"It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth."

— Émile Zola

There are numerous game changing shifts in the environment this week beginning with Sun's entrance into Cancer — the Summer Solstice. The Cancer Sun brings a focus on protectiveness and a desire for some consolidation of material gains. Thursday's Capricorn Full Moon (11:39 AM PDT 3° Capricorn/Cancer) encourages a tight hold on our feelings and emotions while we try to establish some sense of control of our immediate surroundings. The Full Moon's imperatives may even seem threatening, with the feeling that we're 'out on a limb'. However, the threats we feel may actually be powerful motivators that lead us to the discovery of hidden strengths and abilities. Through this discovery, we begin to recognize new ways to escape some of the [...]

"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 [...]