"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 [...]

"Maybe it's not too late
To learn how to love and forget how to hate."

— Ozzy Osbourne
Crazy Train

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 [...]

"Oh, we got to let the music play"

— The Doobie Brothers/Tim Johnson
Listen To The Music

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 [...]