"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first."

— Jim Morrison

This week's dramatic shifts and changes may eventually come to be seen as revolutionary, led by free thinking individuals. The current lunar cycle, initiated on January 21st under the Aquarius New Moon, has truly been mind-expanding, presenting a swirl of new ideas, new insights, new perspectives, as well as tangible, 'on the ground' new developments. The third Mercury-Uranus trine comes at the beginning of the week with [...]

"Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."

— Wizard of Oz 1939 Film

Mercury turns direct this week, stalled in a somewhat daunting quincunx to Mars, which has still not picked up significant direct motion. This quincunx aspect, which lasts all week, can contribute to a feeling that we are turning a blind corner, making it very difficult to understand exactly where we are going. Even though the overall mood is pushing for action, we still don't have the clear sense of direction that we need in order to make a lot of progress. The swirl of ideas and visionary planning is intense, stirred up by the general Mercury-Mars interaction. However, this quincunx is also producing [...]

"The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws."

— Walt Whitman

Each New Year represents a new beginning — a new dispensation — and New Year 2023 is certainly an especially potent example. We leave the '6' year of 2022, which suggests that we have been required to respond spontaneously to unexpected, activating events throughout this year. But to a great extent we are emerging from even more than just this past year. We are actually, finally emerging from the past three years, which have been dominated [...]