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The Essence for 6 June 2011: Rocket Fuel!

06 Monday Jun 2011

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So your week probably won't be this exciting/ stressful, but you are likely to be ready and willing to tackle your goals {{PD}}

The Moon sextiles Saturn, just before 2 AM of the 6th, Pacific time. This connects the emotional experience neatly to reality, grounding us for the week ahead. A sextile to h.Zeus around 5:30 AM PDT awakens our ambitions and desire nature–so we’re grounded, and we’ve got our rocket fuel! For those who want to hit the ground running, this is the perfect set-up; for everyone else, it may feel like the Leo Moon and her contacts are pointing out just what slackers we are! Don’t take it personally–this just happens to be a time keyed to those who are highly motivated and very much Self-driven–it’s not an indictment of those who take things a little easier.

10:30 AM Pacific the Moon sextiles the Sun and opposes Pallas, shining a light on emotional needs–and unfortunately we may feel that what we need for emotional fulfillment is in direct contradiction to what is wise. This is an illusion of placement–where it’s our vantage point that makes us think the unwise thing will be the fulfilling one–so in this case do what you know to be wise, and emotional satisfaction will follow on its own.

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The Essence for 5 June 2011: Foolishness Triggered

05 Sunday Jun 2011

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von Honthorst 1625 'The Matchmaker' {{PD-Art}}

The Moon enters Leo at 8:03 AM PDT of the 5th. The quincunx to Neptune is of course immediate and may be a little startling, as it draws our attention away from ourselves and our personal concerns (Leo) and toward our personal Neptune issues, centered in the matters of the House Neptune is currently transiting and/ or the placement of our natal Neptune and what he rules. This can go in so many directions it’s hard to pinpoint; I’d just venture that what we’re concerned with is highly personal and highly meaningful, as this aspect asks us to modify something we feel strongly about in order to shape it more to our ideals–a good influence if we can respond without digging in our heels over minor details (or a major need for change!)

The Moon also squares Jupiter, new in Taurus, at this point. It’s almost like a brief return to junior high–what we have in relation to what everyone else in our circle has suddenly becomes a matter of not just interest but pride. This could trigger foolish spending (with Venus in Taurus and also body of latest degree) or could lead to actual conflict over resources; at the very least it might bring a little primping and strutting for the crowd, while even the most modest of us will want to look good :)

The Essence for 4 June 2011: It’s That Time Again, For Spoonin’ in June!

03 Friday Jun 2011

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Romance comes in all shapes and sizes {{PD}} Illustration from pre-1923 version of 'Hey Diddle Diddle'

Just before 6 PM PDT the Moon sextiles Sedna, and there are a few hours where we’re ‘flying blind.’ Relaxing is the best answer to this. By 8 PM Pacific the Moon is quincunx the North Node–we’re still in the shadow of that Sedna aspect, and that means that though we may be prompted to make corrections to the life direction, we aren’t perceiving things clearly–hold back for awhile.

By 9:30 PM PDT the Moon sextiles Venus–ah! We’ve got our values back in sight! There might be a little June spoonin’ as well :)

The Void begins at 10:33 PM Pacific. The Moon enters Leo at 8:03 AM PDT of the 5th.

The Essence for 3 June 2011: Plutonian Choice

03 Friday Jun 2011

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Master of Osservanza 'St. Anthony tempted by the devil in the guise of a woman' Gee, you'd think the wings would be a give-away. c.1435 {{PD-Art}

11 AM PDT the Moon trines Chiron; it’s easy to feel hurt, but also easy to summon a healing emotional state–your choice (and you know which one I recommend :) ) By 1 PM the Moon opposes Pluto. Our response to this may involve both our previous choices concerning Chiron, and the situation of current transiting Pluto in our natal chart; we may embrace the destructive as the quickest way to arrive at a clean slate, but this would be an approach that throws the baby out with the bathwater and leaves us exhausted. If we have chosen a more positive route, this aspect musters transformative energy to our bidding–though we may not be able to accept the responsibility, and could project, pulling in the Pluto effect from without. This is often the way we face Pluto, as if it’s an unavoidable circumstance, accident, trauma, or perpetration of another–sometimes that’s the only way we can deal with it.

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The Essence for 2 June 2011: Drawing Strength, Avoiding Pitfalls

01 Wednesday Jun 2011

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'Girl with a Hay Rake' Winslow Homer 1878 {{PD-Art}}

3 AM PDT sees the Moon trine Vesta; we are bolstered by home, by communion with those intimate to us, and by those things to which we’re dedicated. It’s as if we draw strength and support from our choices–a nice feeling, with an unusual direction of ‘flow.’ Just before 1 PM PDT the Moon makes a square to Ceres as she conjuncts the South Node. The big danger is that we will fall back to old ways of reacting to authorities, or to the challenges of nature. To use past methods of coping or of approaching problems (and dealing with authorities will feel like a problem) would be highly ineffective. We need to avoid knee-jerk responses, and draw on what we’ve learned from our history without feeling (and so reacting and thinking) like we’re children again.

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The Essence for the Solar Eclipse of 1 June 2011: Making Manifest the Desire

31 Tuesday May 2011

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Thomas Cole 'The Architect's Dream' 1840 {{PD-Art}}

Solar eclipse occurs at 2:02 PM PDT at 11 Gemini 01. Using our usual 2 degree orb, we have only two aspects for this eclipse: trines to Saturn and h.Zeus. A Solar eclipse is, in a symbolic sense, a big, bright birth, where the intuition and emotional factor, for a short interval, blocks the Solar principle, which is all that’s open, conscious, and life-giving–but in the blocking is a symbolic absorption, and thus a powerful combination of the unconscious and intuitive with the conscious and worldly–and a new level of understanding is born.

With the Sun/ Moon conjunction we see a strong, positive relationship to time, constraint, form, reality, and what’s solid (Saturn) and we see the eclipse energy contacting the concepts of ambition and desire (h.Zeus)–this marries the ‘birth’ energy, ‘what is,’ and the push of goals and desires in a powerful three-way relationship, making for an eclipse that rides on a swell of highly perceptible and highly charged energy. In particular, the input of h.Zeus is one of desiring, asserting, and working to gain, and may be the ‘secret’ engine behind the Solar eclipse impetus.

We’ll bring into the reality only those things we’ve invested with a serious desire energy and in some sense released into the Collective. This is in part because 1) the h.Zeus involved is the transiting body, not the natal one, and 2) because an eclipse involves the current transiting Moon, symbol of the Collective unconscious and the emotion that is ‘stored’ in the Akashic Records (briefly, that’s an energy record of all that has ever been) where our ‘energy investment’ is recorded–and from which it will be manifested by the eclipse contact to Saturn. So, what comes must meet these conditions–and will be related directly to the natal House where the eclipse occurs.

The Sabian for the Solar Eclipse echoes what the planetary scheme already spelled out–with the important addition that this will occur in an area for each individual where we feel either at a disadvantage, or where we have been struggling for our personal independence, but where we are somewhat sophisticated. To begin something we’ve dreamed of, independent of others (or of previous restraints or restrictions), something we’ve been striving for and for which we’ve put energy, consciously or not, into the Collective–this is the essence of the Solar eclipse for June 2011 at a personal level.

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The Essence for 31 May 2011: ‘Open Mind, Allow Input’

31 Tuesday May 2011

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You'll do a lot better if you open that mental window Carl Holsoe c.1900 {{PD-Art}}

Moon conjuncts Mercury at 7:30 AM Pacific; in Taurus this might be both comforting (we are somehow reassured by our own thoughts, and by our material circumstances) and may encourage a kind of closed minded-ness–we are snug within our mental worlds, why leave, or let anything contrary in? The trick is to enjoy the comfort without wallowing in it; to close off our minds at this point, on the verge of a Void (beginning at 8:37 AM PDT), is to invite difficulties that come with a lack of tolerance, flexibility, and openness to change and the new. So try to stay open, best you can.

It’s a long Void; the Moon enters Gemini at 4:56 PM PDT. Of course, we have an immediate square to Neptune, which will play directly off the Void period–it can be rough territory, peopled with delusion, fantasy, and deception, if we did not manage the ‘open mind, allow input’ required previously. For those who did, this may put them back in touch strongly with a prior dream–suddenly it’s back on our minds, and we may begin to hatch a plan, or at least put it on the front burner (where we can get it cooking!) once again.

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The Essence for 30 May 2011: The Pleasure Principle

30 Monday May 2011

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James Tissot 'Holyday' c.1876

Just before noon Pacific the Moon squares Pallas; what feels good may not be wise–don’t ignore this in favor of devotion to the pleasure principle–take a very conservative course at this time–wait if possible. Prior to 2 PM PDT the Moon trines Juno, showing us the truly empowering choice–NOW go! 4 PM PDT and the Moon squares Vesta. This points out precisely how our choices (indulgences?) have been inconsistent with our most sacred needs–pay attention and put what we honor back in the forefront.

5:30 PM the Taurus Moon conjuncts Venus–NOW we celebrate, now we enjoy the luxuries, the relationships, the assets and talents–appreciation for the material, for one’s state of abundance, permeates all; it’s soothing, it’s enjoyable, it’s fun–no reason not to appreciate life–for appreciation of what is, and of all that we have, is a prayer of thanks, whether we know we are praying or not.

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The Essence for 29 May 2011: Down to the Bone

28 Saturday May 2011

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19th century playing card

Just before 4 PM Pacific the Moon sextiles Chiron; the sense is of almost an insistence on seeing hurt via our relationships to others through material things. We need to realize that our perspective on this issue is not an objective one, but one that has invested objects or assets with an exaggerated meaning; we seem to see the objects as making a statement about how much we are loved (or how much more someone else is loved than we!) A conscious decision to utilize our most unique skills at this point will keep us out of the prickly quagmire, and perhaps even heal an emotional wound that’s been hanging open for some time (and this was probably something we were not too aware of until the Moon came along and brushed up against it, causing the sting!)

The Taurus Moon trines Pluto, 7:30-ish PM PDT, and we have either transformed the emotional outlook or we are picking away furiously at that wound. Ow! Here’s your therapy: Stop it! I joke; if it were that easy we’d all refrain, wouldn’t we? At least don’t dig down to the bone–it’s pointless, and only leaves you exhausted. Instead embrace the Plutonian energy contacted as the energy that will clean out the dross, change things, set you free–and embrace it without fear of oblivion; that’s the only way to access the regenerative qualities of the phoenix.

The Essence for 28 May: Mostly Placid

27 Friday May 2011

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View of Donner Lake by Bierstadt pre-1902 {{PD-Art}}

Just before 4 PM PDT the Moon trines the North Node in Fire, lighting up the emotional consequences of the life direction; suddenly we see where we’re headed, for better or worse :)

It’s a slow day, Lunar-ly speaking.

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