Thoughts for June 2007
Are we there yet?

1st June 2007

Graphic Ephemeris June 2007

Full Moon 1st June 2007

3rd Quarter Moon 8th June 2007

New Moon 15th June 2007

1st Quarter Moon 22th June 2007

Full Moon 30th June 2007

You might like to look at the astronomy for this month here.

June brings the last exact pass of Saturn opposite Neptune. 25th June sees the last of the three oppositions between these two planets. This is the middle point of their 36 year cycle, what ever is happening now is a culmination of foundations laid at the end of 1989 when the two planets were conjunct in Capricorn.

Also we see the Sun aspecting all the planets during the month. This is not a characteristic of it being in Gemini but rather because of the way the planets are positioned. We start off with Sun opposite Jupiter on 5th, square to Uranus on 9th. Sun opposite Jupiter is associated with peace, treaties signed at this time have a higher chance of holding. Jupiter and Uranus have been squaring each other and we're two down with one to go so we're in the same hiatus that we have with Saturn and Neptune. The Sun moving from one to another, translating light is the technical term, could shake things up a bit. What ever story is being told here will get a new lease of life. The final square takes place in October.

11th June sees the Sun start a busy couple of days with Mars, Saturn and Neptune. This could see a prelude to any events which will be set off around the Saturn Neptune opposition on 25th. Mars, which along with the Sun is a faster moving trigger, will sextile Saturn and the Sun on 11th. Saturn and Mars trine each other. 13th June sees Mars and Sun sextile/trine Neptune. It seems as if the two planets in opposition are being spotlighted in anticipation of their final contact.

15th June sees Mercury station are prepare to retrograde. It goes direct on July 10th. It's in Cancer which indicates emotional misunderstandings. See my notes for March for more on Mercury retrograde. Not many aspects are made during June so this may be less disruptive than usually expected.

18st bring a semi-square between the Sun and Venus. Not the most powerful aspect but it's also associated with Venus's greatest elongation, that is the largest angle she can make with the Sun. This happens in the months leading up to a Venus retrograde - 28th July she stations retrograde - and she can be seen in the western sky after sunset and is a spectacular sight. I pointed it out to someone last week and he replied that is was no wonder that she was mistaken for a UFO.

19th gives us Sun opposite Pluto and 21st sees Mars trine Pluto. 23rd sees Uranus station before going retrograde and 25th sees the Saturn Neptune opposition. 28th sees Mercury conjoin with the Sun, its inferior conjunction as Mercury is between the Earth and the Sun.

So what can we say about this? Saturn Neptune is about dissolving structures. This can be to dispose of them, to bend them into new shapes, to transcend existing boundaries. What ever the exact nature of events we know that we have a battle between the individual - Saturn in Leo - and the collective - Neptune in Aquarius. I am indebted to Darby Costello for her ideas on this. She cautions on blaming an a specific person for the morass in which you find yourself. Part of Saturn in Leo is to do with individual responsibility. We can see, by looking at events, that the individual is in danger of being consumed by the collective. When Saturn moves into Virgo we may see progress. In the meantime, we go through the same issues again and again. Saturn Neptune is blunt, perhaps we need Virgo to give it an edge?