“Years ago, anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked by a student what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture…
The student expected Mead to talk about fishhooks or clay pots or grinding stones.
But no. Mead said that the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture was a femur (the thighbone) that had been broken and then healed. Mead explained that in the animal kingdom, if it breaks its leg—it dies. It cannot run from danger, get to the river for a drink or hunt for food. It is meat for prowling beasts. No animal survives a broken leg long enough for the bone to heal.
A broken femur that has healed is evidence that someone has taken time to stay with the one who fell, has bound up the wound, has carried the person to safety and has tended the person through recovery.
“Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts…”, Mead said.
“We are at our best when we serve others. Be civilized.”
Today’s energies are largely about wake-up calls regarding preparations toward action—being responsible for all potential what-if’s, as well as opportunities for compassion—especially as the moon connects to Saturn in conjunction…
Further, through this responsibility and preparedness—there may be an announcement, a warning, a cue, an alert, a prompt, to challenge your abilities… a summons to signal to you what needs to be done for the benefit of the greater good. This will not only be a civilized effort in humanity, however small and/or subtle, but, perhaps more significantly, an opportune moment to exhibit more personal capabilities that aren’t as routinely necessary… or appreciated.
❝The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn’t live boldly enough, that they didn’t invest enough heart, didn’t love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.❞
—Ted Hughes
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Today’s energies may inspire reflected cause for regret…
Or reflection.
Especially if you’re unwilling or unable to acknowledge the lesson within a mistake, or the wisdom available from previous experiences. Sudden realizations may offer you new perspectives—perhaps even revelation.
Emphasis, however, despite whatever darkened reflections are conjured, is upon forward movement—ready or not—take in what you’re able to and let go, keep going.
Vulnerabilities pinpointed might even be a benefit now, or otherwise advantageous toward this current process of becoming you’re navigating, however unwillingly…
Whether it is a vulnerability pinpointed through actual experience, or through the haunting of memories, it can be within the very vulnerabilities of our spirit that the very best, and most beneficial sentiments of character are forged.
It can be through these precious places within ourselves that hope within the future is possible—is conceivable.
And is truly, wholly, appreciated.
❝If I’m sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?❞
—José Saramago
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The moon separates all morning from its monthly conjunction to Pluto, which occurred around midnight here on the west coast…
However, its effects and influences will likely linger.
This monthly conjunction—the last one occurring within Aquarius from Leo until next January as Pluto will be moving back into Capricorn this Saturday—applied an opposition to Venus, now moving in Leo, and illuminated a loosening t-square to Jupiter and the NN…
In other words, matters of relational allusions or contentions are intensified exponentially…
And with Venus/Pluto oppositions—illuminated by the moon—there is a real do-or-die impulse within it all, a real severity quaking from within to do something, anything, or by golly, the world as we know it may implode… or something as dramatically ridiculous as this—you’ll likely be able to justify nearly anything.
And there may be real possessiveness here… however hopeful it all may feel.
Try to temper the intensities in extremes.
The moon is illuminating—simultaneously—two entirely (but maybe not so entirely) separate matters which may now be combined, in ways, even if only emotionally or irrationally… though these extremely emotionally volatile and sincerely emotional volatilities are emerging as ‘opportunities’ for severe transformation in personal evolution.
Still, these opportunities will very much resemble more of a confrontation—with self or another—or a dramatically fueled conflict beginning to reach a boiling point.
Particularly as the moon moves through the day to apply and exact an opposition to Mars.
Ouch.
Any underlying tensions still being withheld and/or harnessed will demand release… be careful with this.
And this is to further forewarn—as it may not be your own need for release, but for another’s releasing coming into contact with your boundaries in some way, that may or may not be warranted, deserved, and/or expected otherwise.
❝If we can just let go and trust that things will work out they way they’re supposed to, without trying to control the outcome, then we can begin to enjoy the moment more fully. The joy of the freedom it brings becomes more pleasurable than the experience itself.❞
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Apologies for the typo in date yesterday. I think I got ahead of myself, as I sometimes do when I’m writing in advance. I appreciate your patience with me.
And apologies for yesterday’s content, reading somewhat harshly toward Sagittarian energies—I was only trying to prove a point that such exotic buzzwords have the tendency to distract, if not disconnect, one from one’s own alignment, causing dis-ease.
It’s always a shame. I have seen it in real time.
Most honestly—for any Sagittarian that isn’t able to take a quarterly/seasonal getaway/retreat to anywhere, everywhere, in any direction, just because—because your first breath was governed by the wanderer—rambling, rousing, and/or rendezvousing… any individual with Sagittarian personal planets and/or angles who isn’t able to pull this off each and every year/season is likely struggling emotionally, if not psychically—because it’s part of the package.
It just is.
There’s an emptiness and aching for some unknown reason.
And Sagittarian energies know this.
But apologies, nevertheless.
As an astrologer—I see things more blatantly than many of us are willing to acknowledge within the everyday.
As for today—Tuesday, June 6th:
“I’m empty and aching and I don’t know why…”
Oh my goodness, my soul aches for this witnessing, this raw honesty, this… ultimate vulnerability.
These are lyrics to ‘America’, written by Simon and Garfunkel in 1968… a road trip type of song that is originally meant, and inspired, to be somewhat motivational, and celebratory—becomes more of a very heavy and realistic tone that many of us harbor, regardless of what decade we’re living within.
There’s a vacancy, here in the Now, that we’re seeking to fulfill.
Connection, reconnection, reconciliation—this is what we’re all typically seeking to achieve, regardless of circumstance, situation, dilemma, reasoning, and/or purpose.
Today’s energies conjure “a stirring from within…”
The lyrics to ‘America’ may be somewhat vague, and lonely, desperate, and bold—but they envision a landscape of opportunity and potential beyond that bus ride…
Today’s energies are compelled to move forward—through withdrawal and solitude: the way one might when riding a bus with smelly, hungry, desperate, destitute and broken strangers, toward one’s unknown and unknowable future.
You know, because it’s the Greyhound…
And for some of you–you may actually purchase a ticket…
Because that’s where you are.
Either way—getting away is an emphasis—and/or getting very honestly to the point of it all, as is taking time to really think things over: big things… to better approach your life in an advantageous manner… in a way that better serves you and your overall objectives.
And if you’re empty, and aching, and do not know why… there’s a problem. And it’s best to address it.
“And the m o o o n rose over an o p p p p p e n field…”
❝The past is always tense, the future perfect.❞
—Zadie Smith
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Buzzwords are everywhere—and they’re absolutely used, though more frequently misused, within astrological realms.
Buzzwords are like: Capricorn is ‘determined’, ‘cold’, and ‘authoritative’, ‘practical’ and ‘without frill or fluff…’
And on and on.
However, Capricorn energies tend to actually utilize buzz—as in put it to work for itself—as Capricorn inherently understands how to effectively turn mere carbon into diamonds… within an everyday reality.
Whereas, for example, as yesterday’s full moon occurred in Sagittarius—Sagittarian energies often cling to buzzwords such as ‘wanderlust’ and ‘idealists’, ‘sarcastic’ and ‘dramatically compelled’… but are any of these buzzwords actually benefiting?!—what exactly are Sagittarians, the world over, doing with such brazen buzzwords!?
I can tell you.
Not much.
Most of them are struggling.
Most of them are struggling, precisely because they do not know how to realistically compartmentalize such larger-than-life buzz into their everyday reality. Because, obviously… who would?!
This is where one-on-one astrological guidance becomes handy, useful, and über effective… it changes everything.
BUZZZZZZZZZ….
For me, buzzing is the sound of my client’s life changing.
I love it. It is my joy.
BUZZZZZZZZZ
So, today—as the moon moves through {buzzwords} determinedly ambitious Capricorn, I ask you—to your benefit—are you actively and creatively utilizing all of your available resources, as well as all of your valuable skills, and all of the useless ridiculousness of astrologically associated buzzwords, in an effort to actively create positive change?
For real. No excuses. You’ve got it or you don’t—no exceptions—what can you say of yourself!?
Your life won’t change until you do. Buzzwords or not.
❝‘Have you transformed the way you innovate?’ Note that you can switch the two buzzwords in the sentence and it still sounds good and still means nothing.❞
—Dan Lyons
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I realize this is sort of ‘off-brand’ of me to dog-leg in such a manner, but it’s irresistibly spot on for today’s energies…
Season 3, episode 4—Schitts Creek: Driving Test.
Bear with me…
Schitts Creek, if you don’t know, is a quaint little story about a very wealthy well-known family who loses everything and is forced to take up residence in a very shabby little no-tell motel in the middle of nowhere… each of the characters is advantaged in nearly all ways, though, they each experience and navigate these advantages in different ways, and as this series unravels, each character learns what inner advantages they really do have when their money is no longer involved.
Alexis Rose is absolutely a Sagittarius—likely with a Leo moon, obviously—as she’s been quite daringly and dangerously worldly from too early an age, has a limitless cache of adventures by which to apply to nearly anything in real time, and is forever sort of stupidly optimistic about life in general, and, of course, more or less celebrates herself at every turn as if the sun rises in the morning specifically for her…
There’s a scene when David, her brother, who is clearly a Cancer with Capricorn moon, though this scene focuses more upon a Chiron in Aries issue—much like the one today’s moon is illuminating—and needs to take a driver’s test to get his license and is extremely nervous, as David is always distrusting and much more pessimistic about nearly anything.
Anxiety is very much a part of this episode… and overwhelm.
Which is where many of you may be dwelling within in real time, and navigating within your reality in some way…
This scene encapsulates what today’s moon illuminates, both through the squishy parts of ourselves via Chiron, and those parts of ourselves, however contrarily or seemingly impossibly, that seem to exist within the ideal via a square to Neptune.
My point being, though, ultimately, is that Alexis doesn’t dwell on anything, as David does—to his chagrin…
Who is correct?—as they both have their reasons, both quite valid.
Alexis never thinks about anything further out than mere hours into the future and always always has a solution for anything, no matter how outlandish—she is your female McGyver… whereas David has more select talents, jaded withina much smaller scale of reference, and skills that flourish more within the fringe of a more elite reputation…
The scene I couldn’t find a video for—was the scene of David driving Alexis home with his newly rewarded license—which is, honestly, the most precious…
Alexis tells David that’s he never trusted her after David opens up to Alexis that she was more or less right about all of it… but then, very sharply and very vulnerably, the script is flipped—and the squish within each of them suddenly takes on an entirely different tone, in unexpected ways.
Though, these voiced confessions make all the difference.
Which is to say, we all harbor sentiments and stances alike that no one would ever know about… sentiments and stances that are not necessarily vulnerable, but fiercely private and/or protected within a previous place within our hearts…
I highly suggest you stream the episode.
So, however we choose to skate through life… life is as easy on us as we allow it to be. It’s as simple (or irresponsible) as that.
Though, there’s always an underlying layer of powerfully squishy vulnerability existing beneath it all which makes us all that much more endlessly interesting than we could ever hope or wish to be… if only we are offered an opportunity to share.
We are all naturally and uniquely interesting beyond words.
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If anything, I can see things in a different way, from varying perspectives, driven and directed through more unorthodox measurements of utility…
Still, I’m endlessly trying to maintain my boundaries… while also, simultaneously, remaining open to something so powerful it can’t even be adequately explained.
As an astrologer, obviously, I know things—I can look at a chart and presume where the native may be experiencing ease, or stress, what kind of headspace they may be in, as well as how things might unravel as they move forward…
I would never want to say something that might steal another’s potential for growth within their journey in this lifetime. Then again, I’ve never been scolded for texting someone out of the blow to touch base with them after I’ve noticed a harsher transit occurring within their nativity.
It can be frustrating when you’re so immersed within the smaller circular space of your reality that you literally cannot see the overall of it all—as with labyrinths, there’s no seeing over the hedges—and, as with the pink-gray fleshy tubing that comprises our cerebrum and starkly resembles a labyrinth, there’s no real way to untangle its knowing as its knowing isn’t something to be ‘found’…
It can be so frustrating when you can’t find your way out of your own mind, out of your own opinions, your own reality.
As of late, you’ve maybe been looking for answers…
Seeking solutions.
Trying to clarify or pinpoint a decision through all of the many, many options available to you.
Quite possibly, you’ve been presuming that whatever it is you’re needing is beyond you.
Or it could be that whatever it is you’re up against is requiring new responses…
Further still, these circumstances could have you as the experienced one—as the one with the knowing—or the one in the midst of serious learning curves, feeling lost and requiring more experience.
Shamanic astrologer Raven Kaldera assigns this moon as the Priest’s Moon, as it’s always a time within the year that we begin to break open enough to question some of the beliefs and/or perspectives we hold that may not really be serving us.
This breaking open tends to occur when we reach a setback, obstacle otherwise, or an impasse in our plans…
And whatever it is you believe, or however you perceive your reality—these have likely not been supporting you.
The Priest and/or Hierophant is a vessel, a channel, a conduit—for divine exchanges of wisdom…
And with Sagittarius, which is always always—much like Gemini—conflicted between two opposing sides, versions, beliefs, attitudes, and/or impulses; Sagittarian energies endlessly cogitate and contemplate over whether to trust what is known, stated, and/or written as doctrine… or to trust what is directly experienced, which is to say that which is physically or psychically experienced, as in the kinds of moments that can only be understood between oneself and the cosmos within.
And, endlessly, with Sagittarian energies—they’re always right, and wrong—these energies are always getting so close almost as simultaneously as they’re moving as far away as is conceivable.
Which is sort of the secret with Sagittarius… and the solution.
Perhaps today, then, or at some point this week, you’ll be able to crack open just a twee further and come back into yourself—and maybe you’ll remember how true answers and solutions are acquired.
This full moon occurs through a degree that emphasizes the making of a point, of being heard, of needing/striving to accomplish something great—something grand… it must be wondered, then, if whatever you’re working toward May be almost too large to hold, or to embody, or to manifest?
Or maybe something within your circumstances is simply quite vague, too blurred to gain any real clarity.
Either way, it seems as though these details should matter. And they do. But, then again, maybe they don’t.
If you’re looking for literal ‘writings on the wall’ in regard to whatever it is you’re doing, requiring or requesting permissions in some capacity, needing unavoidable guarantees, and/or demanding clarifications of a more authorized sort—these will likely not even fulfill what you’re really seeking.
If you’re seeking a connection with your inner voice, your inner knowing, your inner divinity—as Saint Augustine suggested: seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand—this is the beginning…
This full moon occurs within the second decan of Sagittarius, which is associated to the 9 of wands in the tarot—a card that describes a setback… but you already know this, yes?
Tarot writer/reader Theresa Reed writes that these energies can suggest “a situation that you thought was behind you, but uh-oh, it’s baaacckkkk!—you’ve got to hit reverse snd finish what you’ve started; ugh—but once it’s done, you can move on…”
Reed also adds that ‘paranoia’ can become an issue, as well… “an old betrayal that haunts you, that loss you never quite got over, the wound that won’t seem to heal no matter how hard you try…”
Fun.
Chang writes that the 9 of wands can represent the “peak power in the realm of ambitions and drives… here we find [previously untapped resources within ourselves to do the One Brave Thing…” as well as a very heightened or overpowering need or urgency to defend that which you’ve already worked for or initiated.
Tarot writer Jessica Dore describes this card as a living example of healthy boundaries and actual limitations…
Though Dore means something else entirely, I’m taking this one step further in that these healthy boundaries suggested may need to be with yourself—in allowing yourself to trust yourself without anyone else’s input at all about any of it…
This is a time when you might need to build a boundary, or adjust the one you have, with the cosmos—to extend yourself in a way that allows you to receive, to have that connection with your own inner power.
Regarding the actual limitations, Dore writes “a thing to know about personal limits is that they can be wildly inconvenient. The situations we like to think of ourselves as equipped for and our actual limitations don’t always line up, so at the end of the day, having boundaries is a reality practice. It’s an acceptance practice…”
An acceptance with yourself. And an acceptance with a boundary between that which is simply unavailable to you, in one way or another… and that which is conceivably knowable.
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If not a surprise, maybe these energies will resemble more of an inconvenience, or perhaps it’ll be something of an opportunity to let go of any inappropriately egoic preferences toward something. Particularly if you are determined to have, hold, gain or enjoy your way, and only your way.
Or, it could be the repercussions of an oversight.
The result of something you had a responsibility for, but failed to hold yourself accountable… or, it could also be a consequence of allowing your irrational emotionality call your shots.
But then, the energies will shift, and ease… or, they may have everything to do with what opens to you next—maybe this will be the surprise?
The moon will move to illuminate Venus and Neptune as they connect by trine, through which the moon will create a triangular ease of energetic motion—an ease of satisfaction.
These energies could inspire you toward your own potentials and personal authority, and thus create new motivations for fresh creative visualizations, envisioning new ways of thinking, feeling, and living… our inner reality in consciousness offers vast expansions—or limits our potentials exponentially. Especially today.
Whatever you are currently experiencing within your personal reality—today may spark an acknowledgement: that you have created this reality and circumstance, for better or worse.
In this notion, through this sentiment—how, then, would you rather be experiencing your reality?
In this notion, through this sentiment–should you be thoroughly living in alignment with your potentials—what more would you like to expand upon?
❝I could be bond in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space…❞
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There are depths within you demanding your attention…
And it may be only through exploring these depths that you will be able to see more clearly, to feel more fully, and to think more effectively.
Solutions to obstacles, dilemmas, conditioned mentalities and/or deeply rooted psychic issues are available only if you are willing to immerse yourself within your own depths and darknesses.
That which you seek is endlessly available within yourself…
Still, your focus should lay, ultimately, upon an effort toward self-improvement—with a real interest on actively pursuing these opportunities.
You may feel inclined to immerse yourself so intensely upon your own self-exploration… which is ideal, though be warned that you will need to dig deeply—but this is where you’ll find your treasures… and your potentials.
Otherwise, you may also stumble upon an invaluable piece of information or insight, or be made awareness of something quite substantial to your overall goals and/or ideals… further, the timing of something may present itself to you today. Being present will become something of personal duty through the month of June—it would behoove you to not force anything, to allow your moments as they come to you.
Changes are upon the surface of these deep-dive depths… and these changes will be more or less impossible to avoid, whether you willingly deep-dive or not—but you’ll gain so much more if you choose to explore yourself, to explore every corner and crevice of yourself…
❝A tree stands strong not by its fruits or branches, but by the depth of its roots.❞
—Anthony Liccione
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Something that I’m not entirely certain, much less confident, about…
Is whether people understand that we all have, within us, the energies of all the zodiacal forces—I really wonder, considering much of what I hear or see or read or am asked about by clients…
Our nativities include all the signs and all the planets—essentially, within ourselves, we possess the potentials and potentialities of the entire cosmos… it is within our DNA.
So it makes little sense to me when someone exclaims that they ‘can’t stand’ a certain sign, or that a particular sign is so this, or so that, or whatever, to this effect… if anything, I believe it pinpoints more toward its specific zodiacal influence within oneself, and its placement—likely a challenging one—and that one struggles with this, rather, within themselves.
We all have depths within ourselves that we struggle to fully embrace…
Today will illuminate these depths.
Not only does this particular moon fall upon the building fixed t-square Wednesday-peak—this moon further, more penetratingly illuminates this t-square by filling in its void and thereby creating a fixed grand cross…
Which intensifies an already very intense day.
Further, it’s a Scorpio gibbous moon…
Which implies a depth of darkness within ourselves—to be further explored and/or illuminated.
Today will be a day.
Today will be a day that could potentially open you to something heavy, large, huge, and/or unexpectedly powerful… which is that much more powerful as this week holds such celestial opportunities toward that which you’re working toward.
❝Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below.❞
—John Dryden
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