Written by Lisa E. Zimmerman
This week marks a significant doorway into the second half of the year. Chiron enters Taurus on June 19, followed by the Summer Solstice, setting the tone for the summer season ahead. We move from the mental hyper-focus on ideas, communications and networking into deeper awareness of your needs, feelings and what matters. Your thinking is guided through your heart.
June 19-Sept 17 – Chiron in Taurus
After eight years of Chiron in Aries, asking you to embrace your will and Authority, Chiron dips into Taurus, that is primarily concerned with security, resources, beauty and the body. Comfort, food, nature and your values are the focus.
Underneath it all is how you value your Self. This hidden driver influences much, if not most of your life, as it affects your decisions, goals and determines what you will allow yourself to receive and what you ultimately believe is possible, along with your beliefs about abundance.
We get our first taste of Chiron in Taurus for three months and then it returns on April 15, 2027 for seven years. Radical Uranus just completed its seven year tour through Taurus, creating upheaval that Chiron will follow to heal and help you integrate.
Anything that feels threatening to your security or physical wellbeing is ripe for Chiron’s activation — and medicine. How you handle what you experience is an inside job and that’s where the real healing takes place.
June 21 – Summer Solstice, Sun in Cancer (thru July 22)
The Summer Solstice occurs at 1:24am PDT as the Sun enters soft-shelled, sensitive Cancer, when feelings color (or sometimes override) your logical mind as you honor your roots. On the longest day of the year, the invitation is to pause, reflect and realign with your truth and intentions, as you stand in the light and in your Light.
With this activity, your feelings can either work for or against you, depending on whether you utilize inner prompts as intuitive cues or you react emotionally to life events. You’ve been taught to problem-solve using your mind, but due to the manipulation of messaging and info, you can no longer trust available data, labels and sources as being true. And conditioned emotional patterns can undermine you by activating old beliefs and reactions.
Therefore, in order to be in your power, you must develop the ability to feel what’s right for you via your body (gut instinct) and/or your Higher Self (intuitive guidance). Nobody knows what’s right for YOU more than you do, but you have to be attuned to your Inner Guidance to receive an accurate message.
The mind can play tricks on you and can be influenced, persuaded and exploited by people, algorithms and even AI, that know your fears and preferences. You are in charge of your “Yes” and “No,” which requires clarity and trusting your Self. If you don’t know how to do that, get help, and if you aren’t clear, wait until you are.
Cancer is focused on home (inner and physical), family, tradition, nurturing and security. With the Sun, Mercury and Jupiter in Cancer you may happily cocoon with your loved ones or soul family, preferring nurturing emotional bonds to purely social or larger gatherings.
This Solstice chart gives us a weather report for the next three months until the Autumn Equinox. The Cancer Sun is in harmony with Chiron in Taurus, indicating opportunities for healing, growth and stabilizing foundations (internal and external). Issues of scarcity and lack are top line for healing and integration, as these patterns were installed somewhere earlier in life and they aren’t serving you now.
The North Node in Pisces flows to the Cancer Sun and Chiron in Taurus, indicating that what emerges now and unfolds in the months ahead is guiding us, personally and collectively, toward our highest good. This is fertile ground. Mercury and Jupiter are traveling in tandem, supporting expansion and high level possibility thinking. The goal is to create a life that nurtures and supports you, with love, care and the support of soul family.
June 25 – Venus trine Saturn
This harmonious dynamic supports commitment and creating meaningful agreements in relationships (personal and business) by valuing your Self while establishing healthy boundaries. The key is to be realistic while maintaining structural integrity, as a Venus-Saturn agreement is meant to last.
I often suggest that my “Giver” clients become a little more high maintenance, because they lean so far toward the give, give, give side of the equation. With Venus in Leo, this is the perfect time to raise your standards and ask for what you want, if this applies to you. If you have to rationalize asking for what you want, it applies to you :))
You may turn a creative passion into work by monetizing it or take your creative gifts more seriously. All good. At its heart (pun intended), Venus trine Saturn is about honoring your value and acting accordingly, the way you want others to treat you.
It all begins with You.
June 25 – Sun square Neptune
You may feel extra sensitive and more emotional than usual, so be mindful of who you choose to be around. It is easy to be very suggestible in this receptive, no boundaries energy and your usual defenses may be down.
This is beautiful for channeling, creative pursuits, compassion and spiritual practices, but the 3D world can be harsh. You may enjoy music, a movie, a concert, time in nature, or a spiritual practice. Whatever connects you to your true essence will serve you.
Be in flow. Allow for spaciousness and communion with anything peaceful, nourishing, or inspiring for you.
If you fall into confusion, overwhelm or slip into worry, do something to change your energy. Take a walk, a salt bath or talk to a friend who uplifts you. Either relax or utilize it consciously, knowing that the fog will lift by tomorrow. This too shall pass.
This is the final 10 days pre-Mercury Retrograde on June 29. You will have plenty of time to course correct anything you’re beginning or working on over the next seven weeks at least. Which is perfect, as things will change again and again and again.
Right now, you have the opportunity for a sweet, new beginning with beautiful support. Don’t push, don’t stress, slow down (a la Mercury preparing to turn around) and trust in Divine Timing. For you and the world. Choose the higher perspective to fuel your vitality and focus on what you want to create going forward.
As life continues to unfold in unexpected ways, keep your heart open. Allow yourself to receive support when needed (it’s part of the New Era). You don’t need all the answers right now. Trust what is being revealed. And take extra good care of your Self.
The path forward may not be what you expected, but it may be exactly what you need.
As always, I am grateful for your presence on our journey together.
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“This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, the year’s threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go and becomes the future.” ~ Margaret Atwood
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“Today is where your book begins, the rest is still unwritten.” ~ Natasha Bedingfield, Danielle Brisebois and Wayne Rodrigues
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“Perfectionism is a refusal to let yourself move ahead. It is a loop — an obsessive, debilitating closed system that causes you to get stuck in the details of what you are doing and to lose sight of the whole.” ~ Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way
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“Never let fear put your dreams to sleep.” ~ Stevie Wonder
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Lisa E Zimmerman is an Intuitive Astrologer, Transformational Guide and Creator of Awakened Life Retreats, helping soulful seekers in transition create an abundant, empowered, meaningful life. It is a heartfelt journey. www.soullevelsolutions.com ❤️