Crikey it's hot in a whole lotta places! Tis the blazing glory of heaps 'o karma. Throw another Klaus on the Barbie, the fascists are starting to catch fire, in a good bad good way if you know what I mean. The meanies are going to be ever more readily getting their meanies back at them with aspartame on top.

The old familial karmic stories are pulling on your brain stem. Moola worries and heartbreak, the woe is a me bop topics of the deep and old variety, haunt the edges. Big tension is ready to pop. Fearall tendencies erupt. Don't buy in; don't sell out. Claim your own consciousness and clear your own karma.

Mercury has been retrograde on top of a very spacy time. We do have planets in Earth Signs from here on. That will help. Mercury goes direct on 7/9 at 7:16 pm PDT. Pluto hangs near the Galactic Center for practically the rest of the year. It will retrograde over the Center point 7/16. The spaciness has been especially intense because of this Galactic effect. We no longer are oriented solarwise. We are oriented galacticly. This will take a looong time to adjust to. We’re in the guinea pig end of the deal with all the wonders, including the Chinese curse of living in interesting times. There’s really nothing to do about it. Simply, it helps to know that it’s all spacy and it is not particularly you. The galaxy far, far away is now home.

New Moon in Cancer is on 7/14 at 5:04 am PDT followed by Venus entering Virgo at 11:25 am PDT. You may be feeling like a virgin….. with a madd on about anything. (I was at a party with Madonna in the ‘70’s and she looked mad and highly ambitious and just like the rest of us.) Your being is not a virginal innocent purity of divine whatever. It’s just being. No big deal. The reason that you might be feeling mad: the virgin stuff feels like it got fucked. You can try to retrieve your innocence innerchild purity Origin, but it just so happens that there’s no such thing and that’s why you feel pisssed. Lost too. There is no Home (Om) in the Dream that ever works. Your being is your home, in that projective way of speaking. Claim your being and let the noise and annoyance fall away. You are the peace that you seek.

Sun enters Leo on 7/22 at 10:00 pm PDT. It is a burning summer, is it not? That old soul called Old Sol is burnin’. (Maybe Sol is upset because the Galaxy is taking over.) Much of America is a tinderbox. Things are hot, hot, hot. Even your globes are warming. Share your warmth with the ones you love. Blow off steam. Let things come to a boil so that you can make the decisions that you want to make. Have the eye of the tiger and the breath of the dragon. (gargle as necessary) Let some of the flames out. Don’t make them real. You are just expressing your self. That was crushed long ago, and quite naturally your expression will find its way out with a bit of anger rapped around it. Remember, keeping down your anger is how you were kept down. There’s nothing right, nor wrong, about anger. But it is around our anger that we were most shut down because it is the natural response to when our desire is shut down. Let the anger be and soon your desires will be and you can carry on. Desires aren’t good for you, nor bad; they just come with the territory and all our forbearing forbearers got shut down and this pattern keeps getting passed on. That’s what karma is all about. Chew, swallow, regurgitate and swallow again……. with a hint of nuttiness in a full bodied pee no noir movie. Out damn block! If a few people don’t like you………. you never wanted them around in the first place. No pity for the petty.

Venus goes retrograde 7/27 at 10:27 am PDT. She’ll be direct again 9/8, the day after Pluto goes direct. You are very likely to feel the urge to retreat into yourself. Consider checking out that impulse. In won’t really work for you anymore. It’s just as crazy inwardly these days as outwardly. No refuge, lots of refuse. Let it be and you’ll let your dear self be. You don’t need refuge/escape like you think. There’s always choiceful rest, relaxation and contemplation. What I’m suggesting is that you can interrupt your usual escape hatchism with some awareness. You may see violet along with the shrinkage. Let out the violet words and then share yourself as you choose. We do want you to be with us. It’s just that mommy/daddy and what have you couldn’t be with you back in the daze. Now you can undaze and uncork and unwhine. Cheers.

There’s an intense Fixed Sign Grand Cross 7/22-24. These always bring the feeling that you are powerfully trapped. What’s actually going now, is that your can see the trappings of power. Claim your own consciousness and clear your own karma and you won’t have to live and die by power. Instead, you’ll just be and choose. Power is something that takes place in the exchanges of the Dream. What happens in the Dream, let it stay in the Dream. Full Moon in Leo/Aquarius occurs 7/29 at 5:48 pm PDT. I reckon that lightning struck fires will rise up aplenty. You may have bolts from the blue that ignite the dead wood in your life. Let ‘r burn, choicefully. What falls away from you was never you. It’s just the projections that are burning. Your dream no longer has to come true. You can truly be you and play with the dream. Have at it, with grains of salt and maybe even a wedge of lime.

Throw another karma on the barbee,
Mark