This weekend brings a justice-seeking New Moon in Libra with a brooding, Scorpionic underbelly. Libra’s ruler Venus is currently retrograde in Scorpio, a sign of her detriment, and mere hours after the New Moon she faces a showdown with Scorpio’s traditional ruler Mars in Leo and transcendental ruler Pluto in Aquarius, via a fiercely emotional fixed T-Square.

We’ve survived an astrologically tempestuous weekend, with the triple whammy of a fractious T-Square between Mercury in Mars-ruled Scorpio, Mars in Leo, and Pluto-Charon in Aquarius, as Venus stationed retrograde while in detriment in Scorpio and trined an emotional Moon domiciled in sensitive Cancer. That starts off a month with three planets stationing – Venus retrograde, Pluto-Charon direct, and Mercury retrograde.

We are now on the other side of this week’s Solar Eclipse in Leo, though we are likely to be feeling the effects for some time. I talk about this in my latest video with Liz Muschett of The Astrology Star Sisters.

“Leleākūhonua” – 6″ x 8″ drawing by Madame Ximon in Micron pen and Berol Prismacolor pencils A Blessed Summer Solstice to All! “Leleākūhonua” is my latest divinatory drawing, connected with the Trans-Neptunian Object of the same name, whose orbit evokes the migratory flight of the Pacific Golden Plover. This TNO is currently part of a Grand Fire Trine with Venus, Saturn, Lilith and several minor planets, igniting our ideals and our willin…