The focus for today is:
In this movie of life, I have the power to choose how I play my role.

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The focus for today is:
I share the light I receive and find my own unique way to be of service.

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 Daylight Time. For Eastern Time, add 3 hours; For Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), add 7 hours.

Monday: Mercury square Jupiter, New Moon at 11:31 a.m. PDT, North Node enters Aries/South Node enters Libra, Sun square Eris
Tuesday: Mars sesquiquadrate Chiron
Wednesday: No major aspects are exact today
Thursday: Sun trine Neptune, Mars opposite Saturn
Friday: Eris stations retrograde, Sun opposite Pluto, Sun square nodal axis, Mercury trine Chiron
Saturday: Venus stations retrograde, Sun enters Leo, Pluto squares the nodal axis
Sunday: Chiron stations retrograde

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"THE QUICKENING" ACCELERATES: We have a powerful and pivotal week ahead of us, with several upward shifts in gear. The action begins on Monday, when the Moon's nodal axis changes signs and we have a New Moon in Cancer. Exact on Thursday but in effect all week, Mars opposes Saturn. On Friday and Saturday, the Sun opposes Pluto and both planets are square the Nodes. Because of how the nodal axis moves through the zodiac, this will be the first of three times Pluto exactly squares the Nodes over the next two weeks.

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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 Daylight Time. For Eastern Time, add 3 hours; For Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), add 7 hours.

Monday: Mars enters Virgo, Mercury opposite Pluto, Mercury enters Leo
Tuesday: Mercury square nodal axis, Mars trine North Node
Wednesday: Sun square Chiron
Thursday: No major aspects are exact today
Friday: Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn, Mercury quincunx Saturn, Sun sextile Uranus
Saturday: Venus quincunx Neptune
Sunday: Uranus sesquiquadrate Ceres

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MARS IN VIRGO: As the planet Mars transits through each of the twelve signs of the zodiac, it influences how we take action and how we express Martian qualities such as assertiveness and anger. Mars changes signs this week, entering Virgo on Monday, July 10. 

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The focus for today is:

I seek out new experiences, new perceptions, and new adventures.

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Astrological Overview: July 3 - 9, 2023

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 Daylight Time. For Eastern Time, add 3 hours; For Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), add 7 hours.

Monday: Full Moon 4:38 a.m. PDT
Tuesday: No major aspects are exact today
Wednesday: Mercury square Chiron
Thursday: Mars quincunx Neptune, Mercury sesquiquadrate Saturn, Mercury sextile Uranus
Friday: No major aspects are exact today
Saturday: Mercury square Eris, Venus trine Eris
Sunday: Mars quincunx Eris, Mercury trine Neptune

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SUPER FULL MOON: The first lunation in our new month of July is a Full Moon that occurs on Monday, July 3, at 4:38 a.m. PDT. This will be a Super Full Moon, so called because it occurs when the Moon is at perigee, the point in its orbit when it is closest to the Earth. A Super Full Moon appears larger in the sky and also is considered to have greater impact, both energetically and emotionally.

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It is the confusion over what truth is that creates fear and anxiety for so many. A large majority of people believe that certain individuals and groups are "right" on an issue and have the truth, while others are "wrong."

Of course, each individual believes that they fall into the group that has the truth. Sometimes this is taken further with the belief that those who are "wrong" are "bad people" who should be condemned and vilified. Albert Einstein said, "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."

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You may be interested (or possibly horrified) to discover you ingest and inhale thousands of tiny life forms on a daily basis.

The air and surfaces around you are home to multitudes of bacteria, fungi, viruses, mites, algae and protozoa. Your skin isn’t much better, with a complex ecosystem of organisms called commensals which aren’t necessarily good or bad, but will shift in their composition depending on where you live, the products you use and the pets you have.

Most of these creatures are generally undetectable due to their microscopic size and low concentrations. But when they find a niche they can exploit, you might notice them by their smell, or the appearance of unwanted staining and colour changes. A lot of this fungal growth is what we call mould.

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Numerous government agencies, including the FBI, Department of Defense, National Security Agency, Treasury Department, Defense Intelligence Agency, Navy and Coast Guard, have purchased vast amounts of U.S. citizens’ personal information from commercial data brokers. The revelation was published in a partially declassified, internal Office of the Director of National Intelligence report released on June 9, 2023.

The report shows the breathtaking scale and invasive nature of the consumer data market and how that market directly enables wholesale surveillance of people. The data includes not only where you’ve been and who you’re connected to, but the nature of your beliefs and predictions about what you might do in the future. The report underscores the grave risks the purchase of this data poses, and urges the intelligence community to adopt internal guidelines to address these problems.

As a privacy, electronic surveillance and technology law attorney, researcher and law professor, I have spent years researching, writing and advising about the legal issues the report highlights.

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The focus for today, and for the weekend, is:
I step out of my comfort zone and embrace change.