DAILY ASTROLOGY IN FILM: JUNE 17-20

MOON enters SAGITTARIUS at 9:34pm EDT Friday June 17th after being VOID OF COURSE from 9:52am EDT. It remains in Sag until 7:02am EDT Monday June 20th. While this Sagittarius moon period is one of the most dramatic of the month, most of Friday is VOID OF COURSE! You no doubt know the drill. This energy is similar to Mercury retrograde. It's a CHALLENGING time to initiate important practical actions. We're living in the liminal space at the threshold of change today. You may feel the day getting away from you, that not much gets done. Try to let go of any anxiety around this because it's just the nature of the beast. Take advantage of this dreamy time for inner creative musings where inspiration and magic may be available. We're building towards the FULL MOON on Monday morning when tensions tend to be heightened. (Search APRIL 7TH VOID OF COURSE Post for more info.)

FULL MOON IN SAGITTARIUS at 7:02am EDT on Monday June 20th. This Full Moon is so interesting because it is followed by the Sun moving into Cancer at 6:34pm EDT later Monday evening which marks the SUMMER SOLSTICE. If the Full Moon reflects a time of climax and culmination, particularly of what was begun on the New Moon in Gemini two weeks ago, then ideally, the decks are cleared for the beginning of the Summer Season. 
Ruled by Jupiter, the Sag Moon opposes the Gemini Sun in it's last, 29th, degree. This Mutable Fire sign embarks on the great adventure to passionately seek the Truth. He is interested in philosophy, religious tenets, the meaning behind the words - in general, Sag wants the big picture. At worst he is arrogant and excessive - Jupiter's drive for growth is too much. At best this seeker finds the wisdom he's after - and has a great time doing it! His inspirational fire is fanned by the the opposition to the Gemini Sun, the Mutable air sign of the zodiac. The Marriage or reconciliation of this pair of Opposites may be found, as always, by honoring both ends of the polarity. Though we may be trained by our cultural scientific paradigm with its proclivity for an either/or separatist attitude, it may serve us better to look to the paradoxical perspective that both sides of the coin require our attention if the coin is to have real value. In this case, though both are mind-oriented, Gemini wants us to actively engage in lively conversation, socializing, logically gathering as many pieces of information as we can while Sagittarius is driven towards the bigger picture of philosophical Truths and solitary long distance adventures. We might honor both ends of the axis by actively conversing at a social event about philosophical abstractions or by taking a trip alone to another part of the world for intellectual study. The imagination soars with possible expressions of combining these archetypes. 

LAST ASPECT OF MOON: Moon Opposite Sun at 7:02am EDT on Monday June 20th. While tensions do exist between a logical, analytically precise mind confronted with a subconscious need for a more theoretical and rose-colored conclusion - which could result in confused unrealistic communication,  a stalemate or easy answers, perhaps it's better to focus again on that Hidden Opportunity in Oppositions (Search March Post). Actions initiated during this time may tend to be CHALLENGING if we aren't conscious of how to honor both ends of the opposition.

We can't let this post conclude without acknowledging that Sunday evening the Sagittarius Moon conjoins Saturn and becomes a close player in the existing MUTABLE GRAND CROSS. So, not only do we have the Sun opposed the Moon - as always at the Full Moon - but, during its early movement through Sag at 11 degrees, the Moon engages the Saturn (in Sag)/Mercury (in Gemini) and Jupiter (in Virgo)/Neptune (in Pisces) oppositions which makes up the Grand Cross. Lots of potentially scattered energy at odds with itself here! We have two oppositions and four squares to resolve. There's flexibility and adaptability available to us as the signs are all Mutable, but the tendency here is to have it dispersed in the four houses in which the cross resides in your chart. Try to stand in the middle of the cross and find your Center. Look to what grounds you, what you can count on, what you know to be True.

SCENE OF THE DAY: Elizabeth: The Golden Age, 2007; Director: Shekhar Kapur. Here we see Cate Blanchett as the Queen ("Prince of the Female gender") consulting her philosopher/astrologer John Dee for his wise interpretation of planetary information - a great use of the Gemini/Sagittarius opposition. The Full Moon approaches, in this case signifying a dramatic culmination of a political nature. This, the third scene we've screened from this powerful film, is again a rare cinematic moment which portrays the respect that the artful practice of astrology deserves.