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Monday - Waning Moon in Capricorn

Sunday - Sun in Pisces

Saturday - Saturn in Pisces

Friday - Venus in Aries

Jupiter in Gemini squared by Mercury in Pisces.

For a variety of reasons, I am going to experiment with moving my regular contemplations, newsletter information, short essays, and blogs over to Substack. Here is the link. My goal is to be less entangled with Meta products in general, which have felt like a marketing black hole for a number of years even before the overall quality of their sites declined significantly in the past few months.

Mars in Cancer Are you powerless or are you focusing on things that your power cannot influence? Are you powerless or remembering moments as a child when you had no power? The roots of power begin at home. If you are feeling overwhelmed, try cleaning something . Make a meal. Have a conversation with a loved one about your feelings. Strengthen your base, then try doing harder things.

There was a time several years ago when my regular blog writing started to gain traction and my regular views began to really increase. Then Facebook did something different, acted different, updated the all-mighty algorithm, and I was back to very few clicks a day. Or perhaps it’s convenient to blame technology and it’s just my moment, barely achieved, had lost its draw?

Saturn is the ruler and embodiment of limitations, old age, infirmity, and all the things that most of us try not to think about when we are not forced to do so. And Saturn can teach us what truly matters. All the bluster of trying to prove ourselves or shore up our own ego gets stripped away when Saturn lays her leaden hand upon your crown.

Today Venus appears to me as fierce and magnetic, all tattooed and ready to party and fight while nourishing new life. I am reminded of Aries’s great power to initiate, to use her profound vitality to get things going—a party, a bar brawl, a new project, and life itself. I am also reminded of Aries’s need for freedom and self-centeredness.

Last week we reflected on how each story and perspective is a filter over perception, and like a colored filter on a lens, each filter reveals certain things and obscures certain things about what is. So to gain more depth of perspective, one needs to hold and perceive through multiple filters. This evokes the classic 3-D glasses with a red lens and a blue lens.

"When we stay settled in pain, we risk becoming authoritarians. Our essential resentment of loneliness becomes an accusation against the world, a feeling that somehow we are entitled to dominate it because we are in so much pain. Authoritarian movements draw in lonely, embittered people who have no other belonging and gives them a mission for which their misery is fuel, and repays them with the satisfaction of vengeance against those they blame for their misery."

“The warrior energy of Mars wants to be strong, protective, and move confidently toward what is necessary and useful, but in the nurturing and punitive sign of Cancer he must move crabwise, s…

Today the moon has a brief confrontation with the collective underworld on its way to blooming in fullness with the reflected light of the sun. For those who follow the lunar cycles, this is a potent moment in which what has been growing in shadows is finally ready to come forward, and in Leo this coming forth is prone to come with a lot of drama and pomp.

Today, the mind and spirit touch and the terrain becomes clearer. If you feel like you've been in an elaborate and almost incomprehensible maze, that is not wrong. Only it's a maze that shifts as we move through it, where what was once a dead-end now opens up to a new pathway, and a reliable corridor now goes nowhere. Alone, we may feel condemned to wander pointlessly in a puzzle designed not to be solved.