The Solstice will affect us for the next three months. It happens on 21 June‎ heralding summer in the northern hemisphere, winter in the south. It’s an astronomical event that for astrology means spectacular endings and dramatic beginnings. Life force is abundant and affects everyone in different ways. Life is not always this abrupt. This time we are facing challenges beyond our regular yearly Solstice experiences. Outside forces weigh heavily upon us. Top-down power assertions are more evident manifesting in our social, political and personal environment. It’s expressed sometimes brutally and sometimes mechanically or technically. The outcome is the same or almost the same. We are left feeling vulnerable and undermined. We need protection. And Charoite tells us we have protection. But we need to be conscious of where to direct our energies.

What we want now is what we need to take care of ourselves and the things that mater to us. Those things that are beyond identification with the material world of things and material conditions. Love elevates. And love has wings. Love is practice, is thought, is feelings and it’s everywhere. Love of the self, love of what we do, and how we spend out time. After all this event is directly linked to time and in particular circular time. As we are dealing with challenges in our life and we’re naturally feeling emotional and perhaps a bit nostalgic, about ancestors, our roots, our environment, our family and colleagues, friends and relatives, our way out is in through love. At the Solstice period we will be getting all the cosmic downloads we need to help us in our decision making and in dealing with hurt and trauma. Love and time will be our protector healer.

Flavia