Astrology for Thursday, 11 June 2020:

Today the Sun in Gemini receives a square from Neptune in Pisces. This aspect holds immense potential for inspiration and insight that exceeds our current understanding. We may feel challenged by an experience of ourselves that is more expansive and more encompassing than our limited, ego-identified self. What might you have to surrender if you were to see yourself as an immense and loving presence, witnessing your life and your feelings—as well as the world of which you are a part—with deep and abiding compassion? The Moon then ingresses into Pisces, with reception from Jupiter fallen in Capricorn. The Moon makes a square to Venus retrograde in Gemini, then a sextile to Uranus in Taurus. In our process of questioning and perhaps even relearning what we understand love to be, we may be called into this more expansive sense of self within practices of love. bell hooks writes in All About Love, “A commitment to spiritual life necessarily means we embrace the eternal principle that love is all, everything, our true destiny … loving practice is not aimed at simply giving an individual greater life satisfaction; it is extolled as the primary way we end domination and oppression.” What if love—being in love, becoming loving—is not about increasing our individual satisfaction, but rather is a revolutionary act of practicing care for others from which we are not separate? Such loving practices, hooks writes, are the primary way we end domination and oppression.