The Great Awakening vs the Internal Universe: Astrology for the Week of June 23rd

If you’ve spent any time on Instagram or certain internet news outlets lately, you’ve probably seen people throwing around words like “massive energy shifts,” or “the Great Awakening.” Conspiracies abound on whether our calendar system is so far off that 2020 is actually the famed Mayan 2012. And yet, there is an undeniable change in the energy from even six months ago, for better or for worse.

Last weekend, I called my Dad to say happy father’s day. The last time I saw him, he was just waking up from an unexpected week-long coma; just two months before that I had danced with him at my wedding. My father has always never been a spiritual person, but between his own brush with death and the widespread panic stoked by recent news prompted him to ask me, “what do the constellations say about this?”

The answer isn’t easy. Nothing in the world is actually so cut and dry, and when you’re dealing with an ancient system of symbolic archetypes, questions like my father’s require a lot of modernizing and reframing. However, 2020 has already brought some monumental transits and forced some unusual planets into the spotlight. It’s also brought the first nodal axis shift since 2018 and with it, asked us to focus our attention on very different (and perhaps counterintuitive) aspects of life.