Astrology in Mid-June 2019 – Navigating the Storm, Aware of Coming Headwind Oppositions With A Favorable Tack Toward Neptune

by Robert Wilkinson

We are in the heart of a very intense period I wrote about 2 weeks ago. We’ve just gone through the Solar Mutable T-square, and headed into Mercury conjunct Mars opposed both Saturn and Pluto!

Take note of what the Solar T-square brought between June 8 and 11, as it will be valued in a different light when Venus makes the same T-square June 22-25. As the releases and integration/reintegration of that evolutionary configuration creates a void in 19 Virgo, pay attention to details, since you’re learning some sort of “education in action” related to the value of friendly competition to maximize results as you prepare for a new “adventure in consciousness.”

There seemed to be more confusion than normal during the time of the Solar T-square, with exaggerated impulses immediately redirected into a foggy state. I have noted there have been a remarkable amount of cross currents and unclear energy during this time of Jupiter square Neptune, as though things are constantly shifting and changing in ways that are confusing rather than clarifying. The Sun brought light to what roles we should and should not be playing, and should have helped us see clearly how to reorient to escape a harsh condition.

Then we have the coming oppositions! We’re already in the umbra of the Mars opposition Saturn which will be exact at 8:45 am PDT, 4:45 pm BST on June 14. This begins a week of extreme oppositional energies, as Mercury closing on its conjunction with Mars will keep the Mars opposition Saturn energies in full manifestation until the Christfest Full Moon on June 17. Then Mercury conjuncts Mars on June 18, and both Mercury and Mars are opposed by the Moon occulting Pluto on June 19!

Be extremely careful during that week, since the energies of these conjunction/oppositions is very intense and polarizing. There will be separations, oppositions, people not seeing eye to eye, with areas in our charts around 18-24 degrees of Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn under maximum stress. Of course, these already have had Saturn and Pluto pressures for the past 3 months, since those planets have been hanging out between 19-24 Capricorn the entire time.

The relief comes from the configuration created by Neptune sextile Saturn and Pluto, trined by Mercury and Mars. This generates productive and favorable energies around 17-21 Virgo and Scorpio, helping us intuit via Neptune exactly how to adjust, what to leave behind, and where to put our energies for maximum effectiveness.

This is a “fluid knowing” which can help us see how the collective fogs and confusions are moving, and how we can repositions ourselves along the Virgo/Pisces harmonized understanding rather than get trapped in the Cancer/Capricorn opposition. Sometimes it’s appropriate to “just slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan, you don’t need to be coy Roy, just get yourself free, hop on the bus Gus, you don’t need to discuss much, just drop off the key Lee, and get yourself free.”

However, while you’re attempting to navigate the fog using your “spiritual GPS” during this time of shifts, changes, oppositions and other face-offs, GO SLOW. Consciously slow everything down a little, and redirect your energies away from contention, arguments, flareups, and other impulsive or aggressive-assertive tendencies. Are you caring for yourself, or getting touchy about things which you don’t need to be dealing with? Have you put yourself in a contentious situation in which you need to protect yourself?

Get the plan (Virgo) and be firm (Scorpio) in implementing it. Be like water, changing state if you need to, shrinking from no plunge, letting nothing affect your essential nature. These will be the same energies you can utilize effectively in the second and third weeks of July when the Sun and then Venus also make these oppositions to Saturn and Pluto and trines to Neptune.

So if things have been confused or a bit turned around, it’s not you, it’s the generic atmosphere. And if you’re feeling vulnerable, or tired of a line of activity or a social situation you’re unhappy with, redirect and do something to take care of yourself which takes you away from those frustrating situations and people. Once the oppositions are done, they give way to a lot of Leo activity in July and August, followed by VERY favorable Virgo trines to Uranus, Saturn, and Pluto in late August and September! That’s where the Virgo energy we’re learning to practice during the current oppositions and trines will become active skills in our lives helping us to greater effectiveness in the Virgo sector of our charts.

For more about the evolutionary dynamics of these interlocking configuration time periods, please revisit Astrology in June 2019 – Restlessness, Adaptation, Adjustment, and Integration

© Copyright 2019 Robert Wilkinson

Comments

[Denise]

Thanks for this - your description of the solar t square is pretty much what I have experienced. Given what else is coming, I may be rethinking my plans for the summer.

[Julie Hackett]

Robert, thank you for your generous sharing of wisdom and insights.
I have natal Neptune at 18 Sag, and ASC at 15 Gemini, so this Jupiter Neptune square has really been working how I apply my vision and dreams in the world. All the while I have natal Pluto at 19 Libra, being squared by the Cap conjunction. My life looks nothing like it did a year ago, making lots of new space to get clear and create the vision of what I have been dreaming. I'm just starting to see how all of these squares are working me internally to keep getting clearer on how I am actuating my purpose and intentions.
But there's another huge conjunction coming this summer, with my natal NN at 7 Virgo, and you write about the t-squares being resolved through either mid-Gem (my ASC) or Virgo, my NN. I am definitely getting the discernment piece, and the need to prune my life carefully to effectively direct my energies.

Are there other special energies to watch for with so many, 5 planets, conjuncting my NN?
With gratitude for all your cosmic wisdom!

[Carol Pereira]

Thank you Robert for this post. I have a question. Given that Mars will also be transiting over 21 degrees Cancer later this month, which is the same degree of last July's partial solar eclipse, will this exacerbate the difficulties around July 14-19? If it does, what could that look like?
Best,
Carol