"You've always had the power my dear, you just had to learn it for yourself."

— Wizard of Oz

Last Saturday's Virgo Full Moon (4:30 AM PST 5° Virgo/Pisces) has offered us a 'Brass Ring' — we just need to reach out and grab it. There are, in fact, significant opportunities presented to us this week but they aren't easy to recognize. Both the Sun and Mercury conjunct Saturn in Pisces on Wednesday of this week. The Sun-Mercury-Saturn conjunction produces a sense of restriction and pressure but we are likely to feel that pressure is extremely vague and nebulous. We may find ourselves desperately trying to figure out "What is the PLAN!?" We may be struggling to understand how to blend our intellect and intuition effectively in order to [...]

"We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."

— Martin Luther King Jr.

The week begins with an extraordinary burst of intense energy. Mars approaches Pluto on the Capricorn-Aquarius cusp as we begin this week and, by Monday evening, arrives in Aquarius. The Mars-Pluto conjunction completes by Tuesday. The unrestrained, independent, and restless energy of the conjunction is channeled through the Aries Moon on Monday and Tuesday. But also, through the extended Chiron/North Node Conjunction in Aries. The strong importance of community connection seen in Aquarius may be stirred to restless extremes by the Martian energy but can be [...]

"When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when there is no more fear, you think, speak and act differently."

— Eckhart Tolle

The beginning of this week features an encouraging Grand Earth trine with the Moon's transit through Virgo highlighting the trines of both Mars and Mercury in Capricorn to Uranus in Taurus. Mars-Mercury trine Uranus provides courage and confidence and a welcome boost of optimism. We can sense that we may indeed have the capacity to adapt to the new landscape — the 'New Era' we are embarking on. However, there are unmistakable signs that there is an undercurrent of hostility or resentment which needs to be [...]