ASTROLOGY OF NOW

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.

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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.

Egos loom large under this Taurean lunation. Nothing's more easily triggered than a Mars in Cancer...

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.

If you deny the Uranian forces overhead, you will definitely become confronted by them and this frenetically electric buzz will upset and disrupt your storyline...

The Scorpio Supermoon sheds light on our darker, sexier side. Dark because there are some things so painful we'd prefer to keep to ourselves; sexy because they're so deliciously tempting that we feel compelled to find ways to share those with someone we can trust.

At the culminating phase of the moon's synodic cycle, we are provided with a unique opportunity to observe our most deeply troubling personal matters, approach them with some degree of maturity and wisdom and consider how we might proceed in order to get the best out of our experience.

The 3D world is dissolving, but it ain't going to disappear without a tear. The wisdom and custom of the ages, cherished time-worn traditions, the way we went about our business in the establishments downtown, the old folks who still remind us of a bygone era ... It hurts to let go of those.

Do not be so easily fooled, people. No show trial is going to appease or release us from the terrible scourge of tyranny that has taken complete hold over the inhabitants of this planet...

We are in for a dynamic, disruptive week ahead, since much of the inner (personal) planetary energy is shifting into feminine (receptive) signs, Pluto stationing and the Moon progressively heading towards her synodic culmination in a Hadean-style Scorpio Supermoon.

MINDFUL: In times of emotional distress, it is not absurd to take liberties. Telling yourself a warped-out story may be the only thing in life that is exclusively yours right now, but I shouldn't get too attached to that.

Remember, no big production necessary but, whatever happens, hold on to your sovereignty right now...

Major cracks are starting to show in the global Truman Schittshow formerly starring you and a growing cast of others.

Oh Eris, Eris, let them spare us, from having Paris come in and compare us, we know too well how he might declare us "fittest, fairest" which will only just tear us...

Whilst things may look a little bleak and gloomy, it's important to not lose sight that there's a wonderful world awaiting us all over that horizon.

This lunation is an urgent call to action for every self-aware individual - to step up and shine their light, however dim or bright, upon this darkness.

All human beings, at some point in their lives, encounter the crippling effects of guilt, suffering or death - life's tragic triad, which grips the ego into a state of paralysis and sends the individual into an existential crisis. When PLUTO makes contact with the NODES (Apr-Jul), we all share in the effects of such a crisis together with others.

Remember, you ain't going to hear 'the truth' because you're not likely to accept just one story or stick with any one detail. You're most likely going to want to keep an open mind throughout all this.

As we start to see the cracks forming in the matrix of the old patriarchy, the transiting Aries Sun, recently conjunct Chiron and flanked by a soon-Hesperus (evening star) Venus, challenges us to find and speak our true intrinsic voice.

[CAUTION: Long, scary post about Pluto]

Who's bottled up a little apathy and anger since last March?

Anyone who's been let down, screwed over, ripped hard... come... ...see just where we're about to take this.

...and then you realise that trying to reason with hurricane season is only going to leave you feeling wrecked.

With PLUTO/ERIS involved in this MER/MARS-NN square, the triggers of anger and expressions of rage/violence are merely an unconscious attempt to act-out, or re-enact our unhealed trauma via others in our world.

Pugnacious Mars rules over the pricked-up and scorned SUN/VENUS/CHIRON and ERIS lot in Aries, where it has dawned on some people that eventually everybody, inadvertently, at some point betrays somebody else.

..when Mars passes over the North Node (Saturday) all hell busts loose, as if to settle the score for any past misconduct and abuses.

Feeling the shift from Pisces to Aries? Just when you reach the limit of annoyance with others, others have had it with you too. Here goes our 2021 journey of learning all about intolerance...

If you've ever held suspicions, the Sun at 29 Pisces finally provides a glimpse that this planet was one giant soul asylum all along.

When VENUS crosses the SATURN/URANUS midpoint, find a lovely way to STRESS LESS.

By the end of this week, the (now-Neptunified) SUN finally leaves Pisces and reaches the all-critical Aries Equinox. In the remaining days, the hypersensitised ego has all but fully dissolved, exposing nothing but a refined soul who is ready to be incarnated into its new, 2021 form.

All may not be what it seems because it has never been so. It has never been, and there is much that has been hidden from you, but as you become ever more sensitive and more intuitively attuned, you start to question where we are moving towards and why.

As the Moon hits Saturn, it suddenly dawns that we're past the point of no return.

The current expectation that marriage is a "'til-death-do-us-part" type-deal need not feel like a death sentence to one's individualism, regardless of how much people still prefer to commit to a long-term relationship.

Words are like weapons now.

The world of metaphors and symbolism offers us divine insight, and based only on these, we can construct a more reliable, more beautifully cohesive story - a dream in which all of the people on this planet can share. Join me tomorrow, for a special lunation report that sees the end of the astrological year and clears the way for the new.

In a time of widespread panic and anxiety, when the current reality seems unstable and the future you had planned seems highly improbable, the natural response is to zone out, seek refuge in your dreamworld - science-fiction fantasies about tomorrow or modified visions of a crudely reimagined past.

...hope you're studying up on how to get yourself out of this painful little twist.

We are all under a deep, hypnotic trance. Those who can 'see' with any clarity are witnessing humanity in a state of a deep slumber, mired in a dream yet unaware that we are dreaming our way through this life or even asleep.

This is a time to either marry the sublime and fantastically creative ideas into mundane utilisation or make a decision to untether and expunge ourselves from any relationship which only siphons away our rational energies.

When the sugar-coating on your dreamy ignorance of reality wears off, will you be so numb that you cannot feel into the truth of your situation?

The SATURN/PLUTO conjunction squaring ERIS (Jan 2020) brought to the surface an insidious disease that seeks to corrupt and destroy this planet. Any individual who succumbs to the temptation to fall under its collective spell is being plied to become fanatically attached to supporting an agenda that is, essentially, diametrically opposed to serving his/her own best interests.

Our task during 'the human experience' is to rise beyond the petty squabbles that divide us in this grim, lower illusion of limitation and scarcity, to transcend from the world of suffering and fear by using all the knowledge and insight afforded to us by the heavens.

...with the sun slipping into Pisces, the first quarter Gemini Moon could get a little mental as we try to work out where on earth to go from here. Luckily, the cosmic bus will be along in a few hours, as usual, we'll have much up in the stars to see and talk all about...

Eventually, nothing will stand as it is. It (♄□ ♅) is a three-pronged aspect that will take us through to the end of 2021.