Oh come all ye virgins, Venus enters Virgo 10/7 at 11:53 pm PDT. I reckon we're all tender virgins in an odd way. Perhaps violated virgins. These are difficult days for many people. It's made stranger by the fact that often there are no apparent reasons, not loud ones any way, for this sense of violation. The dull grind of anxiety thrums and drums. No relief, no refuge. Raw raw raw.

Jupiter squares Uranus 10/9 at 11:24 am PDT. As the rich folks' corporatic economy seemingly roars on, the plebeians lag, with many languishing. Revolt is well seeded. Next year come the clashes and crashes. The party, like it's 1999, teeters as it totters.

New Moon in Libra occurs at 10:01 pm PDT on 10/10 (nifty little numbers). Everything is perfect, just so........

Mercury goes retrograde in Scorpio at 9:00 pm PDT on 10/11 while Saturn is at the Moon's South Node. Interesting synchronicity. Saturn is at the Moon's South Node once every ten to twelve years. I reckon the weight of existential anxiety and the victim-treasured trove, will take the psyche, personal and collective, into a death/dearth spin. There doesn't have to be a reason. In fact, reason is noticeably absent. Then when reason kicks in, soooo many reasons are unreasonably blamed about in a parfait storm of flak and flagellance. The guilted cage becomes real, perhaps even sacred, a power of helpless hopelessness that we wear like a badge of discourage. Being positive, good and Light only spins the monster faster. Desperately the key is sought.... high swoon at the no key corral.

The more you think, the more you get bethoughted. The more you try, the more trying is your life. The more you pray, the more you are predated. Hope becomes the slippery slope. Fear is evermore near. Rage curls depressedly into dull ignorance. Whattaya gonna do? Undo. Claim your own consciousness and clear your identification in the software that endlessly generates the loops and goops that are not you. The Game's noise is ramping to a fevered pitch, sticky and loud. Suicide seems like a good idea. So does the positive form of being a hero. Be. See. Say. Unprey. Ungrey. Choose rather than snooze. Play and unhave the nice daze. The cage of guilt and the sacred salivations will not save you from suffering. They are part and parcel of suffering. Do what you want consciously. Undo what you don't want consciously. Take time and tenderness for yourself and with others. This is a long keel haul beneath the shit of states. Unloose the barnacles. As the timbers shiver and the gales roar, be dynamically, fluid and unburdened to whatever extent that you can muster. Beliefs that anchor your life will drown you. Tides turn too often to ride them. Sail free. You are fine even as the rigging whines.

Ahoy dear mateys,
Mark