Post by ADMIN on Jun 6, 2006 13:40:28 GMT -5
Uranus, Jupiter, Mercury Grand Trine
Jupiter opposite Venus
Venus square Neptune
Saturn opposite Neptune
Saturn conjunct Mars 8th—14th
3rd—10th
12th—20th
All month
All month
During the first full week of June, Jupiter forms an opposition to Venus. As a pairing, Jupiter and Venus tend to be experienced as a pleasurable and agreeable influence, facilitating social gatherings, party-going, and celebration. However, the difficulty with any Venus and Jupiter pairing involves overindulging in pleasures, becoming overcome with swollen appetites, or simply losing one's self to intemperance and enjoyment. Arguably no other planetary influence connotes the "high life," the "good life," and "luxury" as much as this pairing. Giorgio Armani, Gianni Versace, and Ralph Lauren were all designers born under prominent Jupiter-Venus aspects, and their high-end brand and mystique connote the quality of Jupiter and Venus in pairing.
As this particular Venus and Jupiter aspect is an opposition, the angular relationship between both planets suggests some degree of difficulty in resolving the different needs associated with each planet. The pleasure-seeking, amorous affiliations associated with Venus may come in conflict with the philosophically-minded, meaning-oriented quality of Jupiter. However, the opposition between Jupiter and Venus is certainly one of the more graceful and harmonious of the challenging aspects between planets.
Jupiter, Mercury, and Uranus form a rare Grand Trine (a triangular formation where three planets are separated by 120 degrees) during the middle of the month. As June witnessed the only Grand Trine formation between Jupiter, Mars, and Uranus of this decade, likewise, this upcoming Grand Trine between Uranus, Mercury, and Jupiter will be the only one of its kind in the opening decade of the twenty-first century. The essential quality of this formation can be captured by the following phrase: "Broad-minded mental vision and mental ingenuity." With this aspect tight in formation in mid-June, this brief one-week period represents an exceptional time to generate new ideas, to brainstorm, or to receive intuitive insights. Thomas Edison is credited with saying, "Genius: one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration." If true, then this forthcoming alignment between Jupiter, Mercury, and Uranus symbolizes something akin to Edison's 1 percent. Although a Jupiter, Mercury, Uranus Grand Trine may be the astrological signature for getting "zapped" by highly intuitive insights, there often needs some sort of action applied to the brilliance in order to gain any sort of lasting fulfillment from it.
A rather prolonged square alignment also occurs between Venus and Mars in the second half of May. Mars' presence with Venus may lend much-needed energy and punch to social gatherings and artistic gatherings, but Mars' affiliation with assertion and aggression may bear too much for the elegance and grace that Venus usually brings for social occasions. Conversely, Venus' softness and charm may in fact diminish instances in which boldness and bravado are indeed warranted. The key to this alignment is strife, as if the two principles involved in the configuration need some degree of consciousness in order to work together in harmony.
As a Jupiter-Venus pairing can connote indulgence in the luxuries of thisworld, a blending of Neptune and Venus often implies losing one's self in pleasures of other worlds: beatific visions, drugs and altered states of consciousness, relationships that offer something too good to be true. As the Venus-Neptune alignment in mid-June is a square alignment, this planetary configuration can suggest significant reality impairment when dealing with pleasure, relationships, and, even to some degree, money. When entering the dimension of Venus and Neptune, ask yourself, "Is this something too good to be true?" Typically, the answer is yes, however, if one is prepared to loose the illusions and otherworldly enjoyments associated with Neptune and Venus in pairing, then by all means indulge.
Questionably the dominant astrological configuration of the month, Saturn and Mars form a conjunction that spans all of June. On a collective scale, the Saturn-Mars confluence often correlates with stalls, revisions, and delays in strategy relative to international conflicts. The Saturn-Mars archetypal quality often forces nations to critically address concerns regarding international tensions. With its "back-to-the-drawing-board" essence, the Saturn-Mars alignment often impairs or hinders progress relative to forward momentum. On an individual level, the Saturn-Mars conjunction should facilitate hard transits from Saturn to personal planets in the early-to-mid degrees of fixed signs (Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius, and Taurus) in the birth chart. In particular, if one is born with the Sun or Moon in the early degrees of fixed signs, then the Mars conjunction to Saturn this month can bring out the best qualities of Saturn-discipline, endurance, integrity, and organization-as well as the more trying expressions of Saturn-depression, defeat, frustration, and blockage.
Finally, as Mars conjoins Saturn, the alignment should bring into greater focus the main alignment of the year, Saturn in opposition to Neptune. Now, as Saturn moves forward in its orbit, it comes in direct opposition to Neptune by the end of the summer. Although we have seen some of the expressions of the alignment already-disenchantment with war, an insidious but perceptible weakening of many authority regimes and current structures, a "seeing through" of false and unsustainable illusions-it is more than likely that the correlations with this alignment will become more pronounced throughout the summer.
On a personal level, the Saturn-Neptune alignment may bring a discernible level of dissatisfaction with one's dreams, hopes, ideals, and aspirations. This time may facilitate confronting how things are in their naked condition, stripped of our illusions and projections. This alignment may also force us to surrender or let go of formations and structures that no longer serve us. But the alignment can also be looked upon as an invitation to deepen our ideals, to strengthen and deepen our personally-defined connection with what is sacred or spiritual. As is written in the Katha Upanishad (and fitting for this planetary combination): "The sharp edge of a razor is difficult to pass over; thus the wise say the path to Salvation is hard."
FOCUS ON SATURN-MARS
Throughout June, Saturn and Mars form a conjunction, aligning together throughout the entire month. As this alignment will be dominant in June, the anima mundi, or collective soul, will be significantly inflected and shaped by this influence.
Though individuals born with hard alignments between Saturn and Mars must deal with the themes and associations of the combination as a life pattern, collectively throughout the month, we can get a sense of what it might be like to live with this combination through our experiences, behaviors, thoughts, and associations.
As any planetary combination is complex, it may manifest in a variety of ways; however two strong, but opposing, themes of the Saturn-Mars combination concerns willpower and authority. On the one hand, individuals born with Saturn and Mars in difficult aspect may receive the impression from outside authorities or internal influences that their self efficacy and will power are not worthy, substandard, or simply not good enough. There may be a sense with this combination that the harsh conditions of the world significant impair, contract, or render meek their assertiveness and desire nature. However, the opposite pole may be also true with this planetary pairing: the hardship, difficulties, and frustrations of the real world help to hone, discipline, and develop the will into a highly potent force. This response to the Saturn-Mars complex gives a noticeable endurance, tenacity, and never-say-quit capacity to the individual that allows one to not only cope with frustration, but to overcome and master life. To some degree, any hard Saturn aspect leads to an overcompensating effect; if one feels intrinsically unworthy, there is often a greater-than-usual motivation to re-balance the sense of inferiority. The author Sue Tompkins captures the complex dynamic of the Saturn-Mars influence: "[The combination has] long been associated with, on the one hand, paralysis of the individual's will and an inability to assert the self with, on the other, the application of extreme self-will, courage, and possibly aggressive domination." (source: Aspects in Astrology) As each individual is multifaceted, it is likely that persons born with Saturn-Mars aspects realize and taste both poles of the influence.
Throughout the month of June, it may be that we also "taste" some of the Saturn-Mars themes. We may be asked to endure frustration of desires and inclinations that stretch our will to the limit. Can we rise to the occasion, or will we feel only a sense of powerlessness, exhaustion, and defeat?
Born with Saturn and Mars in aspect, the following individuals display many of the common traits of the Saturn-Mars interface.
Michael Jordan (February 17th, 1963; Saturn opposite Mars)
With Jordan, we see the classic dynamic of how the hardship of a Saturn aspect can ultimately be honed to achieve great accomplishments. For Jordan, the label of "superstar" may have been something to be earned as much as it was the result of god-given talent. It is now legend that Jordan was originally cut by his high school basketball coach because he was too small and lacked the performance necessary to compete. Such defeat made Jordan practice even harder and forced him to develop his basketball skills. Although biographers may be guilty of overestimating the impact of this event, it is quite remarkable that Jordan went from being cut from his high school basketball team to become the rising star at the University of North Carolina in a tremendously short period of time. Certainly, much of Jordan's skills may have flowered while in college and in the pro's, but there is no denying that Jordan's success is as much the result of his extraordinary talent as it is love of competition. Whether it is on the basketball court, the baseball field, or the golf links, Jordan's desire for competition is quite remarkable. (It may also be that his highly developed love of competition also led to difficulties with gambling as well.)
Cal Ripken (August 24, 1960; Saturn sextile Mars)
Although Ripken may not receive the star-centered attention as other baseball luminaries like Barry Bonds or Babe Ruth, his quiet durability and endurance was as extraordinary as other more dazzling achievements. Earning the nickname of "Iron Man," Ripken played in over two thousand straight baseball competitions spanning sixteen seasons. (Yes, the other baseball player noted for his outstanding durability, Lou Gehrig, was also born with a major Saturn-Mars influence, Saturn trine Mars.) As Ripken was born with the harmonious sextile aspect, the struggle to develop willpower may have been achieved relatively effortlessly, without significant major defeats endured in early development. Ripken also displays another facet of Saturn-Mars: leadership. Often Saturn-Mars individuals make notable executives and leaders due to their welding of assertion with integrity and responsibility. Ripken is as something of a shining "Ambassador of Baseball," particularly in light of the dark shadow cast upon the sport recently. Beyond being a notable competitor, like Jordan, he is seen as something of a role model for children due to his competitive spirit, tenacity, fair play, and sportsmanship.
Condoleeza Rice (November 14, 1954; Saturn square Mars)
Born with Saturn and Mars in hard aspect, with Condoleeza Rice we see many of the possibilities of Saturn and Mars in difficult configuration. From many accounts, Rice endured some very trying experiences as a youth, experiences which did not break her, but molded her. Her hardships in youth led her to state that she needed to be "'twice as good' as non-minorities." (source: Wikipedia). Even an aunt commented on Condi's tenacity in youth, "Condi's always been so focused, ever since she was really, really young." (Source: London Times, 2004) Certainly, a quick glance at her accomplishments shows the mark of a Type A overachiever. Graduating from college years earlier than her peers, learning several languages, and rising to become one the most powerful women in the world has taken extreme diligence and responsible work ethic. For good or ill, the Saturn-Mars aspect is often a classic signature in leaders that seemingly come out-of-nowhere or from adverse, lowly circumstances. Once their will is ignited, they seemingly are indefatigable and unstoppable. Besides witnessing the overcompensating effect of Saturn-Mars, we can also see that Rice typifies some of the more classic "blood-and-iron" qualities of the Saturn-Mars configuration, with her tense, poised, and strong public persona.
Jupiter opposite Venus
Venus square Neptune
Saturn opposite Neptune
Saturn conjunct Mars 8th—14th
3rd—10th
12th—20th
All month
All month
During the first full week of June, Jupiter forms an opposition to Venus. As a pairing, Jupiter and Venus tend to be experienced as a pleasurable and agreeable influence, facilitating social gatherings, party-going, and celebration. However, the difficulty with any Venus and Jupiter pairing involves overindulging in pleasures, becoming overcome with swollen appetites, or simply losing one's self to intemperance and enjoyment. Arguably no other planetary influence connotes the "high life," the "good life," and "luxury" as much as this pairing. Giorgio Armani, Gianni Versace, and Ralph Lauren were all designers born under prominent Jupiter-Venus aspects, and their high-end brand and mystique connote the quality of Jupiter and Venus in pairing.
As this particular Venus and Jupiter aspect is an opposition, the angular relationship between both planets suggests some degree of difficulty in resolving the different needs associated with each planet. The pleasure-seeking, amorous affiliations associated with Venus may come in conflict with the philosophically-minded, meaning-oriented quality of Jupiter. However, the opposition between Jupiter and Venus is certainly one of the more graceful and harmonious of the challenging aspects between planets.
Jupiter, Mercury, and Uranus form a rare Grand Trine (a triangular formation where three planets are separated by 120 degrees) during the middle of the month. As June witnessed the only Grand Trine formation between Jupiter, Mars, and Uranus of this decade, likewise, this upcoming Grand Trine between Uranus, Mercury, and Jupiter will be the only one of its kind in the opening decade of the twenty-first century. The essential quality of this formation can be captured by the following phrase: "Broad-minded mental vision and mental ingenuity." With this aspect tight in formation in mid-June, this brief one-week period represents an exceptional time to generate new ideas, to brainstorm, or to receive intuitive insights. Thomas Edison is credited with saying, "Genius: one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration." If true, then this forthcoming alignment between Jupiter, Mercury, and Uranus symbolizes something akin to Edison's 1 percent. Although a Jupiter, Mercury, Uranus Grand Trine may be the astrological signature for getting "zapped" by highly intuitive insights, there often needs some sort of action applied to the brilliance in order to gain any sort of lasting fulfillment from it.
A rather prolonged square alignment also occurs between Venus and Mars in the second half of May. Mars' presence with Venus may lend much-needed energy and punch to social gatherings and artistic gatherings, but Mars' affiliation with assertion and aggression may bear too much for the elegance and grace that Venus usually brings for social occasions. Conversely, Venus' softness and charm may in fact diminish instances in which boldness and bravado are indeed warranted. The key to this alignment is strife, as if the two principles involved in the configuration need some degree of consciousness in order to work together in harmony.
As a Jupiter-Venus pairing can connote indulgence in the luxuries of thisworld, a blending of Neptune and Venus often implies losing one's self in pleasures of other worlds: beatific visions, drugs and altered states of consciousness, relationships that offer something too good to be true. As the Venus-Neptune alignment in mid-June is a square alignment, this planetary configuration can suggest significant reality impairment when dealing with pleasure, relationships, and, even to some degree, money. When entering the dimension of Venus and Neptune, ask yourself, "Is this something too good to be true?" Typically, the answer is yes, however, if one is prepared to loose the illusions and otherworldly enjoyments associated with Neptune and Venus in pairing, then by all means indulge.
Questionably the dominant astrological configuration of the month, Saturn and Mars form a conjunction that spans all of June. On a collective scale, the Saturn-Mars confluence often correlates with stalls, revisions, and delays in strategy relative to international conflicts. The Saturn-Mars archetypal quality often forces nations to critically address concerns regarding international tensions. With its "back-to-the-drawing-board" essence, the Saturn-Mars alignment often impairs or hinders progress relative to forward momentum. On an individual level, the Saturn-Mars conjunction should facilitate hard transits from Saturn to personal planets in the early-to-mid degrees of fixed signs (Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius, and Taurus) in the birth chart. In particular, if one is born with the Sun or Moon in the early degrees of fixed signs, then the Mars conjunction to Saturn this month can bring out the best qualities of Saturn-discipline, endurance, integrity, and organization-as well as the more trying expressions of Saturn-depression, defeat, frustration, and blockage.
Finally, as Mars conjoins Saturn, the alignment should bring into greater focus the main alignment of the year, Saturn in opposition to Neptune. Now, as Saturn moves forward in its orbit, it comes in direct opposition to Neptune by the end of the summer. Although we have seen some of the expressions of the alignment already-disenchantment with war, an insidious but perceptible weakening of many authority regimes and current structures, a "seeing through" of false and unsustainable illusions-it is more than likely that the correlations with this alignment will become more pronounced throughout the summer.
On a personal level, the Saturn-Neptune alignment may bring a discernible level of dissatisfaction with one's dreams, hopes, ideals, and aspirations. This time may facilitate confronting how things are in their naked condition, stripped of our illusions and projections. This alignment may also force us to surrender or let go of formations and structures that no longer serve us. But the alignment can also be looked upon as an invitation to deepen our ideals, to strengthen and deepen our personally-defined connection with what is sacred or spiritual. As is written in the Katha Upanishad (and fitting for this planetary combination): "The sharp edge of a razor is difficult to pass over; thus the wise say the path to Salvation is hard."
FOCUS ON SATURN-MARS
Throughout June, Saturn and Mars form a conjunction, aligning together throughout the entire month. As this alignment will be dominant in June, the anima mundi, or collective soul, will be significantly inflected and shaped by this influence.
Though individuals born with hard alignments between Saturn and Mars must deal with the themes and associations of the combination as a life pattern, collectively throughout the month, we can get a sense of what it might be like to live with this combination through our experiences, behaviors, thoughts, and associations.
As any planetary combination is complex, it may manifest in a variety of ways; however two strong, but opposing, themes of the Saturn-Mars combination concerns willpower and authority. On the one hand, individuals born with Saturn and Mars in difficult aspect may receive the impression from outside authorities or internal influences that their self efficacy and will power are not worthy, substandard, or simply not good enough. There may be a sense with this combination that the harsh conditions of the world significant impair, contract, or render meek their assertiveness and desire nature. However, the opposite pole may be also true with this planetary pairing: the hardship, difficulties, and frustrations of the real world help to hone, discipline, and develop the will into a highly potent force. This response to the Saturn-Mars complex gives a noticeable endurance, tenacity, and never-say-quit capacity to the individual that allows one to not only cope with frustration, but to overcome and master life. To some degree, any hard Saturn aspect leads to an overcompensating effect; if one feels intrinsically unworthy, there is often a greater-than-usual motivation to re-balance the sense of inferiority. The author Sue Tompkins captures the complex dynamic of the Saturn-Mars influence: "[The combination has] long been associated with, on the one hand, paralysis of the individual's will and an inability to assert the self with, on the other, the application of extreme self-will, courage, and possibly aggressive domination." (source: Aspects in Astrology) As each individual is multifaceted, it is likely that persons born with Saturn-Mars aspects realize and taste both poles of the influence.
Throughout the month of June, it may be that we also "taste" some of the Saturn-Mars themes. We may be asked to endure frustration of desires and inclinations that stretch our will to the limit. Can we rise to the occasion, or will we feel only a sense of powerlessness, exhaustion, and defeat?
Born with Saturn and Mars in aspect, the following individuals display many of the common traits of the Saturn-Mars interface.
Michael Jordan (February 17th, 1963; Saturn opposite Mars)
With Jordan, we see the classic dynamic of how the hardship of a Saturn aspect can ultimately be honed to achieve great accomplishments. For Jordan, the label of "superstar" may have been something to be earned as much as it was the result of god-given talent. It is now legend that Jordan was originally cut by his high school basketball coach because he was too small and lacked the performance necessary to compete. Such defeat made Jordan practice even harder and forced him to develop his basketball skills. Although biographers may be guilty of overestimating the impact of this event, it is quite remarkable that Jordan went from being cut from his high school basketball team to become the rising star at the University of North Carolina in a tremendously short period of time. Certainly, much of Jordan's skills may have flowered while in college and in the pro's, but there is no denying that Jordan's success is as much the result of his extraordinary talent as it is love of competition. Whether it is on the basketball court, the baseball field, or the golf links, Jordan's desire for competition is quite remarkable. (It may also be that his highly developed love of competition also led to difficulties with gambling as well.)
Cal Ripken (August 24, 1960; Saturn sextile Mars)
Although Ripken may not receive the star-centered attention as other baseball luminaries like Barry Bonds or Babe Ruth, his quiet durability and endurance was as extraordinary as other more dazzling achievements. Earning the nickname of "Iron Man," Ripken played in over two thousand straight baseball competitions spanning sixteen seasons. (Yes, the other baseball player noted for his outstanding durability, Lou Gehrig, was also born with a major Saturn-Mars influence, Saturn trine Mars.) As Ripken was born with the harmonious sextile aspect, the struggle to develop willpower may have been achieved relatively effortlessly, without significant major defeats endured in early development. Ripken also displays another facet of Saturn-Mars: leadership. Often Saturn-Mars individuals make notable executives and leaders due to their welding of assertion with integrity and responsibility. Ripken is as something of a shining "Ambassador of Baseball," particularly in light of the dark shadow cast upon the sport recently. Beyond being a notable competitor, like Jordan, he is seen as something of a role model for children due to his competitive spirit, tenacity, fair play, and sportsmanship.
Condoleeza Rice (November 14, 1954; Saturn square Mars)
Born with Saturn and Mars in hard aspect, with Condoleeza Rice we see many of the possibilities of Saturn and Mars in difficult configuration. From many accounts, Rice endured some very trying experiences as a youth, experiences which did not break her, but molded her. Her hardships in youth led her to state that she needed to be "'twice as good' as non-minorities." (source: Wikipedia). Even an aunt commented on Condi's tenacity in youth, "Condi's always been so focused, ever since she was really, really young." (Source: London Times, 2004) Certainly, a quick glance at her accomplishments shows the mark of a Type A overachiever. Graduating from college years earlier than her peers, learning several languages, and rising to become one the most powerful women in the world has taken extreme diligence and responsible work ethic. For good or ill, the Saturn-Mars aspect is often a classic signature in leaders that seemingly come out-of-nowhere or from adverse, lowly circumstances. Once their will is ignited, they seemingly are indefatigable and unstoppable. Besides witnessing the overcompensating effect of Saturn-Mars, we can also see that Rice typifies some of the more classic "blood-and-iron" qualities of the Saturn-Mars configuration, with her tense, poised, and strong public persona.
