" I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place."

— Maya Angelou

It is pretty hard to miss the fact that there is a whole lot going on this week! Monday's Aquarius Full Moon (11:25 AM PDT 27° Aquarius/Leo) brings a hard edged culmination to the remarkably optimistic Leo New Moon that occurred on August 4th. Certainly, the Full Moon's tight square to Uranus suggests surprising developments. However, there is also a powerful imperative to hold things together and 'locked in place'. The Fixed T-Square between the Sun, Vesta, the Moon, and Uranus centers our focus on [...]

"Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose."

— Zora Neale Hurston

The week begins under a remarkably optimistic Leo New Moon (11:25 AM PDT 27° Aquarius/Leo) which sextiles a forming Mars-Jupiter conjunction. However, the optimism may not be terribly well grounded. Mercury stations to go retrograde just after the New Moon. As well, Venus arrives in Virgo. Perhaps most notable, Vesta is forming a trine to the stationary Chiron which will complete by the end of the week. The Vesta/Chiron interaction is quite mystical, slicing through old perspectives and opening us up to brand new ideas. As Mercury's retrograde journey begins [...]

"I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps."

— Mahatma Gandhi

This week begins with a dramatic, highly pressurized Capricorn Full Moon (3:16 AM PDT 29° Capricorn/Cancer) that brings to a culmination the bumped-up intensity fostered by last week's Mars-Uranus conjunction. Mars trines Pluto just after the Full Moon and the interaction of these two 'malefic planets' increases the pressure to extraordinary levels. Nonetheless, the Full Moon sextiles Neptune and the Sun trines Neptune — suggesting more inspiration than clarity despite the highly pressurized [...]