"Though I don't believe, I come to you now, and I lift my doubt to your mercy"

—Leonard Cohen
Book of Mercy

"Your faith was strong but you needed proof"

— Hallelujah - Shawn Mendes
by Leonard Cohen

Activity heats up this week as we reach the 1st Quarter Phase of a lunar cycle that combines powerfully supported judgement with decisive action. There is a great deal of luck provided early in the week under a Mars-Jupiter trine that is activating last week's Mercury-Jupiter trine and inspired by this week's Mercury-Neptune trine. There are a myriad of openings, early in the week, that encourage us to make the most of [...]

"Disorder is inherent in stability. Civilized man doesn't understand stability. He's confused it with rigidity…
…True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed."

—Tom Robbins
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

The waning Moon actually helps to break down intransigence this week. Last week's Aries Full Moon (October 6, 8:47 PM PDT 14° Aries/Libra) may have stirred up a great deal of activity and determination but it has slowly developed into a kind of rigid inertia. However, we can begin to feel a developing Grand Water trine with Monday's Cancer Moon activating the forming Saturn-Jupiter trine. There are strong [...]

"I did not imitate the skeptics who doubt only for doubting's sake, and pretend to be always undecided; on the contrary, my whole intention was to arrive at a certainty, and to dig away the drift and the sand until I reached the rock or the clay beneath."

—Rene Descartes

Last week's Virgo New Moon Solar Eclipse (September 21st, 12:53 PM PDT 29° Virgo) suggested a particularly intense 'dark of the moon' period. But quickly, the Autumnal Equinox — the Sun's arrival in Libra — began to suggest significant breakthroughs. The Libra Sun's connections to Uranus, Pluto and Neptune in a potent 'kite' formation offered remarkable revelations. Even though we could begin to see potential breakthroughs, [...]