IN CRAFTING THIS MONTH'S COLUMN I drew inspiration from Teresa Moorey’s words, ‘We use the Sun to measure the years and days of our conscious actions, but the Moon is the ‘clock of our instincts.’ The Moon can show us the way to feel connected and joyful, if we listen to her rhythms. By observing the Moon and her rhythms we can more readily connect with the Earth, and with our own bodies… We can also connect with our inner rhythms that have been repressed by the routine of work. We can get to know ourselves better and, if we are lucky, glimpse something that will fill us with wonder and a sense of meaning… it’s just a matter of opening up, tuning in, drawing back the curtains and letting the Moon shine in.’

June is a month of transition, when the Sun entering Cancer marks the Summer Solstice and signals the beginning of summer. This is also reflected in the lunar cycle. June’s first two phases occur in mutable signs continuing the theme from May’s Full Moon. Their fluid and adaptable energy can be used to release spring projects. Summer arrives hand in hand with June’s Capricorn Full Moon and signals a shift into cardinal energy that begins a period of direction and purpose for the remainder of June’s and for the first half of July’s lunar cycle.

JUNE 2005

NEW MOON
The New Moon occurring June 6th at 3:56pm MDT in Gemini is a potent time when the energy is tender, bright and uplifting, and we can start work on fresh projects. It stresses the importance of clear communication when stating our case. Although, we may find ourselves feeling disadvantaged and misunderstood because of who we are in a situation; and, we may strike resistance, partly due to others ignorance, when we stand up for what we feel; If we want people to listen and care, we must press our case or the status quo will remain. If our cause is worthy and just, we will be heard by those who understand or resonate with what we are saying and our influence will spread. Expect these themes to be present in our lives until the next New Moon.

New Moon Visualizations: I want to experience more fun in my life. I want to expand my network of contacts. I want to become more thorough in my work and follow through my projects to the end. I want all my communications to be clear and hassle-free. I want to live in harmony with my neighbours.

Home & Garden – If you are planning to move house, try to do so before June 20th. The best days would be the 10th/11th and 17th/18th. This quarter is the optimal time to sow and tend plants that bear their produce externally and, is also best for pruning and cutting, as plants are stronger and will therefore recover from being cut. This is the time for fertilizing and feeding anything we wish to flourish. The best planting days are the 8th & 9th to sow plants and flowers for hardiness and abundance; and for watery vegetables and fruit. Pruning is most effective if undertaken on the 10th-13th.

Mind, Body & Health – We can use this productive time to direct our efforts towards health projects that emphasize renewal.

Business/Financial – This period of expansion is the time to set fresh goals or enter new stages in projects already underway. It favours catching up on correspondence and introducing new ideas.

MOON IN GEMINI
Gemini energy enlivens and quickens. The naturally sensitive and sympathetic Moon does not function comfortably here, thinking about emotions rather than actually feeling them. If we have been overly critical and negative with our words, we may use this Moon to re-centre and be more mindful of what we say. In this sign of the messenger, we can take a look at what our essential and divine message in life is and seek to cultivate that message to its utmost. A Gemini Moon entices us to reflect on who nourishes us when we talk to them and who we enjoy nourishing through images or words.

The Gemini Moon’s instinctive response is flexible and sociable, and its bright side reveals versatility, wit, charm, liveliness, and an amusing nature. The shadow aspect of the Gemini Moon exposes disorganization, inconsistency, cunningness, and superficiality. Gemini Moon needs lots of intellectual stimulation.

The Gemini Moon affirmation is, ‘Conducting all my dealings with truth and honesty brings me satisfaction and peace of mind.’

Home & Garden – Tidying the house and organizing the home office are excellent channels for Gemini Moon energy. The Gemini Moon’s barren and dry nature is suitable for soil cultivation, but planting or transplanting is not recommended.

Mind, Body & Health – Gemini Moon energy can be used to perform healing work for the lungs, the nervous system, and the arms and hands. It is also a good time to work with themes of communication, connection, and social relations, to chant, write poetry, and to do journaling. Gemini Moons are a good time for breath work in the form of meditation, tai chi or yoga. It is also conducive for contacting friends, doing a computer course and/or joining a debating society. Strive to avoid being too easily distracted and beginning one job before finishing another. Our susceptibility to nervous tension, agitation, restlessness increases during the Gemini Moon.

Business/Financial – The Gemini Moon is opportune for making business trips; to reorganize/refurbish; and, for crisis management. If you go shopping, books and writing materials, computers, dictionaries, telephones, and/or a car are excellent buys now. It is best to avoid distractions from the issue, being underhanded, ad long or far flung shopping expeditions. Also, beware con-men.

FIRST QUARTER MOON
The First Quarter Moon occurring June 14th at 7:23pm MDT in Virgo is a quiet pause as we reach the midpoint of quickening energy and momentum between the New and Full Moons. It brings relationship issues up for assessment. We might be feeling stuck in a relationship with no room to move. A need for constant reassurance that everything is ok can be wearing and can put a strain on those involved. If we keep our sense of innocence and purity in a situation, it will lift us up and out of any problems. In all relationships with people or pets, we can be loving and ‘be there’ for each other without letting things get out of hand.

Home & Garden - Interior design fares particularly well on the 15th & 16th. The 15th – 19th is the best gardening period this quarter and supports sowing vines, especially fruit bearing types, and climbers, flowers, fruit trees, fleshy vegetables, and root vegetables. Transplanting flowering annuals, and plants, like tomatoes, that crop aboveground is very favourable now.

Body, Mind & Health – We can breathe accord into relationships, both with ourselves and with others. We can gain awareness of how integration can help us escape being torn apart by this and that, and gain a sense of balance. This would be a wonderful time to help someone who is frail or weak build and gain health.

Business/Finance – This period of expansiveness and high profiles activities is an excellent time for ventures designed to increase money, and to launch advertising campaigns.

MOON IN VIRGO
Ultimately Virgo has to do with service, and if we have been feeling a little too self-centred this is a good time to do work in the community that is positive and compassionate. It teaches us to release negative habits and replace them with healthier, more nurturing ones. A Virgo Moon invites us to probe how we can choose a line of work that encourages emotional attunement to details.

Its instinctive response is cool and off hand. Its bright side displays intellect, meticulousness, industriousness, steadfastness, and responsible approach; while its dark side reveals a critical, high strung, standoffish, argumentative, hypochondriacal nature. The Virgo Moon needs a well-ordered routine.

The Virgo Moon affirmation is: ‘There are many ways to accomplish a deed. Mine is only one way, and I have much to learn from the way others handle their lives.’

Home & Garden – Employ the Virgo Moon’s inclination toward ultra-cleanliness to tackle cleaning bathrooms and medicine cabinets. The Virgo Moon’s barren and moist nature supports soil cultivation and does not favour planting or transplanting.

Body, Mind & Health – The Virgo Moon is an opportune time for cleansing and purifying. Anxiety and worries can create discomfort and disease in the intestines, particularly under this Moon. We can alleviate this by going to the deeper issues and releasing the mental struggle that is at the root of any physical discomfort. We can benefit from ensuring that excessive self-criticism is not harming our creativity and confidence. If we have been feeling overwhelmed and impatient, this is a good time to focus on becoming more mindful and peaceful in our daily routine. We can remember to acknowledge the extraordinary in the simple things in life. This is a superb time to eat healthily; join a health club; seek medical advice, and to cuddle our pets. Unwind by going for a walk in the countryside. Strive to avoid fussing over detail; being over-critical and/or fads. Our susceptibility to irritability, gastric or dietary upsets, and tension headaches increases during the Virgo Moon.

Business/Financial – The Virgo Moon is conducive to reorganization, presenting detailed accounts, and practical demonstrations. If you go shopping, this is a time to buy organic food, personal organizers, vitamin supplements, cleaning materials, and to pay our bills for local services. Endeavour to avoid missing the over-all picture; being over-critical, and/or anything that is not practical. Also, beware people’s fussiness. This is an excellent time to look into health insurance.

FULL MOON
The Full Moon occurring June 21st at 10:15pm MDT in Capricorn is the point when maximum strength is reached in terms of force and power. We can expect leadership issues to be at the fore now and perhaps throughout the summer, given how closely aligned this Full Moon is with the Summer Solstice. This is one of those times when we need to rise to the occasion and take charge. In struggles for control, know when to give way to the rights of others to achieve a stronger position in society. Themes of assuming authority; finding a true sense of place; charisma, respect, having to stand up in the crowd; and, staking one’s claim are being played out now.

Full Moon Focus: Your standing in the world reaches new heights. Beware conflicts between career and home life.

Home & Garden – It is an excellent time for baking bread. Now is the time for root crops, trees and shrubs, which do best when planted in the waning half of the Moon’s cycle. And, this is the best time to pick mushrooms.

Mind, Body & Health – We can pull things together and set the stage for new ideas and plans for manifesting our energy in new projects through the summer months. A party is a brilliant way to channel people’s high energy.

Business/Financial – This is a good time to bring existing projects to culmination, and to draw up new agendas.

MOON IN CAPRICORN
The Capricorn Moon is a time to build and strengthen the core of the body and spirit. Prayers and intentions can be made for setting our will and using discipline to accomplish goals. If we have been experiencing weakness and confusion, the Capricorn Moon is a time to develop clear and direct paths for overcoming obstacles and moving through difficulties. Ultimately, the spiritual message of Capricorn is to bend the knees and serve and surrender to Spirit. As we release our own ego’s attachment to needing power and approval, e gain true power b aligning ourselves with the strength of Spirit. A Capricorn Moon invites us to determine how we can produce a pearl – beautiful and solid – from our solitude that others will recognize as our emotional autonomy, our completeness within ourselves.

The Capricorn Moon’s instinctive response is cautious and reserved. Its bright side brings determination, responsibility, discipline, patience, and commitment, whereas its shadow aspect reveals rigidity, pessimism, and an opinionated, materialistic, over-exacting nature. The Capricorn Moon needs to be productive.

The Capricorn Moon’s affirmation is: ‘With confidence, discipline and dedication I can achieve my ambitions and fulfill my destiny.’

Home & Garden – This Moon brings efficiency to our activities and is an excellent time to look for ways to make improvements and for streamlining. This is a brilliant time to direct energy into planning DIY projects to be implemented over the summer. The Capricorn Moon’s semi-fertile and dry nature is considered very beneficial for producing hardiness.

Mind, Body & Health – This is a good time to build strength in the foundational structures of the skin, bones, knees, teeth and nails, through yoga or martial arts. We can benefit from examining any aspects of ourselves where we are stuck or crystallized. Strive to stop worrying about money and being all work and not enough play. Unwind by watching a really funny movie. Our susceptibility to bone and joint problems, particularly rheumatism or arthritis, toothaches, and skin abrasions increases during this moon time.

Business/Financial – This Moon is an opportune time to work overtime, entertain the boss, study budgets, appraise our stock portfolio or consider real estate potentials. Excellent purchases now a burglar alarm, good quality clothes, professional tools, DIY materials, and items for elderly relatives. Endeavour to avoid inflexibility, depression, and making frivolous purchases. Also, beware people’s ruthless ambition.

THIRD (LAST) QUARTER MOON
<The Third Quarter Moon occurring June 28th at 2:25pm MDT in Aries is a good time to think about the meaning of our projects as energies are winding down. It brings forward issues of integrating the spiritual with the material; and, creative versatility and duality. We can overcome apparent divisiveness in our lives and be fully expressive in each aspect of our lives if we give each aspect value and look for each part’s individual importance. Rather than scattering our energies, we can shift focus from one thing to another when it is needed or useful.

Home & Garden – The week following the third quarter moon is an ideal time for thorough clear outs. If painting the house is one of our summer projects June 30th and July 1st are very favourable days to do it. We can use this phase of the Moon’s cycle to plant biennials, perennials, and root vegetables, for weeding, turning the flowerbeds over, pruning out deadwood, and burning off garden rubbish.

Mind, Body & Health – This is an optimal time to seek equilibrium in our lives, firmly but peacefully letting go of failed projects, while working to eliminate remaining obstacles to viable growth. We can also work on self-acceptance by allowing ourselves to have human failings that can be worked on, but which must also be lived with while we endeavour to bring the changes about.

Business/Financial – If you have been thinking about making changes, the Third Quarter theme of bringing matters to a close supports dissolving partnerships, restructuring, and researching new lines.

MOON IN ARIES
In the vibrant sign of Aries, the Moon endows charm, vivacity and a special knack for getting others to do what we want. The Moon in Aries is a time to initiate, lead, and direct energy toward an intended goal. Themes of personal needs/security balanced with shared needs and responsibilities can be addressed during this Moon time. It is also a good time to release and vent anger and frustration, since unexpressed anger can become damaging and destructive to the community as well as us. An Aries Moon encourages us to explore how we are energized when we act out our caring for others.

The Aries Moon’s instinctive response is enthusiastic and positive. Its bright side illuminates our energetic, enterprising, optimistic, and idealistic nature, whereas its dark side unveils impulsiveness, domineering, impatient, vain, and opinionated tendencies. The Aries Moon needs new interests to keep the mind active and alive.

The Aries Moon’s affirmation is: ‘I have the strength inside me to stand on my own two feet and the courage to explore the unknown.’

Home & Garden – This is a favourable time to get a start on summer DIY projects. The Aries Moon’s semi-barren and dry nature is excellent for weeding, clearing, pest control, soil cultivation, and mowing.

Mind, Body & Health –This Moon is a time to renew and strengthen vitality as well as burn out toxins and strengthen the adrenal system. Repressed anger can damage the liver and this Moon is favourable for healing liver and gall bladder. It is also a wonderful time to get a hair cut; to have an eye test; and to see the dentist. Strive to avoid rashness, driving too fast, and rushing a job. The Aries Moon can increase our susceptibility to headaches, scalds and burns, cuts, and accidents.

Business/Financial – The Aries Moon is conducive to trading, implementing tough measures, and taking advantage of situations. On shopping excursions, sports clothes and gear; hats, spectacles, sunglasses, anything made of metal; anything red, cars, and DIY materials are great purchase choices. Endeavour to going in with all guns blazing; skipping over the essentials; and, buying on impulse. And, beware people’s bad tempers.

As we enjoy the Summer Sun, we can continue to increase our awareness of the Moon and allow ourselves to achieve harmony and smoothness in our lives.

© Yvonne Hanson, 2005

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Yvonne Hanson is a freelance writer from Edmonton, Alberta Canada. In creating this column, Yvonne draws on fifteen years of astrological study and a desire to empower people. If you would like to sign up for Yvonne’s free newsletter, which details the movement of the moon more closely, please contact her by email at starfire777_7@hotmail.com.