I write to you as Pluto arrives at the Galactic Center. I've waited for this my whole thirty year career as an astrologer. Pandora's box is opening. Pandora = many doors........ many doors are opening. The doors of perception unlock, boundaries melt, aliens make their selves at home, veils part and portals beckon. It's a brave, nude world. Prediction and possibility were befogged by this transition zone. Now we can begin to see and, perhaps plan, more clearly.

Last night I was watching Ingmar Bergman's Seventh Seal and this quote jumped out (the Max Von Sydow character says to Death):

We must make an idol of fear and call it God.

Does that sum up our time or what?

The Seventh Seal has been broken. We play chess with Death. Armageddon is full on. The End Times harken the Promised Land. Heaven and Earth merge. So what? Then what? No one ever asks the obvious question. So you get to the promised land or you re-invent Eden..... then what? So the Second Coming happens, then what? How long to the Third Curtain Call? Looking forward to the Fourth Regurgitation?

We have for a very long time made an idol of love and called it God. Now the shadow of love..... fear....... arises.

The Second Coming is always happening. It's called karma. What goes around, comes around. I harp on facing the shadow, of bringing whatever is unconscious in to light, because if you don't face it, you get the Second Coming, the Boomerang, the Comeuppance. You chase after the Yin and get hit upside the head with the Yang. It's just physics/metaphysics. Here at the end of the Piscean Age (which happens every 26,000 years+) when Pluto has come to the Galactic Center (which happens every 250 years) after an unprecedented Grand Cross grinder of a year........... you can see that the Empire has no clothes. Yes, this applies to Amerika's imperialistic tendencies, but more pointedly you can see that Creation has no clothes, no close, no end, no beginning. You can see the Loop in everything. What goes around comes around, including the spiritual path or the purpose driven life or the law of attraction/repulsion and so on. In Creation, in the universes upon universes, suffering is the endless chase after your tail/tale. Are you tired yet? You are your self. Not The Self, Atman, That, I Am or whatever projection you can name. You are your own consciousness. Claim it and be done with the Game and enjoy the melting of the Game for you, or........... Make it real, chase the golden pot at the end of the rainbow, the 24 carrots on the schtick, retrieve your soul and all the other buried bones of looping time on the karmic Wheel..........

Death isn't the problem. Pain isn't the problem. Separation isn't the problem. Has Life cured death? Has pleasure banished pain? Has Love ended loneliness? Naw, and it ain't gonna either. That's the cosmic joke. Anything opposite is not going to cure the problem. Love is positive attack. The only separation that is the problem is: being identified in the projection machinery which splits you from your own being and has you endlessly doing something to be somebody. Life is part and parcel with death. Eternal Life would simply be death to your own being. It doesn't work, but it does work you and then you are your work and proud of it. Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition, the admonition, the amortization and abomination.....

Suffering is the endless search for yourself in the Dream. Claim who you are and the suffering ends for you. That is why I encourage you to a karmic clearing session. It is a simple remembrance to you to claim who you are. The rest takes care of itself. Love, God, Unity and all That hasn't worked and won't work, won't get rid of suffering, because it is simply based on projection. Get Consciousness, the Power of Now, the Secret and all the holy whoreshit of chasing after the Good and ignoring the Bad for a couple of drops of dumb bliss. Bliss is ignorance. As below, so above. Your Guides are dumber than you. The Light is just shiny ignorance. The Tunnel is a creation of thinking you'll get some Light somewhere down stream. Enlightenment darkens your own being whilst you think you've doggedly retrieved your Golden.

The Whirled is spinning at an unprecedented rate because everybody is desperately chasing their golden ring materially and spiritually. The Seeker is also the Hider. The blind encourage the blind fold. The One will keep you following two. Hope distracts you from the stories of hopelessness, which if you simply face them, melt and you thereby don't have to live on whiffs of Hope. Power is the ability to effect change. Do you think that if you presto changeo the stories with the power of _______________ that suffering will go away? Well it may, but then it'll be back............ Power only empowers Power. Love loves love. Security secures the fears. Changing seats on the Hindenburg does not get rid of the crash and burn.

Some centuries ago the Chinese where alchemically seeking an elixir of immortality. Guess what compound they discovered when they thought they had It? Gun powder. That shit can get you non-mortal real fast; I'm not sure that it has provided immortality. Power and Hope and Spirit and Love and Family and Truth and Knowledge and Purity............. you are becoming aware that they don't work like you thought they would. This is the gift of our crazy assed time. You can see through the machinery that holds you into the Game. It's your choice to end it for you or continue it for you. You can end suffering for you. If you want to ignore and avoid the Dark and hang on to your Precious and think you're the Lord of the Ring, gooooooood luck.

By the way, in case you haven't noticed yet, you can't get rid of suffering for others either. You can change suffering for them and they can change suffering for you. So what? It's lovely, but ultimately still suffering. Good luck also trying to find just the right kind of suffering that'll stay bliss for you or for them. Selfless is another popular strategy. Who's more full of their Self than the selfless? Who's more proud than the Humble?

All of this, the shadow of everything, Everything..... is being revealed. Whaddya think Revelations means? So consider enjoying the revealment of the Shadow rather than drooling for the coming of the Light. You are light by the jettisoning of the weight/wait of the unconscious projections of Light and Dark and One et al. Claim your own consciousness and clear all your second comings, your karma, your stories. You can enjoy yourself always while the comings and goings dissolve in turn on the Wheel that is not you.

Full Moon in Capricorn/Cancer this week at 5:57 am PST on the 3rd. Venus enters Aquarius that same day at 7:31 pm PST. There's not a lot happening astrologically aside from Pluto at the Galactic Center. This is what is strange about now and actually the whole year ahead: there isn't a lot happening and that feels very uncomfortable. We have had such a plethora of planetary pandemonium for some time. The absence of that feels like a loss. Now that the cosmic commotion has settled for a spell, you can hear the grinding of the gears. It's there all the time, but now you hear it. This is what is actually going on: nothing is going on........ and you are becoming aware of it. As that happens you become aware of the karmic constructs of your life. That's the Path. It'd be more accurate to call it the Rut. Your karma is just your past that wants to become your future. Have at it, if you so desire. Or claim your own consciousness, clear your own karma and do what you want to do while enjoying your self.

From here on, the more you chase your projections, the more you will suffer. It's not that it's some God damned judgment day. You are just conscious now of what you generally weren't conscious of before. The world isn't getting worse. You're just aware of how sufferful it's always been. If you buy the End Times to get your New Beginning, the Ends will justify the meanness. Be yourself, play your way out of your dilemmas, have a choice life instead of being in control.

The year ahead is lovely. Past and future will clang about each other. An issue like global warming keeps you in the fret over the past and the fret over the future. Consider just using less of everything and the planet will likely be better for it. This time stuff runs through everything. Get JC to come from the past so you can live in heaven for the forever future..... Get the money you earned last year to grow and become the money of your future, or not....... Botox the character lines of your past, so that your future is young; you look like the afterlife.... cadaverous........ Time is faster than shift because of the aforementioned carrot grab. Your cellphone/computer/camera are obsolete when you buy them. 2012 becomes more important than today. Working for retirement....... You have to get the there and then called Here and Now...... Just be. You'll find it much more playful.

The opening of outer portals of course has the correspondent opening of the inner portals. You'll see more about yourself and the universe than ever before. Just don't believe it. Shuck all your beliefs. They anchor you underwater in the tsunami. You can stop and smell the neuroses, but then do what you want to do in spite of them.

Death is going to be very popular. Folks will be slipping through the veils. Death, craziness, suicide/heroism, mass dying, plagues. Whatever dances on the edge of beyond will be edging forward with that edgey feeling. Get used to it. It's there all the time, but now we face it. Americans are exceptionally denying of D. D is going to show up more until they get conscious of it. Those that sanitize will come up smelling like shit. These crazy assed lovers of death are going to get theirs too. Up against the wall martyrs. Same for weapons makers. Those who fuck with people are going to get fucked.

The karma of colonization is up in spades, clubs, blood diamonds and broken hearts. The house of cards has tumbled, but the mess is full at hand. Time for a global forum concerning de-colonization, resource mining and indigenous rights. If you don't treat the land well, you don't treat the people well and vice versa. The rights of plants/animals/ecosystems/Gaia will be a large and painful agenda. There is no stopping the flywheel effects of the cancer of humanity for now. Likewise the karma of humanity begets the cancer of the human. Over consumption begets the body consuming intself. Maybe it is time for Enough.

Gravity is also a major theme for 2007. Everybody tries to escape it. Now the karma of that takes place. What goes up comes down ala the Twin Towers, the great iconic lesson of our Age. Weird stuff around flying, space travel, channeling/astral traveling and so forth will be prominent. Gravity and love are the same thing. They suck. They suck you to the planet or to each other. More shall revealed about all of this as science and religion merge. Infrastructure is falling down. We've lived on cheap oil, cheap labor, cheap pollution while being rich in power. That shit is reversing. Your car costs more than a mortgage for a house some years ago. You get in it and there's no place to go cuz it all looks the same now and besides, you just sit in traffic half the time anyway. All dressed up powerfully and really no place to go. Meanwhile the upkeep on the Monster, be it the highway system or the system of addictions in your body/personality, will loom largely and loudly. Social insecurity and formula 401notokay will be hitting the fan. The markets will yo-yo so that there is never any peace, any stasis. While you're looking for more, you end up with less. Be intentional instead and clear those old vows of poverty.

The pharmaceutical companies are going to be seen as evil as weapons makers. All kinds of juicy bits will be outed. Healthcare is misnamed. It's profitcare. Take care of yourself. They are doing a lousy job of it. They want to poison you like the good Munchausen by proxy syndrome motherfuckers that they are. The question is what are you going to do? Invest in your health rather than health insurance. Invest in your homesteading rather than your homeland security. Invest in your friends and neighbors/neighborhoods rather than your gated communities. Gate your projections and share with your community as you see fit.

From time immemorial, people have dodged the outer world by going in. Going in doesn't work anymore. You are becoming conscious that when you go in, you just go out to another dimension. Now you are realizing that going in is equivalent to going up and that shift is coming down. Just be yourself instead of taking refuge inside. Meditation only keeps you a happy, holy clamper embedded in a system with a little feel good or shineola on top. Spirituality is just as much an opium of the people as is religion. Spirituality has all the unconscious crap as religion, but the followers don't think so. It's wake up time for them. How's about getting enlightened to the shadow of Enlightenment so that the world doesn't have to act out your unconscious dark side so that you can feel oh so Light?

The chart for 2007 is a Mystic Rectangle: two oppositions in trine/sextile to each other. Saturn in Leo opposes Neptune in Aquarius; Jupiter in Sagittarius opposes the Moon in Gemini. There's a lot of tension, but it can move, it will move. Things are on the move whether you like that or not. You can only be your way through. If you are identified in the mind and think that you are your body/mind/spirit, get ready to blow chunks and have chunks blow you, ad nauseaum. You'll keep on trying to figure out what to do. Be and choose instead. You will not be able to keep up with your life from here on. It's out of your hands (because it's all projections after all). You can go Rapturous and put it in the Big Guy's hands, but you're still trying to do and control your way out of it all. By the way, surrendering your control to a higher power is still control with some ignorant bliss glazed and amazed on top. If you do the Game, the Game will do you. You can't control shift. You can intend consciously and alter the outpicturing if you want. That's fun. But mostly it's just you being and you making choices in a Dream. Enjoy yourself and enjoyables appear to in the house of mirrors. Try to control the Dream and try to get your joy from it, well.................. that's Armageddon for ya. All promised lands are broken promise lands.

You'll see a gaggingly stupendous amount of doubletalk and doubleact. For instance, as soon as Bush turns toward withdrawal of troops...... he sends more. That'll work! Let's reinstitute the draft for just W so that he can go to war and be the Man. We won't have war anymore when we quit. That's it. Nothing fancy. It's just a stupid thing to do. I reckon in our era, we could actually realize that. We shall see......

Gridlock will be the norm. You can flow beyond many of these congestions if you are being yourself. If you are being somebody like a personality or a soul or whathasyou, you will get battered in those areas. No need for that unless you want to identify as a need who needs to help the needy so that the Big Guy can help your needs. Then you'll knead the dough in some half baked scheme when you wished you were just loafing. Take time for yourself or illness or madness or injury or collapse will take the time off for you. Keep your humor about you. Making this shift real is a killer.

You'll feel lousy. You always feel lousy. Now you can be aware of it and realize that you are not those feelings; then your life doesn't have to be lousy just cuz you feel that way. Old shit is peeling. Let it. Don't retrieve your soul bits and/or get your shit together. Wipe, flush, change underwear and go play. You'll smell better. We'll appreciate that too. Once you realize that you always feel lousy in the Dream, then you won't have to continue the master buration of efforting to feel good, to get to that goal, that weekend, that heaven. You can enjoy yourself rather than trinketing about in the house of mirrors looking to get your joy from its cold, hard surfaces and all of that stubborn stubbing that comes along with it. You don't have to feel good and be good. You can be yourself and enjoy the delight, peace and freedom that you are, rather than hopelessly hopefully looking for the joy in the third eye of god or the blue plate special.

There is no reason whatsoever for a lousy year, but that is exactly what most people will be doing. Claim your own consciousness and clear your own karma. Intend what you want and what you don't want. Enjoy yourself choicefully. Play with the turds in your punch bowl; they are just frozen grape juice. Things are not what they appear to be. Getting all cosmic will only blind you with bullshit. It's simple. Be.

Predictably,
Mark