"And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough."

— William Faulkner

Tuesday's Cancer New Moon (12:31 PM PDT 10° Cancer) offers powerful growing energy and increasing vitality. This new beginning also offers increased freedom. We are more willing to leave behind unworkable structures in a determined pursuit of truth. Clarity improves all week. Mars arrives in Leo, opening another energy channel but increasing impatience and encouraging sharp tongues as it moves toward [...]

"Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it."

— Hunter S. Thompson

This Monday's Full Moon (1:30 AM PDT 25° Sagittarius/Gemini), arrives in the midst of an already intensified atmosphere that will continue to apply pressure until we reach the Summer Solstice on Friday. Creative inspiration is challenged by temptation and distraction — and possibly discouragement. Despite last week's focus on building connection and forming alliances, we reach a point this week where we must stand apart and alone — on our own. There is a bit of luck that seems to play a part in helping us to maintain our balance until the strength of our connections are restored or rebuilt, following the Solstice. Nonetheless, we may see some stress fractures forming — emotional instability that results from [...]

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds . . .
To be great is to be misunderstood."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

This Monday's Gemini New Moon (3:01 AM PDT 12° Gemini) offers powerful — but extremely delicate — creative inspiration. Although our focus is scattered and there are potent cross-winds of skepticism, we seem to be drawn towards inspired, creative solutions. Some may see this powerful inspiration as nothing but a Black Hole that is sucking us into a dangerous void of uncertainty. Concerns over safety and security produce a rigid but increasingly irrelevant determination to [...]