"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative."

— H. G. Wells

Monday's early morning Gemini Full Moon (1:16 AM PST 4° Gemini/Sagittarius) brings this unpredictable current lunar cycle to a climax. A strong desire for 'Truth' and 'Clarity' is stirred by the Full Moon but a Mercury-Neptune square has us looking for something more. Mercury's square to Neptune completes just after the Full Moon and is likely to keep us trying to focus on the things that we can't quite see instead of what is plainly in front of us. In fact, there is indeed quite a bit going on just below [...]

"Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness."

— Leon Trotsky

This Monday's Scorpio New Moon (1:27 AM PST 20° Scorpio) is bound to inject some surprising 'twists of fate' along with some unpredictable or erratic behavior, likely revealing some deep frustrations. We spend a great deal of time and energy trying to find some sense of stability and 'order' following the New Moon as we begin to try to understand the new lunar cycle upon which we are embarking. We may be feeling quite a heavy sense of [...]

"I've gotta love me more than anybody else loves me."

— Mary J. Blige

We have a great deal to unpack this week, following last Saturday's Taurus Full Moon (1:23 PM PDT 5° Taurus/Scorpio). We have essentially been guided through a Portal into an entirely new environment. This week's challenge is to integrate our individual perspectives into broader, 'common purposes'. Compassion and respect for unique individual perspectives must be integrated into the process of pursuing the 'Greater Good'. The unpacking — or unwinding — process begins with a great deal of activity at the beginning of the week. A new communication framework is developing, following the the completion of the Mars-Mercury conjunction on Sunday. There are important [...]