Gemini 2008

In this year of heavy power shifting, we now move through grounding transition into energy release.

As the sun reaches the highest point in the sky, we are completing a month of intensified mental processing, Gemini, just as Mercury, the flow of mind, completes weeks of retrograde/backtracking there. Spiritual influences have been supportive, beckoning to us to accept alignment in awareness (Chiron, moon node and Neptune in Aquarius). Now, just as the vitality of the sun reaches the solstice, the top of our seasonal cycle, we have a full moon (opposite the sun) in the passion at the bottom of things, Sagittarius. It is especially heavy and powerful because deep, transformative Pluto, retrograde now, has just returned there after months in constructive Capricorn. Pluto will complete its historic transition into Capricorn later this year, but right now it is reinforcing a full heart (moon) getting down to the bottom of things.

On Wednesday, June 18, Venus, the light of love, leads the way over the top into Cancer, the release of flowing feeling, at 1:48am Pacific time. The moon is full at 10:30am. It aligns with heavy Pluto at 2:36pm, then hits bottom, rebounding in the primal earth power of Capricorn at 2:51pm. It could be a few days of core drama. Thursday morning, Mercury completes its retrograde/internalizing, and the mental momentum starts to shift forward again. Friday at 4:59pm, the sun, after being charged by deep power opposite heavy Pluto at the bottom, goes over the top of our seasonal roller coaster, summer solstice in the north, built-up feeling moving into powerful release.

This is a year of hugely historic magnitude. We may be about to experience what all this intensified power manifesting really looks like. It is important to remember that beyond any shock of release is the greater good that comes with adjustment. Deeper nature breaking through resistance and distortion is always a healthy development. Let's all be precious in our underlying dearness, the foundation of true humanity.