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Current Planetary Positions
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| Sun | 09° Scorpio 31' 25" | |
| Moon | 16° Pisces 31' 00" | |
| Mercury | 03° Sagittarius 01' 27" | |
| Venus | 23° Libra 26' 30" | |
| Mars | 27° Scorpio 58' 10" | |
| Ceres | 03° Aries 49' 09" R | |
| Pallas | 08° Aquarius 44' 36" | |
| Juno | 09° Sagittarius 42' 45" | |
| Vesta | 23° Sagittarius 02' 03" | |
| Jupiter | 24° Cancer 59' 18" | |
| Saturn | 25° Pisces 45' 53" R | |
| Chiron | 24° Aries 11' 06" R | |
| Uranus | 00° Gemini 15' 04" R | |
| Neptune | 29° Pisces 46' 41" R | |
| Pluto | 01° Aquarius 26' 59" | |
| TrueNode | 17° Pisces 02' 54" |
"Gonna build me a daydream
From a little hope"
This week is dominated by a forming mutable T-Square, involving Mercury, Neptune and Jupiter. The Pisces Moon at the beginning of the week sets off a particularly unstable emotional roller coaster. Brittle and vulnerable emotions create confusion and it may take all week for us to even begin the process of unwinding the confusion. Objective detachment is sorely needed in order to have any hope of maintaining our balance and [...]
"Maybe it's not too late
To learn how to love and forget how to hate."
Last Saturday's Full Moon (2:11 PM PDT 27° Scorpio/Taurus) somehow seemed to take the pressure off and we may expect that things will settle down as a result. However, we are likely to immediately realize that the pressure was helping us to stay focused, determined and resolved. Without the pressure, the discomfort changes but it doesn't go away. The desire for certainty continues to be unsatisfied. By Tuesday, the Sun and Mercury move from stabilizing Taurus to friendly but flighty and fickle Gemini (marking the Sun-Mercury superior conjunction) and the chaos and uncertainty begins to bubble up from all directions. The desire for stability and certainty is [...]
"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."
— Helen Keller
As we roll towards the Scorpio-Taurus Full Moon (May 18th 2:11 PM PDT Scorpio/Taurus), we face increasing tension between individual independence and the importance of working within the framework of a team. Both Venus and Mars change signs this week, marking important shifts in personal interactions. As they move into new signs (Venus into Taurus and Mars into Cancer), they form a helpful sextile that blends charm with assertiveness. Venus is not at all comfortable in Aries and the discomfort is shown through [...]
"Oh, we got to let the music play"
We are offered an important lesson about the value of listening this week. Last week's Taurus New Moon (May 4th, 3:45 PM PDT 14° Taurus) initiated an entirely new round of insight and inspiration but it's a very slow process. Frustrations and impatience may seem to smolder all week. Rather than making proclamations and beating others over the head with the facts, we do better this week by allowing others the room to process the facts for themselves. Although this may seem like an excruciating exercise, we will have to recognize that [...]
"Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,—
Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own."— The Present Crisis
James Russell Lowell
Saturn turns retrograde this week conjunct the South Node, asking us to review our plans in order to find a more solid footing. It's time to build the model, not break ground on the project. Saturn-South Node, with Saturn retrograde, may feel like a significant slowdown but the process is crucial to bring the last few months of the ongoing visioning process to tangible fruition. Saturn's weighty influence is often seen as a malevolent task master. However, Saturn is also a teacher as well as the paymaster — providing us "our daily bread". This week, the importance of [...]
Placements & Degrees!
