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I write a monthly lunar forecast for a small local paper. Since I live in a rural area where people enjoy activities like hunting, fishing, and gardening, my forecast includes those activities. Even if you live in a suburban or urban setting, you can still make use of my forecast. Enjoy!

Most people are aware of the phases of the moon that occur during the course of a month. Traditional almanacs and calendars indicate moon phases and societies have observed a connection between the moon and mankind for centuries.

What many people are not aware of is that the moon transits each of the twelve astrological, or zodiac, signs during the monthly lunar cycle, staying in each sign for two or three days. Each sign has the elemental quality of fire, earth, air, or water as well as its own unique set of characteristic attributes. These elements and attributes can have as noticeable an effect on our daily activities and emotions as the pull of a full moon can have on the tides.

The summer solstice has passed and, although our daylight hours are decreasing now, the sun still sets late in the day allowing plenty of time for summer pleasures. This year’s solstice was bathed in the light of a Cancer moon and a conjunction of Jupiter, Neptune, and Chiron in Aquarius. The combination of these planetary energies has set a tone of family, health, and higher ideals for our summer. Indeed, the news reflects this back to us as our President focuses his efforts on family values and health. This may also be a time of hope, nostalgia, and dreams. Planetary influence as well as a wet spring combined to bring forth lush beauty all around us. Don’t the berries taste sweeter and the flowers smell more fragrant this year? This summer may stand out as one to remember in the years to come.

July brings two eclipses our way that may stir up the peace and calm of these idyllic days. The first is a lunar eclipse on the 7th in the sign of Capricorn. An increase in earthquakes and other seismic activity is likely for the planet and shakeups in anything structured within our personal lives is likely, too. A solar eclipse in the sign of Cancer on the 22nd places our attention on family, home, and security. Eclipse energy brings hidden things to light or brings issues to a head, so strap on your emotional seat belts and get ready to ride through an interesting month.

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Last night, my kids and I watched the movie Coraline. After having been aware of the usual slew of fast food meal toys the movie spawned prior to its debut, I anticipated a cute and mildly amusing kid’s movie. Was I ever wrong! Parents of pre-schoolers or kids prone to nightmares, beware! This is a seriously spooky film.

Coraline is a highly likable, smart and sassy girl with parents too busy and stressed to listen to her. They’ve taken an apartment in a house that is Adams-esque, to say the least. Coraline is led to a hidden tunnel in the house that leads her to another dimension where her Other Mother and Other Father are everything her real parents are not – but appearances are deceiving. A talking cat, rats disguised as cute jumping mice, ghosts of children lured to this Other World before Coraline, and extremely bizarre tenants populate the movie.

This film is a creative and imaginative extravaganza that scores five stars for visual WOW. As I write this, I find myself wishing I had seen it on the big screen to soak in all the color and amazing effects. And as I write this, I am attempting to find words to adequately express what I have rolling about in my mind concerning parallel dimensions and other things relating to metaphysics and quantum physics. But there is a very loud lawn mower passing beneath my window every two minutes or so, making it difficult to gather deep and esoteric thoughts. I’m sure in one of my Other Worlds, there is no lawn mowing going on at this moment, but I’m not able to put my consciousness there right now.

As always, the parallels between my own life and this movie are strong. When I was 18 years old, my first rental was a room in a house that was architecturally and atmospherically identical to Coraline’s home, minus the pink paint job. My room was in the movie, complete with window seat. The other tenants in the house were just as extraordinarily strange as the tenants in Coraline’s home. The whole house and its occupants were so bizarre that when I recount my time spent there to others I think they probably find me unbelievable or that I have exaggerated my story over time, like the tale of the fish caught that grows bigger with each telling.

Eventually the Other Mother reveals her true self to Coraline. She is a spider-like creature. During one scene, Coraline is being chased in a web. The spider, “She”, has lost her eyes but can feel Coraline because of the vibrations in the web. The woman who owned the home where I rented a room – her name was Jean – lived in the downstairs parlor of the house. She was agoraphobic and lived in her bed with a dozen cats chained to her bed. She had acute hearing and knew every creak the staircase made. It was a very old house with a very creaky staircase and I never was able to sneak up to my room undetected. Jean would bang on the pipes next to her bed and shout my name, or any other tenant she knew to be home, until one of us went downstairs to do as she commanded. To me, Jean was like a spider in her web and her tenants were the flies. If all our thoughts and experiences are stored in a collective knowing field, the creator of Coraline may have tapped into my memory. I’ve often thought I should write a book telling the story of all the various places I have lived, especially Jean’s house. Coraline’s pink house brought that thought from the back to the front of my mind.

Currently, I am reading “Parallel Universes of Self” by Frederick E. Dodson. It is a most fascinating look at manifestation and spirituality based on the principles of quantum physics. According to Dodson, we do have many parallel lives going on simultaneously. The life where you had never moved from your old town, left that job, married the person you broke up with, for example. If we want to slip into a parallel universe where we are having a different life experience, we have to be it and feel it and place our attention on it in whatever way we can. We are where our consciousness is; therefore, we must turn our consciousness away from where we are currently placing it and put it where we would like it to be.

The entire Coraline movie follows that principle; however, the “She” energy in the movie, who watches Coraline through the eyes of a voodoo-like doll to be able to learn what Coraline most wants (good food, attention, loving parents) so that “She” can present those things to Coraline in the Other World, where “She” plans on ultimately consuming Coraline, is entirely malevolent in nature. What if the “She” in the movie was Coraline herself – her Higher Self – accessing a parallel universe of self where her parents truly do nourish her body and spirit as she truly desired and it was all good? Well, then there would be no spooky movie that attempts to warn us to be careful what we wish for!

I write a monthly lunar forecast for a small local paper. Since I live in a rural area where people enjoy activities like hunting, fishing, and gardening, my forecast includes those activities. Even if you live in a suburban or urban setting, you can still make use of my forecast. Enjoy!

Most people are aware of the phases of the moon that occur during the course of a month. Traditional almanacs and calendars indicate moon phases and societies have observed a connection between the moon and mankind for centuries.

What many people are not aware of is that the moon transits each of the twelve astrological, or zodiac, signs during the monthly lunar cycle, staying in each sign for two or three days. Each sign has the elemental quality of fire, earth, air, or water as well as its own unique set of characteristic attributes. These elements and attributes can have as noticeable an effect on our daily activities and emotions as the pull of a full moon can have on the tides.

In addition to the usual gardening and activity forecasts that I have featured here each month, I’ve included wedding forecasts for June.

June is the traditional month of weddings. A wedding is actually a new beginning and the moon sign on the day of the wedding may have an influence on the wedding and the marriage itself. Enjoy these wedding “forecasts”, keeping in mind that the Divine Blessing of love is what unites two people as one and guides their life together.

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On April 29th, I happened to be walking in our town park when I spotted an amazing sun halo. I had seen a similar halo around a full November moon a few years ago, but never one around the sun. Noting the time on my phone, as I called my daughter at home to ask her to get the camera and take some photos, I saw that it was 11:11.

She got the camera and took some pictures and here is one. When I got home, I searched for info on halos and learned this is called a 22-degree sun halo. Further searching revealed that this natural oddity is sometimes considered to be a sign or omen. Of what exactly, is probably determined by the observer. Personally, I feel this is an omen asking people to wake up and be aware. Interesting how the 11:11 and 22 master numbers present themselves here. As I walked in the park, I noticed that no one but myself seemed to be looking at the sky and no one seemed to notice the halo. When I pointed it out to a couple who walked past me, they glanced briefly, looked at me like I was slightly weird, and continued on their way.

Is there no sense of wonder left in the average person? Have we become so desensitized to the natural beauty of our world that we no longer see something like a rainbow or sun halo as something special? I surely hope not.

Mercury is currently retrograde and will be so until the end of the month. For those who are familiar with this phenomenon, you will not be surprised by the multitude of snafus that may arise in your life concerning communication and transportation. For those aware of their own natal charts, I highly recommend checking to see where you have early Gemini, late degree Taurus in your chart and what planets you have in these signs, if any. This extra knowledge will help you navigate the month with extra care and awareness. Generally, I am not overly excited by a Mercury retro. For the most part, a heads up to be more careful in the communication/transportation areas is sufficient and a reminder that a retro is a good time to go back over old things or complete shelved projects reminds us that the retro can have benefits.

This Mercury retro seems to me to be more potent than usual for several reasons. It began in early Gemini, its natural sign, leaving behind a feeling of failed takeoff. It was accompanied by a Scorpio full moon, adding intensity. It gives me the feeling energetically of an implosion. As the month progresses, it moves through Taurus, fixed in nature and a bit slow and earthy. I have the image of ideas and dreams and objects being blown apart and then the nitty gritty clean up that must inevitably follow. Piece by piece, things will be picked up, examined, and choices must be made from a purely practical stance as to what is salvageable and what is not.

Interestingly, here in the Southeast, we have had a long, slow, drawn out spring. Just when everything was bursting out in green and we had a taste of May’s magnificent warmth and balmy blue skies, we were visited by the strangest stretch of storms and low lying cloudy grey skies and rain – from drizzle to deluge. Now and then the sky clears and the mucky ground begins to dry a bit, but not for long. Natives and old-timers are beginning to mention that they cannot recall a May like this. I have lived in this part of the country for eight years now and cannot recall a weather pattern like this. Whether the weather is having an influence on my reading of the Mercury retrograde, or whether the Mercury retrograde is having an influence on the weather, I do not know. Whatever the weather, wherever you are, slow down, delay new beginnings and negotiations if possible until June, and sort your life. Look at each piece. Take time to treat each piece that makes up the whole as a valuable individual part.

The print pictured with this post is most appropriate for the current energies. It depicts Mercury and the three Graces. Although they are three individuals, they are a single unit of energy. Mercury himself seems completely indifferent to the fair Graces beside him; in fact, something in the tree has his attention. Mercury astrologically is androgynous, non-emotional, and without sentiment. The ruler of Gemini, he bestows youthful energy, new ideas, imagination, curiosity, and inconstancy. He rules the third house of communication, transportation, local travel, siblings, early childhood education. This retrograde is telling that childlike energy to wait, and we all know how unruly a child being made to wait can be!