Sunflowers on a Dark Moon

Blessings on the New Moon

Happy New Moon everyone! Today I thought I would share some sunflowers from my humble little garden. Each one has a little face and personality. Unlike AI, sunflowers are truly alive with real intelligence given freely by Earth and Sun and water. These ones are now in my compost heap, but they gave me joy while they lasted and I think the squirrels liked them too.

Some astrologers have their eyes on July 4, 2026, and the end of July as a time of spiraling toward greater economic meltdown and deeper global conflict. So why the sunflowers, you ask? I mean, why not? We may need them more than ever right now just to brighten the mood, or at least to give us some compost.

How so?

Mars will join Uranus in Gemini on July 2 to July 4, and Rob Hand puts it better than I can.

“No other transit is more conducive than this one to sudden upsets, rash behavior, and surprising incidents.” (Planets in Transit, p. 246)

Rather than worry about it, maybe plant a garden and eat your veggies. The New Moon is the perfect time for planting.

As we get nearer to Uranus joining Mars in July, it is also a time of both rebellion and self-assertion.

The father of permaculture, Bill Mollison, is quoted as saying, “The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone. Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter.”

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As for me, it’s not this lunation I am worried about, actually. I think the real sticky time will be July.

I recognize not everyone has even a tiny patch of soil to do this with, and if that is your situation, maybe you can make a pot out of an old container and scoop up some soil outside and water a seed in it. A seed is a tiny defiant act and during this time we all need a grounding force that keeps us from flying off in fits.

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Maybe the sunflower’s lesson is that when the world feels like it is spinning out of control, the most radical thing you can do is root down, look up toward the sun, defy gravity, and grow.

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