"For He maketh His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust."

— Matthew 5:45

Mars returns to make the second of three trines to Saturn this week, accented by the Moon at the beginning of the week. Also at the beginning the week, Mercury gets to the 'superior conjunction' with the Sun and begins to 'lead the way'. These developments draw our focus towards the future, encouraging planning and 'thinking ahead'. However, with Mars still retrograding, action — especially aggressive action — is not as productive as we might hope. Mars will not station direct until February 23rd, returning to [...]

"Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be"

— Toni Morrison, Beloved

Genius is stirred by this Wednesday's Aquarius New Moon (4:35 AM PST 9° Aquarius), tinged with creativity, inspiration, and intuition. We also find notes of defiance and a sense of destiny that drives independent activity. The blending of intellect and intuition is exhilarating but the New Moon's trine to Jupiter can drive our expectations and optimism to potentially unattainable levels. Our confidence may encourage us to dramatically shift course in surprising and unpredictable ways. Uranus stations direct on Thursday, encouraging this defiant, independent shift in [...]

"Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be."

— Marcus Aurelius

The Cancer Full Moon (2:26 PM PST 23° Cancer/Capricorn) on Monday of this week is extremely potent and full of both breakthroughs and breakdowns. But it isn't an ending. Only a preparatory step toward a new beginning. The Full Moon sextiles Uranus. As well, the Sun completes a trine to Uranus only hours before the Full Moon. Also, the second of three Mars-Neptune trines completes on the day before the Full Moon, which intensifies the spiritual intuition inherent in the Full Moon's Cancer/Capricorn axis. Spiritual intuition is amplified by the Moon's conjunction with Mars and trine to Neptune just hours after the Full Moon. The breakthroughs may be quite visionary, while the breakdowns are likely to be quite unexpected and may even seem to [...]