O I'm settling in now to the extra weight of the empath overload from such tides of strong emotions everywhere in the collective and playing Cassandra with all the shifting fatelines and recent cascade of precogs -- I'm steadying out less reckless than I was over the last week of knowing it was coming on Friday because precogs and then experiencing the smack of it when the news broke to the rest of the world. Not the first time this has happened to me this life. 

And to be fully honest about something, the cascade of returning/new contingent precogs that had been truncated while driving and listening to Billy Joel on Wednesday were all about Eric. The return of truncated contingent precogs involving David didn't happen until after Friday night when he saw me shining THAT level of Maenad starshine blindingly soul bright close to burning this body out but still with my internal barrier quite firm to not connect to him any deeper than acquaintance-friend zone as long as he has any connection to Siobhan. (Look, you do not allow empathy bonds to people who have bonds that feed and energy vampire or allow an energy vampire to feed through them. He has her hooks in him and either she's an energy vampire or allows an energy vampire spirit to feed through her suck life force from the living. And that's a problem with me.) Sure I had a return of contingent precogs that I had thought lost involving both of them when I brought up in a fey mood not to make assumptions about my visions. But also, they were not the same quality or quantity or intensity and they were not both on Wednesday. The intense ones on Wednesday were all surrounding Eric. 

Also thinking of which: I will NOT be heading out to Seattle in July to fetch back my sister's dog Waffles. My mom finally reached the point of understanding the necessity of doing it before September (that's a bit of a story, but not for here) and wanting to meet the new baby sooner and so my parents are heading out roadtripping westward to Montana and Seattle area end of July. So while I'll have both dogs for the last third of the month or so until they get back (and then I'm integral to the introduction of Waffles into the pack and we'll see how Waffles and Sophie get on or Waffles may come live with me for a bit since Audrey is far more chill with other dogs has no resource guarding defensive behaviors and Spock will cope. (Waffles is used to cats.) We'll see how the introductions go on the 31st and what seems best for all animals and humans involved. But anyway, that means that in July, the furthest from Madison I plan to go is to Spring Green for APT theatre performances. Now August, August is another beast entirely for my availability because in my world Leo season is synonymous with all my Irish music scene friends and while will be three weekends in a row of Irish fests shenanigans and my Irish musician friends. (Crissy and I decided Iowa not Dublin Ohio due to the extra costs for Dublin, splitting LaCrosse and Minneapolis fest, and then all 4 days of Milwaukee craziness.)  But for the rest of Cancer season, and actually all of July, I'll be staying near home in all my usual haunts in the Madison area.

Anyway. Happy new moon! Plant seeds to bloom across the next month of hope and home and love and family and the maternal energies in your life (or that you desire in your life) and the moon and the ocean and the future you want to make manifest regardless the odds and to protect the things you will fight for if cornered or threatened. That is what Cancer season is all about. And don't be afraid to let yourself cry for the catharsis of your tears to rise up stronger and ready to fight to protect what you value deepest. I haven't made it home yet to light my candles and set my own intentions (still at work) but I will before sunrise. (also though, remember that this new moon has harsh aspects to Eris (paradigm shifts), Lilith (wounded feminine, the feminine no), Chiron (the wounded healer, where your greatest hurts and greatest healings can happen), and the Pluto return (painful and dramatic experiences in order to bring hidden truths into the light and force profound growth/change) of the US. So at a societal karmic level, the stars have been warning for all who could read them that it's gonna be a fucking shitshow and it will get far worse before it gets better....especially because Mars in Aries (which will be squaring the moon all too soon) AND Jupiter in Aries (and what can be more explosively volatile than both Mars and Jupiter in Aries?) which is going to be...just yeah... Today was the pause and the breath and the reset before more shit hits the fan and the volatility burns even hotter. on a collective karmic society level. 

But for the personal, o but there you can work magic in this lunar cycle if you choose!  That's where you can transmute and rise like a phoenix and make whole and beautiful and your own that which you thought lost or dead or out of reach. If you choose to. The conjunction of the moon and the sun with Eris and Chiron can mean wounds and demons of whatever you're avoiding or burying or denying, or it can mean acknowledging and sitting with your past self and your toxicities and using that honesty to transmute the wounds into healing. It's all about what you choose to let it be for your personal karma. But at this time, both paths are open to every individual -- it's up to you which path you'll choose. Whichever of the two paths you choose, the path of denial/burying and further wounding or the path of acknowledgement/honesty and rebirth of healing, it's going to be oceans of emotions to wade through. Because new moon of Cancer season.)