"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more."

— Henry V - William Shakespeare

We begin to slowly step back from the intensity of multiple retrogrades this week — a process that will continue through the rest of the year. The reordering process is ongoing but there are significant new insights beginning to develop that offer us help to find a new way forward. Mercury turns direct on Friday, just after Thursday's important Virgo New Moon (6:39 PM PDT 21° Virgo). The New Moon is ruled by the stationing Mercury, giving it extra intellectual potency. As well, there is a tight trine to Uranus and a forming trine to Pluto. Transformative insights and improving communication are quite likely as we move through this entire new lunar cycle over the next few weeks. There is [...]

"Do you know, it's funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage."

— Stevie Wonder

There is a great deal of confusion, combined with compassion and concern, suggested by this Wednesday's Pisces Full Moon (7° Pisces/Virgo 6:35 PM PDT). Mars arrives in Libra at the beginning of the week, under the rulership of the retrograding Venus in Leo. Mars can seem quite frustrated in Libra, encouraging us to try to get others to do what we can't do. The retrograding Venus in 'ego-centric' Leo, increases the pressure on us to find some way to achieve our individual goals. But there is also considerable concern over the plight of others — those who are disadvantaged — suggesting significant altruism. Many will put their efforts towards trying to achiev [...]

"One has a responsibility to clean up one's space and make it livable as far as one's own resources go. That includes not only material resources, but psychological resources: the commitment of time and a portion of your mind to something when you'd rather be doing something else."

— Wole Soyinka

This Wednesday's Leo New Moon (2:37 AM PDT 23° Leo) is strikingly potent, although it won't play out all at once. In fact, the first few days just after the New Moon seem quite subdued and tentative. Nonetheless, the New Moon is in a tight square to a powerful, stationing Uranus — which is also trining Mars. We should expect surprising shifts to play out over the course of the entire lunar cycle. There is a profound reordering that is prompted by the New Moon. The ongoing work on our self-esteem, our self-image, and individual self-determination enters a [...]