"In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth."

—Patti Smith

The current lunar cycle 'culminates' this week with an Aries Full Moon (8:47 PM PDT 14° Aries/Libra) on Monday evening. But this lunar cycle continues to confound even with the culmination. There aren't any apparent 'straight lines' between the beginning of the lunar cycle at the 'particularly dark' Virgo New Moon Solar Eclipse (September 21, 12:53 PM PDT 29° Virgo) and this week's Full Moon. With the Sun and Mercury in Libra, we may have believed we'd like to find compromise. But uncertainty and [...]

"Courage is grace under pressure."

—Ernest Hemingway

This week begins at the Virgo New Moon Solar Eclipse (12:53 PM PDT 29° Virgo) — a rare second Virgo New Moon for the year. All New Moons represent the 'dark of the Moon' but with the opposition to Saturn and out-of-sign opposition to Neptune (as well as the eclipse, of course) the 'darkness' seems to be compounded. There is remarkable uncertainty and, with the Moon's quick arrival in Libra and the Autumnal Equinox the following day (the Sun's arrival in Libra), Libra's indecision is also compounded under the [...]

"It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive — to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are."

—Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

This week begins with a Pisces Full Moon Eclipse (11:08 AM PDT 15° Pisces/Virgo) that initially only seems to produce a fuzzy feeling of disconnection. The intensity is somewhat understated, with swirls of emotion that suggest that we are feeling underappreciated. As well, with Mars now separating from the square to Jupiter, we may begin to recognize areas where we've been a bit too impulsive. Ultimately, the Full Moon suggests the need for broad reassessment which seems to come into our awareness rather slowly. This lunar cycle began with [...]