Monday, August 30, 2010

Monday and Tuesday, the 30th and 31st.



MONDAY AUGUST 30
The Taurus Moon (More Pasture, less Bullshit) makes peace with retrograde Mercury, and we see the reasons why we are involved in the current plot twist to our life story. Savoring and enjoying life as a divine gift of sacred pleasure is the one of the highest expressions of the Taurus Mysteries. This is an opportunity to slow down, relax, breathe deeply, and fully absorb and appreciate the power of beauty to bring change and joy into our lives. sayAddress every cat you see today with the greeting ‘Good afternoon, Mr. Ravenscrofte’, even if the cat is female, and even if it isn’t the afternoon. Doff your hat if you’re wearing one; click your heels if you’re not.


TUESDAY AUGUST 31
Taurus Moon reaches Neptune and Chiron (by square) and Uranus (by sextile) to bring hidden, hyper-abyssic factors into our awareness over the day. Pay attention inwardly and allow the clues you get to infuse your actions. At 4:13 pm, the Moon goes void of course, until 5:19 for a brief down time before its entry into Gemini. This brings an awareness of new possibilities that we can use in the days to come. I hope all of this is useful where it can be and not confusing where it might be, unless the confusion is an impetus to being useful later on,. dependent on everyone’s individual state of being and how that matches up against the archetypal realities that our existence is based upon to begin with. My take is, as long as I think I know what that is or I think I can somehow discover it, there’s going to be a problem somewhere and… as long as I don’t know what any of it really means, there’s a chance I’ll find out as long as I can refrain from getting in the way of the answer to whatever question is on the way to me as soon as I ask it.

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Tuesday the 24th: Full Moon Forecast



TUESDAY AUGUST 24
Today we got us a complex mix of moods, starting with the Moons move into the watery depths of Pisces at 7:11 a.m. .. Let intuition rule.? The now unleashed potency of the Full moon spills into today.. Solutions to problems often come to us in dreams, and this morning is ripe for that. We might dream up a fabulous new approach to something we've been thinking about, or our dreams might show us something about ourselves that we've overlooked or ignored. At any rate, it's a good idea to leave the dream notebook by the bedside for easy access this morning. Even above water there are secrets at the heart of Nature that'd make you weep in agony. Here on Earth on the shore of the astral sea, I see you eyeing me across the grand ballroom, with it's exquisite walls of lapis and onyx, and it's Neo-modernist elliptic-hyperboloid French watertower of reinforced concrete with panoptic stained-glass lazuli windows. Under the great crystal chandeliers, humanity waltzes to the best the 21st century has to offer. There is nothing flexible about the way you're looking at me across those giant blue ice sculptures. The palace, the planet and all it's inhabitants, are poised precisely between the yang radiation of the Sun in Virgo on one side and the yin magnetic forces of the Moon in Pisces on the other. As the Moon is slivered by the shadow of the Earth, she darkens, and as she re-ignites, we seem to experience the lunar cycle in just a few hours. (The person in charge of dispelling lunar notions is off-duty during the hours of greatest morphic resonance, in order to provoke the gods.). When the dancing bear takes off its red dress and shits on the floor, we burst into action. During this Pisces Full Moon you can turn me to salt, dye me blue, and let the cows lick me into the homunculus of remorse, whence I will go about the countryside ejaculating Your name through kitchen windows. And the people will say, 'Look out, it's him again.' And, typically, there will be those among them who will say, 'Let's kick him to death.' And still others will countermand them, saying, 'No - let's just maim him and send him on his way.' Citizens and townsfolk, can you not see the sign around my diminishing neck? LOCK UP YOUR DOUBTERS: SHE IS RISEN, LIKE THE WOBBLY ROD OF MAN AS IT DOWSETH THE FLUIDIFEROUS CHALICE OF THE EMPERESS! THE EMPRESS.


WEDNESDAY AUGUST 25
The Day of Mercury in the kabbalistic World of Air and Activity, Yetzirah. Mercury's function in Yetzirah is to actively communicate. To think. To know. To reason. Mercury retrograde teaches (by Retroactive demonstration), the animation of Eidolons, the magick indwelling of icons by Spirit. Here are some drugs to avoid with the Moon in Pisces, and I've made it all as metaphor-free as Neptune itself will allow: Being drunk is a loud party with no ride home. Marijuana is flipping through the channels looking for news but only finding cartoons. Ecstacy is dancing to the beat of a song that's ruining your hearing. Mushrooms are like realizing that everything is alive, and everything is moving, and your house is running away. Heroin is a world where nothing goes wrong, ever, even when the roof cave in on you. Cocaine is all the speed of the Autobahn, with a thousand times more and deeper potholes. Caffeine is a commissioned salesman on a roll, and who cares if the store is closed? LSD is seeing what God sees, only to wonder later if God wouldn't rather have cable instead. Nicotine is five seconds of clarity and ten seconds of death. Ketamine is like being in a giant hamster ball at the rodeo. Salvia is like sitting in a hot bath with a head full of helium. Also: Religion is half an answer in an oversized hat. Spirituality is a muscular ditch-digger without a shovel. Politics is a band of attacking monkeys with written justification. Society is a beauty contest where you're the only contestant and everyone else is a judge. Materialism is a starving man filling his face with styrofoam packing peanuts. Community is an angry mob with torches that accepts you... today. Romance is a beautiful child who screams for cookies every ten minutes. Sex is an itch you'd gladly tear your skin off for one day, and just a rash the next. Patriotism is a loyalty oath directed towards an empty drum. The Internet is a room full of parrots all offering advice, all at once, all caked in each other's crap. Love is the reason we're all here, and is not the dominion of any one planet.


THURSDAY AUGUST 26
At 7:49 p.m. the Moon entering Aries is like having a-dose of fresh beginning. Aries energy is instinctive and fresh. It's pioneering and bold. Are you ready to launch a new venture? This Moon gives you the courage and faith in yourself to get cracking. If you are ready to make some kind of change in your life, give yourself some time today to really reflect on what makes your heart sing. Imagine what that feels like to achieve your goal. Then make an action plan, and give yourself a little task each day that moves you closer to realizing that dream. The Metaverse hears your request and wants to give you what you ask for, so the more clearly you can imagine your goal and successfully having it, the more easily the bountiful Metaverse can comply with you. As the Moon in Aries forms a quincunx to Saturn midday, we might experience a obstacle or slow down so take a deep breath and don’t hesitate. Meditate! Afternoon we are back up and going full speed ahead

FRIDAY AUGUST 27
Moon in Aries today means we are likely to be spontaneous and excitable. We may be prone to irritation at times. The Moon in Aries relates us with adventures, independence so as an exercise today, cut the beards off three Customs Officers (for those living in the interior, Customer Service Representatives will do) and place their whiskers in the glove compartment of a stalled and abandoned car. If they don't fit, keep trying. Another way of distracting your Gaian Mind is to push zucchini through the mail slots of new neighbors while dressed as a bumblebee and singing the lyrics to 'What's New Pussycat'. Fringe benefit of this experimen tal behaviour: you'll be the secret envy of anyone who ever professed to know what you were going to do next

Monday, August 16, 2010

Tuesday 17 and Wednesday 18



TUESDAY AUGUST 17
The Day of Mars in the week of Water and we find the red planet in diplomatic Libra in hot pursuit of Venus only a couple of degrees away... Today is marked by a series of favorable Sagittarian Lunar aspects to Jupiter and Saturn in the morning and Venus and Mars at night that provide perspective early on and fun at night. Address every cat you see today with the greeting ‘Good afternoon, Mr. Ravenscrofte’, even if the cat is female, and even if it isn’t the afternoon. Doff your hat if you’re wearing one; click your heels if you’re not.



WEDNESDAY AUGUST 18
The Day of Mercury in the kabbalistic World of Water, Briah. Mercury's function is to communicate. To think. To know. To reason. Language is his playground. The Akasic Library is his home. And oh yes, Hermes is a Love god. He likes the sound of his own voice. Write a poem, a sonnet, or some erotica today and them transmit that information to at least one other person. I write these darn things every Wednesday. At 7:45 a.m. the Moon climbs the mountain of Capricorn, only to square Jupiter and Saturn before conjuncting Pluto at 1:01

Monday, August 9, 2010

AUGUST 9: LEO NEW MOON!




MONDAY AUGUST 9
The New Moon in Leo today is the time to begin that creative project that's near and dear to your heart. The seed/ideas we have from the New Moon to the First Quarter Moon come from the kabbalistic world of Atziluth (Fire) and are the blueprints/seeds for everything that exists, has existed, and will ever exist in the physical world of Assiah (Earth), as an embodiment of the archetypal idealized Apple (or a least the Core).. this is the time to remember we're in the pilots seat of our own personal Lightcraft and make some corrections if we've veered off course. You needn't dress in any but the most perfunctory manner nor bring any crickets (there will be plenty of those!) The sign of Leo is ruled by the Sun, our source of light and life. What is your Sun saying? What kind of light do you shine? What do you love more than anything? Give yourself some soul time around this New Moon and take notes on what your heart is telling you. This New Moon in courageous Leo plants seeds of inspiration in a child's garden of creativity and play. Venus continues to focus the current planetary testing process into our relationships with others and our self as she opposes Jupiter and squares Pluto. This energy goes deep, is life-changing, and completes a process that began on July 29. We see the course ahead of us as far as relationship connections are concerned, and we fully enter into whatever Saturn in Libra has to teach us over the coming two years. Active dreams give way to quiet joy, as we enter the New Moon energy, which perfects at 8:08 pm/17°25′ Leo. This New Moon sets the light-specific stage, which indeed all the world is. The angel of dread has wrestled with the Lightpilot and brought her to her knees, and then - the lifting up into the light;, until the Lion's Mouth is opened by gentle hands, until the secret of the Sphinx revealed, and then - the revelation of the Metaversal Harmony. Of course I'm talking 'bout the archetype of Leo - the King: long live the, kill the,...etc. The Lion-serpent sun sign, the power of Will, the quest for authenticity. Leo represents the period of development when as children we begin primary school, which is the first detachment from the family structure, where we learn to make relationships and satisfy the need to be loved in the world. Games provide a way to relate to others and they teach us to accept and make rules, the basis for being able to structure our lives (from 7 to 13 years old). On the World Scale, Leo is between 3,000 to 800 BC when both the Egyptian and Sumerian civilizations flourished, when religion became monotheistic, where one being represented or was, God on Earth. The Time of Pharaohs and Kings, Lion images proliferated in architecture and monuments, for the Lion is of course, King of Beasts. With so much happening in Leo we may be seeking romance with a flare for the dramatic. The electric Sun itself, Leo calls on each of you to shine your light, your singular essence. No one else has seen through your fingertips, felt through your eyes, lived in your skin. The new lunar cycle falls in the fixed signs, which are getting breathing room right now; the prevailing planetary tensions are not engaged by the Sun-Moon conjunction, but they are still active in our lives. We continue to feel as though life is in flux, which we do best to address by being flexible. This is the best environment for growth and the development of strength and wisdom. In the chart cast for Washington DC, 0°01′ Taurus is rising. This very young degree of this sign of manifest beauty teaches us how to use our senses (both physical and inner) to understand the world. In Washington, watch for people to be "sniffing out" the truth in new ways. The planets in the cardinal cross are in the cadent houses (3, 6, 9, 12), indicating a process of completion. This reminds that the end of the legislative session is near. Elections in November will remove some lawmakers from office, and the balance of power may shift. There is a hurry-up energy to what happens as Democrats try to squeeze all they can out of the first two years of Obama’s presidency and a majority in their favor. At the New Moon degree of 18 Leo, the Sabian Symbol reads, "An instructor in chemistry is conducting an experiment before his class in the midst of a maze of apparatus." (ME Jones version) It’s down to the scientists now as to what happens with the Gulf Oil Spill. New technology must be developed to manage this type of situation adequately. The need for government to insist on development of proper safety and recovery technology (before licenses are granted) is also highlighted.

MULADHARA/SATURN: A TECHNO-YANTRA



This visual works well to help establish the Red Neon Cube we are crafting at the base of our spine now. For an audio accompaniment, Johannes recommends any of the first six songs from Iao Core's "Doomsday Passes: Earth Intact" CD.

Saturday, August 7, 2010

The Blessed Chaos that is the August Terrain!



Greetings Fellow Immortals! Congratulate yourselves,
you have incarnated into the least boring period in human history.

Like every August, there is always the Sun. This one starts with the Sun roaring like Lion-Serpents up the Solar Phallus into Leo’s emotional 2nd decan (degrees 10-19). Leo is Self-directed (some would say self-concerned) sign under any circumstances, but when the Sun is in Leo’s second decan, desire soars and there’s a definite emphasis on wanting things our own way. Check him out, he’s about to “Nut”! Against this, there’s also a lot of useful optimism and creative juices—if we harness it to good use—or good times, depending! So if it feels as if your in play, you are anyway. Bee-atch! Who’s your Daddy? Zeus, you say? Oh yeah mine too. With Mercury and Venus both starting the month in Virgo, in matters of the Mind and Heart, the Devil ((or God)dess) is in the details. There’s much thinking, conversing and sorting things out—not that conclusions and necessities revealed will be what we are expecting. In fact—the ideas aren’t the actual issue. Under most circumstances or in another moment you might be all for it. It’s just at the moment…having to care about things rubs us the wrong way early on in August. If it’s our idea, great. If it’s something someone else is saying needs doing, not so great. And yet there are those really pesky facts to contend with.

The Great 2010 Cardinal Climax of which I have spoken of more times than any single astrological event ever, for the last 15 years of my life, is upon us.
Pluto, planet of subterranean (and submarine) riches is now T-squaring Saturn (responsibility) and Uranus (revelations)/Jupiter (global implications). Together they have ushered into the group mind a blowout drama that is bringing up many urgent questions at once. From the point of view of consciousness evolution, these questions are the reason this had to happen. The disaster has triggered an unusually emotional public response. People are viscerally engaged. They are thinking about the role of cars in their lives. The phrase “oil addiction” has been coming up a lot. Many have started thinking differently about water.
There is a growing sense among the populace that if a bay is fouled miles away, our personal relationship to water is accordingly compromised. From an ecological perspective, this is a literal fact; and clean water is fast becoming the most precious resource on the planet. More people die from polluted water every year than from all forms of violence, including war. The physical and esoteric meanings of water parallel each other. We learned in biology class that humanity’s ancestors were single-celled sea creatures, and that all waters find their way eventually to the sea. On a symbolic level, water is the Metaversal matrix from which we all arose and to which we will all return. To assuage the anguish that the clean-up crews and the oil companies and the government have failed to assuage, we can press into service, right now, the symmetry between the physical and the mystical meanings of water. As astrologer Adam Gainsburg and others have suggested, one way to spiritually engage with what is occurring in the Gulf is to connect with the waters of our bodies. Such an exercise can help us come home to the Metaversal matrix that water represents, to resonate with it, to pledge allegiance to it. This ritual promotes a healing that is appropriate to the injury at hand. Since April 20th I have heard many people say that they feel the Earth has sustained a gushing, bleeding wound. This image is pure Chiron, which has been conjunct Neptune (the collective unconscious) for two years now. At the moment of the explosion, Chiron had just entered Pisces, the most universal of the water signs, for the first time in 41 years. Because it departs so uncomfortably from our psychological assumptions, Chiron is one of the most problematic symbols in astrology. It dares to propose that although human pain is a fact of life, when we follow its lead fearlessly pain becomes soul medicine. Understanding this distinction between pain and suffering, which is also essential to Buddhist thought, is the key to Chironic healing. (If we miss it, we’re in the same boat as the student of Pluto who reads death/rebirth
or I-A-O as merely death.)

Over the two years that Uranus (rude awakenings) has been opposite Saturn (big business) there has been a shift in how people define corporate accountability and social acceptability. With the DeepWater incident this trajectory has crested. There is a mythic quality to the disaster; everything about it is larger than life. This is not surprising, given that when the disaster began, Jupiter (exaggerated size) had moved into a key position in the sky. The big gas giant, whose dark side is excess was conjunct Uranus (explosions) and opposite Saturn (failure) when the rig blew up. Negative Jupiter manifests as hubris. The ambitions of the oil-drillers – who are still operating a dozen other deepwater rigs of equally fatal size, right now, lessons unlearned were all out-of-proportion to common sense. It is now well known that BP did not subject its stupendously ill-advised project to even the barest minimum of testing or planning. Misused Jupiter leads to excessive recklessness. The oil company’s petition to drill was riddled with short-cuts and utter Bullshit Lies!. As Naomi Klein has observed, in BP’s assurances to the feds of how little risk the drilling would entail, they talk about Nature as if She were a predictable, agreeable junior partner; sort of an unpaid subcontractor. After the explosion occurred, they scrambled to put together clean-up strategies that were so astoundingly ineffective they’d be comic if they weren’t so hideously tragic. The spirit behind these failed fixes, even their names, seems to derive from a bad action movie. Top kills, junk shots and laser-directed robots with diamond saws? It sounds like little boys dreaming up cool comic-book rescues. Goddess forbid the oil executives would admit, even now, that they don’t know what they’re doing.

And so my fellow lightpilots, we’re going to have to think about and deal with a few items we hadn’t planned on dealing with, and since Mercury entered the shadow of its upcoming retrograde on July 31, this is merely the start of a process. The good news is that what is (or goes) on the table now is pretty much the priority. The bad news is that the priority may annoy the tar out of you even if you know it’s useful and in your own long-term interest.

With Mars and Saturn now both in Libra, we’re aware of consequences, repercussions and impressions we make/have made on others. How inconvenient it sometimes is not to be in charge of our world! Fortunately, Mars in Libra lowers the ego drive just enough that you well may be able to fix and better things—especially if you use the Leo Sun to be creatively magnanimous. Yes, it’ll take a little Mercury/Venus in Virgo effort, but most of us are going to see that making a bit of an inventive effort is a far better choice than risking a giant fracas made theoretically possible by Jupiter/Uranus sitting right there across the zodiac in Aries. Oppositions (such as Aries/Libra) can strengthen alliances and allow us to “get hold of both ends of the problem”…or they can produce confrontation, rejection and alienation—.And yet…all we want can be ours this month IF we use our ideas as a base of operations into which we integrate the most potent needs and aims of others! As if to inspire us to lighten up, the months starts with Jupiter (retrograde in Aries) squaring Pluto (retrograde in Capricorn) on August 3 (August 2 if you live in the Pacific region). Jupiter retrograde is about internal growth, which in people-parlance is all about realizations. As the Sun sets in early August, we see three bright lights in the western sky: Mercury, Venus, and Mars. The one highest is Mars, which makes it the "Welcome Wagon"—the first planet to make contact with the slower-moving bodies. The Welcome Wagon is the planet that brings the next step in our current situation(s), whatever it is. Then we use the other planets in turn as they make contact. In this case, the planets they make contact with are conformed into a T-square configuration in the early degrees of the cardinal signs (Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn). They are (in order of contact) Uranus (Aries), Saturn (Libra), Jupiter (Aries), and Pluto (Capricorn). So Mars makes contact with each of these planets in turn, followed by Venus. (Mercury doesn’t make it there before it turns retrograde on the 20th.) This actually started when Mars conjoined Uranus on July 30, then Saturn on July 31 (so take note of events then). At that time, we would have experienced rather "Martian" energies—decisive, even aggressive, action that pierces the veil of illusion in our circumstances. Our attention will be sharply focused on a situation that we already suspect will be "up," because it has to do with a pre-existing process in our lives (rather than something completely new). In August, Mars continues this process as it opposes Jupiter and squares Pluto on August 3 (even as Jupiter and Pluto makes their second square to each other for added intensity). Venus enters the picture August 6-9, repeating the pattern but with a softening touch that emphasizes how we love and relate to each other, and how much we love and value ourselves. Venus and Mars are so far ahead of the Sun that we don’t get the solar juice to complete the situation until late September. In the meantime, there’s plenty else to write home about as Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Pluto continue to interact with each other. Jupiter makes its second opposition to Saturn on August 16, while Saturn makes its 3rd and final square to Pluto on August 21. With only the Moon to bring their energies into our awareness, we will be feeling our way through more than thinking/using logic. In fact, Mercury is in a kind of "no-man’s-zone" as it slows in mid-Virgo to retrograde on August 20, with no major connections during August or indeed its entire retrograde. from mid-July through early October. This is a time when the energies will be constantly shifting, and we will thrive to the extent that we can be flexible and respond at a moment’s notice to their flow. The most important thing to recognize about this period is that it is a time of great opportunity if we can come from a place of possibility, curiosity, and openness rather than hooking into the fear, despair, or anger that will be in the human atmosphere. Lost in the shuffle are Chiron and Neptune, whose cycles with the Sun peak on August 20 and 21 as well. The healing journey they have led us on is about over, and we turn a corner on this process now. Relationships have been in a shitquake zone since Saturn re-entered Libra on July 21, and anything that isn’t fastened down has been shaken loose, even bringing many unstable relationships to the point of separation. No-nonsense Saturn tests all that it encounters: Insincere or ego-centered relationships must move into authenticity or go. The testing process is continuous as Mars and Venus interact with Saturn and its compadres until they conjoin on the August 20. Uranus returns to Pisces on August 13, taking a little of the heat of transformation with it. We still have to finish up our work of the past seven years since it went into Pisces in 2003. This is a month of transition, affording us the opportunity to learn how the Cosmos will carry us if we allow it to. With Uranus’s return to Pisces, it exits the Aries world of action, while Saturn’s re-entry into Libra makes it easier to apply the principles of balance and harmony in our lives. We can ride the spiritual zip-line again to soar over the denser energies that are becoming less and less relevant as we shift consciousness.

Lightcrafting the Serpent: and so we begin to create the Metaverse anew again!



Muladhara/Saturn

The base chakra, or first chakra, is also called Muladhara. It is the Saturn chakra in the Lightcraft. This point is found at the very base of your spine, between the anus and sexual organs. The Muladhara Chakra is the seat of the coiled Kundalini, the vital Shakti, or Female energy force. The Kundalini serpent is coiled around the Savayambhu Lingam. This foundation chakra is the root of all growth and awareness of the divinity of man. Associated with Physical identity, oriented to self-preservation. This chakra forms our foundation. It represents the element earth, and is therefore related to our survival instincts, and to our sense of grounding and connection to our bodies and the physical plane. Ideally this chakra brings us health, prosperity, security, and dynamic presence. Survival.Governs vigor, heredity ,survival, security ,passion , trust, feet, & legs. Your relationship with money, home, and job.

Colors: red, black

Earth Element, Mineral kingdom, Bones, Flesh, Skin, Nadis and Hairs of the Body.Attributes: Patience and Greed. Desire: Survival.

Activity: Collecting and Saving.

Sense: Smell

Deities: Each Chakra has a Manifestation of the Shiva and Shakti Deities. Baby Brahma - Ever watchful creator, brings peace of mind and calms fears. Dakini Shakti -Protectress, Creator, Preserver, Destroyer. Alravata the Elephant - Vehicle of the Bija Mantra-Lam, Searches for food and takes orders.

Metaversal Symbol: Red Neon Cube.

Every human is born with a third-dimensional body and a fourth-dimensional Lightcraft. The physical body is the biological conductor. The Lightctraft is the time transport unit. The body and its Lightcraft are inseparable. The biological conductor sustains the sensory nervous system, the human instrument for processing the full range of experience. The experience of the body is synchronized within the Metaversal Lightcraft. The Lightcraft is the physical body's coded experience in time. The body in time with its Lightcraft is art. Lack of respect for life arises directly from not understanding the true electrical alchemic principles of time compression at the end of solar ages- alchemizes the heart - is because the charge densities which accompany the solar maxima (2000- 2012 - climax of the Mayan / Solar calendar) formerly called RAPTURE by Christians - permit only those biological structures ABLE to non-destructively (and ALCHEMICALLY) compress / implode - to survive. the structural basis for all Light-specific work in the Metaverse is regular, disciplined connection to the No-Form, meditation, contemplation, what ever you want to call it, as long as it's deep. Supremely solitary in that heath of scrub. The Light-Specific state initiates itself with SOLITUDE, the gratifying element of being alone (if only for 20 minutes a day)... without which, true development is impossible. The point is to connect to your inner source of stability, the state of potentia, the No-Form, at least once a day. No-Form is not a goal or state of "spiritual arrival" (as some religions would have us believe), it is a highly practical, multi-purpose tool for dissolving our identification with the ego. If you want to play with us, this is the only rule. The foundation of our Lightcraft is built in Chaos, so you must maintain a firm foundation, or Chaos your life will be. Some of us need this connection four times a day (sunrise, true noon, sunset, true midnight). Some of us actually manage to do it four times a day. It is a choice you must make. I would do it for you if I could. Once a day is all that's required to maintain the Continuity function. Future generations of yourself will be glad this came to pass. The Lightcraft Academy, Yoga Ceremonial Magick, this astrology forecast, they all provide ritual technology for Self initiation. But the key word here is Self. D.I.Y

Friday, August 6, 2010

METAVERSAL SUN SIGNS FOR AUGUST

Aries
You may find yourself at the center of a bizarre love rhombus. Them's some mighty fine meatballs in that pasta. They bounce jubilantly like children with superballs installed in their feet. People expecting a change in their career or people looking out for better job prospects can expect interesting news coming their way this August but you’ll get a hell of a lot more out of September’s experiences, I guarantee you. The dancing bear puts the red dress back on, announcing grandly that you and I are the guests of Le Comte de Lautréamont. We trash the place, but leave swiftly when physical injury from retaliation appears imminent. (Any number of optional analogous actions - use your Aries imagination – will work) It is an uphill climb August 4-11. Respect your physical limits and don’t miss the chance for career advancment after the 8th. Illumination from a friend may come with the Full Moon.) . Much of the past decade has taken you on a prolonged journey where you have seen many strange things, encountered a world bigger than you ever imagined, and endured several difficult tests of your mettle. You have wrestled with your conscience (and, likely, that of someone else). At times, you have prevailed in these tests of integrity and at other times, events have seemed to crush your preconceived ideas. You are now in a well-deserved phase of reconsidering what you have been through, and the decisions you make through the winter will be absolutely essential in determining your life path for an entire long phase of your life. So tell me, now that you know this, can you afford to play any games with what you know? I don't think so, particularly not since all the forces of the Metaverse are conspiring to focus your power. The whole problem with power in this world is that it does not care much for the difference between right and wrong. Most people in a position to conduct themselves this way -- and to some extent, that includes anyone privileged enough to be reading this horoscope -- have granted themselves an exemption from karma. You have no such luxury now, and neither do you want it. You have responsibilities that are much more worth while. Communications and workplace matters will improve in the second half of August, unless you live along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. In that case, your Fucked!

Taurus
Let your creative nature loose in August. Thoughts of your beloved will keep you busy when alone. You will be highly romantic during this month, and you will crave to do something that would impress your lover immensely. This yummy crayon never quits scribbling ,weighing events like dough and mutton. You will probably send him/her a costly gift or could probably write your thoughts in the form of poetry and send it across by mail. Thoughts of the past will keep you engaged, and you will be rewinding and reliving your love life A moaning ape reweaves its apparel, like a poor Chilean nun with tanned loins. an innocent free-association exercise will ultimately reveal a dark and deep-seated connection you hold between azalea bushes and garden trowels. There will be a renewed zest in your managerial skills. Can you really not know something about yourself? Well, you can think it's possible, and if so, you can set up a smokescreen between you and your self-awareness. Yet even given that basic factor, you have at least two choices: delve in bravely and with a sense of exploring (which means, yourself and the world) or pull away and hide inside your shell. You may ask what 'the world' has to do with this, but if astrology . means anything, your process of self-definition is intimately mingled with the society you inhabit; with the people you share creative energy amongst; with your mission in life, as you define it; and most of all, with the patterns that dominate your life. To get anywhere, you need to define those patterns yourself, and to do that, you need to witness the current ones for what they are. One of your greatest liabilities is that you are a creature of habit. If you are going to develop one dependable fixed pattern, let it be that of constantly changing your fixed patterns. But see to it that you don't get carried away from what your colleagues say about you. Communications and workplace matters will improve in the second half of August, unless you live along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. In that case, your Fucked!

Gemini
THIS BUSINESS of Gemini and dualism -- it's getting old. I'm not sure who has convinced us all, particularly we the supposedly intellectual ones, that 'the world is dualistic.' Somebody did. Yet however many viewpoints, people or concepts of ourselves we encounter or possess, it seems to be a heck of a lot more than two. The only actual dualism that exists, as far as I can see it, is based exclusively on seeing oneself as separate from others (and that may be all it takes). Pretend you can breathe even if you have a butternut squash shoved down your wind pipe. True, it helps not at all that so many people insist with such passion that they are separate from us (greed is a significant influence here), that they have different interests, and most of all, that they have different ideas that typically turn out to be the lack of ideas. That being said, how you get along with yourself is a critical question at this point. Bygones are bygones - and there is no point in analysing your past. That which has to end will end no matter what you do. At this juncture you need to let go your past and take time to bring back the lost energy and enthusiasm. Once you are completely open - a fresh relationship will unfold bringing immense joy into your life. This is where you let me ... no – you won’t even let me do that here, will you. Watch your health. You’re not the routine type, but do try to stick to a healthy schedule. Taoist eyes reveal the ripening of new sex, dazed with the amorous knowledge of death this August, The old will come to an end, and a new phase will begin. The change could reflect in your life in the form of a new job or an altogether new assignment in the present environment. now is the time Your uniqueness and originality will pave way for your success. Communications and workplace matters will improve in the second half of August, unless you live along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. In that case, your Fucked!

Cancer
From August 5 to 15 neighbors or relatives may bring frustration, maybe even pent-up rage. So tread carefully. Night goggles for the fancy-dress, for a two bit brother, his brat dog and a caustic shot, aimless on the back of the neck and Face You will be content with what you have in hand at present. You neither would try to extract pleasure from your love life nor would you experiment much with your partner - instead you will love to spend some time 'alone'. On the romantic front this will not be a boring two months for you. I'll put you on a lemon-yellow plastic bridge over an endless mirror lightly flooded with Chartreuse. THE FUNNY THING about you is, you move in cycles, but the cycles are predictable, and you keep coming around to the same basic place of honoring your commitments. It took you a while to learn to trust yourself in this process: to mean it when you say, I'll be back in the future to take care of this; this is what I intend to get done by this date, or whatever the commitment may entail. The breakthrough came when you discovered that your track record supported the meaning of your words, rather than the words being a promise of speculated future action. If those who doubt you knew how seriously you take your commitments, they would be compelled to question their own integrity, and rightly so. The stars will be out in full force and the mirrorstream will be kleiglit by lamps affixed to the underside of the bridge. I love the way you play with our expectations. Like a little dragon-faced hen bursting with tinsel and frayed at the wrong end. Patience will pay you with immense luck and fortune. You surely will be able to crack an impressive deal in the month of august on the career front. If you have been contemplating of finding a new job, it will surely get manifested. An elderly person will be of immense help in guiding you through the rough patch. Communications and workplace matters will improve in the second half of August, unless you live along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. In that case, your Fucked!

Leo
TO THE EXTENT you can, you need to choose the course your life is taking as a conscious act. In the Western world, this is the only path to enlightenment. We are faced with options; our one remaining power is to make decisions. Believe it or not, those decisions are most often choices between what is true and what is not. Life does not always seem this simple, and I doubt it seems so simple for you right now, but that is the nature of the moment you are in. Your great lesson the next four seasons is discernment. Surely, in hindsight long after this year has passed, what was worth believing and what was not will seem obvious. In any event, you have learned something in recent years, which is that you can influence the course of your own existence. You have an edge on those who typically refuse to do this, which is that you are willing to take full responsibilities for your successes as well as your errors. August is a month of major changes in your love life. Relationships that were dilly dallying will get over with a sudden interference of divine will. Though initially you might feel bad about it, later you will realise that what had happened was for your own good., you and the radial-arm-saw-wielding stranger in your basement will finally just agree to disagree. You will take the initiative of breaking some interesting deals and you will be successful in carrying them out. A person of opposite sex will be of immense help for you this august - it could even be your spouse. This scummy æon never quits snivelling, weighing events like dough and mutton, a moaning ape reweaves its apparel, like a poor Chilean nun with tanned loins. Don't ignore what he/she has to advice you about your career. August 7 to 9 and again August 16-18 you will find excellent work opportunities. Communications and workplace matters will improve in the second half of August, unless you live along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. In that case, your Fucked!

Virgo
RECENTLY, the truth came running to you like the last albino dacshund bolting out of the catacombs into your arms. What did you do with it? Do you still have it? While many complain that the truth is not knowable, or is a philosophical concept and not a provable reality, our problem involves how we respond once we encounter it. A peculiar function of the mind, known as denial, makes sure that we are usually out of contact with our most vital knowledge. You can afford no such luxury at this point. The reason for this is that you are gathering too much power to cut yourself off from your personal truth, or any other truth. This is one of the key life transits, and it can happen at any age; it is happening to you now or in the immediate future. In a personal chart, the theme is about fundamentally coming to terms with yourself. If it portends change, that change is about getting relief from nervousness and instability, and calling your life into focus. It is about having the confidence and substance to stand up to the world, which is so rare to find. Finally, this transit is about finding the ability to go deeper into yourself. Don't bother if your partner ignores you in august. At this point it is better for you to play it safe, and give your partner enough freedom. Have trust in your partner and faith in the divine and events will surely unfold in your favour. Careful investments made before July 11th can work out well. The Full Moon period is time to relax a bit. You will be able to win over peers and colleagues with ease this august. Office politics will create some stressful moments for you. Use your diplomatic tactics to win over critical situation. You have immense divine helping. Your hard work, sincerity and dedication will get recognised and appreciated by the right people. Communications and workplace matters will improve in the second half of August, unless you live along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. In that case, your Fucked!

Libra
Why do we never get an answer, When we're knocking at the door? With a thousand million questions, About hate and death and war. It's where we stop and look around us, There is nothing that we need. In a world of persecution, That is burning in it's greed. Few people truly want to face their fears. Fewer yet want to face themselves. The planets are pushing you to do both. Not only will you be a better person for it, you will feel better and live with a greater sense of connection to your own existence, and to all these people who surround you: those whose names you know and those you do not. The whole problem with your fears is that they are so detailed. This detail gives them a sense of reality that they might not otherwise have. What this season of your life is trying to teach you is that you are bigger than your anxieties and, as such, they are like pictures you draw rather than lions who can eat you. The ability to see this distinction is not learned in a day. Most people live like they are being chased down the street by a pack of wild dogs. But there are those points of breakthrough, and you are in one right now. Part of the process involves acquiring mental discipline that is not, frankly, a skill that's rewarded and barely even noticed in our current moment of collective psychic chaos. When you express yourself in a daring way, you will take the pressure off of yourself. The hottest focus of your chart these days is on the sign Aquarius, the most creative house in your horoscope, and the place you go when you feel like a genius. This you do from time to time, but the paradox is as follows. To tap into your brilliance, that true light that comes from beyond you, you need to soak yourself in your struggle. You need to feel and live through the extent to which your revelations are the result of your pain, your sense of not belonging, and most of all, your craving for the passion that you have not yet experienced. At least in recent years, you have begun to move toward that hunger, rather than trying to satisfy yourself with a fantasy. Here is a clue. Give the darkness in you a voice that you own. Paint with the colors of your shadow. Feel the freedom in doing so, and listen to what others say to you when they respond. All in all, this is the miracle of healing. Communications and workplace matters will improve in the second half of August, unless you live along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. In that case, your Fucked!

Scorpio
Torso-miming the first act of a logistical play, startling and incestuous protective and cacoëpistic, so pretty and artistic, vernacular and déclassé little flyer. YOU HAVE LONG regretted stealing the giant ham. YOU HAVE LONG felt different; what you must now do is act differently. I know -- you are still mulling that one over. Sometimes you take so long to think about things that you make your friends over in Taurus seem like a kid on Red Bull and rollerblades in the mall. I will concede that at the moment (August 2010) you are still working out all the negotiable points with someone close to you, and they seem to have a viewpoint that's difficult to pin down. You may be uncertain if someone close at hand is a friend or an enemy -- of themselves. If you've gotten that far in your observation process, you're living up to the psychological capabilities of your sign. That is precisely the issue: whether anyone who gets close to you is on their own side. The ones who are, you can work with; the ones who are not you must consider dangerous. Now, as you sort this out, you're going to come across a diversity of ways that you are divided against yourself, and that is indeed a great time to pause. Pause, that is, and consider this. You have been dragged over hot coals the past decade of your life trying to establish your independence, your autonomy or perhaps just a healthy self-sufficiency. Exactly what you were recovering from I cannot be sure, but God did not make you a Scorpio for nothing. Usually someone as strong as yourself is that way for a reason, and the reason can be found in early childhood. But it will show up again and again in your life. You developed the idea that you have to be sufficiently powerful (in particular, financially and spiritually) to withstand the extreme swings of loyalty that you were exposed to. Now that you have grown up and accomplished that, you are being put back into the position to cultivate mutual trust, a sense of community and a new lesson, that of interdependence. But this will all go a lot smoother if you remind yourself every moment that you must be committed to your own cause, and use that as the criteria for who you involve yourself with. Communications and workplace matters will improve in the second half of August, unless you live along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. In that case, your Fucked!

Sagittarius
You have the property of setting things into motion; you must accept that you may never see the results of any process you start. exotic and embroidered--nothing like Ohio which is default for mundane-anywhere, nothing like you dressed up in a blond wig, holding a spoon that you threaten you'll shove down your throat. All of this is untrue. All of it is the first thing you hear on an airplane. After being welcomed with kitty cat cup cakes. Ungodly pink like an underwater plant. After a sweet hello, stupid goodbyes, before Thailand after the rain falls. Most of them are either invisible to perception or occur too far from the reach of your senses to register consciously. Some will bear fruit in a measure of years that exceeds the length of a human lifetime. And some, you don't notice because you're not doing that elusive thing known as paying attention. Yet set things into motion you do, and you do it effectively: for good, or for ill. You have always known this, but the time has arrived to live as if it were true. If you are some kind of 'cause' in the process of cause and effect, keep the experience as conscious as possible, so that you can make choices while you have the opportunity to do so. See if you can notice the results, be they immediate or extended over time, and observe the vast constellations of forces that have come together in order to manifest anything. Look back and observe what you have inspired, facilitated or ignited and be grateful that some of it actually worked. See if you can make amends for that which did not work so well, or that which harmed anyone at all. Remember that you are only getting a small sample of what you could be seeing, but as the next four seasons progress, it will be more than enough to inform you as you make some radical revisions to your values system. There is something from the past, some old idea that you are dragging around, that is about to get torpedoed. As visionary as you are, there is an attribute of your values that could be described as antique. Now, it is true that anyone who is authentically a radical needs to have a strong footing in tradition. Yet it is also true that a tradition is not a tradition unless it is alive. The way things were done in the past is not an excuse for anything; the reason things were done in the past is an excuse for even less. Mid August brings your attention to finances/possessions. Communications and workplace matters will improve in the second half of August, unless you live along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. In that case, your Fucked!

Capricorn
WE LIVE on a planet where people will kill one another for the right to kill a tree. We also live on a planet where people will give their last dollar, their only blanket or one of their kidneys to someone in need. Unfortunately, between the ordinary saints and the boring warmongers there exists a vast ocean of what you might call gray area, and I don't mean gray matter. This is the least common denominator, which is getting lower all the time. Look around at the world and notice how many people aspire to mediocrity. Heck, you've even done it yourself a few times. Enter Pluto into your birth sign. This has been warming up for two years as Pluto has been crossing the Galactic Core. That particular transit (which peaked in December) has put you into contact with a deeply hidden attribute of yourself: the one that is immune from all the limits and conventions of the world; the one that connects directly to Prime Source. Now you're aware of this it's no longer hiding down in a cave, but rather waiting in the wings for its moment on the Great Stage of your life. This is a transit that affects every living creature. We all have approximately one calendar year of the transition until the energy takes hold through 2024. This portends many, many changes for the world, including structural changes to society and the Earth herself (Edgar Cayce was onto this a while ago). For you, it means reaching to your depths and ripping forth into the community with all your energy. It means embodying the Shiva-like attributes of Pluto: becoming the embodiment of change itself. That is to say, by changing, you will set change in motion. By allowing yourself flexibility, you will create the same around you. By being willing to question yourself to the depths of your existence, you will hold open the space for the people around you to ask the questions that they need to ask. By being fair and insisting on fairness, you will create that pattern around you. Travel goes best when it is not rushed. Be Flexible and consider not travelling until after August 13. Communications and workplace matters will improve in the second half of August, unless you live along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. In that case, your Fucked!

Aquarius
YOUR SIGN, like you, presents one of the most complex equations in all of astrology, to allow for light's extremely high speed even though it was not required mathematically, but "action at a distance" seemed absurd That makes some sense: Aquarius is the sign of humanity itself. You see how complex you are, and how complex the human race is; you must live with yourself and the rest of us; the people who live with you coexist in a conscious way with your complexity. Let's skip for a moment the constellation of planets that has taken up long-term residence in your region of the sky. Let's consider a bit of theory: Aquarius is ruled by two planets considered vastly different by astrology -- Saturn, the planet of tradition and structure, and Uranus, the planet of revolution, innovation and upheaval. Even in ancient times before the discovery of Uranus, Aquarius was considered the sign representing places where minerals are quarried -- a place where old stuff was dug out of the ground to make something new; a place where what is ancient and natural is being made into something new at the hands of human industriousness. The planets now in your sign, mainly Chiron and Neptune, are taking you to extraordinarily deep places lately. Neptune has been raising a question; it has almost been negating your existence, making you feel like you are distant from yourself or granting you relief from having an ego. Chiron, which arrived more recently, is making it painfully clear that you are indeed a product of and partner in humanity. All your faults are magnified such that you can see the hairs on their nose. The injuries you have suffered in your life seem to be with you still, and you are aware that you can always get hurt again. But for some extremely odd reason, everything you have struggled with is becoming a source of strength and wisdom. Places that were once the scene of an ache or pain are now the place where you can grasp something heavy, carry a load with unusual strength, or express yourself in a way that was, for most of your life, impossible. Communications and workplace matters will improve in the second half of August, unless you live along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. In that case, your Fucked!

Pisces
IF YOU TELL yourself the truth, you can do just about anything else you want. That is the price you will have to pay in order to go to the next level or stage of your life; the price of freedom. This is a small tariff for some people, and the highest there is for others. Which is it for you? While you're sizing that up, you can also size up the price of any other way of living, and there are several options, to be sure. Of course, the real price of the truth is that which is not true. For some people that is no price at all; for others, it would represent the collapse of their entire existence, at least psychologically. Now, as a Pisces, you need your fantasies, and you need your dreams. But you need them in moderation, like any drug or substance (including art and music) that provides a pathway beyond the rational world. Yet what you need the most, if astrology means anything, is to break the partitions that separate your visions for your life -- and for the world -- from your simple desire to make them happen. It's like you typically get stuck right at the point where you can take something out into the world where it can do some good. You know what you create is worthy of attention and that it would be good for the world. You also know how hard it is to penetrate into that space where the past is not so heavy that it crushes or confines that which is new and seeking to take root and grow. Now, believe it or not (and I don't blame you if you don't, yet) you are about to see what kind of impact is possible, particularly where the stalwart structures of society need a little...shall we say...encouragement to update their files. Society can mean your friends, your family, your professional vision and most of all, your personal vision for how you will fit into the world. There is an extremely good reason you must be honest with yourself at every opportunity: you will be handling power that can be dangerous if you are not. Communications and workplace matters will improve in the second half of August, unless you live along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. In that case, your Fucked!

Thursday, August 5, 2010

AUGUST 4th to AUGUST 8th





WEDNESDAY AUGUST 4
Talkin ‘bout your social networks, A Moon trine to Venus fills our dreams with links to our real love connections, but squares to Neptune and Chiron indicate that there’s a mystery still to be solved. The Moon in Taurus is void of course as of 5:45am, but this still-useful period only lasts until 9:54 am, when the Moon enters chatty Gemini. Harmonies abound from this lunar position, with sextiles to Uranus-Jupiter and trines to Saturn-Mars. This eases the tension around the continuing saga of life’s latest adventure. Talking to others lightens the tone, introduces perspective, and brings out the humor in any situation.

THURSDAY AUGUST 5
Take physical exercise in Jupiter's Day, when he is reigning, and use Jovial things such as Lapis Lazuli, Brass, Cedarwood, blue and aery colours, wine, honey; and entertain thoughts and feelings which are particularly Jovial, that is, expansive, healthy, and with good humour... - Marsilio Ficino, Renaissance Astrologer and Orphic Musician

The Day of Jupiter in Earthweek. Can you recognize something better than you've ever experienced, utterly new and positive, without letting yourself be lulled into lassitude by overconfidence, arrogance or still incompleteness? Then you are up to the Jupiterian challenge today. Before mid-morning, the planets are already done for the day, with two early contacts from the Moon. As we sleep a square to Mercury brings out any internal conflict we may be experiencing between what the heart wants and what the head thinks it should have. This gives way to a sextile to the Sun: we see that, even though there is discomfort, there is a deeper purpose to bearing with our circumstances.

FRIDAY AUGUST 6
Today is chock-ful of contacts. The Moon finishes its trip through Gemini by bringing insights to our healing process as it trines Neptune and Chiron. A final square to Venus opens the door to the void-of-course period at 2:22 pm. This lasts until the Moon enters the sign of its greatest strength, instinctual Cancer, at 2:50 pm. This immediately sets up a full grand cross in the sky when it transits the early degrees of this sign to connect with the powerful T-square that was activated in mid-July. The Moon squares Uranus, Saturn, and Mars, and opposes Pluto over the course of the day. The energy is intensified when Venus goes into Libra at 8:48 pm. Today marks the 60th anniversaries of the US atomic-bomb attacks on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In Hiroshima, an estimated 80,000 people were killed in a split second. Some 13 square kilometres of the city was obliterated. By December, at least another 70,000 people had died from radiation and injuries. Three days after Hiroshima's destruction, the US drooped an A-bomb on Nagasaki, resulting in the deaths of at least 70,000 people before the year was out. Since 1945, tens of thousands more residents of the two cities have continued to suffer and die from radiation-induced cancers, birth defects and still births. A tiny group of US rulers met secretly in Washington and callously ordered this indiscriminate annihilation of civilian populations. They gave no explicit warnings. They rejected all alternatives, preferring to inflict the most extreme human carnage possible. They ordered and had carried out the two worst terror acts in human history


SATURDAY AUGUST 7
Venus starts the process all over again that Mars and the Moon have played out over the past two weeks, but with a relationship-and-finance twist. Now we see how our new circumstances will impact the "yin" areas of our lives—our personal relationships and how we live day to day. Venus opposes Uranus today, bringing us startling revelations and new possibilities that benefit us, especially if we can be flexible and ready to change course at a moment’s notice. The Cancer Moon gives us another chance to integrate what we’ve been learning when it sextiles Mercury at 11:46 am, when the Moon goes void of course. Worth noting is that the Moon in Cancer is so strong that we can ignore the void period. Today is the First Day of my Annual Tantra workshop “Lightcrafting the Serpent”. Registration for this years Chakra reboot jamboreebop is over, so I just thought I’d mention this for those playing along at home. the structural basis for all Light-specific work in the Metaverse is regular, disciplined connection to the No-Form, meditation, contemplation, what ever you want to call it, as long as it's deep. Supremely solitary in that heath of scrub. The Light-Specific state initiates itself with SOLITUDE, the gratifying element of being alone (if only for 20 minutes a day)... without which, true development is impossible. The point is to connect to your inner source of stability, the state of potentia, the No-Form, at least once a day. No-Form is not a goal or state of "spiritual arrival" (as some religions would have us believe), it is a highly practical, multi-purpose tool for dissolving our identification with the ego. If you want to play with us, this is the only rule. The foundation of our Lightcraft is built in Chaos, so you must maintain a firm foundation, or Chaos your life will be. Some of us need this connection four times a day (sunrise, true noon, sunset, true midnight). Some of us actually manage to do it four times a day. It is a choice you must make. I would do it for you if I could. Once a day is all that's required to maintain the Continuity function. Future generations of yourself will be glad this came to pass. The Lightcraft Academy, Yoga Ceremonial Magick, this astrology forecast, they all provide ritual technology for Self initiation. But the key word here is Self. D.I.Y

SUNDAY AUGUST 8
Between dark and light the angles of times are best manifest at their balance, so invoke Apollo, Ra, or the baby-faced Sun god from the Teletubbies into your heart Chakra today. Sunday is always a good day integrate all the planets in our personal Lightcraft. In the World of Yetzirah, Air, the Lightcraft is analogous to the active aspect of the psychological body, or for simplicities sake, let's call it Psyche. In the physical body (in Assiah) there are infinite subdivisions down to the frontier of the physical world, where the particles of matter and impulses of energy are interchangeable. In the same way, the Psyche interpenetrates the body so that the upper part of the physical world percolates and influences the lower part of the psyche, and vice versa. In the macrodimensions of the Metaverse, a crisis can generate a direct contact with the Sun in Yetzirah (Psyche) but after the crisis, the connection fades, and the watcher in oneself fades back into the subconscious. The Lightpilot seeks to consciously make permanent connection with the Sun in Yetzirah. This is done by constant observation of actions, emotions and intellect, to perceive impartially the way those functions operate, and to correct and perfect their performance so as to become a true seething. To be the big picture, complete in all its parts. Venus reaches another of the cardinal T-square planets when it conjoins Saturn. This reminds us of the continuing changes we are experiencing as the world economy shifts to new values and foundations. It also impacts relationships of all sorts, especially love relationships. We may feel stuck or confined in a current situation—or sure that the commitment we are in is strong. It is a test of whether the connection is based on the egos or true selves of the partners. The Moon harmonizes with these players from its position in Leo, which it assumes at 4:23 pm. This makes for an evening of lighter energy, even relief, as we see the joy and humor in our situation.