Mon June 18- Sun June 24

This week we go cardinal, the Sun moves into Cancer. For the northern hemi now the hints of Spring become summers obviousness and in the south autumn lets go and winter grabs a hold. It's the shift to the seasons of the extremes, when we're reminded that we are still connected to simple things. It has always been and will always be one of the great days of each year to cast, conjure, puja, pray or charge the energy field with the flavor of your own choosing. Each being rules the temple of their own making, with the senses that they develop. Thursday let's all take it up a notch.

Monday the Leo Moon gets the week going with a passionate rushing energy, it can float in heights of community vision and plummet into the depths of personal doubt and despair. We all get a reminder that where the mind is pointed the heart will follow and have a chance to grab the reins and take some responsibility for what webs our thoughts weave.

The Sun and Pluto are opposite each other today and tugging in polar directions. The charge of Pluto the war planet and the paternal principle can bring that some harsh words in conflict. Any time we feel harsh conflict rearing its head there are two directions it seems; escalate or the opposite. We can also try the third method sort of tantric conflict management and just take a few breaths, change the physical posture, get some eye contact and take a scan for what the real issue is. It's possible that the same issue can cause multiple petty conflicts and bad relationships in a life. It only takes reacting differently once to shift out of a pattern. So the whole week has this Pluto shadow, Mars and Pluto tangle on Thursday. So it's not new age-y 'avoid conflict', that's just bad math, conflict exists all we have to do is look at the atom, but we have a chance to harmonize the nature of conflict and spin with as much grace as a single molecule.

On Tuesday that sizzle from the heart sublimates into the mind. A thing that is the brain but also so much more then we realize, the mind has to be used to study itself so that is a flawed experiment from the start. There is the space that is mind and not connected to the physical at all and there is the realm of Virgo. It's why the stereotype of Virgo is fanatic cleaning, you can just see the physical world from a different perspective and the sorting and cleaning that normally exposes so much baggage seems effortless, that's whys it's easy to put off, now it's clear of that and easily sorted like with like. Whether that's a CD collection or the relationships in a life, we can get the proverbial ducks in a row, eventually they will scatter again but it's healthy to take a head count.

Venus trines Jupiter today joining the fires signs of Leo and Sag. This is such a sweet combination that I don't want to babble to much, but it also happens on the eve of the Solstice and will play out into next week. Thinking of Venus is always this gorgeous creature on the half shell floating about, but she has a hard-core side that includes boots and tools that would surprise you. She can 'enforce' harmony on you if you don't want to rise up to it. Jupiter is the principle of Expansion, the jyotish call him Guru. Those taking advantage of the puja party thursday will be soaking in this principle of the force of harmony, like a tidal wave, given inertia by the source of expansion and they will be the channel for it's filtering into the human plane. It's not huge acts that are the instruments of evolution, each breath is a ritual, every heartbeat a prayer.

Wednesday the mind is still getting the charge from the Virgo moon. Inversions are a healthy thing to do for the mind and the digestion, two of the associations of Virgo. You don't have to pull off Sirasana, if the mind is just spinning sit upside down on the couch for ten minutes and just 'watch' it. The workings of any human mind dwarf our most powerful computer so it's entertaining in the least. The inversion helps in circulation and you can notice a shift in energy and mental equilibrium. With the mechanics of how we think exposed we can tinker and tune, small adjustments can lead to huge affects when we attune this deep in the process of human thinking.

The Solstice is Thursday. Happens at 11:07am on the west coast of the u.s.s.a. You can calculate your exact time here. The pairs of solstice's and equinoxes are the major days that have been observed for our whole existence. Duh without the cycles of the seasons we'd all be minerals or at best a rare form of algae. This is one of the two days each year the mark the change into the extremes of the weather patterns. Ancients believed and practiced the art/science of infusing intention into these days. Opening up that connection between the macro and microcosm, allowing the individual to transmit into the total and the total to be absorbed by the individual. It's not a matter of whether we 'get it' or not, it's going to happen. The crux is how much you participate in it. Life is not a spectator sport!

Mars is trine Pluto today mixing the signs of Aries and Sag, this is some potent action as we already looked at. Pluto and Mars can you feel me? Fights to the death over parking spaces, children destroying toys, new death toll high in Baghdad. There's a flavor for you, as with all extreme life there is the potential to tune your sails properly and on an individual or small community level get a lot of inertia from this. Doing big physical projects that can bring healing to your backyard or community is one way to absorb and distribute this. For the adventurous you can put the physical through some paces, to the point of exhaustion and watch what the mind and body have to say to each other under this stress. It's an excellent time to tune each of our personal fuses, to discover what our buttons are and what they are hooked to. On this day of the union of the micro and macro we each need to recognize that we have an oppressive leader and an insurgent down inside. Getting them both to disarm and realign is a job only you can do for you.

Friday could feel a bit like a bliss hangover, a little slow and sluggish but with a nice fuzzy feel to it all. The Moon has slipped into Libra in the night and we have a fresh look at the opportunities in our sphere. Libra brings out the diplomat in all of us, that ability to see all sides of an issue. A great day to make some peace if the Mars and Pluto vibe got to thick and words and actions went to the harsh side. Seeing all sides enables us to get out of the subjective and see our part without self-judgment. Resolution is about everyone winning, of seeing the full solution so clearly that the idea of blame has no place.

Saturday we carry the Moon in Libra into the weekend. So make up and play nice, practice that Yogic power of Santosa or contentment with your life. No matter where you're at if you're taking breaths there is room for gratefulness.

Uranus turns retrograde in perspective to our planet. The planet of revolution, innovation and much consternation gives us a review. There is only one retrograde a year of the outer or 'social' planets. As the Moon goes by the Uranus point each month until November we'll get a release of this essence. For us individuals it's a scan on things that are new to us like machines, ideas that we've integrated, new friends and lovers, it's a perspective of seeing the surface as a reflection of the depths, to be able to attach the fresh and innovative to all parts of us.

Sunday we get the Lunar shift into Scorpio, a deep and heavy key for many to play in. It will carry into the beginning of the week but use it today to focus back on the week, on the intentions that you fused with, go for deep internal forgiveness and get the strategic and all seeing eye of Scorpio for a clear perspective on your life. You do have a plan and there is room in it, there must be, for constant attenuation. This evening is a great one to start your dream yoga sadhana.

Mars shifts into Taurus today and not a body count to soon. Since going into Aries in mid-May the headlines have been soaked with blood. The inter party-language-religious-ethnic wars now outweigh the most foolish war in history. That's tough I know as all wars are foolish but the Crusade of 'dubya' raised the bar for foolish, gruesome and atrocious. With Mars in Taurus the manipulation will turn to reconciliation and you'll see factions all sitting down to tea by August. Mars' transit through Taurus will reach some flashpoints but they will serve as rallying calls, as is often the case with the coverage of this diabolical war, the 'news' itself one of the most embarrassing and offensive parts of this war, a huge loss of life will be termed a 'wake up' call. How asleep can you be that at this late stage you haven't woken up yet? For individuals Mars in Taurus will give us a chance to live the world the way it should be, along side the contradiction. If we don't reflect the values and character we wish for the global community it can never make it's way out of the mirror.

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Moon and Planet stats for the Week

Monday
Moon in Leo
Sun opposition Pluto GEMINI-SAG

Tuesday
Moon Void at 2:22pm PST
Moon into Virgo 5:46pm PST
Venus trine Jupiter LEO-SAG

Wednesday
Moon in Virgo

Thursday
Sun into Cancer 11:07am PST
Solstice at 11:07am PST
Mars trine Pluto ARIES-SAG
Moon VOID at: 11:50pm PST

Friday
Moon into Libra 4:43am PST
Moon square Sun 6:15am PST
First quarter waxing Moon

Saturday
Moon in Libra
Uranus Retrograde 7:43am PST

Sunday
Moon VOID at: 12:22pm PST
Moon into Scorpio 5:26pm PST
Mars into Taurus

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