APRIL 4-6: GOOD SAGITTARIUS MOON

Innovative Centaur with Cello, 1910 - Odilon Redon

MOON ENTERS SAGITTARIUS at 2:55am EDT on Wednesday, April 4 and remains here until Friday, April 6 at 9:36am. LAST ASPECT OF MOON: Moon Trine Uranus in Aries. This is a stimulating time for innovative philosophical ideas. We'll tend to feel optimistic and want to be free to have an adventure. There's an abundance of positive energy and passion in these fiery few days so take advantage of it! Be careful not to overdo it and create a container or find a way to ground all this fire. A willful need for doing things one's own way may override the status quo rules and regs. If your inclination tends towards travel, just remember Mercury is still Retrograde and it will behoove you to check and double check your vehicles, schedules and other information. Intuition is strong now, so (after you check the practical things) trust it! Actions initiated during this Moon period tend to have GOOD outcomes. (The evaluation would be Excellent if Mercury were direct!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EZCG2Ex8Q0

SAGITTARIUS SCENE: Lawrence of Arabia, 1962; Director: David Lean; Cinematographer: Freddy Young. British intelligence officer T.E. Lawrence, played brilliantly by legendary Peter O'toole, takes off on the Sag adventure of his life when he enters the fiery Middle Eastern desert to act as a liaison between the British and Arabs in their revolt against the Turks. Cultures and philosophies clash in a sequence when members of Lawrence's band of revolutionaries do not show up as planned. Ali, played by Omar Sharif implies a belief in the fate of their disappearance when he declares "Gasim's time has come, Lawrence. It is written." The willfulness of Lawrence's character is dramatically portrayed by his refusal to accept Ali's philosophical assumption and his courageous (or foolhardy) decision to risk his life and go back over miles in the desert to look for his lost men (Retrograde Mercury). This is the famous scene of their successful return. Winner of seven Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography and Original Musical Score, Lawrence of Arabia is an epic masterpiece not because of its plot. It is Lawrence's unusual character - a merging of sharp intelligence, impulsive rogue behavior and a compulsion towards drama queen nature - as well as the brilliance of the cinematic largess of the visuals, particularly the extreme qualities of the desert, that most witnesses of this classic spectacle hold fondly in our memories.