Happy Mercury Retrograde! Starting on the 28th at 12:16 pm PDT, the retrogradation lasts until 11/17 at 4:25 pm PST. Half of the planets will be in Scorpio along with Mercury until it goes direct in three weeks. That's mucho Scorpio! Everything may appear bassackwards. Scorpio pulls one deeply into the past; retrogradation has some appearance as such too. It's time to flush your karma. You don't need it. It's not good for you, nor bad. It won't get you the prized seat in the old soul's lounge. It's just the past that wants to be your now and your future. If you claim your own consciousness directly and intend to clear your own karma directly, you'll find the process way more effortless and way less dramaful and much more fun. It's your choice.

Fight and flight and save and suffer are up loud and lousy. Neptune is direct on the 29th at 12:57 am PDT (right before the end of daylight time). Escape by suicide, escape by addiction and escape by savioring are all up as well. It's all the rage. It's all the hopelessness. It's all the pain. Be with all this noise as you choose. The mind will want you to transcend or bury. Neither work. Ya, you might feel better. So? Then you feel worse and so on on on and on. Wouldn't you rather have the mechanism that drives the Game dissolve? It's your choice.

Desires of all kinds are exacerbated with so much Scorpioing going on. Spirituality/religiosity make material desire bad whilst unconsciously making spiritual desire good/god. Same shift, different daze. You may notice that you can't even find your desire. It's been very hard to get traction in your life. We continue to have no planets in Earth Signs, though the Moon does move through Capricorn for the 27th/28th. These are spacey days. Be aware. Death wishing karma in a loosey goosey field can manifest in a variety of ways. Life wishing is the same thing too, but flipped. If you wanna worship it, go ahead, but you'll find all sorts of things dying on ya. Remember it all comes and goes. So just be and play around with the comings and goings. Let the projections on everything burn away. It won't get you in the neutral safe spot or the Tao or on high. You'll just be you without the trappings. It's your choice.

Do what you want to do. Nothing wrong or right about it. You're simply seeing that it doesn't work to not do what you want to do. All those systems that are suppose to transcend you beyond desire don't work. That's why the so called higher ups act out their shadow stuff or get humanity to act it out for them. Desire is just the fear that you don't have something. Getting your desire object doesn't clear the anxiety inherent in the system. It just changes how things feel or appear locally. What the fun is is you being you. The choicing just comes with the territory of the Game. You are the fun. All the rest is the sufferful search for yourself in the Dream. That's why claiming your own consciousness works, so to speak. It just melts the projections of your endless chasing after yourself in the house of mirrors. The more you clear your identification in the machinery, the more you'll have show up what you want while simultaneously you see that there isn't anything to get from anything anyway. You enjoy your self despite the comings and goings. You dump a lot less of your desire/fear stuff on others. You get to play instead of being played. It's your choice.

There's about four weeks of the gross bottom scraping sludgery to go. I highly recommend that you use this amazing time for dumping crap. You just won't want to be dragging that stuff around during Armageddon. Nimbleness is very helpful when the shift is hitting the fan. You will not miss the crap. It misses you, but you won't want it. Choose your own being and clear the old stories of doing something to be somebody, especially the subtle ones.

It's your choice,
Mark