Freedom isn't sitting-in, it's standing up!

“Money itself isn’t lost or made, it’s simply transferred from one perception to another.”

Lightning is a startling wake-up call, shockingly reminiscent of Michael Douglas’ unscrupulous role as a corporate raider in the 1987 film, Wall Street; the archetypal story of greed, unscrupulous deals, and an excess of wealth and power.

It’s not that anyone is “evil.” So-called ‘bad apples” are a product of rotten barrels, like greed.

America, land of the free, gets some needed CPR from lightning-bolt Uranus, who aims at the chains on our prison doors.  And, if this invitation to free ourselves is ignored, all that energy can just as quickly blow things up!  

A shockingly reckless day this Wednesday is full of astrological earthquakes.  Emotional excess, restlessness and discontent with the status quo are magnified under the Cancer Sun. The revolutionary transformations shaking the ground under your feet can inspire you to stand up for your rights, or apathy and ignorance will detour this power to destructive ends.  

♡ Date Night:  Venus in Leo and Mars in Gemini

Love is grand!  Sensational and saucy romance, with everyone in dramatic drag, puts this date night theatrically over the Moon!  Saturday night is cozy and comfortable.  Optimism and joy fill the warm summer’s breeze. Look for the face of a very happy man in the moon.

The Force of freedom is with you.

Here’s your horoscope for the week of June 30-July 6, 2013:

(★ Astrology Wonks see bottom of page)

Aries ♈ (March 20-April 19)

Wide, wide awake and loaded with originality.  The week starts with your feelings and intuition on high alert with the Moon in your sign.  You’re ready to light a fire under the powerfully planted old conditioning from childhood.  In a no-nonsense mood, you challenge Darth Vader and discover you have the biggest lightsaber!  Voltage soars when you get repeated lightning bolts running through your field of dreams and imagination.  By Saturday, you’re subdued.  Whew!

Taurus ♉ (April 20-May 20)

Antsy and itchy.  Not your favorite feelings.  Still, with your Taurus calm, you can avoid what would otherwise be a downright pissy mood!  Don’t make big decisions ‘til Tuesday when your “green thumb” blossoms again and your midas touch returns. You cannot go wrong investing in real estate, buying or selling.  Your property will grow in value until July, 2014.  Signing on the dotted line is best after July 13th, 2013.  Saturday is a perfect day for lavish parties and indulgences.  You have an easy rapport with family, and wealth.

Gemini ♊ (May 21-June 20)

Not that you need more stimulation, but you get it as this week begins.  Your wake-up call rings in your house of resources.  You have treasures there that you can now fully utilize; teaching, publishing, and an optimistic mental attitude.  Your natural curiosity turns to cultural trends and innovative communications expressed through your writing. Your inspiration comes either through creative visualization or dreams. Warrior Mars (in Gemini) adds vivid color to your mental imagery until July 13th.  When the Moon juggles her way into Gemini at 2:22 AM, PDT, this Thursday, you’ll have over two days of heightened perception.  Let yourself daydream in quiet spaces, and write it down.  

Cancer ♋ (June 21-July 21)

Cranky and out of sorts?  Only for Sunday and Monday, then a little less heat in the kitchen is welcomed, along with some fresh blueberries rolled in chocolate.  Your solar power is increasing throughout this week, culminating Saturday when your Sun is joined by an intuitive Moon, a cornucopia of kindness from Jupiter, and mental Mercury with very personal deep-seated messages.  You’ve set your sails for the far horizon, where a new happiness is just waiting for you to show up (which you’re going to do in spades starting July 13th)!  

Leo ♌ (July 22-August 22)

It may feel impulsive, but those urges you start the week with should be honored.  Flashes of genius that seem quirky are just that.  Your insights are right-brained, non-linear and very valuable.  You fall off a pink cloud in your relationships, but you’ll actually benefit from this sobering up.  Even if your pride is bruised, Venus (now in Leo) will soothe with a lavish warmheartedness and oodles of affection.  You’re entering the phase of letting go that precedes your birthday.  Crisis, probably quite a few, really does mean opportunity.

Virgo ♍ (August 23-September 22)

You can’t rely on your feelings as your guide.  Even your intuition is on such overload that it can’t be trusted.  Solution?  Make no decisions by yourself until Monday evening.  Tuesday finds you able to organize your life again and sort the intense revelations scattered around you.  Search your reasoning for answers.  Consider how you wield your personal power.  You’ll get an up close and very personal demonstration of how others perceive you, and a challenge to balance home and career.  

Libra ♎ (September 23-October 22)

Erratic emotions have you changing your tune like a disc jockey on speed!  If you can channel this free wheeling creativity, new doors in your perception will open. What’s it all about?  Your intuition (Moon), already on fire, gets hit with repeated jolts of lightning.  It could mean fried nerves for the beginning of your week, but then it turns to brilliant intuitive flashes.  Venus, her passions warmed up in Leo, forms a tense relationship with too-serious Saturn.  This pair together often signals a “goodbye.”  

Scorpio ♏  (October 23-November 21)

Emotions are usually your reliable friend, but this week starts with your intuitive clairvoyance taking in more that you can cipher.  Jupiter’s generosity and benevolence are now landing in your ninth solar house of the higher mind.  This can bring you the role of being a spiritual teacher, and/or seeking out further education in the realms of a new spirituality.  Either way, you have started a one year journey of travel to foreign places, foreign ideals.  Notice Wednesday for earth shattering innovations, and Saturday for the sense that all is well and in it’s right place.  

Sagittarius ♐ (November 22-December 20)

Jolts of intense impulses to change the scenery, change your mind, or change just for the sake of starting an adventure are designed to blast you off into unexpected territory.  Since you’re traveling in the realms of the higher mind, from your positive perspective you know people aren’t bad apples, they’ve just fallen into rotten barrells.  You can’t see it under Darth Vader’s mask, but he has some good intentions.  He just wants you to get to the bottom of what ails you.  Naked truth.  It’s your favorite thing!

Capricorn ♑ (December 21-January 19)

Irritable and unusually restless; it wakes you up to issues in your family relationships.  Tuesday a Taurus Moon and a Cancer Sun together make for a very comfortable break--take it.  Soak in some of life’s pleasures.  You have a sweet tooth for anything pleasurable, lovely to look at, and rich around the edges.  Resistance to change, a stubborn digging your heels in, will restrict the good fortune you have right now; it requires a playful spontaneity.  Luck comes to your through marriage and partnerships because generous Jupiter inspires you to new kind of openness and benevolence.  

Aquarius ♒ (January 20-February 17)

Your wake-up call arrives with an easy listening ringtone.  The electric noise of sudden, startling changes hits you at a lower, more understandable volume that allows you to hear the cries for help all around you.  You’ve just started a one year journey with Jupiter in which you’ll pour the milk of human kindness out for everyone to drink and to heal.  You’re in service to others, more than at any other time of your life.  Your interest in medical missions, natural foods and remedies, will soar.  Because so much energy this week is gathering in the reclusive domain of Cancer, your motives may not be understood and communications may be awkward.  Take nothing personally.

Pisces ♓  (February 18-March 19)

Got a tune you don’t even like stuck in your head?  Lots of gut-level information is churning around you and inside you.  Butterflies in your stomach, or out and out nausea, are your wake up call to pay more attention to how you feel.  Your imagination is so heightened right now, that inattention to your physical needs could leave you sick and tired.  Generous Jupiter has started a one year sojourn in your solar house of creativity and romance, bringing you happiness with your partner and a cornucopia of talent in the arts.  Jupiter carries karmic “lessons” for Pisces relating to not overextending yourself.  With this as a cautionary word, you can have good fortune through your investments.  Saturday is a blessed day for you.  

✶ Astrology Wonks

The Aries Moon tries to light a fire under the powerfully planted boots of a no-nonsense Darth Vader (Pluto) at 1:10 AM, PDT, Sunday.  (Moon square Pluto).  Then she joins the god of lightning at 5:02 AM, PDT, (Moon conjunct Uranus).  Fried nerves for some, brilliant intuitive flashes for others.  

Venus, her passion warmed up in Leo, forms a tense relationship with serious Saturn at 10:03 AM, PDT, this Monday.  Romantic dreams get popped.  Then, you fall to earth when the Moon cools off in Taurus at 2:43 PM, PDT.  Next, the Cancer Sun is in opposition to powerful Pluto at 5:05 PM, PDT, Monday.  Feel like saying “goodbye” to someone, or some old habit?

Tuesday at 10:52 AM, PDT, Venus trines Pluto; drink deeply of the sweet pleasures of love.

Watch out for Wednesday!  A wobbly Cancer Sun is in square to a rebellious Uranus at 11:22 PM, PDT.  The day gradually fills with earth shaking shocks of recklessness. Earthquake weather, astrologically speaking.

The Moon enters Cancer at 3:14 PM, PDT, this Saturday, joining Jupiter, Sun, and Mercury already in Cancer.  Settling in with family, home, and hearth, bring a deep sense of well-being.  

Big jolly Jupiter teaches kindness

You wake Sunday morning under the influence, luckily it’s just the Full Moon in ambitious Capricorn.  Perhaps you dreamed of a stairway to riches, or that you stood atop Mt. Everest, triumphant. Whatever your dream, it reaches a pinnacle of progress now.  

“Me only have one ambition, y'know...one thing I really like to see happen.  I like to see mankind live together--black, white, Chinese, everyone.  That’s all.”  [Bob Marley]

Tuesday marks a new one-year sojourn in Cancer for the big jolly guy, Jupiter.  Human kindness, reverence for the teachers among us, and honoring family ties are his gifts.

Cloudy with a chance of crying, lost data, and general communications mayhem!  Blame it on Messenger Mercury in Cancer turning retrograde this Wednesday, retracing his steps back to May 21st.  What was happening then that needs review?  

Thursday Venus catches fire in Leo at 10:03 AM, PDT.  The ambition to reach for the stars brings the wisdom to reach for the heart in everyone.

“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”  [Marilyn Monroe]

♡ Date Night:  Venus in Leo and Mars in Gemini

The lovers are compatible one again, until July 13th.  Patch up that romance you derailed by an excess of emotion.  Ardent and loyal lovers are on the horizon.  You feel warmhearted affection and a playful spontaneity that’s been lacking.  Put on your most vivid colors to match the dramatized emotions that are sure to take the stage!

The Force of ambition is with you.

Here’s your horoscope for the week of June 23-29, 2013:

(★ Astrology Wonks see bottom of page)

Aries ♈ (March 20-April 19)

Recently your passions cooled as you weathered a trial of endurance (June 3-26).  The Capricorn Full Moon shows you that the brighter your light is, the darker your shadow.  You’ve never had trouble seeing the merits of ambition.  It’s the vehicle, persistence, that’s so hard for you to master.  Jupiter’s entrance into watery Cancer this Tuesday begins a lengthy period in which you’ll want to accomplish too much too quickly.  Help arrives Thursday when Venus in Leo bring bundles of affection, admiration for your art, and a warmhearted and sunny disposition for you!

Taurus ♉ (April 20-May 20)

The power to stand alone without leaning upon others, is the key to your ambition. You’re the zodiac’s Rock of Gibraltar, and your strength is in helping others stand on their own two feet.  Starting Sunday ‘til noon on Tuesday, your purposeful determination to master the physical plane has never been stronger.  Balance your budget, your diet, your desires by refusing to be stagnated by over-thinking everything!  Thursday your luck changes for the better.  For the next year your easy affinity with positive thinking and constructive insight brings you more optimism that you’ve had for quite awhile.

Gemini ♊ (May 21-June 20)

You are among those dangerous dreamers who dare to dream in the day, with your eyes open, and make your dreams come true.  This has been true for the past year, with Generous Jupiter in Gemini.  He moves to Cancer this Tuesday, so you’ll bring those dreams home to roost.  Ground them in your deepest familial roots, the ties to your Soul’s destiny.  Then Venus moves to Leo Thursday for the next four weeks, in your 3rd solar house of communications, igniting your love of literature and writing.  Send love letters.  Write a poem about harmony.  

Cancer ♋ (June 21-July 21)

Lucky you!  Sunday is the kickoff for a long period of personal success and financial benefits.  Avoid emotional excesses, raise the bar on your hopes, and you’ll find the true home you’ve longed for.  Tuesday begins a remarkable new 12-year period of growth and expansion in your life.  Between now and July 15, 2014, your optimism and positive attitudes will bring you good fortune.  Your horizons broaden considerably and you take on goals that previously seemed beyond your reach.  It’s your turn!

Leo ♌ (July 22-August 22)

Dare to know your limitlessness.  Act as if death were nothing more than an unfounded rumor.  How would this change your experience of frustration?  Your creativity returns in peacock technicolor this Thursday morning.  For the next four weeks you are a lover of life, playfully cheerful and sure of yourself.  A happiness pinnacle.  You’ve spent over a year reaching out in confidence and constructively overcoming difficulties.  Now the cooperation you’ve developed will bring it all home, and you enjoy an easy, almost unnoticed, compatibility between your gut instincts and the expression of your creativity.

Virgo ♍ (August 23-September 22)

Your habit of persisting until it’s perfect, is the habit of victory.  Your Soul knows that perfection is possible, that there is perfect Love, perfect Peace.  The Capricorn Full Moon tunes you into a powerful yearning for contact, at-one-ment. The current chaos in the world doesn’t discourage you; it challenges you to transform the ordinary through your embodiment of the ability to make deep connections.  It’s why you’re the healer of the zodiac, the helping hand.  

Libra ♎ (September 23-October 22)

Make it your goal to say in three sentences what others say in a whole book!  Or even better, to say what others never dare.  Mercury turns his back this Wednesday and retraces his steps back to May 21st, to review and re-do.  What were your deep emotional longings then?  Turn them inside out.  Jupiter joins Mercury in Cancer this Thursday, adding kindness to your childhood memories.  Rewrite your “story.”  Your heart warms up again beginning Thursday when your ruler, Venus, turns playful in Leo.  Romance, art, creativity have a rebirth.  You can do the thing you think you cannot do; in fact, you must.   

Scorpio ♏  (October 23-November 21)

Enthusiastic, optimistic, and outgoing!  Your positive, altruistic attitudes toward others in your community and your family gain you their confidence and trust. Your eagle spirit takes flight this Thursday, and for one year you’ll ride the thermals higher and higher, effortlessly rising above the battlegrounds of ego.  You may startle others with a new brand of honesty that raises the bar of integrity for yourself and others.  

Sagittarius ♐ (November 22-December 20)

Your ambitions do not have to be in complete harmony with the universe.  Even if you feel completely out of sync, it’s the universe asking you to develop more trust in yourSelf.  If you’ve felt like your fire went out, hold on ‘til Thursday when you’ll begin a four week period of renewed passion for your art.  Pull out your copy of The Art of War.  Self-discipline is the key to bringing practical form to your creative hunches.  No jumping, just some good ol’ trudging through the details.  A great teacher (you!) has a carefully constructed lesson plan!

Capricorn ♑ (December 21-January 19)

Like the abrasive wheel is to the diamond, so is your hard work to your ambitions;  it causes them to shine with brilliance.  Sunday’s Full Moon in your sign closes the chapter on a struggle to balance career and home, integrity and promises, ambitions and emotional needs for belonging.  And, your luck is about to change, this Tuesday when generous and jovial Jupiter enters home-sweet-home Cancer.  For the next year your good fortune comes through joint finances, inheritance.  Your understanding of life after death will take a quantum leap, expanding your spiritual landscape.  

Aquarius ♒ (January 20-February 17)

For you the Capricorn Full Moon is a pinnacle of too much seriousness, taking on the troubles of the world at the expense of loosing your softer, more vulnerable emotional needs.  Venus entering the fires of Leo melts your cool reasoning and warms your heart.  Generous Jupiter’s one year sojourn in Cancer begins Tuesday, brings up awkward family issues.  The tendency will be to make or receive impractical or unrealistic demands on one another, and to promise more than can be delivered.  Thursday the goddess of love moves into your 7th solar house of relationships where she starts a few fires.  Allow yourself to be happy!

Pisces ♓  (February 18-March 19)

You can feel the protective spirit that is ensuring your happiness and safety right now.  Sunday’s Full Moon set the stage for a week of excavating the emotional ties you have to family roots, old expectations.  You feel contemplative, and withdrawing from the noise of life will help you focus.  Take advantage of the incredible farsightedness you have this week, it borders on prophecy. You’re able to rise above the chaos.  Enjoy the view from the mountaintop!

✶ Astrology Wonks

Sunday morning is the Full Moon in ambitious Capricorn at 4:33 AM, PDT, opposite the Cancer Sun:  Ambition/integrity in the light of emotional ties to your roots.  This is the 3rd SuperMoon in a row; perigee and syzygy = intense electromagnetic pull.

Tuesday at 6:39 PM, PDT, Jupiter enters Cancer for a one year transit of deepening love of family, expanding human kindness, establishing the security of a prosperous home base.

You haven't lost your muchiness

Today you are you, that is truer than true, there is no one alive that is youer than you!  Dr. Seuss

Generous Jupiter is happily overdoing it again.  Gemini’s ingenious juggling of six ideas at once knows no bounds this week.  In fact, on Wednesday the think tank runneth over with creative juices.   Expect a cornucopia of boundless mental energy.  

The Summer Solstice is marked by the entrance of the Sun into Cancer at 10:03 PM, PDT, this Thursday.  A time of emotional sensitivity, powerful imagination, and instinctual protectiveness of home and family.

♡ Date Night:  Venus in Cancer and Mars in Gemini

There’s so much yang energy flying around this weekend that you’re sure to have a long honey-do list from your partner, sending romance flying out the window.  Unless...it’s possible to stoke the home fires while you’re running errands?  Sure, a stop at the florist for a Fuchsia, balsamic glaze from the specialty market, and fabulous Shark Cupcakes at the Neptune bakery--you can’t have too many special treats for a Venus in homey Cancer!

The Force of abundance is with you.

Here’s your horoscope for the week of June 16-22, 2013:

(★ Astrology Wonks see bottom of page)

Aries ♈ (March 20-April 19)

You have a bring-it-on attitude, welcoming any challenge.  If a challenge doesn’t present itself naturally in the course of the day, you’ll invent one!  You’ve got an inner determination that’s not to be messed with.  You feel strong and out to get what you want.  Winning in a competition, especially sports, will make your day. Most of this week you’ll feel optimistic; it’s as if you’re a magnet for good luck.

Taurus ♉ (April 20-May 20)

The Gemini Sun shines it’s solar power directly on the really big ideas that Jovial Jupiter is launching all week, and it’s in your house of resources and wealth. Truth telling this Tuesday, though intense, will keep you from pretense and false promises, made by you or to you. Wednesday is a keynote day that is blessed with people cooperating with you and thus furthering your plans.

Gemini ♊ (May 21-June 20)

You can’t have too much glitter!  No chance of losing your muchiness this week!  But it’s very easy to overwhelm yourself with multi-tasking!  Tuesday is a visionary day for you, a time to trust your intuition.  You’ll feel optimistic and generous this Wednesday (your lucky day) when the tumblers in the lock just click, click, click. Acts of great courage and an unwavering integrity characterize your actions as you finish your birthday month; you’re ready to stand your ground.

Cancer ♋ (June 21-July 21)

Tasks that you could pull off on your own are much better handled with two on board, a little harder to balance your needs with theirs, but you’ll accomplish so much more than you could possibly do alone. Thursday is the Summer Solstice, when the Sun comes home to Cancer. You begin your birthday month with justifiably high hopes. The celestial Santa Claus moves into Cancer next week, beginning a full year of good fortune!  Scorpio Moon gets in sync and harmonious with Venus in Cancer for an in-depth talk about what you truly want.

Leo ♌ (July 22-August 22)

Vitality surges with lots of yang energy, just in time for a playful Father’s Day.  If you need a brainstorming session about a big idea, Wednesday morning is the perfect time. The principles of power and will infuse you with determination and optimism.  Enough to launch your product or expand your vision of what’s possible.  Initiating a direct confrontation with someone, even if that’s not usually your style, will work to your benefit.

Virgo ♍ (August 23-September 22)

Sunday, with the Moon in Virgo, is a celestial checkpoint for your month’s goals.  Once again it’s time to go into the cave and stare down Darth Vader! But the rewards will be very satisfying for you; you prefer to know the true the bottom line. You don’t feel much like compromising, so its not your best time to negotiate. Risky situations won’t deter you, even if you’re normally cautious.  You’re confident that you can handle pretty much anything.

Libra ♎ (September 23-October 22)

Sunday starts you off with an abundance of creativity, energizing your world of ideas.  Generous Jupiter is giving you four days of very very expansive and high flying creativity.  Wednesday is the day to initiate a new project and get popular group support for your ideas. When Thursday's Summer Solstice arrives, feelings take a more sensitive turn. You have a new determination to reach your goals, even surprisingly stubborn about it!

Scorpio ♏  (October 23-November 21)

The buzz is very loud this week, but loaded with information you need.  Your gift for getting to the bottom of things will help you sort it out.  Tuesday afternoon is cloudy with a chance of depression, as you are called to face a few fears you’d rather keep underground. Help comes in the form of some structured, hard work that incorporates an unusual bedfellow, Visionary Compassion.  You’re loaded with it!

Sagittarius ♐ (November 22-December 20)

Debate might be your favorite sport this week, and you are determined to win.  You’re hungry for ideas and gobble them up as fast as anyone can hurl them your way.  And you will want things your way. Everything seems to go your way this Wednesday, not just because of your positive thinking, although that's powerful enough to help you take advantage of opportunities in your immediate environment.  It’s also your generous concern for the welfare of all concerned that wins people over to your side.

Capricorn ♑ (December 21-January 19)

It’s time to make an aggressive move ahead. Nothing will stop you. Your enthusiasm carries you and you welcome an opportunity to act on your principles.  One word to the wise Capricorn; Warning signs dot the highway along the steep downward grade leading out of the Rocky Mountains to Denver: “You’re not down yet!” Keep in mind the call to change at depth, and the sudden opportunities to do so.  Lightning bolts are still flying!  Caution yes, but don’t ride your brakes!

Aquarius ♒ (January 20-February 17)

Sunday starts your week with a surge of vitality that carries lots of yang energy. The powerfully creative thinking cap you’ll put on is one of your old time favorites.  Never mind that it has a whirligig on top!  Whimsey lightens up the intensity and tickles your funny bone.  Your humor, quite dry, is at a peak and helps you say a big truth with grace.  Other people’s belief in you and your ideas becomes the vehicle that launches your ambitions.  

Pisces ♓  (February 18-March 19)

Artistic inspirations and romantic dreams flourish, without much regard for reality.  Still we all need some days of hope springing eternally in our human hearts, and you have this as the Sun moves into Cancer on the Summer Solstice. Your finely tuned sensitivities find a home in the instinctually protective waters of Cancer. Like entering a soft cove after weathering the open seas.

✶ Astrology Wonks

Virgo Moon squares Gemini Sun 10:42 AM, PDT, on Sunday; a celestial checkpoint for your month’s goals.

Wednesday is loaded with muchness when the Gemini Sun conjuncts Jovial Jupiter at 9:10 AM, PDT.  Solar powered ideas.

The Scorpio Moon trines Venus at 11:49 AM, PDT, on Thursday, and then goes on to trine Mercury at 12:30 PM, PDT; then we have an exact conjunction of Venus and Mercury occurs at 7:56 PM, PDT. All leading up to the Sun moving into Cancer at 10:03 PM, PDT, this Thursday;  Summer Solstice.  Sweet and pleasant communications combine with the joy of cooking--barbecue style.