ASTROLOGY OF NOW

Like any Full Moon, this glorious lunation shines the Sun's conscious awareness upon the Moon's often hidden or more unconscious nature. As the luminaries stand at the height of opposition in the heavens, we are asked to reconcile two very different sides of ourselves. We may notice some matters in utter discordance, feel strongly averse to those around us, creating both confrontation and opportunities to make amends.

After 57 days in lockdown, 43 of which I am forbidden to exit my front door between 8pm and 5am, and then allowed only to circulate for ONE hour a day and only within a 5km radius from home, and then only to replenish food supplies and 'exercise', only with face-covering AT ALL TIMES (regardless whether I am in a store or at the park or walking by the river), the number of CV19 cases per day in this state (~ 100) has hardly varied and our premier/governor seems to be showing no indication that he is going to ease restrictions for perfectly healthy citizens...

What kind of a world are we building? Or is it up to us to destroy everything for the sake of a few? Do we want to leave our children a planet that runs on empathy and kindness or one possessed by bullying demagoguery? Do we even care what happens, so long as we don't die?

Every day becomes a struggle to adapt now, especially psychologically. For some, it's sad to come to grips with the crushing reality that dawns each day. Many are still in denial, or oblivious to what is happening, or are living in hope that in a few weeks all this will pass and we can return back to how things were.

And what did we learn? Was it that nobody is as special as you and that (after all) you're no more special than the next person?

Mercury and Moon in Virgo, opposite Neptune in Pisces, we could be anywhere and nowhere, really. Relax... It's actually over...

Nothing sets a harsher, meaner tone upon the earth than the squaring of the two malefics in the skies...

Eris introduces terrible strife and striving, contest & contention (discord) among each species, and since many more individuals are born than can possibly survive; we are cast, from time to time, into nature's recurring struggle for survival...

No lunation rings as loud and clear as a bell than a Leo New Moon. It chimes us back into the integrity of our being, and mind, body, heart and soul start to resonate in alignment with the core centre of our highest intelligence - the pink hot spot that is the nucleus of our individual creativity.

ERIS sits there all alone, beyond the perimeters of even the most distant wastelands of consciousness. She's been denied entry to the contest, shut out, left behind, forgotten and forlorn for far too long. But not for long...

Over the next 5 months, we see the outer world's struggle for progress come to a halt. It is as if the quest to change becomes internalised into a personal, highly subjectified crusade...

Come, unplug from the madness and let us sit with the stars and Moon and Sun, it'll be fun...

By the end of the weekend, forces will have mounted to launch full-scale restraints upon that which they deem to be impure, contaminating or corrupt. Many noses may be put out of joint...

You ever get the feeling you're being taken for granted? Don't worry, take it as a compliment - at least you're useful to someone...

A kind of madness and hysteria starts to intensify over this planet, possessing certain individuals with an urge to desperately, uncontrollably rail against the force of its perceived oppressor...

The highly volatile Aries MOON now activates CHIRON, MARS and ERIS. In her utter discontent, LUNA raises the attention of JUPITER/PLUTO/SATURN, who in Capricorn is ready to come down like a proverbial tonne of bricks upon anyone who shows any signs of individual insurgency or objection to the official narrative.

How are you feeling? Is your world, your environment, your emotional state settled and supportive of what your 'heart of hearts' wishes to accomplish? Or are you feeling restless and uncomfortable, inundated with changes that you neither understand (fully) nor accept as accommodating to your dreams and desires?

It's Full Moon, the time of the month when the energies of the Sun and Moon are at their most disparate and least inclined to agree with one another.

Mercury's been lingering around Cancer now since the end of May (that's long). It's a little troublesome because Mercury operates best, not going on a hunch, but by providing data.

The Moon makes one last swipe past Jupiter/Pluto/Saturn this weekend before becoming full on Monday. This is it. Super intense energies are about to rock things. Everyone gets a flash of exactly what's going on. All we need's a glimpse.

Bragging, big talk, dogmatic opinions and scientific inaccuracy in statements is at epidemic proportions here.

"Whether the mask is labelled fascism, democracy, or socialism, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us at the front lines, who isn't so much our enemy as our brother and sister's enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves."

The tendency towards gullibility is super-high now, especially if you're keen to satisfy your own needs and desires. You may throw caution to the wind as far as the plausibility of an opportunity that you think has come your way.

Where to from here? Things are either getting clearer for you or they are a frightful mess...

Wakey wakey, Leos... time to rise & shine

See how much of your personal security and natural well-being you can trade-off to comply with comprehensive new laws imposed by those with extreme affluence and acclaim, prestige and machiavellian power...

The degree of projection going on right now is at insane levels. In amidst the darkest times, cemented by Saturn's presence, when the demons of our darkest dreams and our subconscious have been unleashed and allowed to run rife; where anger mixed with fear and envy and raging disdain for all the hurt of the ages start to swell, it's all quite easy to throw shade on others.

The healing of the sacred masculine is inextricably linked to that of the sacred feminine. One cannot heal without the other. Let us hold space, not contempt for one another. Encourage the healthiest side of our masculinity to be expressed.

The spiritual journey is never a happy one. It is always painful, ends in tragedy because in its essence it cuts a lonely path for its seer or prophet - one which individuals must eventually take alone, if somehow later followed by fanatical groups, movements and entire societies.

The whole deal builds into a furious LAST QUARTER MOON, as feelings of woundedness, disgrace and neglect are contrasted against JUPITER/PLUTO's apparent abuse of power and position, expressed most subjectively through the protective nature of Cancer SUN.

Repressed, or 'dark' matters can develop into toxic problems, regardless of how well-masked and obscured using manipulation of ignorance, intimidation and abuse and torture.

This Capricorn Full Moon, just over 48 hours away, is the last of these mid-year eclipses. Big feelings are usually accompanied by these lunations, especially during Cancer season.

When the Lord of Fear, Separation, Scarcity and Hardship returns to his abode of caution, constriction, callousness, cynicism and contrivance, then know that we are back to the official agenda to cripple and maim the population...

As if Pluto transiting Capricorn (2008 – 2024) isn’t enough indication that we’re desperately trying …

Mars in Aries is primitive, his demeanour is highly subjective and appears completely oblivious to the world around him unless it fits into his vision...

A flurry of planets in retrograde, Mars entering Aries, Saturn's return to Capricorn, a tight conjunction of Jupiter/Pluto and Pallas squaring Eris, and the final lunar eclipse on July 4, impacting the chart of the USA to lead us into the second half of 2020.

As all other planets except MARS and URANUS are in retrograde, VENUS stations to go …

Do you sometimes wonder why the person you love and know so well is strangely …

It is Solstice. The Sun is at 00° Cancer, what astrologers call "the World Axis" (0° Cardinal signs). In just a few hours, the Moon will pass before the Sun, obscuring his majestic glow, all but for a bright ring of fire (corona) around his edges.

It takes lifetimes, entire generations of shielded hand-me-down care for a fine vase to become a valued piece of cultural antiquity. It takes all but a second for it to be shatterred and worthless.

Don't be too surprised when sophisticated robots and computer algorithms soon start to drive humans entirely out of the job market. With growing automation, all wealth and power is quickly becoming consolidated by a small group of elites who govern over the all-powerful algorithm companies, already producing unprecedented social and political inequality.

It's no secret. PLUTO in Capricorn (2008-2024) is slowly disintegrating all structures. Nothing is permanent but the pure light of self-emanating stars...

When MARS/NEPTUNE squares the SUN, be on the lookout for those energy vamps, those , psychically fixing to sap your creative ideas and suck out your abundant vitality.

June 21 (Solstice) is a time to celebrate light and honour the wisdom of the shadows. By recalibrating ourselves with the natural world in a way that honours the sacred immanence in all things, we attune our inner resonance with the seasons.

Friday's PENUMBRAL LUNAR ECLIPSE at 15°♐34' forms a supertight T-Square to MARS 15°♓52', planet of war, fire, fury, aggression and defence/AND A semisquare to SATURN 01°♒24'℞, planet of restriction, limitation, fear and control...

... what is currently happening around the world - the disgusting revelations of abuse of power by the martial dogs of "law-enforcement" is akin to the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass.

We learn from our mistakes. But not what we are supposed to learn, only the things that make us madder..

Get a taste of what's about to erupt when MARS squares JUPITER/PLUTO/SATURN in Aug, Oct & Jan...

Whatever we think we know could be proven wrong as we gain more knowledge. No idea, theory or law is sacred and beyond question. Be willing to admit ignorance.

Strive to be refined, sociable, uniquely captivating.Endeavour to be autonomous and independent. Make some of your dreams a reality.

REMEMBER: We are in the midst of a Jupiter/Saturn conjunction to PLUTO, which means we are in it. When you're "in" something, it's hard to see yourself, in the very nature of that thing that you are in.

JUPITER retrograde in Capricorn places us into an unswerving inner struggle to find TRUTH.

The keynote of Venus is "love", "rhythm", "harmony", so if you want to know the nature of her operation, simply substitute 'Venus' for 'Love'.

MARS and MERCURY square at the critical (final) degree of fixed signs...

Here, at the close of the industrial age, we are entangled in a vast and sprawling global network of effectively organised corporations, all there to help us to adjust to the profound sickness that now engulfs our society.

If you’re well-adjusted, then ask yourself, adjusted to what?

By the end of next week, Saturn, Venus & Jupiter would have all turned retrograde. Slowly, we start to backtrack over the year.

And so it is. Full Moon time once again. As with every Full Moon, we reach the point in our lunation calendar that marks a climactic event - one whose nature is high-lighted both with daytime (solar/conscious) and night-time (lunar/reflective) perspectives, although their views are in diametric opposition.

How will we remember this year? Sure, we're only one-third of the way into 2020 but, by outer-planetary zodiac coverage, these first 4 months have already provided a flashing glimpse of what we might be dealing with until Nov-Dec.

What is fomenting 'out there', and soon internally in every soul, is a real confrontation with the problem of values. The entire character of the human world is slowly diminishing into worthlessness.

This quarter moon in Leo sets the scene for the ultimate stand-off. In the next few hours, as public mood shifts to greater demand for its sovereign heart to be heard, one can hear the pacing of a very serious showdown about to take place at high noon.

In these tense, unsettling times of sacred passage, when outer planets appear to slow and retrograde, we prepare to stop, turn back and start facing some of the changes indicted and invited into our society since that fateful SATURN/PLUTO LUNAR ECLIPSE in January.

MERCURY in TAURUS can evoke remnants of the dinosaur mind, which is caught up with the most elemental or basic level of thought.

Outermost Pluto slows to a grinding halt, turning retrograde, and we at once feel an ominous force pushing us to deal with our most intimate, vulnerable, well-repressed secret.

Conspiracy theory mania is rife and with so much corruption about, it's no surprise that people (finally) are waking up to what has always been and always will.

With VENUS slowing to square NEPTUNE all next month, don't feel surprised to find your exes washing up, here and there, either on your phone or in your dreams...

Meanwhile, outside your window, things are slightly rough - set to get wilder out there in 3D land...

"Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist." -Pablo Picasso

Sooner or later, when all around you has but ceased to either satisfy or irritate you with its 'superficialness', you will remove the mask, allow your quintessential self to be revealed.

The ongoing lock-up saga metastasises a different kind of 'infectiousness'. From now till the end of July VENUS travels back and forth over the same old ground in Gemini.

The words we use to express our worries and struggles, but also to laugh at life itself, can reveal more than we realise. Yet few of us ever think to look there for clues to our healing.

The Moon makes her final pass over the Capricorn South Node. One by one, we have come to leave behind the cold, calculating stance that achieving prestige and social significance meant everything.

May light prevail darkness Truth obliterate falsehood Love annihilate hatred Faith destroy fear.

Next Tuesday's LAST QUARTER MOON at 25°27' Capricorn forms an intense Cardinal Square with the Aries Sun, highlighting just how much our desire to do what we want, as individuals, is being frustrated and thwarted by rules and limitations imposed upon us by conditions in the outer world.

So, kinda get a feel on how it's gonna be. Not so much in the next week or so, but in about a year when Saturn finally starts to square against Uranus (Feb-Jun & Dec 2021, and then some at the end of 2022).

The Pink Supermoon, at 18°44' LIBRA is only hours from its peak. Do take a chance to look out your window, she is bigger and brighter than usual, and if you care to listen, she has many secrets to whisper our way.

Trying to cope gracefully with an uncomfortable situation when these clueless assholes on TV keep putting out their dictatorial attitude is really fucking irritating.

Remember when CONTROL first issued the smartphone?

Of course, the exciting thing about what's going on during this earth-crumbling moment is that our economies will abruptly shift onto a more level playing field.

Oh dear, sweet Universe, please give me the strength to hold myself together here...