This week starts out with a bang. On the 27th the Sun opposes Saturn and Jupiter squares Neptune within hours of each other. They are key players in the Grand Cross. So consider the heat to be turned up on this karma burner supreme. New Moon on the 29th at 6:15 am PST. It's the Year of the Dog. May you easily manage the mange, scoop the poop and bark up the right trees. This is a howler, an ongoing Edvard Munch Scream. Ya gotta laugh at it all or you can be whipped and chained. There's no need for that for you anymore. Doggone it, you're fine. And during these karma burning, brimstoning Grand Crosses you can shed all the old stories of when you weren't fine. Shed and get off the old plots.

With this Aquarius New Moon in the Cross, every way that you feel trapped will come up noisily. Every effort to get free will fail. You are free. You can let the thoughts, feelings, beliefs, situations, and dogmas of constraint, imprisonment, enslavement and embeddedness fall away. Every effort to get or maintain freedom distracts you from the realization that you are freedom itself. This is why I keep hammering on you to choose in your life. It does not mean squat what the hell you choose in the Dream. It's dreamstuff. But when you are yourself you inherently choose. You can catalyze the unwinding of the trappings of the Dream simply, and I mean simply, by choosing. All of the endless conditioning of the Dream denies your being and your choice. Just go ahead and do what you want. That will have conquences. Then choose in response to those consequences and carry on accordingly. Indeed it is easier to say this than it is to accomplish this, but get going. Enjoy your wonderful self in the Dreamtime. Let go the projections of what it is going to be or not be and just be yourself.

Mars is beginning this week to make some distance from the exactness of the power point of Taurus. The implication is that the extreme heat of the Grand Cross is waning. This is a relief but there tends to be in most folks a very large backlog of unprocessed sludge and this Cross has stirred the sludge to the deepest depths. So sludgement will be the disorder of the daze for some time to come. Be and choose. I'm telling you: that's what it comes down to. This is the so-called gift of our time. You can get off of the Wheeling and dealing of the Dream projections for you. Other people's business is other people's business. Let all of that unwind. Be with the ones you love, and everybody else. Be.

This being the Year of the Dogma, all manner of extreme silliness will be revealed in belief systems of any kind. Loopy, goopy and now very droopy, these heavily projective pillars of society, these paragons of power, these wheezing waddling wankers of rules and rulings now stumble over their props and propers. The horn of Gabriel blows and even Gabriel comes tumblin' down. Stand aside from the melee. Let them get silly on their own selves. They are desperative systems that are going to be displaying their desperation. Less power to them. Dropping any orientation around power is most helpful. Power is simply the ability to affect change. It has it's place but lordy lordy it has been soooooo overrated. Identification in power will keep you powerless from simply being yourself. The result is that choice vanishes and you get into the compel/repel game. Who kneads it? The mind kneads it and kneads it and kneads it. I know you've been on a roll, but stop loafing. Get your muffins out of the oven. Let the pretzel melt. Get on with choosing your way through life rather than powerfully figuring out and making happen you life. You'll never miss the old way. You don't need a map because on the Wheel you aren't actually going anywhere. So give up the priest, prophet and propriety and play.

Woof woof,
Mark