The Sun moves into Cancer, bringing summer to the Northern latitudes and winter to the Southern latitudes. In the North, the time has arrived for nurturance, for remembering that our mother, Earth, supports our desires and wants us to thrive.

For you readers who created spring intentions during the Spring Equinox, have you been seeing aspects of these intentions materialize in your life, or maybe you have first been planting these possibilities in your fertile mind?

With the arrival of summer, the time has come to fertilize and water these seedlings, to flesh them out by adding new possibilities, facets, and perspectives.

The 2009 Summer Solstice is really going to facilitate the deepening of these creative processes with the New Moon in Cancer arriving only a day and a half after the Solstice.

This combination of summer awakening followed so soon by the New Moon offers us two concentrated days in which to model and envision our creations.

Saturn recently went direct in Virgo on May 16, when the material world really began cooking after a time of repose since early February.