This Summer Solstice 2022 is bringing with a great deal of positive energy: knowledge and wisdom gained and opportunities for cleansing and renewal. This Solstice arrives with the Sidereal/Vedic placements of Sun in Gemini and the Moon in Pisces. Two provocative placements for the main luminaries of our consciousness.

With the Sun in Gemini during this peak expression of the Sun’s love, it creates an opportunity for the soul to project itself in a manner associated with the intellect and curiosity. Gemini, a sign ruled by Mercury impresses upon the Sun’s projective qualities the inclination toward acquiring more information and knowledge - a hunger to know deeper truths. You may be deeply inspired to learn something new, focus on a topic of interest, pick up a book, pick up a project, or register for a course.

The Moon’s placement residing in the sign of Pisces, compliments the Sun’s desire to learn and know, by imparting the reflective wisdom that is gained through the acquisition and mindful application of knowledge. The Moon, which is reflective of our mental & emotional state under the influence of Pisces is ruled by the Divine Guru, Jupiter. Jupiter serves to remind us that knowledge obtained by Mercury’s assistance, is most powerful and useful when it is applied and expressed with wisdom gained by Jupiter’s grace. As such, the Moon takes on a guiding role in how the information we absorb into the intellect is assimilated into the consciousness and applied into our lives. Maintaining your connection to your spiritual practice, in whatever form that takes during this time will most certainly assist in the application, absorption, assimilation and expression process.

The Nakshatra Uttara Bhadrapada is nourishing this Summer Solstice bringing with it “The Power of Rain”. Whether we are literally blessed with rain on the Summer Solstice, or whether the Nakshatra expresses its shakti in a more subtle, metaphorical expression of rain by way of cleansing, releasing tension, cooling down, renewal and life giving sustenance is yet to been seen and experienced. However it unfolds, it sets the stage for a very blessed Summer Solstice, filled with live giving potentiality.