"Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them."

—Eckhart Tolle

This week turns on Monday's Cancer New Moon (10:32 AM PDT 28° Cancer) in tight opposition to Saturn. Questions are raised and awareness is demanded. Very quickly, we begin to feels some emotional vulnerabilities and possibly uncertainty. The real challenge is to stay with the process of expanding our awareness while avoiding a building concern to display only showy bravado. There are waves of concern over how others are seeing us throughout the week. The Sun's entrance into Leo on Wednesday increases our [...]

"And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction."

—Kurt Vonnegut

We move closer to clarity and begin to escape from chaos this week. We may start out the week with some serious concerns over bad choices and needless sacrifices. However, by week's end, we make a significant turn in our thinking, recognizing past mistakes and preparing to rectify them. Mercury slows down all week and turns direct at the beginning of next week. A the same time, Chiron is [...]

"Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear."

—Mahatma Gandhi

Venus stations direct this week, while Neptune — the 'higher octave' of Venus — turns retrograde. As Venus begins to move forward, we feel a restless, creative, idealistic impatience. Neptune's retrograde motion encourages us to find tangible routes to manifest our creative idealism. There has been a creative tension stirring since the first Venus-Neptune square back in May. We reach a moment where we can clear space, remove 'dead weight', and expand our perspective before Venus returns to square Neptune once more at the end of July. The Venus-Neptune square at the end of July will offer [...]