June 2024: Thoughts and Feels
June begins with a vitalising Jupiter-Pluto trine on 2 June which could profoundly and positively transform your outlook this weekend. Allow yourself to roam beyond what you typically expect and unearth new possibilities.
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June 2024
June begins with a vitalising Jupiter-Pluto trine on 2 June which could profoundly and positively transform your outlook this weekend. Allow yourself to roam beyond what you typically expect and unearth new possibilities.
Between 3 and 16 June, Mercury in Gemini optimizes negotiations and agreements. On 4 June, Mercury trines Pluto and conjoins Jupiter, adding influence and good fortune to whatever is signed up to. It’s the best time of the month to finalise and significant arrangements.
As Venus restarts her cycle with the Sun in Gemini on 4 June, the importance of being friendly and social for relational health and wellbeing is highlighted.
The new Moon in Gemini on 6 June is ruled by a pumped up Mercury in Gemini and squared by Saturn, boosting this lunation’s mentally refreshing impact. Set intentions to expand your circle of acquaintances. Supportive, influential figures are within reach.
The first 8 days of June are energized by Mars’ passage through the final degrees of go go go Aries. After Mars enters Taurus on 9 June, momentum can be harder to muster. 11 June is especially tough thanks to a challenging Mars-Pluto square. Longstanding tensions are liable to erupt. Aim to find constructive outlets for your anger if you sense provocation else things could get ugly.
Mercury also restarts a new cycle with the Sun in Gemini on 14 June. Let go of perspectives that no longer serve you and make space for ideas that open up your world. Be open to multiple options.
Gemini is curious about everything everywhere all at once. When Venus and Mercury in Gemini square Saturn in Pisces on 8 and 12 June respectively, intuition aids with filtering out the less favorable options. Test whether what you think is right also feels good.
On 17 June, Venus and Mercury square Neptune in sensitive Pisces before slipping into emotional Cancer. Words are no longer enough. Be guided by what is intuited rather than what’s spelled out.
A few days later on 20 June, the Sun squares Neptune before entering Cancer at the Summer Solstice. It’s a cosmic reminder to keep the faith as the Sun shines brightly on the longest day of the year in the Northern hemisphere.
Saturn is virtually at a standstill at the Capricorn Full Moon on 22 June. As Saturn starts to move backwards from 29 June, take stock of how far you’ve come and whether you still want to climb the mountain you’re on. It’s harder than you think.
Saturn represents rules, traditions, structures and institutions. With Saturn in passive, shapeshifting Pisces throughout 2024, the underlying sense of instability is hard to escape. Saturn is also success and accomplishment. In Piscean waters, achievements seem to happen indirectly in their own time and in their own way.
The work is to yield to the process and to keep going and participating even when it feels futile.
Astro Tips
Sunday 2 June
Explore wide and deep
Jupiter in Gemini trine Pluto in Aquarius
Monday 3 June
Process with intuition then facts
Mercury in Taurus sextile Neptune in Pisces
Mercury enters Gemini
Tuesday 4 June
Enjoy cathartic, mind-blowing exchanges
Mercury in Gemini trine Pluto in Aquarius
Mercury conjunct Jupiter in Gemini
Sun conjunct Venus in Gemini
Thursday 6 June
Adopt a light touch approach
New Moon in Gemini
Saturday 8 June
Choose with long-term aspirations in mind
Venus in Gemini square Saturn in Pisces
Sunday 9 June
Slow down and expect your views to be tested
Mars enters Taurus
Sun in Gemini square Saturn in Pisces
Tuesday 11 June
Sense the weight and power of your actions
Mars in Taurus square Pluto in Aquarius
Wednesday 12 June
Select intuitively for what might last
Mercury in Gemini square Saturn in Pisces
Friday 14 June
Give your mind and mouth a break
Sun conjunct Mercury in Gemi
Monday 17 June
Experience emotional and mental nostalgia
Venus in Gemini square Neptune in Pisces
Venus enters Cancer
Mercury in Gemini square Neptune in Pisces
Mercury enters Cancer
Mercury conjoins Venus in Cancer
Thursday 20 June
Attune to what is felt over what is said
Sun in Gemini square Neptune in Pisces
Sun enters Cancer
Friday 21 June
Communicate with your feelings and senses
Mercury in Cancer sextile Mars in Taurus
Saturday 22 June
Celebrate your achievements
Full Moon in Capricorn
Wednesday 26 June
Speak gently but firmly
Mercury in Cancer trine Saturn in Pisces
Saturday 29 June
Connect easily and then pause
Venus in Cancer sextile Mars in Taurus
Saturn stations retrograde in Pisces
Sunday 30 June
Get a fresh perspective
Mercury sextile Uranus
Astro Request
How do you listen to your mind and heart and honour both of them?
Your personal experience is shaped by how this general forecast connects to your own birth chart, and how you respond to the planetary influences. For astrological guidance tailored to you, email leena@leenachauhan.com.
Update on Begum vs UK Home Office
It appears that Shamima Begum’s lawyers have decided not to go to the UK Supreme Court. They had until yesterday to decide to escalate her case to the highest court in the land following last Friday’s Court of Appeal judgement that the UK government did not unlawfully deprive Begum of her UK citizenship.
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It appears that Shamima Begum’s lawyers have decided not to go to the UK Supreme Court. They had until yesterday to decide to escalate her case to the highest court in the land following last Friday’s Court of Appeal judgement that the UK government did not unlawfully deprive Begum of her UK citizenship. The news is silent on their next steps. This makes astrological sense as Saturn, representing Begum’s legal team, is still obscured by solar light.
Pluto crowns the chart for last week’s hearing showing that Shamima Begum’s return to the UK is firmly prohibited. It also shows that the Court of Appeal’s ruling is irreversible. Begum, who is effectively stateless, remains in the al-Roj detention camp in north eastern Syria [1].
When the court said its ‘only task is to assess whether the deprivation decision was unlawful’ [2] it meant that the court’s remit is restricted to determining whether the Home Secretary’s decision to remove Begum’s British citizenship was properly made, not whether they agreed with it.
The proceedings were livestreamed because this case raises serious questions about the circumstances in which the UK government can rescind a person’s citizenship. Begum was born British in 1999.
Since the British Nationality Act 1981 came into effect on 1 January 1983 [3], being born in the UK is not enough to make you British. Your mother or father must also be a British citizen or ‘settled’ in the UK at the time of your birth. What legally counts as being ‘British’ has invited further challenges since Brexit [4].
Statute provides that the Home Secretary cannot deprive a person of British citizenship if it would render them stateless. Home Secretary Sajid Javid asserted that as Begum is the child of immigrant parents of Bangladeshi origin, she theoretically had access to Bangladeshi citizenship. Begum has never been to Bangladesh and the country had already refused to have her. Former Justice of the Supreme Court Jonathan Sumption described Javid’s argument as a ‘legal fiction’ adding, ‘children who make a terrible mistake are surely redeemable. But statelessness is for ever’ [5].
The Home Secretary’s decision on Begum’s citizenship sets a chilling precedent for any citizen whose parents are not born in the UK to have their British citizenship revoked as a purely legal manoeuvre, with no practical application [6].
Sajid Javid deemed Begum to be a risk to national security when he took away her British citizenship from her. In the Court of Appeal, Begum's lawyers argued she was groomed to join Isis group as a minor. Ten days after she arrived in Raqqa, Syria as a 15 year-old, Begum was married to Yago Riedijk, a Dutch Muslim convert. They had three children - a one-year-old girl, a three-month-old boy and a newborn son - all of whom died from malnourishment or disease [7]. The Moon’s separating square from Uranus describes how harshly and abruptly the childhoods of Begum and her offspring ended. The Moon’s placement on the fifth house cusp emphasises the childhood theme. This whole story stems from a misguided childhood decision which is now coming back to haunt Begum as a 24 year-old, as shown by the Moon’s applying opposition to Mercury, her significator.
It has been said that a civilised country would not have made Shamima Begum stateless [8]. The chart for the Court of Appeal hearing confirms that Shamima Beguma was highly unlikely to get justice. Jupiter, the astrological significator for justice, resides in the chart’s darkest house and has no dignity. The natural significator for truth, the Sun, is besieged by Saturn and an afflicted Mercury, and also lacks dignity despite residing in the house of freedom. The house ruling the court judgement contains elevated, angular Pluto with Venus and Mars, rulers of the houses of slavery and imprisonment.
As Mercury and Saturn conjoined the Sun last Wednesday, Begum’s excellent legal team probably surrendered to the hard truth of this situation. The Court of Appeal’s constitutionally legitimate refusal to pronounce on matters of public policy would very likely be upheld by the Supreme Court. Begum’s lawyers have been doing their very best to seek redress for what are essentially political problems via judicial means. The judiciary are not supposed to pronounce on matters that fall within Parliament’s realm of responsibility. Saturn represents the judges as well Begum’s lawyers. All their hands are tied. It is the Home Secretary’s job to resolve Begum’s predicament, as shown by Jupiter’s disposition of Mercury and Saturn. Further legislation, which has to be initiated in and then passed by Parliament, is the only way to ensure that no-one else risks being stripped of their British status on spurious grounds.
