Forecast for week of June 25, 2012

By Kathy Biehl

Big events often give way to a stretch of time to assimilate and acclimate, and that’s what’s happening now. Monumental influences have rocked us for the past month, especially in the last week. Instead of new ones entering the mix (as if anyone could deal with that!*), we get to see more and more of what’s already with us.

*Latrelle speaks for so many of us at 1:10.

Don’t kid yourself: The intensity is not going away. We’re not so much getting a break from it as getting acclimated to it. Stuck places of all kinds (beliefs, situations, relationships) have hit an evolve-or-die point. Nothing’s changing quickly. Even if immediate circumstances lurch into a new form, the ground beneath them is going to continue to shift over the long haul. We have entered an evolutionary process that will play out over years. Sunday’s Uranus/Pluto square was only the first round, pushing the process to the point of no return (If you haven’t read my short article on what that means, take the time now.)

It’s way too early to tell what this first round is really dredging up, much less what we are going to do with or about it. This week has an air of immobility, with much hanging in the air and little opportunity for resolution — an ideal formula for assimilating and acclimating.

More old stuff will be surfacing as Jupiter crosses the South Node of the past and whips up a flurry-to-tornado of archaic though patterns, memories folks and communications. The amusement value could be high; this is the type of influence that could deliver a letter or package that’s been presumed lost. The personal growth value could be high as well. Pay attention to old thinking that flies out of you. You could find yourself making statements that come from a you of long ago, and that you thought had left years ago, too.

Big shifts in those departments build as Friday approaches, when the Sun makes harsh aspects to both of the change agents and compels each of us to get with their program. (Soundtrack: Break on Through to the Other Side by The Doors.) No matter how wild and wooly the outside is becoming, the most important place of evolution is — all together now — inside you.

Besides the Uranus/Pluto square resonating, two planets are stationing direct without moving ahead. One is the ruler of time, Saturn, who is in charge of Pluto, and who ends his five-month review of relationships, agreements, reciprocity and social contracts on Monday. The other is the ruler of relationships, money and worldly values, Venus, who is in charge of Saturn, and who ends her five-week retrograde on Wednesday. Slowly — slowly — all manner of relationship, money and social matters are ripening into new and improved forms, made possible by what we’ve been encountering, rethinking and renegotiating during these retrogrades. The new forms aren’t springing up overnight, though. We can sense them, we can see them, but we have to allow them to show up on a schedule outside our control.

As Venus turns direct and eventually moves forward, stalled situations will start gearing up; ones that vaporized will come back into the picture. A big plus all around, the cosmic warning light will go dark where potential love interests and business deals are concerned. You can resume evaluating offers on the basis of your own instincts or intuition (or, let’s be honest, animal appeal) without an invisible finger wagging at you.

Even before Venus and Saturn move, concepts and talk are going to grow lively and impassioned without resulting in appreciable follow-through — until the weekend, when they fuel the personal, internal conflagration each of us is experiencing in the Uranus/Pluto aftermath. The culprit/facilitator is Mercury, the planet of communication, who abandons the emotional waters of Cancer on Monday for the playful, drama-loving fires of Leo. His shift is putting more pep in our minds, conversations and jaunts around town.

Over the weekend he closes in on Uranus’ force field, and the approach could be like a match moving toward a candle flame and igniting inches before they touch. What’s igniting is your own impulse to break out of confinement. Let your hair down. Let your inner child out. Be outrageous.

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Monday: Start the day by sitting with the dream fragments that are still swirling around you. Think they aren’t? Do you feel foggy, confused or otherworldly? yep; they’re around you. Unrealities have mushroomed in your psyche, perhaps fantasies, perhaps delusions, perhaps lies that you have accepted. All have ballooned to cartoonishly huge proportions, so that you can see them in their ridiculous glory. They could linger in the air most of the day. Saturn is stationing direct and giving everything the appearance of being suspended in air. In this moment outside of time, you have the latitude to take uncommonly good and thorough looks at what’s around you. You also have permission, with Mercury moving into Leo, to have some fun.

Tuesday: No matter how compelled you feel to get going this morning — and that could be extremely so — circumstances are not going to cooperate. The Moon is void of course all morning, from 6:45 AM to 1:16 PM EDT. What makes that cosmically ordained down time so uncommonly agonizing is that the Moon meets energizing Mars on her way into the void. Channel the drive that ignites into activities that will eventually require redoing. Filing, organizing, cleaning, doing the dishes and the like are all fitting for Mars in Virgo. Save big communications for the afternoon, when openings to connect (and brilliant ideas) pop up out of nowhere. Push yourself then, too. The challenge could not only turn out to be fun (noting a theme yet?), but also prove to you that you are capable of more than you’ve allowed yourself to believe.

Wednesday: Matters that lie dear to your heart are on your mind as the day starts. They’ve been whipped up overnight; dreams and/or processing have put you in touch with your true desires and pointed out where or how they are not being fulfilled. (You want what you want, doggedly, the barriers keeping you from that have come into focus, and you’ve done a dream-world trial run of an assault on them.) These matters, and your overnight experience of them, linger throughout the day. With Venus stationing direct, the play button will pause on many a relationship and financial issue. Take a good look at the freeze frames. The bulk of the day has no major aspects, and the few that do exist have an otherworldly, even surreal quality to them. Ask to see truth where there is confusion; ask to see the compassionate perspective where there is deceit or delusion. (Jot the more mind-boggling details down; you could be collecting data for a screenplay or novel.)

Thursday: Put down that to-do list. A void of course Moon consumes the day, from 4:23 AM to 4:33 PM EDT. As with Tuesday’s, this one starts with the Moon going void after a conjunction, this time to sobering, responsibility-conscious Saturn. This puts a grown-up cast on a day that otherwise encourages fantasizing, creating, playing, hanging out and having fun (that word AGAIN) with pals. One interpretation: it’s unlikely that you’ll do anything that causes permanent damage. Enjoy the flow.

Friday: Today the change agents Uranus and Pluto drive home the personal ramifications of their clash. What are you not gonna take any more? Possibly something within yourself, for starters. The impetus is huge to break out of your comfy, familiar shell and into raw, daring, bold you. The urge to share also goes into overdrive. Messages are flying. Everyone has something to say. It’s actually quite boisterous, and actually quite — you should be able to guess by now — fun. One thing worth doing for certain: Put writing materials at your bedside.

Saturday: The predawn hours explore the underbelly of our thoughts and communications. Shadowy demons and power figures wander through the dreamworld and announce their presence, if only through the discomfort they set off. Go with the urge if you wake up compelled to get to the bottom of something; likely your overnight experiences have left you with the map. Where are those writing materials? Still by your bed?

Sunday: The dream time is extraordinarily active. It’s so full of enjoyment and expansiveness that you might wake up feeling as if you’ve been on a vacation. You may also have the weird sense that you’ve had a long conversation with a certain someone. Don’t discount the possibility that you have. As for the day proper, go for the new, the novel, the spontaneous. That could unfold into the solitary, as the morning goes on. Obligations, responsibilities and expectations don’t sit comfortably, especially not after a journey as satisfying as last night’s. After they start to grate around noon EDT, there are absolutely no aspects for the rest of the day. Nothing to distract. No easy outs. You will have to find escape or resolution on your own.

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