Note, if you want to know how these aspects influence your birth sign or rising sign, that’s what my horoscope is for. I covered this chart in this past Friday’s subscriber edition (available here), and give additional details in the monthly horoscope that’s coming out this week. –efc
The Sun entered Leo early Sunday morning, immediately forming a conjunction with an asteroid called Dionysus. I’ll come back to that in a moment. As the week begins, the Moon is in Virgo, and will be visible as a waxing crescent in the evening sky. We’re at the beginning of the lunar cycle; the New Moon was this past Wednesday or Thursday depending on your time zone.
Mercury is still retrograde. We will reach the peak of that cycle with the Sun-Mercury conjunction on Saturday, July 28. That, by the way, happens somewhat ominously just hours after the official opening of the 2012 Olympics in London. There seems to be a message implied, as is always the case when Mercury is making a prominent aspect coinciding with a big event. I will be covering that chart in Friday’s subscriber edition.
Dionysus was one of the most revered figures of the ancient Greek pantheon, though he barely seems to get the recognition he deserves today. Mainstream astrology has no equivalent for this point; his Roman counterpart Bacchus also has an asteroid though that too is rarely used.
Dionysus was a god of resurrection; in other words, in his myth he dies and comes back to life. That’s a nice image after what Aurora, Colorado went through last week — and all the death that we were confronted with in the news. Events like this compel us to contemplate the transience of life, and the meaning of what we’re told are ‘senseless’ events. Note, there are some interesting discussions about this incident developing on my personal Facebook page, on the topic of gun control and the perpetrator’s chart.