"If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things."

— Henry Miller,
Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch

At the beginning of this week, Mars moves over the 'hot spot' of 4° Leo which Jupiter notably reached last July when it initiated a coordinated series of interactions between Jupiter and the three 'Outer Planets' — Uranus at 4° Gemini, Neptune at 4° Aries, and Pluto at 4° Aquarius. Those connections have waned for the moment (the Outer Planets will make 'follow-up connections' in June, 2027 at 6° of the same signs). But Mars is working through the same connections that Jupiter already [...]

"But screw your courage to the sticking place,
And we'll not fail."

— William Shakespeare
Macbeth

The run up to this Saturday's Aries Full Moon (9:48 AM PDT 3° Aries/Libra) is fraught with Neptune's confusion — as well as deep, powerful inspiration and increasing determination. Venus forms an extended quincunx to the stationary retrograde Uranus — a connection that will be maintained through the retrograde station of Venus on October 3rd and beyond. The quincunx, from Scorpio to Gemini, challenges our capacity to fully express our deepest concerns in the midst of the uranian disruptions that will continue to keep us off balance well into next month. The basic challenge is [...]

"The road must be trod, but it will be very hard. And neither strength nor wisdom will carry us far upon it. This quest may be attempted by the weak with as much hope as the strong. Yet it is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: Small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere."

— J.R.R. Tolkien

The Jupiter-Saturn trine begins to wane this week but the connection continues to provide a remarkable level of productive balance. Jupiter and Saturn will make two more exact trines from Leo to Aries next year — April 3, 2027 and July 11, 2027 — which keeps the connection 'in play' for almost a year. This Thursday's Virgo New Moon (8:26 PM PDT 18° Virgo), in a sextile to Mars in Cancer, helps to soothe the [...]