Summer Solstice 2022
/There is a magic with the shift of seasons: Winter to Spring to Summer then Fall. There seems to be a distinct shift in energy initiating some movement. Thus, we find that the seeds of ideas planted during the Winter Solstice, and noted in Spring, can now, with the ingress of Summer, produce the fruits of our planting. Astrology is in sync with the turn of the seasons. Each cardinal sign in the zodiac marks the initiation of a new season: around the 21st of March we greet the new zodiacal year with the beginning of Aries and the Spring Equinox; then we find that the beginning of Cancer each year on June 21st marks the start of our summer season. Autumn comes around September 21st with the ingress of Libra, and finally, the Winter Solstice comes with the shift to zero degrees of Capricorn on 12/21.
Today, June 21st marks the halfway point of our yearly seasonal journey. It is a perfect time to look at the fruits of our efforts and reflect on our lives. Yes, the summer gives one a feeling of expansion and growth, but in many ways, it is a time to go inward to take inventory of our accomplishments and seek wisdom from our inner voice.
Summer starts with the sign of Cancer, the sensitive and intuitive water sign that represents a dynamic cardinal movement that involves searching for a true home and belonging. The traditional house of Cancer in the astrological wheel is in the fourth house at the bottom of the natal chart. This place represents one’s connection to the past, our ancestral heritage, the family, and clan, but most of all, each person’s soul yearnings. The fourth house represents the midnight part of the chart, where we are guided by the Moon and our intuition. The archetype of the divine feminine describes this sign.
I invite you to think about your accomplishments from the Winter Solstice and reflect on what needs more love and attention. On this day, June 21st, 2022, state your intention to nurture your divine purpose and soul needs. Use your intuitive knowing to go within and find the answers you seek to transform your life.
We are entering a time of profound healing and spiritual evolution. However, currently, we have a choice to take one path or another:
Choice Point - The point at which transitions split into multiple, mutually exclusive branches, each terminating at a different destination state. As the separation of worlds physically widens between the Devolving Descending and Evolving Ascending, your choices matter. Everything Counts!!
Growing new life out of division
I believe that paying attention to a bigger picture, one that astrological transits can help to form a cosmic perception, means one can put the current seemingly retrogressive steps backwards into the dark ages - war, political division, threats to personal liberties, financial, food and climate crisis - into perspective. Meaning brings hope.
Let us look at the Big Picture:
When Pluto entered the sign of Capricorn in November 2008, the Great Eliminator began to expose all that was false, covert and hidden, within ourselves, within organizations, institutions, mega-corporations, governments.
Fourteen years on and we find ourselves in the death throes of authoritarian darkness, which now seeks to eradicate the collective soul. But Pluto is transpersonal - far bigger than any human power games - and utterly relentless - the birth of the new will not be thwarted. These last two years of Pluto in Capricorn are bringing out the worst of the worst of the patriarchal freaking out, violence, coup attempts, dictator meltdowns, and rage against all of it.
This is the endgame phase of the very necessary Separation of Worlds.
Pluto’s entry into Aquarius, which begins in 2023, heralds the winds of change that will lead to whole- scale transformation. In February 2023, Pluto activates the Anaretic Degree aka the Fate Degree – 29° to 29°59’59” - of Capricorn and prepares to move into Aquarius until 2043 with a new evolutionary remit. This window of time - February 2023 to November 2024 - is the beginning of the end of the overriding controlling force that has ruled humanity for millennia. In its wake, Pluto’s legacy will be the final crumbling of the dark agenda.
Consider the powerful Winter Solstice of December 21, 2021. We began a new 26,000 Galactic Cycle. Our Galactic Center of our Milky Way is ruled by the sign of Sagittarius, the archetype of belief systems, spiritual wisdom which promotes faith and hope. Thus, we are building new levels of trust that we will enter a new world of harmony and unity. Today’s Summer Solstice allows us to illuminate this six-month journey and plan for the rest of 2022 and onward. What path are you taking?
Saturn retrograde in Aquarius June 4 through October 23rd.
On a personal note: As an Aquarius Sun, I look to the future with hope in my heart. When Pluto ingresses into the sign of Aquarius, I might just do a happy dance. Of course, getting to that point will require that I continue to do the hard work of looking at my own karmic lessons. I believe that Saturn, currently in the sign of Aquarius, is providing the tests for me to look at my life and how I have learned (or not) lessons that I agreed to work on this lifetime. So far, the last many months have challenged my own life path as an Aquarian. I have faced health, relationship, and financial challenges that provide “reality checks” to keep me on track. For instance, on June 2, I went in for elective, outpatient surgery to correct issues I have had with my throat since dealing with thyroid cancer in 2016. My surgery went well except for the fact that my heart went into AFib and I was admitted into the hospital so that my heart could return to normal sinus rhythm. I now have my very own cardiologist who will support my “heart” recovery. Interesting that my natal Saturn is in LEO, the sign of the heart. With the transiting Saturn in the sky in Aquarius passing over my SUN sign and opposite my natal SATURN in Leo, I truly believe the message for me is to become more heart centered. One of my karmic lessons is to get out of my head (Aquarius Sun) and into my heart, by way of my VOICE (throat – 5th chakra) that is finally healing. I could go into more astrological analysis, but I would bore you. I simply shared this as I feel we are being called to serve the great good, and I am asking myself how this applies to me, as well as all of you reading this message.
It is important to know how your natal Saturn informs your karmic lessons. We all need to own our SATURN, meaning we need to step into our authority. Yet this happens when we become disciplined and face our tasks taking us to our power. Saturn in your chart and by transit symbolizes your evolving potential, so, to capitalize on this current retrograde period of Saturn in Aquariuswith the following guidelines:
turn toward unknown terrain in order to gather and harvest wisdom - deliberately going off the mainstream path and beyond the norm.
question and break through old restrictive rules, traditions, structures and boundaries in order to make connections, distribute information, and develop innovations.
strengthen your personal boundaries - not too fluid, not too tight.
re-evaluate your inner rules and match them to your core values.
As you reflect on the energies of today’s Solstice, please find time to nurture yourself. You are part of an awakening consciousness. You are valued and appreciated for your contribution in this amazing world we inhabit.
Please remember that our cosmic consciousness has been awakening to a new reality. There is a burgeoning awareness of our multi-dimensional world. Shifting from the harshness of 3-D reality, humanity is ascending to a unity consciousness. Yes, I get that we can see huge polarity and separation, but the quantum field is taking us to the realization of a collective oneness. The coming of Christ consciousness, the divine feminine, and the healing energy of a “Six” vibration in this 2022 numerology's universal year is emerging to bring us to wholeness.
Be the love that want to see in the world!