"If you want to determine the nature of anything, entrust it to time: when the sea is stormy, you can see nothing clearly."

— Seneca the Younger

There is an important unwinding process underway this week. The Moon is waning after last Thursday's Capricorn Full Moon (11:39 AM PDT 3° Capricorn/Cancer) and Mercury is traveling through the post-retrograde shadow. We are slowing finding ways to clear the foggy confusion and glimpse bits of reliable information. Of course, we shouldn't discount the residual emotional confusion as we look for precise and rational bits of reliable intellectual information. The challenges of handling both the intellectual and emotional unwinding suggests that progress will be haphazard and uneven all week. We will still need plenty of patience as we step through the debris and confusion of Mercury's retrograde phase. And we should not forget that Mercury will still make one more exact square to Neptune on July 5th. There will continue to be some residual confusion to clear up until we [...]

The growing power of last Thursday's Gemini New Moon (3:52 AM PDT 19° Gemini) is slowly revealed this week and we arrive at another another Saturn-Uranus Square. There may be a few emotional rough spots and ego vulnerabilities to sort through but our overall focus continues to be centered on finding ways to clearly describe our intellectual insights and individual perspective to others. We slowly begin to find ways to boost our confidence if we can maintain our patience and stay with the process. There are opportunities to show tangible progress and actually express ourselves through definitive action. However, we need to find ways to separate ourselves [...]

"A crisis is made by men, who enter into the crisis with their own prejudices, propensities, and predispositions. A crisis is the sum of intuition and blind spots, a blend of facts noted and facts ignored."

— Michael Crichton, The Andromeda Strain

We begin to glimpse an entirely new landscape this week — intellectually inspirational but unfamiliar. The retrograde Mercury square Neptune has produced a sense that we are suddenly in a different place. This week's atmosphere is unsteady and subject to quick changes. A fog bank of sorts has descended and we may be prone to see only what we want to see in that fog. We are suddenly awash in new perspectives, new ideas, and new influences that seem to develop out of this new environment. Our pressing challenge is to stay in touch with the inspiration that we have been fostering since the May 11th Taurus New Moon (11:59 AM PDT 21° Taurus) even though we may feel as if we are suddenly on an entirely different track and find ourselves in danger of [...]