MONDAY, June 22nd – SUNDAY, June 28th
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We have reached that special time of the year – the summer solstice – the moment Earth’s tilt toward the Sun is at its maximum. It is the longest day and the shortest night. Of course, down under, in the southern hemisphere, the situation is reversed and you’ll be celebrating the winter solstice!
Since ancient times the solstices have been sacred occasions, and if you’ve been lucky enough to watch the sun rise at Stonehenge and seen its rays strike the Altar Stone and flood the circle with light, you’ll know why. This year the solstice occurs on Sunday at 09:26 BST, and you can watch it from wherever you are in the world because English Heritage will be live-streaming it on their YouTube channel.
The summer solstice also marks the entry of the Sun into the sign of Cancer. And it plays a significant role in mundane astrology. A chart set up for that moment from any point in the world sets the narrative for the next three months. And it is the same for the Capricorn, Libra and Aries ingresses.
Neptune is centre stage in this year’s Cancer ingress which shouldn’t really surprise any of us. Nations across the world are experiencing turmoil in some measure and while we should be able to look to our governments for direction, they are often too preoccupied with their own internal chaos and in some cases responsible for it. I am reminded of Plato’s cave here:
Imagine prisoners chained inside a deep underground cave, facing a blank wall since childhood. They are bound so they cannot turn their heads. Behind them burns a bright fire. Between the fire and the prisoners is a raised walkway, where puppeteers carry various objects and statues. The fire casts the shadows of these objects onto the wall in front of the prisoners. Because these shadows are all the prisoners have ever known, they believe the shadows are the absolute, undeniable truth of reality.
Food for thought in these stranger than strange times.
Hopefully, I can shed a little more light on things in my videos, another of which, covering the approaching full moon the rest of June and early July, goes up tonight.
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Onward and starward!