June 1st-7th: The Cost of Our Fantasies

We start off both the week and the month with a Moon/ Sun trine in Air, which may give us the impression that we’ve got ‘it’ all under control–there’s nothing better than feeling mentally sound and organized (must be my seven Air placements–four planets, two asteroids, and the ASC–talking!)–though the down side is this feeling may be disconnected from whatever else is going on.

The 1st initiates us into some extended upcoming activity with Venus, first when she makes a sextile to the Chiron/ Neptune/ Jupiter conjunction. This will begin a period that lasts through the 8th where we will learn the cost of having our fantasies realized, reap the rewards of following our ideals, know the value of allowing healing and reaching out to others, and will have the price of our indulgences in delusion, deception, or what we pay as victim of these, become unavoidably clear–then it will take a new tack through the 20th as she approaches conjunction with Mars (more on this later).

By the 2nd we see Mars in Taurus square the Nodal axis, bringing us face to face with the connection of the Will to both the events of the past and the future we’re creating–leaving us with something to think about, and by the 3rd, when Mars trines Pluto, we’ll easily see just what we need to change (in our approach, choices, or ego stance )to get us where we want to go.

The 3rd also has the Moon opposed Mars, signalling emotional feedback about our actions and decisions, andwe add this to the still-formed T-square with the Nodes–and the emotional component of our choices becomes obvious. Pallas moves into Leo and conjuncts the South Node, so that we have both the courage (Leo) and the wisdom (Pallas) with which to sort feeling from need and to proceed as we know we should.

By the 5th Saturn in Virgo is in a T-square with the Sun/ Earth axis, and we can expect either the materialization of an important step forward, or a significant roadblock in the direction we’re intending to go. The details of the situation will make it abundantly clear which is happening for you–effective response is based in being willing to see and deal with the reality we’re being presented.

The 6th Venus moves into Taurus, and gains her bearings, as well as significant strength. Our values are clearer and more solidly grounded, easily accessible to us and worth our attention. She moves toward conjunction with Mars–by the time the aspect perfects (on the 20th) we’ll experience a supremacy of the receptive, female-oriented, ‘being’ energies over the aggressive, male-oriented, ‘doing’ energies. It’s a time to glory in the Venusian, and to use all our connections to her (natal Venus, aspects, Houses she rules, and those bodies in her signs of Taurus and Libra) to realize fully in our lives what this energy offers. With this result in mind, we should allow the time from the 1st to the 20th to build toward a Venus result, probably primarily in the matters of the House where Venus is now transiting.

And, though it’s past our projection period, also watch for, on the 8th, Venus trine Pluto, the Moon conjunct Pluto, and Pallas quincunx Pluto. This will be another trigger point in the Venus saga, and should signal a cleaning out and threshing down to the important Venus points for each of us–and the Moon will show the emotional repercussions, while Pallas applies her wisdom to guide us through what must be changed, discarded, re-formed, or must rise again in a new form.

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