The October Metaversal Astral Terrain Report ( from the Bottoms to the Tops!)

As summer has ended I felt it incumbent on me to invite you to a thunderstorm which is scheduled to take place outside the herring factory some October evening at dusk The Sun's move into Libra occurs when the days and nights are equal. Darkness comes earlier. The tails of your schnauzers will droop. Balance, equilibrium, is the key toLibra. Balance requires judgment, knowledge, perspective and integrity, and Libra time gives us special opportunities to develop those qualities. Skyscrapers should be renamed cloudsnaggers. Equinoxes usher in the autumn and spring seasons, when life’s seasonal rebalancing occurs. We can invoke appropriate rebalancing for this next quarter, as we celebrate the Autumnal Equinox. You needn’t dress in any but the most perfunctory manner nor bring any crickets (there will be plenty of those!)In her maturity Libra’s vision expands from her early romanticism to encompass a love so balanced that the beloved is not placed higher than the lover, and selfish ego concerns do not motivate the relationship. Lover and beloved, friend and friend, are equal; their needs are not in conflict or bargained over but pooled and shared openly in Libran trust. Libra loves her friend as she loves herself, for she knows that the breath of Maat, the Cosmic Consciousness, flows equally through one as through the other. By the way, I can see the dunes from the third-storey window of my cabin, and they are absolutely still – not a grain moving – at this time of year. A few weeks ago, transiting Mars was squaring Jupiter in the chart of the of 2011 Kazuo Hirai, Shiro Kambe, Shinji Hasejima crisis in Japan — when a flurry of newsstories appeared about the Fukishima reactor. One featured a shamefaced confession by the plant’s directors, who have been lying through their teeth for two years straight. Enough of them are working around the clock to uphold the brutal vision of misery, the current temporal quotient of suffering, despondency, and total abject dread. Now they were confirming that the amounts of radioactivity detected in surrounding groundwater have increased steadily since the meltdown.

The official story now matches up with what residents and investigative journalists have known for a while. As the plant has been leaking contaminated water into the ocean, the truth has been leaking into the collective mind. Pluto governs plutonium, of course, and Uranus uranium. It took a quarter turn of Jupiter(widespread dissemination) for the information to fully break through the crust of humanity’s denial.The sky is reverberating with the events of two years ago, and so are the Japanese people.
On the day Uranus (protest) stationed, July 17th, there were huge anti-nuclear rallies in Tokyo —
the largest that nation has ever seen. Not known for being politically demonstrative, the Japanese public poured into the streets in the hundreds of thousands, demanding an end to the nuclear industry and the resignation of Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda for having enabled the cover-ups. Mercury enters its Retrograde Shadow October 3rd. when it reaches 2°29' Scorpio, forming the echo chamber that will bring events in threes. What we say and the connections we make now, both internal and external, take on more significance as part of a
cleansing process. We feel something stirring deep within, as Mercury trines Neptune, a clarity that wants to emerge.
+Feeding that feeling is the Sun’s closing square to Pluto, propelling us into action that furthers the transformation we
began on December 28 last year. A tantrum shut down the United States government on October 1, and as we move through the next several days and weeks, the standoff is sure to worsen. From an astrological perspective, the source of this political nervous breakdown is the ongoing, ever-escalating intensity of the Uranus/Pluto squares. We’re in the thrall of the next exact contact, which occurs on November 1, and the mounting fervor and rising fever of this fractious interaction feels like a massive tractor beam of unrelenting intensity pulling us inexorably toward crisis, individual as well as collective.
For those of you new to this astral series, seven exact squares between Uranus and Pluto take place between June 2012
and March 2015. Uranus symbolizes the revolutionary. Pluto represents the process of death and rebirth. Squares signify
hard relationships that tend to find both remedy and relief in action. Both planets are in Cardinal signs—Uranus is in Aries, the sign of the individual; Pluto is in Capricorn, the sign of government. And because Cardinal signs initiate action, sometimes simply for its own sake, daily life has begun to resemble a marathon of extreme conditions, actions, reactions and the all too real consequences of both



Will there be fireworks? No, there will not be fireworks, but there’s a young Catholic girl (Virgo) who hangs out at the Rev Cafe (a bastard daughter of yours, if Reverend Arnie is to be believed) who will read from the Bible for tips and cheese. I’m so excited by the prospect that you might actually join me on this little outing that I’ve quite been paying attention to the escalating Dog Wars – all morning in anticipation. Dr. Kev (Virgo, the same fellow who, according to the papers, performed your last hysterectomy) told me that this would be good for calming my nerves – indeed the opposite, for I find myself in a neurasthenic frenzy just contemplating the notion that you and I might picnic together this very evening beneath those same bolts of lightning which are sure to set the Riddley barns aflame again. Have you any toothpaste? Be sure to screw the cap on tightly: I have an aunt (one of your mothers, I believe?) who died not long ago from leaving the cap unscrewed on a tube of Sterident. The poor woman left the world without a will, and we’ve been squabbling over her miniature teacups ever since. Please respond by flare (red yes, blue no) as soon as possible. I must close now as my wife (your squirrel-catcher in a past life, swears Sturluson the trance medium and elbow boxer) is leaving on her errands and I would like for her to deliver this letter, along with the rooster I borrowed, to your hallowed door.

With Fondest Regards to you and your lovely poodle (does she suffer yet?),
Your Dithering Suitor,
Johannes Ayres Esq.