Here is the always insightful Lena Stevens from The Power Path.com with her channelled theme for July 2017:

“The reason I chose this theme above several other appropriate ones is to have a mantra or a reminder of how to use the energy available this month so that it does not use you. If you don’t take action, action is likely to take you.

“If you don’t just do what you have been dreaming, discussing, talking about, thinking about, procrastinating, theorizing, considering or just simply being afraid to act upon, spirit may just throw some action your way to rattle your cage, break apart your stagnation, and get the show on the road.

“Would it not be better for you to be in charge of this energy? And to focus it the way you want?

“We have some great fuel this month to finally break the stalemates that may have been plaguing our movement forward.

“The challenge will be the emotional confusion that could still be there and that is most likely related to our past imprinting.

“The truth is that we may not get much if any intellectual clarity on this emotional confusion.

“Emotional clarity is what we will be basing our actions on and emotional clarity is something that comes with connecting how you feel with what you need to do about it. The key word here is how you feel not how others feel.

“There are two main energies we will be working with this month. The energy of taking action, ‘just do it’, and the energy of emotional clarity and striving for feeling ‘right’ and good in your environment, in your relationships, with your work, your community and yourself.  The two must learn to work together.

“This is truly a month where we can make some headway in healing the age-old relationship issues between the masculine action and willful direction, and the feminine intuitive clarity, creativity and receptivity.

“Think of the sun as a big energy, an ally of the masculine that empowers and energizes us and gives us the ability to grow and move forward.

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Happy Solstice! 
 
Spare a moment for the solstice energy today, and give thanks for all the sun and its glorious life, light and warmth gives us.  As we know, Solstice is a very ancient celebration of the sun’s forces – in Northern Hemisphere it is the longest day (light), in the Southern Hemisphere it is the shortest day (light).
 
We join with all our ancestors in recognizing the power and importance of Nature, of which we are a part, and also custodian.
 
Each Solstice is a turning point, a change in energy.  At this time in 2017, there is a powerful energy surge to bring in a new cycle, new opportunities, a new vibration.  There is a ‘forceful’ almost ‘fierce’ feeling to this Solstice energy that can create irritation within, and brooding without.  This sense of forcefulness can be understood as a creative push to bring something new in… dare to do it.
 
In a way, the Solstice energy initiates and foreshadows the next six months ‘til the next Solstice.  So its good to take note of what is going on in your life, and what new thing, new idea, is trying to be birthed through you.  This happens over the next few weeks, not just today.
 
There is a feeling of uncertainty in the world, and of change, and of not knowing which way situations in your life will go.  Over the next few months there is a sense of secrets waiting to be revealed, that feeling of things just out of reach, of not being quite there yet.
 
The next six months looks more loving, more caring, a warm lovely energy flowing, it’s a more feminine energy.  To really embrace this, and feel it, you need to be open and receptive to it.  It helps to say:  IAM AND I FEEL.  It is your divine right to feel fully ALIVE, and enjoy life.
 
Our minds are becoming more and more digitalized, that is, effected by the very fast digital world; this digital world has created a vibrational field that is engulfing the planet, pulling us in, making it harder for us to remain centred, still, individual, and you.  The digital field triggers us all the time, with too much to process.  We need to become more conscious of this and choose consciously when to enter into that digital field, and when to take and make our own field, that is, remember to own your SPACE, just for you.  Take time to think, consider, ponder.  Claim your own PACE also, and connect with your own SPIRIT within.  Doing this in Nature, is especially good and beneficial.
 
Many blessings,
Claire East

Wow – once again we feel a strong overwhelm of energies. It can get quite emotional in between, followed by huge fatigue and physical ailments. Yet, these energies feel much softer, than those related to solar flares or geomagnetic storms. We have troubles to see and feel what is real. Troubles to sleep although very tired, troubles to think, to plan and to take decisions. It is common to trip, bump into people or objects and feel out of balance, losing orientation. We often crave food that does not seem to exist. Welcome to the Era of the Heart Center and completely new energy waves coming in with it, that we have not experienced before.
 
On May 24, we have entered a new era – a new cycle of 26000 years. The cycle of the heart center. And oh wow, can we feel the energies shifting. The mind just often refuses to work and has difficulties to express what is going on. Memories are fading away and linear time seems to dissolve. Nothing seems real anymore as we move from moment to moment. We feel that we have lost our talents and gifts and that our intuition is not working as it used to. And we are very tired. Our system is completely overwhelmed with all these new energies, light codes and data coming in that needs to be processed. Just know that this is normal as we get accustomed to shifting completely into a heart centered living. Find your me-time and space. Connect to nature and like-hearted people.
“The brave first movers and carriers of the Divine Feminine codes are now fully anchoring in self-love and their power.”

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Neptune, the planet of divine creativity and illusion, turned retrograde on June 16th. This is not unusual – the outer planets turn retrograde (appear to move backwards from our perspective on earth) every year. Before a planet changes direction its apparent motion slows to a standstill, just as a car does when making a U-turn.

When a planet is stationary, it captures our attention.  If that planet is affecting something in our chart, it yells at us to take notice.  It shines like a laser beam, a focused point of light streaming its planetary energies to Earth.  And right now, Neptune has the spotlight.

Neptune is an outer planet – its influence is transformational rather than personal.  It inspires us to experience a Self that lies beyond our individual personalities – to experience divinely inspired creativity, to merge with the Soul in meditation, to experience the Godhead in all of its myriad forms.  It also tempts us with fantasy and illusion, fooling us with subterfuge and undermining our ideals.

Neptune will remain retrograde until November 22nd.  During this time the Neptune influence becomes more profoundly personal.  You may feel like you are wading through a thick fog in your life, unable to make a clear decision.  You may find yourself succumbing to strange illnesses for which there are no names.  You may be more susceptible to lies and deception and less able to discriminate clearly.

This is a time to turn within with a greater focus on the inner world than the outer.  Meditation and rest is important during this time as our physical energy may be diminished, especially if Neptune is transiting planets in your own chart.  You may be more sensitive to psychic energies than other times, especially if you tend to be hyper-sensitive, so plan accordingly.

Life on Planet Earth can be more complicated when Neptune is retrograde since it can be difficult to see clearly with the eye of consciousness.  This is a time to build a reliance on the inner eye and the inner voice – the voice of spiritual guidance within that helps us to see everything more clearly.  There can be temptation under Neptune’s influence to attempt a shortcut to divinity through drugs and alcohol, but this is not advised, especially under a retrograde Neptune since the path to addiction is so much stronger now.

The same thinning of the membrane of Self that creates the challenging delusion of Neptune can also bring about tremendous spiritual growth and heightened creative inspiration.  Music, painting, writing – all creative projects will help to utilize this period for greater expansion and mastery.

On the heels of a very powerful Solstice comes the New Moon. What better way to anchor some of your new reality. What are you doing differently in your life? This is a good time to revisit the intentions you refined at the beginning of the month. Take an inventory of your reality checks; of what opened up for you, what is still in question, what you eliminated, what you committed to, and what is different in your experience of your reality? If you have gone through a painful separation in your relationships ask for and set an intention for healing. If you are experiencing great openings, opportunities and abundance, have gratitude for it but at the same time focus on setting up the details of how you will support this new reality on the physical level. As you reach for the next level, remember to get help and support from the right places.

Where will you use discipline? What practices will support you? Take some time and explore your new reality, fill in the blanks with details of your intentions and your commitments to the actions that will make them so.

Blessings,
Lena

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Written by Patricia Liles. Contact her at PATLILES@aol.com

New Moon in Cancer

Sun and Moon in Cancer ~ 2º

Friday, June 23, 8:31 PM Mountain Daylight Time

(Saturday, June 24, 2:31 AM Greenwich Mean Time)

Blessings on the Great Mother in all her manifestations.  The powerful time of Solstice brings us into the sign of Cancer.  Under the influence of this water sign, our emotional, feeling bodies are opened up, we nourish ourselves at the deepest root levels, and we connect in new powerful ways to our ancestral roots and to our clans, tribes, and families.  We revitalize and renew ourselves as we touch the extremes of the Earth’s relationship to the life-giving Sun whether in the Northern or Southern Hemisphere.

Cancer, the sign of The Mother, holds those deep reservoirs of memory that link us to the past, our origins.  Cancer is where we create our families and where our families create us.  Cancer rules the breasts, the stomach, food and home.  Cancer is where we nurture and protect the young to guarantee the lineage for the next generation.  We honor the archetypal mother for our very existence.  Cancer rules the most intimate and personal aspects of our lives.

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