November 12, 2004
Expressly Polar
The planets are in perhaps the most sophisticated geometries I've
ever seen. They are subtle and profound. So are these times.
Listen: you may be feeling shitty but you are fine and things are
fine and finally you can let go of your identification with that
noise of the mind. War is the temper of our time but all war is
simply the mind warring with itself. As the layers of the chronic
insanity build, the stories of war become more believable. So
strange it all is, but at the bottom of the suffering is the same
stupid mechanism that runs the Dream. It is not you, never will
be you. You have believed it is you for a very long time. Give it
up and: Be - Free.
New Moon is in Scorpio on the 12th at 6:27 am PST. Mars is in
Scorpio, which it rules, until Christmas Day. Fight or flight
adrenalizes the psyche. Crazy spins of aggression turned
outwardly and inwardly rake through the unconscious. Guilt and
resentment fester and foster fractured frenzies. Emblematic of
these deep currents is the suicide of Iris Chang, the dear author
of "The Rape of Nanking" and other works in which she brought
forward to the collective consciousness some of the worst war
crimes of all time and their cover-ups. The war inside is the
toughest of them all. May she rest in peace. May the world
appease its unrest.
If you are now suffering with great turmoil, please reach out to
people and express yourself. Do not believe the voices, the
feelings, the numbness. I understand how difficult it is to break
through, but you will and it's okay. You are closer to being done
karmically than you may know. You can never defeat the noise, the
Weight, the wait. You can let it go and realize it is not you. A
recent client of mine who works with suicidal patients told me
that occasionally when she sees a window in the patient's psyche,
she reminds them that they actually cannot die. This scrambles
the suicide game; it just takes the life out of that way of
death. The burden of our body weighs heavily and so there are
many heavy ways to unburden from the flesh. Even the healthiest,
happiest person is at some level marching directly toward the
grave. This gravity, this grave concern is now raw in the
personal and collective psyche. Getting rid of your body by any
means suicidal or ascensional does nothing to clear your karma.
Changing seats on the titanic Wheel still leaves you with that
sinking feeling. Blub blub blub.
Get mad or you may become mad. Let the juices flow. Anger is
healthy when you don't believe it. Do you believe in farts? Why
believe in anger? Let it rip, with reasonable regard for those
around you, but let it rip. Ya, it stinks some times. So..... so
does perfume. Be direct in all of your expression. You won't be
rude. You'll be present and playful and a whole lot lighter than
if you keep that silly crap inside.
The death of Yassar Arafat is also remarkably lined up with the
current astrology. The Palestinian fight for sovereignty is
authentic, as is Israel's. Mr. Arafat fought the good fight with
awfully bad tactics against an establishment who fights the good
fight with awfully bad tactics. Lashing rehashing lashing......
so goes the shadow of Scorpio. The results are bile and vile.
When will we get tired of it all?
Freedom is never actually won. It is exercised. Freedom is who
you are. The walls and weapons keep in the fear while purportedly
keeping out what one fears. Powerlessness is its own power but
power leads to more abject powerlessness. A caricature of such is
the fact that Mr. Arafat dies with an estate worth some hundreds
of millions of dollars. Poor leadership keeps people poor. If
people lead their own lives, leaders must earn their keep instead
of keeping the people's earnings.
I've just returned from two months of working in England and
Scotland from Penzance to Findhorn, Kent to Edinburgh. (Thank you
to all my hosts and clients and to the Brits in general.) The war
in Iraq and all the other treacherous US policies are universally
deplored in the UK and Europe. Britain's own role in the
boondogglery is hotly debated and is seen as a Blairing mistake.
I watched the US campaign and election from the lens of British
journalism and that is a fine point of view. The state of
journalism in America is totally pathetic and ignorant. The
propagandization of the American public couldn't be more obvious.
America is a commercial culture dominated my corporate mass
trance. It's only going to get worse. The burning Bush is talking
in the desert. He thinks he is Moses but is only a charlatan
Hessian. This war will behead him and his kind. It's going to
take years though. Big scary shit will hit the fan by Christmas.
The new year is foreboding of things to come. Don't buy the doom
and gloom. Be present with it. If you look at your own now, you
won't be subject to the king's curses. All of the grotesque dregs
of the Piscean Age are coming up seductively. Do not sleep with
the Fishes.
The Cartoon of Creation is expressly polar. Dense contraction
leads to etheric expansion leads to dense contraction. This pulse
is coming conscious to you. Things aren't actually getting worse.
Things are getting conscious which means that all the unconscious
prior worsenesses that were buried in the shadow come forth and
froth. The end of the world, personal and collective, is being
processed and processed in the psyche and in the manifest life.
Being scared to death and being sacred to death are the polar
sides of the coin of the surrealm. It'll keep you buying another
Game. Goodness and rightness and lightness are killing you and
them. Jump off the polar express. Give up believing in Santa
Claus and satan claws. Wean from the tit for tat. Express
yourself directly. Make choices directly. Claim your own
consciousness and clear your own karma. The magic of our time is
that you can let go of the illusion and play with the Game.
Really you are,
Mark