The Cycle.
Twenty-seven days from the last New Moon (June 15th). Thirteen nights beyond the Full Moon before it (June 29th, the Strawberry Moon). We're at the very end of the waning arc now — the last waning crescent, thin and low, two nights from dark. This is not a day for holding on. It's the day integration finally empties out, so something new has room to enter.
Ahead.
We're already living inside two retrogrades at once. Mercury turned retrograde on the 29th of June and won't turn direct again until the 23rd — so communication, plans, and old conversations are still doubling back on themselves, asking to be revisited rather than rushed.
Tonight brings the retrograde's one true aperture: the Sun meets Mercury in exact cazimi, at 6:31 pm PT — a brief, genuine clearing in the middle of the fog, when what's been circling for weeks becomes briefly legible. Neptune stationed retrograde on the 7th, a shift already underway: the veil between inner knowing and outer noise thins further, and the pull is inward, toward dreams, intuition, and whatever you've been quietly sensing but not yet naming.
Ahead of us, the New Moon in Cancer rises Tuesday the 14th — just two days out now, close enough to feel — the true beginning this whole waning stretch has been clearing space for. And the month's far horizon holds the 29th: a Full Moon in Aquarius, met that very day by the Sun's exact conjunction with newly-arrived Jupiter in Leo — expansion and faith stepping fully into the light at once.
