"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart.
…live in the question."

— Rainer Maria Rilke,
Letters to a Young Poet

Our responses to uncertainty and constant change will define how well we emerge from the gauntlet of this week's challenges and uncertainty. At times, we may respond by seeking some kind of isolation or safe sanctuary in order to feel safe. However, there is a strong streak of adventurousness and ambition that keeps drawing us out to face the challenges with determination and a sense of destiny. Mercury slowly works towards another conjunction with Pluto this week, completing on Friday, as it moves toward emerging from the shadow of the latest retrograde motion. In this week's environment, the Mercury-Pluto conjunction produces [...]

"It's very hard for me to get a new car. It's really hard for me to get a new house. It's really hard for me to move on from the things that give me stability."

— Jodie Foster

Venus stations direct this week, ending the 'forty days and forty nights' of her retrograde journey. Venus' direct station is punctuated by Mercury's retrograding return to Capricorn and extended conjunction with Pluto, which helps to sharpen our focus and direct our thinking towards stabilizing our position. Mars also arrives in Capricorn this week, where his energies are effectively focused on [...]

"And it's whispered that soon, if we all call the tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason"

— Stairway To Heaven
Led Zeppelin (Plant R A / Page James Patrick)

We begin to really take a hard look this week at how to blend elements of the old — the past — into an entirely new framework. Mercury turns retrograde in Aquarius this week without quite becoming stuck in the strict grasp of a conjunction with Saturn. Mercury encourages us to resourcefully gather insight and clues from what remains of established structures that we can incorporate into a brand new structure. We are slowly beginning to emerge from a period where old structures have been deconstructed in order to clear the decks for [...]