"Kiss today goodbye
And point me toward tomorrow"

— A Chorus Line - What I Did For Love
Marvin Hamlisch / Edward Lawrence Kleban

The Sun arrives in Aries this week but not before making an overwhelmingly intense, disorienting conjunction with Neptune which is at the very end of Pisces. The energy of this Spring Equinox is actually likely to feel strikingly unfamiliar, with more focus on endings, rather than any clear view of Spring Initiatives. The confidence and pioneering initiative of the Sun's ingress into Aries is weighed down by the intensely confusing conjunction with Neptune. With both Venus and Mercury now retrograde in Aries, ruled by Mars, still struggling to pick up speed in watery Cancer, we struggle mightily to express the bold, direct energy of Aries. But unfocused impatience is all that seems [...]

"Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand."

— Colin Powell

Challenges produce a significant test of our character this week. We are prone to seeing more than we feel capable of handling — we can see the problems, challenges, and obstacles clearly but the solutions are 'obscured'. But there is as much to learn from our failures as from our successes this week. Responsibility is required in order to achieve at least some control over the extraordinary emotion and confusion stirred by last Thursday's Pisces New Moon (4:44 PM PST 9° Pisces). The direct station of Mars suggests [...]

"Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does."

— Margaret Atwood
The Penelopiad

The Moon wanes in light all week but there is an unusually high level of energy to distribute coming off of last Wednesday's Leo Full Moon (5:53 AM PST 24° Leo/Aquarius). Mars is slowing down all week, adding extra 'fuel to the fire', as it prepares to turn direct next Monday. We face a number of emotional 'squalls of impatience' throughout the week. Frustrated energy is one of the significant 'hallmarks' of a retrograding Mars. Once direct next week, the forward motion of Mars will bring [...]