Today’s optimism may be a bit too much to take. Mercury conjuncts Jupiter this morning around 9 AM PST and the Moon conjuncts Venus a little after noon. Unexpected discoveries or sudden insights may be truly spectacular but in the atmosphere of heightened optimism we may tend to overlook or diminish the extent of our progress. Tomorrow’s New Moon (9:00 PM 23° Capricorn) will offer powerful, transformative energies. However, today could easily set us up for disappointment when we can’t find any tangible, material rewards for learning our lessons well — “But I wanted a pony!”

THE WEEK AHEAD: This week offers an important and transformational new beginning under Tuesday’s Capricorn New Moon (9:00 PM 23° Capricorn) tightly conjunct Pluto. But there are still many things to fall away or be sacrificed on the altars of our past before we can find a way to embrace the changes offered or proposed. There are strong tendencies to wildly…