The planets are spreading out a bit after being clustered for a spell. Venus is bravely leading the pack in Aries and sets up a Grand Trine in Fire Signs with Jupiter in Sagittarius and Saturn in Leo. These are lovely days. This is a lovely year. You may not feel that way yourself because of Karma Hangover. Karma, good or bad, keeps you grinding in the Game, keeps you looking for yourself in all the wrong and right places, keeps you keeping on with The Secret, The Hope, The Promised Land always in sight and just around the corner cuz it all turns on the karmic wheel and you'll never get There, or for that matter Here. It's all a Dream that wants the Dream to come true while you feel false and have to go looking for your Truth. How do you like it? Ain't none of it you. The Dream is getting noisier and weirder by the day. You are not in it or of it like you think. Did you know that you have a choice? You can clear your own karma if you claim your own consciousness. I can remember to you how to go about that, if that interests you.

Also this week, Luna cruises through Libra on the 5th/6th and we have five of six points of a Grand Hexagon in Fire/Air Signs. Flow, flow, flow your boat, despite high seas or leaks or ragged sails. Carry on. Damn the torpor needos. Speed fully beyond your head. Intend more and think less. Choosers aren't beggars and are askers and receivers, and givers too. Hoorah!

Time marches on and March’s time is strange, harried and hurried. In the USA, they’ve diddled with Daylight Savings Time for some sort of energy conservation. This month DST begins in the early morn of March 11 rather than early April. Some odd bits of software in things like VCR’s and such apparently will be whacked. It’s Y2K lite and silly. (On the other end of the year, the return to Standard time will be in early November instead of later October.)

Why these couple of extra weeks makes any real difference is beyond me. Notice how it’s just one more annoying disturbance like the weird weather. The feelings that tend to be generated are a sense of insecurity and unsettledness. There’s no homeostasis to be found. The cells of the body and the brainstem are completely whacked anymore. Life is more like Second Life: virtual and apparently real, but not with much grounding or necessarily any purpose that can make sense of it all. Welcome to the end of the Piscean Age. Shifts ahoy!

As a result, folks are looking for the Answer, the Secret, the Purpose Driven Life….or maybe just the penultimate Harry Potter story. How ya gonna wizard in a world of befuddling muggles? I say be and choose and giggle as best you can. Chasing after the next projection of the promised land generates messy instant karma. Looking for The Answer will keep you identified in problemesque manifestations. The Secret’s secret is that it doesn’t ultimately work. You just get some positive change on top of the shadowed negative and the law of attraction will eventually spin around that shadow by the law of repulsion. I say go Lawless. The Laws have their effects, but why worship them and empower them as if they’re something new or something ancient and true. What goes up must come down and it’s all going round and round. Be yourself; claim your own consciousness; intend for what you want without going through projective entities such as the Universe or what has you. Just choose as you go. No big deal and it ain’t no Secret. The old dogged ponied show creates a lot of Secretions. The hooky popularity has ya floppin’ on another fishy line. Who needs it? Not you. Who kneads it? The mind and the charge card and the inflammation of a life based on hope instead of the effortless peace, delight and freedom of your own being.

As the Piscean Age winds out, all the beginnings have their endings. We started with Christ and Caesar and now we end with fundamentalist Christianity and corporate fascism. It is no mistake that both are unified in the head of state in Amerika. It’s all insanely topsy turvy. Leading environmentalists are now in favor of nuclear energy when decades ago they were vehemently against it. [By the way, it takes so much energy to create that so-called clean (har har) nuclear energy, that there’s no net gain of energy. All the cheap stuff is gone! How about using way less and utilizing the energy streams of sun and such. The tech will catch up with it eventually. It just does not pay to build the whole nuke thing or the hydrogen thing. Diminishing returns are hitting at the same time as upwardly spiraling demand for first world untenable lifestyles explodes. We are also running out of living topsoil and they just don’t make that shit anymore in any kind of renewable way. So forget about growing biomass to run the Prius.] W is now supporting the National Parks after attacking public lands in general and letting the Park Service rot. Then there’s more troops in to get troops out…… Get the picture? It’s not just the Madness of King George (and I mean that he is literally insane)….. You are seeing the polarity in all it’s rapidly free swinging nature. It’s always like this, but everything is sped up by the chase after the golden ring on the karmic wheel so you can be aware of it now. Tired yet?

This is the depressing time of the year for many. The cumulative effects of the months of dark cold in the north and the hot dry in the south affect most people. As planets cycle through Pisces, depression and craziness are amplified by the end of the Piscean Age whammy. On the 3rd, the Full Moon Lunar Eclipse is at 3:17 pm PST is aligned with Uranus in Pisces. The New Moon Solar Eclipse in late Pisces on the 18th at 7:43 pm PDT is square to Pluto in Sagittarius. This draws up the unconscious, the Id, the shadow. Be aware. Don’t make it all real, but be; be with what is as it is, but don’t identify in all the comings and goings; otherwise you’ll be chasing your ass and kicking it at the same time.

The first week of March has Mercury retrograde until 8:45 pm PST on the 7th. ‘Tis likely that folks will be feeling disconnected and fractured. More people are acting this out you’ll notice. This might not make the headlines, but it may make for nasty disturbances in your personal life. People are going off the deep end of their unconscious. Many won’t come back. We’ll see years of this, including lots going up the deep end of their superconscious in the name of gods or whatever. That stuff is intoxicating to all parties involved. More will be revealed. This is the time of Revelations. What has been unconscious is being revealed. The Rapture is a variety pack of ruptures. The shadows of the Light engulf the unconscious projections of spiritual greed. Nastiness, cold and hard, cracks, quakes and crazes. Headlines will be abundant and abhorrent. The shifts are hitting the fan in the body politic, the body human and the body of the planet. There’s really no place to hide to save your hide. Ride it out by realizing your own being. Let the Dream melt as you enjoy your own being with those you enjoy being with. What falls away was never you.

The Equinox is on the 20th at 5:08 pm PDT. That’s a relief energetically but the god of war is out of the bag and on the Path. Pathology follows. Mars opposes Saturn on the 22nd at 12:33 pm PDT. Everybody wants and hates Big Daddy. Wham bam spank The Man….. Mars then conjuncts Neptune on the 25th at 10:40 am PDT. The pit pendulums to the higher octave, as if that’ll work. The Higher would have worked by now if it was gonna work. Wanna keep workin’ that One? Go at your own righteous risk and pass the admonitions. To ice the shift cake, Pluto goes retrograde on the 31st at 3:44 pm PDT. It’ll back up eventually through the Galactic Center and get on the other side of it for three months before it comes back over it again on it’s way into Capricorn. Oy vay. 2008 is an uncorker when power of all sorts will be revealed as inherently powerless. Why wait/weight? Claim your own consciousness and clear your own karma. Grin and unbear it. Take time for yourself genuinely. You’re lonely for you. Be, then love and life and the phantasmagoria flow your way no matter which way shift creek and all the paddling goes.

You are fine,
Mark