Weekly Hello

Summer is definitely here in Blighty – we just endured a third night of tropical temperatures – although I’m not really complaining because it is so good to see the sun and absorb all that wonderful vitamin D. The heat has made it hard to work though, and I’ve required frequent breaks and endless amounts of water to meet my deadlines. It’s reminded me of living in Arizona, which I did for many years, when a wall of heat would hit you as you left your air-conditioned sanctuary.

As you may know, I write my forecasts weeks in advance, so it amused me greatly to find that I had begun next week’s Gemini forecast with the words: Are you feeling the heat? As far as the astrology goes, it doesn’t get much hotter than this. Then it occurred to me that Donald Trump is a Gemini, and he is most certainly feeling the heat!

The week ahead is packed with diverse and unsettling influences. The recent spate of earthquakes certainly fulfils the promise of the approaching Mars-Uranus conjunction, but with seven more days to go until exactitude, there’s room for plenty more upheaval whether of the real or figurative kind. I note that Iran is holding a state funeral for the assassinated leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on 4 July, which certainly gives the appearance of a finger up to Mr Trump and the United States.

I shall be preparing more articles and videos on July’s powerful influences, but my feeling is that we’ve seen nothing yet in terms of shocking developments, natural disasters and surprise attacks. Saturn will be stationary during the time of the grand Jupiter-Pluto-Uranus-Neptune alignment, and this planet’s association with time casts an aura of karma and payback over that period.

In the immediate future we have a beautiful full moon in Capricorn to look forward to and the not-so-welcome prospect of Mercury turning retrograde.