"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart"

— Helen Keller

We are navigating through a waning lunar cycle this week following last Thursday's intense Aries Full Moon (4:26 AM PDT 24° Aries/Libra). But the intensity continues to build all week, most notably due to a Sun-Pluto square on Tuesday morning and the developing Mars-Pluto opposition that won't complete until just after next Friday's Scorpio New Moon (November 1, 5:46 AM PDT 9° Scorpio). The Sun forms a YOD with Uranus and Neptune at the beginning of the week, which does offer [...]

"Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking."

— Eckhart Tolle
The Power of Now

There are building tensions this week which are leading towards next week's crisis-driven Aries Full Moon (4:26 AM PDT 24° Aries/Libra) on October 17th. The Libra Sun's desire for peaceful balance is less than helpful and seems to stifle the clear communication and emotional clearing that is desperately needed here. Libra wants to keep trying to connect with others even thought the tendency is to keep uncomfortable emotional truth 'tucked away' in order to avoid stirring things up — which winds up creating building frustration. Jupiter stations to go retrograde in Gemini on Wednesday of this week, ruled by Mercury in Libra. Mercury completes a trine to the stationing Jupiter just one day earlier. We might expect the Mercury-Jupiter trine would help us [...]

"And all at once, summer collapsed into fall."

— Oscar Wilde

This week begins with the Autumn Equinox, ushered in by the Moon's trine to the Sun and Pluto just before the Sun arrives in Libra. Later in the week, that remarkably stabilizing and beneficial Grand Earth Trine is followed up by another Grand Trine, Mercury's trine to Uranus and Pluto on Tuesday and Wednesday, which suggests feelings of confidence coupled with powerful intellectual ability. However, there is a strong and seductive undertow — Mercury's opposition to Neptune — suggesting a significant vulnerability to 'magical thinking' and deception. Venus, ruling the Autumnal Equinox, squares Pluto before heading into the 'deep waters' of Scorpio. The Venus-Pluto square suggests some [...]