Astrology for Thursday, 25 June 2020:

Today Venus stations direct after over a month of moving retrograde, but Venus will not clear the shadow of the retrograde until July 29. And during that time, Venus’ ruler Mercury will still be retrograde until July 12, clearing its own shadow on July 26. This is to say that while we will begin to integrate the lessons of this Venus retrograde cycle, full actionable understanding of what we have learned may not be available until the last week of July. Today the Moon ingresses into Virgo, in mutual reception with Mercury in Cancer. What material changes have we been describing and demanding? What are the practical implications of the questions we have we been asking? As brontë velez states on For the Wild podcast, “I’m also interested in rooting English. It is an uprooted, colonial language. We don’t know where it comes from. So, we’re speaking things and we don’t know what spells that we’re casting. We don’t know the history of what we’re saying … what we start to say becomes true. When we start to change our language, it changes us.” What are the effects that are generated by our words? What spells are we casting when we allow colonial language to pass through our bodies? How can we create change through changing our language? The Moon makes a sextile to the Sun in Cancer, providing fresh illumination and inspiration for the work ahead. And finally, the Moon makes a square to Venus in Gemini; we may begin to feel in our bodies what will need to transform as we truly integrate the lessons of the last five weeks.