Starcodes June 28, 2024

Think of a hermit crab that carries its home wherever it goes, soft and tender inside, with a hard shell and claws on the outside. A lineup of planets in the domestic sign of Cancer asks us about our relationship to home, however we define that. This week we can take it out of a vague feeling and get more specific; how do we feel about our family heritage and habits, how do we feel about our home, homeland, even our home planet. What can we do about housing insecurity and can we make home safe, not just for ourselves (fights arise when we stop there) but for all; that is what the Sun, Mercury, and Venus now in Cancer, want to know. As July 4th is celebrated, expect delicious picnic foods along with deep talk sprinkled with bombast around the direction we’re heading in our home country.

A series of planets appear to turn retrograde this summer, like most summers, in the dance between their orbit and that of our earth. A retrograde planet tells us it’s time to review, reassess, and catch up on what that planet represents before we launch the next round. Pluto is already retrograde, Saturn turns retrograde this weekend through November 15, and asks us to review, repair, and rebuild our organizational systems, work, our sense of personal authority and authority structures around us.

Neptune turns retrograde on Tuesday through December 7, which adds fuzziness to our thinking and…