"The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."

— Sylvia Plath

This week brings an intense, unsteady and somewhat indecisive culmination to the high-energy lunar cycle initiated under the Aries New Moon (11:37 AM PDT 19° Aries Solar Eclipse) on April 8th. Tuesday's Scorpio Full Moon (4:48 PM PDT 4° Scorpio/Taurus) is highly pressurized — both the Sun and Moon create a fixed T-square with Pluto. There is extraordinary creativity suggested by the Full Moon but also an intense demand to purge unworkable or untenable elements. We may find ourselves feeling quite 'stuck' at times this week. We may be unable to [...]

"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."

— Noam Chomsky

This Monday's Aries New Moon (11:37 AM PDT 19° Aries Solar Eclipse) and the dramatic stellium or 'pile-up' in Aries this week strongly suggests new beginnings, powerful growth energy and a demand for unrestrained freedom. But the complexities and nuances of this week's Aries energy are numerous. Aries is generally not known for any interest in 'Complexity', preferring to charge ahead with complete freedom — often quite impulsively and with little concern for anyone or anything that gets in the way. Well, "Not so fast!" This week's Aries energy is quite different, as is the path and the lessons that [...]

"If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced."

— Vincent van Gogh

This week begins with a midnight (Sunday night, Monday morning) Libra Full Moon (12:00 AM PDT 5° Libra/Aries Lunar Eclipse) that is likely to produce a surprisingly significant amount of indecision and self-doubt. Sunday's Moon-Mars quincunx, just ahead of the Full Moon, increases the already fraught nervous energy and 'amped up', busy atmosphere. But once we're on the 'downside' of the lunar cycle — post Full Moon — we are prone to trying to defer to others, rather than asserting our own perspectives. It is likely to take several days for us to stabilize our confidence. But once we do chase away the self-doubts and indecisiveness, we may find ourselves going [...]