Astrology for Thursday, 4 June 2020:

Today the Moon in Scorpio makes sextiles to Pluto and Jupiter, both retrograde in Capricorn, before ingressing into Sagittarius. Then the Moon makes a sextile to Saturn retrograde in Aquarius. These are all helpful aspects with potentially challenging or challenged planets. The Moon is fallen in Scorpio, a depression that has the potential to intensify or transform as it connects with Pluto. The sextile with Jupiter is like a supportive gesture from a friend who is also going through a difficult time. The Moon’s entrance into Sagittarius lightens the mood, but without reception from Jupiter. The sextile with Saturn encourages us to imagine new possibilities for what we mean by safety and security, and how we might cultivate more open responsibility for developing new approaches to organizing our communities and keeping people safe. In an essay entitled “Building Community Safety: Practical Steps Toward Liberatory Transformation,” Ejeris Dixon writes, “The crucial questions are: What can you help build? What conversations can you start to increase the safety of your community? What new structures or collaborations will you create to decrease your reliance on the criminal legal system? … No matter how small they are, our experiments should aspire to center the experiences of the most marginalized folks within our communities.” The creation of a world without police or prisons will require large-scale change, but it will also require small experiments in our local communities and intimate relationships in order to build new systems of safety. How can you begin or continue this work today? Consider reading Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement, edited by Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha.