Solstice – Fiesta Estrellas

Is that thread a tear? Ka Malana Photography

melted dark chocolate

hand-drizzled on a candy cane

positioned on a graham cracker stick

for dream walking

hats off to the warm gingerbread baking in the oven

while we lick the frosting freshly made

messed about on our fingers, spreading icing

with song‘s flav

hearth lit 🔥 and cocoa steaming in the kettle.

hanging with that marshmallow snow outside

is the song 🎵 of the seasons lingering in the air from the records revolutions

adding to the momentum like floating clouds

the smell of pine needles and the early setting sun glowing up on the rafters

I will see the stars tonight, on this long night of 14 hrs.

butterscotch nightcap and the old Sprites

yen for more blackberry honey mead

one more toast to the night in radiant jubilation

for the

the gift of the sight,

its rising nature

the way the sun, love, air, heat, & ascension

are always lifting up.

chimes of the clock mark my optimism

for even at midnight both arms point high.

Summertime kicks off in San Diego at 3:51am, PDT, on June 21, 2014. I’ve always enjoyed summer as my favorite time of the year. Summer is always filled with so much hope and potential. As a child, I would just relish in the entire season of it and into the autumn, my second-favorite time of the year!

Looking at the chart that celebrates the beginning of the season:

I still see a weakening grand cross (looks like a square); it has lessened quite a bit. So… yes, there’s still some *creative* tension there. I will review it here. Following that, you will see an opposition (slicing through the center of the square) which is within interpretable orb, particularly Mars Opposite Uranus. Here’s a great blog post regarding Mar/Uranus Opposition. A quick note about orb – the tighter the aspect, the stronger the astrological accuracy. However, with all this Neptune energy (and my own transits), I’m not being very rigid with my orbs delineations. Also, this post is about making generalizations, so that’s what I am doing. I’m still talking about the leftover grand cross because we’re still not done with Uranus square Pluto‘s exact aspects (tightest orb), coming around for its second last *exact* aspect on December 15, 2014 (I haven’t checked for the specific date/time for San Diego yet). I wrote about it here, last year – it’s potentially what set me free from my astrology-writing hiatus for the whole year of 2012.

Corners of the Grand Cross –

Corner A:

Uranus conjunct Moon in Aries

(unexpected emotion, fiery passion, drive for genius, inspired inventions, objectivity over mind/body, anger, spontaneity, energy, excitability)

Corner B:

Retrograde Pluto in Capricorn

(transforming business-matters, opening up unexplored areas in the psyche surrounding public life)

Corner C:

Mars, with nearby transiting N.Node – orb is too wide to call it a conjunction – in Libra

(WE – balancing – scales – weighing the truth, merit of agreement – and the drive for relationship, negotiation, agreement)

Corner D:

Jupiter in Cancer

(family, abundance, world-view/philosophy, explorer, wandering heart)

Mental factors:

Mercury is retrograde and the strong Mercury/Sun conjunction trine Neptune give us more discussion around dreams and other reality-transcending topics – fuzzy thinking, idealistic or illusionary thinking, communication with angels or beings beyond the realm of the ordinary senses. For more on Neptune, click the link.

Oppositions:

Mars/Uranus (see link above)