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by Terry Lamb

It’s not over until it’s over, according to Mars and Yogi Berra, and June will remind us of this fact. We have one more round of conflict-resolution as Mars makes its final run at the Cardinal Cross planets, following up on events in late December and most of April. (We’ll be remembering that Christmas for a long time!)

It’s not that we’ll ever be clear of the Uranus-Pluto square and the memory of their boogie partners from 2014, at least in this lifetime. What comes from this short, sharp shock will cast its light far into our future. But we can count the localized effect complete by the end of July, once Mars clears its retrograde zone. In June, Mars, the great purveyor of love and war, makes one final run at the Cardinal Cross, which is now disintegrating as Jupiter makes a dash through the end of Cancer.

Many people will blame what happens in June on Mercury retrograde, which comes to us starting June 7. However, June brings many planetary events to project our problems onto, with Mercury the least of these.

Besides Mercury, two other planets change direction: Neptune and Chiron. Each one of these presents us with an opportunity to learn something in the coming five months of their respective retrograde. These bodies are traveling in tandem in Pisces, following their February 2010 conjunction at 27 Aquarius. This conjunction started a new ~70-year cycle for these Neptune and Chiron that bring to us an awareness of the spatial translation of the hidden realms.

The theme for their cycle is always about healing. Neptune rules the imaginal realm (or the way we see the inner dimensions in the form of images); Chiron tracks the process by which we cut across dimensions, showing us where the openings to quantum reality (the other dimensions) appear. So Chiron with Neptune cuts through the veils to connect the visible with the imaginal.

We experience this as the opportunity for spiritual (which is really a catch-all term meaning"all things of the light that are hidden or unknown") healing. More specifically, it takes us on our healing journey, because that’s what healing of the spirit is really about. There is a way that our body/being vibrates on each dimension. There is an infinite number of dimensions with an equal number of energy bodies. While Neptune and Chiron are both in Pisces, we have access to all of these bodies as and when needed. Think of a time tunnel that cuts through all levels of reality, opened wide at predictable intervals.

This occurs against the incredibly propitious backdrop of a Saturn trine to Chiron, the fourth of five in a series, with the energy then cubed by Jupiter in Cancer. This Water Grand Trine is omnipresent this spring, until Jupiter leaves Cancer. Use it well! It gives us something to focus on, a harvest or reward that we can bring in now. It is warming, relaxing, and healing, and brings joy into our life in some way.

What we go through personally varies from person to person, but it always moves us toward healing via the process of recreating the wound. This brings our attention to the imbalance, that vital first step in releasing it. The healing process follows the soul’s path, not bowing to the wishes of our temporal mind in our temporal body. Pain is not an issue for the soul, and the pain can be excruciating indeed; but it is pain with a purpose, and we can withstand anything if it has meaning.

When these planets turn retrograde, we could say, “Let the healing begin!”, because now we know what it is that we need to work on—well, sort of. Part of the healing process is defining what precisely needs to be brought back to health, but in a holistic way—not “I need to reduce my cholesterol”, but ‘What can I do to improve my digestive function, my process of assimilating everything I experience?”

In Pisces, we deal with global and energetic issues. The key word is ‘subtle’. Where Neptune is involved, we may find toxic substances and energies, which produce shifting pain and weakness in the areas or bodies where they become lodged. With Neptune there is usually no defined event as it changes direction, but an internal process that slowly moves and morphs, dissolving old blockages.

Watch what happens June 4–26. These dates form an "energy package" that will take us through a process that will shape the next phase of our healing journey. This period could focus on releasing stored emotion, since the Cancer archetype is also invoked at this time. Possible peaks in your process (openings into other dimensions) come June 11–12 (the Full Moon) and June 19–20 (Chiron’s Station Retrograde).

Meanwhile, with Mars making its final pass at the Cardinal Grand Cross June 14–25, we have the opportunity to blast a few openings to other dimensions ourselves—and we must at least activate the ones that we’ve been working on for so long.

Venus is still playing caboose to the personal planets, drawing us toward stability and sincerity as she opposes Saturn, but a quincunx to Mars suggests that patience is necessary to attain our goals.

Mercury’s retrograde starts on June 7 at 3°10' Cancer, but like the February retrograde, it backs up into the previous Air Sign—this time Gemini—on June 17. This means we get a full-on shot at integrating head (Gemini) and heart (Cancer). The experience of joy is born out of this union, so it’s worth the effort.

Similarly, it makes few contacts this time around as well, since it transits degrees of the Zodiac that miss the other planets. Its main purpose is to connect us to our forward direction, since Mercury stations direct trining the North Node, the path of destiny (June 27–July 3, first pass May 25).

Mercury helps us make traverses in understanding, affording the opportunity to interweave all the planets’ energies with each other. Mercury is as colorless as it comes, the ultimate beige. But it is a sprightly spirit, cavorting at lightning speed to create the web of connections we rely on. While retrograde, its voice is louder, its messages more pressing.

With Jupiter at the end of its year in Cancer, we’re feeling an urgency to grab it while we can, this glorious feeling of safety and belonging that we may feel is still just out of reach. This is the time to trust the universe to bring it to us, since we have already seeded this cycle, and it is time for the harvest. So give it a tweak here and there, then take out your lawn chair and watch the grass grow.

June is always Gemini time, but this time Gemini is the key to the process. With Mercury retrograde, with the planets heading away from each other, we are pulled in several directions. In true Gemini fashion, we do well to remember that we don’t have to choose just one thing. We don’t have to take every opportunity, but we can find ways to blend the ones we want in ways that work for us. Here’s where we have the control. It is our creative/healing process that sees through the illusion of obstacles to what we’re really being beckoned toward, our path of perfect harmony. So here’s another Yogi Berra-ism to guide us during June: If you see a fork in the road, take it.

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