"Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have someone click the shutter."

— Ansel Adams

Mercury has returned to direct motion in free-thinking Aquarius this week, retracing the path of the retrograde phase. With Mercury direct, we may feel spontaneous urges to leap to quick conclusions or take quick action but timing is everything and we may not truly be ready to commit to a new course of action. As we move towards the Virgo Full Moon (12:17 AM PST 8° Virgo/Pisces) which occurs just after midnight on Saturday morning, we find ourselves continuing to follow an important review process that requires us to dispatch any doubts or uncertainty before we move [...]

"Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The vision, ideas, breakthroughs, and insights that we are discovering and experiencing under the ongoing retrograde Mercury in Aquarius may not all be fully recognized while we are actually IN the process of discovery. This is a time when it is especially important to trust the process, staying adaptable, while continuing to look for new perspectives but not getting stuck on some prized goal or aspiration. Thursday's Aquarius New Moon (11:05 AM PST 23° Aquarius) occurs while Venus is conjunct Jupiter — also in Aquarius. The emphasis is on expanded knowledge and new perspectives through the sharing our of insights and experiences. However, many of the [...]

"Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible."

— Maya Angelou

This week's Leo Full Moon is a particularly important culmination of this month's transformative Capricorn New Moon (January 12th 9:00 PM 23° Capricorn) which was conjunct Pluto. We arrive at the 'delivery room' this week for the Rebirth of a personal sense of empowerment and creative self-expression after experiencing a number of doubts and questions of self-worth and individual purpose. The groundwork is laid, this week, for the extended Saturn-Uranus square that will be with us for most of this year. Generally, this square represents a conflict between 'old structures and new initiatives'. However, ahead of the first Saturn-Uranus 'square-off', Saturn first forms a sextile to [...]