"Creativity is seeing what everyone else has seen, and thinking what no one else has thought."

— Albert Einstein

This week's developments may seem to occur almost effortlessly as we ride the wave of changes propelled by last week's Aquarius Full Moon. The waning Moon allows some of the pressure to dissipate and so it is easier to follow the process of self discovery that has been initiated over the past few weeks of intense aspects and the retrograde motions of Pluto, Saturn, Neptune, Jupiter, and Chiron — (and even Asteroids Vesta and Juno). Next week Uranus turns retrograde. The stationary Uranus holds [...]

"There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers."

— Erich Fromm

This week is dominated by Monday's Mars-Uranus-North Node conjunction which spins up powerful energy. The powerful new burst of energy feeds directly into the processes initiated by the regrade motion of both Jupiter and Chiron in Aries, which have directed our focus towards self-care, self-respect, and self-knowledge. While these processes have only just begun, this week's potent conjunction acts like a 'rocket thrust' with both the opportunities and dangers that such an image suggests. The potential for tremendous accomplishment is [...]

"The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within."

— Gandhi

We begin the week just after Mercury's superior conjunction with the Sun, which has begun to shift our thinking toward the future. However, unwinding last Wednesday's Capricorn Full Moon demands significant attention. We are still looking for some clarity, especially in terms of how much independence we really need or want and how much we should be concerned about the level of approval or recognition that we are gaining from others. Impatience continues to challenge us and we may believe that we just need to push harder, work harder — or demand more from others. But this week's shifts are pointing us in an entirely different direction, suggesting that it's actually an inside job. Venus arrives in Cancer at the beginning of the week, teaching us that aggressively grasping for our desires may be less effective than consciously [...]