"Make your own kind of music
Even if nobody else sings along"

— Make Your Own Kind of Music
Barry Mann/Cynthia Weil

This Monday's Scorpio Full Moon (8:31 PM PDT 7° Scorpio/Taurus) establishes some potent Staying Power to the initiatives of the current lunar cycle that began back on April 11th (7:30 PM PDT 22° Aries) under the Aries New Moon. There are likely to be some uncomfortable revelations and exposure under the 'light' of this Full Moon. The involvement of Uranus, close to the Sun and opposing the Full Moon, stretches our awareness and encourages independent thought and action. While we may feel some extraordinary pressure, this is the kind of pressure that produces [...]

"Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn't be done."

— Amelia Earhart

This week begins with an Aries New Moon on Sunday evening (7:30 PM PDT 22° Aries), offering tremendous potential and opportunity. This Spring Aries New Moon encourages powerful initiatives, courage and direct communication. On the surface, energy and optimism seem to flourish but we can not ignore the deeper energies surrounding this Aries New Moon. A Venus-Pluto square, which perfects within an hour of the New Moon, points to hidden agendas and secret desires that we may feel very strongly but have a great deal of difficulty expressing clearly and honestly. The Moon's follow-up square to Pluto and the forming Sun-Pluto square that builds throughout the week, keeps us dealing with challenging obstacles, power struggles, and [...]

"Tribulation does not make people impatient, but proves that they are impatient. So everyone may learn from tribulation how his heart is constituted."

— Martin Luther

This week begins with a highly energized Libra Full Moon opposing Venus and Chiron conjunct the Sun. The energy is highly idealistic and impatient. Many of us feel a strong need to rush ahead, possibly in some sort of race to be first. Practicality may not be easy to come by except through the Libra Moon's desire for interaction, debate, and discussion — the need to connect and listen. The Aries Sun's conjunction with Chiron and Venus encourage the idealism but may not clearly show us exactly how to pursue the necessary interaction and fully listen to [...]