We will go over all the Planets, their aspects to each other, the Houses and Signs in your chart and clearly explain the meaning of each and how it may be showing up in your life. I will send the recording to you via email so you can go back through it at any time for further insights.

WANING MOON WEEKLY ASTROLOGICAL FORECAST AUG 26 TO SEPT 2

This week as the MOON moves towards its conjunction with the SUN the planets are indicating we will be getting a lot of activity in our VENUS realms. The archetypal energies of VENUS, according to the brilliant Richard Tarnas are: “Desire, love, beauty, value, art; the impulse and capacity to attract and be attracted, to love and be loved, to seek and create beauty and harmony, to engage in social and romantic relations, sensuous pleasure, artistic and aesthetic experience and creation; the principle of Eros and the Beautiful; Greek goddess of love and beauty Aphrodite, the Roman Venus.” In our reality this is often boiled down to love relationships and how we us our resources to enhance our lives (e.g. money).
On the 26th VENUS is moving through a synergistic trine to disruptive and innovative URANUS, and a simultaneous trine to the archetype of primordial instincts, death, rebirth, and transformation, PLUTO. This, while PLUTO is in a long-term trine to URANUS as well, making a powerful Grand Trine in the headstrong Fixed signs of VIRGO, TAURUS and AQUARIUS. VENUS is also coming into an opposition with dreamy and confusing NEPTUNE. This all can show up in our personal lives as transformational passionate love, relational restlessness, kinky urges, obsessions, sudden romances, possibly unwise commitments, spending or over spending, and the like. All fodder for learning essential lessons about wisdom and an indication that things some relational will never be the same. By the 29th VENUS moves into its home power sign of LIBRA while still connected to PLUTO and NEPTUNE giving us continued emphasis on remodeling our Venusian themes.
MERCURY is still RX but is slowing down to go direct on the 29th. It is in a long slow positive trine with the healer CHIRON as it hovers around 21 and 22 degrees of LEO. All this could bode well for personal or world events as MERCURY gets going forward. Perhaps leading to some healing or smoothing of wounds with self, other or between larger organizations. Of course, there is a lot of factors that will influence that outcome. Transformation is not usually done without sacrifice and turbulence and the outer planets do not usually appear compassionate in the short run, only in the biggest big picture long run do we see the necessity of the disruptions and disintegrations.

PLUTO (archetypally: processes of breakdown, destruction and creation in the universe, impulses toward regeneration and transformation, purification and purging, profound evolutionary forces.) is poised to grind back into Capricorn for the next few months. This is its last touch in Capricorn for about 250 years. We had so many of our seeming solid institutions be revealed to be shaky and inadequate over the last couple of decades. Now, before we fully settle into Plutonically working over our Aquarian themes for the next 25 or 30 years, (technology, humanitarianism, individuality, intelligence, etc) we get one more shot at some cathartic destruction/regeneration of those Saturnian structures. Upcoming elections anyone?  Lol.
By September 2 NEPTUNE is exactly square to MARS just as the MOON forms a NEW MOON conjunction with the SUN in VIRGO. MARS-NEPTUNE square can augur urges to escape reality. A little responsible vacation won’t hurt, but a bender is not recommended. We don’t want to burden the tone of the next lunar cycle with a hangover or a shitstorm of avoided responsibilities. We have plenty of work ahead of us in September. More on that next week with the NEW MOON forecast.

WEEKLY ASTROLOGICAL FORECAST AUG 19 TO AUG 26

Right..This FULL MOON really does have epic written all over it, but possibly, hopefully in a good way. Of course, we’ll see what actually occurs as it unfolds. After all, its just one day, week, month, in an ongoing slow-pocalypse, and I believe it’s good to have a heads up as these peaks and waves come through.
This FULL MOON on the 19th has two significant T-squares and several conjunctions all happening on or near the SUN opposite MOON. This makes for a fairly complicated day full of potentials for change as each planet and point vie for preeminence or try to blend their archetypal expressions. T-squares are tense catalysts for evolution and creativity. Challenging but effective. The opposing points or planets in the T-square navigate their push-pull by using the energies at the apex as a release.
The usual energetic crescendo of the monthly FULLMOON opposition is this time square to unpredictable, disruptive and innovative URANUS exactly on the 19th. This alone would make for an interesting day, full of surprises or shocks, but there is plenty more to it. This T-square is landing in LEO, AQUARIUS and TAURUS, all Fixed signs, which express as stubborn and headstrong; My way or the highway. Coincidentally, the SUN will be very nearly conjunct MERCURY Rx and the asteroid VESTA. This brings a remedial and rethinking flavor as well as something to do with some sacred thing to which we are dedicated to the T square. If we add in another major asteroid, PALLAS the goddess of wise strategy which now is transiting Scorpio, we get a complete Grand Cross (4 square aspects and two oppositions). It is very possible this will reflect a major realignment towards right living in some aspect of our lives if we move gracefully with the pressure.
At the same time a second kinetic T-square is occurring with SATURN opposite VENUS. Limits and Love. This will bring some serious focus on our relationships and/or finances for sure. The release point for this opposition is the aggressive/assertive and exuberant MARS-JUPITER conjunction that has been in orb for a few weeks. Could be passion, but within a wise container or an unfortunately frustrating time for lovers. Or both. We all may have noticed a certain impulsivity in our and others behavior lately. Boundaries, personal and international, may be getting crossed with an unconscious confidence that of course engenders a response of either acceptance submission or pushback of some kind. Since it’s involving the benefic planet JUPITER, it will have a tendency to turn out for the best in the long run, either way it goes. Some restraint and wisdom in our expression of our desires will serve us well. This T-square may augur some hard, but practical and necessary, actions, choices or conversations in regards to important relationships or investments. This is all in the Mutable signs of GEMINI, PISCES and VIRGO, so there is room here for creativity and outside-the-box solutions.
Combining those two T-squares at the FULL MOON definitely indicates an interesting ride for humanity this week. This is a FULL MOON where we will likely experience some small and large, subtle and gross, clusters of unexpected change in our lives whether we like it or not.  Be aware  it might take a minute to notice the new trajectory in your life or in the world, but looking back it can be traced back to this time. Hopefully the MERCURY Rx has been inducing us to loosen up our attachment to a linear flow in its trickster-ish way and we are able re-think, re-vise and re-view our positions on things so when the FULL MOON hits we are open to some new brilliant possibilities. Helpfully, this prior week CHIRON is just finishing up a beneficial trine to the SUN, which has been invoking our inner wise healer. We really need a lot of that these days.
OK that is just the FULL MOON …LOL!
The T-square with SATURN VENUS MARS AND JUPITER hangs on spreading for a few more days. This configuration helps focus the MERCURY Rx onto the aforementioned Venusian love, relationship and finance issues as it backs into a second trine with CHIRON on the 22nd (destined to be repeated forward and finalized around September 1st ), tending us towards practical (SATURN square JUPITER) thoughts and ideas about how to repair old wounds or mal-conditionings we may have integrated around those vital subjects. The trick is to take action (MARS square VENUS) on those ideas by learning new practices so we don’t have to live with that unnecessary suffering.

As the MOON swings around towards the WANING SQUARE it will trigger first CHIRON trine MERCURY Rx on Friday the 23rd  , then on the 25th it lights up URANUS which is doing its influential long term Minor Grand Trine geometry with PLUTO Rx and sextile NEPTUNE Rx. URANUS will also by that time be in a synergistic trine with VENUS. That may augur a sparkly urge to open our hearts and wallets generously but not necessarily wisely, though it will no doubt feel beautiful. Being generous of spirit is its own reward and SATURN will help us figure out how to pay the bills.
Yeah, that’s a lot to track. Fortunately we are not passive passengers in this ride. We get to chose how to respond to the sudden movements of reality. With Love or Fear and that makes all the difference.

WEEKLY ASTROLOGICAL FORECAST AUG 12 TO AUG 19

Ok, I am back at home from Europe. Totally in synch with MERCURY Rx and ready for another full-on week for all of us astrologically. So much is transpiring all at once its hard to guess what exactly will happen, though its obvious that epic shit is the order of the day lately. So, as the WAXING QUARTER MOON makes it to the halfway point swinging towards the FULL MOON on the 12th, the big news is MARS (action, courage, aggression) conjunct JUPITER (expansion, optimism, luck) while they both square SATURN (limits, timing, authority, duty) through the FULL MOON upcoming . This can be an indication of a brakes-plus-accelerator feeling in our lives leading to some frustration or outbursts. Or, more ideally, a responsible restraint on our over excitement and enthusiasm for impulsive, big projects and plans. Hopefully it slows us down enough to make sure we get the timing and details right and don’t overdo it. This is being modified by a brief 2 day square and half (sesquisquare) on the 12th-13th with JUPITER + MARS to PLUTO Rx (which is sliding back through the 1st degree of forwards thinking Aquarius). This is all definitely requesting us to show prudence in our actions, to make sure, as best we can, we are not unconsciously acting out a shadow pattern with its predictable difficult or dramatic outcomes. Its basically another opportunity to fuck around and find out what is behind the curtain of our collective and personal unconscious. Revealing ourselves to ourselves if we aren’t already cognizant of the underground games that are getting played out there. Though it is palpably in play all week the exact conjunction between MARS and JUPITER is on the 14th and the exact square between MARS and SATURN is on the 15th. The exact square between JUPITER and SATURN is on the 19th, the same day as the FULL MOON.

MERCURY Rx which has been keeping things interesting on the communication and travel fronts is giving us a chance to review and revise any choices we made around the 26th or 27th of July as it moves back through the double quincunx with PLUTO Rx sextile to NEPTUNE Rx for the second time on the 14th. MERCURY gets one more shot at that Yod (finger of god) configuration around September 8th, so we’ll all get another shot at resolving any irritating confusion that arises about what is actually going on behind the scenes. (P.S. the SUN does the same confusticating Yod on Aug 21st -22nd as it passes into Virgo, just to rub it in and make it all personal.)

Speaking of the SUN, it has a nice trine with CHIRON all week, emphasizing the healing potential in all the above aspects.
VENUS gets into the act by starting to square JUPITER and MARS and oppose SATURN around the 15th, peaking in a highly motivating and energetic T-square on the FULL MOON. This will augur a pushing through of any necessary changes in our love life, finances or creative projects that we may have been letting slide. It might feel quite authoritarian unless we are clear and compassionate from the heart on why we are doing what we are doing.

Just to add a little more bang to the whole mix we have the SUN conjunct MERCURY Rx on the 18th and that will be square to disruptive and innovative URANUS. This might look like sudden and unexpected changes of plans or ideas. We are going to have to just go with it and trust the flow.

Basically, there is going to be a lot happening in the on lead up to and the FULL MOON. Though we can’t predict exactly what will occur, It is not a time we can just hunker down and not go outside in order to minimize the intensity. We do have some agency though in how we handle these big energies through our attitude and high principles. It’s all hands-on-deck time as a lot of Karma is coming home to roost in our world these days. The planets are just giving us a heads up about what is obvious if we are paying attention.

WANING QUARTER MOON JULY 27 TO AUG 4 2024

As the MOON squares the SUN on the 27th we are harvesting what was sewn on the last NEW MOON. Integrating what had come to fruition at the FULL on July 21st. We also are beginning to formulate what seeds will be planted at the NEW MOON Aug 4th. What that all actually looks like for you will be quite individual and indicated by the aspects to your birth chart. But in the general mundane aspects we sure have had a ton of disturbing and disruptive stuff go down since the last NEW MOON on July 5th. PLUTO’s aspects and the MARS-URANUS conjunction have been denoting rude awakenings in our lives and we’ve been literally feeling our way through it all with the SUN in sensitive Cancer. Now we are in LEO season, a more outgoing and expressive time but we are still processing so much that came before, so it certainly feels like progress but not all “party on!” fun times. A lot of serious work still needs to be done.

WE have the SUN and VENUS transiting in exuberant LEO now, lending us some radiance and MARS is sharing  open minded Gemini with optimistic JUPITER though they won’t actually be conjunct until near mid-month. This gives us a lift of a certain “can do” energy we definitely need. MARS is sextile the SUN until around Aug 1st adding to that energy as we try to figure how to move forward with our lives. IT can manifest as a bit self-centered though, so be sure to work on win-win goals.

By the 30th of July we get a beneficial cradle configuration of sextiles and trines for a couple of days anchored by the SUN-MARS sextile and connecting to the MOONS NODES. This could kinda smooth things out for getting some progress on our soul goals. Of course, there is always “something” and this time its VENUS making a fussy square and a half and a half square to the nodes as well as a strong trine to CHIRON Rx. Venus is also approaching a square to URANUS. All that VENUS energy will likely point us towards something that is needing and getting abruptly changed in our close relationships over the week related to healing our old wounds. Might not be comfortable but definitely a corrective surgery. The more you lean into it the faster it gets done.

PLUTO Rx and NEPTUNE Rx are easing back on the transformative demolitions, unfocused bewilderment and the mythopoetic inspirations they have been signifying the last few weeks as they cease aspecting so many of the inner planets for the moment. They are still in sextile with each other and harmonically aspecting URANUS more or less for the next few years though, so epic shifts in consciousness are still in the works long term. This is why the recent aspects made with the inner personal planet archetypes have been reflecting such self-shattering, or at least distressing, evolutions. We are in the “great revealing” time of the cycles now: apocalypse and the end of Empires and it is both personal and collective. As above so below, as within so without.

On Aug 3rd the MOON comes by on its monthly rounds and trines NEPTUNE Rx then opposes PLUTO Rx just as it moves into Leo, briefly stirring that pot once more before it moves on to conjunct the SUN in a NEW MOON Aug 4th. MERCURY stations to go retrograde that day so the NEW MOON may have some of the trickster show up, though my guess is that has already been happening for at least a week.  Little glitches that seem big in the moment but turn out to be storms in a teacup only amplified if we over react.

VENUS is poised to change signs at 29 degrees of Leo at the NEW MOON which coincidentally puts it into Yod (finger of God) configuration with a vexatious pair of quincunx to both NEPTUNE Rx and PLUTO Rx which, as mentioned above, are in sextile to each other. This might indicate (with all the other VENUS stuff) that the last week of July and first week of August may be a more-than-interesting time in regards to relationships or finances in our personal lives and on the world stage. This has been likely brewing for a long time. Don’t let it get you down. There is always a way to bring our attention to the beauty and perfection of the rhythms even as we trip over our own shoe laces.  Karma is what it is and chickens will come home to roost. If we act with integrity, compassion and a nuanced sense of irony of how we take everything transient so fricken seriously we will pull through ok. The music never stops…

More on the NEW MOON next week, of course.

FULL MOON JULY 21 TO FIRST QUARTER SQUARE JULY 27

Yeah, you’re right, it’s been a wild ride this July. The FULL MOON onwards isn’t promising much of a relief either. We need to accept that we are in times of major shifts and it will not feel easy or comfortable. It is never all bad news though, and even challenging aspects are fingers pointing at the moon of right living.  We are wired to focus more on danger and uncertainty than the things that are going right, as well as generally not being able to see the bigger long-term consequences and arc of the narrative. Its commonly pretty personal to us humans and when things get churned up like this, our anxiety and reactivity can easily take over. Let me assure you that though this FULL MOON has some challenges to it, overall its showing us that the universe is just revealing to us it is time to change our ways of thinking and being in the world whether we like it or not. Ultimately, this change has to start from the inside out. The good news is there are more humans responding the call than ever before on the planet. It Is mycelial in nature, so you likely won’t see it much with your everyday perception or in the MSM. Keep your chin up and your hearts open as best you can.

PLUTO Rx in innovative and future oriented Aquarius is opposite the SUN this week and the MOON conjuncts it just hours after the FULL MOON. This is bound to bring up more collective unconscious material to be dealt with. We’ve had a parade of personal planets oppose PLUTO this month: MERCURY, the MOON and VENUS, so we’ve likely had a lot of heavy stuff come up to be processed, hidden things revealed and power plays enacted. Having the SUN there now will probably give us more of the same, challenging us one more to dance with the dark, what we are afraid of and take accountability for how we each contribute to the circumstances around us.

MARS having just done a shocking number, passing over URANUS last week, now moves into a synergistic trine with PLUTO soon after passing from stubborn TAURUS into more flexible GEMINI on the 20th. That may add some lubricant to the PLUTO/FULL MOON perhaps facilitating some action to address what has been churned up. Hopefully not just impulsive reactions and doubling down on the mindset that created the issue, whatever it may be.

NEPTUNE Rx is all up in this too because it is sitting in sextile to both PLUTO, MARS and just slightly to URANUS. This indicates we will likely be experiencing heightened dreams, intuitions and imaginations and abilities to take inspired actions in sensitive regard to the flow of our lives and environment. Conversely, this configuration can also mean a time of confusion about how and when to proceed, deception, loss of stamina, avoidance and passive aggression. Its kinda always messy with NEPTUNE as it removes all boundaries so things can melt and flow into new configurations or receive divine inspiration. It represents the higher realms though, so it really is just a messing with the fearful controlling ego and our materialist certainties. The SUN is trine NEPTUNE for the next week or so too, exacerbating all this. Let your courageous authenticity lead even while being confused or unsure. Rest when you can and eschew overindulgence in intoxicants.

We may feel there are too just many layers and paths to express easily because our minds are likely to feel a bit overactive this week with MARS (now in mental Gemini, ruled by MERCURY) spending a few days square to MERCURY in expressive Leo around the FULL MOON. Some possible strategies to manage all this would be daily meditation and yoga type practices, long walks and saying no to scrolling or news. Poetry, music, dancing are all appropriate responses. Try not to make any LT life decisions for now or if you must, just stay loose about the expected outcome. Everything is in flux. Having the SUN move into Leo on the 22nd and MARS move into GEMINI will likely loosen and lighten us up if we let it.Once they get done with their heavy PLUTO aspects in a few days, that is.

By the 25th or 26th the SUN moves into exact sextile with MARS which has been hopefully giving us a needed and welcome boost of energy and courage. MERCURY flips into Virgo on the 26th, its other home sign, where it feels empowered to do its exacting, direct and perhaps over-analyzing Virgo thing. Of course, as with all the other planets changing signs this week it will aspect PLUTO Rx. This time the aspect is an awkward quincunx (150 degrees). It is forming a Yod (finger of god triangle) by a simultaneous quincunx to NEPTUNE Rx and its ongoing sextile with PLUTO Rx. This augers for some important communication, inspiration or information probably not getting through very clearly or come out sideways. That’s ok because by August 4th MERCURY will go retrograde and form this same Yod two more times over the next 2 months. So by mid September whatever that message may be will finally become unambiguous.  Also, on the 26th CHIRON goes into its slow Rx after hanging out at around 23 degrees of Aries for a little over a month. It will be about 9 months going over 23 to 19 degrees Aries and back to 23 so we can complete our healing work in those degrees whatever that my be for you.
On the 27th we’ve made it halfway to the NEW MOON…WHEW!

I’ll talk some about that on our FULL MOON YouTube video coming out soon and of course in more detail here next week as we get closer to the waning Quarter Square MOON.

I pray you all are navigating all this OK. Its epic times, as I and every other astrologer, have been saying for years now. We all wanted change, now it’s happening (and pretty much for the rest of our lives). It is both fascinating and harrowing to go through this no matter who you are or what you know. Sending blessings to you all.

ASTROLOGICAL FORECAST JULY 13 TO JULY 21 WAXING QUARTER MOON

We be trippin! Well, we all may have been over this last week, but it looks like the turbulence and effort will pay off in the long run and we might feel some positive movement and support for whatever deep journey we are on as we get closer to the FULL MOON. On the July 13th QUARTER MOON we are just finishing up with a VENUS in the first degrees of LEO opposition to PLUTO. This has probably stirred up some powerful disturbances in things we consider necessary for a good life; our relationships or finances for instance. Relationship dramas this week anyone?.

PLUTO has been doing oppositions in sequence over much of the month: MERCURY (Thoughts, Communication, Travel), the MOON (emotions, intuition, caring), now to VENUS (beauty, harmony, desire, romance) and then the SUN (our self and Self, ego and soul) around the time of the FULL MOON. Its been playing us hard for weeks as it retrogrades back through the first degrees of Aquarius, disrupting the status quo of our lives so we can experience any flaws and make the necessary adjustments. Not fun or easy if we resist and try to hold on to the past way of things or repress things we would prefer to keep hidden. Well, that is PLUTO’S role in the archetypal dance and it never really stops. PLUTO is also now close to 1 degree of sextile to NEPTUNE (imagination, spirituality, idealism, vagueness and deception) and just beginning to come into orb of a trine to URANUS (sudden change, innovation, destruction) which it will dance in and out of for the next number of years. As you can see from the archetypal energies involved, we are in for an evolutionary ride and it is just getting going. We are being asked to majorly upgrade our discernment of true reality including the fundamentally sacred nature of existence. PLUTO is reflecting that universal pattern of dissolution and rebirth to us and we have no viable choice but to collectively evolve somehow. It’s an eternal trip, Yo. This month has certainly had its share of Plutonic challenges for our own good. Whew!
JUPITER is trine the SOUTH NODE and sextile the NORTH NODE this week showing us we’ll likely have some confidence and optimism and perhaps a hit of good luck about the arc of our story despite PLUTO’S shennigans. MARS will be thrillingly conjunct URANUS on the 15th. Its been coming on for a bit and its indicating we may impulsively or explosively make moves for freedom from any restrictions or conditions we feel are stuck. That could clearly get out of hand if we don’t temper it with some strategic wisdom and compassion. We might happen to be on the receiving end of some surprising event and our instinctive response also should be tempered for best outcomes.
The SUN will be square to CHIRON for a few days early in the week, invoking our psychic and physical wounds or the wisdoms gained through those wounds. It’ll likely be a time for some catharsis or positively supporting someone’s catharsis

Overall this may be another challenging week for all of us tempting us to feel put upon, though there are certainly better ways to navigate it than taking it as a personal affront or battle or excuse to go into escape mode. Fortunately, as the MOON flows through Sagittarius for a few days midweek we’ll get a preponderance of trines and sextiles in the chart. This indicates the prior intense experiences will likely have beneficial outcomes. Trust and equanimity in the face of adversity is key. “Be like water” if you can, lol. NEPTUNE and SATURN are retrograde in watery Pisces opening flowy opportunities to correct our intentions and path and the SUN is still in water element Cancer, emphasizing our intuitive, perceptive and sympathetic characteristics for a few more days before the Leo party ramps up.
MARS enters Gemini on the 20th allowing us to open our minds to communication and alternative ideas of how to proceed until September when it will cool its jets in Cancer.

On the 21st we have the FULL MOON just hours before the MOON conjuncts PLUTO and the SUN slips over into exuberant Leo, its home territory. MERCURY will be square URANUS and MARS that day too, so be prepared for possible unexpected changes of mind. More on that, of course, in the IntimacyArts forecasts on YouTube and in my written report here next week.

NEW MOON FORECAST JULY 5 TO JULY 13

This week as we move from the NEW MOON on the 5th to the WAXING square we get to experience a different vibe than we have during recent months. With PLUTO and now SATURN and NEPTUNE in their retrograde phases we may sense a slowing down and remedial feel to the bass rhythms that underlie the buzz and swoosh of the inner planets. Retrogrades give us a chance to rethink, revise and reappraise what we manifested during the times of direct motion. NEPTUNE Rx particularly indicates a period when we can see our illusions, delusions or fantasies get a reality check. We are also still in Cancer season for now, which has opened us all to a more sensitive and softer demeanor. With all that going on we may feel a bit more introverted, overwhelmed, touchy and/or insecure no matter what our circumstances. It is time to address and correct things that may have been idealized or tighten up some necessary details that were glossed over in the rush of events of the last few months.

On the NEW MOON we have disciplined and stodgy SATURN Rx in a harmonic sextile to assertive and impulsive MARS setting a tone of either focused determination or perhaps feeling held back and frustrated by the way things are going. It depends on 1. how it lands in your chart and 2. how you handle facing hard reality and responsibilities. CHIRON the keeper of wounds as teachings will be exactly square to VENUS the planet of love and financial wellbeing, encouraging us to face any fundamental problems we have in those realms. NEW MOONS represent new beginnings and set the tone for the next lunar cycle and this one looks to have something to do with the way we relate to each other, both collectively and personally.

Something challenging may come up for us around the 6th as the MOON, after sweeping across VENUS, briefly opposes PLUTO and trines NEPTUNE Rx. It is brief though, and may just flare up and pass, especially with NEPTUNE indicating we may want to just avoid any confrontation because we aren’t clear on what exactly to do or say. It’s a fact though, if these kind of PLUTO aspects are not dealt with up front they will often just fester in the background only to come up later with even more strength and disruption. JUPITER’S half square to VENUS that same day will energize just this kind of flare up to possibly be about power struggles in relationships, money or other things we hold dear. MERCURY just went through the same configuration to PLUTO and NEPTUNE last week and so this may feel like a bit of a continuation of that. VENUS itself is due to step into that same space as it enters LEO on the 11th and hits the same spot a day later. PLUTO stirring the muck and NEPTUNE Rx revealing where we may have deluded ourselves. It  is a time of necessary course corrections for sure. Let your highest principals be your guide; Do the right thing as best you can and you will likely look back in the near future and see how it was all a good and necessary trial.

The 7th to 9th may offer up some more forward movement and clarity as JUPITER and MERCURY both move into easier aspects with the NORTH and SOUTH NODES of Karma, perhaps inspiring us with a clearer path towards our goals or at least ideas to that effect. We do still have some more glitches to deal with before hitting the gas on those ideas though. As I mentioned above, VENUS has its time opposing PLUTO and trine NEPTUNE Rx on the 10th to 13th  revealing some deeper truths.

MARS is getting dangerously close to disruptive URANUS. It is due to exactly conjunct it on the 15th but it is likely already lighting some fuses here and there even before we get to the WAXING MOON square to the SUN on the 14th. MARS conjunct URANUS happens every couple of years and it’s not always a big conflagration but then sometimes it is.

Just before VENUS jumps over into “all-about-Me”, LEO and does its thing with PLUTO and NEPTUNE on the 11th the SUN synergistically trines SATURN Rx so we may have our feet on the ground as VENUS opposes PLUTO. Perhaps we can responsibly wrap up some of the dramas PLUTO has likely stirred up lately. PLUTO is constantly reminding us we can never get completely away from the underworld.

Overall it might feel like a challenging time we did not expect and may not feel we are quite up to dealing with. Yet if we do step up we should be on a less misdirected path by the second FULL MOON in Capricorn, July 21st. That’s gotta be a good thing. NEPTUNE RX will certainly be revealing any wishful thinking we have until it goes direct in December, so it is kind of a theme for this Summer and Fall. That way we can be oriented properly for whatever new inspirations that come in 2025 and not be lost in some kind of fictional Wonderland.

WANING QUARTER MOON FORECAST JUNE 28 to JULY 5

Well, this is going to be interesting. This week as we head towards the NEW MOON we get a couple of major players go retrograde, shifting the energy to a more inward, restitutional and remedial vibe in a couple of major archetypal realms. SATURN and NEPTUNE are both essentially stationary in Pisces as each gets ready to backtrack in the sky over the portion they covered in the last few months. This week may unfortunately feel a little like wading through mud trying to get things done.  Perhaps we’ve been feeling tired and spacey and a little frustrated with the pace lately. We are being asked to slow down, allow the flow to be what it is and trust that the universe has things well in hand, timing wise. Retrogrades are a powerful opportunity to REview, REvise and REorganize. In this case it would be plans and structures we have begun to build and responsibilities we’ve taken on (SATURN) and the visions, inspirations, and delusions (NEPTUNE) we’ve experienced since the eclipses in April that might need some correcting before fully implementing them. We get a chance to tweak all this into a stronger alignment with truth and beauty until late Fall when they each again move direct. SATURN is hovering at 19 degrees of Pisces for many weeks giving us an opportunity to be in gratitude for all the simple blessings we actually do have in our lives. NEPTUNE is stationed at late 29 degrees Pisces sextile to PLUTO. It is flirting for the next year or so with crossing over into Aries and the next 165 year cycle of our collective idealism, visions, dreams, spirituality and perpetual struggles with delusion, confusion and deceit for humanity. Of course, this retrograde dance happens every year as the orbits of these planets do their thing relative to earth. It just seems like this year has been full of such initiations, changes and powerful aspects that everything feels heightened in significance.

MARS is sextile VENUS for the next few days which could open us to romantic passion except MARS is also half square to NEPTUNE, sapping some of MARS’s energy and focus. Perhaps just passion in a lower key for a bit, if not downright slug-a-bed laziness. Don’t worry it passes and MARS moves into sextile with SATURN by the NEW MOON which may light our fuse again.

MERCURY will be square CHIRON during the last days of the month likely poking our wounds a little, especially as CHIRON is also annoyingly half square to inflationary JUPITER. We are perhaps feeling more sensitive these days as the SUN, VENUS and MERCURY transit through touchy CANCER. Since the SUN will be squaring the MOON’S NODES of fate this week, in the best case this will be an opportunity to feel into and release some of our deeper and more repressed emotions around relationships or events. Another fucking opportunity for healing, lol. Lets not miss it, eh? Because by the 30th MERCURY moves on into a sextile with the planet of radical change URANUS indicating we will experience a smooth but quick shift in our consciousness that may resolve the way we think about the wounds recently activated.

On the 2nd Neptune stops and turns to go Rx just a couple of days after SATURN did the same. NEPTUNE will be exactly trine MERCURY on that day which augurs either spaciness or inspiration depending on which way you lean. Probably a good day to let yourself drift and dream a bit. But do keep focused on your highest ideals and do write down your dreams. Resist just spending the whole last part of the week mindlessly scrolling or escaping into getting high. MERCURY will also be opposing PLUTO then which could help with that focus being into our deep and penetrating into our collective and personal psyche. Be wary of engaging in communication that comes across as a little “Too deep and penetrating” though. PLUTO has a tendency to let the cat out of the bag in disturbing or destructive ways. Though finesse, restraint and diplomacy may be a bit elusive for the last few days before the NEW MOON, it will behoove you to watch your step especially with the SUN exactly squaring the MOONS NODES making this time a possible crux point in our shared destiny. Truth will out.
The NEW MOON is on July 5th , A new beginning with MARS sextile SATURN Rx which will help us with our determination to get whatever came up in the last week done and move forward more organized and disciplined.

P.S. I am traveling in Europe for the next couple of months with Phina Kemper. We’ll be doing our bi-monthly YouTube video forecasts as usual on the NEW MOON and FULL MOON and I will still be available for readings if you want to know more precisely and personally how these general aspects are going to be showing up in your life.

WEEKLY FORECAST JUNE 21 FULL MOON TO JUNE 28

This week starts off with another in an undeniably endless series of opportunities to be exercising and honing our clear discernment. This FULL MOON, just a day after the Solstice, is barely edged over into Capricorn. The SUN, in opposition, of course, is just squeaking into Cancer. This is combined with the SUN and MOON forming in a t-square with nebulous NEPTUNE as the crux affecting both luminaries. It looks like we’ll all be called on to use our innate sagacity to separate truth from delusion on this one. NEPTUNE might give us a bit of an “Alice in Wonderland” feel for the whole Summer.

Capricorn where the MOON will be is ruled by stodgy SATURN and so has a certain impatience with any tomfoolery or emotional distractions from The Mission while the SUN in Cancer ruled by the MOON has its moth antenna fully extended to fully feel all the feels. It’s an interesting mix for sure, as opposing signs usually are. Yet when combined well they can create a mission that is practical, ambitious, loving and safe. Combined poorly; Stubborn, neurotic and fearful dramas may ensue. With NEPTUNE doing its murky push/pull t-square thing this week we may have trouble deciding which story we are in; the best or the worst. We my even have trouble rousing enough chi to focus because NEPTUNE loves to sleep and drift and dream.  This could be a long-term theme for this summer onwards as NEPTUNE is a major player for the next number of years. As I’ve pointed out previously, it is locking into a synergistic sextile with PLUTO, lord of the underworld and also sextile to URANUS, the planet of innovation and radical change until the late part of the decade. So as many of us as can manage it are going to need to become expert at the wisdom game to not let our worst shadows decide our fates.

Speaking of PLUTO, It will be in a brief but vexatious Quincunx (aka: 150 degrees or inconjunct) with the SUN on the 21st after doing the same disturbing aspect with VENUS and MERCURY last week. This may be indicating some subtle and deeper issues showing up around power dynamics in our personal lives, either as the perpetrator or recipient. It’s a fleeting but potentially revealing window on some usually hidden or repressed dynamics.

On the 22nd the MOON moves into an opposition with he messenger, MERCURY, and so into a Grand Cross with the MOON’s NODES of fate. In consequence the next couple of days may lend themselves to conversations or contemplations about important aspects of our collective or your personal past and future. Perhaps some debriefing about whatever PLUTO has been stirring up for us lately.

VENUS moves into a square with the MOON’s NODES on the 25th while MERCURY trines SATURN, lending us some determination to deal with any stagnant issues in our relationships or finances. On the 27th that VENUS vibe gets a push to assertive action as MARS moves into a synergistic sextile with VENUS around that same time. Be aware this could potentially create some more volatile reactions if progress feel blocked. Also, our aim for that progress might be less precise than we would like because MARS is also awkwardly half square to spacey NEPTUNE at the same moment, tempting us to shoot a bit wild.

The MOON arrives at its WANING QUARTER square to the SUN on the 28th centered between the NORTH NODE and CHIRON wrapping up what may feel like a sort of personal “make and mend” week after so many big aspects in the last few months. A chance to wrap up some loose ends.  Don’t let it just drift by in a summer dream. There is plenty of deep work ahead of us this year to hold our vision clear amidst all the distractions and misdirection.