Mon Dec 10- Sun Dec 16

This is one of the biggest NEW MOONs of the year. The fortunate and the tenacious will be on this from the beginning. This week there is a Mars/Venus trine lending some positive topspin and our long awaited meeting of Jupiter and Pluto. This happens Tuesday but will play out for
awhile. This is the week to nurture those seeds of the new moon, get them sprouted and keep the attention on them, they could become trees in just a few short weeks.

Monday the moon is still in the sign she was new in, Sagittarius, then she quickly slips into Capricorn. This week is about grounding and getting it done now. Mercury is square Uranus and the potential for fresh ways of speaking and looking at things is available to those who don't hold to tight to outdated expectations and conditions. Get those ideas and projects down on paper, out through the meetings of groups and take some concentrated, calculated and unrushed action. A small bit of discerning effort today will trump frazzled and frantic action. It's that simple cycle in the garden of our lives; seed creation, sowing, nurturing, harvesting, then to the composting where to fuel to create seeds comes from. Grab those seeds!

Tuesday with the moon still in stately Capricorn, Jupiter conjuncts Pluto, Mars and Venus trine and the Sun sextiles Neptune. If you need more on your astro plate then your eyes are truly bigger than your being.

Jupiter and Pluto only meet every 12/13 years or so. The last time was Dec 2nd 1994,in Scorpio. Jupiter in Sagittarius has been like a turbo charger in the arenas of religion and expansion. The most fanatical of religious leaders rule in many nations, wield influence far beyond their stature with Jupiter's push. The conjunction with Pluto in Sagittarius is rare, only every 250 years or so. Pluto was last in Sagittarius in the 1750's so think big transformations, evolutions and shake-ups in the way that things are. In our individual lives we can ride on this energy to actualize the transformations that we've been sitting on and flirting around.

It's much easier to do it in the flow then to be dragged along by it unwillingly. There is no choice with these winds, they are here, they will blow, and it's up to each of us how we trim the sails. Many are writing dire things for this conjunction and that perspective is valid. Civilization can always use some evolution. Now we really need it, either we get it or civilization as we know it is going to begin falling apart. Are you riding the falling paradigm to the ground or hitching to the rising paradigm coming up?

Venus trines Mars today and it gives us access to the yin/yang blend of our being. In these times of evolution it vital that we are all as balanced as possible. With this aspect one can see the blind spots in their being, some are too receptive and others overly projective. Now you can with just that clear awareness create a more even blend. Masculine and feminine are laced with so many issues for many, so just break it down to the basics, every quality we have is paired with it's opposite, and neither are good/bad. It's that effortless blend that we want, it's like a tool or a talent, the more you access it the easier it is to access.

Wednesday we get the Aquarius Moon. With all this heavy astral action going on it's good to remember that we are naive. innocent and fresh canvases. No one has lived like in these situations before. What we put on them is up to us. To blame the larger force is to not really dig into this opportunity. If you think you're the hare and need to be the tortoise it can be shifted, if you need more of the hare momentum it's applicable. It's play the cards you have time.

Today with the Aquarius Moon we can get ideas and new concepts that let us instantly evolve into new territory. The walls that were perceived earlier in the week now have ways around, over or through them. Humor is a powerful force and given the choice between strength and flexibility choose to be flexible.

Thursday we still have freewheeling and footloose Aquarius moon momentum. Mercury touches with Neptune widening the already huge horizons to get communication from the dream realm. The source of obsessions and addictions is exposed to the bone and we can open a dialogue about it. It's rare to be able to go so deep and stay objective, so we should use it now to get realizations about drives we have that may not be healthy to us or our surroundings. Once we see the root of these things that 'control' us, truly we are allowing it to happen and controlling ourselves, they can evaporate with the exposure.

Friday is one of the freest days of the week, Moon in Aquarius and there is a boundless sense about our states of mind. Some are annoyed when reality slips out of the box, those will loath today. For the rest of us it's a chance to really experiment in a practical way with the concept that we are what we think. Truly neurologists give us hope in saying that creative and learning brains actually grow new neurons becoming more 'plasticized' as they term it. The simple truth is a creative, learning brain heals it self and is youthful, regardless of the age of the body carrying it around. Take it a step deeper and the mind/heart that is humble, creative, learning leads to that brain and the body it's in. So at anytime you want to change your metabolism and brain chemistry it's just a thought away.

Saturday and Sunday we have the Pisces moon and this whirlwind week ends up on a completion tone. With the arena of dreams and the psychic part of us amplified. In Pisces some get a little woozy, there is this amorphous flow about it. In reality it's the way things really are, no real clear-cut definitions. To get the boat of your life working in these waters is to blend the rational/irrational, the mental/intuitive and physical/spiritual. They are never separate except in our perceptions. This week we realize the stark truth the only person that controls what we perceive is in the mirror. It's a crucial and opportune time to hook that communication back up and claim ultimate responsibility for it.