The Astrology Of June 2025: Red Herrings

Spring and Summer 2025 is a period akin to going to visit the place you are considering moving to before you pull the trigger and move there. In retrospect, this trip will blend with the actual act of moving there as you met people, found favorite spots, began mapping the geography and shifting your nervous system to the place, but at the time you still have the whole uprooting and re-rooting episode before you. We know that the outer planet ingresses, of Saturn, Neptune and Uranus, are going to retrograde back into the signs they’ve been in for many years this fall through winter and not be fully situated into their future positions for good until Spring of 2026. We’re circumambulating around significant shifts in our lives and in the world we inhabit. At the beginning of June this is palpably in place for feeling out, as the New Moon and cazimi in early Gemini foreshadowed Uranus’ upcoming July ingress of Uranus as well as begins the process of ushering Jupiter into much anticipated Cancer by the 9th. The array of placements which fit together into a very striking pattern can be sensed as we roll into June and we are clearly now getting the future whiff, circling around what’s to come and breathing it in, sizing it up, gathering impressions.

(Above, Emma Sandys)

Agnes Lawrence Pelton

I’d say we’re getting a vibe, and by this I mean in the Aries, fire sign, energetic sense rather than in the Piscean, atmosphere-ambiance-mood immersion way. Energy is what animates our body, what makes us incarnate. Ultimately, our inhabiting spirit, our Daimon, is inspired by elements of the world and wishes to engage with and express through these elements. When channeled through Aries this contextualizes to what we are going to do in existence, and the action sequence contained within each moment of doing. Sophisticated Aries is highly tactical, and conserves energy for the sake of efficiency and effectiveness so each critical strike is accurate, powerful and on target. In a general Indian or Western sense Fire element within the body could be the digestive fire, when you’re hungry and the subtle info coming to you of what you are hungry for, or libido, sexual urges which are laced with information of what you are attracted to, what arouses you and magnetizes you. Less bio-specific and more organism-being-general is what of the world makes you feel motivated, excited, and stimulated. In the Classical Chinese sense Spring and the Eastern direction (i.e. Tropical Aries) is associated with the Wood elemental phase. This is not referring to the material of wood (that would be more of an Earth elemental nature, stuff, substance) but the growing that wooden things do, or plants generally. And not just the growth, but the direction of the growth, the psychomotor motivation to be moving at and towards something, normally the light of the Sun. The Sun then is the life-giving energy, the fire, the Qi which animates the whole World. So, in figuring out what we are “doing” with the next 3ish (Saturn) and 15ish (Neptune) years we must ask ourselves what direction is our body-being-spirit-mind-conscious awareness naturally inclined to move towards? Where is the Qi which our Daimon seeks, signaling to us via our stimulation and enthusiasm.

Ruby Read

Spring Summer 2025 we can begin to initiate things in that direction, and if we are going to approach from a place of mastery, we must say little, conserve our energy, be in the moment and strike when necessary during what can be considered a critical and delicate transition. Spring 2026 will see us making more broad stroke cuts rather than these preliminary slashes, as if now in the hunt we are shooting our deer then field dressing it (essentially gutting it), careful to not spoil the meat by puncturing the internal organs. The rest of the butchery occurs later after we get the body home after a journey and a period of draining the blood, skinning, quartering and so on. This first sequence is swift and delicate yet assertive and immediate. We are stalking our future quietly, attempting to not disturb the forest of possibilities which it is embedded, and frighten away what is potentiating. One simple decision releases an arrow of specificity from the bow of tension and initiates the whole narrative sequence which follows. We then make our cuts, producing a lot of blood and guts, visceral involvement in high saturation direct engagement, but carefully, quietly and efficiently. Many experienced hunters can field dress an animal in around five minutes. Something they know how to do from experience. We may be all starting up new things here. We don’t necessarily have the benefit of years of skill building, so we either want to have an elder or mentor showing us the way, or if we are in some way pioneering, we must be cautious and assertive simultaneously, alert and lucidly in our intuition.

With Neptune involved things are not quite what they might seem, and one manifestation of this is we find ourselves doing things before we realize we are doing them and after this awareness comes over us we realize there is no going back, the action we took has irreversible effects, at which point we must resist following that up with chain reactions of further irreversible maneuvers. We all know this mode. You see elderly people especially do it with their phones. “Ahh, what did I do!?” Then poke at it at random, accidentally navigating themselves hopelessly away from the interface they wish to summon in blunt, pointless leaps. Saturn wants to apply rigor here, bring in discipline and parameters. These will be tactical in nature, so the old tried and true strategies of playing long games are now out the window. Patience is involved, but its a more snake in the grass laying in wait; stay silent then strike. In a world where imagination is outsourced by systems that more and more run themselves the dawn of this Air Era’s performance enhancing drugs moment has unintended consequences that may be long term or permanent. It’s been discovered that turn-by-turn direction functions of GPS may be degrading our hippocampus leading to early onset alzheimer’s as well as hormonal and metabolic dis-regulation. GPS’ unintended consequence of destroying episodic memory may be evident in the passive or active mass-formation episodes of the last five years as well as adding to how you may have lost course in your personal life. The unintended consequence of having something do your imagining for you is yet to be measured. This is just one concern afoot in the time-territory we’re stalking our prey within (where our prey is the juicy energy our Daimons seek, the invigorating spice of the unfolding of existence).

Matthew Hansel

Let’s say this is old school hunting, not a predator-less world of humans in motorized all terrain vehicles with powerful firearms. Let’s say in our metaphorical landscape we either succeed in taking down an animal or starve to death (in this case desiccate from excruciating boredom, or literally become so uncreative we can’t compete economically, as the financial mechanisms are geared against us in the first place) puts us in danger of succumbing to forces more overwhelming, faster, and less compassionate than we can ever hope to compete against. In this sense, there is a kind of cleverness to Aries, and that is why it’s sextile to Gemini, there’s a strategic intelligence, and that’s why it’s sextile to Aquarius, there’s a necessity to keep your balance, this is why it’s critically opposite Libra. Sophisticated Aries is quick of mind, processes info quickly, sees options and alternatives everywhere and keeps equilibrium. When this is not fine tuned in 2025 you may be swallowed by artificiality and end up empty handed. This is hard on the nervous system, and depleting to Qi. Your second attempt to strike after first swiping at empty holograms will be from a more energetically starved baseline than your first. Let the games begin; and the less analog you run your affairs the more gamified your very existence will become.

Wynnie Mynerva

Jupiter’s ingress into Cancer aids in the process while also complicating things. In a reality where if you show your cards they are inserted into prompts which summon hydral Tulpas which then sit down at the table and play against you with the same hand you’re already holding, thus derailing your direct connection to the full jackpot, we must proceed with an appropriate amount of tension. In sophisticated Aries this is a kind of zen state of alert un-attached-ness. Humans tend to oscillate between zoning out and destabilizing ourselves in manic anxiety. Think about the caffeine alcohol loop we’ve become accustomed to. I’m reminded of many solo sailors who, to become one with the their boats and furthermore the sea, quit both coffee and alcohol before a voyage so they can sleep whenever they have the opportunity to and remain also alert at all times. This calm, relaxed alertness in brain wave frequency is referred to as the Alpha state (7-13 Hz), although most people in our modern world tend to stay in the Beta range (13-40 Hz) of nervousness, irritability, anxiety and anger. This is essentially the very emotional expression of Wood element in disharmony, so, Tropical Aries problems, i.e. our current challenge by outer planet transits. The electromagnetic frequency of the cavity between the Earth and it’s ionosphere (or the Schumann Resonance) is 7.83 Hz, within this alpha range. We should be able to sync up to this calm alert electro-magnetic atmosphere, and live like natural animals in the world— although, the amount of electro-magnetic pollution from satellites, towers and devices likely makes this difficult.

Larry Day.

Dog trainers have noted and discuss at professional conferences that dog behavior has worsened across the board over the last 15-20 years. It’s hard to not imagine that the earth’s electro-magnetic equilibrium in disturbance is not playing a part. We might think of this as now something we have to be tuned with in a more manual way rather than an automatic way. Jupiter in Cancer may bring a lot of opportunity to relax, kick back, be calm but we don’t want to be deceived into letting our guard down in unnecessarily or excessively, where we may drop into Theta states (4-7 Hz intuition, insight, awareness, contemplation) when it’s not appropriate, and sloppily let the other players at the table catch glimpses of our hands, especially when they have AI assisted avatars ready to spin up exponential opponents ready to throw in a chip and join the game.

A confusing element is Saturn in Pisces the past few years was rewarding us for not caring, saying whatever, going with the flow, releasing the reigns, being more Theta dominant in general. Now that it’s time for Alpha oriented calm alertness we are required to shift paradigms and change our habits. Agility, blood quality, muscle, tendon and ligament nourishment, and mobility are all crucial to our success. Plan well, prepare for decisiveness and be agile enough to change plans at any moment accordingly. Asking GPT what you should do at each juncture may be a deceptive form of divination, and in fact an addictive one. Interpreting omens and auguring the way is a dialogue between one’s self and the divinely infused world. Being dictated to from often scrambled and corrupted data sets can catalyze some successful sprints out of blindspots and left field blocks, but can also lead to catastrophic fails in other instances and is deleterious to faculties over all. We’ll see a lot of analog approaches rise strong in the coming years while meanwhile, under Pluto in Aquarius, the technocratic threat is ever present and will become more and more collectively accepted as villainous over time. I suggest you stay quiet much of the time and cultivate sharpness of perceptiveness. It’ll aid in striking out in the direction that the energy which hosts life in your flesh seeks to go, rather than anywhere and everywhere else at random you might be told to by something that is separate from the natural world. Years ago many of us wondered if AI could get possessed, but it’s safe to say it IS a possession. I’m not speaking apocalyptically here but holistically. AI is a symptom of a condition where we are out of sync with nature. Our continual temptation toward incestuous liaisons with human ingenuity’s creations rather than partner with the symbiotic ecosphere will degrade our species to horrific degrees.

Matthew Hansel

This is the central challenge: how to be both calm and alert? How to be both autonomous and resourced? How to be in fellowship and individuality? How to be safe and effective? When to nurture and to strike within the same space or gesture?

Pere Borrell del Caso

These questions will begin to push and pull circumstances into tension which by elastic snap back and pressurization throw new circumstances into motion that may not be perfect but are bound to be dynamic. We’re probably sick of being stuck and simply standing by and watching the cracks on plaster widen from how much we’re running into the wall repeatedly without any significant change occurring. Once we stop worrying about the wall and simply walk out the door a whole world of alternatives confronts us, in lucid, high fidelity agoraphobic optionality. There’s no one in any authority position who will come to help us. The entirety of the societal syndicate is corrupt and no progressive programming can disarm it. We’re not as good as we used to be and that’s just the way it is; we have to integrate that uncomfortable notion of a worse world in a matter of fact way and begin our analog trajectory towards new inspired ideals.

Pat West

There’s some ‘kill your darlings’ in this story. We’re becoming well aware of that. You can’t make everyone happy, but you can decide to keep the drama minimal and not drag things out. We’ll have to get under our proverbial hoods, deal directly with the components, remove the redundant parts, streamline the processes, strive to kill two birds with one stone, less is more, especially less friction. To immerse in the flow and derive fluidity from the empathic field we may have to learn protocols to reduce the noise of hallucinated, imaginal or projected threats. Authenticity, heart expression, governance of our beings, conscious awareness and vital connection with other heart-minds is all embattled territory, and we’re beginning to be up for the fight. This is not one of activism, but one which begins by quitting. Just being so fed up with wasting our energy we’d rather extract ourselves from whatever situation altogether. Where can we find a flow of abundance with minimal strings attached? This may also be a red herring, so as with everything else, stay calm, shut up, be observant, practice situational awareness, conserve your energy and then move confidently and decisively. When you know you know, and if you’re asking GPT what to do, you may never know.

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NOTES:

June 1st

Moon conjunct Mars: emotional state bold, nervous system excited: need for exhibition, need to express self assertively and authentically even against suppressive forces

Venus conjunct Chiron: desire for autonomy fused with healing and integration especially of trips, triggers, traumas, phobias, pet-peeves etc.- creativity, romance and aesthetic themed. Discomfort and direct action quality control

June 3rd

1st quarter Moon in Virgo; rev up of manifestation momentum in procedural and process operations

-moon conjunct SN: logistical reduction, removing redundancy

June 6

Venus ingress Taurus: desire for quality substance, sensual aesthetics, solidly crafted creations, grounding romance

Mercury sextile Chiron: cleverness in intellectual exchanges and info communication collaborating with integrating injured autonomy and awkward actions

Lucas Cranach the Elder

June 8

Mercury conjunct Jupiter: large and small scale scopes, information and knowledge consolidated in idea exchange and info communication also awareness of paradox

Mercury ingress Cancer: emotional intelligence, care, comfort and nurture ideas

June 9

Mercury square Saturn: emotional intelligence in narrative tension with obligation to take direct action, be independent, responsibility to autonomy, individual strategy

Jupiter in Cancer: expansion and growth of comfort, care, nurture wisdom, resource flow opportunities, psychological coherence

Mercury square Neptune: emotional intelligence and communication of care in narrative tension with autonomous dreams, permeable individuality, independent hallucinations, action fantasies

Venus square Pluto: desire for physical quality in tension with ominousness and power dynamics of progressive systems and decentralized networking

June 10

Mars trine Chiron: bold displays of power harmonized with healing and integration of autonomy discomfort

June 11

Full Moon Sag: subjective blossoming of enthusiastic trajectories and ideal quests

-on bends: relates to process of reducing logistical complexity and immersing into the flow of the whole— less fricative more smooth

Mercury sextile Venus: emotional intelligence and communication of care collaborating with desire for quality substances

June 13th

Sun on bends: orientation to options, alternatives, choices, multiplicity, paradoxes, communication and info exchange, curiosity and variety pulling at the tension point between logistical decomplexification and compulsion to immerse in the flow or the whole

Henri Rousseau

June 14

Mars square Uranus: Bold displays of power, bravery and belligerence, and the fight to express oneself authentically clash in narrative tension with disruptions to baselines, volatility of commodity, shifts in the ground, experimenting with substances, revolutionary methods and unpredictable rhythms. May reflect what is culminating to a storyline climax of Uranus in Taurus since 2018.

June 15

Jupiter square Saturn: Expansion and growth of care and comfort, nurturing coherence, resource flow philosophy, opportunity to nest, psychological wisdom clashing in narrative tension with autonomous obligations, responsibility to be independent, direct strategies, action structures, impulsive maturity and mature impulsivity. Might be difficult to resolve but productive to solution.

June 17

Mars ingress Virgo: Tactical processes, critical response procedures, action operations, detailed work, conflict sorting

June 18

Last quarter moon pisces, north node: shift towards more narrative release and increased contemplation as current stories are beginning to wrap up. Theme of letting go, and immersing into the flow. Empathy and vibe in contrast to paradox, variety and polarity. Subjective awareness of compulsions towards what is loose, holistic and ambient.

Jupiter square Neptune: Expansion and growth of care and comfort, nurturing coherence, resource flow philosophy, opportunity to nest, psychological wisdom clashing in narrative tension with autonomous dreams, independent fantasies, capability hallucinations, impulse confusion, effective hallucination, performance enhancing drugs, cinematic initiation.

Agnes Lawrence Pelton

June 22

Sun square Saturn: Orientation to resource flow, fellowship, nurturing, caring for and generating in tension with tactical obligation and autonomous strategies

June 23

Sun square Neptune: autonomous fantasies, cinematic initiation, effective simulation

June 24

Sun conjunct Jupiter: Resetting of coherence, renewal of understanding, orienting of belief

Mercury square Chiron: Analysis and articulation of abundance and lack in tension with healing autonomous action and uncomfortable integration of awkward individuation

June 26

Mercury sextile Uranus: Analysis and articulation of abundance and lack collaborating with shifting and changing baseline commodities and methods of grounding

June 25th

New Moon Cancer: Subjective seeding of care, comfort, nurture, generation, resource delivery, and nesting

June 26th

Mercury ingress Leo: logic, language, analysis, communication, navigation of self expression, visibility, exhibition, celebration, sovereignty, centrality, truth, authenticity, charisma, bravery

Sun sextile Mars: orientation to resources, nurture and fellowship in collaboration with detailed sorting procedures and critical incisions

June 27

Mercury (and Moon) trine Saturn: charismatic, expressive communication and self sovereign analysis in harmony with autonomous strategies and individual construction

-then Moon trine Neptune then opposite Pluto: harmonized to impulsive projections and contending with ominous pioneering progressions

Maxim Fomenko

June 29

Mercury opposite Pluto: logic, language, analysis, communication, navigation of self expression, visibility, exhibition, celebration, sovereignty, centrality, truth, authenticity, charisma, bravery contending with decentralized power dynamics, ominous pioneering, mystery networks, and shadowed new concepts