"We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.""

— Joseph Campbell

Impatience reaches a peak this week, stirred by the powerful dominance of Aries energy and a Mars-Jupiter square that completes on Monday. But the Moon is waning in light this week. We will eventually see a slow easing of the troubling impatience. We can begin to see that there might be 'light at the end of the tunnel' as optimism begins to displace impatience. Once we move past a Mercury-Pluto square on Tuesday, the residual stubbornness in the atmosphere may actually contribute to [...]

"People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically… No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in."

— Rosa Parks

As we move into a new lunar cycle this week, following last Friday's Aries New Moon (4:51 AM PDT 27° Aries), perhaps the biggest challenge that we face is impatience. Our individual integrity is being tested as we try move forward without becoming sidetracked. The Aries energy, led by Mars, is stirring an intense desire to take action. However, Mars makes a conjunction with Saturn at the beginning of the week which, although Mars is still holding the 'upper hand', slows down all of our initiatives. Mars has already been slowed by last week's Mars-Neptune conjunction. This week's Mars-Saturn conjunction further [...]

"Practice listening to your intuition, your inner voice; ask questions; be curious; see what you see; hear what you hear; and then act upon what you know to be true. "

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

There is optimism and idealism stirring this week — but also plenty of crisis-driven, Cardinal Sign turmoil. The Moon wanes in light and the deep, base note pulse-of-change of the Saturn-Pluto sextile slowly begins to soften as the aspect separates. The imperatives may seem to dissipate or fracture. The need for deep connection and cooperation, based on authenticity and honesty, may be lost through a dissolute impatience. Nonetheless, the Sun-Jupiter square, that was forming under last Wednesday's Libra Full Moon [...]