This brief overview is adapted from Guy Spiro’s Original Astro-Weather 2008. To order the complete version of Astro-Weather 2008 with precise daily aspects for your time zone, call Lightworks at 847-966-1110 or visit
http://guyspiro.com/ where you can also access the full daily version of Astro-Weather on line. Guy Spiro has been a professional astrologer for over 25 years, publishing Astro-Weather continuously in The Monthly Aspectarian magazine since 1979.
http://www.guyspiro.com/astroweather/overview.htmJuneThrough the month of June, the Saturn trine Pluto that we have been enjoying remains, but is slowly fading. The positive Jupiter-Uranus-Neptune energy mentioned last month remains strong, however, and the political and social landscape will continue to rapidly change with fascinating and surprising re-sults. The winds of change will be blowing very strong and this is great, but we should not think that regressive forces will just roll over and play dead. The forces of conservatism will always resist the forces of change, each be-having according to their nature. Enjoy the return of the ascendancy of liberal-ity, but keep a wary eye on those who would impede. Now is a time for cele-bration, but with a sober knowledge that the culture war will never really be won. The pendulum will continue to swing back and forth for many decades to come even if the prevailing wind is toward liberality and enlightenment. It will probably always be two steps forward and one step back. During this step forward, let's make the most of it. It remains vitally important that we stay involved. Put the light of your consciousness to work in the various global meditation and prayer for peace and world healing events that you know about and are attracted to. The more light we generate, the less dark can re-main.
On more personal levels, the main thing to be aware of as June begins is the Mercury retrograde period that began back on May 26th and continues through the 19th. See the Mercury Retrograde page at the beginning of the book for more on these periods. The new to full Moon period should be made good use of. Deep positive changes can be made. Do, however, keep an eye on others' motivations and your own as well. There are the usual major energies running through most of the day. Read ahead and plan for making the most of the positives and minimizing the cautionary. There are some long daytime Moon void of course periods to be aware of, especially in the first half of the month until Pluto retrogrades back into Sagittarius. The most notable include the 2nd, 4th, 6th, 8th and the 13th. There are some half day voids to watch for as well.
AugustAs August opens up, the Uranus semi-sextile Neptune remains. This positive energy (see the end of last month's overview) is here to stay for some time to come. It will be very strong all the way through 2011 and into 2012. It will not fade all the way out until late in 2014. The positive changes in society and in the world at large are impossible to imagine at the time of this writing. The other outer planets will shift into various configurations with this aspect throughout the period, but this energy will remain constant. This is not to say that regressive forces will disappear. They will in fact be driven by despera-tion to ever more deplorable acts and attitudes, but every move to counter the positive shift will have the opposite effect as the zeitgeist rejects the efforts. Every attempt to weaken the motion toward liberality and enlightenment will actually feed and strengthen it. As the month wears on, Jupiter, retrograding away from its involvement with Uranus and Neptune, moves into a trine with Saturn. By the end of the month, this very positive aspect will be very strong and there will be great energy for reconciliation between conservatism and positive change. This is energy conducive to recognizing reality as it is and making the right choices for improving it. This aspect stays with us through the rest of the year, and by October and November, it catches up to the Ura-nus-Neptune aspect to become one big positive configuration involving all four of these outer planets. By this time, the world will already be a different place than at this writing in early fall of '07.
On more personal levels, the first week of the month, starting with the new Moon eclipse, is very high energy, but very cautionary as well. Plan for deal-ing carefully with it. There seems to be more than the average number of cau-tionary days. Most of the cautions are not of the dire persuasion, but they are numerous enough to make it a stand out month. There are two or three days of dangerous energy, but most just seem to be mildly to hair tearing out annoy-ing and frustrating. Read ahead and plan wisely. The most significant daytime Moon void of course period is on the 23rd. There are some half day voids to be aware of as well.
NovemberThis will be a November that will be remembered for a long time. The energy surrounding this U.S. election is immense and almost too complicated to de-scribe in this monthly overview. The complex involving Jupiter, Saturn, Ura-nus and Neptune described last month remains very strong through this month and well into next. The wave of change is here and by now everyone should be seeing it. At the time of the election, we have Venus and Mars in the com-plex as well. Many of the aspects would seem to counteract each other, but my take on the whole of it is that it supports the change-over from the conser-vative cultural assumption that we've lived under since the '80s to a new lib-eral cultural assumption. Know that after some years in the Sun, the assump-tion will swing back to conservatism, as that is the cyclical nature of things, and the pendulum will always swing first one way and then the other. But now is the time (since the advent of the age of Aquarius first significantly manifested in the late 1700s) when the prevailing direction reasserts itself and more gains in liberality and enlightenment occur. Let us make the most of this period that is now dawning and make ever more positive changes as perma-nent as possible. The last period comparable to this one started in the mid '60s and ran into the '80s. This one may be shorter, but it gets off with a bang. Be the change. Late in the month, Pluto, which is in a quiet phase right now, moves into Capricorn for the second time and now will remain there through the early '20s. This will be a period of great change that needs to be guided in enlightened ways. There will be changes in the fundamental ways that things are seen and dealt with. We will need to remain vigilant and involved throughout and things that get set in stone during these years will have lasting effects. Who should be more influential, the light bearers or the plutocracy? Who will be? Generate light in any and every way you can.
On more personal levels, there is a great deal of activity that will seem to bounce from the highs to the lows to back up again in a dizzying manner. This is because of the large complex of slower moving outer planets that sets up a gauntlet of positive and cautionary aspects for the faster moving inner planets to move through in rapid-fire fashion. For instance, Halloween and the first of the month have great positive and fun energy, only to be slammed on the sec-ond and rebound on the fourth. There will be a lot of that this month. It will be fun, but will need to be handled carefully at the same time with much contra-dictory energy flying around. There are many days that you will benefit from reading ahead and planning how to deal with. The only significant daytime Moon void of course periods to be aware of are on the 4th, 17th, and the 26th. Most of the others are short, but some do fall in the daytime so do watch for them.
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