JUNE THEME: BEAT THE DRUM
by Simone Butler

We're approaching the Summer Solstice, a time of powerful manifestation. On June 21st, the longest day of the year, the Sun enters Cancer, sign of roots, family and home. Cancer is Mother Earth; now we get to enjoy the fruits of our labors from seasons past.

Summer Solstice is a time of community and planetary service; from ancient days, people have celebrated it with all-night festivals of drumming, dancing and feasting. This Solstice is extra potent, as Mars (the warrior) lines up with Saturn (the taskmaster) in Leo, while Jupiter (the truth-teller) in Scorpio squares them both. Many of us will be making tough decisions and seeing big changes. This especially applies to those with planets between 7 and 10 degrees of Leo, Aquarius, Scorpio or Taurus (if you're born in 1945, 1954, 1958, 1961-62 or 1969, watch out!)

During Cancer, we learn to feed our deepest hungers. My Sun in Cancer hungers for a peaceful home. Being tormented by noisy, disrespectful neighbors has been a pattern for me. Pluto, Lord of Darkness, lives in the home sector of my natal chart. Loud battles were common in my family. My Leo father ruled with an iron fist. He'd blare the TV late at night while I tried to sleep, ignoring my pleas for mercy. Perhaps because I believed it was impossible, I've rarely found serenity at home.

Pluto wants us to claim our power in whatever area he inhabits, but doing so can present an enormous challenge. Once, I even resorted to sorcery. The throbbing bass of my neighbor's stereo was rocking the rafters of our duplex day and night. Sometimes he'd respond to my request to turn it down, but the problem persisted. So I picked up some "Do as I say" oil at Mama Roots Botanica. As instructed by the shop owner, I lit a red candle every night for a week, rubbed it with oil, and commanded the noise to stop. And it did! Suddenly, it was eerily silent next door. My neighbor's stereo had died. But my moment of triumph was all too brief-he soon went out and bought an even more powerful system. My plan had backfired, because I had not accessed my core belief and turned it around.

Four months ago, my landlady's son and daughter-in-law descended upon the property we share, and have been camped out in their RV ever since. Smoking, drinking and fighting are the order of the day. But this time I'm determined to transform the belief that causes me grief. "You could have 99 things going wrong in your life and one thing going right," says Abraham,* "and if you would beat the drum of that one thing going right, the other 99 would either have to go away, or improve, because the Law of Attraction cannot abide in your vibration something that does not match."

According to Abraham, if you don't have something you want, it's because you aren't energetically aligned with it. Conversely, if you have something in your life you don't want, it's because you are in energetic alignment with it. Here's the formula for changing your attraction: 1st) Get clarity about what you want; 2nd) Align your energy with it, and 3rd) Commit to receiving it and it will be yours.

Could you, like me, benefit from an attitude adjustment? Between now and the Solstice is the perfect time for it: we're on Gemini's turf, symbolic of the thinking mind. My strategy is to "beat the drum" of what's working in my life and claim my space, within and without. Then, by the time the Cancer energy kicks in, I'll have manifested a happy, peaceful home.

*Abraham is a group of wise beings channeled by Esther Hicks (www.abraham-hicks.com)

© 2006 Simone Butler.

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