Astrology with Salina Rain

07/12/2025

July 9-15
As we rumble, tumble and sometimes bumble through ongoing chaos, reach for whatever means stability to us, wonder and speculate about what it all means, the time has never been better to surrender to the fact reality is changing in leaps and bounds. For good and for ill. But the role we each choose to embody has far more impact than we imagine. “My mission is to create ripples in the time space continuum that results in a harmonious future.” A declaration from Julie Ryder, extraordinary ancient monolith explorer/discoverer who helps change our perception and knowledge about what we are, becomes an exquisitely timely suggestion for us all. It’s the butterfly in one part of the world stimulating a hurricane thousands and thousands of miles away phenomenon. Every move, every dream, statement, question, song, whisper has impact, and in this energy field Neptune-Saturn in Aries assure that impact travels far. Ripples in the space time continuum. Let’s make them with conscious intention is the outer planet Uranus’ divine lightening bolt dictum, as it begins its revelatory journey in Gemini over the next 7 years.

Wed 9 Capricorn Moon perfects 5 exact aspects from wee hours into mid afternoon as energies build toward Full Moon tomorrow. Uranus, Saturn, Neptune and Venus contacts manifest as tension to shift into a different gear to get necessary work done, while lunar square to Jupiter is helpful in rising above the worries, fears, feelings of overwhemm perhaps. For the most part we all have much to do requiring that higher perspective and ideally deeper comprehension of our unique role right into the marrow of our bones. Emotions for now on the back burner to enable the clear focus needed to benefit from cardinal earth sign’s support for steady grounding.

Thurs 10 Full Moon at 19th degree, Sun opposing in Cancer arrives 1:37 pm PDT in potentially rabble rousing squares to Eris-Chiron. But the Lights are readying us for more precise, responsible and ethical action. If we can put aside for now feelings of inadequacy or pessimism, urge to blame or otherwise cause injury, rewards are abundant and effectively productive. Mars In Virgo trine Moon favors a step by step approach even as Eris-Chiron fire up motivation for actions toward social justice, defense of the most vulnerable and personal situations where we’re not being seen and heard that have become too painful to endure. Making a plan with determination most favored, or implementing the next phase of a well thought out agenda, fueled by passion yet enacted with discipline.
Time to beat the drum, or whatever’s available, stomp and dance in rhythm with Earth’s heartbeat and cosmic beings Sun, Moon, Chiron, Eris, Mars. While Uranus, Neptune, Saturn, Pluto open the field of possibilities wider, taller and deeper than ever before inviting and ultimately compelling us to incorporate that new rhythm into our lives. “They urge with growing immediacy the need to draw a map, make a blueprint aligned with forces at work for the next miraculous and challenging phase. Led by the young and the old, the disenfranchised, unheard, under-valued and on the fringes.” Blessed Be. Mitakuye Oyasin. (quoted from myself in previous forecast)
Since we’re each experiencing our own completions at this lunation taking time for acknowledging and honoring whatever that is becomes important. Meanwhile we welcome even more planets into our known and constantly evolving Solar System, as Kuiper Belt (beyond Pluto) continues to reveal more aspects of who we are amidst, and in interaction with, our cosmic neighbors

Fri 11 Aquarius Moon presents another multi-faceted day from mid morning til late night in aspects with the same outer planet players orchestrating the major cycles within cycles. Complex situations in technological developments reveal ever more serious ethical questions with warnings of the dangers in looming takeover of AI. The good uses so easily overtaken and left in the dust by the maniac billionaire boys in charge. We can live our lives and create for the good of all or go along with the march to ultimate control, timing is crucial to choose. Aquarius is always about who we are within the collective and what responsibility we take in that role or not. Saturn’s in prominence now and for next few days as it’s stationing to turn tomorrow.

Sat 12 The Teacher planet’s turn retrograde in the evening at 2nd degree of Aries colors this day even more serious concerns and calls to take responsible action. Wherever we’re out of integrity with ourselves is more than evident, painfully so if an area needing attention. Personal sovereignty has been on the agenda as prime issue for each of us in varying degrees of life situations where that autonomy is threatened. Action is required to protect for ourselves and also for those with less ability to advocate for themselves. That includes the entire realm of other than human beings, crucial members of Gaia’s family. Aggressive moves to control and restrain are highlighted in the collective from the top, and possibly in personal situations. Consequences of such aggression are felt and met with growing fierce commitment to resistance. That includes the ongoing War Machine marking the end of patriarchy as the dominant word paradigm.

Sun 13 Lunar path through Aquarius, with furturism, humanitarian concerns and tech developments and crises part of our mindset, ends late afternoon. The shift into Pisces emphasizes inner guidance, dissolving boundaries into Tuesday evening. We have next 2 1/2 days to let go with more ease what feels burdensome and not aligned with core values and cherished dreams.

This weekly forecast can be heard on humboldthotair.org Wed’s at 7:15. Now also KHHA 94.7 on the dial, homegrown creativity from the mavericks, ferals and creatives of Humboldt County. Stay tuned!
For your own sometimes life changing private consult Ican be reached at 707-672-9164 text or message. Quick, one question inquiries, for a specific date or to optimize a potential move in any area of life, available for $45.

07/07/2025

" My mission is to create ripples in the time space continuum that results in a harmonious future." Julie Ryder

Sounds like the timing is perfect with Neptune just turned retrograde and Uranus entering Gemini tomorrow, July 7 for the first 4 months of its next 7 year adventure. Speaking the truth out loud has never been more potent and life changing.

06/23/2025

New Moon June 25, 2025

Buddhists say life is suffering.Taoists say life is bliss. Seems quite apparent both are true. Saturn-Neptune, representations of the two perspectives, are big players in early Aries along with Chiron-Eris in late Aries. And in particular now with their extraordinary, directed transformational fire fueling the same powerful aspects as on Solstice. At the New Moon 3:32 am on the 25th both these celestial-earthly events already have significance for the season and year ahead. This year they’re amplified as harbingers of more extremes coming up, in personal lives and in the world. We’re in the realm of outermost possibilities both for good and ill, no question about that.
The karmic qualities of this time, collective and individual, where finding our way through the mazes, quagmires and/or sacred labyrinths we’re caught in have become the most crucial tasks. The way ahead must be navigated with intention to endure, trust in our own unique role and what’s offered from sacred tradition and earth-based wisdom. Otherwise we’ll be increasingly lost and unable to comprehend meaning in the most significant events and situations we’re thrust into. This is PhD stuff for many, while so many others are working at the Masters degree of how to be in late patriarchal discombobulation, along with never before breathtaking opportunities.
The spiraling energies reaching us from the outer limits of the Solar System and beyond have been in the process of unveiling human history, freeing us from the narrow and limited perspective of Western thought. This especially as we’re 12-13 years into the “end” of the Mayan Calendar. New 26,000 year cycle is birthing, long and slow. The expansion of our Solar System neighborhood over the last many years, with new discoveries in the Kuiper Belt of many dwarf planets is a crucial part of the birthing process. The ones named for Indigenous deities particularly significant as lost wisdom of Earth’s original tribes arises again to carry us through the mayhem of world out of balance, world vibrating, at times struggling, to come back into the next state of harmony.
Moon now joins Sun and Jupiter for the beginning of the next cycle where our innate compass points to where, how, and with whom we’re most feeling at Home. And most importantly what are our deepest feelings about being Home within ourselves. This a potent moment to explore that, and to commit wholeheartedly to what we may need to exist there in peace and confidence. Connection to ancestors especially strong now, whether known or entirely unknown they exist within our bodies and psyches. Beneficial to pay attention to all coming up at this time related to those who’ve gone before. Also most crucial as well is a heightened awareness of those who will follow in the next generations. Human beings have been, some still are, oriented in this way in so many cultures globally. They’ve been steeped in the knowledge and experience of those interconnections so crucial to the well being of the species and of the whole world of relations.
Two quincunxes, or Yods, in the New Moon and Solstice charts assure tightwire tensions along with the “finger of god” points demanding and enabling authenticity, honesty, integrity and greater precision in our choice making and behavior in general.

Painting: “Truth Comes Out of the Well” by Jean-Leon Gerome. I think we can relate to the outrage of Naked Truth as she’s been tricked by Deception leaving her in the well having run off with her clothes. But the Truth is out!

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06/19/2025

AstroRain Report June 18-24
Wednesday’s Jupiter square Neptune is the last of the more extreme aspect impacting us lately with unusual level of challenges to breathe deeply, stay connected to the ground beneath, align with inner wisdom existing at the very core of every being. This passage over the last few days has been a highly significant phase in 2025’s leaps and bounds out of the world we’re familiar with. Ejected into a new wilderness we must navigate one way or another devoid of a template, map or well ordered plan. Most reliable guideposts we find perennially within, as each has a unique and crucial role in this transition.

Wed 18 Sun in Gemini and Moon in Pisces in Last Quarter square around midday generating may questions about where we are now and how we got here as part of this turning point in the monthly cycle. Referring back to New Moon May 26 and Full Moon last week helps to get our land legs in a shifting living field lush with surprises and quagmires. Afternoon Uranian influence enables a different way of looking at things that can help steer in the right direction. Moon enters motivated Aries 4:08 pm proceeding to light fires under us in multiple areas throughout the evening. We’re prone to asserting ourselves where perhaps we haven’t before, or in a new way. Caution is to be self aware while remaining committed to the good of all in every declaration, action, new plan or tactics to get things done. There’ll likely be immediate feedback if not well aligned. Jupiter’s broad and beneficent square to Neptune, exact today, pushes the boundaries of imagination meanwhile, where gifts of the ancestors and all who’ve gone before are with us in giant waves of connection, comprehension, compassion and wisdom. The most off balance and unskillful expressions of this grand aspect lie in excessive greed, aggressive tribalism, delusions of grandeur turning into feet of clay melting in a downpour. Jupiter-Neptune maintain if not for the good of all plans, projects, agendas are bound for the great garbage dump of late stage patriarchy, becoming compost for the new paradigm based on collaboration not competition. This last of the extreme squares brings extra import in terms of immediacy of what we need to learn and engage with in personal integrity and values. Just messing around will lead to no good! Time for that later.

Thurs 19 Aries Moon has no exact aspects after 12:57 am sextile with Pluto that may stimulate disturbing and/or profoundly informative dreams. Rest of the day influenced by the approaching Mars in Virgo quincunx Saturn in Aries escalating tensions. Great care advised in avoiding harsh criticisms, of self or others as the temptation for shame and blame are up. However this tightwire can be used productively in examining where we may be too rigid about work or health habits, work relationships or the need to change something about the home or work environment. Also beware any passive aggressive behaviors that can create unnecessary blocks to forward movement.

Fri 20 Summer Solstice arrives in Northern Hemisphere 7:42 pm when Sun enters first degree of Cancer, one of the World Axis degrees representing extraordinary power points in the zodiac wheel. It’s preceded by an afternoon charged up with Moon-Chiron firey collaboration intent on addressing whatever is in sore need of wise and in depth attention, followed by Moon-Sun sextile for accessing the information and most relevant connections required. Moon shifts to earthy Ta**us early evening before the solstice ingress making supportive aspects with Mars and Jupiter into late night. But today’s Mars quincunx Neptune tensions provide a push the next level of adjustments necessary to surrender old shoulds, should’nts and judging others from our own narrow understanding.
The chart for this annual power portal, in Northern Hemisphere an intensification of the light that heals and nurtures us deeply. Reminds us of our place in the wonders of all life of Mother Spaceship Earth. Jupiter colluding intimately with the Sun’s increased power amplifies the healing potential and more fully experiencing the generosity of our earthly-cosmic biosphere. Opportunities abound for allowing in more abundance and beneficial connection in all important relationships, family and otherwise while releasing layers of anxiety, angst, fearful expectations. We’re co-creating the next phase of a massive transformational process, might as well turn powerful mental-emotional energies into visioning the most life affirming possibilities even if not quite believing in them yet. Cancer rules psyche making this an expansive turning point in trusting intuition that ensures more confidence in making right decisions for ourselves. It also sensitizes us further to each other and how we can create more mutually supportive relationships while foregoing the ones doing little more than draining precious energy.
Sun-Jupiter make multiple aspects including stressful ones with Pluto and Saturn-Neptune with a sense of immediacy in getting right ot the point with important matters. Letting go at a deeper level is required in many cases to be able to access the juicy possibilities and richness of the moment. Dreams may be resources for what we’re called to process now in order to unload old stuff weighing us down. In any case whatever needs composting is showing up loud and clear one way or another. But that may be missed if we don’t ignore much of the distracting fearmongering used to keep us off balance and disconnected from our innate power.
The 2 planets join USA Venus-Jupiter in Cancer expanding on the themes of the People’s values and attention to how national resources are used and abused. There’s a growing (subterranean for now) sense of interconnection, commonality and a surge of ideas and visions bringing us more together in the midst of painful division. Capturing those opportunities to connect, locally and beyond, will bring great rewards. Ta**us Moon conjoined Eris-Chiron slows the march to yet another war for now, which is being instigated by Israel and US in collusion to clear out the Middle East of any people or any national sovereignty not in line with their current agenda.

Sat 21 Ta**us Moon offers a measure of calm with no major aspects, time to absorb and begin to integrate the most crucial perceptions and experiences of last several days. By late evening a sweet Moon-Venus merge assures major or minor pleasures. We’ll need it!

Sun 22 Sun square Saturn has a hard edge to it with pressure to pay attention or else. Whatever needs remaining unaddressed shows up most likely with a certain amount of pain, physical, mental and/or emotional. Saying no to what others want or expect of us that feels like a strain or entirely unappealing is best we can do today. That includes bossy or controlling behaviors on anybody’s part. Mars-Jupiter combine forces though to help discern where to say yes, where to say no, where to stop and where to go. Then late evening Mars and Pluto in a difficult pattern can be mean spirited if someone’s not letting go of rigid or hyper critical behavior. The favorable way to engage this energy is in humility while not accepting disrespectful treatment. Moon has entered Gemini earlier lightening the mood enough to be able to laugh at our own and others’ judgements, fussiness, false beliefs or cluelessness.

Mon 23 Sun’s next square is to Neptune blurring boundaries, challenging perceptions. What delusions do we cling to that must be faced and ideally resolved? These conflict aspects to Sun also impact our experiences with leadership, bosses, people in power positions by way of challenging their authority in some way. A Jupiter-Pluto quincunx demands authenticity and willingness to see into the very roots of any problem situation.

Tues 24 Sun joins exploring, expansive Jupiter in Cancer exact for wonderful opportunities in improving self care and a higher, finer level of care for all we’re connected to. All Our Relations. Vision sends us on exquisite journeys of what can be and how crucial it is to hold those visions, part of which is cherishing our unique role in nurturing the next 7 generations. Moon enters Cancer as well in the evening echoing and empowering that theme over the next 2 1/2 days. Family, tribe and the importance of respecting our own and others’ needs; finding emotional balance, honoring inner wisdom.

This weekly forecast can be heard on humboldthotair.org Wed’s at 7:15 on the Warm Gold show. Now also KHHA 94.7 on the dial, homegrown creativity from the mavericks, ferals and creatives of Humboldt County. Stay tuned!
For your own sometimes life changing private consult Ican be reached at 707-672-9164 text or message. One hour $135, 1.5 hrs $200. Quick, one question inquiries, for a specific date or to optimize a potential move in any area of life, available for $45.

06/14/2025

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sung by:Sarah Brightman

06/12/2025

AstroRain Report June 11-17
Full Moon at 20 degrees Sagittarius brings completion to significant matters, especially from a year ago, or progress wherever we’ve been putting in effort. Jupiter the planet ruling this lunation has just changed into the sign of its exhaltation, Cancer, increasing its expansive, exploring, higher mind influence exponentially concerning how best to care for self and others and nurturing young life, new intentions, projects. It’s a rich environment to dream in the very best of what we can imagine.
Cultivating a sense of belonging becomes paramount; personally, in local communities and in the global experience of who we are as a species gone haywire in the unraveling of the old and dysfunctional. Jupiter in Cancer over the next year fully supports that process where remembering our re-inhabiting true nature as humans progresses. In crucial squares with Saturn and Neptune over this time we ‘re compelled to show up as who we are as sovereign beings within the collective of All Our Relations, human and other. Taking action this coming year requires that perspective more than ever as coming together around what we want and what we need is so high on the agenda. Cannot move forward without that clarity and commitment. Ancestral lineages, both biological and spiritual, highlighted with the Explorer planet that searches for meaning in cardinal water sign. Jupiter in Cancer also enhances the greediness and grasping of those immersed in the world of the hungry ghosts which is the realm most world leaders and power players exist in.
The House placement of Cancer in personal charts is the area of the Greater Benefic’s influence rich with all the major growth potential in self nurturing on all levels and experiencing more mutually supporting relationships. Need for a better sense of security comes up in that realm, while the caution is about averting urges to grasp, hoard or exclude those we see as different. A healthy sense of tribe replaces narrow minded tribalism in the best possibilities ahead.

Wed 11 The Full Moon 12:44 am increases the great surge of energy recently activating our need for absolute authenticity and integrity as the cycle is completed. Whatever’s winding up now is of great significance as Venus-Pluto and Mars-Uranus squares indicate. Surprising turns of events to be expected with the Great Unknown we face becoming more and more of a presence in our lives. This includes explosive situations in the physical rumblings on Earth Mother and in the mental, emotional and spiritual realms as well. Dramatic events release massive energies that have been pent up, and in many modes of expression, and are crucial indicators of new possibilities at the same time blowing away the dross and detritus of the past. Focus is most beneficially toward the innovative and unusual as we respond to the chaos and destruction of what’s been most familiar.
Venus-Pluto uncovers even larger areas of institutional and institutionalized abuses in the dying paradigm of dominance/submission where the feminine and females and Nature itself have been demeaned, disconnected and excluded from power for 5 centuries of patriarchy. It’s a horrific picture but the ability to move on from here is blocked as long as we don’t take it all in. Courage and deep breathing required! But the solutions are right here within the contortions and suffering of false beliefs and brutal religious/political systems that have aggressively and incessantly separated us from our own true nature.
Mars square Uranus explodes with more earth movements along with spotlights on the truth behind major conflicts in the world past and present. Echos of Kent State and Jackson State Massacres by National Guard in 1970 ordered to fore on unarmed students and bystanders where total of 5 were killed at both events and many more injured. Those government ordered executions lied about as official story has covered up what really happened on those 2 days in May. (Kent State Tribunal led by sister of one of the fallen took their findings, that are still ongoing, to the United Nations in 2010.) Truth about Zionism and the real powers behind that genocidal movement arise more clearly now and in next few months. The international community rises in a more unified resistance to the abomination playing out before our eyes for almost 2 years. That also turns the spotlight onto the other ongoing genocides instigated, enabled, promoted, funded, supplied by US and Western powers. End Times for the War Machine of colonialism that has ruled most of the world for millennia.
Individual experiences with the most electrified and activated planets in a stressful aspect occur in personal charts where late degree of fixed signs fall (Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius, Ta**us). Going along with the surprises, shocks, changes in direction is all we can do, greatly benefited by opening up to the wild and untamed within ourselves. This leads to something extraordinary and unexpected, or something we’ve wanted but didn’t believe we could have in our lives.
6:55 pm Moon shifts into grounding Capricorn that may come with a trend for dour thoughts and expections over next 2 days but is best used for taking the next step, large or small, in the direction we’ve chosen with the greatest potentials for us. Moon opposes Jupiter an hour later cheering for the latter choice. But beware anxieties that may arise through the evening in lunar squares with Saturn and Neptune still within the wild and expansive Full Moon energies.
Relevant note to this lunation is the Schumann Resonance, a feature of the Earth’s biospheric energies, has virtually exploded to a rarely experienced degree in the last day or so impacting our systems in many ways, one of them being restlessness leading to little sleep. Awareness of factors like this may help with not wasting time on what’s wrong with me and moving through it, ideally determined to channel the boosted energies into the highest purposes.

Thurs 12 Early aspects with Moon-Venus and Mercury can add to the steadying influence of Capricorn but there’s a great need for including patience with our own and others’ flaws and communicating that caring attitude. Authoritarianism cannot take hold completely as long as we the people remain in touch with our hearts and when resisting and protesting be focused on addressing the power players, not the minions who do their bidding. And removing financial support for the worst companies implementing the increasing controls on us has proven to be the most non-violently effective while being vocal about why we make that choice. As much as possible, even within the environment of major dependence on those very companies. Every little act of resistance counts.

Fri 13 Friday’s Capricorn Moon favors nose to the grindstone using this earthy, restrained and disciplined energy field for progress in the most mundane or challenging tasks.

Sat 14 Luna’s Aquarius ingress very early shifts atmospheric conditions significantly as we’re much more inclined toward the new and unusual, the weird, wild and what’s taboo. Curiouser and curiouser as the day unfolds in lunar aspects to Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Pluto all before noon. Liberation from the known or from where we’ve been stuck is an Aquarian quality that may be worked with through late Monday morning. Meanwhile Mars is approaching an exact square to Uranus by 2:47 am Sunday, with the explosive dynamic of the 2 planets representing upward and outward energy movement impacting today and tomorrow

Sun 15 Mars-Uranus mean business when it comes to actions and events where huge amounts of energy are released with the ultimate purpose of liberation from what must change or be changed here and now. If we haven’t been going along with needed changes up to now there may be shocks to an extreme. But as we’ve been preparing for this next phase it can be experienced as brilliant breakthroughs, release and rejuvenation. Caution advised to avoid situations and encounters with the potential for angry confrontations or irrational, extreme behaviors. As well steering clear of risky places and situations since this combination means accidents are likely as are especially dramatic quakes and eruptions.

Mon 16 Moon’s morning engagement with the Mars-Uranus square revisits the mayhem and brilliance of the weekend’s goings on. Then a shift to water sign PIsces late morniing softens the field wile Moon trine Jupiter in the afternoon amplifies the finer feelings of love, compassion, inclusiveness or may stimulate out of control emotions if not paying attention to our own feelings and needs.

Tues 17 Sun sextile Chiron combines the quest for the most elevating ideas and ways to communicate them. Must go along with the willingness to speak about painful areas needing to be addressed either within ourselves or in relationships. Mars enters Virgo today into the first week of August, a very restrained condition for the planet of action and motivation. We’re called to be more precise and paying attention to details, to all components of the work we do. Special attention may be required in matters of health and well being, improving work environments, relationships with co-workers, methods and tools used for getting things done. Meanhwile Pisces Moon advises relaxing into the work and staying attuned to inner wisdom ad guidance.

This weekly forecast can be heard on humboldthotair.org Wed’s at 7:15 on the Warm Gold show. Now also KHHA 94.7 on the dial, homegrown creativity from the mavericks, ferals and creatives of Humboldt County. Stay tuned!
For your own sometimes life changing private consult Ican be reached at 707-672-9164 text or message. One hour $135, 1.5 hrs $200. Quick, one question inquiries, for a specific date or to optimize a potential move in any area of life, available for $45.