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Mars trine Saturn is such a beneficial aspect and you will want to take advantage of the support and focus it offers on June 22. The emotional and security-conscious new Moon in Cancer on June 22 contains this helpful aspect but also emphasizes the themes of the intense Sun-Pluto opposition that takes place on June 23, when you will need to stand up for yourself by stepping up or letting go.

June 22: Mars trine Saturn

You find it easy to organize and harness your capacity for discipline with this hard-working planet combo in a gentle aspect. Mars in determined Taurus and Saturn in health-conscious Virgo give you a big dose of self-control to help you quit bad habits, get on an exercise regime or create a step-by-step plan to achieve your aims. Make sure you utilize everything this aspect has to deliver!

June 22: New Moon in Cancer

A new cycle in emotional Cancer is made even more hypersensitive with powerful Pluto opposing this New Moon. In a sign of home and family, your attention naturally turns to making sure both are safe and secure. In fact, this is a great time for home and family improvement and renovation projects. In general, something needs to be let go or transformed in some way. Nurturing and nourishing are strong impulses now. So, make your favorite comfort food, volunteer at the local soup kitchen or plan a family picnic!

June 23: Sun opposite Pluto

The Sun opposes Pluto once a year, marking the midway point of the Pluto retrograde period that this year began on April 4. Any opposition is a culmination of forces already set in motion. With the Sun in homebody Cancer, and Pluto in ambitious Capricorn, it's important to assess the balance between your personal family themes with your worldly and career concerns. Pluto's themes of power help you to examine your own powerbase. Often at an opposition aspect, somebody or something in the environment opposes you and urges you to take a good look at the power-sharing in your relationships. Is it time to step up or let go? If you know what houses this opposition straddles in your own chart, apply these themes to those areas of your life.

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