Moments of Awareness

Aries [update for all links (February 4, 2104):  MOA T & A Glossary ] Put your head up quick! If you keep on at last month’s pace you’ll run straight into a brick wall. Everything that needs to get done will, but there’s likely to be a need for careful and creative communication and a whole lot of patience, especially after Sunday the 27th. Call those people who weren’t quite ready last time around and plant the seeds of your ideas again, but take a moment to consider your attitude and responses. Try on a few creative approaches you see as possible within present limitations, but expect to take them back to the drawing board once or a few times. You know you’ve got something good; it just needs a little time and care to come to fruition. Taurus So, now that life is taking on a reasonable pace again, are you ready to sprout? Put forth your tendrils abundantly, watch where they take root, and follow up on those interactions. What falls away will either wither and die or l...

Patience. Taurus asks of us patience, and this year's transit asks it especially where communication and technology are concerned, as Mercury is retrograde* in the sign of the Bull from March 27 to April 20. Retrograde motion indicates an undoing and reworking of energy, so look for issues you'd thought closed to pop up. Be alert, too, in daily travel; prepare for detours and go over your daily routes. Look for ways not only to make them more efficient, but more pleasant, more scenic, as your commute can set the tone for your entire experience. If possible find a route where seasonal changes will be evident. This works nicely with the energy of Venus, which magnifies what is beauteous and bounteous within what is present, drawing yet more beauty and bounty. (If the drive to work is nicer, work will be just a little easier, which will make it just a little bit less difficult to get to that next goal, be it the next paycheck or enough put away to buy that car or dream home.) (...