Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Daily Forecasts June 22-June 23


just a reminder that this Saturday is both the first day of my annual Western Tantra Lightcraft Workshop as well as IAO Core's "The Rite of Saturn”....Co-inky dink? We don't need no stinkin' co-inky dinks!


Wednesday June 22

The Moon in Pisces, though still void of course today, remains quite useful (even brilliant) in helping us realize our dreams through action. Pisces represents, on the level of the first octave, the period between 28 weeks after Conception till Birth, when after the electrick nervous system of the fetus switches on (Aquarius), we become psychically tuned to the entity later to be known as Mother. On the level of the fourth octave (see Chapter 9 of the Meteversal Lightcraft Training Manual for more on the Four Octaves), Pisces represents the enlightened Self which must give itself totally to the whole, dissolving into the void, in order to achieve the final unity with the realm of pure spirit. On the World scale, Pisces occupies the period between 1910 and 1969. heralded by the founding of Psychoanalysis, when Mankind began exploring again the Unconscious strata of Life, and by Albert Einstein's (a Pisces) Theory of Relativity. This was the time of Jung, Joyce, Hesse, Huxley, Leary, Burroughs. We transcended the limits the illusion, Maya, the physical World of Assiah, extending inward with the electron microscope and outward with the high powered Telescope. The entire range of audible musical notes and the whole spectrum of visible colour, apprehended and understood. The dissolving power of mutable Water, Second coming of the Fish with the Double Wand of Power, Atom Bomb and LSD. With the Moon in Pisces we have a heightened sensitivity to Musick and the Dreamtime, and we feel the depths of pure compassion for the Metaverse and it's inhabitants. Let the subtlety of thought and expression, the depth of imagination, and the ability to think nonverbally inspire you to create beautiful art and music today The Sun now in cancer trines Neptune to bring awareness of how we are being helped from the forces and beings in the inner, invisible realms.

Thursday June 23
The Last Quarter Moon square to the Sun occurs at 4:48 am/1°41′ Aries initiates what we Metaversal types call Earthweek. In cardinal signs (Cancer, Aries), it inspires us to take action in response to the new situations and plot twists that have arisen in the course of this month of eclipses. With one more eclipse to go, all is not quite fully revealed, but enough is known to take some first steps. With Uranus, Pluto, and Saturn still in cardinal signs, a few challenges lie ahead but nothing we can’t meet. Be alert today to see what needs your attention not just in the coming week but in the next six months. This is about where we need to be in order to fulfill our new goals. The context has already been set; the answers may not yet be apparent. This is also true in Washington. Although there is some relief for now in the economic front, and workers can see some light at the end of their tunnel, many American families are suffering whether from unemployment, extreme weather, or simply fear. The resilience and versatility of the nation are called into play, and demonstrate what makes the country thrive. Extreme weather is in the news, affecting the Eastern Time Zone. The Sabian Symbol for the Last Quarter Moon at 2 Aries is “a comedian entertaining a group of friends." Regardless of our circumstances, we need to laugh, especially to laugh at our own folly. Humor is healing and is a glue that keeps us connected to each other, the most precious of all gifts.

IAO Core's Rites of Eleusis begin June 25th!

Friday, June 17, 2011

Daily Forecasts June 17th -20th


This forecast is prepared and written in luminous tiles across your retinas. May it shine forth upon all who meet your gaze. Words grow here slick and filthy and unhindered by enterprise.

Friday June 17
If you actively invoke blessed HANIEL, the Archangel of Venus into your heart today, you may find you have developed the ability to feel like Khrisna, multiplying himself into a dozen pastoral, naked farmhands with muddy feet and emerald pond scum on their thighs, or maybe you are a young Freya on the back of a panther, eating honey. The Day of Venus, who gets oversimplified like a lot of her sisters, is one of the most complex planets going: she works as an attractive force and as a creative one. Intelligence is the greatest aphrodisiac, but a dab of extract from a civet's anal gland and a nice pair of shoes will work just as well today. Mercury makes a soft landing with Jupiter to make agreements and communications go very well today. Venus supports this by resonating with Saturn. Difficult communications can be completed successfully today. The Moon continues through Capricorn but makes no contacts.Capricorn represents, on the level of the first octave, the period between 7 weeks until 12 weeks after Conception, when the embryo becomes a fetus, and the sex and physical appearance are determined. The body takes form through it's skeletal system. On the level of the fourth octave (see Chapter 9 of the Metaversal Lightcraft Training Manual for more on the Four Octaves), Capricorn represents the integration and structuring of the higher perceptions of the Self in the World on a practical level. On the World scale, Capricorn occupies the period between AD 1750 and AD 1840. This was the time when the ideology of Sagittarius was translated into material form. Humanity evinced a superiority over the forces of nature, and the Industrial revolution began. Romanticism surrounded the likes of Shelley, Goethe, Byron, and Chopin, reacting to the cold prevailing mechanistic World view. Rudolph Steiner said that the human being is created, and destined to be, a self-defining creature. Are we slightly higher than monkeys or slightly lower than angels? Good old fashion hard work yields the answer. Monkeys and Angels are set to grind corn with the Moon in Capricorn. Tackle those long term projects and remember, the Mountain must be tackled one step at a time. The fun part is knowing that this nice little braid cascade of planetary wave donuts gets its pressure nested to fold all inside out through one slip knot to ... elsewhere because not only is the Moon in Capricorn giving us all the stable gravity of magnetism permitted by fractal symmetry to go BETWEEN frequencies in a cascade, but this magnetism is also actually the WIND ON WHICH LOVE TRAVELS

Saturday June 18
Life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, but death is a short certificate written by a sensible fellow with a degree in forensic pathology. Moon goes void of course at 1:07 am on a trine to Mars, which is now in late Taurus. Its void period is brief, lasting until 4:47 am when it goes into contrarian Aquarius. Stubbornness could surface in the morning, but it will give way as we think of new solutions in the afternoon. Mercury squares Uranus to bring out the unexpected. We’ll need to watch our fingers and toes, and not run any red lights, but we’ll be brilliant at solving problems once we get over the annoyance factor.
Sunday June 19
Love is in the air—or at least we’ll have a great time socially, as Moon, Venus, and Saturn make a grand trine in the Air signs in the wee hours. This will spill over into the day, but it could be swept aside as Mercury moves through an opposition to Pluto. This is an opening salvo to two events: the Sun’s opposition to Pluto on the 27th, and the Uranus-Pluto square which is happening over the next two-plus years. It’s bound to take us deep on both counts. What do you need to bite the bullet and transform in your life? Which is better, the current and increasing tension of living with what’s out of balance, or the release and relief of launching your changes and putting the pain behind you?


Monday June 20

Moon finalizes its stay in Aquarius today, going void at 1:23 pm but entering Pisces just a few minutes later, at 1:45 pm. Pisces represents, on the level of the first octave, the period between 28 weeks after Conception till Birth, when after the electrick nervous system of the fetus switches on (Aquarius), we become psychically tuned to the entity later to be known as Mother. On the level of the fourth octave (see Chapter 9 of the Meteversal Lightcraft Training Manual for more on the Four Octaves), Pisces represents the enlightened Self which must give itself totally to the whole, dissolving into the void, in order to achieve the final unity with the realm of pure spirit. On the World scale, Pisces occupies the period between 1910 and 1969. heralded by the founding of Psychoanalysis, when Mankind began exploring again the Unconscious strata of Life, and by Albert Einstein's (a Pisces) Theory of Relativity. This was the time of Jung, Joyce, Hesse, Huxley, Leary, Burroughs. We transcended the limits the illusion, Maya, the physical World of Assiah, extending inward with the electron microscope and outward with the high powered Telescope. The entire range of audible musical notes and the whole spectrum of visible colour, apprehended and understood. The dissolving power of mutable Water, Second coming of the Fish with the Double Wand of Power, Atom Bomb and LSD. With the Sun in Pisces we have a heightened sensitivity to Musick and the Dreamtime, and we feel the depths of pure compassion for the Metaverse and it's inhabitants. Let the subtlety of thought and expression, the depth of imagination, and the ability to think nonverbally inspire you to create beautiful art and music today. Before that, we have a choice about whether to be content with things as they are, or to stir things up. If we wait, the problem will just go away, but some won’t be able to resist the temptation to enter into conflict (and some conflicts can’t and shouldn’t be avoided). Mars enters Gemini at 7:50 pm to lighten us up and make us less confrontational.

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Full Moon Report: June 15 to June 17


Wednesday June 15
The third lunar week of the month (Airweek) opens with the Full Moon/total Lunar Eclipse at 24°23′ Sagittarius/1:14 pm PT. Rest assured: the voluptuous terror you feel swiftly gives way to splendour. With so many planets in early degrees of their sign, the sole aspect today beyond the Sun-Moon opposition is a lunar opposition to Mercury. This gives us deeper awareness of how to resolve our emotional restlessness that we can take into the netherworld of the Moon’s still-usable void period, which starts at 8:31 pm. Beyond the turbulated curtain of vigilant torpor lies a realm where the living vision engines dream. This being a Lunar Eclipse, it leaves its mark in our lives for the coming six months, so we will encounter situations with ripples that will not be resolved in the next two weeks but will shine a brighter light into the future. Everything seethes and churns in this region, but that’s okay: it’s all part of your new vocation, and soon you won’t notice it anyway as you enter into your own state of turbulescent grace. The Moon enters responsible Capricorn at 10:59 pm. In Washington DC, the Full Moon chart highlights the economic and financial picture once again. If a blip occurred on the New Moon, there will be a follow-up event that echoes it on this Lunar Eclipse, in which the impact is felt more in the country. Much is happening behind the scenes to smooth things out, and these efforts will be largely successful, keeping in mind that the situation belies an underlying imbalance that must be dealt with for all to be well. A foreign economic power comes to the rescue. The Full Moon’s Sabian Symbol (25 Sagittarius) is, “A chubby little rich boy rides on a hobby horse of bright colors and wishes for hazards he may never know.” This image depicts a life lived in a society that is stratified by economic “class.” Is the population of the US the rich boy, not knowing the hazards that exist in the real global economy? You bet your sweet privileged ass it does!

Thursday June 16
A truckload of lunar aspects take us on an emotional ride as the Moon continues in Capricorn. Although we are taken to the depths of the inner realms in the wake of the Lunar Eclipse, we have plenty of ropes to pull ourselves out with once we’re done learning our lessons for this round, which extend over the day. Be alert to their messages, and you’ll reap fine rewards. Mercury enters Cancer at 12:09 pm to bring a nostalgic touch to our thinking processes. This takes on a thoughtful, spiritual tone as it trines Neptune in the late evening. The secret phenomenological Neptunian truth, encrypted against corruption at your birth but now transmitted lucidly across every synapse, is that the World is determined by imaginative volition. Now that this has been revealed, your purpose is clear. You might as well get used to it: YOU ARE A GLORIOUS NEW REALITY.


Friday June 17
Mercury makes a soft landing with Jupiter to make agreements and communications go very well today. Animals love this energy. They’re thrilled about it. They romp and squeal and butt their horns and roll on their bellies like there's no tomorrow. But mostly they just amble along in quiet amazement at their own pure satisfaction. Venus supports this by resonating with Saturn. Difficult communications can be completed successfully today. The Moon continues through Capricorn but makes no contacts.

Sunday, June 12, 2011

June 11 to June 13 in the Here and Now





Saturnsday June 11

It’s a dual use apocalypse. It is granting sight on the one hand and it is creating blindness on the other. For those being made blind, there is no awareness that this is taking place. The adjustment of vision immediately transforms into normal, as if it was always so. So many things are happening on so many levels. From the cultural, to the financial to the governing bodies, reeking with corruption, like a burning landfill in a third world country; the remnants of civilization are picking through the wreckage. Whole cities in the US are falling into disrepair. Calamities are hitting right and left. Massive inflation is coming because you can’t print money 24 hours a day, without the price of everything rising, as the value of it all descends into a dark pit whose bottom cannot be plumbed. The very idea of uniformed thugs strip searching babies that can’t even walk; beating retarded people into the ground and identifying them as terrorists. How can such a thing be? How can the airports of the so-called greatest country on Earth be in the hands of twisted Neanderthals with scanners and surgical gloves, running their hands up in and over the genitals of travelers? People are being jailed for not paying their bills. Wherever you look, the energy behind these crazy fascist activities turns out to be Israel. The scanners and the TSA are the brain child of Michael Chertoff, who now makes his living off of the scanner industry. His head looks like a death skull. His dual national associates are at the top of the shit heap of government and industry. Goldman Sachs is looting the landscape and there is no reaction, no response. It just goes on and on. Bubonic Plague has been married with e-coli. Fear strikes at the heart of the public from all directions. Stupidity militates against awareness. The TV drones on with endless banalities, hawking products that few are able to afford any longer. Yet each day arrives and somehow the horror show limps along toward its destined meeting, with whatever spark will ignite the tinder of terrible destruction. Fires rage out of control across the American west; tornadoes... god knows what is waiting in the wings. I collapsed from exhaustion the other night; just crumpled due to not sleeping for several days and doing hard manual labor. I must have really been tired, because since it happened I am sleeping at 12 hour stretches AND taking naps and I’m starving, even though I’ve been eating. I mention this for a reason. I think all of us are receiving downloads of new and not seen before, energy and intelligence. Those of us working for positive change in the world and in ourselves are getting things directly related to this. I can’t even begin to list some of the things that have been happening to me, because they are so far out. For those of us working for increased negative change in the world and in ourselves, we also are getting amplification juice to that end. We’re all getting juiced in respect of what we are up to. At 1:04 am, the Moon goes void of course after harmonizing our thoughts with our intentions. In such alignment, we are clearer and more effective in reaching our goals. This lasts until 5:33 pm, with its entry into sultry Scorpio. Allow visions to flow, as aspects to Neptune and Jupiter foster creative energies for the rest of the day.


Sunday June 12

Moon continues through Scorpio, with only a soft encounter with Pluto in the wee hours to fill our dreams. The big news today is Saturn’s station direct at 10°27′ Libra/8:52 pm PT. This completes the five months of its retrograde, which began January 25th. By now we know the theme of the period and what needed to be done during that time. What have you accomplished since then? Now we can move ahead with less attention to self-discipline and responsibility, although we should never completely ignore any energy aspect of our existence. Whatever it is, the evidence suggests it’s affecting all matter. The focused light in the idle [lighthouse] tower shines with the intensity of a locust fight in the tidal hour. In its creeping beam can be seen, far below, a brash hick hawking his wares (a hash brick) while walking his hares, a mock duck and a dairy fox covered in dock muck on the ferry docks, a fawn buyer and a lane mobster at a bonfire eating Main Lobster— “hand-caught and canned hot!”— and a pretty girl with a Yorkie puppy admiring a gritty pearl with a porky yuppie. Also visible in the roving light is a sprawl of schoonerists whose ship, now docked, is covered in the scrawl of spoonerists.. Mercury catches up with the Sun today, to take us into the second half of Mercury’s 3½-month cycle. Venus’s sextile to Uranus encourages spontaneous play and unexpected social invites. And when I am done with my wanderings, I too will lie upon those dewavèd sands, crawled upon by starfish radiant beneath the earth’s shadow, and there will I surrender myself to the first tongues of water, a salt doll waiting for its ocean. Honest Iago, please tell me. Do these boots go with this outfit?


Monday June 13

Projecting Light Specific purple or octarine (a particular shade of electric pinkish purple) into your forehead and facing West, activate the Ajna Holographic Image Projection System (third eye), then invoke blessed Gabriel. Diana, or Sailor Moon into your Brow Chakra. It's the Moon's day in the week of water and the emotional body. The lunar orb being receptive and reflective, focuses the qualities of the signs and other planets to our personal Lightcraft. The Lunar center, and its intimate connection with the Holographic Image Projection System, is not only the foundation for the astral plane, but is the fiery aspect of astral energy itself. It cannot be weaned prematurely or circumcised without sedation lest it become traumatized and even more crestfallen. Venus makes a square to Chiron, highlighting how others can contribute to our healing process. We may also notice the ways in which we are allowing others to harm us, or at least not being as supportive as they can be. 10:43 am brings the Moon’s next void period, in Scorpio, but not before it gives us a bumpy ride as it opposes Mars. Allow more time than you think you’ll need for travel, communication, and interactions. Leave wrangling with corporations and other drivers for another time. Hold periods on the phone will be longer than usual (or so it may seem). The Moon turns void of course now, until 7:38 pm when it enters breezy Sagittarius. A late square to Neptune reminds us of what we don’t know, as images from the invisible world rise to the surface.

Thursday, June 9, 2011

METAVERSAL SUN SIGN’S FOR JUNE 2011




If you know your rising sign and Moon’s sign read those too. As for the inclusion of a personally drawn Oblique strategy card for each sign, the deck’s author, Brian eno, has this to say regarding that "These cards evolved from our separate observations of the principles underlying what we are doing. Sometimes they were recognized in retrospect (intellect catching up with intuition), sometimes they were identified as they were happening, sometimes they were formulated. They can be used as a pack (a set of possibilities being continuously reviewed in the mind) or by drawing a single card from a shuffled pack when a dilemma occurs in a working situation. In this case the card is trusted even if it appropriateness is quite unclear. They are not final, as new ideas will present themselves, and others will become self-evident.

Aries
Your charts suggest strongly that you are making some decision involving marriage. You might be thinking of creating a marriage or of ending one; or you are formulating your thoughts on the subject. Here is what I see: You have a concept that marriage simplifies things. This is consistent with the old expression ‘tying the knot’. There’s nothing so simple going on, however. In truth, your charts present a complex situation regarding not just a relationship, but also your whole idea of what a relationship is. What I suggest is that you shift the entire thought process from ‘relationship’ to yourself. The most important relationship is the one you have with you. When we confuse our inner relationship with the one we have with others, that is called projection. It may not be literally true that whatever you are saying about, or appreciate about, or dislike, in others is true of you; but you would be wise to look for the connection points. In this project, you will learn something from photos. Photos are interesting because they are historical documents and projection screens. Photographs of you, of loved ones, family photos and in particular wedding photos will tell you a lot right now, in the sense of providing useful information. At the moment, certain pictures will paint a thousand words. Eno’s Oblique Strategy Card: #54 Lowest common denominator

Taurus
Jupiter, the Planet of Health, True wealth. And proserity moves into Taurus early in June. Lucky You. No i not being saracastic. You are Truely Blessed by Jupiter's transit through Taurus. We all Are. But you especially..Nearly every Taurus I know is struggling with their career. This seems to be a life-theme of your sign. Let’s pretend that has something to do with all the activity in Aquarius, your career house. Going back quite a long way — five years, 10 years, even 15 years, depending on how you count — there’s been constant change, movement and an odd sense of insecurity about what you want to do, or what you ’should be doing’. You’ve had plenty of ideas along the way, some of them excellent, but less in the way of traction or stability. Perhaps you know what you want, not how to make it work for you. Remember that most of our experiences train us to compromise passion and curiosity, or to expect certainty and incontrovertible correctness of the plan. Sure, that happens. More often, we find ourselves involved with events, uncertain where they will lead. Through many such experiments, we can arrive in an interesting place. What you have going on is subtler than either of those usual paths. At the moment, you have a rare perspective (think of it as visual, from a high place) that you didn’t have before. Use it to observe the ways you have been conditioned to not know what you want; to want what others want for you; and to doubt your own ideals, for the sake of others. What would your life be like, if you moved all that out of the way? Eno’s Oblique Strategy Card: #48 Humanize something free of error

Gemini
Awesome Solar eclipse in Gemini at the first of June will manifest for you over the next three years. Information is key! For you, it was all about agreements. You tend to live your life trying to figure out what others expect from you, rather than determining what you want. In the tangle of opinions, obligations and pushing and pulling and sorting out the details, I trust you’ve learned to make this distinction. It’s not only okay to want; whatever the Buddhists may say, desire is your organizing principle. It’s the value by which you decide what to decide: including what to do and who to associate with. This may be arriving as an idea or a vision; or it may be an opportunity you’re not sure is solid. I promise you one thing: this qualifies as something different. It may take you a few weeks to catch on, but now that you have a clue, I suggest you look carefully and make a decision while you’re still excited. One of the distinctions between this and the kind of opportunity you’re accustomed to involves going beyond your usual sense of scale, to something much wider: so wide, indeed, that you may not recognize it for what it is, or selling yourself short because this seems too good to be true.Eno’s Oblique Strategy Card: #18 Accretion

Cancer
Life would be easier, were the playing field level. Usually it’s not; and it’s slippery, and some people cheat. The deeper issue, though, is what game you are playing, and the rules that you apply. Deeper still is making sure you take full authority over your own life. Two games show up on the radar as being particularly dangerous to your peace of mind. One is retribution; the other is teasing. It’s possible to tease yourself, and it’s possible to get revenge on yourself: if humans are good at two things, it is luring themselves with what is unavailable, and self-loathing (in its many subtle forms). Remember that guilt is not an indicator that you are wrong. Rather, it suggests you have an issue to work out, potentially that you don’t believe your life is your life. It’s altogether better if we get those around us on board with the process of mutually freeing ourselves from guilt. But you don’t need anyone’s permission; that’s part of the game. When we feel guilty the tendency is to blame ourselves or seek forgiveness; a better approach is to offer forgiveness for what you think has been done to you. It may indeed be unclear who is responsible for what, or who is perpetuating any dysfunction; account for the ways you are perpetuating anything distasteful to you, and change your act on the spot. Eno’s Oblique Strategy Card: #12 Into the impossible

Leo
There has hardly been a more magnificent time to get clear on the intentions of your relationships. Indeed, it is happening without your deliberate intervention; you seem to be coming into alignment both with yourself and with the people around you. In an odd way, this quality is morphing from your sense of individuality to your sense of mutual purpose in one-to-one experiences; and this is shifting your group encounters. By alignment, I mean sense of purpose and mutual understanding of one another’s most important values. One of your gifts to the world is to love people despite their seeming flaws, and to hold yourself out with dignity as a whole person, understanding perfectly well that you’re not perfect. You now have an opportunity to see how those seeming imperfections provide sources of strength and awareness. This really is the key to enlightenment, in these days when one of the most pressing psychological issues is self-loathing, and when the lack of self-understanding seems to verge on total. It’s deep in your nature to use mistakes, misunderstandings and paradoxes as footholds for learning and awareness; it’s good times when the people around you get into that same mode, and that is approximately what you have going on now. In simple terms, everything is an opportunity to raise awareness. Every seeming fact implies a question. How you see yourself directly influences how you see others. Eno’s Oblique Strategy Card: #48 Use filters

Virgo
You may not have counted the rewards of so much restless instability in your relationships, going back so many years. The planetary setup has not lent itself to your romantic ideals; you probably canceled your subscription to Modern Bride in 2004. Yet one benefit of what you’ve been through has been to take nothing, and nobody, for granted. There has been no prefabricated scenario that was supposed to come true; you developed a knack for liking and loving people despite their wild oddities, despite what your parents would think; despite what you thought you would think. People have pushed you and challenged your beliefs and made sure you couldn’t hide in your mental box for long. In moments when spontaneous changes happened, you learned to move on. You leaned to envision the future rather than obsess over the past. But something has been missing: a degree of comfort, a space of authentic respite, an actual sense of benefit. Over the past year, you have gained an unusual new depth of clarity and focus, and I imagine you determined that was an omen of positive developments to come. Let that clarity give you the discernment to know healthy, loving influences when they manifest for you. You have been through enough, over enough time, for this to be truly possible. Lay down that restlessness for a while and open the door to love. Eno’s Oblique Strategy Card: #106 Always first steps

Libra
First of all, if your koko, I Love you dearly and miss you like nobodies buisness. Second of all, to all other Libras. You are not really caught in a situation you cannot get out of — but someone else may really be certain they are. You cannot convince them of the reality of their situation; but you can figure out for yourself that you have options. Having options is another way of saying that you are at a turning point. I suggest you make peace with the possibility that someone you care about may not quite see themselves at that place where a decision is necessary; to the contrary, they may be at a point of maximum chaos and confusion. Even on a good day, you have little choice but to negotiate with the world on your own terms. You are, at least, aware of your situation, and that provides the closest thing to a guarantee that you are going to work it out sooner rather than later. The risk you run is getting drawn into someone else’s drama, their romantic ideals, or their sense of fragmentation. Keep an eye on that third one. It’s the one most likely to drive you nuts, because when people are feeling fragmented those around them tend to respond in fragments. Note, the issue that is troubling them is likely to be a past idea of what a relationship should be, and the way that gets tangled up in the simple reality of life. Give the situation till mid-June to work out; I think it will.Eno’s Oblique Strategy Card: #56 Balance the consistency principle with the inconsistency principle

Scorpio
You may be questioning your treatment of someone important to you. You have become deeply sensitive to how someone feels in the environment of your emotions. In any form of emotional healing, step one is getting beyond the guilt that is so deeply entrenched in our relationships. The usual way to do that is by ‘not caring’, and obviously that’s not the answer: you would not be here unless you cared. One way to process guilt is to forgive yourself so that you can forgive everyone else. Most guilt, indeed, nearly all of what we think others think, is projection. Projection is something that is happening internally that we are then perceiving or ascribing to some experience or event ‘outside ourselves’. Just like you cannot write on a movie screen and change the plot, you cannot write on the world or on your relationships and change the underlying feelings. That is why you have to start with you. One thing that is clear is the extent to which you are subject to group dynamics. Much of what you’re dramatizing in your relationships right now involves what happened to you as a child; and that, in turn, created a situation where you don’t feel safe being yourself. So, let’s short-circuit this whole psychological process and summarize it as one question: what would you do if you felt absolutely safe being exactly who you are? Eno’s Oblique Strategy Card: #3 Are there sections? Consider transitions

Sagittarius
I’ve noticed something about some Sagittarians I know, which is that they don’t seem to mind living in half-renovated places. I guess when you feel like you came from a different galaxy, living on Earth like it’s a camping trip isn’t so bad; so you don’t mind if your house is wrapped in Tyvek or your bedroom floor is made of plywood as long as it keeps out the rain. Or do you? Jupiter has arrived in Pisces, which is the place we look for information about the home environment of Sagittarius. I suggest you take a series of swift steps to transform your home into someplace you’re actually comfortable. Finish work in progress; make a list of anything that’s broken or out of place and repair or remove it. Get someone who knows Feng Shui to come and help you arrange things to maximize the efficiency of energy flow. Clean, clean, clean — with Dr. Bronner’s soap and water, not chemicals. If you don’t like where you are, now is the time to make an easy move to someplace better. All of this will have useful material effects, and the sense of closure that you get from fixing that which was long broken will help you feel more settled, like you’re here on the planet to stay for a while; and your home is a place where others who love you feel welcome. Eno’s Oblique Strategy Card: #7 Simple subtraction

Capricorn
Do you know those email things designed to prevent you from writing to people if you’re drunk? The one with a series of arithmetic questions to make sure you’re clear enough to handle yourself? I suggest installing one of those on your entire life this month. Be careful what you do under the influence of any substance; ‘do’ includes say and do; it includes what you don’t do; and most of all, this includes how you respond to what you feel and what you think. You’re under a mix of influences that could lead you to act uncharacteristically: impulsively, or ‘not really coming from you’. Your emotional confusion is calling on you to take conscious, careful steps with the people you love, particularly with yourself. This month’s planetary setup won’t prevent you from feeling clearly who you are, unless of course you let it do so. Yet you must be especially careful with substances, which will emphasize some emotions over others, sometimes contradictory. In itself this is not a bad thing: every emotion is valuable for what it teaches you. It’s just that you don’t want to act on certain darker sentiments; better to acknowledge and make peace with them. To give another example, if you want to have sex with someone on a few glasses of wine, first make sure they’re still interesting when all you’ve had is a coffee — preferably not the next day. Eno’s Oblique Strategy Card: #19 Disconnect from desire
  
Aquarius
Why are you the way you are? You seem to have lost contact with your motives — which you’re finally figuring out, now that you’re back in the groove of listening to them again. In the journey of awakening, you’re in that delicate space of playing snooze tag with yourself, only it’s not a single day you’re preparing to embark on; it’s the rest of your life. Denial is a peculiar state, unique to human consciousness: the ability, in essence, to pretend we’re not aware of something that we are actually aware of. Denial presumes that there is something to deny; and that we have a motive to keep it from awareness. If you notice that you’re struggling to admit something to yourself, break it down into what that something is, and why you might not want to acknowledge it. While you’re pondering that, here is another question: is this whole thing a dance around how you were treated as a child? Are you covering up for someone else’s psychological stance toward you? Once that pattern is established, it can establish a pattern that the mind copies, which then propagates and takes root in many other relationships. See if you can get to the original motive; the original transaction that led you to learn any mode of response that involved pretending or denying that something obviously true was not. Get clear about that and much else will come into focus. Eno’s Oblique Strategy Card: #123 Use an old idea

Pisces
For a long time, longer than you may care to admit, you’ve grown accustomed to a certain kind of progress in your life: behind the scenes, or in theory, or in principle. Fortunately, you have a rich inner life, and this enables you to stay interested in existence even in times when movement is slow or invisible, or when fulfillment seems unlikely. Yet this has caused you to live in two worlds: one being a world where so much is happening, and where you can envision what is possible; and another where the people around you seem oblivious to their own potential and where potential, in general, seems frozen. Get ready for something different. If you write plays, you may find them suddenly being produced on the live stage. If you write books, you are likely to discover people interested in publishing you. If you drum alone, you will surely find other drummers. What was solitary can now become social; what you were sure was worthless to the world now suddenly may have a high value. Yet to manifest this potential, you must do what is perhaps the most challenging thing for a Pisces: think in a forward direction; exist outside your previous states of confinement; leave behind your prior role of victim of existence for your new role as benefactor. Eno’s Oblique Strategy Card: #56 Balance the consistency principle with the inconsistency principle

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

JUNE FIREWEEK BEGINS WITH AN ECLIPSE IN GEMINI!



Atziluth
Fireweek
June 1 to June 7

Call it fortuitous, I love it when the first day of a Lunar Cycle (New Moon) corresponds with the first day of the month. And a partial Solar Eclipse! Shit yeah! We could call this “the Long Rebirth.” On this planet, we are generally used to being reborn in monthly installments, at each New Moon; in four month chunks with Mercury’s cycle; or on the yearly plan as the Sun makes its annual round with each of the other planets. But this one is profound, related to a 100-plus-year cycle. It will take several years to be realized. After the depths to which we plunged in December–April (the deeper you went, the more you’ll get out of it), we’ve come up gasping for air, asking, “Is it over yet?”The deep plunge is, yes. But the rebirth is of some considerable duration longer, most of which is still in the future. If you are a forward-thinker and initiator (cardinal—Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn), you will delight in this process. If you are more comfortable when you stabilize and hold energy (if you’re fixed—Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius)—or take care of details and complete things (Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, Pisces), you will find this more arduous, like sitting on hot coals and being told not to move (an illusion of course).Ten swords in my back. One would have been enough, but you had to go and shove ten swords into my back. That’s what I love about you. June brings another episode in our personal rebirth story, as well as that of humanity, of the whole planet. It is not advised that you hold your breath until the show’s over, because it will take too long. No, we have to engage fully in the process, breathe through it, and transform. Only then will the provisional gods you’ve held behind plexiglas step forth with new recipes for meringue soufflé, and heaven knows what other wonders. Tear down the pyramids and let whales dine on the mummies of kings! Everything must go. The monkeys saw this coming and stayed in the trees, but now they descend to raze our mini-golf shrines and cut loose our pets from their leashes


WEDNESDAY JUNE 1
Before Sunrise it is dark. All the animals are sleeping. They form a bridge. The day is constellated most powerfully by the New Moon/partial Solar Eclipse at 11°02′ Gemini/2:03 pm PT, and what a day it is! The Sun is trine Saturn, and this glorious contact is fixed into our lives for the coming six months, granting us the wisdom to take effective and productive action in creating new expressions of our selfhood. The Moon aids and abets this with emotional motivation. We can’t stop ourselves from experiencing the good things in life! It’s a liquidation service for the soul. Upload everything you think you are onto the great millennial web and let the Lightcraft suck away the dross and clutter of this virulent cultural undermind rampant with dubious sampled notions and half-digested leftover memetic visions. In the chart cast for Washington DC, there’s an emphasis on economic processes, especially monetary issues. Rumblings from the right continue to threaten workers’ rights, especially the right to organize. This creates ongoing insecurity in the population that keeps people frightened but this creates a necessary vigilance in the people about protecting freedom and stability. The Sabian Symbol for the New Moon/Solar Eclipse at 12 Gemini is: “A black slave girl demands her rights of her mistress.” The political experience of America’s working people mirrors the image in this symbol. We are all looking for ways in which we are being treated as less than equal, and seeking emancipation, in all our relationships. Seeking reciprocity will be the theme in our personal and intimate ties. All things which are artificially elevated are in the process of being humbled. This is a focus that will be central for us through the coming six months because this New Moon is also a Solar Eclipse. The prominence of the number 11 defines more precisely the type of liberation facilitated at this portal. In the 11th degree of Gemini (a sign whose symbol evokes the same number), it takes place on the 1st day of June (adding another 1), of the year 2011. Also, the sum of the day with the month and year (1+6+2011) is… Can you guess?  11. As a master number, it is not reduced to its smallest sum, but stands intact, connecting us with higher spheres of supernatural potential.  One of the most intriguing observations I have read on the topic, confirmed by observation and experience, comes from an anonymous author, who says that portals marked by this number are special opportunities for humanity to reach higher levels of love.

THURSDAY JUNE 2
Look for faster action and easier communication as Mercury enters jumpin’ Gemini, the sign of its rulership at 1:03 pm PT. But first, the potential for inner fog exists as we feel tomorrow’s square to Neptune. Tina was capsized by a porcupine. Salvador was perforated by a weather balloon..Ursula was basted by a porthole. .Nikolai was reconstituted by a bat. The Moon continues through Gemini, echoing the process. Once just the flypaper scaffold of a vision – now a glorious reality. Once just sandgrains in a molecular hourglass – now miles of golden beaches.

FRIDAY JUNE 3
Today makes up for yesterday’s low level of planetary events. First is the station retrograde of Neptune, which is official at 0:28 am/0°56′ Pisces. This is virtually simultaneous with Mercury’s square to this planet of inner reality, essentially setting this up as a theme for the Neptune retrograde period, which lasts until November 9, returning to 28°08′ Aquarius. During that time, we get to learn how to play in Neptune’s playground—how to use energy, to work with unseen forces. With Mercury’s involvement, the focus is on learning, thought, and communication. What is the unseen world like and how can we use it to communicate with each other? We will be stimulated to investigate in the coming five months.The Moon goes void of course at 1:08 am, availing to us access into the deeper realms, since the veils have thinned. We’ll have to be quick about it; Moon enters caring Cancer at 1:36 am, then connects with Neptune and Chiron to give wings to our imagination, but brings us down to earth to get a new take on where our rebirth is headed as it recreates the cardinal grand cross with Uranus, Pluto, and Saturn. Time to re-imagine the future, again! Are we on the right track? Cyclonic Banshee Satori is the new mantra we assign to you free of charge. You want one of the round thingies, too? A mandala? All we have left are the ones with Aztec Mermaids in Cowboy Hats Riding Turquoise Emus. Oh, you’ve already got one of those? Well, you’ll have to wait if you want the Hedge-Devas on Bumblebees. Next week, maybe.

SATURDAY JUNE 4
It is a day for stumbling across lawns with a pitchfork in your back. Nevertheless, you may wish to take advantage of a claustrophilic Scorpio colleague’s invitation to lunch. Avoid decorative rugs at all costs, if you know what’s good for you. One more step into the future: Jupiter makes its ingress into Taurus today, at 6:56 am. We feel more grounded, and the earth signs get some support for their endeavors. This is especially useful to those who have planets in Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn, but anyone can use this energy to bring beauty into manifest form. It is the magician’s placement. As if seeking forgiveness for yesterday’s obstacle course, the Moon makes only harmonious connections today—sextiles to Mars and Venus. If you didn’t get all your jollies from the Venus-Mars conjunction last month, here’s another shot at it. Mercury sextiles Uranus to spice things up and bring innovative thoughts to the fore. We’ll be especially ingenious, brilliant at problem-solving today. The Moon enters its “void” period at 10:33 pm (in quotes because it does not behave like a void planet while in its home sign of Cancer).