Between River Woebegone and Coal Miner's Slaughter.... it's been quite a week. Collapse is happening: infrastructure, ecosystems, psyches. Does it sound like Armageddon to you? I'm giving consultations in Minneapolis. I set up the gig and on the way over, the bridge fell down. The first time I went to DC in my life was ten days after 9/11; the Pentagon was still smoking. Last year I went to the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia and Steve Irwin died after I'd booked the gig and I had the honor talk about he and his family's karma/mission within a dozen kilometers from his zoo where he lived. When you've got seer karma, you end up seeing things whether you like them or not.....

I arrived in Minneapolis (first time I've ever been here) two days after the bridge collapse. The energy was the densest spin I've ever felt, much more than DC after 9/11. The city and its denizens were in serious shock. By Monday it had lifted remarkably. Miraculously perhaps only about a dozen people may end up losing their lives in the disaster. It's all a credit to Minneapolis/St. Paul and the folks here. What I saw was that they fully embraced their feelings and reactions, which is why the spike of the dense spin was so intense. But thereby they processed it very quickly and this clarity aided the lessening of the loss of life and cleared the air.

Frankly, I'm proud of 'em. They karmically signed up for being the poster child of the new archetypal variation off of Armageddon's Tsunami theme: collapse. Overwhelm and imminent or actual collapse is what is happening. You likely are feeling it big time, personally and collectively. The shift and shit is hitting the fantastic..... and it's just the beginning.

This is why I've been apreachin' at ya for seven and a half years. This is why I'm on a last grand tour of North America to preach some more. And this is why I'm retiring from this kind of touring at the end of this year. Once we get into 2008, there will begin occuring events like tsunamis or 9/11's on a something like a monthly basis for practically a decade. There is an amazing unwinding, an amazing upwelling of every ancient terror which is taking place that is beyond historical and is all too hysterical. We've never had the transition of the Piscean Age to the Aquarian Age while simultaneously Pluto uncorks the galactic gateway. Everything is getting ripped high and low. There is no escape, with great desire to escape. Lots of folks checking out of the body energetically or by death. You are noticing it already.

If you are identified in the mind and the higher mind stuff, you will slammed mercilessly and mercifully and they'll both suck; they'll suck your attention and identification from your own being into the matrix of the polarities of heaven and earth and good and evil and so froth......

You have a choice. You can claim your own consciousness by direct intention and thereby have the leverage to clear your own karma. If you do, you won't swing horribly and boringly in the waves of krusty karmic krap on the inside and outside and beyond. I can show you how. Get it while you can cuz I may drop dead or quit one of these days. But most importantly, with all the immense distraction of pain/suffering/hoping/praying/preying that arises with this eruption of all the old brain stem and crown chakra sludge, you won't have to lose your ass in the drama/dharma/karma-go-round. Are you tired yet?

On another charming note about what I've been seeing on the road these last two months.... the air in Colorado is fucked and during these months right now the air is being fucked in Wyoming by all the thousands upon thousands of natural gas wells that are being put in so that we can just barely meet demand for energy this year......... Ask the folks who live there. I saw it predicted a year plus ago and now I've smelled it with my own nose and seen it with my own stinging eyes. All the trucks say Halliburton and Schlumberger. Tis another form of collapse......... no more crystal blue skies and all that comes with this degradation, plus the lives of so many ranching folks who never owned mineral rights cuz the railroads or whatever kept it all to their greedy selves have gutted their properties and all their hard work and care. I weep a lot lately. I bet you do too.

Astrology is getting mainstreamed indeed. A few days ago a fine sports columnist Jon Saraceno in the USA Today, had an interesting article on Barry Bonds with his birth info, plus excellent comments by astrologers. Way to go. I also see the word karma used all over the place too. We live in interesting times.....

Speaking of astrology...... What a scrambly ass week that last one was, ay? Now we have five of the ten planets in Leo 8/11-12 with some very unusual geometries. Your heart is on your sleeve, in the dumpster and flying high. Tons of worries about money everywhere. Big, big worries about children. New Moon on 8/12 in Leo at 4:02 pm PDT. It's the Perseid meteor shower night with a New Moon so it'll be entirely dark and might be a good one if you've got a clear sky. Then for 8/13-15 while the Moon is in Virgo, we get a Mutable Grand Cross with the Moon opposite to Uranus in Pisces square to the opposition of Jupiter in Sagittarius opposed to Mars in Gemini. Feeling trapped and not knowing what to do will be major. Folks will think Love will be the answer and it'll back fire. Love is questionable. Ever felt like you didn't want to love somebody cuz they weren't loving you the way you wanted to be loved?.............. In this era there are no refuges that work anymore. Tis rawboned times of exquisite suffering and the old need jerk responses that will recognized as failed which brings on more flailing.

For 8/15-17, Sun, Venus, Mercury and Saturn are all conjuncting unusually closely. This is the real icing on the broken hearted caked karma. Everybody will be looking for the Truth as they lie in the Dream. Give up making your dreams come true. You'll only make the Dream come true and you'll feel like the lie. Do what you want to. It works much better than trying to get the projection game to make you happy. Belief and reason will be conflicting and clacking on the dumb bell curve of the whole Game. Thinking and faithing will not get you through the night or the day. They'll only embed you deeper in the layered suffering of the old turgid turded variety show.

Meanwhile, if you are claiming your own consciousness and clearing your own karma, you'll find that your intentions are starting to really kick in with wonderful manifestations. It's harvest time and the fun is you.

Take care of your dear self,
Mark