Dear Friend and Reader:

This week leads into a penumbral eclipse of the Moon in Sagittarius on Friday, June 5. This will be followed by a partial eclipse of the Sun on the northern solstice on Thursday, June 21.

With a Full Moon eclipse happening, we may experience a sensation of pressure rising, which will have the sensation of pushing at loggerheads, deadlock or stalemate. Given the mounting frustration in the United States, now being provoked by national protests against the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers one week ago, this could be messy.

For Friday’s eclipse, the Moon and Sun are square Mars in Pisces, which is likely to spark anger, more mass protest actions, and rising public awareness. The protests are understandable. Venting rage makes perfect sense. We need to spread the word, and the vibe, to keep a grip and not condone smashing society any more than it already is.

The June eclipse pair begins a midyear cluster of events that includes the peak of Venus retrograde this week and the end of the retrograde on June 25, right after the solstice; the second conjunction of Pallas Athene, Jupiter and Pluto; and Mars entering Aries. Said simply, June will be an eventful month even on the over-the-top scale of this year.

Those who track current events need to look at what’s happening on the back pages and non-mainstream websites. For example, this week Business Insider reported something you’ve read many times on Planet Waves with a new twist: China has now admitted that the Huanan wet market in Wuhan was not the source of the “novel coronavirus.” Rather, if it exists, it came from somewhere else. There are likely to be other revelations of this nature, if anyone is noticing.

Speaking as a journalist who has spent decades tracking down the time things happened for the purpose of charting them, nothing is understood until its origins are established. “Who cares where it came from?” might be an acceptable response, had the world economy not been shut down, with 40 million newly unemployed in the U.S. alone, and nearly everyone in the world placed under some form of house detention for months.

We are continuing to look into the questions, and the many inconsistencies, associated with the supposed pandemic and update Covid19 News several times a day. Based on all that I’ve read, I am urging extreme caution when speaking to contact tracers or allowing contact tracing software onto your phone or any device. This government tactic has nothing to do with a virus or a pandemic. Protect your right to privacy in all that you do. On American soil, you have a right not to answer any questions without an attorney present.

Lunar Eclipse Conjunct the Great Attractor

Friday’s lunar eclipse is conjunct the Great Attractor, which is the central focal point of our region of space. It’s like the vortex of 100,000 galaxies, all being drawn together, pointed to mid-Sagittarius. Here is my best writing on that topic. Please watch the video — you will be astonished.

And here is an interview with Brent Tully the scientist who led the team that figured out what this thing is. This is me talking with one of the top astronomers of our day, asking him questions from my point of view for a solid hour — great fun for the whole family.

The combination of the eclipse conjunct the Great Attractor does not lend itself easily to a mundane interpretation. It would seem to be a wholly spiritual event that can cascade through consciousness and into the world. We are all under constant pressure to take a materialistic view of existence and its events. The Great Attractor stands as something incomprehensible. The Full Moon eclipse is like a veil being pulled back from some great mystery.

Be bold about asking difficult questions and considering possibilities that may not fit your world view.

Personal Matters Prevail This Week

This week leading into the eclipse, personal matters will take priority for many people, as we reach the peak of Venus retrograde. There are several key events: Mars conjunct Nessus on Monday; Venus square Mars on Tuesday; Venus conjunct the Sun and square Nessus on Wednesday; and the lunar eclipse on Friday.

The central figure in this week’s events, including the lunar eclipse, is the centaur Nessus. This is nobody’s favorite planet, though it needs to be given more credit than it gets for helping sort out issues like victim consciousness, codependency, obsession with the pain body, murky notions of sexual consent, and how “one thing leads to another” when things seem to go wrong in relationships.

The involvement of Mars is calling for a discussion into the nature of what a “perpetrator” is and how they got to be that way. The involvement of retrograde Venus is cautionary of the need to sort out the difference between the past and the present.

All healing involves a past event or events, and one’s responses to whatever happened. Retrograde Venus in Gemini describes a shifting viewpoint on what happened — potentially two widely diverging versions of events, or opinions about them. Unless recognized consciously, this can be maddening. Often, one’s identity is lodged in the pain body and depends on both the sense of crisis and also a version of events that support it.

Please be open to new interpretations this week. See the positive even in seemingly negative events. There is an art to this, and it has nothing to do with being Pollyanna. It is about knowing an opportunity for healing when you see one.

Mercury Square Chiron

There is one more aspect this week that completes the picture: Mercury in Cancer, square Chiron in Aries. Mercury in Cancer can be given to an emotional response to ideas, though it’s also highly intuitive. The issue is sorting real information from emotional overflow or overwhelm. Intuition takes training and discernment; uncontrolled emoting tends to be a habit carried over from childhood.

Mercury will be approaching a square to Chiron all week, which is exact just hours before Friday’s eclipse. It’s one and the same event. There are few aspects that could more effectively blare out, “Who am I really?”

That would be an excellent question if anyone asked it sincerely, and I encourage you to do so. The thing with nearly all Mercury-Chiron contacts is that they can represent self-doubt as to one’s mental capacity and intellectual ability, generally a misunderstanding or underestimation.

Said another way, in natal astrology, those with Mercury-Chiron aspects often were inflicted with self-doubt as children, and have a too-low estimation of their intelligence. Give yourself a little credit. Be disciplined in how you consider whether something is true. When sizing up the facts of a situation, a bit of methodology goes a long way.

Being dismissive is dangerous. Often the thing happening is the thing that was previously deemed impossible or ridiculous. Learn how to spot your own prejudices. Keep them right where you can see them. They are not your friends. Your true intelligence is your best friend and describes the truth of who you are.

With love,