ASTROLOGY OF NOW

Aside from key eclipse periods in April/May and Oct/Nov, we discuss several critical moments over the span of this special nodal transit, as well possible challenging scenarios, what to avoid and which attitudes we must strive to improve.

...full discourse on the karmic significance of this 18 month period and the nodes' most noteworthy transits, on our next cosmic bus session, live in 24 hours...

This lunation becomes a high-water mark in the ongoing saga for authoritarian control. Instinctively, individuals will seek to take control of their private lives and resume control over their own family and domestic matters, refusing to acknowledge others in positions of authority.

Telepathic mind blasts shuttle in rapidly when MERCURY's in Aquarius, the sign of its exaltation. As vector of individual thoughts circulating in the celestial repository, Mercury's station to retrograde at 10°20' unzips the seam of vast reserves of universal data, releasing truths that we may or may not wish to hear...

Let us pause to consider the magnitude of this next lunation, the Cancer Full Moon vs the Capricorn Sun/Pluto, t-Squaring Eris...

You may not see much going on at the moment, but the underlying tension between NOW and the FULL MOON (Jan 17) builds silently, eventually reaching nosebleeding levels...

The Sun/Moon in Capricorn is a conscious alignment with the unconscious, instinctive nature, blessing the soul to embody and manifest our dutiful part in the greater cause. Each of us must walk our destined path. It is not a ready-made path, but one which we determine by continuing to struggle forward in our walking.

On the last day of this very unusual year, we have many things to consider before setting our intention/resolution for the year ahead. Let's come together, please join me live on the Cosmic Bus as we discuss the intricacies of our times by looking at the Astrology of Now.

MERCURY is now aligned with that VENUS/PLUTO, and all squaring ERIS. Pleasures and privileges are now being administered in what appears to be an obscenely obvious show of favouritism for one, while extreme denying for the other...

We are traversing through strange terrain, where history matters little and you can't rely on old sentiments to guide you. Come, take my hand. These winds and tides; this change of times won't drag you away...

The only thing on my xmas list this year is the people I need to make amends with...

The equinoxes and solstices are particularly significant points in the solar cycle. Conceived throughout all indigenous cultures they determine the rhythms of natural growth and decay, polarities of a universal life-death process...

Let us make peace with the ghosts of xmas past...

Here, the Gemini Full Moon generates some degree of self-effacement, perhaps conflict against the Sagittarian Sun as the two luminaries try to show us how to blend our need to satisfy the values of intellectual curiosity with the desire to form a cogent sense of morality.

Let's discuss the key issues of this lunation, the Venus retrograde on Pluto/Eris, the Mars at the Sadge South Node and much anticipated earth-quaking Saturn/Uranus (and more) as we approach another odd Xmas...

The individualist Aries MOON hits off CHIRON and heads to align with ERIS, generating a now-familiar mood of feeling left out beyond the periphery of normalcy and acceptability. It's like there's something weird about us and we're far too much trouble to be taken seriously, included in the big game...

Come, sit around the campfire as we stop our cosmic bus to discuss the nuances and perils of this arguably crazy but transformative time. Something tells me that these 'holidays' will never be the same...

POST-ECLIPSES, and we are already seeing that many of our old-world narratives and beliefs are now all but completely upgraded, supplanted by a more snazzy, one-size-fits-all, shut-up & take-this, progressively rationalistic approach to life...

Eclipses produce powerful awakenings, brought about by sudden, unexpected incidents or encounters that jolt our lives into a new direction. They are often not what we expected, yet we realize that we should have expected as much and nothing less when we look back...

Our species is currently in the grips of a psychotic mind-virus - the greatest epidemic disease known to humanity. Originating deep within those who suffer ancestral soul-sickness, it can potentially either wipe us all out or wake us all up...

The Total Solar Eclipse along the Sagittarius South Node ushers a final, unambiguous call to let go of failing ideologies and beliefs that are stagnating our individual and collective progress...

Double-activating the PLUTO/ERIS midpoint, this becomes an intensely troublesome, potentially violent constellation, especially concerning those who are currently at the end of their tether.

The Solar Eclipse in Sadge hurls another curveball into our 'belief' systems. Narratives get so exorbitantly out of proportion that we wonder what to believe. It's a moment that's been building for 18 months and it's time to put an end to all the horse manure falling out of the rear end of the Sagittarian South Node...

Something is nagging away at the overly expectatious Sagittarian Sun, now most restless and brash thanks to his conjunction with winged messenger Mercury. He's full of it....

For the next few days, VENUS/MARS/NEPTUNE do a 'softie', where the three will dance in sextile series. If you haven't already started, you'll probably loosen right up...

After 18 months, we learn much about the spiritual drawbacks posed to us during the SOUTH NODE's transit through Sagittarius. Here, our soul comes to recognise what baggage it must let go of in order to evolve....

The SUN, now in Sagittarius, is transiting over the Lunar South Node. This is the point where soul entities disconnect; where people exit our lives as their role in our story has run its course...

The Lunar eclipse, for those who managed to witness it with their naked eye, was indeed a spectacular phenomenon. The celestial forces of the Taurus Moon pulling away from the Scorpio Sun, with Earth straight in between, create a direct shuttle of vital energies funnelling onto our planet via the North Node, awakening many to our spiritual purpose.

This potent eclipse offers us all a phenomenal awareness that even the most painful circumstances can lead us to deeper understand­ing and constructive action.

How important is it for you to be right? At what cost does the fanatical adherence to your beliefs outweigh the benefits of coexisting in a happier, more integrated, moderate society?...

Over the next week, we will all feel the crescendo of intensity personally and our skies, both inner and outer, will be lit. We have much to talk about, and I will begin my series of analyses on the coming events in a special episode of the cosmic bus: Sunday Night (USA)/Monday Morning 00:00 UTC – 16:00 PST – 17:00 MST – 18:00 CST – 19:00 EST – 11:00 AEDT – 02:00 SAST

SATURN in Aquarius is where some become cemented in their ideological mindset. URANUS in Taurus is where some are grounded in inexplicably unyielding defiance. MARS in Scorpio is where some get lost in the brooding depths of spiteful misery....

It is clear that under these FIXED T-SQUARE skies, things aren't going to end nicely...

If you're struggling right now, feeling stuck, can't seem to make your square peg fit into such a round hole, then think again... ... was it ever really going to fit?

Nice little yod forming to the North Node between Mercury & Venus now... and by 'nice' i mean kinda nasty...

Remember yesterday's New Moon. Remember the issues that stood out, not to disrupt, but to recast your entire agenda. Ignore them at your peril.

It is New Moon again - the synodic reset between the Sun and Moon's cyclical rhythm. At this time of the month, we have a chance to purge old, stagnant energies that accumulate in the body and begin to refresh them with new ones.

On this enchanted Halloween, take life's hurts and limitations and turn them into opportunities to heal.

When it feels like the end, rock bottom, that you have nothing left to give; when you feel lost, worn out, stripped of your dignity and pride, then you become dangerous because you realise have nothing left to lose...

Trust your intuition on this. Sooner or later, the precious thing that binds you; that defines your slavery, shall be lost, stolen or become utterly worthless...

Sun in Scorpio - time for all things mean, moody and magnificent...

Over the next two weeks, global variants too big to see let alone calculate with any degree of accuracy, swing wildly and humanity is about to be edified by a series of wild financial events that will tilt its entire value $ystem on its axis...

Full Moons are times of culmination. Blessed by the complete light of both Sun and Moon, these illuminated days and nights in our lunar calendar are times when we will make all important decisions...

Entire groups are forming, based on a shared pathology. Unless we take a perfectly unattached, neutral stance, we find ourselves pushing away whilst simultaneously pulling towards people who fit our own pathological state...

In our second part of this climactic lunation report, we discuss the importance of this moment in our epic evolutionary journey. I will take it slowly, keep it simple and make sure we cover all aspects.

You're not unloved; just misunderstood, is all...

Into October, things start to escalate, and the next phases of this week's Libra lunation are incredibly serious and beyond belief, even for these times...

Equality isn't just a notion. Nor is it a belief or a concept. It's part of nature's law, and if we don't respect it, don't openly fight for it, it's about as stupid as trying to defy the laws of gravity.

Something special is happening. A wholescale revival of our highest selves is dying to come through...

HOPEFUL REMINDER: All totalitarian systems of authority ultimately end up destroying themselves, by the sheer character of their being (force cannot be sustained forever)...

During such Sun/Mars transits, it's almost fashionable to get offended. Or least, the right thing to do is to take an offensive stance. This doesn't put others on the defensive, on the contrary, it flares them into counteroffensive action...

On this LAST QUARTER MOON, you may feel an instinctive urge to retreat from the unsolicited advice and judgments of others. These may be sensed as being self-serving, cunning and mockingly passive-aggressive, and that does not sit well with you at all...

They may not know each other, but souls often echo throughout history over the same winds, their look and feel ricochets through time over the same horizons...

The Moon now flanks the scorned ERIS in Aries, opposing MERCURY in Libra and squaring the hideous PLUTO in Capricorn, forming a Cardinal T-square - the most dynamically active of all T-square types...

Wherever you are, I recognise that we are collectively experiencing something phenomenally huge, albeit in the least, quite irritating and strange. I have said many a time that our earth is shifting, structures are collapsing. I'm sure I'm not alone. However, I cannot compare anything I hear to the absurdity that I'm experiencing going on around me, in my current hometown of Melbourne, Australia...

The Full Moon, occurring in the final stages of the Virgo/Pisces dichotomy, is a culmination, where energies dissipate. Here, decisions must be made, agreements reached, rewards accepted, and things must end in certain circumstances, or we capitulate to spare more losses.

Nobody's ever gonna come free you. Those who wait for others to liberate them, only end up becoming someone else's slave...

With the Sun now past his opposition to Neptune, those who aren't able to assess the credibility of what is presented will tend to trust those with whom they identify. You gotta ask whether they're happy to be fooled, or whether they're not in a position to figure it out for themselves...

This lunar phase presents a crisis point since Sagittarius tends to be broad and sloppy, and the Moon here presents significant issues for the generally exacting and fastidious Virgo Sun...

Leading into next Tuesday's ultra-messy 1Q MOON (21°16') we risk making 'mountains out of molehills, amplify our own or others' shortcomings and become hyper-unbearable with our criticisms. The distress becomes insufferable, and we look for a way out...

don't act surprised if you just unsettle the bejeebers out of others (if you let your freak flag fly today)...

At this moment, something urgent and profound is coming through. Though it may seem shocking and totally unexpected, you may soon come to admit that it was indeed expected, you just refused to prepare, and now it's here...

It's been a harsh week, and NEPTUNE opposing MARS has left us exhausted. We can use a little break...

The earth is literally quaking under our feet every day now, and what does 'man' do? He politicises everything so that he can lay claim to possessing all the knowledge and power to fix things while blaming all 'others' as the cause. Too easy...

There's no reason to go along with the crowd and no excuse for compromising your conviction under the impertinent assumption that, if you go as they go, they will accept you; respect you; honour you for joining them... They will not.

Ok, focus. It's the NEW MOON in a week, and there's still a lot of trash to clear... (most of it in your mind).

... this Gemini third-quarter Moon will be hovering over the North Node, making this an especially neurotic time for many souls with mental problems or who struggle making decisions or focusing their minds on serious, life-altering decisions.

In my next two "Cosmic Buzz" podcasts, I examine the important role the 'malefic' planets play - both traditional (MARS/SATURN) and evolutionary (PLUTO/ERIS) when we become frightened at the will of others. Inevitably, our fear is aroused at any attempt to intimidate our individual, social and cultural prerogatives from the threat of danger, death and even extinction.

Stop, stop!! I don't know which I'm supposed to discredit more... the flagrantly aggressive lies & misinformation or the flaky & outlandish truths?

'FUNKY POISONS WITH DESIGN TO BEFOUL mind/body/soul dissolve much more than trust in the relationship'. A caution to all, esp. you 'sensitives' out there.

At the height of this Full Moon, our primal energies pull apart. There is an incongruency between the will and the emotions; an instinctive urge to pull away from the source, often reflected in our relationships.

As the Leo SUN opposes JUPITER, be encouraged that there are indeed some brave souls out among us...

When MERCURY conjuncts MARS in Virgo, the mind cuts every which way, and one is practically able to argue the question or analyse the point from every angle to achieve the desired result.

The Sun's formation of the 'yod' to NE/PL, now opposing JUPITER, is an awareness that the two 'sides' of our processing need to come into alignment - that the reason we are split into two has perhaps more to do with our disembodiment between the cool, rational, linear mind and the warm, swirling, abstract realms of our being.

Sometimes we need to see how just superficial things are in order to pull inwards and explore the wealth and power, found only in the depths of our own, inner black hole. We need something to show us just how trite and meaninglessly insipid everything can be... Enter Venus in Libra.

Those of you following my work on the "Cosmic Bus" over these past few years may understand that our species, alongside all others, is now undergoing a most crucial step in its evolutionary process. That something massively transformative is happening here is undeniable - it has been developing for years(since 2011-12). But does the redundancy of old traditions, religions, roles, jobs and other socio-economic systems lead us closer to extinction, or does the crucible of this wholesale, earth-bound transfiguration promise all species a deliverance towards truly universal love and light?

Before you leave that bed today, ask whether you're mentally fit for what the day is about to hurl at you. Most likely, you will get precisely what you dish out, and then some....

Psst... Don't worry. Let 'em go their way, stick with yours, even if you gotta go it alone for a little while further...

MARS in VIRGO can be an all-around do-gooder. For all his self-discipline, strong work ethic, technical aptitude and unselfishness, he is sometimes seen as pushy, with definite ideas about what's generally good or bad for others - particularly those he cares about.

At the height of this lunation (Sunday, August 08, 13:51 UTC), we draw from the tremendous synergy of the Moon (instincts) aligning with the Sun (conscious will). The fusion of these two primal energies at 16°14' generates a powerful urge within each of us to stand for who we are; to express our principles and beliefs with a firm sense of confidence and pride, and a willingness to do whatever is necessary to preserve and maintain our own, distinct identity.