🌑 JUNE 27-29: CAPRICORN FULL MOON

MOON ENTERS CAPRICORN at 11:52am EDT on Wednesday, June 27 and remains here until Friday, June 29 at 4:57am when it goes VOID OF COURSE for the rest of the day. LAST ASPECT OF MOON: Moon Conjunct Pluto in Capricorn. FULL MOON IS EXACT on Thursday, June 28 at 0:53am at 6º Capricorn. Sounds like a seriously intense Full Moon! Use the stabilizing nature of Saturn-ruled Capricorn to steady yourself while tension increases as we move towards the climactic completion of events which have previously been set in motion. Climbing the mountain of ambition, Capricorn rules governments, business and our careers - traditional structures. It also rules the crystallized structures of bones and teeth in the body. These areas of life are likely to be in sharp focus now. Emotional expression (which is likely to be Pluto-powerful) and relationships with women may feel constrained. We know what it's like to repress strong emotions - the result is usually either depression or an eventual volcanic eruption. Circumstances that show up now may be indications of what the

Saturn/Pluto conjunction in Capricorn will be like that we astrologers are all anticipating in January 2020. This conjunction can be 'deconstructed' as the tearing down (Pluto) of old traditional structures (Saturn) before rebuilding (Pluto)...or pruning or restructuring what no longer works in terms of our collective resources or power (fuel, global economy, political decisions - Pluto's archetype) or in our collective psyche. Any way you interpret the meeting of these two archetypes, the indications are strong and will most likely affect us deeply. As this current lunar position also creates the tension-producing Full Moon (Moon in Capricorn Opposite Sun in Cancer), be conscious as it approaches to allow whatever is up in your personal life for restructuring to move on out. It's likely to have something to do with our ambition to succeed or limitations to speaking our emotional truth. Exhale as you let it go. Then, knowing you've just made a quantum leap, smile at your courage!

NOTE: On Tuesday, the 26th MARS TURNS RETROGRADE at 9º Aquarius, and remains Retrograde until August 27 at 28º Capricorn when it TURNS DIRECT. Mars' archetype concerns our Identity, our Will or Intentionality, our Sexuality, our Warrior-nature (Anger) and our physical Actions. Use this time to reconsider who you truly are and if your Actions in the world signify this identity. Notice what House(s) early degrees of Aquarius/late Capricorn fall in your birth chart. Any action or decisions made in the area of life that this house represents will be given an opportunity to be reconsidered and perhaps, done over during the retrograde period. We're likely to feel the shift in energy from Aquarius' more erratic, impatient and rebellious attitude back to a steadfast, disciplined and responsible Capricorn. While Aquarius is more independent both are enterprising and are concerned with producing result. Innovative technologies are more accessible to us during the imaginative Aquarius Mars while it will serve us better to stay with tried and true conventional means while it's in Capricorn from August 14 - September 11. Interestingly, Mars will retrograde over the US 2nd House South Node to one degree away from its natal Pluto (which is Opposite Mercury), perhaps giving us opportunities to reconsider our Values, Resources and Financial decisions made in the last few months. We're moving towards a Pluto Return (transiting Pluto will conjoin natal Pluto in early 2022, which we'll begin to feel in 2020) - a huge moment of transformation for our country, particularly regarding these areas. Mars retrograding over this area now may indicate the circumstances to come - though its pretty clear that the whole arena is already in play. Along with erratic Uranus' recent move into money-driven Taurus, the advice is to get your financial ducks in as-secure-a-row-as-possible as soon as possible. Mars joins four other planets currently Retrograde: Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto! With all this - who we, as a collective, have considered ourselves to be, looks like it's about to change... radically.

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CAPRICORN FULL MOON FILM: Blade Runner 2049; Director: Denis Villeneuve. The classic yet innovative story continues...and it's as good or better than the original. Pluto/Saturn themes of destroying old structures abound in this dystopic epic. The old model of replicants (bioengineered android created to serve as a slave laborer) is still being hunted down by LAPD Blade Runners. But our new main character 'K', played by a seriously

mesmerizing Ryan Gosling, discovers buried below a solitary tree, the bones of a female replicant which has given birth. In fear of losing control of their society's order, Gosling's boss, Lieutenant Joshi (Robin Wright), demands he find the child and eliminate it. Of course, it's not a huge surprise that the parents are...well, no spoilers here...but even from the trailer we know Harrison Ford's original title character shows up

for what, I thought, was some of the best dramatic acting of his career. Villeneuve is said to leave much of the actor's choices to their own devices and the end result is an invisible veil between reality and illusion. Legendary cinematographer Roger Deakins (Skyfall, No Country for Old Men, The Reader) won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for this film and his visuals are nothing short of gorgeous. This is not your average sci-fi movie containing all the expected conventions of the genre. Mysteries continue to prevail and while the plot is definitive, the narrative is most surely and richly character driven. If you haven't seen this magnificent piece of filmmaking - or its predecessor - you're missing a real treat. On HBO.