Sivan 5783: Meshane Makom, Meshane Mazal (“Change Your Place, Change Your Luck”)
CHODESH SIVAN 5783 (May 21 – June 19, 2023)
Chodesh Sivan and the season of travel is upon us! Sivan’s Tribal Ruler, Zevulon, traversed the shores, inlets, cities, and towns of the eastern Mediterranean by ship, acquainting himself with all manner of peoples and trading goods with them. Returning home with both increased knowledge and increased wealth, Zevulon understood that diverse connections multiply opportunities.
Gemini, the Mutable Air constellation associated with Chodesh Sivan, facilitates every kind of communicative connectivity. Change is Gemini’s byword; change is a response to the integration of new information. What facts are you digesting which help you to understand that changing your “luck” (in Hebrew mazal, literally, constellations) involves changing your place?
The opposition of Mars/Ma’adim in Leo to retrograde Pluto in Aquarius, with Jupiter/Tzedek in Taurus making a Fixed T-Square on Shabbos Parshat BaMidbar and Rosh Chodesh Sivan sets the urgency level to high. A great deal of careful evaluation is needed over Shavuot (both days in the Diaspora!) to sift through options. Venus/Noga in homey Cancer sextiling unstable Uranus/Oron in stability-loving Taurus, the First Quarter Moon in Virgo, and the Sun square Saturn in Pisces combine to decide where to go – all the while the answer is right there in front of you. Obviously, you need to go with the flow.
The weekend of Shabbos Parshat Naso features dramatic surprises. Romantic Venus trines dreamy Neptune/Rahav, followed by the Full Moon in adventurous, freedom-loving Sagittarius, and Mercury/Kochav conjunct Uranus. Venus then enters Leo and opposes retrograde Pluto, setting up a theatrical-level power-play.
Retrograde Pluto backtracks into Capricorn June 11, where he’ll be compelling loose ends to tie themselves up through mid-January 2024. Saturn/Shabbtai stations retrograde on Shabbos Parshat Shelach, during the New Moon in Gemini. Wherever you travel to change your mazal during Chodesh Sivan, change for the better comes with accepting personal responsibility.
