Summer 2011

Happy Summer Solstice everyone. 

This post focuses on bringing mindful attention to the building energy that this summer brings, the US Saturn return, and the forging of new pathways for us personally and collectively.


Yesterday's planetary configuration laid out the collective blueprint for the summer, marking August 28th as the ending of a significant chapter of time (5,125 years), not about the ending of the world, but the ending of the way we live in the world!

We have been living as if there is no cost to garnishing anything we want from the planet, but that time is coming to a close.  The three eclipse chart of the summer (June 1, June 15, July 1) and the summer solstice chart reveal insights into how this summer and the coming times will play out.  Barbara Hand Clow's site, Astroflash, gives extensive insights into them.  She encourages us to print it out so she doesn't have to go over the same themes continuously.


Here, I attempt to translate the charts for those who need less astrological interpretation.   By August 28th the United States will be in a full Saturn return which means all the ground work (governance, financial institutions, policy) that has been laid out since the last Saturn return (thirty years ago, more importantly the last seven years) will be accounted for.  Saturn doesn't like messes--it seeks organization, accountability, and becomes the grim reaper when it needs to clean things up.  The July 1 eclipse brings us another cardinal cross this summer, and leads us to Saturn's return, which also brings us to the beginning of seven exact squares between Uranus (the awakener) and Pluto (the destroyer, rebirther).  What do Uranus in Aries and Pluto in Capricorn want from us? 

The best way to work with any body of energy (whether it be planet, human, or a past soul) is to communicate with it, and so we ask. The answer's I get are...


Personally it is an extremely important question, because every choice we make, every thought we focus on is sent out into the universal vortex of creation, the collective galactic mind (for this galaxy--the galactic center, 26 Sag)..


Pluto seeks to eliminate that which is un-useful and dead, so it can rejuvenate it's lifeforce, it's soulful power.  Uranus seeks to radically change what is not in progressive alignment with it's role to lead humanity forward, to its necessary and natural evolution. All this would be much easier if we honored the earth as alive, and were in union with 'all of our relations' (all of life), all of the time.  But we aren't.  We live in a world driven outside of the natural norms--to violate natural law.


Recently, I have been contemplating a few charts with fixed crosses, so the planetary energy of Venus, the Sun, Pluto and Uranus have been on my mind (planets associated with Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius).  I then, by happenstance, listened to part of WPFW Earthbeat radio show (with Nick Rosen) which focused on renewal energy, generating your own power off of the grid, and how much 'the people' are wanting to gain independence from the system!  While I listened, my mind kept correlating what they were talking about with the Sun (solar power) and Uranus (electrical energy).  Uranus, now in Aries, which seeks independence from the stagnancy and status quo limitations, while Pluto, in the sign of Capricorn, seeks to demolish systems that are not accountable. 

Because the world we live in has been usurped into delusion for thousands of years, especially denying our relationship to planetary influences and their essential life giving energy, the upcoming squares between Uranus and Pluto in Aries and Capricorn have to also manage the distortions we have created here on earth...