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A Passion For Life

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Throughout the current lunation a time of gathering momentum and pushback has been making itself more and more visible in the world, and this now reaches a threshold moment with the full Moon in Scorpio.
 
The energy which this gathering momentum embodies is seeking to act upon raised awareness, coupled with the twin powers of interrelationship and personal choice, and this is nowhere more visible than when the hearts and minds of the people are given voice and demonstrated publicly. It is also clearly reflected in the astrology of the moment.
 


Possibly the most spectacular example of this over the last few days was the big march in London on Saturday 24th April. This took place just as the Moon was transiting into the UK’s first house (whole sign) and transiting cj Uranus in the UK chart.
 
This embodiment of public power and consciousness focused on showing solidarity in awareness. It manifested a freedom of choice that goes against the grain of authoritarian conformity, an awareness that is capable of seeing beyond the ‘illusions of reality’ which such conformity relies on to prevail.
 
The planetary movements of the moment saw a stellium of planets in tropical Taurus reflecting a unified field of adroit awareness that is very much on the rise and on this occasion directly challenged the dictates of power as embodied in the UK’s eight house Mars.
 
Coming up against Mars in a ‘power over’ position requires courage, but, numbers make the difference and takes such personal power to another level.
 


This was a united effort bringing together the combined forces of the Sun, Mercury, Uranus and Venus in Taurus, reflecting precise embodiment in time and place through the lunar transit. But, this stellium in Taurus also squared transiting Saturn perfectly and now, as the Moon comes to fullness, comes close to the mid-point of the UK national chart’s Venus Saturn opposition.
 
We will see this midpoint triggered over the coming days as Venus and Mercury move away from Uranus, which brings us back to the significance of this full Moon in particular.
 
The full Moon in Scorpio brings these matters of freedom and non-compliance to a crucial moment, the threshold moment, upon which their effectiveness going forward very much rests.
 
This is the wave that must be surfed, its energy sustained and embodied, given prolonged expression, so that its effect can continue to build and fully realise its potential as the truly effective catalyst for change it seeks to become. It must be sustained to ensure that it remains strong enough to effectively oppose ‘the forces of conformity and containment’ which this collective expression of energy defies.
 
There is a circle of reciprocity being engendered in this moment, between the inner and the outer, between individual and collective action.
 


Every person aligning themselves with this energy is a carrier of its seed potential. And, even though the power of the collective manifests personal power at another level, beyond the individual, a level which can achieve the degree of change needed, it all rests on the willingness of the individual to fully embody their personal potential, and that means personal truth, to as high a degree as possible for that power to rise sufficiently.
 


Its been said many times before, but, this cannot be more clearly put. A collective force of empowered individuals is unstoppable, a truth the authorities know all too well.
 


Saturn and Uranus reflect this current dynamic well and, being triggered, they reveal the truth.
 


But, while the current debacle is out in the open, seen more fully for what it is, with every moment, by more and more people, this is not simply about raising a revolutionary spirit, opposing the orthodoxies of power and resisting their dictates.
 
This is about becoming a fully embodied protector of both the human and the planetary soul, a role which can be more fully realised and evolved into through allowing the momentum now being generated to take our awareness to yet higher levels still.


In the midst of distraction, the tension and chaos of the moment can no longer hide this underlying truth – we are, it has been said, experiencing all this for this very purpose.
 


The Sabian symbols for the Sun, the Moon and Saturn’s degrees resonate strongly here.
 


The Sun’s degree speaks of awareness funded by recognition of natural cycles and how they are the foundation of all change, including that which we are engaged with now.
 

The Moon’s degree tells us that this moment is about being receptive to the radiance of higher powers , of “being a soul that can reflect love’s light”, and bringing the transcendent Venusian aspect of relating into an active role in our own self realisation.
 


Saturn’s degree speaks of how the natural laws and facts which allow us to plan in advance for action are also fully manifest at this time, grounding the awareness we are generating.
 
 
There is an antidote at work here, to the destructive anti-soul that is seeking to dominate our future, which can be easily sensed at this time, if not given name to.
 
Here we are being asked to appreciate the wider sweep of time, how the great natural cycles work through present time, and how this awareness gives our perception and understanding the depth and breadth the soul needs to not only become more fully grounded in the present, but to spread its influence and become greater in its own presence.
 
Working with this awareness in the present strengths the soul, engenders a fuller manifestation of its own natural environment, which reaches beyond time constraints, and allows us to work in harmony with the planetary level of soul.
 
At an individual level, it rests upon our ability to hold quiescence within and to embody attentive receptivity, receptivity to higher orders of awareness and intelligence as they are manifest on this planet. We can sense these and integrate with them through nature, through natural cycles and through our ability to divine the present, to ‘see’.
 
Together this T square shows us how adopting a future oriented imagination and our capacity to be receptive to inspirational powers are working in balanced and reciprocal relationship, and how this is mediated through a certain knowing, that “planning for the future is possible because the potential (or seed) of the future is already operating at the core of the present”.
 


I’ve said it many times over the years, but, humans are here to fully embody ‘seeing’, as life’s most natural gift. This can take many forms, each with a resonance belonging to a specific soul group, and there are many soul groups which we might chose to join when we are born, one for every degree of the zodiac in fact.
 
The soul groups belonging to the Sun, Moon and Saturn’s degrees at full Moon will be particularly activated by this energy and this is crucial to our moment.
 

Essentially it is about taking care for our soul’s and the planetary soul’s health and well being – humans carry such a profound potential, and in so many ways, what we are fighting for now is the right and ability to fulfil this potential.
 


There is one small caveat to this moment which the planetary matrix is indicating at the human level – at full Moon Neptune forms an exact semi-square to the Sun, and sesqui-quadrate to the Moon. This apsect speaks to inequalities, both in awareness and in personal reach.
 
The dynamic here, which is a potential source of friction and distraction in its own right if not handled with care, tends to manifest through labelling and separation, through creating real problems out of virtually nothing. This can become apparent through false arguments surrounding identity and difference, something which we are all too familiar with right now.
 
But, this too must be transcended, accommodated into a more inclusive view, the aim being to become bigger than the personal difference or slur, and to not at any point lose sight of the bigger picture.
 


Neptune’s soul vibration is both deeply compassionate and redemptive, if it finds resonance, but, here it is the Neptunian shadow that feeds small fights, which in turn feed the larger ones, and these are to be avoided now at all levels.
 
The higher side prevails.
 
While there is no escaping this reality either, this too is an opportunity for growth, if we chose to make it so, and those who know how to turn this difficulty to their own evolutionary advantage can also aid others in doing so in turn.
 
The twist to Neptune’s tail is in the fact that by accepting the anomaly of our own fully embodied individuality, our uniqueness, we not only disarm the insurrecting power of difference, but turn it into a movement towards home. An ensouling movement.
 


The point is, those who are ready to seize the day, ride the wave and are capable of leading through example, are the same souls whose actions and words will stand the greatest chance of nourishing our collective evolution. Chosing such a path will keep the momentum going and, ultimately, if grounded in the dedicated heart, will keep the sacred flame burning. There is a passion for life at work in this Scorpio full Moon.
 
Let that be an inspiration for each of us….
 
Blessed Be!
 
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Full Moon 27th April @ 3.30am UTC, 4.30am GMT

7°06’ Scorpio
 
 
Image : Smith Falls, Nebraska
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Lucid Dreaming In The Realms Of Morpheus

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This article was originally drafted in October 2017, as a commentary on Jupiter’s entry into Scorpio at that time – at that time I didn’t feel there was enough solid tangibility to its ‘correspondences’  to publish. But, it is published now, edited and updated, largely in response to the evolution of the situation which I then saw coinciding with Jupiter’s ingress, and more specifically to how it is now developing; with Saturn’s ingress of Capricorn it now appears to be reaching a critical juncture. Mars is now within orb of conjunction with Jupiter in midst of Scorpio, sextiling Pluto in Capricorn in the process, and the energy surrounding the issues raised is coming to a head. There are no coincidences here, in fact.

Things that happen when Jupiter changes signs can often seem larger than life, swing wildly into view, bend our sense of reality under heavy gusts of divine largess. How were we to know that, this time round, after a year and a month of playing blustering sugar-daddy in convivial if politically motivated Libra, that Zeus on the threshold of Scorpio is more likely to kick the bloody doors down while hurling obscenities after a long night on the razzle than crash on the sofa and drool his way into  the oblivion of deep morphic dreams. No, Morpheus realms have instead been turned inside out, and its definitely ‘not a pretty sight’  to behold.

When you get down to giving it some thought we seem, for years, if not centuries, to have been on an accelerating curve of intense and, at times, insanity inducing glimpses over the edge of the known and familiar. We have been dragged here, make no mistake, by psychopathy. Put it down to hubris, too. In the undertow of ‘Post Enlightenment’ paradigms in particular, the human dis-ease has latterly become a specious hunger in the soul, induced through both anti-theistic rationality and agnostically irrational drives. Its primary contemporary symptom, a blind adrenalin fueled rush towards an indefinable goal built on an intoxicating mix of dreams and technological advance, little more, however, than the emergence of a primary survival instinct, serves to, if nothing else, fill the human created ‘god-hole’. The Technocratic task is as endless as it is fruitless, barren of the very thing it both denies and seeks most, return of its own essence to its self. Spirit to embodied soul, in other words, except in a false body. Herein lies the redundancy of Ai, transhumanism, the genomic machine culture of the future.

In some ways however we are, at this late (and early) stage, under the benefit of a technologically induced illusion, being better connected, more aware of humanity’s madness as it happens here, there and everywhere than ever before; but, the madness itself, that hasn’t in essence changed at all. Its pedigree is as old as the gods themselves, at least in their classical psychosis, the dysfunctional nature of their archetypal relationships. The cost of hubristic ambition, where it is embodied in those who would seek godlike stature, humans have taken on this dynamic, and fuck the consequences.

Those at the top are as corrupt and power hungry as they ever were, sick with perverse addiction to usery and debauched self indulgence. Under self appointed rulers and material aristocracy the lives of ordinary folk have been toyed with mercilessly, bled of soul to feed those who would be demigods. Many now are awakened to this horror, have been for generations, but, even now, after centuries of revolution, rebellion and organised murder, a lobotomised mass of shitlarks remain subservient if not oblivious to their “master’s” machinations while quietly being sucked numb by a vampiric cult of violence, cultural enslavement and the opiating glamour of its oppressively kitsch emptiness. The fingerprints of that emptiness were smeared across the celestial mirror when Jupiter stumbled across that threshold into Morpheus’ realms. The planets conspired to reveal them.

For a brief time on October 10th a grand cross was formed by the waning third quarter Moon in Gemini opposing Saturn in Sagittarius, and by Chiron in Pisces opposing Mars next to Venus in Virgo. Activating the third decans of the mutable signs this brief geocentric alignment signaled a change of atmosphere with a moment of silent absorption and mood shift. In itself, if it was a quietus it was imbued with a cessation of qualities, both shock induced numbness, searching through wreckage for salvagable pieces of normality in the aftermath of franken-storms, engineered into existence in plain sight, and suspension of disbelief in the face of increasingly tangible cognitive dissonance, shock in the face of reality being stripped bare by psychopathy. It was also a pause with growing substance, less than subtly subject to effect and gathering momentum, as when a swollen water droplet breaks free of a branch hanging over a dark pool and briefly becomes a morphing cell of plasma, undefined except in its own accelerating essence. You know how it feels, when you undeniably sense something ahead; what was it ‘the Potus’ had said a few days before, something about “the calm before the storm”?

Within 24 hours, as the Moon moved into its last quarter, Jupiter entered Scorpio, the pool became one sizeable drop greater and the ripples of ‘atmospheric change’ began to radiate out.

Harvey Weinstein, conveniently exemplifying one cultic facet of the endemic problem, was outed at the precise moment Zeus/Jupiter crashed Scorpio. The full extent of the crime and abuse here is perhaps not yet fully grasped, and perhaps wont even begin to be until this transit has fully run its course. Commentators, such as Clif High, have observed that the dark underbelly of ‘Pizzagate’ and its ilk will run on even farther, continue to get darker and stretch all the way into 2022. That would see Jupiter straddling the Aries Pisces cusp and the Moon’s nodes on the Taurus Scorpio axis squared by Saturn in Aquarius, with Saturn coming into a potent closing square with Uranus in Venus realms. However. Violence against women and children is, as Lee Maracle says, intimately connected with violence against the Earth, and our future. Such violation must stop.

Violence ‘drugs’, throws fuel on the fire, and as a drug has become culturally endorsed. Digitalised, virtualised, rendered remote, it becomes dangerously and equally anti-realistically addictive – meanwhile, simultaneously, the shit is literally being kicked out of people’s lives. That has been the underlying dynamic of a long long time; and yet, it persists, and its field of operation is now shifting.

Weaponisation is the indicator, signalling that the post-human condition is ’embedding’. Climate, tectonics, genomics, organic life-forms, water, energy forms, economics, culture, religion, philosophies and beliefs, mentalities are all now subject to its programs and implementation. All are converging.

The realm of Morpheus, once turned inside out, fast becomes the perfect stage on which this psycho-drama can be dreamed into, given body and acted out.

Morphing the Earth’s magnetic field has become the plaything of a sick religion whose priests are as cold to the consequences as the ninth ring of Hell – directed energy weapons that straddle borders are no less responsible for the changes we are seeing now in our atmosphere than their airborne equivalents are for igniting forest fires that burn houses, but not trees. The good folk of Cali know what I mean. Atmospheric ionisation and heating, and heavy metal saturation of air and land are pounding the shit out of the planet’s, and our own, immune systems. A grid is being constructed, both physical and psychological, a control grid, and everything below the ionosphere is subject to it. Funny thing is, it is happening right in front of our eyes and yet ‘the narrative’ is wrong, consistently; we know it is.

Atmospheric change was also seen to be pounding the shit out of the lives of ordinary folk in the Caribbean and Gulf States over the second and third quarter of 2017, in fact last year’s hurricane season saw 11 tropical storms generated since early April, one of which performed a tight 360 degree loop, another of which ‘went north’ and licked European coasts to a froth. Amongst them Irma, Jose and Harvey created a spookily anticipated level of both chaos and real suffering while, all the while, an uneasy edginess, a feeling that things were getting out of hand grew beneath the surface. Why? Because the ‘knowing’ of what was really going down was there, growing in the background, all along; just, not loud enough to be heard. No-one, however, in the western-centric media mentioned South Africa where, in one devastating event simultaneous with the hurricanes, deforestation and torrential rain collided to create the perfect conditions for a deadly landslide which took over 600 lives……such is the state of the world.

Jupiter ‘does-it-big’ where ever he goes, but in Scorpio, the home of Pluto and Mars, things can get very dark beneath those burgeoning thunder clouds.

Subtle, or not, as this transition might otherwise have been to human senses and sensibilities the capacity of Scorpio to absorb impacts belies Jupiter’s role in amplifying and disseminating their effects, a capacity quite capable of affecting not only terrestrial lives but the fundamental integrity of the planetary matrix as well. The priests of scientism concede that our largest planet is the solar system’s ‘keeper’, but, despite being the bouncer on our doorstep, Jupiter the ‘comet catcher’ sounds more like a Marvel character, and doesn’t appear overtly in this role in mythology. Why?

For a cosmological image here, flashback and think comet Shoemaker Levy and its separation into ten parts, lined up and evenly spaced as it plunged into Jupiter’s atmosphere in July 1994. Jupiter was in Scorpio at that time as well. Regardless Jupiter’s scientifically endorsed reputation as comet catcher, a protective role as much as a mysterious one, what might have been overlooked in this spectacle is the fact that Shoemaker Levy’s division and impacts left us a message, one that while it certainly left an impression has yet to be fully appreciated, let alone deciphered. This is about to change. And, given that it is the citadel of science whose walls will be crumbling, a controlled demolition if they can help it, such disclosure will not happen in the way we are being led to expect.

So much is happening ‘out there’ which doesn’t get reported ‘in here’. And, when it does, if it appears in the Mainstream Media (whatever that is these days), its all ‘controlled’……

……the recent faux ‘disclosure’ attempt, like so much else we have ‘known’ about all along, will pale in comparison to the shifts in chronology and rewriting of histories which true disclosure will bring, and continue to bring this year. But, this is the issue where all paths will converge; we must keep our minds open at this time, especially if we are to overcome that biggest of stumbling blocks, incredulity. That could be one suitable word for describing the shadow effect of Jupiter in Scorpio.

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As the new calendar year opens we not only find Mars edging ever closer to the big guy with the thunderbolts, but the charge generated by Jupiter’s foray up the Via Combusta these last few months has been slowly amping up the pressure. Our arachnid sensibilities tell us new storms are brewing in this atmospheric cauldron. These are going to be unlike anything we have seen yet, when they break – while the heavens may open to reveal our brethren, fake or not, on the ground, among humans, Pluto’s sextile from the political hot bed of Capricorn will make sure that big names are on the hit list – the purge has thousands of sealed indictments to deliver, and Saturn is in town.

We are witnessing a time which, for all its unmediated obscurity, is unprecedented, and the power struggles it has been stirring up are now coming to a head. If and when we see the waters break, when Jupiter turns retrograde in March and Mars catches up to Saturn, we might just wake up to find that we’ve been lucid dreaming in the realms of Morpheus all this time.

images :
top – Horns of Jericho, HR Giger;
mid – CERN, ‘satanic’ ritual, 2016.
lower – Jupiter with impact points of comet Shoemaker Levy 9 showing in near infrared

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Common Ground

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“Generosity is a virtue for individuals, not governments. When governments are generous it is with other people’s money, other people’s safety, other people’s future.” (1)

The potential of the eclipses we have witnessed in the first half of this year is ours to be be realised, and, as the year progresses intentional conscious participation in our own evolutionary process becomes central to working with the eclipse signatures. This is a very political signature when it comes down to it, but, amongst the eclipses the lunar eclipse of March 23rd, while being partial and relatively subtle, just within the ‘eclipse zone’ so to speak, is notable for having activated the Aries Libra axis, a shot of adrenalin to the social arena – the other three eclipses of 2016 all highlight the Pisces Virgo axis and show more of the internal processes at work that are setting the agenda within that arena, both at an individual and collective level.

If the solar eclipse of March 9th highlighted the need for conscious self determination based upon personal experience and knowledge to take precedence over globalised top down ideological determinism the lunar eclipse of March 23rd raised the question of whether we are capable of creating a social context that is coherent enough to support such self authority without diminishing it or its potential for creating real change.

The Aries Libra axis points towards challenges in consciousness that are intrinsic to this socialising process. This is a process that aims to create a society in which the power is returned to the people. Within the predominant paradigm the Aries drive that fuels such a process itself must become conscious and Venus higher octave of ‘relative values’ within Libra, if based upon lucid perception and listening, can provide the drive for awareness necessary to such a society with its own mirror. It is this self reflective quality that helps the new social consciousness seeded at the March solar eclipse and emphasised at the March lunar eclipse to take on its potential protean qualities, adaptive, able to respond to immediate needs and to find appropriate shape accordingly. The rhetoric for change is empty without this mutable potential.

The Sabian symbol for the Sun’s degree in Aries at the March lunar eclipse speaks of the emergence of dipolar qualities within its conscious imprint, the awareness of dualism within the evolving self, but, as embryonic as this may appear does its innate naivety work against it? How we create such a context, one that is itself free of the effects of those ideologies it has been formerly programmed by, formed in service to and which itself does not perpetuate their faults, is dependent upon utilising the potential within this polarity.

The Sabian symbol for the eclipsed March Moon also reveals something here; it shows us a circle of young people gathered in communion around a central fire – intrinsic to this symbol is Listening, a quality that underlies the positive aspects of Libran consciousness. To quote, the Sabian text tells us that, “If a new society is to be built, those who yearn for it, or perhaps who have envisioned its outlines, should commune. But communion is useless where no central “fire” burns, IN-SPIRITING the group“. While listening is a fundamental human necessity within this social context it is the central fire, its creative principle, that calls us together and defines the space within which it is activated and illuminated. The ‘creative principle’ at work within ‘gathering’ reveals the nature of our common ground.

Here Mars elemental thrust is reclaimed from the prevelant ideological paradigm of ‘progress’ and consciously put to work in our midst, supporting the process of self determination and social formation. This signals a reframing and revisioning of the ‘democratic processes’ itself, a need that is all too present in our time. While the UK debates whether to remain in the EU or not, a debate that highlights the need for change in ‘representation’ either way, it is the US electional process that we can look to here for some primary indicators of how this is playing out, especially within the ‘Democratic Party’ itself. If Bernie Sanders represents the new re-alignment and activation of social consciousness Hillary Clinton is well positioned to continue the dynastic tradition peculiar to American politics within our time. Between them they encapsulate the paradigmatic political struggle that is its characteristic.

“A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.”(2)

As the Sabian symbol for the Moon at the lunar eclipse also indicated the signature of the preceding solar eclipse is here ‘evolved’ forward indicating that an answer can be found in fostering a ‘grass-roots’ movement ‘of the people, for the people, by the people’ – that may in our times have the ring of irony about it (in respect of the Gettysburg Address), but, doesn’t it also sound like a familiar battle cry from the hustings?

The transits to Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton’s natal charts in connection with these eclipses are worth noting here. With Clinton we have a problem as her birth time is in dispute, but, while I would have gone with the 8:02 am time giving her a Scorpio Asc I am leaving out references to the houses in both charts and to the angles in her own chart, while I’ve included Sanders Asc and MC as they are significant here.

The eclipsed March Moon was conjunct Sanders natal Mercury, sextiling natal Pluto. This coincided with an acrimonious 8th debate between Sanders and Clinton in Miami, as well as Sanders victory in the Michigan primary. The March solar eclipse fell on Clinton’s natal Moon and squared her natal Uranus, the day she delivered her “counterterrorism” speech at Stanford. Do politicians utilise such transits intentionally…..it is certainly not unprecedented for them (and their masters) to do so.

Sanders is also seeing Uranus transit his natal Moon + Mars, a sustained transit that is igniting his popularity as a champion and fighter for social change. Clinton has natal Pluto and Mars conjunct in mid Leo forming an exact square to her Scorpio Venus and a loose but applying square to her nodes – an indicator of an ambitious nature which her Sagittarian Jupiter emphasises. She will stop at nothing in its pursuit, which her Scorpio Sun will risk everything for – even if it means her downfall she will remain undetered.

The fight is well and truly on as transiting Saturn is squaring Sanders natal Virgo Sun and transiting Mars squaring his MC, while Neptune is transiting his IC. He is having to draw on his most innate visionary qualities in bringing his deepest social values into realisation. Transiting Mars will conjunct Clinton’s Jupiter twice during the current Mars retrograde, stationing direct on her Scorpio south node. These transits reflect the uphill battle Sanders has faced as an ‘independent’ pitted against Clinton’s ambition and establishment platform, but, show how while these make her a formidable opponent these same qualities can also be her achilles heal, especially when her south node is activated by Mars and her personal history is under attack. Clinton’s natal Saturn, in detriment in Leo, also squares her nodes indicating a life heavily suffused with karmic lessons.

The remaining eclipses of this year will also directly affect both Sanders and Clinton’s natal charts. The solar eclipse of 1st September falls just one degree from Sanders Midheaven, and the lunar eclipse of September 16th falls on Sander’s south lunar node, this time both luminaries squaring Clinton’s natal Uranus. If Sanders appears fated to carry a revolutionary vision to the people as a break from the past, Clinton appears as his perfect foil, a woman in pursuit of the precedent of claiming the ‘top job’, but, in the midst of such ecliptic interaction the Uranian element is absolutely key – Uranus will conjunct Sander’s natal Mars on the September lunar eclipse. This could signal both ‘breakthrough’ and equally ‘martyrdom’, though no-one would wish the latter upon him, save his detractors. His Scorpio Asc makes him tenacious but equally susceptible to fault in the midst of power and deception – there are vulnerabilities at stake with both candidates. If they both have it all to fight for, what that ‘all’ means to them both as well as to us is deeply and significantly polarised.

The fight for the Democratic ticket and the challenges to its holder will continue to be ignited by astrological transits to both candidates charts in the run up to election day, but, that is a matter best served in a seperate post. Either way it is the longevity of the prevelant political ideology that is ultimately going to be the deciding factor. We are poised on a knife edge and it is the people who will decide, if their votes and voice are to count for anything…..

“The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.” (3)

If, as it often seems, it is the People who have been made fools of by the political power game, in the current political climate, which has its tentacles reaching into all our personal interests, there is an emergent level of consciousness at work here that cannot be denied. It is a consciousness itself born out of the need to be free of hegemonic ideologies and their encumbant effects. Such consciousness holds attributes we might associate with Mercury and Uranus in combination and it is worth remembering here that Uranus north node is in mid Gemini. However, as the outcomes of many social revolutions and dictatorships alike have shown, being solely self determining, a hegemony unto oneself, is a seriously dangerous business, in fact it is the inherent danger and runs counter to the ‘grass-roots’ theme; to evolve and be able to establish coherence beyond its own anarchistic undertones such consciousness requires acceptance of ‘difference’ and a willingness to acknowledge that no one individual or group of individuals can represent ‘the whole truth’. This was always the caviat inherent in the March solar eclipse, the truth that requires revitalising in the process of emergence from the millenia of power struggles that have shaped the cocoon of our body politic. It applies equally to any sustainable future in which a new social vision might take flight.

We are looking then towards engendering a shared coherence based not on homogeneity or its ideological counterpart ie. democratic conformity, but, through bringing a mutable quality to its conscious formation and sustainability, and, while as a species we are not without precedent for such a context, those who have lived it have, historically, been suppressed, their fire all but stamped out – we must accept that we are both returning to the beginning and making a break from the past in rekindling that fire.

There is an evolutionary consequence to this – while we are not being called upon to re-invent the wheel, in exploring  new ground we must be ready to make allowance for what we do not know, to suffer our own foolishness in the process. Such a task belongs to individuals who are, at core, secure enough within themselves to undertake the fools journey without its pitfalls undermining their self authority. It is perhaps a consequence of human consciousness that we do so, as we witness each other speaking and acting upon our personal truths. It requires of us a balancing act between being able to have the courage of our convictions and to be ready to learn from our errors, and laugh at ourselves in the process. Discernment without over-ruling judge-mentality is key, a signature of maturity as well as a more egalitarian society.

As we venture further into the cauldron of the year we will find this evolved and evolving capacity serves us all well as the matrix is now breaking away from rulership under the cardinal face off exemplified by the Pluto Uranus square. We will be resonating more with the meaning seeking qualities set up by Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn and the Moon’s nodes through their mutable T square active through Virgo, Pisces and Sagittarius. The sixth, ninth and twelth signs of the zodiac bring that much needed mutability into focus in the run up to the September eclipses, and how this will carry our impetus for social and personal evolution forward will be explored further in future posts. As we enter a self reflective period in which Mercury will station retro in Taurus joining Jupiter, Saturn, Mars and Pluto already retrograde it is the mutable Geminian signature and the revolutionary Uranian future which will bring its potential into conscious synthesis.

(1) (2) & (3) ‘Children Of Men’ by P D James

Image : ‘Mongolian Firedance’ ~ Karthik Anand