Dear Friends and Readers: Eric here...with an astrology update for the weekend. We're currentl in the early phase of the lunar cycle; there was a New Moon in Gemini nearly a week ago, and appeared as a crescent in the evening sky a few nights ago. And we're toward the end phase of a solar cycle -- the Sun has just entered the last 'decanate' or third of Gemini. Mercury has just gone into the sign Cancer as of early Saturday. Three planets are in Cancer at the moment, Mercury, Venus (just through squaring Jupiter in Libra) and Saturn. Most of these are either fairly routine or long-standing situations; what is new, interesting, exciting and perhaps troublesome is Mars making its way toward the Aries Point -- the first degree of the zodiac. The ruling planet of Aries, of desire, of drive, of agressive and, at its worst, potentially violent energy, is in the last degree of Pisces as of this writing, which is a kind of squeeze. Pisces is the extreme end of the zodiac cycle, and it often feels that way. There may be echose of past situations from these couple of years arising at the moment, or unusually complex or overwhelming emotions. What's important with late Pisces factors is to keep visioning: without abandoning your feelings in the moment, to keep seeing your life the way you want it, or to keep the improvements in mind. Yet at the end of a major personal cycle such as this (and for a variety of reasons, the Mars cycle is a pretty important one for our desire-driven world), resolution is important: coming to some closure on that which arises at this time. It's not always possible to come to 100% closure, but it is possible to take steps in the right direction, to reach out to others and to insist on a level of clarity. There are going to be some people who are not dealing with this energy so well at all. Pisces is tricky territory and the last degrees are especially so. Nothing is quite certain; the rules change; answers may not be forthcoming. In such cases, time is the best thing we can offer. With Mars on the Aries Point and a Full Moon coming in about 10 days making squqres to that degree, we can expect some fairly large developments in the news. As I've said in my other essays recently, the Aries Point is the degree of the zodiac that carries the message, "The pesonal is political." Thanks for tuning in, and thanks to Jude for standing in for my daily blog at PlanetWaves.net. I'm really appreciating and enjoying her writing. I think she deserves to be one of the leading political commentators of our day, and I'm grateful to have her aboard. We'll post some new articles to the cover soon. Most of what I've had to say, I'm saying in pictures. Till soon -- Eric F. in Montreal, Quebec