"Change was impossible to predict...A small event or, more frequently, nothing happened at all, nothing that I could notice much less grasp and — suddenly it all changed! The familiar faces looked and acted differently."

— Wole Soyinka

This week's shifts are striking and sudden. Some may feel that there has been a breakthrough, while others might see only chaos and collapse. Tuesday's Virgo Full Moon (7:53 AM PST 0° Virgo/Pisces) is another in a series of cusp Full Moons. We suddenly realize we need a whole new set of tools in order to continue to make progress. The Sun moves from innovative Aquarius into intuitive Pisces. Chiron also changes signs this week, leaving Pisces for pioneering Aries. However, what Chiron really does in Aries is increase our awareness that [...]

"It can be easy, hell yes it can
If you'd be a different man"

— George Alan O'Dowd
Different Man

Energy begins to build this week, even before Monday's New Moon (1:03 PM PST 15° Aquarius). We are likely to feel the possibilities begin to simmer as we reach the Aquarius New Moon 2019 but we shouldn't get too far ahead of ourselves. The forming Mars-Uranus conjunction (exact on February 13th) increasingly stirs independent, determined energy. A Saturn-Neptune sextile offers somewhat subtle inspiration that needs [...]

"They were more free, but they were more alone."

— Erich Fromm
Escape from Freedom

This week starts off with another 'Cusp' Full Moon on Sunday (9:15 PM PST 0° Leo/Aquarius) which straddles the Cancer/Leo cusp. We are torn between feeling a need to belong to a 'Tribe' for security and the need to break free in order to express ourselves as unique, creative individuals. Under the Cancer Full Moon, the Sun is also changing signs, moving from rule-abiding Capricorn to free-thinking Aquarius. And so, the stage is set. We are likely to feel a strong desire for [...]