Aspects for the week beginning 27 June 2010
How was the Grand Cross for you yesterday? I heard reports back from several people flattened on Chaises Longues, tiredness being an undeniable feature of the experience. Hopefully, today can be a kind of rebirth, and certainly there will be mental challenges today with Mercury opposite Pluto, the results of which may bring a mental reorientation. You may need to look at where other people’s rules, constructs and constricts are limiting your own beliefs, and keeping you held through fear. Tomorrow (Monday 28) Sun is conjunct Mercury, so that can bring about a mental rebirth, favouring focus and travel. Wednesday (30th) brings a conjunction between the South Node and Mercury in Cancer, when the focus can profitably settle on the past (in this lifetime or previous ones) and insight may come forth in connection with family ties and soul groups. Mental shifts are supported by the Sun’s alignment to the Fixed Star Alhena in Gemini: *“This star appears to offer individuals the ability to rapidly change modes of thought and to shift context. This will give them the ability to see things in a whole new way and to utilize the information from a new perspective or to change their minds in a way that is appropriate for their own development.” On Thursday July 1st Mercury sextiles Mars, promoting quick thinking and intelligent action – a good day to get things done, and a good day to act on any new ways of thinking which emerged earlier in the week. Wimbledon matches could be super-efficient. The Ladies Finals are scheduled for Saturday 3rd July, coinciding with a conjunction between the Sun and the South Node in Cancer. The outcome could be karmic! The aspects look more favourable towards Venus than Serena Williams, contrary to seeding positions, but maybe Serena has the strength to defy astrological odds or the instinct to work with them. (See my earlier blog ruminations on Wimbledon). For life outside Wimbledon, quoting myself from last week regarding the Sun/South Node connection, we are individually and collectively “coming to terms with karmic issues from the connection with the Sun this week, not in the sense of retribution but of looking at causes and what you contributed and why, so that you can move on.”
*Interpretations from “Starlight Elixirs” by Michael Smulkis and Fred Rubenfeld
June 27th, 2010 at 12:53 pm
Lana thanks as usual. I am glad to hear there are favourable things in the skies for travel tomorrow, Monday as I shall be flying back from Ireland, the land of the Leprachauns to England, the land of the Engs! On a more serious note, I am grateful to know that the very things I am thinking about at the moment, i.e. about letting go of my own limiting beliefs and those of my family appear to be on the mark astrologically. I can see that it’s possible Wednesday’s appointment coming up will be a productive one for me. Things are emerging and changing – I am changing. I am moving on! Thank you Lana
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June 27th, 2010 at 3:37 pm
Hoorah for aspirin which has finally soothed my sore throat, troubling all last week. And don’t get me on to my sore eyes, also relieved just now. Struggling with this and the HOT weather has occupied all my energies, so no idea on progress – just survival! For the week ahead, I have the ‘gasman’ due to come Thurs 1st to fit pipe limescale preventer and boiler gunk filter. Expensive but preventative, so I’m hoping intelligent action. Feeling better now for the coming week, thanks Lana. I’ll do some star gazing to complete my joy.
June 27th, 2010 at 10:39 pm
Thank you, Flick and Sarah!
Have a good week both of you, travelling, emerging, healing and all!
I will be back at the Quiet Office for three days, covering staff holiday…
Much Love
Lana
June 29th, 2010 at 10:33 am
Re your comment that “Mental shifts are supported by the Sun’s alignment to the Fixed Star Alhena in Gemini”, I understood “by alignment” meant that the Sun was conjunt the star in question but the Sun is in Cancer not Gemini. Can you explain?
Laura
June 29th, 2010 at 6:59 pm
Dear Laura, Thanks for your question!
Yes it sounds confusing, but due to the precession of the Earth’s equinoxes which has caused changes in orientation over the millennia the constellation of Gemini is no longer aligned with Gemini but with the sign of Cancer! Thus the Gemini twins Castor and Pollux are now at 19 and 22 degrees of Cancer respectively. Western Astrologers have continued to use the same positions as always, whereas Vedic Astrologers have taken note of the changed positions and use those, and make a good case for doing so.
Love
Lana
July 1st, 2010 at 9:39 pm
Er, whatever’s gone wrong here in the US? It’s 1:31pm PST in lovely Southern California on July 1st, the day I’m supposed to be all sharp and brainy, and I feel the same brain numbing lounge chairedness as the Grand Cross. I can hardly see straight. And, oh goody, I have an afternoon PACKED with patients. So what gives, oh goddess of all things starry? 🙂
Oh, and the whole connection with the Sun thing – that may be a good thing where you are, but here in sunny So Cal it’s something to be avoided at all costs. The temps are beginning to soar in the Valley, whilst Los Angeles proper is only in the high 70s low 80s, we’re blistering in the 90s (or more if the flat dogs are to be believed). Like the desert creatures we are, we all hide until the sun goes down and then creep out to enjoy the velvety night air, redolent with star jasmine and orange blossom. Whcih would be as lovely as it sounds, if not for the blistering 14+ hours of baking we must endure first. I know, grouse grouse. I understand y’all are having a heat wave as well, is this the Universe giving us too much of a good thing, that re-connecting with the Sun of which you spoke?
In any event, stay cool and ‘laxed, see you in the wee hours when I crawl back out from my rock.
Dia
July 2nd, 2010 at 8:44 am
Dear Dia
Thanks for your revealing glimpse of life over the other side of the pond. You have the title of our U.S. correspondent! Most of us here are grateful for some summery weather, and it makes Wimbledon and Glastonbury a lot easier. Amazing to think we are on the same planet… I realize that it is always foolhardly for an Astrologer to predict weather. Though it’s sunny here, it’s sunnier where you are, but somewhere in the world it is the total opposite. Thank you so much for your perspective.
Love
Lana