"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."

— Alexander Graham Bell

We follow quite an intense, emotionally challenging, 'bumpy road' this week on our way to the activating 1st quarter Lunar Phase at the end of the week. Last Friday's Cancer New Moon (3:57 PM PDT 14° Cancer), in a trine to Saturn, pointed us towards responsibility and compassionate connections with others. But we aren't quite able to get a handle on which direction to take or what strategy to employ. Early in the week, we find ourselves struggling to balance responsibility with compassion. Ego vulnerability and emotional 'road blocks' make objectivity quite hard to [...]

"The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today."

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

As we begin to unwind the challenging messages from last Friday's Capricorn Full Moon (6:07 PM PDT 1° Capricorn/Cancer), there is a subtle but important tension between a search for emotional security and some very powerful intellectual activity that is encouraging us to expand the perimeter of our comfort zone. We may seem to 'straddle the fence' between intellectual confidence and emotional uncertainty. Mercury's activity in Cancer plays a pivotal role in helping us to bridge the gap between emotion and intellect. A midweek Mercury-Saturn trine is followed up by a Mercury-Chiron square, which keeps our 'feet to the fire' in terms of [...]

"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

Early this week — by Tuesday — Mars completes a square to Pluto. However, the overriding action is set up by the completion of the Sun's square to Saturn on Sunday. The overall lack of clarity and the chaos produced by the mutable-sign Sun-Saturn square only serves to increase the frustration of the fixed-sign Mars-Pluto square without offering any clear sense of purpose or mission. Although the tension seems intense, there are few outlets and even fewer clear, articulate voices. We are likely to feel insecure and uncertain, as well as quite [...]