As you follow astrology and get into predictive astrology, one thing you can learn is which transit aspects are most difficult. This is helpful because you can prepare for them, and work to use them wisely and lessen the damage. That's always a good thing! P.S. Make sure you're signed up for the free monthly worksheet so you can keep track of the planets every month and not miss any of these difficult aspects! What is an aspect?
An aspect in astrology is when two planets or bodies are at certain distances from one another in the Zodiac. There are 360 degrees in the Zodiac, 30 degrees per sign, and some of these distances are singled out as aspects.
There are major aspects and minor aspects; I find minor aspects to be important when analyzing natal charts, but not so much with predictive astrology. The major aspects are king! There are 5 major aspects: - conjunction (0 degrees apart) - sextile (60 degrees apart) - square (90 degrees apart) - trine (120 degrees apart) - opposition (180 degrees apart) You can also check out the article covering the most positive transit aspects. So, what are the most difficult transit aspects?
The most difficult aspects are usually hard aspects (conjunction, square, opposition) by Pluto, Uranus, or Saturn to your Sun, Moon, Mars, or 1st house cusp. The hard aspects bring difficult energy, and these planets are more difficult with hard aspects because Pluto can be the destroyer, Uranus can be chaos, and Saturn can be suffocating.
If you see you’ll have one of these aspects by Pluto, know that you’ll need to make deep transformations. You’ll need to focus on dark subjects, things you hide deep inside of yourself and don’t want to face, and take a cold, hard look in the mirror. Pluto will not let you get away with anything. Pluto will find you and will destroy you. Avoid that by doing the work. Tear something down in your life that is destructive, unhealthy, unproductive, or that just makes you unhappy. Build something wonderful, beautiful, special, and inspiring in its place. Stop running from the inner demons and look them straight in the eye until they blink first. And don’t tell yourself not to be afraid - be afraid and take action anyway. Pluto can be represented by the phoenix rising from the ashes, so know that you can rise again from any failure. You may want to check out the article: Pluto is Power, Passion, Dark & Deep If you’ll see one of these aspects by Uranus, this can be a lesson about change. It tends to go one way or the other - you experience massive changes that make your life feel unstable and you don’t think you can handle, or all you want to do is rip your life to shreds but are stuck in a bottomless beige rut. If you experience the massive changes and instability, you’ll likely feel like you can’t handle it, you’re not ready, you’re not strong enough, this isn’t the right time, this isn’t the right way. But the reality is, this is happening because it needs to happen for some reason. Your life needs to be shaken up, you need to be shaken up. It offers an opportunity for you to see things you wouldn’t have seen otherwise, to open up your mind and heart, and to create something in your life that may be unexpected but perfectly perfect for you. If you experience the stuckness where you desperately want change but can’t budge an inch, you’re likely going to feel impulsive, irrational, and insecure. You may jump into things without thinking and do things that aren’t right, so you have to get a grip on yourself. More discipline is required of you, no matter how hard that may be. Think about the changes you want to make and research, craft plans, gather information, and get yourself as prepared as possible. Then when the opportunity comes, you won’t miss it. Or you could create the opportunity yourself, but instead of being impulsive about it, you’re smart and know what you’re doing. If you see one of these aspects by Saturn, first know that Saturn's influence doesn’t last as long as Pluto or Uranus, so you don’t have to endure it as long. With Saturn, you can feel like the color has been sucked out of your life, you have too much on your shoulders and feel overwhelmed, you’re completely insecure and in over your head, and you’re terrified of the next step. You can be punished for everything you’ve been doing wrong, whether on purpose or not, it doesn’t matter to Saturn. Saturn requires two things: learn your lessons and do the right thing. So learn your lessons and do the right thing. Learn your lessons means, focus on what you’ve been doing wrong and learn from it. Do the right thing means, be responsible, ethical, considerate, smart. You’ll have a lot more work to do with Saturn - double, triple, maybe one-hundred times more - so you have to stick with it when you feel like giving up. The great thing about Saturn is that because you work so hard for it, the rewards are so much sweeter. And, because Saturn is Mr. Stability, they also usually last a long time. Suggested Reading: How to Survive Hard Transit Pluto to Your Personal Planets and How to Survive Hard Transit Saturn to the Personal Planets Using the new and full moons with your manifestation work can be an excellent use of their energy, and you can focus on the sign the new or full moon will occur in. We have a new moon occurring in a few days in Gemini, so with a new moon in Gemini, you can focus on manifesting better communication in your life. Gemini is the sign ruling communication with those around you, so you can work on having open lines of communication. You can also focus on your own ability to express yourself, and manifest being clearer. You can manifest a stronger connection to your mind, ideas, thoughts, and opinions. You can manifest a sharper mind and focus. As a mutable air sign, Gemini rules being sociable, having variety, and constant engagement, all of which can be worked on. Gemini rules electronics and short travel as well. For health manifestation, Gemini rules the shoulders, arms, wrists, hands, and breathing ability.
For a couple specific ideas, you can try: Better Communication: Do you feel that you don’t have the open lines of communication with others that you would like? Too many misunderstandings, too much left unsaid, too many wires crossed? If you’d like to improve communication in your life with the people around you, communication is ruled by Gemini. At the new moon, take time alone to focus your intention. Light a blue candle for communication. Write about the ways in which you want to improve communication with the people around you. You can write a script of a situation that you know will be coming, and how you want it to play out. Envision yourself being seen and heard, and being open to seeing and hearing others. Try to wear the color blue daily to open your throat chakra. Recite this mantra daily: I speak openly and clearly with others, and listen openly and clearly when others speak. I respect other people’s opinions, thoughts, and ideas, and other people respect mine. All lines of communication are open and free in my life. Learning: Do you want to strengthen your mind and become a better learner? Learning is ruled by Gemini. At the new moon, take time alone to focus your intention. Light a yellow candle and/or cardamom incense for mental clarity. If you’d like, you can hold a piece of selenite in your non-dominant hand as you write down the ways you want to improve your learning. Visualize yourself learning easily, taking in new ideas and being receptive to lessons you can learn. If you use the selenite, keep it with you whenever you’re doing any learning. Recite this mantra daily: I am open to learning anything and everything there is to learn. I learn easily and quickly. My mind works perfectly. Astrology can show anything, including whether or not you're super into food! There are certain points that govern food astrologically. Let's explore! What rules food in astrology?
Food in astrology is linked to a few different points:
- the 4th house, Cancer, and the Moon (comfort food) - the 2nd house, Taurus, and Venus (indulgence) - dwarf planet Ceres, who who rules food in general What can show working with food in astrology?
If you’re someone who works with food, you’ll often have:
- a strong 2nd/4th house emphasis - multiple planets in Taurus or Cancer - a prominent Moon or Venus - a super important Ceres (conjunct a personal planet, angle, or in the 1st house, or making many aspects to the planets in your chart). You can also see Venus, the Moon, or Ceres in the 2nd house (of money), 6th house (of work), or 10th house (of career), or positively aspecting the ruler(s) of those houses. These are the professional houses, so when you're working with food in some capacity, there is usually going to be an indicator with these houses. What about loving food or cooking but not professionally?
Venus or Jupiter in the 2nd or 4th houses can help you love food or cooking, as can having Ceres conjunct, sextile or trine Venus, Jupiter, or conjunct the 1st, 4th, or 10th house cusps, or having Venus or the Moon in the 5th house. The 5th house rules your hobbies, so having Venus or the Moon there can make cooking something you view as a hobby (often seen with bakers). The 5th house emphasis can also be seen with foodies.
Venus, Jupiter, and the 5th house often don't take things seriously, so this would be more of an indication of loving food or cooking, but not wanting to do it professionally, unless you have the indicators with the professional houses. If you’re someone who loves to try international cuisine, this can be seen with Jupiter, the 9th house, and Sagittarius, so you can have a personal planet or Jupiter or Ceres in Sagittarius or in the 9th house, or Jupiter conjunct, sextile or trine your natal Sun, Moon, Venus, or Ceres. What about not liking to cook?
You may not like the cook at all if you have:
- a challenged natal Moon or Venus - no planets in Taurus or Cancer or in the 2nd or 4th houses - a challenged natal Ceres You may have conjunctions, squares, or oppositions to the Moon, Venus, or Ceres by Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, or Pluto. Saturn or Pluto in the 2nd or 4th house can also make cooking something you don’t care as much for, though it can also be something that you grow to love over time (Saturn) or that you can use as a way to transform yourself (Pluto). And you may not like cooking or be much of a foodie at first, but you can become one if you see these aspects develop in your progressed chart, or with transit Venus, Jupiter, or Ceres in your 1st, 2nd, or 4th houses or conjunct, sextile, or trine your natal Sun, Moon, Venus, or Ceres. Transits and progressions are part of predictive astrology, and they can show when something comes for you over time or temporarily. Suggested Reading: Astrology of Indulgence A new moon occurs on June 4th at 11PM ET in air sign Gemini. This Gemini new moon wants us to be a little more positive as we're still in the Mars retrograde when this new moon occurs. This new moon wants to help us with our communication too, and with Mars in intense Scorpio in June, we could use it! Try to focus on what you had difficulty communicating with in May with the Mercury retrograde, and use the lighter energy of the new moon. This new moon is active, conjunct (aligned with) Venus in Gemini, square (hard aspect, 3 signs away) Neptune in Pisces, and square Jupiter in Virgo. The conjunction to Venus can bring some pleasant energy, and we can get along a little bit better, enjoy one another's company a little but more, and work a little bit harder at compromising and being fair. Be pleasant, be charming, be sweet and affectionate . . . The squares to Jupiter and Neptune can jazz up the mutable grand cross we have going on at this time (those two planets are opposite one another, and both are square Saturn in Sagittarius, who is opposite the Sun and Venus in Gemini). The grand cross (or grand square) can be somewhat stabilizing for the scattered, unfocused energy that is mutable energy, and while much of the focus has been on Saturn in Sagittarius to the point of ignoring poor little Gemini energy, we may find that we focus more on the Gemini energy with this new moon and start doing some of the things we haven't been doing and have needed to do: Ask questions. Be curious. Focus on the details, the facts and figures. See if it makes basic sense. This new moon occurs at 14 degrees 53 minutes of Gemini, so the aspects to this new moon are as follows: Conjunction: 12 degrees 53 minutes - 16 degrees 53 minutes Gemini Sextile: 12 degrees 53 minutes - 16 degrees 53 minutes Aries or Leo Square: 12 degrees 53 minutes - 16 degrees 53 minutes Virgo or Pisces Trine: 12 degrees 53 minutes - 16 degrees 53 minutes Libra or Aquarius Opposition: 12 degrees 53 minutes - 16 degrees 53 minutes Sagittarius A full moon occurs on June 20th at 7:02AM ET in Sagittarius. This full moon is full of some hot energy too because it occurs at 29 degrees, which is called the anaretic degree. 29 degrees is the very last degree of a sign, and is a point of crisis energy. This full moon is also the second consecutive full moon in Sagittarius, and is in the sign that the Mars retrograde first began in back in April. So we may see a lot coming full circle with this full moon, stuff from the Mars retrograde and from the full moon last month that doesn't get resolved or doesn't come to a head until now. Because of the anaretic degree, we might be frantically trying to get things tied off, closed up, feeling in a rush to do it before it's too late. We'll all need to relax and not be so wrapped up in the energy and emotion of this full moon. Avoid impulsive, and try to think! Sagittarius is one of the communication signs and one of the travel signs; it also rules higher education, the law, expansion, exploration, adventure, and our beliefs, so any or all of these things can be impacted in general by this full moon. Thankfully, the full moon makes no major aspects to any planets, so at least there isn't any extra stuff to deal with! This full moon occurs at 29 degrees 32 minutes Sagittarius, so the aspects by this full moon are as follows: Conjunction: 27 degrees 32 minutes - 29 degrees 59 minutes Sagittarius Sextile: 27 degrees 32 minutes - 29 degrees 59 minutes Libra or Aquarius Square: 27 degrees 32 minutes - 29 degrees 59 minutes Virgo or Pisces Trine: 27 degrees 32 minutes - 29 degrees 59 minutes Aries or Leo Opposition: 27 degrees 32 minutes - 29 degrees 59 minutes Gemini Note: Since this full moon occurs at 29 degrees, you may also feel aspects to it out of sign if you have any planets or points at 0 degrees of Capricorn (conjunct), Scorpio or Pisces (sextile), Aries or Libra (square), Taurus or Virgo (trine), or Cancer (opposition). Suggested Reading: The New & Full Moons page for general interpretations General horoscopes are always meant for entertainment purposes only. For a more accurate view, read your Sun sign, Rising sign, and Moon sign.
Aries: You can focus on the mental connections you have with others earlier in the month, and then work on your emotional connections later in the month. The Mars retrograde has probably been making you feel more distant emotionally from others and lack the intimacy you want in life, but that finally ends at the end of June, and you can work on trying to forge better, stronger connections with others, especially in July, and can start to be lighter about it. General horoscopes are always meant for entertainment purposes only. For a more accurate view, read your Sun sign, Rising sign, and Moon sign.
Aries June 2016 Monthly Horoscope On June 12th, Mercury enters air sign Gemini, after spending the last couple of months in earth sign Taurus, and the slow mental energy you’ve had for the last few months can finally start to speed up. You can have plenty of new ideas, lots to say and share, and you can express yourself more easily. You can make decisions quickly, and you can be interested in lots of different things. You can focus on many different projects, ventures, and ideas, and can be more sociable and engaging. You might feel a little scattered from all of the extra mental energy, so write things down. |
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