"LOVE of others is the appreciation of one's self.
MAY your egotism be so gigantic that you comprise mankind in your self-sympathy."

— Mina Loy

Mercury emerges from the shadow of the last retrograde period (June 18 - July 12) at the beginning of this week. With Mercury in Cancer, we look for reliable information to establish our emotional security. Indeed, information begins to flow this week but we may not have a broad enough perspective or enough emotional detachment to fully process and make use of the information we find. Mercury's oppositions to Jupiter and Pluto demands a balanced perspective and broad awareness. However, complications and distractions abound. Venus makes another square [...]

"Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented."

—Whoopi Goldberg

Mercury turns direct at the beginning of this week in an atmosphere of high energy and high optimism. At times, it may feel as the a bounty of good fortune has begun to fall from the heavens. However, the high energy and restlessness keeps us stirred up and likely, quite impatient despite any good fortune. The flow of information seems to turn around and the confusion we have been facing for much of the year seems to be clearing. There are several moments, though, where clarity is a two-edged [...]

"You can't go back home . . . back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are changing all the time—back home to the escapes of Time and Memory."

—Thomas Wolfe

The retrograde Mercury in Cancer dominates this week's atmosphere but may not be recognized as anything like the driving force for the struggles that we are facing. The 'inferior' Sun-Mercury conjunction, in a tight sextile to Uranus stirs an intense desire for freedom and innovation. However, under this retrograde Mercury in Cancer, we feel that we cannot pursue that innovation without first establishing a solid, safe, and secure foundation upon which to build our ambitious vision of a 'New World'. We may be faced with bouts of [...]