"I did not imitate the skeptics who doubt only for doubting's sake, and pretend to be always undecided; on the contrary, my whole intention was to arrive at a certainty, and to dig away the drift and the sand until I reached the rock or the clay beneath."

—Rene Descartes

Last week's Virgo New Moon Solar Eclipse (September 21st, 12:53 PM PDT 29° Virgo) suggested a particularly intense 'dark of the moon' period. But quickly, the Autumnal Equinox — the Sun's arrival in Libra — began to suggest significant breakthroughs. The Libra Sun's connections to Uranus, Pluto and Neptune in a potent 'kite' formation offered remarkable revelations. Even though we could begin to see potential breakthroughs, [...]

"You better pay attention, build your comprehension
There's gonna be a quiz at your ascension"

— Godspell - Learn Your Lessons
Stephen Schwartz

As we move through the waning phase of an extraordinarily powerful lunar cycle, we seem to be presented with increasingly complicated situations that force adjustments and increased understanding. Intuition does not give us as much help as we might hope and we are faced with a number of obstacles that seem to be coming from 'external sources'. However, for the most part, our challenge throughout this lunar cycle has been to clearly articulate our honest intentions and follow through with both [...]

"She don't like slavery, she won't sit and beg"

— Rebel Yell - Billy Idol
Billy Idol, Steve Stevens

Uranus stations retrograde this week, joining Pluto, Neptune, and Saturn on their retrograde, 'review missions'. The strength of stationing Uranus this week is seen in the highly idealistic, highly intellectual activity ostensibly geared towards providing assistance to others. However, the challenges that we're seeing this week aren't easily solved by just 'thinking things through', even with [...]