Astrology for Friday, 26 June 2020:

Today the Moon in Virgo makes a trine to Uranus in Taurus, then a sextile to Mercury retrograde in Cancer. Virgo cultivates the most effective use of the materials we have available—within and beyond the body—and Uranus demands revolution and radical change. What will it take to change our relationships to what we have called resources—our bodies and the earth? Alexis Pauline Gumbs writes in M Archive: After the End of the World, “then they learned to work with the soil they had. the daily dirt under their fingernails, the collected decomposition of their skin. they would grow what they needed from that. sometimes they remembered how many times caterpillars grow whole encasements of skin and shed them again and again before growing the skin that would become chrysalis. but nowadays they were focusing on a much smaller scale of organism. the bacteria swimming across the parched oceans of their eyes. the tiny cities in their intestine. the whole surface of their skins populated and evolving. this was the last step. they finally had to understand themselves as planets.” What will it take for us to value all that we are and all that we hold, our relationship to life and livability at every scale? The Moon then makes a sextile to Mercury in Cancer. In mutual reception with one another, with Mercury moving back along its retrograde cycle, we go looking for the words to describe new or old ways of being with the planet as well as ourselves. What does it mean to care for ourselves as planets as we review all that we have done and enter the days ahead?