Astrology for Sunday, 21 June 2020:

Early this morning before dawn, the Moon ingressed into its domicile of Cancer and directly into a conjunction with the Sun, perfecting a major solar eclipse. This eclipse holds the potential to challenge or disrupt our sense of safety and security, as well as the institutions in which we place our trust for providing safety and care. It may actually require us to question our beliefs about security, safety, and care, facing the shadow of our attachments to what we may have thought protected us—especially right now in the U.S. in regard to policing, all the ways in which the police are an instrument of violence and oppression specifically to Black and Brown people, but also to trans people, poor people, mentally disabled people, and so on. We may be propelled toward change and new—or old—possibilities, especially as the Moon forms a sextile with Uranus in Taurus. It may be that we are facing worlds coming to an end, ways of being in the world that create more harm than care. What will we do now? Alexis Pauline Gumbs writes in M Archive: After the End of the World, “they dug in their memories for the one day. for some of them it was a couple of days per month. rock-bottom days. the days in their lives when the world had already ended. they thought back. and asked: what did we each do then? … when we knew there would be no tomorrow. what did we each do then? how did we keep breathing past it (because we are the ones that did). they dug for those memories and stacked them in a row. that’s how. that’s how we learned to get through this.” If you search your own memories for how you survived when it felt like there would be no tomorrow, what did you do then? Here you are. You survived. What if you already hold the traces and tools for how to survive now as we demand the dissolution of institutions that never kept us safe in the first place?