"Tom, get your plane right on time
I know that you've been eager to fly now
Hey, let your honesty shine, shine, shine now
Doh-n-doh-de-doh-n-doh
Like it shines on me"

— Simon & Garfunkel - The Only Living Boy in New York
Paul Simon

The expansive, innovative Jupiter-Uranus conjunction completes at the end of this week just after we reach the '1st Quarter' phase of this highly active, initiatory lunar cycle. Mercury is still retrograde (until next Thursday) but has passed the 'inferior conjunction' with the Sun and will conjunct Venus and the Aries North Node, offering considerable help in [...]

"To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it."

— Mother Teresa

Mercury turns retrograde in Aries on Monday of this week and will almost get back to exactly conjunct the North Node by the time it turns direct on April 25th. This is generally a time for us to work through 're-crafting' our unique individual message so that others can better understand us. Once again, the lessons of the February Chiron/North Node conjunction reverberate, reminding us again to more deeply investigate and strengthen our unique, individual sense of self and how we 'fit in' to the world around us. There is likely to be a great deal of impatience stirred up by [...]

"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."

— Marie Curie

The Sun arrives in Aries this week — the Spring Equinox — highlighting a push for courage and self-confidence. Last week's dark shadows' dissipate. However, Mercury's conjunction with the North Node and Chiron bring new questions to be resolved. Mercury comes to the 'shadow point' of the next retrograde phase (April 1 - April 24) by Monday as it makes a conjunction with the North Node, then conjuncts Chiron on Wednesday. The residual effects of late February's extended Chiron/North Node conjunction are activated, putting intellectual power behind [...]