"It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey."

— Wendell Berry

We hit another Mars-Saturn Square this week, with the edge going to Saturn this time — creating restrictions and obstacles. However, with Mercury's arrival in Scorpio and Venus moving into Virgo (also this week), there's extra grit and determination, along with a touch of skepticism, that keeps us digging deeper for answers and looking for new routes and new creative solutions. The retrograding Mars slows down our actions but there is extra creativity that helps us to make up for the diminished push of energy. Thursday's Aries Full Moon (2:05 PM PDT 9° Aries/Libra) is closely aligned with Chiron [...]

"Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation."

— Mark Twain

This week presents us with a rather tricky — mostly internal — roller coaster ride. Relationships are challenged by the square of Venus to Uranus, even as Mercury in Libra wants to build cooperation and collaboration. At times, we may concerned about how we appear to others, while at other times, we're ready to lash out with defensive criticism in some kind of attempt to keep others at arms length. Sensitivities are quite high at times this week. Although we may [...]

"Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate."

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Last week's stresses, engendered by the first of three exact Mars-Saturn squares, reach a peak under Tuesday's Pisces Full Moon (10:21 PM PDT 10° Pisces/Virgo). We are helped to ease those stresses by the activity of Mercury, encouraging us to open new lines of communication and investigate or discover new pieces of information. Mercury begins the week with an opposition to Neptune, softening some of the impatience of Mars in Aries. Subsequently, Mercury, in trines to both Pluto and Saturn, works as something like a 'conflict resolution negotiator' to [...]