"Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism -- which is true, but they miss the point. It was the built-in blind spots of the Objective rules and dogma that allowed Nixon to slither into the White House in the first place."

— Hunter S. Thompson

This week's shifts are striking and stark. The Pisces New Moon on Wednesday (6:03 AM PST 15° Pisces) ushers us into an entirely new era, marked by Uranus' return to Taurus. As well, Mercury stations retrograde on Wednesday and we are guided towards an extended review of our past in search of emotional baggage and blind spots that need to be jettisoned in order to release our full creative potential. As rigidity begins to dissolve under the Pisces New Moon, conjunct a powerful Neptune and sacrifice focused Vesta, we may feel stability [...]

"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 [...]