June 16, 2006
Fight and Flight: Adrenalin in the Fast Lane
Hail Earthlings. It's the last week of the Grand Cross. Hellalujah.
Mars conjuncts Saturn in Leo on the 17th at 11:03 pm PDT. The last one
was two years ago in Cancer. All the Big Babies of Power are acting out
big time. But the Wheel spinneth fast and the karma is more and more
instant resulting in lots of drama in the weeks ahead. Personally let
go of all your infantile stuff, but that's way easier said than done.
The Grand Cross has offered involuntarily grinding down in the stories
of the moment of your incarnation; therefore, all that goop is up any
way. So let go of powerlessness and the reaction to that, which is
Power (which is what the big boys masturbate detrimentally in big
ways). Be and choose. I say this so often but it bears repeating cuz
the machinery of the Dream overwhelms your being and choice. Cut the
crap and play your way through the dilemmas and drudge.
It's kind of cool to get a Mars/Saturn conjunction at Father's Day.
Mars represents the male, amongst many other things. And Saturn
represents the father, amongst many other things as well. Praise be to
men and fathers and boys and the masculine. May the dregs of the
patriarchy swiftly and gently melt from all of our baggage. Men lag in
their development here at the end of patriarchal days. Women as a class
tend to be much more aware currently. They've been forced, but indeed
have chosen, to cook more of their baby parts. Men are cut off from two
thirds of their emotions in terms of expression and unless they face
their fears and griefs, they'll sink deeper in rageful impotency frozen
by old unconscious stories. Men: wake up and smell your neuroses and
proactively clean up that shit. Your behaviors have stunk for a long
while, but more importantly there's been a long held festering inside
of you and I hate to see that in my brethren. Your feelings won't get
you if you face them; but if you don't face them they have got you by
the balls of confusion which leads to the Temptations in the
psychedelic shack of the mind. You may be too proud to beg but nobody
can get next to you. It might be just my imagination running away with
me but you are standing on shakey ground when you project on to women
seeing beauty as skin deep. You know you are losing you. So get ready.
Just because papa was a rolling stone doesn't mean you can cruise on
cloud nine. It matters the way you do the things you do. I wish it
would rain and wash away all of your sorrows. So let the teardrops fall
where they may. Let the fears be in the past from whence they came.
Stand tall and clearly be you. And watch out for The Supremes.
This week is full on loaded with major shifts, so don't worry if things
are a little shifty. The Sun opposes Pluto on the 16th. Uranus goes
retrograde on the 19th at 12:40 am PDT as Mars squares Jupiter. The
financial markets are worrying. The house of cards is full of jokers in
the old boys' clubs who have been on the diamonds too long and keep out
the spades and others so that they can't find their hearts no matter
what is Trump. Something's gotta give around all this taking. The
pyramid scheme of capitalism is standing on its pinochle and the
have-nots are tired of being fully decked. Where's the bridge?
Gamboling through the wreckage will not unshuffle the problems at hand.
Power must come off of its high, hoarse hoarding of the pots of gold.
Circulation and flow are key. Call it sharing if you like but the cold,
dead hands that grip the wealth of the world must succumb now or
forever defend their ancient fear......... to the debt. Our highly
credited society is reeling and all the derivatives quake. Owe, owe,
owe your boat rapidly down the mainstream. Scarily, scarily, scarily,
scarily life is about to scream.
Also on the 19th the Moon's nodes shift from Aries/Libra to
Pisces/Virgo going through the Ouroboros point of the alpha and omega
of the Zodiac. Previous shifts were in 12/2/87, 4/19/69 and 7/26/50.
The 1987 shift was some weeks after that huge stock market crash. These
echoes are flying around. Crashes and wars and dark dalliances are
imminent. So many props are kept in place to hold up the unreal and
unsustainable positions of greed and power, but that shit is getting
its comeuppance. The difficulty is to see where it will manifest and
it's everybody's guess. The chronic depression of your own
consciousness in the Dream is becoming exquisitely apparent. Doing just
gets you deeper in the do do dodo. Unwind from the mind. Claim your own
consciousness as who you are and let go of the projections and
suffering for you. Others you actually do anything about except be
present with them and the ask what they want. That would be helpful but
the world or anything in it is inherently unsavable because everybody's
looping in their own movie. So talk to them and ask what they want if
you want to be helpful, but please leave their destinies to their
selves and take care of your own beeswax lest you get hives, honey.
It's Solstice on the 21st at 5:26 am PDT as the Sun goes into Cancer.
It's downhill from here on as the temperature goes up up up...... not
permanently but noisily. Jupiter squares Saturn on the 22nd at 11:45 am
PDT. Conflict is on the front burner because all of its triggers have
been kept on the back burners for way too long. Be with what is as it
is. Express your self and make choices for yourself. It's essential
that communication be kept open now, consciously! Acting out leads to
outright wars. A true warrior does not fight. She/he does not defend. A
true warrior meets the so-called enemy with eyes wide open. Drop the
armor and up your awareness. Allow impatience but be direct and
steadfast. There is an endless war in Creation between expansive and
contractive impulses. The middle way, the Tao, neutrality, balance and
such maintain the polarities while keeping you busy and distracted by
the middle/balance thing. It doesn't work ultimately, otherwise it
would've worked by now. By allowing the changeitis of the swinging
pendulum of the mind, you can let go of identifying in it and thereby
fighting it. Just be yourself and play on, even with the turds.
Happy Summer,
Mark