Moon Trine Jupiter: Making The Most of Your Opportunities

The Moon enters Scorpio Monday morning and proceeds to make one positive connection after another. Grab hold of these energies early because by midweek things quickly change and it's not going to be such an easy ride - but let's focus on the good things first:

Scorpio is the most intense sign and when the Moon is here she feels everything to the highest degree - and of course then we do too. Joy, passion, betrayal, nothing in small measure. How fitting that the latest big news story being singled out for our attention is about Sergeant Bergdahl, the soldier rescued in Afghanistan. First considered a prisoner of war and a hero, now he's suspected of being a defector. The facts are unclear and the media is using this story to stir up public opinion into a Scorpionic emotional frenzy. Astrologically,it seems the gods are offering us an opportunity to either be manipulated by the media's latest spin, or to withhold judgement and with Scorpio like calm wait and dig deeper. The Moon will be trining Mercury Monday morning so important information could come to light then.

Meanwhile, in our individual lives, if there have been misunderstandings this planetary line-up offers a time for frank conversation as the Scorpio influence will bring hidden facts out in the open.

 With this welcomed clarity the Moon will next conjunct Saturn, the planet of rules and limitations. The pairing could indicate people are ready to come to agreements and could provide an excellent time to make commitments. This positive indication is further supported by the Moon's final aspect - a trine to Jupiter. Honest negotiations should work out well for everyone. Perhaps a happy ending for Sergeant Bergdahl?

Not quite yet. Wednesday, June 11, the Moon enters Sagittarius, the sign ruling expansion, travel, philosophy and the hips. (I often tell people that when Sagittarius is prominent we can either expand our lives through travel, or our minds through philosophy, or else we can stay home and expand our hips!) This month the Moon here will be squaring (not good) Neptune before it trines (good) Uranus. Neptune's influence can fog and confuse so after the first days of the week offering clarity we now have the danger of new lies and deception - and a new challenge. Do we agree with the conclusions of our President or the media? The positive alignment with Uranus, the planet of independent thinking, now demands we decide for ourselves and not be hypnotized by spin. 

And there's no avoiding taking a side because Thursday June 12 diplomatic Venus has to make a harsh opposition to realistic Saturn. Bottom-line realities could be forcing everyone to abandon cherished fantasies of American moral superiority. In the Sergeant Bergdahl story, the Moon in Sagittarius will present us with hard philosophical questions. If the soldier did indeed desert but he did it because he felt  as he said in his emails home, that a true American would not randomly shoot children as the other members of his platoon were doing, what then is our position? Do we support a government that invades a foreign country and shoots children? Or do we wish we too could have the moral courage to put down the weapon and just say no? Stay tuned because the final aspect Thursday will be a full Moon in Sagittarius opposing the Sun in Gemini - beliefs will be made public with no place to hide.

Thus when the week ends with an extremely angry Mars in Libra squaring Pluto in Capricorn negotiations with The Powers That Be are not likely to run smoothly with neither side being willing to meekly back down. The concluding realistic Capricorn Moon opposing an extravagant Jupiter favors those who know the facts and warns people caught between a rock and a hard place may gamble more than they should. Whatever happens we're going to want to be able to say we kept informed and didn't let anyone else do our thinking for us.

Keeping it real,

Rosada

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Rosada, EXT 2340
CertifiedPsychics.com

Mercury Retrograde in Cancer - This Time It's a Good Thing!

Mercury dashed through jabber-jabber Gemini in a record breaking three weeks during May and has now plunged into cozy-quiet Cancer for the first half of June. It won't be moving full speed ahead much longer. In fact, Mercury will barely enter Cancer before it turns retrograde at the end of this week - and then slips back into Gemini in the middle of the month. The good news is that while Mercury retrograde periods are often thought of as a time when things will go wrong and will need redoing, when Mercury goes retrograde in Cancer it can create some very positive benefits:

 Cancer rules family and memories. When mental Mercury, the planet ruling thoughts and communication, is active in this sector we long to connect with our home base and now because Mercury will be retrograde it makes it even easier for it to help us remember the past and hopefully to then share these memories with loved one in a way that strengthens family ties. Now I say "family-ties" but that doesn't mean the good feelings are limited to blood relatives. Rather, it means that by thinking of the people we are trying to communicate with as "family" we will discover the right feeling tone to make the conversation flow. For example, perhaps you have a neighbor you've been enjoying walks with this last month or maybe you know them through a book club. Neighbors, walks and book clubs are all very Gemini activities so your friendship probably was very pleasant in May, but maybe it's starting to feel rather superficial. Now Mercury moves into the food and family sign Cancer suggesting if you are going to continue to enjoy your neighbor it is time to invite them over to the house or do something to make the "neighbor"r feel more like "family" - otherwise you may find they simply drop off your radar screen for a bit. Bottom line - when Mercury is in Cancer we want to connect feelings as well as words.

Venus continues her float through Taurus, the home of gardens and a sign she is most comfortable in. I'm anticipating awareness will be heightened this month about what the food industry is doing to our meat and vegetables. If you've been toying with the idea of modifying your diet to reflect more healthy food choices you may find your inner wisdom is telling you, "Yes, now is the time." I think it would be an interesting experiment to try for at least a week to ignore the cost of organic foods and instead fill the shopping cart up with only the best and the purest foods available. My guess is that not only would we feel better, I suspect we'd find our inner guidance would create ways to continue to manifest the money to keep the good food coming. Give abundance a chance!

Best day of the week coming up for just about anything will be Sunday June 8. The Moon will be in gracious Libra trining the Sun in Gemini and setting the stage for social get togethers PLUS Venus in Taurus will be trining transformative Pluto in Capricorn. Wow, together those two aspects create a wonderful opportunity to put all sorts of positive new programs into effect. I think I'll use it to get family and friends together for a vegetarian pot luck!

In honor of Venus in Taurus I'll close with my award winning super salad recipe:

Spinach

Red onions

Mandarin oranges

Oil and vinegar dressing.

Call and tell me your favorite recipe and I'll print it here next time!

Rosada

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Rosada, EXT 2340
CertifiedPsychics.com 

New Moon in Gemini. Neptune square. Venus and Mercury Change Signs.

Gemini is the sign of the student, the curious young innocent who darts about the neighborhood asking questions and sharing gossip. The Sun is in this sign in May so this is the time of year we find ourselves becoming more alert, shaking off winter doldrums and eager to get outdoors and see what's going on. In a couple of days the Moon will be in Gemini too and that's when we're really going to start feeling itchy to talk, get about, look in on the neighbors and just generally find out What's New?

Unsupervised, the month when the New Moon falls in Gemini can end up looking like a prolonged Spring Fling with nothing much accomplished and maybe a lot of energy wasted. Lerner and Lowe said it best in song, "It's mad, it's gay, the merry month of May. That wonderful month when everyone goes blissfully astray!"

So this week let's consider how we can master this unconscious pull to scatter our resources and instead make the most of Gemini's potential...

Consider that the New Moon provides the right set of circumstances to start off on a new footing. I think we could all use a new beginning after the full moon two weeks ago in Scorpio - meaning some major attitude shifting going on in everyone's reality. How did it manifest for you? Change your job? Change your religion? It's been intense so Moon in Gemini says it's time to lighten up! 

This particular New Moon will be happening just after the Moon's last conjunction was with Venus in Aries. This means that when the Moon meets up with the Sun on Wednesday morning May 28, because it was last with Venus, it will be carrying with it pleasant memories of meetings with friends. Now these memories could be of someone you met long ago, or they could be of someone you just met recently. The point is that when the Moon reaches the Sun to start up the new cycle, it shouldn't be hard to be feeling positive and the Gemini desire to "spread the word" could easily have lots of good words to share.. Tune in on this opportunity by making a special point of counting your blessings and bringing them up to consciousness so when this New Moon greets the Sun it will shine light on all of them.

Venus will be going into Taurus this week, the sign of the farmer. Venus here both restrains and controls the energies of nature, and also builds up natural resources and nurtures their growth. With the New Moon in Gemini it's good to spend some time this week thinking of what can be achieved in the future by controlling the energies now.

Moon in Gemini says scatter the seeds then Venus in Taurus says steady persistence over time, letting each crop complete its growth, will yield good harvest.

Other aspects to be aware of this week:

Mars continues in Libra, the sign of marriage. Any kind of gathering, including a wedding, is sure to be a stellar event! Family gatherings, reunions etc. should also flow happily.

Neptune in Pisces will be squaring the Sun and Moon but this difficult aspect doesn't have to always mean something bad. I'm going to take it as permission to abandon the search for truth and find a good fantasy!

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Rosada, EXT 2340
CertifiedPsychics.com