Astrology for Friday, 12 June 2020:

Today the Moon in Pisces makes a trine to Mercury in Cancer, a day for speaking and receiving depths of feelings that stir our capacities for empathy, compassion, connection, and care. Then the Moon makes conjunctions to Mars and Neptune in Pisces—perhaps an embodied premonition of Mars’ conjunction with Neptune tomorrow. We are in a moment of struggling for a dream, fighting for a vision, fighting for what we have not yet dreamt, struggling for who and what we have not yet imagined. Alexis Pauline Gumbs writes in M Archive: After the End of the World: “and that was how we got the ocean. she thought of all the things this world could have been and wasn’t and she wept and wept. all the animals and plants that never were, the people the people couldn’t dream of being, the thoughts that would never ever occur to any of us so uselessly busy proving our lives away. she could see all of it. she could feel all of it. actually she couldn’t see anything because she just kept crying, a heaving gasping cry … she cried and it became the ocean. and out of the ocean came life as we know it.” Witness the cry, the outcry, the crying that has become oceans of bodies flooding the streets around the world. Can you feel the deep grief within your own body for the ways that systemic oppression and violence against Black and Brown people have not only colonized our world but also our capacity to dream? What if every tear could hold the promise of new worlds being brought into being, life as we do not yet know it, for which we are willing to struggle and fight? Imagine the ocean of possibilities—for justice, for liberation—with which we could flood this world.