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by Terry Lamb

By the time we enter July, we are already experiencing the heat of the Cardinal energies that will dominate our lives for a year, through July 2014. It will be a time of powerful events and unfolding possibilities in both harmonious and challenging ways.

Much of this is timed to the movement of Jupiter, which entered Cardinal Cancer on June 26. This sets up two major harmonic patterns, stimulating the release of obstacles and the resolution of difficulties. Jupiter in Cancer usually heralds a time of joy and a sense of well-being. Jupiter is exalted in Cancer, which means that it expresses itself in a naturally beneficial way through human nature. It expands our desire to care for ourselves and others, augmenting our focus on nurturing and healing. It brings out the social glue that holds us to each other and helps us find affinities with those with whom we identify as family, not always related by blood.

Jupiter in Cancer also comes with rose-colored spectacles. It makes us feel good, even if that means avoiding or distracting ourselves from darker elements in our thought-feelings and the world around us. This has its upside and its downside. If we use this energy to build our confidence and launch initiatives in a spirit of caring optimism, we are using it well. If it leads us into a delusion about what's really going on, we may find ourselves avoiding obstacles that harbor opportunity on the other side of their release.

Part of this is because of the company Jupiter keeps while in Cancer. When Jupiter enters a sign, it illuminates the entire sign. It's like your rich uncle at a party: He lights up the whole room with his joyful presence and jolly banter, lifting the spirits of all in attendance. Once it enters Cancer, Jupiter clicks in to two patterns and makes them more complete, the fourth harmonic pattern of the Cardinal Grand Cross, and the sixth harmonic pattern of a Grand Sextile, with its accompanying Grand Trine, Kite, and Mystic Rectangle figures.

The Fourth Harmonic contains the squares and oppositions we associate with experiences that stimulate action and break up obstacles. The Sixth Harmonic carries the sextiles and trines of ease and flow. We have to straddle the divide—find the balance—between these two patterns. If we do it right, we can turn the coming 13 months into an unprecedented opportunity to break through what blocks us in uniquely beneficial ways. We'll get the best-ever lemonade out of the lemons life has been handing us since 2008.

The fulcrum of the process is the Jupiter-Pluto opposition, which forms the common core of both harmonic patterns. These anchor points bring the culmination of their 13-year cycle begun in December 2007. The interactions of the other planets with these two will bring forward a story on which our future can be built as we pass through the portals opened on key dates in the coming year, as each harmonic pattern is triggered. Their threads of warp and weft will offer themselves to us for us to weave a new tapestry on which to bring life (Jupiter in Cancer) out of complete structural transformation (Pluto in Capricorn).

Jupiter in Cancer will reveal many factors now hidden, as well as offering an intensification of the politics of distraction. Whether it is a comet that turns our eyes skyward in hope and awe or a celebrity's broken marriage, the mainstream media collude in a constant barrage of misdirection from what's genuinely important, what's really happening. If we probe more deeply into world events from a perspective freed of the mainstream, we will dissolve the veil so we can be truly informed and wiser in our actions.

In July, we get our first taste of the new reality, although many of its secrets will wait until the (Northern Hemisphere) autumn to fully unfold. This appetizer is served immediately on two fronts, as the Sun opposes Pluto and squares Uranus on July 1 through 3 and Mercury does its retrograde dance through July 20. These contacts bring a culmination of the yearly Pluto cycle of transformation that commenced on December 30, while opening the window to activate quantum shift through the opening square to Uranus, based on its yearly cycle started on March 28. Observe closely what you experience; take notes; activate your dreams if they are ready. The seeds of the coming year are being planted.

From July 13, Mars gets a piece of the action when it goes into Cancer and activates these points all over again, just as Uranus begins its retrograde on July 17. Mars makes the first real salvo in the Jupiter Games when it conjoins Jupiter on July 22, the day of the Full Moon, before opposing Pluto on the July 27 and squaring Uranus on July 31.

In the meantime, Jupiter makes the first of its Grand Trines July 17–20 to temper whatever challenges arise with two planetary stations in four days, heading into a Full Moon. The first of seven Grand Sextiles transpires on July 29–30, when the Moon is in Taurus. The Grand Trine in water brings relief, but the urge to avoid unpleasantness is strong and may subdue our potential if we don't take advantage of opportunities to deal with negative factors, because they will arise now as well.

This is where the balancing act comes in. If we use the comfortable flow of the Water Grand Trine to fuel our resilience, we can ease our way through and out of the difficulties that present themselves for resolution at this time. The Grand Sextile affords us the full use of the Jupiter-Pluto opposition, a pattern that challenges us in all directions through a dynamic series of insights that lead to constructive growth.

The form of the Grand Sextile is the Star of David, the shape of the light body's multi-dimensional merkabah flattened into two dimensions. This has obvious implications for building resonance with our light body, as well as for bringing into form the forces emanating from it.

With all these chess pieces moving in powerful ways, we can be sure that what's stuck will become loosened, leading to mobility and freedom. The more we can approach our experiences with flexibility and openness, the easier it will be to make the passage. If something is stuck, it's usually because someone is holding on to something that needs to be released. If that person is not you, it helps to stay firm in what we know to be correct and patient in waiting for change to occur organically.

This perseverance will come to us via Saturn, which is in Scorpio and primed to return to forward motion on July 7. Its sole significant interaction in the relatively empty Fixed signs (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius) is with Venus, which reminds us of our commitments as it squares Saturn, even if those commitments are currently unfulfilling. Saturn supports our process with the Jupiter factor through a long-term trine, part of the sixth-harmonic pattern.

It may be useful to compare our reality on July 1 with the one we find ourselves in on July 31. It will surely show substantial change! As each outworn factor from the past is stripped from us, it opens space for the new to enter. July will be a time of reinvention, a time to reimagine who we are and how we interconnect. If we stay centered and fully aware, we cannot help but use these energies to their fullest potential, for the good of all.

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