Summer Solstice 2021

[Jim Eshelman]

The Summer Solstice chart is what Tropical astrologers call Sun's Cancer ingress, though it has astronomical legitimacy independent of any zodiac idea. It will occur June 20, 2021, 11:32 PM EDT in Washington, DC when Sun at 4°57'52" Gemini squares the VP.

Worldwide, it's most interesting feature is probably the forming Moon-Saturn square. I've never known Tropical mundane astrologers to progress these charts but, if one were to do so, the Moon-Saturn square would become exact nearly at the end of summer, on September 14. By autumn equinox when the chart expires, the progressed Moon will be nearly opposite Uranus. - Nobody knows whether such progressions works.

But the solstice chart for Washington, DC is marked by Jupiter 1°00' from EP-a. This is highly auspicious. It mimics the even more stronger Jupiter features of the Arisolar which runs from mid-April to mid-October. Even then, a Mars-Saturn opposition is (widely) straddling the horizon (closer in mundo that it looks ecliptically).

[Veronica]

Soooooooo,

I just gotta toss this out here....
But what the heck.

I just watched Tomb Raider with Angelina Jolie (plot summary: planetrs aligning every five thousand years will activate a time machine to turn back time, and Jolie has the hero role)
and it made me think of all the horror and adventure and fantasy movies I've ever seen where there is some plantary alignment and the world is teetering on the brink of hell or heaven and mean people want to enslave everyone and gosh darn those meddling kids.....

Anyways....
I make note that with my sister and brothers celebration of life today that emotions and memories are going to be exasperated and challenging.

I will also note that in the past ten days here, larva hatched in insane numbers and my area is flooded with caterpillars, which have now utterly eaten away almost all the foliage in the park, causing what I will just say a shower of poo from the trees( please do no ask how I realized it wasn't rain). I told Sabrina yesterday after I found dozens of my old tree friends stripped naked of leaves, that they will die over the winter and that we wont have a very colorful fall because the leaves are gone.

I attribute the invasion to the half a million people who came to this park during covid, unawares that they were bringing tag a longs of invasive species.

[Jim Eshelman]

I will also note that in the past ten days here, larva hatched in insane numbers and my area is flooded with caterpillars, which have now utterly eaten away almost all the foliage in the park, causing what I will just say a shower of poo from the trees( please do no ask how I realized it wasn't rain). I told Sabrina yesterday after I found dozens of my old tree friends stripped naked of leaves, that they will die over the winter and that we wont have a very colorful fall because the leaves are gone.

For the apocalyptic sounding "the land was stripped bare," what could be better than Saturn (unless it's Saturn with Mars)? Your area, like much of the eastern U.S., is in line for very severe treatment all year with Sun's Capricorn ingress last January at Mendon Center having:

7°22' Aries - MC
8°47' Aries - Mars
8°13' Capricorn - Saturn

Then the June 13 Canlunar - Moon's most recent "chart of the week" - fulfilled on this promise with impressive precision:

18°07' Capricorn - MC
18°08' Capricorn - Saturn
18°00' Aries - Uranus

[Jupiter Sets at Dawn]

Larvae evolved to have good years and bad, and in good years, they strip the trees.
But trees evolved to have good years and bad and in bad years, their leaves get stripped.

Trees are adapted to losing all or most of their leaves. Think tornados. As soon as the caterpillars pupate, the trees will grow new leaves. Smaller, sure. Will it weaken them? Some.

But this is not an apocalyptic thing. Not this year, anyway.

[Veronica]

Your right, I did think about hurricanes and what they can do.....

Surprise of surprise yesterday at 4PM we had a freak blast of a storm that was centered right around my location!! I saw the trees go horizontally and limbs flying and crashing......and I was terrified for my kids having a tree fly through a window....

My yard was littered with debris and dead caterpillars and power was out all night. The park lost many ancient trees and many people in the area had homes destroyed but thankfully no one was hurt.