With Venus retrograde for some weeks, this is an excellent time to re-evaluate your life. Choose for you rather than for them. If you aren't being you and doing what you want to do, you are more than useless to them. It's better to be, rather than to give or receive. Giving and receiving just happen in the Dream. Let it be. Choose your own being. Claim your own consciousness and clear your karma cuz it's getting weirder by the hour and there are a lot of hours ahead....

Lots 'o shifts this week. Mercury enters Leo 8/4 at 10:15 am PDT. Jupiter goes direct 8/6 at 7:06 pm PDT. Mars enters Gemini that same day at 11:01 pm PDT. Venus squares Mars 8/7 at 4:35 pm PDT followed by Venus retrograding back into Leo on 8/8 at 6:11 pm PDT. The Heart is in a shambles being shredded with glorious agonies. The good news is that it's all those old stories that are up and can be shed, if you so choose. The trouble is that if you don't claim your own consciousness, you can't get enough traction to make those kinds of choices. Instead, there's either denial or transcendence, and you are noticing how those don't work anymore. You can just sit in the stew in the slow lane or you can get done with the very software that drives the suffering machinery. Your crotch is on the barbed wire fence while you are busy realizing the higher mind/higher Self game with one leg and realizing your own being with the other leg. What's your next step?...... or do you enjoy the suffering and bleeding in your nether parts?...... while sharing them with fellow bleeders on the sacred/scared fence of the Dream. If you want your Dream to come true............ have at it, but maybe, just maybe, you're seeing through the Dream. You do have a choice and choosers don't have to be beggars/genuflecters.

This is a magical August indeed. Huge archetypal forces are in movement. Quakes and tsunamis will be manifest on the outside and on the inside. Give up anchoring to some security. You’ll only be flattened and flooded by more drama than you’d care to entertain.

Venus is retrograde all of August. Going inside of your self will be oh so tempting. Give up taking refuge in such transcendent ways. Tis a shell game at best. Be with what is as it is and go ahead and make decisions on the fly. You are fine. You don’t need higher guidance or power or all such projections. Fly by the seat of your being and enjoy the ride. Also, give up over greeding and over giving. You are fine; they are fine. Share as you choose, but be aware of those ancient projections and beliefs. You are not a bad who needs to be/do good!

Everything is burning. Throw all your karma on the infernal inferno. Whaddaya need that baggage for! It’s not you! Katie unbarnacle the doors. Your intentions for manifestation can be amazing and wonderful this month. Proceed with joy.

Be aware of the Ides of August: 15-17. Sun, Mercury and Venus do a lovely doe-si-doe with each other. You can see that all love is a projection system and that what you’ve always been looking for is your being in the Dream. You kiss a few mirrors and after some cold, hard experiences, you can realize the Game of seeking and soughting. BeSoughted feels good for a while and then it feels stalk raving mad. Shed and get off the plots. Be and I mean be with the ones you love or forever hold your pieces.

Mercury enters Virgo on the 8/19 at 6:01 am PDT. This will kick in an intense Mutable Grand Cross that will last three weeks into September. It consists of Mars in Gemini, Jupiter in Sagittarius, Uranus in Pisces and Mercury/Sun/Saturn in Virgo. This is splendid for manifestation, but if you haven’t been intending for your manifestation, you get the intentions of your karma. I highly recommend a claiming/clearing session with me if you are karmically tired and would like to manifest what you’d like to manifest. You don’t have to settle for enough or go chasing after debt loads of pie in the sky. Have your cake and eat it too with icing on top. Remember: all that you ever enjoy in the Dream is your self. If you claim your own being as who you are, that’s permanent. Then you can play with the flotsam and jetsam of your karma.

There’s a New Moon on 8/13 in Leo at 4:02 pm PDT; it is the time of the Perseid Meteor shower. A moonless night plus meteors equals a fine time to wish upon your stars. Alien ships will be landing any day now and maybe you’ll share the light show with other dimensional folks. We’ve gone Galactic so anything is possible from here on.

The Sun enters Virgo on 8/23 at 5:08 am PDT. This is the Sphinx Point of Silence and the Absolute. Venus backed through this point some weeks ago; Mercury, which rules Virgo, went through this auspicious degree days ago and on 9/3 Saturn will enter the magical portal. Worry is ramping up, but it is only your awareness that makes it so. Creation is an endless worry machine in search of Peace. You’ll never find a Peace that will work absolutely in the Dream. You are peace. Give up the search and claim your own consciousness and clear your own karma. Virgo is the deep reminder that what you think you’ve got has you. It reminds us that the effort to hold or attain Peace is the very noise that maintains the search on the Wheel. Realize your own being and let the Game fingernail the chalky boredom all it wants. The Noise that is arising is inherent and all the meditation in the Universe will not squelch the belch. Peace in the Dream is the actual noise reacted against. You don’t need to do do do anything to enjoy the peace of your being that never comes and goes.

Let this August be your august occasion to choose to be you instead of the endless projections of the Dream machine. You'll never miss the Game and you won't have to miss you anymore.

Peace be what you are,
Mark