"Vanity is the quicksand of reason."

— George Sand

We reach the culmination of a remarkably well-grounded and productive lunar cycle this week under Tuesday's Pisces Full Moon Eclipse (7:34 PM PDT 25° Pisces/Virgo). This is an extraordinarily complex environment that demands we take a 'leap of faith' as we turn into a 'blind corner'. A Mercury-Vesta conjunction at the beginning of the week demands decisiveness with the potential for some rather painful sacrifices. While many things seem to be slipping away, there is an individual sense of empowerment developing. We can begin to see how our individual abilities and insights can be [...]

"The importance of art is in the process of doing it, in the learning experience where the artist interacts with whatever is being made."

— Roy Lichtenstein

This week's Virgo New Moon (6:55 PM PDT 11° Virgo) is remarkably well grounded and productive. Mercury rules the New Moon from Leo in a beneficial 'Mutual Reception' with the Sun in Virgo. Mercury is still in the 'shadow' of the last retrograde period and is making the third (of three) trines to Chiron in Aries. The Mercury-Chiron trine brings promising notes of empathy and compassion to a focused, methodical process of sorting through a myriad of inspired new ideas and awakened inspiration. There are some indications that we may be vulnerable to misplaced trust and sympathy but there are also protections that keep us from going too far and giving up too much before we [...]

" I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place."

— Maya Angelou

It is pretty hard to miss the fact that there is a whole lot going on this week! Monday's Aquarius Full Moon (11:25 AM PDT 27° Aquarius/Leo) brings a hard edged culmination to the remarkably optimistic Leo New Moon that occurred on August 4th. Certainly, the Full Moon's tight square to Uranus suggests surprising developments. However, there is also a powerful imperative to hold things together and 'locked in place'. The Fixed T-Square between the Sun, Vesta, the Moon, and Uranus centers our focus on [...]