~ Lena Stevens
www.thepowerpath.com
Dear Friends,
New Moon is Saturday June 8, at 9:58 AM MDT (Mountain Daylight Time). New Moon is always s a still point and an opportunity to reset. This month it should truly support being still and offer you the gift of time to go within and be internal. Take some time to just sit and contemplate, and to be in nature and to honor the space between the past and the future as being right in the present where everything and nothing exist at the same time. Contemplate what expansion really means. Expansion requires space, a space where things are not arranged and controlled and organized and attached to past experiences or future expectations.
Allow the transition energy to work itself into a flow so that you can feel expansion and allow that expansion to fill the still point of the new moon. In this way you give yourself the gift of allowing something that you could never have imagined take seed. You do not need to know the answers or the "how" of things. You need only to know the" what". What is it that you want?
Blessings,
Lena
ASTROLOGICAL NOTES: Written by Patricia Liles Contact her at PATLILES@aol.com
Gemini New Moon
Saturday, June 8, 2013 9:58 AM MDT
(3:58 PM Greenwich Mean Time)
Sun and Moon in Gemini 18º
We have a Mercury-ruled chart at New Moon in Gemini so networking, mental agility, fast-talking sociability, and flexibility will certainly be highlighted. Gemini gets its designation as 'The Twins' from the two bright stars, Castor and Pollux, in the constellation Gemini. Here we embrace all forms of duality-the conscious and unconscious, love and hate, me and you, faith and doubt-experience each side of the continuum, and with the flexibility of a mutable, air sign, integrate, synthesize and transmute the difference into a new perception. Because Gemini is blessed with the gift of communication in all forms – speaking, teaching, negotiating, translating, convincing, writing..., they are able to bridge and link others minds' with their myriad of experiences. Fleet-footed Mercury comes to us from Roman mythology, but the lineage is through the more ancient forms of Hermes in Greek mythology and Thoth, God of Knowledge, in Egyptian culture. Mercury, our fastest moving planet and closest to the Sun, is considered neutral and often androgynous. He's just the messenger; it's just information. Considered highly adaptable to his environment, he can adapt and interpret information from one arena to the next. Depth is not Mercury's forte, and be aware of the slightly deceitful, weak-willed nature of this airy sign.
Mercury is in Cancer at New Moon so what we will most want to communicate are our feelings and emotional needs, and we will be able to listen and receive others (the receptive aspect of communication). Mercury is in exact position to directly oppose Pluto and square Uranus forming a T-square. Asteroid Ceres held this same position at last New Moon, and Vesta, Goddess of the Sacred Hearth, was here at Full Moon. So some evolving and disruption is definitely going on at the personal levels as well as collective levels, and Mercury now in Cancer is helping to shift our thinking/communicative function to our feeling-centered self. Our emotional bodies will answer our questions, show us where we need to be if we can open and acknowledge our receptive channels. With Pluto/Uranus involved, we might be letting the truth come to light on something we've been holding deep in the recesses of our emotional holding tank. Telling the truth about our needs will free us to move along the path we need to go.
Earlier in the week, Mercury completed a Grand Trine in water signs with the slower moving Saturn and Neptune (in 5º Scorpio/Pisces). Now Venus is in that position. Water Grand Trine will give us access to the feminine, receptive, fluid, intuitive aspects of our nature. Oh Happy Day! We need that respite from the driving period of growth we have just experienced in the past month-long eclipse period. We're in for an extended period of ease and grace now introduced by Mercury and Venus each moving through the degrees that form the Grand Trine, but by the last week of June, the Sun will take up that position just before expansive, generous Jupiter changes sign to Cancer and moves in to trine position for practically the whole month of July. A Grand Trine provides experience with being in sync with the 'flow of life'. You may feel like you are unfocused and can't get things done, but that's just the point. Going with just what comes up without resistance or ideas about what YOU think should be happening is a good practice for all of the caffeine-fueled, list makers among us. Give Spirit some room to provide you with just what you need. Just be clear on your path and about what you want to create and experience how Spirit provides for you. Enjoy a good cosmic laugh on yourself as you watch yourself 'pushing the river'. Play more, drift, let your imagination have its way with you, relax! This communion with the feminine aspects of life will serve us well as we enter a more volatile fall season.
More subtly, there is a second Grand Trine in evidence made up of South Node in the power sign of Scorpio, Vesta, ruler of the sacred temple hearth, and Chiron, healer and teacher – all in water signs. This suggests a path for finding and releasing our feminine power by acknowledging the Sacred Feminine in ourselves, our planet, our partners and bringing healing and renewal back to this ancient vein that has been underground for thousands of years. The Grand Trines are linked through Mercury, so be ready to receive the message and The Messenger.
Grand Trines aren't known for their dynamic energy, only their easeful nature. The Pluto/Uranus square that is on-going 2012-2015 is just the needed tension and reminder that we are in a major cultural shift period. Although Jupiter in Cancer at 5º will be creating beneficial positive effects in July, by the time it moves to 11º in mid August, it will be creating a potentially volatile T-square with Pluto/Uranus. So practice and strengthen acceptance, forgiveness and love for all that arises and dissipates before you.
Three notable retrogrades this month: Neptune in Pisces turns retrograde for 5 months on June 7th and Mercury in Cancer will retrograde from June 26-July 20 with a week before and after when it slows its movement to nearly a standstill and intensifies its energy. Chiron goes retrograde on June 16th until late November.
So by the end of June, Chiron and four planets will be in retrograde motion, Mercury, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto, fueling our inward focus and desire for life to move at a manageable pace where we can use our energy for self evaluation and allow the planet's nature to seed new ideas within us.
Juno, ruler of committed relationship and partnership, squares the North and South Nodes suggesting we need to continue 'to engage in the challenge of relationship', but she is also in trine to the Sun and Moon in Gemini, so there is much support for learning and growth. The Nodes are where our greatest learning take place so expect that edge of fear/excitement to be stimulated, and it is also where we have brought forth issues into this life because we feel ready and strong enough to deal with energies from the distant past. Juno says, 'work to heal your lingering and long-standing relationship issues from the deep past.' Juno will continue to relate to the North/South Nodes at next Full Moon, but without the benefit of the trine and in a very stressful aspect instead. Prepare the soil and lay the seeds now within your relationships so you can better weather any power surge energy challenges at Full Moon. New Moon is always the time we're given to let go and re-set our intentions for the new cycle about to unfold.
06/20 Summer Solstice, 11:04 PM MDT
06/23 Full Moon in Capricorn 5:33 AM MDT
06/25 Jupiter enters Cancer for one year
06/26 Mercury retrograde 7:08 AM MDT until 7/22
07/08 Cancer New Moon 16º 1:14 AM MDT
Written by Patricia Liles Contact her at PATLILES@aol.com
