Astrology for Wednesday, 10 June 2020:

The skies are relatively quiet today. The Moon in Aquarius makes a trine to the Sun in Gemini. Both in air signs, this aspect stimulates critical thinking and the exchange of ideas, offering multiple perspectives in order to develop a fuller view of the worlds we inhabit together. This is also the disseminating phase of the lunation cycle, in which we feel the impulse to share the lessons we have learned and the wisdom we have encountered. Collectively, we are on a steep learning curve as many more people begin to educate ourselves on systemic racism and injustice, alternatives to police and prisons, and the brilliance of Black and Brown people that has long gone unacknowledged and under-appreciated. As we learn together, this will require educating ourselves and one another, speaking up and listening well, and most of all, engaging in meaningful dialogue through which we can generate new knowledge. bell hooks writes in Teaching to Transgress, “To engage in dialogue is one of the simplest ways we can begin as teachers, scholars, and critical thinkers to cross boundaries, the barriers that may or may not be erected by race, gender, class, professional standing, and a host of other differences … Understanding and appreciating our different locations has been a necessary framework for the building of professional and political solidarity between us, as well as for creating a space of emotional trust where intimacy and regard for one another can be nourished.” Today we might ask: what are the resources I can share? What are the resources I need to receive? What perspectives other than my own might I center? And what dialogues—new and ongoing—can be cultivated in order to think across barriers to collective justice?