"Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb."

— Winston Churchill

On it's face, this week's Mars-Pluto square might look quite explosive. However, there are powerful elements that seem to keep much of the activity controlled and behind the scenes. The challenges in this week's atmosphere are centered on becoming too rigid in our determination — unwilling to accept input or alter our strategy in the midst of [...]

"Resolve and thou art free."

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Sun enters Scorpio on Wednesday, signalling an important shift in our focus. For the past few months, we have been geared towards building cooperation, embracing collaboration, and making new alliances. To this end, our focus has been on understanding others and listening to alternative points of view. However, when the Sun enters Scorpio, it sets off a determined search for truth, we are increasingly disinclined to take input from others or seek compromise. Although it may take much of the week to stabilize our [...]

"Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all."

— Pericles

The intensity builds this week, ahead of next Sunday's powerful Full Moon (2:07 PM PDT 20° Aries/Libra) where the Moon and Sun square Pluto. However, the pressure is controlled and we work very hard to find ways to build cooperation and enlist alliances. The importance of allowing everyone to weigh in in some way seems to be surprising clear. We are likely to face extraordinary pressure to get to work — achieve something — and show tangible progress under the Sun's square to Saturn [...]