"First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down."

— Ray Bradbury

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The Sun conjuncts Pluto at the beginning of this week, just ahead of Monday's Cancer Full Moon (3:48 PM PST 27° Cancer/Capricorn) which opposes Pluto. Although power struggles may draw much of our focus, there are important 'third way/win-win' solutions to be found through the intuition and resourcefulness provided by Neptune's conjunction with Pallas. The involvement of Pluto suggests a strong imperative to break with the past, accompanied by a powerful sense of loss. As Pluto works to 'clear the decks' we are faced with the question of [...]

"I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience."

— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

The week begins with Sunday's highly intellectual Capricorn New Moon (10:33 AM PST 12° Capricorn). The New Moon trines Uranus which supercharges our mental/intellectual capacity with quick thinking and clever wit and inspires us to seek freedom from old and outmoded restrictions. As well, Mercury's entrance into Aquarius boosts our ability to think 'outside the box' and bring forward innovative new ideas. We are now in the waning phase of [...]

"The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains."

— Josephine Baker

We reach the Winter Solstice this week in an extraordinarily potent and extremely challenging atmosphere. Venus turns retrograde in a powerful, extended conjunction with Pluto, challenging us to learn new ways of relating within an entirely new but still developing framework. The retrograde Venus is likely to dash our idealism and put our relationships in a rather cold, harsh light. Saturn and Uranus make the third and final exact square. This long arc aspect has been with us all year, setting out obstacles for us to overcome, demanding that we check and recheck our foundations for any weaknesses before [...]