"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."

— Mother Teresa

This Thursday's Gemini New Moon (3:52 AM PDT 19° Gemini) brings the growing power of this Spring's Gemini Influence to a peak. The focus is really on understanding how the words we use to communicate our individual perspective determine how we connect to those around us. The currently retrograding Mercury in Gemini, still squaring Neptune, is challenging us to learn more effective discrimination in choosing our words when we try to share our individual perspective with others. Under the retrograde Mercury, we are in [...]

"It's a product of the fractal laws that govern the world at an informational level. There is no deeper truth."

— Terence McKenna

There is more 'going on' this week than we can really fully grasp in purely intellectual terms. Mercury turns retrograde in it's own sign at the end of the week in a tight conjunction to Venus and square to Neptune. Compassion, emotion, and inspiration merging with intellect, logic, and belief can have 'unpredictable results'. This is ultimately a powerful deepening process and the shakeups that we experience this week is something like the process of shaking oil & vinegar — creating an emulsification of very different ingredients. The mid-week Sagittarius Full Moon (4:13 AM PDT 5° Sagittarius/Gemini) and total lunar eclipse scatters our thoughts and fractures our emotions, signalling the beginning of a significant period of [...]

"A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well."

— Frederick Douglass

There are a number of important shifts that get underway this week, beginning with the entrance of Venus into Gemini, which occurred just before the week began. Venus in Gemini rules Tuesday's Taurus New Moon (11:59 AM PDT 21° Taurus), instilling a sense of excitement that is enhanced by the sextile of Mars to Uranus. Although this week's overall atmosphere is highly intellectual and visionary, our ideas and insights are unlikely to push us too far towards erratic or ungrounded aspirations and ambitions. Mercury's trine to Saturn helps us keep the Taurus New Moon well grounded by common sense. What ever success we had last week in [...]