How ya hanging in the holiday hubbub? Ready to fire up the Menorah? Got the organic mistletoe from Whole Foods? Rented Elf and Bad Santa? Kwanzaa's just around the corner. We've got the New Moon in Sagittarius on the 20th at 6:01 am PST. The 21st brings Solstice, the Sun enters Capricorn, at 4:23 pm PST while Mars exactly squares Uranus.

The 22nd has been named Orgasm for Peace day, the day to conquer the bad penis people, to turn swords into plowshares, to defeat tricky dick, to make love not war, another bed-in. I was in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1969 when the White Panther party was calling for fucking in the streets, which they literally were doing, for the revolution. I don't recall it working. Maybe with the lingam and yonis lined up along the sacred grid lines with Chiron in the seventh house and Jupiter aligned with Mars......... by gods, it's the Age of Aquarius..... let the Son shine In...... I can hear the Fifth Dimension now..... The Hysteria is in full force. Oh cum all ye faithful, love and light filled, and triumphant..... Culture is on the march. Maybe you've herd it before.....

Sagittarius has five of the ten planets in it for this week ahead. Jupiter, it's ruler, is in it for a year. Bring on the carnival. Sagittarius represents culture. Capricorn represents law and order. Sagittarius/Jupiter expand. Capricorn/Saturn contract. We'll now have the proverbial plethora of positive thinkingitis rampant and rancid. The Secret is out.... Must be positive to vanquish the negative. The Law of Attraction, all praise the Law of Attraction........ and, ignorantly forget that it includes the Law of Repulsion. What goes up, must come down and it all goes round and round and if you want to buy it....... get ready for the ride of your life/death. Positive maintains the negative. The Light maintains the Dark. Good'll get ya bad. How's about being your self and letting the swingy dingy, make believe, herd instinct, Santa's coming to town mind melange melt for you this holiday season?

Beliefs are insane herd/heard ignorance. Culture is built on them. Culture is insane. Lemmings seek the promised Cliff, the Homeland Security. Everything in Creation is a cult. One's personality, any given dogma, family, chakras, habit/addiction, history, corporation, a cell...... they're all organized around some matrix of "beliefs" and then the parts line up to follow the Wholly Way. Cult/culture..... same thing. Now all the cults and their curious cultures will be coming out of the woodwork to be seen in the Light of Daze, the Light of End Daze. Belief and the cultish circling of the waggin's lead always to attack and defense. Wrongs must be righted.... to the death for eternal life...... Oy vay! Are you tired yet? Do you really wanna carry around a sack full of belief shit?

The end times flush out the chumps, to paraphrase Ulysses Everett McGill in O Brother Where Art Thou?. America is a sucker for the next new and improved wang dang doodle. The USA is very Sagittarian. It is having a peak experience. It's down hill from here on as the karma comes due. Abundance reigns/rains, but abundant what? All of our government's do-goodisms are coming due karmically. What goes around, comes around. The CIA et al have so very often used a small number of terrorists to destroy democratic processes. If we pick on something bigger than Grenada, we lose from here on. Karma. Until Amerika recognizes its Imperial abuses, it will be paying the piper, the oil pipers. And wait 'til you see what happens with water........

Irritation is scratchin' and itchin' like Itchy and Scratchy in the Simpsons. Rage is near by. Resentment bubbles, toils and troubles. The smiley face is a bit hard to maintain. Let out the steam in whatever ways do the least damage. The old cauldron of pain has been stirred at depth. This old stuff wants out. Let it, but don't make it real, don't believe it. And laugh. This is the full on jovial season. Remember ho ho ho in the midst of hoe hoe hoe. Treat your self. Recreate. Realize that some glut happens this time of the year in the northern hemisphere and it goes along with hibernation. A bit of both is natural; no need to fight it. Make benefit. Hug. Yes, give but remember to receive too. Gather and blather and simply enjoy being and being together. It doesn't have to get better than that.

Warm embrace,
Mark