"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 [...]

"The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on."

— Carl Sandburg

We begin the week in the thick fog of Mercury's extended, stationary conjunction with Neptune. At least there is a rather amiable, sociable atmosphere that helps to sooth any of last week's suspicions. We also seem to have reduced our expectations — acceptance is easier to come by. However, Pluto and the South Node conjunct this week, which may produce any number of destabilizing or debilitating developments regarding governments and/or large corporations. On the personal level, we may find ourselves preoccupied by status and position. How we appear to others draws an inordinate amount of our focus. There may also be issues surrounding loss that need to be processed some how. As Mercury begins to pick up some speed, [...]