"Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste."

— Benjamin Franklin

We find some remarkable breakthroughs this week even though we don't quite get to a full release of 'Spring Awakenings'. Neptune's arrival in Aries, at the beginning of the week is, of course, extremely significant. Neptune has not crossed the Pisces/Aries 'threshold' since 1861. Neptune will briefly return to Pisces from October 21st, 2025 until January 26, 2026. Nonetheless, 'the die is cast' by this week's ingress. We are offered the hope of a New Beginning but there are still significant intangible, mystical — and even perhaps fanatical — elements to identify and deal with. Once Saturn joins Neptune in Aries by May 25th, a [...]

"Kiss today goodbye
And point me toward tomorrow"

— A Chorus Line - What I Did For Love
Marvin Hamlisch / Edward Lawrence Kleban

The Sun arrives in Aries this week but not before making an overwhelmingly intense, disorienting conjunction with Neptune which is at the very end of Pisces. The energy of this Spring Equinox is actually likely to feel strikingly unfamiliar, with more focus on endings, rather than any clear view of Spring Initiatives. The confidence and pioneering initiative of the Sun's ingress into Aries is weighed down by the intensely confusing conjunction with Neptune. With both Venus and Mercury now retrograde in Aries, ruled by Mars, still struggling to pick up speed in watery Cancer, we struggle mightily to express the bold, direct energy of Aries. But unfocused impatience is all that seems [...]

"Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand."

— Colin Powell

Challenges produce a significant test of our character this week. We are prone to seeing more than we feel capable of handling — we can see the problems, challenges, and obstacles clearly but the solutions are 'obscured'. But there is as much to learn from our failures as from our successes this week. Responsibility is required in order to achieve at least some control over the extraordinary emotion and confusion stirred by last Thursday's Pisces New Moon (4:44 PM PST 9° Pisces). The direct station of Mars suggests [...]