"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The promise of last Wednesday's Taurus New Moon (7:25 PM PDT 3° Taurus) shows up in 'fits and starts' this week amid some significant challenges. Rugged determination and patient attention to detail are required on order to undertake new rounds of planning. The seeds of leadership that were planted under last week's New Moon begin to find a foothold. However, much of the action may be behind the scenes in order to avoid this week's myriad distractions, stirred up restless energy, and irrelevant chatter. Nonetheless, even with the distractions, there are increasingly insightful flashes of intellectual understanding. Mercury leaves impulsive Aries for determined Taurus, setting up an extremely helpful mutual reception with Venus in Gemini. The showy, superficial tendencies of [...]

"To put up with what you cannot avoid is a philosophical principle, that may not perhaps lead you to the accomplishment of great deeds, but is assuredly eminently practical."

— Jules Verne

This week's Sun-Pluto square and Sun-Jupiter square increase the pressure this week. The atmosphere may encourage us to pursue impractical aspirations, especially under the kind of pressure we're dealing with. Venus has moved into the 'shadow' of her next retrograde period (May 13th - June 25th). In her slowdown, she just barely misses completing a trine to Mars, which restricts [...]

"The more I see, the less I know for sure."

— John Lennon

The individual initiative and energetic growing power that was unleashed by last Tuesday's New Moon (2:28 AM PDT 4° Aries) begins to take shape and show signs of progress this week. The landscape changes very quickly as an entirely new framework begins to emerge, most notably due to Saturn leaving cautiously conservative Capricorn for inventive Aquarius. Mars also leaves Capricorn for Aquarius, conjuncting Saturn on Tuesday. We are especially sensitive to any sense of restriction under the Mars-Saturn conjunction and the likelihood is that a sense of protectiveness quickly puts us on the defensive. Although we may [...]