Astrologer Pam Younghans writes this weekly astrological journal based on planetary influences, and offers perspectives and insights to assist you in making the best use of current energies. This column is not intended as prediction. Your own experience will be more specifically defined by transits to your personal chart.
Aspects of Note this Week:

All times listed are Pacific Standard Time. For Eastern Time, add 3 hours; Add 7 hours for Universal Time (UT), but add 8 hours for BST.

Monday: Mercury semisquare Mars
Tuesday: Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto, Mars square Pluto
Wednesday: Saturn sextile Ceres, Mercury quincunx Ceres, Mercury square Saturn, Jupiter sesquiquadrate Ceres, Sun sextile Chiron
Thursday: Mercury sextile Chiron
Friday: Sun conjunct Mercury, Mars semisquare Saturn, Mercury sextile Eris
Saturday: Sun sextile Eris
Sunday: Venus square Neptune, Venus enters Cancer

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THE MARS EFFECT: As we journey through the rest of 2024, the planet Mars will be a major player in our shared experience, due to making hard aspects to each of the five outer planets. As each of these aspects becomes exact, we can expect to see an increase in tensions, perhaps accompanied by fireworks.

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Astrologer Pam Younghans writes this weekly astrological journal based on planetary influences, and offers perspectives and insights to assist you in making the best use of current energies. This column is not intended as prediction. Your own experience will be more specifically defined by transits to your personal chart.
Aspects of Note this Week:

All times listed are Pacific Standard Time. For Eastern Time, add 3 hours; Add 7 hours for Universal Time (UT), but add 8 hours for BST.

Monday: Mercury enters Gemini, Mercury trine Pluto
Tuesday: Mercury conjunct Jupiter, Sun conjunct Venus
Wednesday: No major aspects are exact today
Thursday: New Moon 5:37 a.m. PDT 16 Gemini 17, Mercury semisquare Chiron, Sun sesquiquadrate Pluto
Friday: No major aspects are exact today
Saturday: Venus square Saturn, Mercury semisquare Eris, Mars enters Taurus
Sunday: Sun square Saturn

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SOLAR FLARES: As the month of June gets underway, solar flare activity is escalating once again. In the past 48 hours (at the time of this writing on Sunday, June 2), the sun has erupted with three X-class solar flares (the strongest magnitude), three moderate M-class flares, and more than 30 minor C-class flares. 

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Astrologer Pam Younghans writes this weekly astrological journal based on planetary influences, and offers perspectives and insights to assist you in making the best use of current energies. This column is not intended as prediction. Your own experience will be more specifically defined by transits to your personal chart.
Aspects of Note this Week:

All times listed are Pacific Standard Time. For Eastern Time, add 3 hours; Add 7 hours for Universal Time (UT), but add 8 hours for BST.

Monday: Mercury sextile Saturn, Mars square Ceres
Tuesday: No major aspects are exact today
Wednesday: Mercury trine Ceres, Venus semisquare Mars, Venus semisquare Chiron, Mars conjunct Chiron
Thursday: Sun semisquare Eris, Mercury conjunct Uranus
Friday: Venus semisquare Eris
Saturday: No major aspects are exact today
Sunday: Mars conjunct Eris, Jupiter trine Pluto, Mercury sextile Neptune

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JUPITER & PLUTO: Jupiter entered the airy, mental sign of Gemini on May 25. Over the next 12 months, the Great Planet will be magnifying our awareness of those areas of life that fall under the jurisdiction of The Twins. These areas include communications and the news, facts and fictions, travel and transport, trade and treaties, schools and learning, the nervous system and memory, and events that occur in our local environs and neighborhoods.

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Astrologer Pam Younghans writes this weekly astrological journal based on planetary influences, and offers perspectives and insights to assist you in making the best use of current energies. This column is not intended as prediction. Your own experience will be more specifically defined by transits to your personal chart.
Aspects of Note this Week:

All times listed are Pacific Standard Time. For Eastern Time, add 3 hours; Add 7 hours for Universal Time (UT), but add 8 hours for BST.

Monday: Sun enters Gemini 5:59 a.m. PDT
Tuesday: Sun semisquare Mars
Wednesday: Sun trine Pluto
Thursday: Venus conjunct Jupiter, Venus sextile Neptune, Full Moon 6:52 a.m. PDT (02 Sagittarius 55), Venus enters Gemini
Friday: No major aspects are exact today
Saturday: Venus trine Pluto, Mercury semisquare Neptune, Jupiter enters Gemini
Sunday: No major aspects are exact today

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JUPITER RULES: The planet Jupiter plays a major role in our experience of the energies this coming week. The Full Moon on Thursday is in Sagittarius, the sign that Jupiter "rules" (is strongly affiliated with), and the giant planet changes signs on Saturday when it departs Taurus and enters Gemini.

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Astrologer Pam Younghans writes this weekly astrological journal based on planetary influences, and offers perspectives and insights to assist you in making the best use of current energies. This column is not intended as prediction. Your own experience will be more specifically defined by transits to your personal chart.
Aspects of Note this Week:

All times listed are Pacific Standard Time. For Eastern Time, add 3 hours; Add 7 hours for Universal Time (UT), but add 8 hours for BST.

Monday: Sun conjunct Uranus, Venus sextile Saturn
Tuesday: No major aspects are exact today
Wednesday: Mercury enters Taurus
Thursday: Chiron square Ceres, Venus trine Ceres
Friday: Mercury square Pluto, Mars semisquare Jupiter, Mercury semisquare Saturn
Saturday: Venus conjunct Uranus, Sun conjunct Jupiter
Sunday: Sun sextile Neptune, Mars conjunct North Node

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SOLAR MAXIMUM? Even if you don't monitor solar flare activity, you may be familiar with the term "Solar Maximum" or have read about it happening in 2024. To explain: the Sun has cycles of activity that last about 11 years, on average (the shortest on record lasted nine years, the longest more than 13 years). Each cycle begins at Solar Minimum, when there are relatively few sunspots and usually only minor solar flares. Activity then reaches a peak about five or six years later, when the sunspot number is high and solar flares increase in both quantity and intensity. 

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Astrologer Pam Younghans writes this weekly astrological journal based on planetary influences, and offers perspectives and insights to assist you in making the best use of current energies. This column is not intended as prediction. Your own experience will be more specifically defined by transits to your personal chart.
Aspects of Note this Week:

All times listed are Pacific Standard Time. For Eastern Time, add 3 hours; Add 7 hours for Universal Time (UT), but add 8 hours for BST.

Monday: Saturn semisquare Pluto, Mercury conjunct Chiron, Sun sextile Saturn
Tuesday: New Moon 8:21 p.m. 18 Taurus 02
Wednesday: No major aspects are exact today
Thursday: No major aspects are exact today
Friday: Mars semisquare Uranus, Venus semisquare Neptune
Saturday: Mercury conjunct Eris
Sunday: No major aspects are exact today

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NEW MOON: The Sun and Moon align in peace-loving Taurus at 8:21 p.m. PDT on May 7, marking the beginning of a new lunar cycle. Although we usually think of The Bull as being somewhat slower moving and resistant to change, this New Moon could manifest in major changes due to its proximity to Uranus and to Jupiter. And, while Taurus usually prefers comfort and simplicity, it is best not to expect life to feel familiar or to be uncomplicated now. 

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Astrologer Pam Younghans writes this weekly astrological journal based on planetary influences, and offers perspectives and insights to assist you in making the best use of current energies. This column is not intended as prediction. Your own experience will be more specifically defined by transits to your personal chart.
Aspects of Note this Week:

All times listed are Pacific Standard Time. For Eastern Time, add 3 hours; Add 7 hours for Universal Time (UT), but add 8 hours for BST.

Monday: Venus enters Taurus
Tuesday: Mars enters Aries, Venus semisquare Saturn, Venus square Pluto
Wednesday: No major aspects are exact today
Thursday: Pluto stations retrograde
Friday: Mars sextile Pluto, Sun semisquare Neptune
Saturday: No major aspects are exact today
Sunday: No major aspects are exact today

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STATIONARY PLUTO: Passionate Pluto is at peak energy now, being virtually at a standstill as it prepares to go retrograde in Aquarius this Thursday, May 2. Though small in physical terms, the dwarf planet can wield a mighty sword at times, cutting through old paradigms and initiating a process of cleansing and transformation.

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One of the most powerful things you can do is a personal clearing of your own energy field. The following is an energetic clearing that Robin Duda, the soul alchemist I've been working with from Santa Fe, New Mexico, has supplied.

This invocation uses words, voice, and movement to help clear and energize body, soul and personal will, uniting them. In this process you will be calling on your Multidimensional Self to more firmly embody on Earth and more deeply connect with love as your Source, thus supporting freedom and personal intentions.

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After returning from Africa in the early '80s, I was hired as a consultant by the Swiss Foreign Office to undertake a fascinating study of seven Western nations (Belgium, Holland, Canada, Great Britain, Norway, Sweden and Western Germany) during which I interviewed over two hundred people in more than 100 organizations to see how they were raising public awareness in their countries of the great challenge of international development.

I ended almost every interview with the question: "It's easy to see what's wrong with the world today - anyone can come up with a long list of problems. So, I'd like to ask you to mention what you see as the three positive trends in the world - in any field."

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The phrase “Get ready, get set, GO!” describes a formula for effective living. We screw things up when we leave out the middle step, by getting trapped on what I call the “see-do bypass.”