"The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at."

— Jesse Owens

Mars, Mercury, and Venus are all now direct. Each planet crossed a Water/Fire cusp during their retrograde motion — Mars from Leo back into Cancer, Venus and Mercury from Aries back into Pisces. Mercury is the first to cross back from the 'Water element' into the 'Fire element'. Mercury's ingress back into Aries on Wednesday hits Neptune's fog bank, suggesting both idealism and confusion. The Mercury-Neptune conjunction occurs on the first degree of the Zodiac, suggesting a great deal of inspiration aimed at making a New Beginning. However, there is little clarity or tangible action that accompanies [...]

"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 [...]