ASTROLOGY OF NOW

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.

In the dark of the moon, a kind of unravelling occurs. If we didn't instinctively feel it already, we begin to sense it most strongly now. The human race is about to enter its most decimating phase, for once we have completely fallen out with one another, the perils of the mass toxicity leaves us in nothing but a hostile, inhospitable land...

There are times when maintaining one's integrity best requires that we hold our tongue, play it low-key and exercise our freedom to mind our own business (thereby allowing others to mind theirs)...

...nah thanks, I'm good. Think i'll just sit this out for a bit.

Full Moons bring us moments of tremendous illumination. With the Sun's entry into Leo, the energies of this lunation are fresh and potent because they occur at the critical first degree. Hence, their symbolism is raw and strikingly obvious. The Moon's opposition to the Leo Sun from Aquarius reveals two very diametrically opposing realities...

Obsession with safety and security breeds a paranoid mind and a sick society.

...that profound moment, when you come to suspect that it wasn't just your sex they're trying to exploit but rather your rich, supernatural powers...

As the world turns, it burns. Ignited in raptures of all kinds of inflammation and conflagration, it would seem that the coolest place for the autonomous individual is to be jetting off into space...

Remember, the VENUS/MARS cycle marks the point of passion - the thing(s) you feel most strongly about. It could be a love/hate thing and chances are it's a bit of both because it moves you...

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With the LEO MOON now on the VENUS/MARS conjunction, one might assume that this is the perfect time to go out there and blow one's right-royal trumpet...

The Cancer New Moon, the last of this year's supermoons, is also perhaps the most personal since its cardinal watery nature activates the maternal, nurturing, protective instincts in us all...

Strut from your gut, reign your domain...

over the square to NEPTUNE implies that either you are too 'sensitive' or too incapable to hear the clear-cut message; read the mail; follow the logic. Someone is taking liberties to water it down, sugar-it-up or simply keep it from you.

At the height of this LAST QUARTER MOON, conjunct CHIRON in Aries, the words 'individual', 'family', 'intimacy' and 'privacy' maintain an albeit tenuous meaning...

When MARS starts to activate the SATURN/URANUS square, you may feel a sudden urge to break with convention, which in many ways may feel beyond oppressive...

reserve all other options...

So here's what I have managed to observe during this Full Moon: You ready?

The creative adults of tomorrow are the children who survive today's systematised social derangement.

At the Cancer Solstice, the Sun represents a powerful turning point in our year. Here, his light is directed inwardly, to our innermost private, precious and personal areas. From this point, we are blessed with the meta-awareness to instinctively feel our way through all the intimate areas of our lives...

Mercury, messenger of the gods, governs over both the Gemini Sun and the Virgo Moon, making this first quarter phase uniquely critical...

Saturday's Gemini Sun on the ♄Rx □ ♅ portends a message of recovery from the grips of a global epidemic, socioeconomic and inequality and a raft of other, comparatively minor karmic issues, all leading towards our species' obligatory rebirth (reset)...

...because you can't do all the bigshot-crazystuff you got in mind on an empty stomach... right?

In all respects, the Solar Eclipse returns a surge of mental energy into the collective after the May 26 Blood Moon's Energetic Shutdown. We can expect enormous amounts of old news to come to the surface, disrupting our way of thinking and raising a plethora of new questions about what indeed constitutes our truth.

Everything you ever wanted, anything your heart could ever dream that's good, even riches beyond the wildest scope of your imagination are one day, soon, miraculously, to be made manifest for you and for everyone. This sort of promise was once the domain of mysticism and religion alone...

MARS/PLUTO/ERIS can be like this psycho city's sitting on a powderkeg, waiting for the Aries Moon to spark him off on grand mal seismic meltdown. Whatever you do, don't mention the "thing"...

Trying to make sense of anything during this mid-eclipse Mercury Rx energy slump is like trying to swim out of last month's Blood Moon sinkhole (Sinkhole de Mayo?).

Dare I say, those who are strongly adherent to their fantasies and faiths could well be left at sea just like a ship without a rudder, their minds tossed mercilessly about by swirling winds and tides, dumped like a flotsam morsel on some deserted wasteland......

So, in this deadening lull between eclipses now, where the dispositors ☿/♃ are both in dignity and stationing to retro, this is the perfect time to shut out, shut in, shut down and shut up in order to get a clearer gauge on the energetic principle of everything that's streaming into your consciousness.

This lunation produces a powerful energetic shutdown. Our preoccupation with trivia, our tendency to become lost in arguments over assumptions, conjecture and quasi-conceptual realms that have little or no relevance to our daily circumstances needs to end, and we are called to focus on rebuilding the pathways to a better society.

...then there are times when 'trusting your intuition' could mean you are clearly 'out of range', and it's best to have all your wits about you, ask the right questions and avoid sailing into unchartered waters.

You're invited to join Ang on the Cosmic Bus for a discussion on Saturn's Retrograde through Aquarius and what we can expect going into the next few weeks. Thursday Night (USA)/Friday Morning 01:00 UTC – 18:00 PDT – 19:00 MDT – 20:00 CDT – 21:00 EDT – 11:00 AEST – 03:00 SAST

We can stop any disease. We just have to find a way to innoculate ignorance; eradicate our fixation with worshipping dumbness...

With all the Jupiter and Saturn action transiting and retrograding in your sign, it's quite likely that you're becoming more and more ambivalent about how to approach this world, if at all.

As we sail into eclipse terrain, one has an overwhelming sense that the world is on the brink of something hugely humbling... something that could bring even the mightiest giant down to his knees. What could that 'something' be? Surely we are not lost in a sea of wishful thinking and false projections...

Everybody knows that something massive is going on, but most of us just cannot seem to put our finger on it. Many distractions, all symptoms of an impending breakdown are taking up our attention, each providing a makeshift narrative as if to remedy the situation and keep things 'under control'.

19 years ago... What were you doing? Were you around? Can you see any trends between the events in your life then and now as the lunations/eclipses repeat the same patterns, activating the same natal planets/houses?

With all this ☽, ☿, ♀, ☊ biz in Gem♊ni and a nice little ☿ △ ♄, this is a perfect time to start trying to get your ideas across to others again. Come on, you can do it.

You can't hide away forever because you fear failure. Learn to accept yourself as a uniquely spiritual artist, one with divinely ordained gifts.

Phasing out of April where, after an Aries quarrel or two, we have each become …

MOON CONJUNCT PLUTO Stationed 26°♑48'Rx △ ☿ Yep, your current drama goes a whole lot deeper than you and your mama's hidden trauma.