Planting Seeds and Staying in Frat Houses
It’s been a minute since I sat down to write a blog post - an impulse that gets pushed to the side in favor of laundry or meal prep or escaping in a fantasy novel or trying taekwondo or nursing a sore knee because starting taekwondo in your mid-thirties has physical repercussions (hello, Saturn and Neptune in my 6th house - but that’s a post for another day)... If I’ve been waiting for the perfect moment/day/week to resume this writing practice, I suppose I couldn’t help but wait for this exact moment…because on Tuesday, June 8th, Venus and Jupiter form a once-in-twelve-year conjunction in the watery, yin sign of Cancer, where Jupiter exalts. Monday, June 8th through Tuesday, June 10th has all the potential to foster growth, abundance and glowing connectivity, specifically in the Cancer Area of Your Chart.
Even more so if:
You’re in a Cancer profection year
You’re chart ruler is Venus or Jupiter (ie: Taurus-, Libra-, Sagittarius, and Pisces-risings)
You’re in a Venus- or Jupiter-ruled profection year
Cancer is an angular house in your chart (Cancer-, Capricorn-, Aries-, and Libra- risings)
You have personal placements in Cancer and/or the Cardinal Signs (Capricorn, Libra and Aries), especially around 25 degrees
As you can see, the impact may vary, but all in all these days in early June are a boost after the paradigm-shifting energy of late winter and early spring. Did you feel that? Are you still adjusting to the new normal? (I certainly am!)
Just to recap (because I’ve been MIA and a lot went down in the sky while I was away):
As of February of this year, a new part of our lives (Aries - the mars-ruled, childlike, feisty cardinal fire sign) is getting the Saturn-Neptune Combo Special in which delusion (Neptune) meets maturity (Saturn) in the metaphoric equivalent to a rowdy frat house (Aries). Saturn in particular doesn’t like this rowdy frat house. Saturn prefers quiet libraries and dusty, leatherbound books (me too, Saturn). It doesn’t belong in a frat house, and he’s frankly upset that he has to spend two years there dealing with immature, loud characters and overblown egos…
What’s more, Saturn’s roommate, Neptune has completely bought into this new change of scenery, embracing Greek Life with gusto and partying at all hours of the night with zero situational awareness and no sense of boundaries. It’s a mess. How will Saturn cope? We shall see…
Then, at the end of April, Uranus - Promethean planet of rebellion, breakthroughs, and sudden, unexpected change - entered the airy, quixotic, ever-curious mutable sign of Gemini. If it sounds like adding fuel to the fire, it’s because it is. And, Uranus is going to bring some kind of rug-pulled-out-from-under-your-feet kind of change in the Gemini Area of Your Chart. It might be uncomfortable. It will most definitely be unexpected. But, in the end, the change Uranus brings is for our own liberation – or so they say. You tell me. I’m curious.
Pluto - planet associated with intensity, plumbing the depths of the soul, unearthing shadows, destruction, and rising from the ashes (you know, light stuff) - continues hanging out in Aquarius, which is the antisocial “social” air sign. The brainy one. The black sheep. Marches to the beat of their own drum. Actually cool, but doesn’t know or care. Also really smart. Maybe neurospicy. Associated with technology. And, while this is not necessarily new, the other outer planets previously mentioned (Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus) are all now in conversation with Pluto. In Astrology Speak, they’re making aspects to Pluto. Favorable aspects, mind you. So, that’s something.
There’s something cooking in the Aquarius, Aries, and Gemini parts of your chart. In Fire and Air signs. Masculine, yang signs. Fixed, Cardinal, and Mutable signs. They’re connected by sextiles and trines, so the energy is flowing. I wonder what’s cooking. It’s probably spicy.
Back to this week. I wonder what beautiful seeds you're planting in this fertile Cancerian soil. Cancer has to do with the home. With lineage and history and tradition and family. It’s ruled by the Moon - the ever-changing, dynamic light in the night sky. The Moon in a natal chart - its placement and condition - is said to represent the Mother and, indeed, Cancer is associated with the archetype of Mother. Caregiver. The Womb. Creation.
Venus is love, friendship, harmony, women. Jupiter is wisdom, abundance, growth.
Taken altogether it’s a beautiful combination, and I hope that you use this time to intentionally plant seeds that will take root and bloom in the months to come.
Maybe, because I’m writing this post during this time, I will be more consistent about them. (Ha!) Time - as it always and inevitably does - will tell.
FYI, I’m adding a few offerings…
For returning clients, I’m adding a follow-up session. This is so that we can dive even deeper, since there are always more layers of the metaphorical onion to peel. And also, so that we can pick up where we left off and keep exploring your personal, ever-unfolding astrology.
For parents and caregivers, I’m adding a child-specific reading centered on understanding the energies present in your child’s chart.
For clients without a birth time, I’m adding chart rectification as an add-on to natal-chart readings.
If any or all of the above sounded like gobbledygook and you’d like to know more about how the astrology is landing for you, feel free to reach out and book a session with me.
