posted July 09, 2009 08:39 PM         

by Robert Wilkinson

We enter an interesting zone for the next 2 weeks. We begin today with Venus entering the Gemini zone of the Grand Irrationality as it biseptiles Saturn, and there are a host of very favorable aspects showing us how to get our lives and personalities working more smoothly. Some things will be very clear by the last week of this month.

Right now, Mars is on a degree of rebeginnings just as Venus is triggering the Grand Irrationality for the next few days. This will become very powerful when the Moon conjuncts Jupiter and Neptune in a major lineup July 10-11 as Venus exactly triseptiles Pluto and biseptiles the stellium in Aquarius (4 planets!). Expect that to be a time where events will affect our future in powerful ways.

Especially in the areas in our charts where Taurus and Libra are prominent, it's time to take a new look at alternative ways of viewing or communicating. It's definitely a turning point in our social-cultural growth and expression, since Venus is at a fork in the road triggering all that is affected by Jupiter, Saturn, Chiron, Neptune, and Pluto.

So today, see how to transcend some form of the past that opens new ideas on how to act on recent discoveries. We're learning to act on our new ideas even as we move through forms of growth in personality integration. Today is about sprouting, tomorrow about learning through imitation, Friday offers us new blood, and this weekend will show us our ability to be festive playing our natural part in things.

This weekend we begin 5 days of socio-cultural integration, followed by 5 days of individual-mental and/or Spiritual integration. Each year at this time we move through Solar growth and empowerment through Personality Integration. Beginning early July, our actions move through emotional or social forms so we can feel and grow into a new "shell of personality."

The forms we discover and incorporate into our lives in Cancer lead to the spontaneous expressions of late July as the Sun fires up upon its return to Leo, the sign it rules. This ends the first third of the Solar year, as we have now moved through Fire, Earth, Air, and Water signs. We now confront the Sun's movement through the second Solar Fire sign, Leo. The next two weeks are a preparation for whatever "conflagrates" in Leo.

The aspects made the next two weeks are very interesting and encouraging, especially those of the third week of July. That's the time when first Mercury and then the Sun are virtually simultaneously quincunx Jupiter, Chiron, and Neptune while trine Uranus and occupying the Cancer zone of the Grand Irrationality. I'll be writing more extensively on the current situation regarding the Grand Irrationality in the next few days.

That time is a period of make physical, emotional, mental, or Spiritual "health adjustments." It's a time to understand how to represent what is expected of us, rise to some occasion, touch our base, see different alternatives, or see our past from a different point of view, and feel deeply whatever is the root of our heritage on whatever level this applies.

Growth during that time is through Divine Discrimination, and accepting a form of practical discipleship willingly and gladly, however large or small. Growth also comes from finding a larger view of what is and is not possible and why, transferring whatever needs transferring, dedication to a greater ideal of service, and expressing true individuality separate from old social or cultural traps.

A special nod must be given to Venus during that period, since it tredeciles Chiron, Jupiter, and Neptune from mid-Gemini. This should bring unique interactive circumstances and opportunities to those who are affected directly by the Aquarius stellium. We can discover techniques for transcending some gap, whether internal on the personal level, or external on the interpersonal or transpersonal level.

All in all, there are some very serendipitous opportunities in the 3rd week of July for very favorable interactions with those with whom we have a spiritual bond, or at least have shared ideals and ideas. Definitely take opportunities to reach out, to interact, or to discover something about how your individuality works in interactive mode.

By the 17th, Mars enters the Gemini zone of the Grand Irrationality (more at this link ) and triggers whatever our light/life powered up in late May. We got signals or information about our Gemini issues in the context of the great weirdness in the time just before the Summer Solstice, and these are what Venus will give value to, or appreciation of, right now (July 8-13). Again, more in the Spiritual Astrology articles coming soon.

There really are a host of very favorable aspects going on these next two weeks, with only Venus square Saturn the day of the coming 30 degree Cancer Solar Eclipse on July 21, 7:35 pm PDT, July 22 east of ADT. More on that to come soon as well. Still, the trines from Cancer to Pisces with the tredeciles from Gemini to Aquarius should make for a fairly smooth ride. At the very least, there will be clear understandings about what works and what doesn't work in terms of our feelings, needs, desires, and motives.

So please take advantage of the very favorable aspects coming the next two weeks, since they'll give way to Venus in the Mutable T-square at the same time Mercury opposes the Aquarius stellium, producing entirely different results in the atmosphere than what we're going to experience the next two weeks plus a few. You can find out more about the string of Mutable T-squares made by the inner planets at this link, since it will give an indication of how that's been operating so far.

And that's the way it is in the heart of July 2009.

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