Starcodes June 23, 2023 Heather Roan Robbins

In these high weeks of summer, the longest days of the year, the Sun in Cancer asks us to come home to ourselves. Come home to our family, to our home within, to a home we do not yet know but we’d like to reach towards. We can use these longest days to grow and ripen ourselves as if we are a tree bearing apricots.

Venus and Mars run conjunct in Leo all week and enliven arts festivals, weddings, protests, and all public forums. They can add panache to dinner on the patio with a fine wine or iced tea, grace notes feed our sense of well-being. It’s a great time to display our feelings and share a fine moment together. This romantic combination encourages us to spend time with beloveds and be open to the spark of new friendship and romance.

But we need to feel heard and appreciated in the process, otherwise we can dramatize the situation and make a big production out of anything. And when things go wrong, they can go dramatically wrong. The world is watching the submarine tragedy around the haunted Titanic, a movie in itself. The weather can’t just drop a few hailstones, it has to drop record-breaking hailstones. We don’t need to exaggerate truly difficult circumstances; we have to honor the real drama involved.

The weekend begins as a thoughtful Virgo Moon asks us to attend our garden and our friendships. Although Friday is good for details and…