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With the Sun in Leo as of Sunday, we’re in the midst of an eventful week — it’s possible you’ve been feeling some pressure, or a sense of uncertainty or restlessness. Earlier today, Mercury stationed retrograde in Leo; then, tomorrow (Friday), we get the second of three eclipses in a series. That will be a total eclipse of the Moon in Aquarius, conjunct retrograde Mars.
Leo and Aquarius eclipse image from Ritual Ritual.
The intensity has been visible in the news this week, and I encourage you to notice what emerges over the next two to three weeks, as well. Consider some of the following:
— Wildfires in Greece have killed at least 85 people and injured approximately 200; meanwhile wildfires in the western U.S. are also causing havoc, including the shutdown of Yosemite National Park.
— The Trump administration is pledging monetary aid to U.S. farmers hurt by its escalating trade war — at the same time that the administration attempts to gut the Endangered Species Act and open more public lands to oil and mining interests.
— Despite today’s court-ordered deadline to reunite the families of asylum seekers separated at the U.S. border, the government admits that at least 900 children have yet to be reunited, and some 463 separated parents have been deported — even as their children remain in U.S. detention centers — thanks to confusing or intentionally misleading forms they were coerced into signing.
And in Sweden, a student-activist named Elin Ersson prevented an Afghan asylum seeker from being deported when she delayed an airplane’s takeoff by refusing to sit down. Despite being confronted by a few other passengers and the plane’s cabin crew, she continued to live-stream her action (the video has since gone viral, and I highly recommend watching the whole thing), keeping her phone recording her own face for the privacy of others on the plane, until she received assurance that the Afghani man had been allowed to leave. He is reportedly now back in Swedish custody.
