Jan 31 2009 Last chance (for January this Year)

The Moon in Aries was sextile Sun and sextile/trine the north/south node axis right at the crack of Dawn, setting the day off to a good start. The excitement builds as we head into evening for the official end of this cycle of Mercury Retrograde at 11:11 pm PST. You may read any symbolism you wish into that. I wouldn't. Just to add a raspberry to the event, Moon will be square Mercury, exact 10 minutes later--- so there may be a bit of confusion between feelings and thoughts, with feelings being sure of their version, and thoughts being equally obstinate about feelings being out to lunch. Rather than hurting yourself trying to resolve such matters, it may be easier to just wait a few hours, sleep it off---as our friend the Moon will have moved off to a new transit, sextile Neptune in the wee hours to assist in insightful, wild, colorful, vivid dreams.

Although Mercury Retrograde is officially over we remain in the stiction phase for another week or so.

The Birthcard today is the 9 of Clubs, a Venus expression of a Saturn core with a Queen of Hearts inside and a 6 of Diamonds outside. 9Cs include Ken Wilber whether he likes it or not, Tony Robbins, Albert King, Zane Grey, Ella Fitzgerald, Lindz Lawlor who does like it, Artie Shaw, Quentin Tarantino, and Jean-Paul Sartre.