"As we go through the day we pause, when agitated or doubtful, and ask for the right thought or action."

— AA Big Book

Monday's Pisces Full Moon (4:54 PM PDT 28° Pisces/Virgo) marks the culmination of the September 6th Virgo New Moon, shining additional light on our understanding of our heritage, history, and our predecessors. The sense of imperative that usually accompanies a Full Moon seems to be missing or is at least somewhat muted. Rather, our perspectives seem to fragment. New perspectives raise new questions and there is increasing uncertainty or at least some awareness that further investigation is required. The Sun joins Mercury and Mars in Libra mid-week, marking the Autumnal Equinox and focusing our efforts on [...]

"Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength - in search of my mother's garden, I found my own."

— Alice Walker

This Monday's Virgo New Moon (5:51 PM PDT 14° Virgo) brings themes of heritage and legacy. Since Mercury enters retrograde territory at the point of this New Moon, there is a definite emphasis on looking back to better understand where we have come from — our heritage and the work of our predecessors. There is a heightened sense of responsibility that comes from recognizing and honoring those who have come before us and that responsibility may weigh especially heavy on us this week. We may also recognize the first clues about the next retrograde Mercury phase [...]

"Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness."

— James Thurber

This week begins with a broad shift in awareness and perspective under Sunday's Aquarius Full Moon (5:01 AM PDT 29° Aquarius). The Moon's 'light' provides plenty of new insights to sort through and the Sun's entrance into Virgo, shortly after the Full Moon, gives us just the organizational capacities we will need in order to make effective use of what we are suddenly able to see and understand. Nonetheless, the Full Moon's imperative may encourage us to 'leap before we look' and it is important to pay close attention to our intuition and maintain some semblance of focus and self-direction. In this week's atmosphere, we should be careful to avoid being stampeded into any premature or unwise actions.The Virgo Sun implies some tendency to be [...]