August 12, 2005
Anchor Away
The 11th and 12th bring a foretaste of the Grand Cross in Fixed Signs
that ensues 9/11/05 for the duration of six months. You can feel
blocked, trapped and inert right now. If you pay attention, you'll see
that this is what is burning off. If you choose, you can be in fine
focus by being intentional. You aren't stuck like you think/feel you
are. But if you buy the story of being stuck, it's a done deal. Don't
fight/resist/run/ascend. Be and let go. Struggles are for muggles.
The planets are in complex geometry. Your life may be appearing
complex. You may be noticing your (and their) complexes. The mind
weaves a wicked web. If you flail, it grabs you more tightly. See your
way through these complexities. Just keep making choices. If some are
errant, you'll find out soon enough and you'll make new choices. How
know how simple this sounds. It is simple! The mind is not.
The areas of our karmic patterns that are very noticeable nowadays are
addictions. Addictions are tight loops of half-logic that suggest that
some choice will work even though the recurring results confirm
otherwise. The mind empowers some end of a polarization and we freeze
into the too familiar rut of non-choice choice. Addictions just have to
wear out. Again, if you feed them by fighting them, they get tighter.
If you deny them by transcendence, they'll come to meet you another
day, thicker and thornier. If you see them, realize they are not you;
intend for their clearing from you and realize your own consciousness,
those loops will weaken and eventually fall away. Ultimately, all of
Creation is an addiction loop in macro and micro dimensional ways. Give
up getting it all perfect. Directly intend the qualities of your life
and what you want, and it will be so, in time. If you are claiming your
own consciousness directly, you'll be enjoying your self along the way.
Impatience drifts in and out for all of us around our thickest layers
of karmic crud. Scream and holler as you choose. Laughter is oh so
helpful. The Whine Tour is much more fun with Gallo's Humor.
Mercury goes direct on the 15th at 11:51 pm EDT. This round was so
somnambulant. Ye's a brick house...... With Uranus in Pisces, it's
easy to fall into trance of all kinds. Wait until you see Neptune in
Pisces in the next decade! Things should be lovelier as this week goes
on. On the 16th Venus enters Libra which she rules. You'll love the
love that loves the love of lovely love of the dove from above and the
shove from below. Twitterpatin' is on the rise. Romance thrives in the
war of the whirleds drama that is playing out. Be present. Be
choiceful. Communicate clearly. You'll be fine. Have fun.
Anchor away! An emblematic Leo died this month: Peter Jennings. I've
appreciated the clear presence of him in network news for some time.
It's a dark field indeed, but he really showed up. He was the only
network anchor that didn't go hysterical on, and subsequent to,
9/11/01. He did some very important work in busting open the horror of
the Serbs/Croats in Bosnia so that karmic mess could be interrupted by
the powers that were ignoring it all. He opened up many cans of worms
and got them to the mainstream when the networks wouldn't have it. Good
on ya mate! The States have been blessed by many superb Canadians over
the years and we've been the richer for it. Thanks for sharin', ay!
His network, ABC, loved and appreciated him and his journalism enough
to do a two hour special about him in prime time with no ads. He
deserved it. There was an amazing clip where he busted a father of a
son. (Leos like Jennings are all about the kids, unless they are too
slammed by their own childhood.) Jennings did this segment as a
reporter where he tracked a small town bully dad with his son at the
kid's baseball game. Later, Peter confronted the father as he sat with
his batteredesque wife. He quoted back to him his horrific threats of
getting his son when they got home. The abuser was so classically in
denial, so immensely and pathetically insecure and so violent in every
way. And the guy shifted on camera. Who knows whether it stuck in their
lives, but the guy came to and softened in real time. Jennings potently
held witness to this guy without the attacking/reacting that is the
norm for all journalism on the networks and beyond.
Peter Jennings has a Sun/Mars conjunction in Leo. His Pluto is in the
last minutes of arc of Cancer on the cusp of Leo. He truly was an
advocate for victims and had considerable wisdom to let people be. I'd
say ultimately he grieved himself to death. He was very emotional but
controlled it in hypercareerism and over work. Lovely man in all kinds
of ways. Lovely to his faults. True hearted, kind, imperious but
playful. He's a classic Leo. I miss him. He saw that it wasn't about
truth, though he would get to the bottom of the story. His decade in
the Middle East illuminated to him that The Truth does not set anybody
free. His being held clear witness to the Story. Sure he was sunk into
it like we all have been. But he was a refreshing presence. The
journalists he mentored are deeply committed to carry on his legacy. I
believe they will. I hope it's enough. The drama is so corrosive in the
media. The shadow of the public pulls hard. As world events ripple
relentlessly and the psyche keens, being clearly present will see
people through. Reaction/action is likely to dominate. May your life be
in the slower lane.
Shine into your life by being present. It is no effort. You are your
being. The mind will fuck with you. Kiss the bully goodbye. It is not
real as it appears. The thoughts, the feelings, the instincts..... they
pull and push. The Drama wants to be maintained at all costs, at the
cost of your being. Struggle and will, divinity and Light, hope or
various dope... none of it is going to work in the daze ahead. You
won't even be able to fly on your instruments. Claim your
consciousness, clear your karma and choicefully you will play your way
through the Matrix. Agent Smith is a figment. So is Neo. You are.
Rest in the peace of your being,
Mark