"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 [...]

"Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose."

— Zora Neale Hurston

The week begins under a remarkably optimistic Leo New Moon (11:25 AM PDT 27° Aquarius/Leo) which sextiles a forming Mars-Jupiter conjunction. However, the optimism may not be terribly well grounded. Mercury stations to go retrograde just after the New Moon. As well, Venus arrives in Virgo. Perhaps most notable, Vesta is forming a trine to the stationary Chiron which will complete by the end of the week. The Vesta/Chiron interaction is quite mystical, slicing through old perspectives and opening us up to brand new ideas. As Mercury's retrograde journey begins [...]