The eclipses are back, and this time we have no less than three coming to us in a row, each two weeks apart. Eclipses arrive on new moons and full moons and are like new moons or full moons on steroids - they are powerful! They often bring dramatic, fast moving events that you don’t expect, for they come from the outside world in. Eclipses almost always give us an important piece of information we did not have before, so that afterward we feel changed, enlightened by what we learned, and it changes our perception and understanding of the subject at hand. You’re ready, dear Libra. It is only through change that we can experience progress.
It’s been years since we have seen three eclipses packed into such a tiny space of time, so it’s sure to be a month with a great deal of news. The eclipses will arrive two weeks apart, giving you just enough time to catch your breath before the next one arrives.
The last one of the three, due July 1, is the one for you to watch, for it will affect your career situation, possibly quite dramatically. Sometimes eclipses bring news a month to the day earlier (such as in May), or one month to the day later (July), plus or minus one week, so there is a chance you have already seen some of the dramatic events of these eclipses last month. Circle August 16-17 on your calendar too, as Mars will trigger the precise degrees of the July 1 eclipse on those days, and I advise you not to be traveling at that time.
Let’s get started looking at these three eclipses in detail. After I have finished telling you about them, I will briefly move on to some of the other interesting planetary events happening in this action-packed month.
The first eclipse, June 1, will be a solar eclipse and will fall in your ninth house. That house rules foreign people and places, travel abroad or a far distance, your higher education, officials in academia, as well as the media, including publishing and broadcasting positions and projects. The June 1 solar eclipse will be quite friendly, so you may emerge from the first week of June saying to yourself, “I can do this!” and indeed, you can, dear Libra!
New moon eclipses, like this one June 1, tend to bring new opportunities and happy events. If you are currently seeking a new position with the media, you may see lots of activity. Your phone will be ringing and your email will be overflowing. Keep your schedule light because it’s about to fill up quickly after June 1.
This eclipse, as said, will be in Gemini, so there’s a strong chance you’d get TWO serious offers because Gemini is what the ancients called a “double-bodied sign” that always is looking for its lost twin. There’s also a possibility you’ll travel, possibly to a city quite far from yours, or even overseas. Gemini is a fast-moving, breezy sign, so whatever happens is likely to happen fast.
Saturn will make a comforting and stabilizing vibration to this eclipse of June 1, and that means whatever happens may help you feel more secure. Decisions and actions you take, particularly near June 7 or 8, will stay in place a very long time, for you will be building a foundation for the future.
If you have an ongoing court case pending, you may hear news about it in the first half of June, too. Perhaps the opposing party will make you an offer or the court will hand down a decision, and either way it seems you will be pleased with the outcome. If you need to initiate a new lawsuit (not work on an ongoing one), the same rules apply - I suggest you wait a week after the eclipse June 1 before you file, for best results. Eclipses stir up a lot of cosmic dust and a lot of information will be hurled at you at once. You need time to sift through what you learn before you build a strategy, so take your time and then file papers.
Neptune, currently in your sixth house of work assignments, will be in hard angle to the June 1 eclipse (but fortunately not super-close in degree). Neptune might be close enough, however, to temporarily cloud your view and understanding of what would be expected of you in any new position. Ask lots of questions. If you work freelance or have your own business, find out more about the project being brought to you now, and ask which methods your client would like you to use to get the job done.
Finally, the ninth house is an intellectual, thinking house of the horoscope, where we weigh and reflect on various issues and subjects in our effort to find truth. In a month where your sector of attitude, opinion, ethics, and judgment will be brilliantly lit, you may change your mind about holding a certain stance you’d held for a long time. You may get new evidence or a piece of data that will change your view of the situation entirely.
No matter what happens in early June, if your birthday falls on October 3, plus or minus five days, you will feel the June 1 eclipse more and benefit from it, either immediately or in time. Any eclipse can bring an out-of-left-field surprise, but this one seems more likely to please you.
The next eclipse, coming June 15, will be a full moon, total eclipse of the moon and fall in Sagittarius at 24 degrees. This one will be more emotional than the solar eclipse that came earlier on June 1.
With lunar eclipses, something ends. Because a full moon is involved, you may feel a bit wistful because you may feel the passage of time. You may feel that a certain part of your life has ended and changed forever. That is a part of life, but it never makes it any easier. I find most endings hard, so I am not one to give you advice! Keep in mind that all endings release an opportunity for something new to be born soon, so it’s not really the end.
This total eclipse of June 15 may bring a big focus on your sister or brother in coming weeks, or it may center your focus on a cousin or neighbor. A sibling is the more likely subject of this eclipse, but if you don’t have one or are not close to yours if you do, you might see news with one of the other individuals I mentioned. Something is coming to critical mass, and you may be needed to help this person. Often we have no idea when a family member needs us, so keep your antenna up and check in often. It’s also possible you’ll be doing something in concert with your sibling, such as to take a trip, buy or sell a house / condo, or open a business together.
This same eclipse of June 15 may bring vital papers for you to sign, and if so, go slowly. You may want to negotiate for a little more time to reflect on the deal. Decisions made in the light of a full moon eclipse can be “off” sometimes, so don’t be pressured to sign quickly. Give yourself a week to think things over and in the meantime, go to a lawyer to get her advice. The rule at eclipse time (plus or minus one week) is this - observe, but do not initiate. Listen carefully but try not to act directly on the date of the eclipse. You want to leave a little space between your action and the eclipse of about a week.
You may travel at mid-month too, but if so, you won’t cover as much ground as you may have done earlier in the month. Instead, if you do have to travel at mid-month, you’ll more likely go to a city or town that is nearby, within the space of say, New York and Boston, Los Angeles and San Francisco, or London and Paris. Not far!
If your birthday falls on October 17, plus or minus four days, you will feel this eclipse the most and will also find a way to benefit from it.
The big eclipse you need to watch will arrive as a solar eclipse in Cancer 9 degrees due July 1. It will light your tenth house of career, and this will be the last eclipse that you will feel in this part of your chart. Eclipses in Cancer, highlighting your profession, have been coming toward you for two years - July 21, 2009, December 30, 2009, July 11, 2010, and now this one. I will also add the monster eclipse of June 24, 2010, of last year that affected many Libras from its perch in Capricorn. To say you’ve been going through massive career shifts is putting it mildly. This last eclipse might be one of the most powerful, and doubly so if your birthday falls October 2, plus or minus five days. It is a new moon, so it should open a new path, but the path has some strong obstacles that you’ll need to navigate.
Think back 19 years, to June 30, 1992. On that date you experienced a very similar eclipse at the same degree - 9 degrees Cancer. Can you recall what happened at that time? Other planets in space have since moved to new positions, but that July 1 eclipse will be almost identical in degree to the one you had back then. Perhaps you can remember a general theme that emerged then that will come up again now in a different, but related, way. Actually ALL the eclipses this month, including the ones June 1 and June 15, will fall on the same mathematical degree as the ones in June 1992, as eclipses repeat every 19 years. (Just think back 20 years and add one year.)
The July 1 eclipse will be tense, and I feel everyone, of very sign, not only Libras, will feel tension in the air. We will have major outer planets squaring off in the four corners of the sky. The July 1 solar eclipse will light your career sector and be in hard angle to Pluto in Capricorn in your home and family sector. Both will be in hard 90-degree angles to Uranus in Aries in your marriage / partnership sector and in 90-degree angle to Saturn in Libra in your first house of personality and vitality. Saturn is adding responsibilities to your shoulders, and at times, Saturn has made you doubt yourself. Don’t. You can handle whatever comes up.
Cardinal crosses are formed when all planets and (if applicable) the Sun are in cardinal signs of Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn. That is happening now. You may have to cajole a romantic or business partner, headhunter, or agent into accepting a decision you’ve made. Pluto will be exerting a lot of force from the home sector, so you may wonder which way to turn first. Everyone, it seems, will want your attention.
When a cardinal cross - one of the most energetic and forceful of all cross patterns - occurs, it means that a matter before you has to be decided now, without delay. By that I mean you won’t have the luxury of putting things aside for another time and place. Others will be quite insistent to hear your decisions. If you don’t feel you’ve considered all the elements in the situation or plan, ask for as much time as you can get to reflect on what is occurring.
I suggest you not be away on vacation during the last week of June, which will be action packed, due to a tough aspect over June 25, when the Sun and Uranus will duke it out, and June 27, when Pluto will take direct aim to the Sun. You will be feeling urgent energy building at that time. The solar eclipse will be a few days later, July 1, and things will certainly come into focus by then.
If you were born on October 2 plus or minus five days, you will feel this eclipse too most directly, but you will need to work out a plan to deal with the obstacles created by this eclipse July 1.
Elsewhere in your chart, more things are happening, but this time, my news is very upbeat. Saturn will turn direct on June 12, and this is good news, for Saturn is in Libra and has been retrograde for nearly five months, since January 26. If you’ve been trying to get proposals and deals to crystallize since the start of this year and have wondered why nothing seemed to gel, it was Saturn retrograde. Once Saturn is in strong shape, it will help all parts of your life, especially in regard to your dearest goals and also in regard to home-and-family-related decisions.
Now let’s turn to some more very good news! Your financial future looks very bright, dear Libra, now that Jupiter will make his monumental move into Taurus on June 4. Once in Taurus, Jupiter will light your house of “other people’s money” - joint resources - for a full year, until June 11, 2012. This is the first time since the year 2000 that you’ve had this exceptional advantage! You will find that credit and capital is easier for you to be granted from banks and credit card companies and if you need venture capital or an investment in your business, show your business plan because you are likely to get it, with superb terms, too. If you are in college, apply for a scholarship or financial aid for tuition - you are in a perfect position to be approved.
You may soon get a new mortgage, or if needed, you may refinance your present mortgage, and again, the terms would be excellent. Do you want a vacation or weekend home? Start to look for one - you may be able to find a bargain.
If you are one of the homeowners that are suffering because you are described as “under water” because you bought your house but saw it depreciate in value, talk to your banker, especially if you are in danger of losing your home. At long last you have the right aspects to help you find a way out. Taurus is tied to the land in many ways, in terms of real estate in general but also farming and agriculture. All home-related properties are getting a boost from Jupiter now, dear Libra. You really do have a superb outlook for finances.
There are other ways Jupiter may help you financially. You may see a big commission, bonus, royalty, or advance check, say, for a creative project you are doing, or book you are writing. In the coming year, you may get a nice tax refund or insurance reimbursement. Alternatively, you may be given an inheritance, possibly now, decades before your parent passes away, as many parents today are granting all or part of their inheritance to their children while they are alive, so that their children can use the money to make a down payment on a house or go to college.
A sum of money, usually granted in a large one-time chunk is likely to find its way to you now.
You may want to check my essay on the nature of eclipses that I wrote, called “How to Deal With Eclipses,” after you read this, your Libra forecast for June. Check the quick announcement at the very top of this page for the URL that will take you to another place on Astrology Zone.
Also don’t forget to read my new special report I just finished for you about Uranus in Aries - the URL is in the same place, with the quick announcements at the top of this page.
As a special service to my readers, as I go through June, I will be writing about the eclipses in my special “Eclipse Watch Series” on Twitter each day. You don’t have to tweet if you simply prefer to read, but not respond to, my updates. To see them, simply go to www.twitter.com/astrologyzone. You won’t have to register or tweet unless you want to do so. My tweets will be linked to my Facebook page too (“Susan Miller Astrology Zone” on Facebook), so you can read them there, too.
Let’s share stories of what happened and learn more about eclipses from the best laboratory - real life. Let’s also be sensitive to each other and be of help. Everyone will be undergoing quite a number of changes in June, both challenging ones and happy ones. In a month like this one, all kinds of news will come up. Share your stories, dear readers!
Check the summary to hear about your love life. Lucky you, it appears you’ll have someone waiting to put his or her arms around you and listen to your stories this month. Venus and Mars are going to work hard to make you super-magnetic. Check the dates I listed for you below!
Summary
This month brings the return of eclipses, so it’s sure to be action packed. The first eclipse, a solar new moon, June 1, will bring opportunities in publishing, broadcasting, or in academia. Solar eclipses are always exciting, because they open doors in surprising ways. Libra has not had the easiest time lately, so this eclipse will unlock a treasure chest of options that will cheer you.
Both the June 1 solar eclipse and the one next, June 15, will bring you a chance to travel, both far and wide. If you need to go overseas, do so during June’s first ten days. At mid-month, you may also have to settle an important matter with your sister or brother, so trips closer to home will be more convenient and appealing. If you feel the urge to take a proper vacation of a week or two, do so in June, the only month mid-year you will have time to do so.
July through mid-September will bring two hugely important career phases for you, due in part to the third eclipse, a new moon, July 1. You may start to see events shift already by late June, for the time near June 25 and June 27 brings some urgent energy to the surface. Spend all of June getting ready, say, by dusting off your resume. If you are creative, update your portfolio or reel, too.
The July 1 eclipse will be challenging, and it will have to do with your career. Do not be away on vacation at this time - you need to be back to handle whatever comes up. A cardinal cross of planets in the sky is about to create tensions, and any situation that cannot sustain itself will now collapse.
You seem to be involved in financial matters during the first three weeks too, and on June 17, financial luck will be strong, due to Mercury’s friendly contact with Jupiter and Neptune.
Romantically, Venus will be in Gemini from June 9 to July 3. Mars will be another planet dedicated to boosting your love life, and will be helpful to you from June 20 to August 3. As you see, you’ll have an ideal phase coming up for finding fun and love. If you are dating, you have started to think about making a serious promise and you seem to be moving quickly in that direction. If your partner is not ready to make a commitment to you, you will wait, but not forever. Saturn is giving you a sense of urgency that will force you to move toward a stable, long-term situation.
The Venus in Gemini (June 9 to July 3) will also give you the perfect moment for improving your looks too, from booking a salon visit to shopping for new clothes. Pay special attention to the dates Venus will move through Gemini, for on those days, you’ll find your most flattering selections.
Dates to Note for Libra
The solar eclipse June 1 in Gemini will bring opportunity in regard to travel, publishing, broadcasting, and academia.
Now that Jupiter will enter Taurus June 4 for the coming year, money matters should improve. Applications for large funds, such as for mortgage, venture capital, lines of credit, and so forth could be improved now.
Travel is becoming a big new force in your life, due to both the June 1 and June 15 eclipses. Distant travel is emphasized, although near June 15 you would go a much shorter distance.
Mars in Gemini from June 20 to August 3, is sure to extend the emphasis on travel not only this month, but also will likely do so for months into the future. You may get a client in a distant city who you have to see often, as one possibility, or take a position that requires you to travel more than usual.
Your sister or brother may be on your mind, as the full moon eclipse on June 15 will see to that, now or in months to come. You may be doing something together. Or, your sibling may be making news in your life.
Your career is about to heat up - watch the third eclipse, July 1. August through mid-September will also be important months.
Best, most romantic dates for you: 1, 2, 7, 9, 10, 12, 19, and 29.