The Grand Cross burns like a matterfucker. The deepest layers of the physical mind are wretching and kvetching. Let 'em be. Take care of your dear self. Tender is the night. It's the Winter Solstice, Sun entering Capricorn, on the 21st at 1:35 pm EST. I'm working for three months in Australia where it's Summer Solstice. Peak experiences all around. (My apologies to my Down Under friends for my northern hemispheric centric orientation.) It's a most interesting question for this astrologer to grok the patterns playing out archetypally in astrology when the north and south have different climate/sunlight experiences and such. My sense so far in working in southern Africa and now Australia is that the same effects happen. That is, there is an energetic archetypal dip at the December Solstice even in the southern hemisphere. Down Under, where summer is stretching her legs right now, there's still a sense of pause and rest despite the buzz of nature (and flies). The northern/western hemispheres dominate in our current time so that commercial/media/sociologoical effects spread throughout the world. The southern hemisphere is counter to that dominance and it's noticeable in the way time is perceived, the pace of life and such. Whether the magnetic poles flip or not, the world is being pulled south and east archetypally. You can see how topsy turvied we all are as the Shifts hit the fan. More will be revealed. Suffice it to say that there is a deep psychic bass note at this December Solstice for everyone.