"Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them."

— Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

Last Saturday's Taurus New Moon (1:00 PM PDT 25° Taurus) offered a surge of new energy and stabilizing growth initiatives. However, disruptions begin to surface almost immediately. The Moon quickly arrives in Gemini, just after the New Moon, to conjunct Uranus and trine Pluto. Mercury follows the Moon into Gemini, also conjuncting Uranus at the beginning of this week. The new surge of energy quickly becomes 'electric' and, for some, quite overwhelming. Unchannelled nervous energy isn't easy to tame, even though Mars moves into Taurus by Monday afternoon. New tensions begin to surface as Mars in Taurus takes aim at a square to Pluto. Although that square will take a week to complete, there are undercurrents of tension that surface almost [...]

"We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.""

— Joseph Campbell

Impatience reaches a peak this week, stirred by the powerful dominance of Aries energy and a Mars-Jupiter square that completes on Monday. But the Moon is waning in light this week. We will eventually see a slow easing of the troubling impatience. We can begin to see that there might be 'light at the end of the tunnel' as optimism begins to displace impatience. Once we move past a Mercury-Pluto square on Tuesday, the residual stubbornness in the atmosphere may actually contribute to [...]

"People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically… No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in."

— Rosa Parks

As we move into a new lunar cycle this week, following last Friday's Aries New Moon (4:51 AM PDT 27° Aries), perhaps the biggest challenge that we face is impatience. Our individual integrity is being tested as we try move forward without becoming sidetracked. The Aries energy, led by Mars, is stirring an intense desire to take action. However, Mars makes a conjunction with Saturn at the beginning of the week which, although Mars is still holding the 'upper hand', slows down all of our initiatives. Mars has already been slowed by last week's Mars-Neptune conjunction. This week's Mars-Saturn conjunction further [...]