Sign on a bridge as symbol for Cardinal Cross

One of the ways to get from Baltimore to Chincoteague involves crossing the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. Looking at the pictures I took as I was crossing the bridge with my brother, I noticed how dramatic it seemed to have a Crisis Hotline sign posted to a telephone poll in the middle of the bridge. The next frame seemed so stable in comparison with the symmetrical, steel structure creating a stable path to the future. As I put these two images side by side, it occurred to me that this juxtaposition created a visual metaphor for this summer's historic astrology called The Cardinal Cross.

The Cardinal Cross is a rare and powerful square alignment involving slow-orbiting planets. The slowness of the orbits means that the square pattern holds and the window of time for an effect is longer. This can be compared to getting a medical degree, which takes a lot of time, patience and hard work, but then you have the doctorate degree for the rest of your life. Some people are in med school right now doing just that. Other people are in Afghanistan on a tour. Other people look like they are going to work like always, but they may have a lot on their mind.

Wherever we are, we may be noticing that the topic of shifts in the bigger picture, is like this image of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. Change may be perceived as a crisis. Help is always available from somewhere. And the new steps we take can create powerful and stable paths in our future.

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Truth Here Shift There

I got an email today from a friend who said, "...my career isn't happening fast enough, I'm obsessed with why I'm not happy right now...". The chart of this friend is the cardinal cross. Can you imagine how much she wants her life to go forward!

Also, the lunar eclipse made a powerful contact to her 4° Cancer Moon, the ruler of her 10th house. So she is feeling fully frustrated. There were a number of other factors going on in her chart as well, but the point is now, while we are in the middle of two eclipses, she can alter her routine which will alter her consciousness which will create a shift, which will make some movement to get her out of a hazy territory which seems to feel so powerless to her.

Today as Mars conjuncts Vesta, we may find Truth sitting on our laps. Interestingly, Juno is making a positive aspect to the Mars Vesta conjunction. This is an opportunity to define our Truth with a partner or a consultant. And lets not forget, we are between eclipses, the time when we can alter patterns in all of our lives. Today we can define our truth in relationship and move toward it.

Rare, Square & Extraordinaire

The astrology of now is rare. Early on the morning of June 26, on the East Coast, a full Moon eclipse was part of the extraordinarily powerful square alignment involving slow orbiting planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and dwarf planet Pluto. With this configuration, there is immense clarity and push for prioritizing what is important in our lives. In this astrology, Claiming Leadership + Pressing Forward + Not Giving Up = Happiness (Eventually).

The signs most effected are Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn. Also if you have personal planets like Moon, Mercury, Venus or Mars in any of these signs you may feel a powerful surge of motion or energy in your life.

From now and for the next two weeks until the solar eclipse on July 11, it is important to take note of events happening in our lives. These are eclipse events. The events are in the news as well as in our personal lives as this planetary alignment is near the zero degree mark in cardinal signs, the astrology of where the personal meets the political.

In our personal lives, whether we meet someone new at a barbecue, find out about new projects at work or become part of a new team, eclipse events represent the hand of fate and we are put on notice to pay particular attention to how we direct the current changes on our path.

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A Sense of Ease in Nature

I did this illustration today thinking mostly of the intensity of the astrology in the moment and how helpful it is to find some inner peace in whatever way we can. I started out drawing a man and a woman kissing. The woman looked to me like Egyptian / Native American royalty and the guy looked like Joe Highschool, so I decided to just focus on the princess. To me the flowers in her hair were like the feeling of swimming with long hair and feeling it go back along your scalp and shoulders as you come up from the water. And then I imagined some sort of being who may be like an ascended master and the idea of an ascended master swimming in the Gulf of Mexico diffusing fears and thoughts as the shadow side finding some ease in nature.

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A Diagram of the Summer Eclipses 2010

This morning I realized I had an image in my mind of a bridge as a way of structuring the upcoming astrology. I was picturing the two eclipses as towers supporting a suspension bridge, like The Tower Bridge of London. This bridge itself is such an event with a hodge-podge of elements and experiences. It seems you could be on one part of the bridge, like deep inside one of the towers, and forget you are on a bridge. Or you could be racing across in a hurry to get to the other side, and be oblivious to what's going on in the towers.

The bridge I have diagrammed is, from left to right in chronological order, made of the Northern Solstice, the Lunar Eclipse, and Uranus retrograde on the Aries point halfway through the eclipses.Then comes the Solar Eclipse and right after that Chiron goes back into Aquarius and Saturn goes back into Libra.

The Tower Bridge, because of its unique components and important location, has become an icon and a symbol. The astrology of 2010, as I perceive it here from our important location, Earth, could also well become an icon and a symbol in the future. We may look back and remember the summer of 2010, when we built a bridge to the next part of our lives.

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