A retrograde planet is re-assessing past
things, a direct planet explores new
ways for the future. In July and August
Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto are
all retrograde, and of the outer planets
only Saturn is direct. The first 4 are
in socalled wintersigns and Saturn,
being in Virgo, in a summersign (from
the viewpoint of the Northern Hemisphere).
An outer planet in the neighborhood of a
conjunction with the Sun always is
Direct, an outer planet in the
neighborhood of an opposition with the
Sun always retrograde. With Saturn
currently Direct and not the rest, it is
conceivable that we have our lives
reasonably in control during the summer,
without any new wild shocks , maybe with
the exception of these days (see below.
STATIONARY
PLANETS
A stationary planet is a planet standing
still, either because it is about to
retrograde, or it is about to turn
Direct. Currently Uranus is stationary.
And it means that a fair amount of
Uranus is currently active on the planet,
because a stationary planet always has
more impact than another, because it
simply makes a more long lasting imprint
on a certain degree of the zodiac than
usual.
URANUS
RETROGRADE
Uranus
has reached 26.37 Pisces meantime but
will go Rx July 1 at 07.38 am GMT time
and will go back in the sign of Pisces
until the 22nd degree. The symbol for
the 27 th degree is about karmic reaping:
harvesting the things you did, or left
undone (in which case you can use the
summer to do them still). The 27th
degree of Pisces is a degree where the
seed of the future is felt, but not yet
active, maybe from November onwards then.
In the birthchart of Michael Jackson,
who died June 25, Uranus was crossing
his Descendant, Neptune his 6th house
cusp (fairly exact), and Saturn transit
was in the 12th. Hospital visits
are always more likely to occur with
Saturn-t in the 12th.
The next Full Moon is July 7 at 15.24
Capricorn/Cancer at 09.23 am GMT. So the
first week of July will be a busy one
still.
July 10 Jupiter Rx will conjunct Neptune
Rx, they also were conjunct May 27, and
is a much softer aspect than the
Uranus-Saturn opposition (which is not
over yet). We already saw a lot
more optimism and faith in humanity with
Jupiter conjunct Neptune in Aquarius,
and can enjoy another one of these
aspects soon. It will be a wonderful
summermonth!