ASTROLOGY OF NOW

As Monday's TOTAL ECLIPSE approaches, a reminder to stay mindful that your greatest intentions, most ambitious projections on how to carry on 'believing' in this turbulent world stand to be interceded by an unexpected force or an unforeseen turn of events...

REMINDER: Detaching from mainstream society to join 'the resistance' or some counter-culture movement, no matter how righteous or cool their ideas, is just proof that you are not listening to your unique inner guiding voice...

This is for sure this time, man... I'm telling you - the "Christmas Star" is a sign that the second coming is about to happen...

I'm under no pretensions. The Neptune fog across the true Nodes is thick and heavy and it's hard to know what to make of anything. Both past and future seem entirely beyond belief.

Oh, was you going somewhere with all that baggage??

In harmony with the thanks-giving holiday, our usual cosmic bus service will be postponed until next week.

Every heartbreak, rejection, grief and sorrow introduces us to change and, although painful, forces us to accept release from something that perhaps wasn't quite complementary to our growth and what we strive to be.

In times of extremities, where transformation and death take place, morality quickly goes out the window, for it is sadly a luxury of the privileged few who get to outline guidelines and laws of 'virtuous' behaviour to the rest, who are easily swayed...

For the next week, the Moon starts to fill light to the brim. By the end of this month, she will have suffered her fourth and final eclipse this year.

As retrograde Neptune stations squarely across the Gemini/Sadge Nodal Axis, we enter the Eclipse Season which bookends 2020. It has been a phenomenal year...

The events of the next 24 hours will be especially telling. As I posted yesterday, I really think that we're letting ourselves be had. The Capricorn moon's pass over the ♃/♇/♄ stellium leaves us nothing to get excited about.

Humility is not subservience. It is not a willingness to obey. It is an openness to learning, self-understanding and to change.

Seriously now, I shouldn't get too excited about things settling down and "returning back to normal". For a start, we are all currently under NEPTUNE's narcotic spell as he stations squarely across the NODAL AXIS for the next 6-8 weeks.

The most dangerous relationship is that which makes you believe the impossible...

In the dark of this Scorpio Moon, it is important to find a moment of silence, meditate your intention. In silence, we find the ability to listen: to listen to ourselves, to others and to the spirit of this powerful moment.

Ok, here we go, peeps, this is it, now When power begets more power and absolute power gets out of control... It always ends in tears, for fears that it's impossible to tell who is the real narcissist and who is fighting for his sovereignty.

It seems obvious that fundamental changes are necessary, all the way down to our core values. What do we really value in life? Can we keep squandering our good energy, consuming our own toxic crap and still hope to live a healthy, prosperous existence?

Kindness means more than simply giving. It means cooperating with others. The greatest act of kindness is to look beyond the weaknesses and mistakes of others, helping them to recognise their innate value, to see themselves as worthy.

MERCURY's stationing on an exact square to SATURN (Nov 1-6) brought on a raft of serious realisations that not only hit home in an ego-shattering way, but we're about to learn the consequences of being too stubbornly tied to traditional ways of thinking.

The Virgo Moon will try to winnow some healthy orderliness back into our lives using the earth-trines to Uranus, Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto to cut out "the crap".

Such is the fear and loathing among us, that our common vexations appear to be the main thing uniting us. Problem is, whichever side you're on - you think you are the one being oppressed.

The MOON's entry into our playfully indulgent Leo side has already received a shocking 'coming-down-to-earth' slap across the puss from URANUS in Taurus...

MARS is now stationing and after two months in retrograde will turn direct at 15°♈14' next Friday. His quincunx to the SUN today comes as the MOON forms a cardinal grand cross against JUPITER/SATURN/PLUTO, MERCURY (also SD) and ERIS.

Moon is finally out of the voluble Gemini and currently in volatile, vulnerable Cancer. Over the next 24-36 hours, Luna forms all kinds of harsh, cardinal contacts across several planets.

Yay Pisces! The intergalactic transmissions coming through your ruler, Neptune are opening up a higher morality which you may easily convey through your capacity to articulate the one wholistic vision for humanity.

Just as we might have imagined, the hazing effects of NEPTUNE'S square to the nodal axis are subtly starting to seep through.

MERCURY, now back in Libra, slows to a station pressing his nibs exactly square the SATURN, holding that for days. By midday (EST), Wednesday he will turn direct again.

Being disillusioned is no excuse for misrepresenting the truth, drawing others into the vortex of your personal despair. Learn the difference between fantasy and reality - especially if you wish to claim any authority or to persuade anyone with your ideas.

The paralysing effects of F.E.A.R. can impel us to hold on to positions and things which are not conducive to our growth. Our attachments (people, possessions, ideas, values) feel the same way. They need to be released so that they too may evolve to the next level of expression...

JUPITER now closes in on SATURN at the final degrees of Capricorn. By Dec 21, 2020 the two giants will conjunct in the first degree of Aquarius, marking the 200-year end to a series of 20-yr cycles that commenced in earth signs. The carnival is over.

NEPTUNE and JUPITER have really done a number on poor VENUS lately who, in Virgo, speaks to our longing to be acknowledged by someone for our sacrifice and generosity. Do we expect too much for our efforts to be loving and kind?

Jumping to conclusions, making snap judgements, trying to persuade others to 'think as I do' (even though those thoughts aren't convincing), plans that go haywire and just all-round mental skullduggery persist in our interpersonal dealings as Rx MERCURY slows to again oppose URANUS.

What are you going to do? How in heavens are you going to make this work again?? You may ask what have you done to deserve such an oppressive, prostrating, bleak set of conditions...

Moods can switch from nice to nasty really fast once the Moon enters Scorpio. I'm here to say, expect some haywire 'weather' up ahead...

My dear Cosmic Travellers, I have decided, in the dark of tomorrow's New Supermoon, that there will be no Cosmic Bus stop today, choosing instead to allow everyone to take a quiet, meditative moment to honour ourselves, partners, and collaborates in our creative lives. Who are the special people in your world? How are they assisting you to build a better world?

When MARS opposes the Libra SUN there's a likelihood of argument and disagreement which could become heated...

Through our interactions, we discover how much we stubbornly adhere to what we think we know, as well as limit our growth and development when we resistantly 'think we know everything'.

PLUTO wants it, badly. It doesn't matter what you want, if Pluto has you in his crosshairs he is intent to take it from you, and he will use any force necessary...

Join me on tomorrow's Cosmic Bus as we discuss the super-tense stellar dynamics of this next Supermoon lunation and the shocking revelations about to rock the entire world on the hallowed evening of October 31...

MERCURY SLOWS and this time next week will be flying retrograde. In a few hours, he will OPPOSE URANUS, forming the iconoclastic mentality that only relishes in confuting others’ myths and illusions with its brilliant logic and irreverent wit...

Mercury will oppose Uranus exactly three times over the next six weeks and thanks to its retrograde on Oct 14, the god of communication and ideas remains within ~2° orb, opposite the great disruptor, Uranus, all throughout the 5th-22nd of this month.

Hey, have I told you that you make this all worthwhile?

Looking for a road back to January? I shouldn't get so sentimental...

When Venus enters Virgo, it's always something... some little detail getting in the way of the romance; the thrill and enjoyment of the moment...

No Full Moon speaks loudest to our indecisiveness, lack of focus and desperate urge to look outside ourselves for someone or something to prop us up; to blame or help solve our inner problems and inadequacies like the Aries Full Moon.

MA℞S squares a stationing SATURN and with the SUN opposing CHIRON, there's something about bearing witness to a moment in history so gruesome, brutal, and bizarre that could leave our gentle souls as hardened and callous as those cops who have to pick up all the scraps after an awful car crash.

This is a good time to mind our poise and our composure. The Libra Sun calls for more tact and diplomacy, for if you slip and lose your cool, you stand to fall, disgracefully.

Time isn't speeding up. It is collapsing. You are not running short of time, just shattering your concern with the mundane.

The Cap Moon's pass across Saturn/Pluto again, mixing to create her fog of delusion and counter-delusion.

It is indeed a special time. The yod to Venus/Vesta from Jupiter/Neptune only illustrates just how exhausted, used and insecure we're feeling...

It's come to this... Big-worded tirades to your housemates in the kitchen, mega-rants on social media, peaceful marches and even rioting in the streets have fallen on deaf ears. It's done nothing and you know it.

Please remember to stay healthy throughout this transition. This period can all be a bit intense and a little scary sometimes. Just know, you have everything you need to see this to the other side. It's going to be amazing, you will see...

This has been an extremely potent week, and thanks mostly to an intensely close encounter with our Moon. Thursday's Lunation is the first of three consecutive New Moons in perigee (Supermoon) that will see the Moon pass before the Sun at her closest proximity to earth - a phenomenon not only swelling the ocean tides but nudging us too, in no uncertain terms, to "bring our big emotions into line".

Thursday's Virgo New Moon marks the synodic lunar cycle's reset point. It is the time of the month when affairs most important (Sun) and most personal (Moon) in our lives come together and we are called, both instinctively and through our experiences, to make an intention with how to deal with pertinent matters...

Be mindful that the world is subtly shifting into turbocharged hypercriticism...

Those who regard themselves "self-made" or "self-sufficient". may exert the image of social success or attractiveness since, on the face of it, this appears empowering. It conjures a certain picture of freedom, but it’s fundamentally flawed...

Accomplishing the incredible will be no accident...

"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards." - Aldous Huxley

As the Moon moves into Aries, we feel the turgid pressure of the Capricorn stellium (Jupiter/Saturn/Pluto) as wholly uncomfortable, unwelcome, even intimidating.

Choked up, dismayed and horrified with it all... wondering if all this hate and cruelty you're seeing around you is not merely an illusion; a willful misunderstanding; a failure on your part of some kind.

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.