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Left to my own devices, being an Aquarian, I tend to intellectualize rather than analyze. Though it seems that these two concepts are similar, in actuality they are not. It is easy enough for me to put two concepts together, roll them around, make comparisons and draw conclusions, whether or not the data on which I make the comparison are correct or based on known facts. When we analyze something, we pick apart the elements of the concept, check it against our current reality and see whatever we are analyzing fits with the known facts. This is what Virgo does very well, many times relentlessly well, sometimes to the despair of the rest of the zodiac. Alas, I have no Virgo. It is rather squished in my fifth house, with no planet clothed in its good graces, having to share tenancy there with Jupiter in Libra much like young Harry Potter living in the closet under the stairs.

There are times when I wish for a smiggen of an inner Virgo. I have little patience for details. Oh, with time and practice, I’ve learned to use my Mercury in Capricorn to pick up the major points, but with that Aquarian Sun and my Pisces Moon working so hard to shut down that Mercury in Capricorn (you shouldn’t worry so!) I still trip over some points. And so it is that when I made a big deal out a new moon and confused it with the upcoming eclipse last week it was a bit embarrassing for me. Fortunately, one of readers clued me into my mistake, and I pulled a piece and corrected two others, so I only looked like an idiot for a week or so. That’s not so bad, considering that certain presidents managed to look like total idiots for years at a time. But I think there was a reason for that whole incident which I will get to later.

Julie Demboski writes that this upcoming eclipse does not make connections with the other planets and technically this is very correct. Julie isn’t feeling the love from the eclipse and I don’t blame her. However, Mercury is with 8 degrees of a conjunction with the Sun in Cancer and that Mercury is in opposition to Pluto, which is making a challenge aspect to Uranus. Here I am intellectualizing again, but I tend to look at how the energies zing around the chart. Sometimes they do so indirectly, not in a smack down to the face. So for the next six months I posit that our communications (Mercury) within major relationships (Sun opposing Moon) are in a transformation process (Mercury opposing Pluto) which bring unsettling changes (Pluto challenging Uranus). This can ultimately can bring constructive action (Uranus in friendly [sextile] connection with Mars) if (Mars sitting close to Venus) we accept the challenge of reconciling our spiritual and individual growth needs (Venus square Jupiter/Neptune conjunction in Aquarius) with our desire to fit in with society. In what area this plays out has to do with where the eclipse falls in your houses, which I will post tomorrow.

My thought is that the previous new moon was a foreshadowing of the energies of the eclipse to come. So think back on what happened on June 22, 2009. This may be what you are working on for the next six months. And boy, do I have find an inner Virgo!

Astrological Events During July:
Venus moves into Gemini July 6
2009 Jul 07: Penumbral Lunar Eclipse (Full Moon)
Mars moves in Gemini July 12
Mercury moves in Leo July 18
2009 Jul 22: Total Solar Eclipse

Click on the Links below for your monthly forecast:

Aries, Taurus Gemini

Cancer, Leo, Virgo

Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius

Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces

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