Astrology for Saturday, 30 May 2020:

Today the Moon in Virgo makes an opposition to Mars in Pisces, a square to Venus retrograde in Gemini, and an opposition to Neptune in Pisces. These are all hard aspects, indicating confrontation and struggle, and with the Moon in Virgo, these aspects relate directly to the organization and distribution of material resources for supporting the basic needs of bodies and lives. Mars in Pisces challenges us to act with bold and courageous compassion; Venus retrograde in Gemini pushes us to review the ways resources and responsibilities are negotiated in all levels of relationship; and Neptune in Pisces demands distinction between our dreams and aspirations and the actual material conditions of our lives. As Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes in How We Get Free, “…the actual state of the country [the United States] has never been measured or determined by the wealthiest and most powerful … The ability to distinguish between the ideology of the American Dream and the experience of the American nightmare requires political analysis, and often struggle.” The nationalist dreams of success and accomplishment we have been sold in the United States have depended upon the willful denial of suffering on which such dreams are built and through which they are sustained. Justice demands disillusionment, the refusal of fantasies that have only ever been possible for few, and that have always been systematized through ongoing oppressive conditions for others. These challenging aspects compel us to wake ourselves from the stupor of an American Dream in order to get to work creating change within the material conditions of the American nightmare.