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While you were sleeping, someone else was in a midday rush, scrambling to get somewhere on time, trading before the bell, careening toward a deadline. Even your own mind and body were busy at work with the mysterious tasks necessary to repair and re-energize you. Considering the lunar business of the day, it is glorious relief to realize the ...Read more

Playful interactions are telling during this lunar opposition. They give away such things as how you really feel about someone or social power structures and other influencing factors that one does not always want to be confronted with. This is why people gravitate toward those who master fun. It takes courage to do so; in a sense, the one who...Read more

The full moon in Aries is a hunter with super-sized hunger and ferocity. What passions are you willing to venture for? Even the vague notion that there's something better out there to explore will send many howling into the night. The mission may prove that what you left at home was mighty fine, but even so, one must take the journey to know ...Read more

The Aries moon swelling to tomorrow's super status is a symbol of individual strength. Have faith in yourself as a person of resourcefulness and resilience. So what if the project requires skills you don't possess? You'll learn! Everything can be figured out, delegated, worked around, overcome or bought. Trust yourself to do what needs to be ...Read more

It is completely normal to want to show how much you know, attract attention or be in control. It would be strange for a human not to have such impulses, though a trine of Venus and Neptune in intuitive water signs suggests if you can notice these latent, competitive instincts and curb them, you will go far in developing warm, mutually ...Read more

Value is a perception. Without the perception of value, there is no value. An opposition of Venus in Scorpio and Uranus gives the tension to remind us that it's not always about the integrity of what we are giving; it's often more important that we have a good receptive match. It's a day to align with those who have the same idea about what's ...Read more

It's common for people to be disinterested in how others perceive the world, as most assume others see things as they do. While there may be an objective reality, each person can only have subjective access to it. The water-sign embrace of Mercury portends: Those who wonder and care what others experience will take part in a divine swirl of ...Read more

Relationships happen on the go. We don't get to plan every move and build it like a house; rather, we must work with people while we're all moving through life. We can travel together caravan-style when we're all going in the same direction. Other times, we work it out at the intersection. The auspicious arrangement of the moon, sun and ...Read more

Personal baggage is typically unprocessed emotion. What goes unprocessed is not always negative. Sometimes we feel like we're not supposed to have the joy that is inside of a moment, at least not openly, because not everybody is feeling it. What joy flew by you back there when Pluto was retrograde? How could you make it safe to feel it now?

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The first hours of Jupiter's retrograde are the last hours of Pluto's. History never stops; it just rolls to the next part. We exist in a stream of personal history, shared history, agreements and disagreements about what it took to come to this moment. To acknowledge history honors the present exchange, which will soon join its place in ...Read more

Never discount your own experience, as it's the one you have the most direct control over. If the only suffering you can relieve is your own, then you will have done something crucial to lessen the suffering that exists in the world. The Jupiter retrograde sometimes represents a reversal of fortune, but if that's what it takes to remind a ...Read more

While there may be absolutely nothing wrong with a relationship, unless it's growing, it's also not quite right. Because a relationship that stays the same will eventually be diminished by the ever-evolving nature of life itself. A lucky move on the countdown to Jupiter's retrograde: Think about what's next. Give yourself over to the process ...Read more

It can be scary to get close while being fully aware that of the billions of people on the planet, there's not a single perfect one. In Libra season, the adventurous Sagittarius moon is a reminder of how relationships are bound to disappoint. Once we accept that this is just what humans do, we can move on to the business of learning and loving...Read more

People may think of themselves as brands, but they aren't. The brand is a collection of perceptions. People are and will always be beyond any role they could possibly take on. The strife between Mercury and Mars and a lunar opposition is a reminder of how most of the things by which we define ourselves are constructs. Let your heart radiate ...Read more

As much as we despise the idea of having to reject someone, we cannot overlook the fact that rejection is among life's greatest gifts. It inspires us to develop further, try harder and turn ourselves into forces to be reckoned with. Even through the stressed angle to Mars, Mercury offers a balm for the pain -- a rich opportunity inside the ...Read more

It is easier to be nice at certain times of day. It is easier to be nice when particular needs are already met. It is easier to be nice when others have been nice to you. Would you give a pass to people dealing with circumstances that might make it more difficult to go forward in good cheer? Such compassionate affordances are the marks of good...Read more

Active and varied lunar activity portends people trying to convince one another that their particular methods, ideologies and convictions are universal truths that all should adopt. It's absurd, and rarely worth an argument. Meanwhile, the real truth will be non-intrusive. It doesn't try to sell itself. It minds its own business and bothers no...Read more

Togetherness is always a compromise, usually a sacrifice and typically an ever-changing arrangement. It's also an opportunity to accept the many blessings that come with human imperfection. The new moon of partnership encourages us to support one another; give each other the benefit of the doubt; and take a chance on sharing the journey, the ...Read more

Do not doubt that your brain is similar to the brains of other humans, and yet your mind is wired up so uniquely that it would be impossible for another person to have the exact sequence of thoughts and impressions that you experienced in the last hour. In this moment before the new moon, let your appreciation of your own unique thought ...Read more