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AN ASTROLOGICAL OVERVIEW BY ROBERT WILKINSON, ASTROLOGER
AN ASTROLOGICAL OVERVIEW BY ROBERT WILKINSON, ASTROLOGER
Welcome to the Astrology Arizona (AAZ) newsletter!
Here’s what’s up with our group and the Astrological forecast for June!
We are an astrology group based in the Phoenix metro area dedicated to the art and science of Astrology. Our organization is a New Moon double Aquarius trine a Gemini Ascendant. Born the Year of the Metal Ox, our chart affirms a wider Aquarian intention and creates a welcoming Aquarian vibe for members past, present, and future.
We encourage your suggestions about potential speakers and topics for future monthly programs. We envision our 21st century group being a point of light to help students of Astrology who want to know more in the emerging 20 year Aquarian Era which began at the Grand Mutation at 1 Aquarius. We’re excited at the dynamic interactivity we’ve been having this year at our presentations, and look forward to future exciting programs on a wide range of astrological topics..
Become A Member!
If you haven’t already joined our group, please consider visiting our site and becoming a member. You can find us at https://azastrologers.org/. For $36 a year, you get a discount on admission to all talks and many other benefits, including free advertising for your business on our website! For two people living at the same address, both can become members for $54. Don’t delay, renew today! As always, life members don’t have to pay anything, though donations are always welcome.
Contacts
If you have any questions about who we are and what we do, or want to suggest a topic for a future program or apply to speak, please direct all correspondence to one of these current AAZ Board members:
Bill Nastasiak (Vice President)
ArizonaStars@cox.net
Robert Wilkinson (President and Editor of AAZ Newsletter)
laughingcat51@hotmail.com
Mary Katherine Kracht (Treasurer)
We Have A Facebook Page!
Please feel free to drop by our Facebook page where we have many topics of interest to explore. Questions, comments, and discussions are most welcome! Please visit us at https://www.facebook.com/groups/111582320851163 and join the social media initiative going on there.
How To Attend Our Events
We welcome all visitors to our presentations, so please join us! We and countless other groups around the nation are doing our astrological presentations using ZOOM webinar technology. If you want to attend future presentations, please go to the ZOOM website and download the latest software. Without the latest software, you may experience difficulty logging in. They release new versions often, so please upgrade before you join our discussions.
To anticipate a question, no, you don’t have to have a camera or microphone to attend a ZOOM webinar. All you need to attend is internet access and speakers. If you’re interested in attending the webinars, please contact us at astrologyarizona@gmail.com and make sure you’re on our mailing list so we can notify you in advance of the presentations. You can make your donation for membership and admission to our events by going to https://azastrologers.org/donate - Admission fees are usually $10 for members, $15 for non-members.
A Look at Our Recent Presentations
Our January 29 meeting featured Predictions for 2022. As we did last year, we solicited predictions from our astrologer friends around the internet world in the first part, followed by Christopher Benton’s presentation on the Jupiter-Neptune conjunction and how it relates to past and future trends.
Our February 26 meeting featured astrological mathematician Christopher Benton guiding us through a journey exploring How I Discovered and Fell in Love with the Arc Transform. We discussed “Cycles of Becoming” and examined various series of harmonic charts and how to use Arc Transform charts for personal growth.
Our March 26 meeting featured Elisabeth Grace giving us her take on The Astonishing Synchronicity of Planetary Patterns and Headline News. She had countless examples of pretty dramatic news stories and articles which came out the same time certain aspects happened, even though the articles were written weeks or months before the aspect. Headline after headline conformed to the astrology of that moment, with some dramatic and funny correlations.
Our April 23 gathering featured a return of Elizabeth Hazel giving us her expertise on the subject of Antiscia: Secrets in the Mirror. The concept of the Antiscia is an important inheritance from ancient astrology, and gives us "mirror points" between signs positions. She gave us a lot of examples of how this mirroring works in charts, and it was truly an exceptional presentation!
Our May 21 presentation featured Robert Wilkinson giving us all a detailed look at his new book The Magic of Venus: Friendships, Soul Mates, and Twin Flames. He took us through a journey of how our Venus has been active in all our relationships, and how to re-shape its expression to attract better ones in the present and future. He offered insights into Venus’ duality of Wisdom and Folly, the different sign archetypes, the key factors in synastry, how to use astrology to solve relationship problems, the purpose of Soul Mates in our lives, and how the book came to be.
What's Coming in Our June Presentation
Our June 25 presentation features Kathryn Silverton giving us her take on Medical Astrology and the Best Times for Medical Procedures. She’ll be guiding us through the components of the chart which are most important in determining the timing of medical procedures and surgery. Numerous examples will be given, showing options of dates that clients were given by their provider and how the actual date of the procedure was decided, from an astrological standpoint.
Kathryn Silverton holds a Master’s degree in Psychology, is professionally certified by The American Federation of Astrologers and has recently been granted a seat on the board of directors of the AFA. She has been in practice over thirty years. Kathryn has lectured at UAC and AFA conferences and teaches intermediate to advanced levels of astrology, including the math of casting and progressing charts for certification exams. Kathryn is also an active member of the Metropolitan Atlanta Astrological Society, having served on the board for over ten years
As usual, there is a modest admission charge of $10 for members and $15 for non-members.
Our next presentation will be July 23, when In addition, future presentations are scheduled for June 25 when Tony Dickey will take us through another great talk, this time on Outer Planet Long Wave Cycles of Historical Change.
Stay tuned, since we also have programs scheduled for August 20, September 17, October 22, November 19, and our usual Solstice program December 17 (as circumstances permit.) We have some extraordinary astrologers from all over the nation who have asked to present to our group in 2022 on topics we know you’ll love, so we look forward to another year of high-quality astrology talks offered by some great astrologers!
This is where you can make a difference. We’re experimenting with other models for making astrology available to the public, including discussions on topics of interest at our Facebook page and hopefully at some point, finding ways of doing roundtables on specific subjects if there’s enough interest.
We also welcome anyone with expertise in audio and video production to help us edit our recordings. While Robert has some professional expertise in the field, we’re open to others who would like to work with him in helping create a top notch professional library of our presentations.
A Few Notable Gemini Celebrities
John F Kennedy, Bob Dylan, Queen Victoria, Brian Wilson, Walt Whitman, Paul McCartney, Laurence Olivier, Fats Waller, Paul Gaugin, Miles Davis, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Judy Garland, Ray Davies, Morgan Freeman, M.C. Escher, Marilyn Monroe, Immanuel Velikovsky, Alice A Bailey, Curtis Mayfield, Vincent Price, Rod Argent, Allen Ginsberg, Bill Moyers, Benny Goodman, Maurice Sendak, Howlin’ Wolf, Ian Fleming, Wild Bill Hickok, Paul Lynde, Jim Nabors, Levon Helm, Jacques Cousteau, Tony Curtis, Danny Elfman, Michael J Fox, Les Paul, Chet Atkins, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the release of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, esteemed astrologers Cyril Fagan, Vivian Robson, and John Addey, and one of the greatest astrologers of all time, the venerable and legendary Grant Lewi, one of my first influences and the first true “Free Will Astrologer.”
PLANETARY MOTIONS IN JUNE 2022
(All the degree values listed in the next three sections are computed the same way Sabian Symbols are read; we always round up. 9+ = 10; 19+ = 20; 29+ = 30)
SUN – 11 Gemini to 9 Cancer
MERCURY – 27 Taurus to 21 Gemini
VENUS – 5 Taurus to 9 Gemini
MARS – 6 to 27 Aries
JUPITER – 4 to 8 Aries
SATURN – 26 to 25 Aquarius
URANUS – 17 to 18 Taurus
NEPTUNE – 26 Pisces (all month)
PLUTO – 29 to 28 Capricorn
TRUE NORTH NODE –23 to 22 Taurus
SIGNIFICANT ASTROLOGICAL OCCURRENCES IN JUNE 2022
MARS CONJUNCT JUPITER; May 29 at 4 Aries
NEW MOON; May 30; Sun and Moon at 10 Gemini
MERCURY STATIONARY DIRECT; June 3 at 27 Taurus
SATURN STATIONARY RETROGRADE; June 4 at 26 Aquarius
VENUS CONJUNCT URANUS; June 11 at 18 Taurus
MERCURY ENTERS GEMINI; June 13
FULL MOON/WORLD TEACHER FESTIVAL; June 14; Sun 24 Gemini, Moon 24 Sagittarius
MARS CONJUNCT CHIRON; June 15 at 16 Aries
MERCURY LEAVES SHADOW ZONE; June 18 at 5 Gemini
SUMMER SOLSTICE/SUN ENTERS CANCER; June 21
VENUS ENTERS GEMINI; June 22
NEPTUNE STATIONARY RETROGRADE; June 28 at 26 Pisces
NEW MOON; June 28; Sun and Moon at 8 Cancer
AN ASTROLOGICAL OVERVIEW BY ROBERT WILKINSON, ASTROLOGER
AN ASTROLOGICAL OVERVIEW BY ROBERT WILKINSON, ASTROLOGER
AN ASTROLOGICAL OVERVIEW BY ROBERT WILKINSON, ASTROLOGER
AN ASTROLOGICAL OVERVIEW OF June 2022
by Robert Wilkinson
(This is a partial version of our monthly newsletter. If you want to receive the entire newsletter, please be sure your membership is current so the comprehensive information in the newsletter will be sent directly to your email inbox!)
This year the month of June should bring a sense of new beginnings unfolding rapidly thanks to Mars conjunct Jupiter and Chiron in Aries, bringing us new activities which can help us heal into our higher Self. These conjunctions set a new 2 year cycle into motion wherever we have early Aries in our chart, and prime the pump for the major growth portended by Jupiter’s conjunction with Chiron early next year. Bringing strong support for these new beginnings, Mercury in trine to Pluto the first half of the month is great for efficiency and getting to the heart of any matter, confirmed by what Venus brings when it makes the same aspect just before and during the Summer Solstice.
June allows us to take the research, reviews, rehearsals, and reconsiderations of the May Mercury retrograde forward with a sense of what needs to be done and when, and how to offer our wisdom to our world in ways we can enjoy. June also is the next step in the aftermath of May’s Solar and Lunar eclipses which have already begun to recycle parts of our Taurus sector while revealing the “Global Buddha Wisdom” being poured out into our world for the next year.
Saturn is now in the part of Aquarius where we learn to manage our feelings and our individual spirituality in playing our part in the greater Aquarian 20 year era now developing. This month Saturn continues to crystallize what Jupiter opened in April 2021 and fixed as a platform for future development when Jupiter was at 23-25 Aquarius between September and early December 2021. That implies the promise created then will crystallize in some way this month.
This month Saturn brings us the beginning of a testing period where each of us is challenged to demonstrated our ability “to pick up and deliver spiritual power,” however that applies in our particular circumstances. There are hidden powers leading to clairvoyance and clairaudience which will sprout in the future, but only after we “do our own thing” and see the wisdom of each Being having the power to respond to any challenge in their own way. While we’ll mobilize the first half of the month, we’ll be in a time of cleaning out the cobwebs in our minds the second half. Follow any dissatisfaction into the dark corners, since that’s what’s getting cleaned out as we open our “mind windows” and let in some fresh air and sunshine.
Planets Slowing Down and Shifting Signs
This month is “twirling dervishes,” with Mercury going stationary direct and speeding up, and Saturn and Neptune going stationary retrograde and slowing down. Mercury begins slow and by the end of the month will almost be at maximum speed. Venus and Mars both clip along at a brisk pace even as Jupiter and Uranus begin to slow. By month’s end, Saturn, Neptune, and Pluto will all be retrograde.
In June we’re back to only inner planets changing signs, with all the planets from Mars out secure in their respective signs. This month Mercury, ruler of Gemini and Virgo, will give us two sign experiences (Taurus and Gemini), and the Sun, ruler of Leo and Cancer, will give us two (Gemini and Cancer). Venus, ruler of Taurus/Libra, will also give us two (Taurus and Gemini). Adding Mars and Jupiter, it clearly indicates a lot of activity in the Aries, Taurus, and Gemini sectors of our charts.
Mars
Mars is in its home sign of Aries all month, so it’s flame on! Take the initiative, welcome the new, and don’t wait for permission to begin something! As Mars rules itself and Jupiter, there is a massive rising tide already rolling through, showing us the way to enjoying ourselves while simply BEING who we are. This is a very powerful position for Mars, and wherever we have Aries in our charts is being supercharged in huge ways. Just try to be less impulsive and a little more patient, thoughtful, and cautious before you jump into something, since the weakness of this position is a “ready, fire, aim” mode of expression.
From June 1-7, Mars is in the Aries decan of Aries, ruled by itself with an additional dose of Mars. (This is an extremely Martial decan!) From June 8-20, Mars is in the Leo decan of Aries, ruled by the Sun with an extra dose of the Sun. From June 20-30, Mars is in the Sagittarius decan of Aries, ruled by Jupiter with an extra dose of Venus. So Mars’ expression will be fairly consistent all month, with Fire dominating the landscape.
Between June 1-7, Mars will prove agitating to those with planets between 6-10 degrees of Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn. From June 7-20, it will have the same effect on planets between 11-20 degrees of those same signs, and the last 10 days of the month it will agitate planets or points we have between 20-27 Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn.
Sign Focus
This month the sign focus is expanding outside the outer planet occupied zone. We have a very strong Aries and Taurus the first half of the month, with Gemini getting stronger by mid-month after Mercury leaves Taurus and re-enters its home sign of Gemini. This month shows Mercury, Venus, and Mars all in their home signs, indicating a personal focus at ease with how it’s functioning.
The Aquarius-Taurus Tension This Year
We’re still on a temporary break from the intense Saturn-Uranus squares. Last year we were all put through a lot of pressure wherever we had 11-17 Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius, and though Uranus is still in that sector, Saturn moved past the square in late February. However, now that it’s retrograde, it’s going to come back into square in August and remain in square through early December, again challenging us to see what matters so we can let go of nonessentials.
Last year we had three squares from Saturn to Uranus; one from 8 Aquarius to 8 Taurus, another with Saturn retrograde at 14 Aquarius square Uranus at 14 Taurus, and a third with Saturn direct at 12 Aquarius and Uranus retrograde at 12 Taurus. These waning (upper) squares between Saturn in Aquarius and Uranus in Taurus mark the culmination of the cycle set into motion with Saturn conjunct Uranus in 1988. Interestingly, in 1999-2000 Saturn in Taurus made its waxing (lower) square to Uranus in Aquarius, so last year activated conflicts dating back 20 years.
We’re Actors On A New Stage With A New Set
The Grand Mutation of Jupiter conjunct Saturn at 1 Aquarius began a new 20 year Aquarian Era in December 2020, as well as a new 200 year Era, moving global energies out of Earth and into Air. We’ve begun to grow beyond the materialism of the past 200 years and have entered two centuries of Air emphasis, with its qualities of relatedness, receptivity, versatility, movability, lightness, and cooperative ideas, visions, and ideals.
The 2020 Solar eclipse on the Summer Solstice is still facilitating a grand reorientation in our lives, including an acceptance of new allegiances and life directions, and the December 2020 Solar eclipse at 24 Sagittarius is still helping us remove blocks to our happiness. The June Solar eclipse at 20 Gemini is already removing irrelevant and extraneous ideas and considerations from our decision making process, and the extremely beneficial Total Solar Eclipse at 13 Sagittarius in early December gave us a promise of major gifts and unique interactive opportunities which will be perfect for whatever we need. Rewards are coming these next 4 years!
We’re still "under the beams" of the Solar Eclipses we experienced in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021, and these “cosmic recyclers” continue to remove all that we no longer need in our lives. Take note of where you have 1 Cancer, 24 and 13 Sagittarius, and 20 Gemini, since 1 Cancer aligns us with a larger reality, 24 Sagittarius helps us find happiness, 13 Sagittarius gives us a new identity and love, and 20 Gemini removes what cannot be assimilated or communicated.
The mid-June Solar Eclipse at 20 Gemini continues to shut down parts of our lives in that sector for 4 years to come. All the eclipses in Gemini and Sagittarius are removing old ideas, old perspectives, old truths, and old futures. Last month’s eclipses with Sun in Taurus will shut down old value systems in that sector, as well as the Scorpio sector now that the May Full Moon Wesak Festival eclipse has begun to bring us a global wisdom related to those signs. All in all, these are some very favorable eclipses wherever they fall in our charts!
As we study how successive Eclipses have affected various areas of our charts and lives, we can get a sense of the utility of these “Cosmic Recyclers” in removing what we no longer needed in those areas, creating a void which attracted new life experiences. They invite us to look back, and then forward, to see the continuity of “letting go, taking in, letting go, taking in” across the years.
The Grand Irrationality
In June, the 7-pointed “Star of Destiny" I’ve termed The Grand Irrationality is in play during the first half of the month when Venus biseptiles Pluto, conjuncts Uranus, and septiles Neptune. The last week of the month it’s triggered again when the Sun triseptiles Pluto, followed by a septile to Uranus and a biseptile to Neptune. It’s clearly another time of more choices and changes as the world navigates a very irrational period!
All of the septile-series 7th harmonic aspects from the inner planets to the outer spiritual planets represent turning points at the hard edge of revolutionary change we’ve been going through for a while. Obviously, this is activated every time the Moon moves through one of the seven “hot zones” of this evolutionary configuration. All septile-series aspects are irrational points representing “forks in the road of destiny” in any larger cycle. I have written extensively about “The Grand Irrationality,” a configuration which has been active since 1994, at my main website http://www.aquariuspapers.com where I explain why all of humanity is forging its future destiny at this time. If you have a planet or point near any of the seven zones, your life is sure to be affected. In June these zones are around 1-5 Aquarius, 23-27 Pisces, 14-18 Taurus, 5-9 Cancer, 26-30 Leo, 18-22 Libra, and 10-14 Sagittarius.
During the periods these 7th harmonic aspects are in play, if things get weird or crazy, be clear about the choices you’re making. While a lot won’t “make sense,” it doesn’t have to; just be clear about what you’re doing and why. Even though there may be interactions with unreasonable or irrational people, we still have the power to respond in productive ways.
As with “hard” aspects to and from Mars, if that planet (or really any planet) is involved in any non-rational aspect, whether one to our natal Mars or transiting Mars making a non-rational aspect to one of our natal, progressed, or solar return planets, it’s a time to be cautious during the period when the aspect is within a degree of forming or separating. Things have a way of getting strange during 7th harmonic aspects, so those are times to be especially deliberate and thoughtful in choosing our responses.
Primary Action Beats for the First Half of the Month
June begins under the influence of the late May New Moon at 10 Gemini, putting the spotlight on that house in our charts. As this New Moon is on a degree of mastering inertia and gravity, helping us redirect energies quickly, and biseptile Saturn, it implies we can utilize spiritual power to change the course of events, indicating that many will “pull out of a nosedive.”
The first week features the Sun sextile Chiron and quintile Jupiter, making for productive and unique opportunities to heal, to mentor or be mentored, and to teach and be taught. During that time, with Mercury sitting exactly trine Pluto as it goes stationary direct just before Saturn goes retrograde, it’s great for practical planning and figuring out how to do things the most efficient way.
The second week of June culminates with the Full Moon at 24 Gemini-Sagittarius, also known as the Christfest, or World Teacher Festival, where the Buddha Wisdom of the Full Moon of Taurus-Scorpio is distributed to the world as a new idea and a new potential spiritual future. As this coming Full Moon is on the same degree as the 2020 Solar Eclipse at 24 Sagittarius, we can expect that some form of happiness will come to fill the void created by that eclipse. This Full Moon indicates that we will find a genuine happiness if we are able to use the Light of skill at achieving movement despite binding conditions.
Primary Action Beats for the Second Half of the Month
The last half of the month is under the influence of the Full Moon at 24 Gemini/Sagittarius, with two special evolutionary configurations in play. The Lunation is sextile and trine Saturn, throwing a favorable void into late Leo, and building harmony and stability in any planet or point we have in the last decan of the Fire and Air signs. This powerful building energy is released through the T-square made to Neptune, showing that integrative potential is to be found in late Virgo, specifically by getting over preconceptions and consciously participating in a “mystery ritual” which may be beyond our understanding but which will lead us out “into the world of transcendent activity.”
The last 10 days of the month begin with some very favorable aspects! We have Mercury sextile Jupiter and Venus trine Pluto supported by a string of great Lunar aspects on June 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, and 27, which also brings Mars sextile Saturn. This is a very favorable “Old Moon” phase, offering visions of the future as we complete the themes of the previous New Moon.
June 28 brings Neptune stationary retrograde, Sun square Jupiter, the New Moon at 8 Cancer, and Venus sextile Jupiter. This is a VERY important shift in collective consciousness, with the Venus productivity released through the Solar square. This will be a rebeginning for some and an acceptance of an enjoyable role for others. That New Moon will put the next month’s focus on the house where we have 8 Cancer, which is good news for the planets or points we have around 7-11 Taurus, Cancer, Virgo, Scorpio, Capricorn, and Pisces.
Evolutionary Development
This is the fifth month of the North Node in Taurus era! We’re now done with our time of evolving in the sign of learning and communicating, and are now in a time of our greatest development coming through the sign of appreciation, value, and enjoying the best life has to offer.
With Mars conjunct Jupiter in Aries setting the pace for the new openings of the next 2 years, embrace the adventure in new actions and new freedom to be as authentic as you need to be. As usual, our wise friend Saturn is helping us to a greater understanding where we have Aquarius in our charts, with this month beginning our testing in utilizing spiritual power to further our part of the larger Aquarian work.
We’re now about 2/3 of the way through two years of non-stop friction between Saturn in Aquarius square Uranus in Taurus. Keep eliminating all which is of no use in the future, keep building heart and focused spiritual expression, and remember your inner Spiritual Warrior can never be overcome.
This tension will be greatly relieved by January 2023. Given the tension between Aquarius and Taurus triggered these next 12 weeks by the Venus and Mars transiting Taurus and squaring Saturn, stay focused on your larger ideals, and keep showing heart, taking heart, trusting the heart, strengthening the heart, and radiating the Love you ARE to your world, expressed through a conscious focus, concentration, and intention.
The Sun in Gemini is a time to see the Light of a greater ability to discover the ideas which will help us express the emergent Aquarian ideal through productive mental activity related to the new momentum generated in Aries. With Mercury trine Pluto, it continues to be a time to feel your connection with all of Life, and bless the passages which have helped you to the wisdom you now have. With the continuance of so much Aries Fire, it’s a great time to see how your individual unique spark of Light is part of the greater infinite Light field.
As we’re now in the second year of a new 20 year and 200 year cycle, remember a new era has dawned. Have courage and take the initiative to leave the Earth and fly free into the Air of what’s opening as the Grand Mutation expands its promise into the Divine transfigured ideal of a more just truth and future.
Open to new discoveries, new ways of overcoming inertia, new ways of manipulating the trajectory of events, and get ready for new ideas and perspectives related to the emerging global wisdom of this Spring. We’ve harvested much these past three months; the past is now over and we all face a new world of new potential, new adventures, and new ways to enjoy being ourselves, doing our work of Destiny. Open to the abundance of the process of growth, since we are all on a rocket ship to the stars!
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Until next month (or whenever we meet again, since tomorrow is never guaranteed)
Robert Wilkinson
Editor, AAZ Newsletter
http://www.aquariuspapers.com
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