-Square represented significant personal challenge, there is also the strong Mars-Jupiter-Pluto T-Square, which is a continuation of the Spring Uranus-Jupiter-Pluto T-Square, signifying the ongoing call for radical socio-political change. Now the Jupiter-Uranus opposition has temporarily faded, replaced by a series of volatile Mars-Saturn and Mars-Pluto Oppositions and an upcoming Mars-Uranus Square. The effects of these can be noticed so far with high-profile terrorists attacks in the UK and political intrigues and turnarounds in the UK and the US.
So we have a Mars-Pluto opposition which brings severe power struggles, authoritarianism and fierce oppositions. The Mars-Jupiter Square brings tendencies over-extending oneself, ego inflation and over-optimism. The Jupiter-Pluto Square can bring conflict with power, obsession and fanaticism. The Moon-Pluto Trine can soften some of the sting of Pluto here. This powerful T-Square can represent a very ambitious, productive energy for change and restructuring, with the power to overcome obstacles.
Venus-Mars-Neptune &  Venus – Neptune – Pluto Minor Grand Trines
Fortunately, there are a couple of interesting Minor Grand Trines that help channel the volatile energies in a peaceful manner. The Venus-Mars-Neptune Trine brings a sense of altruism, charity, strong friendship and creative intellectual imagination to the mix.
There is also a Venus – Neptune – Pluto Minor Grand Trine symmetrically overlapping the other one, making a kind of butterfly formation of Trines and Sextiles. This brings depth to relationships, a sense of renewal  and mind-expanding introspection. These two aspects have a kind of beneficial hippy-trippy “Make love not war” vibe and Venus is kicking up quite a storm or sensual and romantic passions. Additionally, the Venus/ Neptune sextile forms a Yod with Jupiter, placing Jupiter at the apex of a very complex , symmetrical figure composed of a T-Square, Minor Grand Trine and a Yod (call it a Hyper-Yod, to coin a term, or maybe an X-Wing Fighter).
It is hard to say if there is a larger significance, but I think it shows the pivotal role of Jupiter (in Libra) this year and the important Jupiter-Uranus Opposition. The key to solving the Jupiter tendency for over-indulgence and deluded optimism would be the Venus/Neptune Sextile acute sensitivity to the needs and feeling of loved ones and the willingness to put them before our own. The Mars/Neptune (Service, Charity) and Venus/Pluto (Profound relationship insights) Trines can possibly figure as effective keys in resolving this complex formation. This chart has some very difficult Pluto and Saturn aspects, but it also has some well-placed complementary easy aspects that gives it a very interesting complexity for dynamic evolution.


References:
Robert Hand, Planets in Transit
http://www.billherbst.com/Comm21.pdf

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