Crikey, it's a bewdy mate! Here's a week for ya. The Sun has been embraced on either side by Venus and Mars for weeks in Libra. Love and fear have been abundant. The Moon sweeps through them towards New Moon with the Sun in late Libra on the 21st at 10:14 pm PDT, hours before the end of daylight savings time in the US. On the 22nd, Mercury conjuncts Jupiter in Scorpio in the morn and the Sun conjuncts Mars in the last ticks of Libra in the eve. Then the 23rd brings the Sun entering Scorpio at 6:27 am PST and Mars entering that Sign at 9:38 am PST. Along comes Venus entering Scorpio on the 24th at 2:58 am PST followed by the Venus/Mars conjunction at 11:10 pm. The lumpy gravy on top occurs on the 25th at 10:26 am PST when Jupiter in Scorpio squares Saturn in Leo. All of this combo is rare and fine and awesome, and if you let it, soothing. There's a shift from a seductive tango into a hearty square dance. The tempo, tone and temperature change. Keep on dancing. Hit the floor before it hits you and she'll be alright mate.

Your insides may be turning inside out. Your outer world may be driving you inward. Just notice it all coming and going and give up nailing it down. Flow flow flow your boat intentionally on the sea, verily merrily life is but a dream. So is the after life, the before life and the whole shebangy. Play with the Dream but don't believe. Be not in this world nor of it. Be not out of this world and not of it. Be. It's indeed waaaaaay more simple than you think. Drop the projections of path, purpose, power and glory. Do what you want and don't do what you don't want. The path takes care of itself and you can play upon it. If you think you're going somewhere, what a few ticks on the Wheel and see what happens. It's the quantumnal disequinox. All bets are off. The long and unwinding road twists and terminates, leaps and germinates. So..... what of it. The fun is you and the rest is for the play.

Lovitis is flaming. It comes in so many forms. The word love is abused, and abuse is chronic in the name of love. I intend to disabuse you of the web woven of love by the endless turns of the Wheel. That's a tall order, and you may not agree, but I approach it humbly, which is to say directly with eyes wide open. Love is not bad. Nor is it good...... and that's where the unconscious suffering is held. The defenses around the vary subject, mortal and divine, are a give away to the charge held in the unconscious projections. It's too big of a subject for this column. I've written to you about love for many years now. But the time has come for me to reflect in a long form book.

Unusually, I'm asking for your support for this endeavor. Not because you may love my work or even me. All that, and you, I do appreciate indeed and truly! But I'm asking for your support for your own unwinding around love itself, all its comings and goings, ups and downs and round and rounds. My intention for writing this book about love is to encourage you to be yourself beyond the endless projections that endlessly hold you in suffering. Suffering is unnecessary for you and so necessary for Creation. You have a choice about suffering for you. You can be yourself with others who are being their selves, and love will flow through all of it. But if you identify in the stories of love, you reap loss and gain cycles of which you may be realizing you are very, very tired of. People feel so bad about the failures of love, their own or others, and then the mind projects out how we are supposed to feel soooooo good about it and glorify in it and worship it to the extent of losing your self and others in projections that are crystalized in the Dream.

I came to Australia three months ago to write the book and was promptly bit by a spider. A most strange neurotoxic, infectious, shamanic trip ensued and lasted for ten weeks. I'm fine, and was fine during the trip of it, though it appeared to be scary, lonely and a bit crazy. I shed all manner of crunchy bits down in the root cellar. Because of the neurotoxins, immune response and fatigue, I couldn't focus to write the book. I'm back to the USA at the end of October to focus on the book. Life goes on and I'll continue to write to you on in2light, develop my new web site and give phone consultations (maybe travel a bit to areas that want me to consult and speak), but I could use some support: donations, perhaps literary connections and encouragement. If any of this resonates, thank you. If it doesn't, thanks for listening as well. I sense it is time that we all support each other for what we value. We have been co-opted by a dominant system that dominates most of us into struggling after things that we don't actually want, that we don't actually value. It's our time for us. It's time for the old noise to get out of the way.

Soooooo........ be aware of the projections that you're putting out and those that are put upon you. These amazing days offer you the opportunity to see the daze of your maze. There's no escape from any of it. To go other dimensional as a cure is to just change the wallpaper. Redecorating your karma has gotten you everywhere and nowhere, and all that is fine, but it has only changed suffering for you rather than cleared it from your being. Since you are always your own being, when shifts happen, you often shine through more, but then the machinery cranks out more projections and you begin to notice that the new wallpaper has the same walls behind it.

Go deeper. Go beyond the moats that are in your I. Scorpio offers this in spades, shovels and dynamite. Can you dig it? The point is not to get some where or even finally to the bottom of It. If you dig into your shadow, you'll find you....... after you tire and let the whole Game go. You are what you are looking for. Love puts curly cues around you in the house of mirrors. Then you hit the cold, hard surface and swear you're not good enough and off you go to a better you. That's the cosmic joke. It's not very funny, in fact it's terrifyingly taboo, if you're caught in all that endless belief. If ya be, the liefs fall away. Voici! Here you are. You are....... and heres and nows and thens and whens thither and hither their wheres, whys and whatnots, but you can enjoy and....... and therefore others. Try to get your joy from them, on Earth or in heaven, and you come up short with that missing feeling. You can't really share on that basis, except that everybody is lost in that very trance and defend it to the death and rebirth. If you are being, those with you will be with you; otherwise, they move on or you move on. It's simple with no strings attached. No connection/disconnection. You are actually present with them rather than projected on them and they on you. Once you realize your own being, the fun of your being is resonant. That's what we expect love to be but it is a doing and eventually distracts your and their being and that's the suffering.

Enjoy yourself in the week ahead. Let die whatever dies and let be born whatever is born. Gentle with your self and others, but don't let such interrupt your expression and choice. These are fierce and beautiful days, jewels in the uncrowning of the mind; gorgeous for the sovereignty of your being you.

Best wishes,
Mark