Sizzling Summer Solstice

Tomorrow, June 21st, is the summer solstice at 10:17 a.m., PDT. The Sun's annual ingress to Cancer marks the end of coaxing new seedling ideas to sprout, and the beginning of the time they bear fruit. The Sun is full-on heating things up, at the same time our astrological quantum soup threatens to boil over. What's all the steam about?

We have a star-crossed, long-term relationship between two formidable opponents--Pluto in Capricorn and Uranus in Aries. It's a challenging stress aspect designed to provoke changes in they way we walk the earth. The undercurrents of their conflict shakes apart old structures, and forces us to rebuild.

Pluto, the god of the underworld, is astrology's version of Darth Vader. His mask hides a dark secret, and the swooping long black cloak is formidable. For he rules the underworld, the hidden depths of our unconscious minds, where most of us fear to look. But what if, below this dark earth, your treasure lies waiting?

Uranus is known as the Great Awakener, as befits the god of lightening! If we're walking this earth with grounded practical feet, lightening will charge our systems with new bolts of ON energy. But, if we're flying high without a chute, Uranus will sizzle our circuits and trip the main switch OFF.

Steve Martin is ON when he says, "if you don't understand life, you're not watching enough movies." When the quest gets sticky, Luke Skywalker's courage is a model to emulate--he faces Darth Vader in the caves, and discovers the truth of his creation. Like us, he is both darkness and lighting--in one.