"If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced."

— Vincent van Gogh

This week begins with a midnight (Sunday night, Monday morning) Libra Full Moon (12:00 AM PDT 5° Libra/Aries Lunar Eclipse) that is likely to produce a surprisingly significant amount of indecision and self-doubt. Sunday's Moon-Mars quincunx, just ahead of the Full Moon, increases the already fraught nervous energy and 'amped up', busy atmosphere. But once we're on the 'downside' of the lunar cycle — post Full Moon — we are prone to trying to defer to others, rather than asserting our own perspectives. It is likely to take several days for us to stabilize our confidence. But once we do chase away the self-doubts and indecisiveness, we may find ourselves going [...]

"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."

— Pablo Picasso

We begin this week with a Pisces New Moon (1:00 AM PST 20° Pisces) that offers both a great deal of intuitive insight as well as some uniquely innovative intellectual inspiration. The challenge is to maintain enough patience in order to 'learn' how to navigate in this new environment produced by the new lunar cycle. Mercury's arrival in Aries at the end of last week, just ahead of the New Moon, has stirred a confident, pioneering spirit. The waning Mars-Uranus square is likely to increase the drive to get moving and make quick progress. However, whatever confidence we have will be quickly tempered. We will soon recognize that [...]

"You've always had the power my dear, you just had to learn it for yourself."

— Wizard of Oz

Last Saturday's Virgo Full Moon (4:30 AM PST 5° Virgo/Pisces) has offered us a 'Brass Ring' — we just need to reach out and grab it. There are, in fact, significant opportunities presented to us this week but they aren't easy to recognize. Both the Sun and Mercury conjunct Saturn in Pisces on Wednesday of this week. The Sun-Mercury-Saturn conjunction produces a sense of restriction and pressure but we are likely to feel that pressure is extremely vague and nebulous. We may find ourselves desperately trying to figure out "What is the PLAN!?" We may be struggling to understand how to blend our intellect and intuition effectively in order to [...]