Of What is Our Children’s Houses Made?
Issue 26 Volume 8          23 June 2025

You can’t legislate love… It starts in the home. If the father is not in the home, the boy will find a father in the streets. I saw it in my generation and every generation before me, and every one since… If the streets raise you, then the judge becomes your mother and prison becomes your home…  I’m a parent. I think we’re responsible for the problems that young people have. I believe that. I don’t blame them for any of it. I blame us for what we haven’t done as mothers and fathers, not sticking together as a unit.
~ Denzel Washington, actor, director, motivational speaker, and 2x Oscar winner

Astrology Monday:
Just the facts, please! 
An American icon from 60s television, hard-boiled detective Joe Friday always insists on “just the facts”.

This week’s no-nonsense forecast:
Feel like a King?
The Sun-Jupiter conjunction is a powerful combination when you can make great strides towards embracing your authentic nature. The Sun is your King and Jupiter your wise prime minister. Together they create amazing opportunity. This is particularly helpful if you want to launch a new project or path, and especially true for matters relating to home or home business, education, family, and real estate ventures. This combo helps you take the lead and assume roles of authority, but with the wisdom of compassion. In the Aditya of Indra, this time can help you overcome long-term obstacles.
Strengthen your foundation!
Saturn in Aries is a bit like a ship at sea taking on water during a storm. Knowing what to keep and what to throw overboard can be confusing. Seek a safe harbour through the healthy masculine (authenticity and generosity). Act on your loftiest goals and activate your heart chakra through nature, song, art, and devotion. This is not the time for sensuality and sense gratification, but for sensible action and sensitivity.

Quick World View
The world gets some reprieve with a helpful Sun and Jupiter. The farther we move out of Saturn’s influence, the more likely the Sun and Jupiter can bring relief and benefit through better leadership and guidance. 😊

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Dear wonderful neighbour and fellow traveller;

Children are the future. Are we doing enough to ensure their future is bright with possibility and overflowing with opportunity?

For at least a decade, I have told anyone who would listen that we must do better for our children. As a society, we have an obligation and a responsibility to hand off a world at least as healthy and prosperous as the one we received from our parents. Yet, this is the low bar; why not hand off a world better than the one we received?

Every other generation has done so. Unfortunately, we are failing to even maintain what we received. Consider this: millennials are 50% less likely to own a home than their Baby Boomer parents and when they do, they are paying nearly double. They have 300% more school debt from ballooning tuition fees that have increased by as much as 310%. More millennials live with their parents than not and delayed marriage and child rearing is the norm. And what of Gen Zers, those born between 1996 and 2010, who are in the early stages of their adult journey? They have 86% less purchasing power than Baby Boomers did in their twenties. Something is rotten and it’s not just in Denmark. 😉

There are many reasons for this travesty: stagnant wage growth overwhelmed by a spiralling cost of living, increased financial burdens related to student debt and essential services like healthcare, energy, and transportation. These contribute to a widening gap between rich and poor reducing investment opportunities for a disappearing middle class. As the saying goes, you have to have money to make money.

As an archaeologist-astrologer examining global trends, I have been struck by the steady erosion of fundamental principles crucial to both prosperity and emotional wellbeing. Seeking progress is natural to being human, but too often we sacrifice sound concepts that have worked since forever for progressive ideologies that put personal perspective and virtue signalling above universal truth. Narcissistic compassion is still narcissistic. 

Two days ago while discussing with me the state of the world, a politically liberal young woman of Gen Z shared how no one she knows in her extended circle of liberal-minded friends and acquaintances shares the extreme views so commonly expressed in mainstream media. For example, she knows of no one who supports wide open borders, transsexual surgery for minors, or abortion up to birth (recently decriminalised in the UK). What she does support is a world where everyone gets a fair chance to live as they wish without fear and uncertainty, a world where people treat each other with respect and dignity.

I believe her words hint at the root of the discord and division we experience in today’s world. I believe that most people do not live in the extremes of right or left, but are somewhere closer to the middle. It is in the middle where constructive dialogue and opposing views find fertile ground for compromise. It matters not that one is right or left, but that each is allowed to think independently.

As mentioned in this newsletter a zillion times for the past year, Saturn is debilitated in Aries for the next three years. Saturn is the ground upon which you have built your house. Is it on rock or is it on sand? Will your house fall down like that of the two little pigs whose houses were obliterated by the big bad wolf of karma or will it stand strong like that of the third little pig whose house was made of self-effort and discipline?

Let’s teach our children to build a house of effort and self-discipline. And if karma becomes too great, they will find strength in humility. And if it becomes greater still, we can always teach them to dance. You can’t legislate love… but you teach them to dance!

I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean,
Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens,
Promise me that you’ll give faith a fighting chance,
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance…dance!
~ I Hope You Dance by Lee Ann Womack (lyrics by Mark Sanders and Tia Sillers; 2000)

 🤗

David 🔆

astrologyofjoy.com


In this issue:

• Weekly Planning Forecast
• Astrology of Now
• Hero’s Journey: Free App

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