Hurricane Harvey, the Total Solar Eclipse, and This Era of Unnatural Disaster

Considering what we know about weather warfare and geoengineering, we have to seriously question whether Hurricane Harvey was an intentionally-created or -enhanced storm. Harvey devastated Houston, Texas and many other areas of the state as Saturn stationed direct at 21 degrees Sagittarius on August 25, following the total solar eclipse at 28 degrees Leo on August 21. 

[The next total solar eclipse that will be fully visible in North America occurs on April 8, 2024 at 19 degrees Aries. This is being referred to as the Great North American Eclipse, visible in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and we can expect more orchestrated events around this time.] 

The related flooding is something that has never been seen before in U.S. history. It is being called a 1,000-year flood, with an estimated 100,000 homes and 1 million vehicles destroyed. People's lives have been detrimentally disrupted for years and potentially decades to come.

Houston is the home of former U.S. President and known member of ruling elite secret societies, George Bush, and this fact sticks out to me like a sore thumb.

We're in an era when the powers-that-be are creating "biblical" unnatural catastrophes that are then blamed purely on climate change or other factors. ("Revelations is coming true!")

Unprecedented rainfall and flooding, as well as extremely violent storms, have been experienced around the world with increasing intensity over the past decade. Even before Harvey, the United States had been hard hit with recent massive floods. 

This all plays into the distorted symbolism being intentionally manifested and played out as we shift astrological eras. 

The deluge myths that are being played upon now with these man-made events are cross-cultural, not limited to Noah's Ark in the Christian Bible. From a January 16, 2011 article, "Jupiter at Tail-End Pisces, the Deluge Myths and the Implanting of the Serpent":

"Fragments of cross-cultural deluge myths are suddenly becoming (sur)reality as we traipse through fin-de-Pisces - set off as part of the long-term plan by a version of "God" that is strictly man-made and a version of life on Earth that is strictly symbolic...

If we hone in on North America and the Lenni-Lanapi or Delaware River Indians' version, after the deluge, a period of snake-worship is secretly brought to Earth. Under worship of the God of the snakes, Wakon, this period brings evil, crime, unhappiness, bad weather, death. Just what the doctor ordered for those looking to rid the Earth of 'excess' humanity while controlling the remainder."

If you think weather modification, control of the weather, and weather warfare are strictly wack job conspiracy theory, think again: John F. Kennedy, Jr. spoke about the ability to control the weather to the United Nations General Assembly in 1961. You can't get much more official than that.

Ceres Rx Slips Back Into Pisces And Why the Armies Aren't Fighting the Famine...Part Two

From July 24, 2011: Ceres Stationing Retrograde in Aries and Why the Armies Aren't Fighting the Famine 

Ceres, asteroid of grains and fertility of the Earth, has moved retrograde from zero Aries into late Pisces, and we are seeing the replay of a common strategy from the past 2,000-odd years of the astrological Piscean era: mass extermination of the poor through starvation. 

"Tens of thousands of people in the Horn of Africa have been and are still being allowed to starve to death by our so-called leaders. "NATO" forces dropped bombs on Libyan civilians in an illegal war but were supposedly too spooked by Somalian rebels to drop food and water aid to starving people. A likely story. How these people have been mistreated - mass murdered - needs to be clearly deposited into the consciousness of the people on this planet." 

Ceres stationed retrograde at zero Aries conjunct Uranus on July 26, 2011, and the lack of direct action (Aries) in relation to these crises has been astounding, sickening, horrific - though not surprising to those who understand how famine is used as a socio-political tool. 

What follows is a report that appeared recently in the Yukon News from a nurse, Trish Newport, who had been working in Niger. That country, too, has had two years of crop failure and is facing mass starvation unless the international bodies that hold the power, wealth and resources step in immediately. Here's guessing that they won't. 

MAGARIA, NIGER (By: Trish Newport) 

“Two inseparable elements are combined in Medecins Sans Frontiers’ work: medical aid and witnessing (temoignage).” 

Witnessing consists of being present among the population, being motivated by a concern for their fate as human beings and listening to the people. Intertwined with the act of witnessing is the responsibility to report on the situation and on the fate of the people. 

In working with Medecins Sans Frontiers in Niger, I am realizing that this might be the greatest responsibility I have ever had. Famines are largely avoidable phenomena that do not arrive overnight. They are not like earthquakes or hurricanes that suddenly appear with no warning; they cannot even be considered as purely natural disasters. I am currently bearing witness to an impending famine, and it fills me with a complex mix of fear, dread, the hope that I can do something and the knowing that no response will be sufficient, regardless of what I do. 

The region of Niger where I am situated has now experienced two consecutive years of meagre harvests. The most recent harvest was decimated by crickets, and the previous year had seen horrible yields due to drought. 

Security reasons greatly restrict the movement of westerners in Niger. Due to the nature of my work, I am the only Medecins Sans Frontiers expatriate in the region who is allowed regularly to venture into the far-flung villages. I am therefore the only expat truly able to bear witness to the current development of the food security problems. 

Several times a week, I visit a number of remote rural villages of southern Niger. In these villages the diet typically consists of only millet porridge. It is a great rarity to find someone who eats anything besides millet on an average day. 

In Niger, as in many other countries, there is a traditional lean season - “the hunger gap” - between the time when the staple stock is exhausted and the new harvest arrives. In Niger this season usually occurs in June or July, and the harvest is cultivated in December. It is now the beginning of April and the village chiefs consistently tell me that the millet stocks are extremely minimal, if not completely exhausted already, there are no seeds to plant in the summer, and that most of the village men have left for Nigeria in search of work. 

Passing through the villages this is obvious: few men, except for the old, are seen. Annually, there is a seasonal migration of men towards Nigeria. But, it usually happens much later in the year. Their return coincides with the planting season, but without seeds there will be no planting season this year. The malnutrition rates will only increase. 

Village chiefs are responsible for the health of their people; they can see the oncoming calamity, and they plead with me to pass on their people’s plight to those who can help. My work with Medecins Sans Frontiers involves supervising and co-ordinating a project that focuses on preventative and curative care in these villages. We train local people to treat basic childhood illnesses, and we provide them with the essential medication for the treatments. We have a network of villagers who do health promotion about breastfeeding and hand washing in the villages. But without food, all of these actions have limited effect. 

While in the field, we regularly encounter children needing to be transferred to the inpatient malnutrition centre. Transfers consistently fill me with awe - the act of putting a mother and a child in a Land Cruiser and taking them to the “big village” to be treated is simple. However, it is usually the first time either one has ever been in a motorized vehicle, and the whole experience must be extremely overstimulating for them.

Despite my never-ending curiosity, I try not to ask too many questions, as the mother is usually either overwhelmed with nausea, or in the process of vomiting. The other day, our team transferred a woman with her severely emaciated daughter to the malnutrition centre. This mother wanted to talk. She cried and told us that she wants to be a good mother. She wants to treat her children well. She knew her child was becoming malnourished, but she didn’t know how to stop it. This story is repeated throughout the villages. Without food, one cannot stave off starvation. I wonder, on a daily basis, what is required for other international actors to act. Is it purely numbers? Everyday more and more children arrive at the ambulatory or inpatient malnutrition centres that Medecins Sans Frontiers runs, often in such poor state that, despite treatment, they do not survive the first few hours of hospitalization. 

Do we have to wait until enough children die, or enough malnourished children beyond the “normal” amount are admitted, to declare an emergency? 

And why is it that more energy will be spent in responding to the crisis than was ever put into preventing it? 

Last year was the worst year on record in Niger in terms of malnutrition, with more than 318,000 severely malnourished children being admitted to therapeutic feeding centres throughout the country. 

Considering the inexistence of grain reserves from 2010, and the poor harvest from the current year, many NGOs have predicted that the situation in 2011 will be dramatically worse than that of 2010. In the villages, the people aren’t predicting. They are clearly stating that the food security situation is worse than it was in 2010. With no seeds to plant, this is only the beginning of a disaster. 

As I might be the only expatriate present in the villages, they are asking me to share their pleas for help with whomever may listen. I hear the stories almost daily. I see the children who are becoming malnourished and this is not because of their mothers’ ignorance or negligence. I see a population wanting to stop the oncoming disaster from occurring. I hear them crying out for help. I hear them crying out to be acknowledged as people that have a right to life, and a right to access adequate food. And it is my responsibility to pass on these cries. I don’t have numbers, the numbers will come too late. But I do have a great responsibility, with many lives at stake. 

I fear that my appeals will be muffled by the other cries throughout the world at this time - the voices coming from Libya, Japan and all of the other countries presently in crisis. Malnutrition is endemic in Niger, and I fear that the deaths of thousands more malnourished children in Niger in 2011 will simply be seen by the international community as the continuation of an “ongoing crisis.” 

But these are people, these are children, and each one has the right to live. Their deaths can be prevented. 

- Trish Newport is a Whitehorse nurse who works for Medecins Sans Frontiers/Doctors Without Borders. The article was written between November 2010 and May 2011, during a mission in Niger. -

Pluto in Capricorn Stations Direct September 16 and We Stew in the Backwash of the Cardinal Grand Cross Summer of 2011

Pluto in Capricorn is currently slowing to station direct September 16 at 4 degrees Capricorn, increasing its potency and influence in the cosmic atmosphere. After the massive upheaval of the Cardinal Grand Cross summer of 2011 on Planet Earth, we can expect this station to bring a dose of the transformational yucks. 

If there's one body out there that can make you feel like a painful, nasty-ass, alchemical chain reaction rather than a human being, it's our boy Pluto. If there's one body in the heavens that can make you feel like heaving, it's Pluto! Feeling yucky, greasy, nauseated, unsettled, triggered, paranoid, exhausted, like you're radioactively glowing (that might not be just a feeling at this point) - it all comes with the Plutonic territory. 

Luckily, Pluto's effects generally hit in waves (just like nausea!), so grab on, hold on, and it will pass...eventually. 

Uranus in Aries is currently locked into its square series to Pluto in Capricorn, which will be exact seven times between June 2012 and March 2015. As has been well-documented in the astro blogosphere, the last time Uranus transited Aries was April 1927 to March 1935, coinciding with the stock market crash of 1929, the first years of the Great Depression and the lead-up to World War II. Pluto was in Cancer at that time, and there were five exact squares between Uranus in Aries and Pluto in Capricorn beteen April 1932 and January 1934. 

We are currently seeing the traumatic events of that transit and square series being purposefully and symbolically replayed by corrupt wealth-and-resource thieves who erroneously claim to be our leaders. We've seen what seem to be multiple symbolic acts of war, including the airplane crash deaths of the entire Polish government in April 2010 and the HAARP-induced earthquake directed at Japan which triggered a tsunami and ongoing multiple nuclear meltdowns at nuclear power facilities in Fukushima. The earthquake hit just as Uranus moved back into Aries March 11, 2011.  

The Plutonic "Damn, This Shit's Bleak" Report 

During the Cardinal Grand Cross summer of 2011, we in Canada and the U.S. experienced a repeat of the deadly, HAARP-induced weather modification from summer 2010 in the form of tornadoes, earthquakes, baseball-sized hail, monstrous winds, and hurricanes. Chemtrail cloud seeding created extreme levels of rain and flooding in many areas and horrific drought in others. (The entire state of Texas has been declared a disaster area due to drought. Ranchers are selling out because they cannot feed their cattle.) 

Tens of thousands of people in the Horn of Africa have been and are still being allowed to starve to death by our so-called leaders. 

"NATO" forces dropped bombs on Libyan civilians in an illegal war but were supposedly too spooked by Somalian rebels to drop food and water aid to starving people. A likely story. How these people have been mistreated - mass murdered - needs to be clearly deposited into the consciousness of the people on this planet. 

We see nations around the world entering massive economic failure due to corrupt-to-the-core global systems that make lying, insanity, and short-sighted greed pay off big. Purposefully crashing the economies is profitable for those at the top of the pyramid schemes. The International Monetary Fund, one of the United Nations' financial arms of the Global Government/New World Order, lies in wait, licking its chops as even industrialized nations, under corrupt governments, submit to economic takeovers, referred to as "structural adjustment programs." 

For decades, the IMF preyed on underdeveloped nations, bringing them under their thumb and ruining local economies. Now, the next echelon of bankrupt nations is ripe for the picking - Greece, Spain, Italy, Ireland, Iceland. We saw massive rioting and destruction in London, England, spurred by an incident of police brutality/murder which seems to have incited the rage of a generation of people who have smouldered under a layer of dismal poverty and stagnance, eating shit sandwich after shit sandwich until they could not possibly eat another. 

On July 1 Canada Day, under the first wave of Cardinal Grand Cross, English Royals Wills and Kate visited Canada, and the royal subjects swooned from coast to coast to coast. This was a reinforcement of rule over Canada by the British Empire and associated powers. In August, it was announced that the Canadian Armed Forces would be rebranded the Royal Canadian Air Force and Royal Canadian Navy - yet another nod to our toxic Mummy Dearest in jolly, old England. The Canadian Armed Forces shed the "Royal" stamp in 1968, but in a wave of propagandistic nostalgia, the Global Government-aligned Harper 

Conservatives have brought the "Royal" back with a vengeance, complete with masses of Canadians all too happy to re-pledge allegiance to the Queen and British monarchy. Wartime patriotism and pride are being stirred in preparation and hope that the people will gladly repeat the old cycle, hands on hearts. 

Also in Canada, the left New Democratic Party leader Jack Layton died seemingly quite suddenly of cancer in August after a historic surge in seats in the most recent federal election, making the NDP the Official Opposition to the now-majority Harper Conservatives. The latter, of course, is the the neo-conservative NWO tool which rebranded the Government of Canada the "Harper Government," officially switching allegiance away from the people of this nation. 

The nuclear reactions going on at Fukushima's nuclear power facilities, having melted through their containments, continued to spew radiactive material into the air and Pacific Ocean throughout the summer. 

As of June 6, the release of Plutonium-239 was confirmed in an amount 23,000 times higher than originally reported. Japan and the West Coast of North America have been radioactively contaminated, and it's doubtful that anywhere in the northern hemisphere has been unaffected. This dwarfs Chernobyl. It dwarfs the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki many times over. And it all remains under media blackout. 

In the United States, home to 104 nuclear reactors, multiple reactors were put in dangerously compromised positions this summer. In June, flooding of the Missouri River in Nebraska entirely surrounded the Fort Calhoun Station. The nuclear plant was put under an emergency alert, which only ended August 29 as flood waters receded. Nebraska's Cooper Nuclear Station, downriver from Fort Calhoun, was also threatened as the Missouri rose, and officials put out a notification of a related "unusual event." 

A report from Russia’s Federal Atomic Energy Agency (yes, I know, consider the source) indicated a media blackout covering up an actual nuclear accident at Fort Calhoun. In late June, a wildfire in Los Alamos, New Mexico at the Los Alamos National Labratory (the United States' premier nuclear weapons lab) threatened to engulf outdoor drums of plutonium-contaminated waste. 

On August 23, a 5.8 magnitude earthquake shifted massive containers of spent fuel at the North Anna Power Station in Mineral, Virginia and damaged concrete on the containers. The North Anna nuclear plant was reportedly designed to withstand a 5.9 to 6.1 magnitude earthquake. Miles of underground pipe carrying radioactive water and waste materials are now potentially unsound. 

Another "unusual event" was reported on August 29, when a Hurricane Irene-related exposion happened in a transformer at Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant in Maryland. 

Hmm...almost seems as if it's being set off on purpose, doesn't it? 

Depopulation scheme? Full-on weather wars? A little 'Radioactive Eugenics for the Aquarian Age?' Radioactively warp-speeding the New Age "Spiritual Evolution of the Species?" Playing chicken with nuclear-diffusing UFOs? Testing the (reported) presto-chango radioactivity removal capacity of the HAARP and scalar technology? 

Regardless of what this unprecedented dump of radiation is, I really don't care to be part of the experiment.  

End of The Plutonic "Damn, This Shit's Bleak" Report 

There are hundreds more stories that could illustrate the madness of this past summer, so if you're feeling a little out-of-sorts as Pluto digs its heels in and turns direct during the month of September, you'll know why...

Mars-Saturn Square: Survival Guide For the Breaking Point

Mars in Cancer square Saturn in Libra – final aspect of the Summer 2011 Cardinal Grand Cross August 24/25

This is a tough aspect to deal with at the best of times: two planets considered malefics interacting in a tense, clashing, frictional square. Add the facts that 1) Mars is debilitated in Cancer and prone to over-the-top emotional reactions and 2) we’re at the tail-end of the final wave of a highly challenging Cardinal Grand Cross configuration we’ve been dealing with all summer – we all have Cardinal Grand Cross fatigue - and this aspect coming at the end of it can feel like more than we can bear.

This aspect is especially rough on men. Mothering, nurturing, in-touch-with-the-inner-self Cancer is not traditionally their scene. Mars in Cancer includes themes of men grappling with and trying to express these feminine/yin aspects while maintaining their masculinity. Square to Saturn in Libra, the acute challenge is in finding the right balance in a world that benefits (especially financially) from men who set their emotions, consciences and soul urges aside to keep getting the job done. They are encouraged, subtly pressured to do so, and anyone unwilling or unable to keep up the extreme split and the extreme pace becomes less valuable, a disappointment, weak, unable to cut the mustard. In order to keep bringing home the paycheques, they subvert emotional cues and soulful guidance to the point of detriment.

News hit a few days ago of the suicide of National Hockey League hockey player Rick Rypien. Rypien had just been traded from the Vancouver Canucks to the city where I’m currently stationed, a city where he had played as a junior. Instead of showing up for work, he was found dead at his home in Alberta August 15. Rick was at the fateful age of 27, soon to be entering his Saturn return. He had endured years of depression, speaking publicly about it and taking time off twice from his hockey career to have it treated. The death of his girlfriend in a car accident when he was a junior player and captain of the Regina Pats was more than likely a contributing factor to his ongoing depression, and the stress of a move and a brand new hockey club under the Cardinal Grand Cross – facing down that Mars-Saturn square - were more than likely contributing factors in his decision to end his life.

It’s interesting to note that Rypien was what was considered an enforcer – his basic role was to fight opponent players on the ice. Night after night, he fought and bashed other guys, amped up on adrenaline, and that would definitely take its toll on the chemical balance of an individual. Rypien’s death follows the accidental death in May of another NHL enforcer, 28-year-old New York Rangers player Derek Boogaard – also on the cusp of his Saturn return. Boogaard died of an accidental overdose of the painkiller oxycodone and alcohol.

This is the difficulty of big, tough, hockey playing men (Mars) dealing with the emotional, physical and psychic aftermath of being professional fighting machines - a theme that can be applied almost across the board these days. The hyper masculine culture (professional sport being one leg) has not traditionally done well dealing in the feminine realms of emotion and soul. Human beings are not machines. The extreme imbalance between masculine and feminine is bound to create destruction and dysfunction, and Ryan and Dennis are just the tips of the iceberg.

Mars square Saturn is an indicator that we’re challenged to do things we don’t really want to do right now, things we don’t feel we have the strength to do at this point, and it’s kicking up anxiety and dread.

For me, part of this involves returning to unsettled circumstances in the city, just as this aspect is exact, when my heart is and probably always will be in the country. I know the trail forward in my life has always gone squarely through urban areas and that it’s required that I re-enter the concrete jungle, but it doesn’t make it any easier to actually do it as I’m enjoying a clear view of a sunset that I know I will not see again for months with the wind in the cottonwoods the only sound.

My astrologer and psychic friend freeforall is also moving on with mixed feelings out of the Cardinal Grand Cross summer. She and I both ended up in this city at around the same time, moving from Alberta last year. Her work contract here ended unexpectedly, and she now finds herself with an exciting new contract in the city from which she came – a city that also involves a lot of heartbreak and bad memories for her.

At the same time, we in Canada are feeling this aspect as the end of the much-too-short summer season. Long, cold, dark winter (Saturn) is not too far off, and it’s always difficult to look forward to months on end of ice, snow, flaky skin, Vitamin D deprivation and freezing appendages.

I don’t know anyone who is not looking to this fall and winter without a bit of trepidation or at least resignation. This observation is not to be a downer – it’s to point out that no one is alone in feeling this way. These feelings are completely normal considering circumstances on this planet.

The new directions spurred by the Cardinal Grand Cross are interesting and at times exciting, but they are being initiated under circumstances both globally and personally that are not exactly best case scenario.

In light of the difficulty of this particular aspect, here are some emotional survival tips for Mars in Cancer square Saturn in Libra, in effect until the end of this month:

- Comfort yourself in healthy ways however you can. Baby yourself through the challenging parts, and don’t feel weird or guilty about it at all. Emotional comfort is what Cancer does best.

- Understand that this is an aspect, a span of time, and that the arduousness of it will let up. Saturn makes things feel as if they’ll be this way forever: ie. bad. They won’t. Applying aspects almost always feel worse than succeeding, so the roughest time emotionally is this upcoming week.

- Work through the feelings coming up. Expect some possible anxiety, fear, dread, anger – but try not to dwell on it. Move through difficult feelings and onto something else as quickly as possible. Distract yourself. Focus on what’s coming into your life that interests or excites you and close the tap as far as the inexhaustible supply of anxious Cancerian what-ifs. Tell your over-protective, overly stressed inner mother to go pamper herself at the spa for a while.

- Be around people regularly. There is a tendency to isolate under the emotional weight of difficult aspects like this one, but maintaining contact, even when it’s challenging, is a necessary touchstone.

- Make sure everyone in your posse is doing OK. Check in with the people in your life and also extend yourself to people you wouldn’t usually converse with. We all need to take responsibility for maintaining (Saturn) the social spheres (Libra) now. We’re going to need them.

Another tip I would add for the entire Uranus in Aries square series to Pluto in Capricorn through March 2015 is: Don’t be too surprised or shocked as things/people start to come unglued. (I’m sure most people who read this blog won’t be.) At this point, the weight, complexity and demands of the structures of many people’s lives, especially within the mainstream, are becoming too much to bear. The structures and pacing all around us have reached a point of no return as far as insanity, inhumanity, toxicity and corruption, and keeping up the game from here on becomes increasingly taxing to the point of impossible. There is only so long that people can keep up with the demands of an increasingly unnatural pace and lifestyle for the sake of dead and done concepts of prestige, success, progress and power. We’re reaching the point where many just won’t be able to do it anymore. (I think I was born at that point.)

For the next seven years, as Uranus transits Aries, there is a focus on radical, ingenius (Uranus) survival (Aries). Radical breaks from the toxic structures as they exist (Uranus in Aries square Pluto in Capricorn) are to be expected, even from people considered highly successful by mainstream (and most often less soulful) standards. People will be at the point where they shed their entire old lives - because they have to. It really is a matter of life and death – at least, soul life. And what’s the point of hauling these carcasses around if there’s no soul left to guide us by?

Mars in Cancer Square Saturn in Libra and Responsibly Avoiding Emotional Triggers

We can all learn a little something from the sideways-stepping crab right now: healthy, self-preserving avoidance of angry trigger points.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not talking avoidance as in denial and wilful ignorance of reality. With Pluto in a long-term transit of Capricorn opposing and working its transformational magic on Cancer, the at times pathological level of look-the-other-way-itis and cozy hypocrisy often prevalent with less mature expressions of this sign are deadly problematic and need to be exposed at every turn. (I’m from Canada, a Cancer Sun nation rife with those deadly Cancerian problems, and then there is that Cancer Sun nation south of the 49th parallel, which is even more rife with it…)

I’m talking about a ‘Pluto is my homeboy,’ eyes-wide-open, fully cognizant avoidance of emotional trigger points that serve no purpose other than to drag us into old territory (Cancer), piss us off and waste our energy (Mars).

Mars doesn’t like being forced to go over and over old territory – it wants to forge ahead onto new ground. So the healthy avoidance comes in taking a proactive new track, especially as it relates to challenging relationships (Saturn in Libra). Forging this proactive new track is tricky, though, as Mars in Cancer without a doubt involves sentimental trips down memory lane. History books. Heritage. Stories about the old times and the old timers. Old loves. Family albums. Roots.

The trick comes in maintaining a healthy and responsible balance (Saturn in Libra) and knowing when to just beat a track the hell out of there. As sweet and comforting as it is, the past can be both suffocating and debilitating, keeping us from being effective in the present, and these are strong Mars in Cancer themes, in effect until Mars ingresses Leo September 18.

Mars, currently debilitated in the sign of Cancer, is grinding out the last tense aspect of the Cardinal Grand Cross summer of 2011 – a square to Saturn in Libra at its culmination point August 24/25. We’re coming into very close contact with the frictional challenges of relationship, including emotional habits that draw us into a weak relational position.

Saturn in Libra abhors being in a weak relational position.

Here, trusting the cautious, indirect, emotionally-triggered movement of Mars in Cancer to responsibly guide our actions in relation to other people as we navigate this square can help us avoid the pitfalls, sidestepping the game altogether.

Keep a wary eye on the people around you as well as on yourself under this square: Mars in Cancer square Saturn in Libra as the final Cardinal Grand Cross of 2011 aspect is a reality check as far as the development of and commitment to rock-solid standards for the people with whom we are in partnerships, both business and personal.

Don’t kid yourself. We’re still limited under these configurations. If we move too far, too fast, we feel the unbreakable, unshakeable limitations holding us in place.

The potentially frustrating constriction and restriction and confrontations with fear of this Mars-Saturn square have the ability to force character weaknesses acutely to the surface between now and the end of this month. With the Cancer-Libra square these include: unresolved emotional baggage, emotional immaturity, unreliability, inability to commit, making emotionally-based excuses for shirking responsibility, falsity and dishonesty to maintain social popularity/playing to your crowd, over-committing and under-performing, avoiding the responsibility of emotional honesty in relationship, living in past relationships to the detriment of present and future ones, using relationships (and people) to fill emotional voids, making decisions and taking actions based only in the attempt to alleviate personal anxiety, keeping people in your life out of habit or emotional neediness.

If people are caving under the pressure of this square and under the pressure of the Saturn transit of Libra, in general, take heed. Things are about to get infinitely more complicated as Saturn heads into Scorpio October 2012 within mutual reception to Pluto in Capricorn. It’s time to get very serious about who we have in our lives.

From previous posts:

“We're in the midst of a five-year gutting, restructuring and energetic re-balancing process in relationship that will not reach ultimate completion until the end of a period of mutual reception between Saturn in Scorpio and Pluto in Capricorn when Saturn leaves Scorpio September 2015...

The planetary conditions will be getting pretty dicey on multiple fronts over the next three or four years, and love and partnership take on a whole new requirement for commitment.

Legal enmeshments become increasingly sticky, and the decisions we make now have the ability to drag us into hell then. It's very easy to be adversely affected by other people refusing their Saturnine responsibilities. If you don't want to end up with double duty (theirs and yours), make firm and responsible decisions now as far as the people you have in your life. No compromising.”

There are a lot of people feeling the pressure to be in relationship under Saturn in Libra. There are a lot of fears (Saturn) coming up related to being single forever and dying alone and miserable in a cold, empty, desolate shanty reflecting a cold, empty, desolate heart. This is especially true for the Pluto in Libra generation - many of whom have done a massive amount of heavy lifting as far as shifting relationship dynamics and structures and have good reason for being late coming into relationship - they don't want to repeat the mistakes and massive fuck-ups of the past.

What this means is that people are very conscious of the passing of time and of the passing of their best case scenario love/marriage/babies timelines and are more prone to fudging it a bit, to compromising their standards and their fulfillment levels for the sake of being in a relationship, any relationship.

You could do that.

But I really wouldn’t advise it.

Mars, Juno and Black Moon Lilith Arrive Fashionably Late to the Cardinal Grand Cross Party

And things are really hopping... 

Mars in Cancer, Juno in Libra and true Black Moon Lilith in Aries are now officially hitting the Cardinal Grand Cross scene, and right on schedule, stock markets have entered a tail spin. 

This hasn’t come out of the blue by any stretch, but the involvement of Mars square Uranus (August 9) is making it seem so for those who have not had their Plutonic noses to the ground. A lightning-fast shock to the system with further melt-down (or possibly temporary containment/kicking the can yet further down the road) coming as Mars squares Pluto August 11. 

What will investors do? Oh, gee. I’m on the edge of my seat. 

This is a triggering culmination point after decades of financial excess and over-extension, especially militarily, as well as critical mass as far as the absolute, unchecked corruption at all levels of global money structures which has left them rotted to the point that there is little resembling sanity or legitimacy. 

Using the very shortest timeline, this stems from the orchestrated economic collapse (most prominently involving grand-scale mortgage, insurance and banking fraud in the United States) of 2008 when Pluto entered Capricorn. Deep, Plutonic changes to the way things were set up were put off following that collapse as the U.S. banking industry looted the public purse of its Federal Reserve Notes. The orchestrated crashing of world economies and resulting chaos and desperation puts the people right where global powers want them. It also sets the stage for more war – always useful to the monied warlords who refer to themselves as our leaders. Except that most of us have caught on. 

The current tail-spin was triggered, right on astrological schedule, by the announcement of the U.S. debt ceiling extension, which came just as Mercury was stationing retrograde at 1 degree Virgo August 2. The lowering of the United States’ credit score followed. 

Now, Mercury goes back over the weeks leading up to the announcement as it re-enters Leo. 

There is a surreal quality for those who were/are still invested in the legitimacy and soundness of illegitimate and unsound structures and people, and there is still a massive amount of wishful thinking as the illusion that this is just a blip continues to permeate (Mercury Rx in Leo opposite Neptune Rx in Aquarius). The insanity of corrupt, stock market-directed economic and financial sectors continues to be apparent as financial analysts insist things are still in good shape. After all, corporations are posting healthy profits! There is no mention of the millions of jobs shed to maintain those profits. There is no mention of the people currently losing their homes, no longer able to put enough food on the table. But as long as the corporate world posts a profit, these guys are certain all is right with the world. 

The full effect of the announcement and the lowering of the U.S. credit score will not be known until Mercury crosses out of its retrograde shadow, entering 2 degrees Virgo September 10 – just in time for the 10-year anniversary of 9/11. 

What a puppet show. 

The true placement of Black Moon Lilith is zipping around in Aries, conjunct Uranus and triggering the CGC from the fringes August 9-11. 

Juno in Libra, having recently completed a nine-month+ transit through Virgo, has also entered Cardinal Grand Cross Zone, opposing Uranus in Aries August 10 and squaring Pluto in Capricorn August 13, just in time for the Full Moon at 20 degrees Aquarius. Juno is heading to a conjunction to Saturn at 17 degrees Libra (in the early Via Combusta) September 18. 

Expect interesting and somewhat spicy developments along strategic partnership lines around that time – both personally and on the world stage. When Juno is involved, it’s not always easy emotional territory, but the partnerships that come together or strengthen at that time are related to the long-term success of our souls, which is what most of us are here for. Juno enters the Via Combusta (burning path) at 15 degrees Libra September 12 and exits at 15 Scorpio December 8. Juno traces the path that Saturn will follow through the Via Combusta from August 29, 2011 through November 20, 2013. 

 The people, relationships and partnership themes – especially as they relate to reaching our highest potentials in career – highlighted during this fall’s transit by Juno of the Via Combusta set the foundation for the longer term alchemical progress represented by Saturn’s transit of the Via Combusta until November 2013.

Mars Triggers the Final Wave of the Summer 2011 Cardinal Grand Cross and a Look Ahead to Future Formations

Early this morning, Mars entered Cancer, the sign of its fall. The masculine, balls-to-the-wall, do now/think later action planet doesn’t get the job done so well from the soft-underbellied, sideways-stepping, strategic avoidance-prone crab zone. This month has frustration written all over it, actually. 

Still, Mars is going to have to do its best to take care of business from this sign as it enters full-on Cardinal Grand Cross territory August 9 with a square to Uranus in (the sign it really likes) Aries followed almost immediately by an opposition to Pluto in Capricorn just after midnight on August 11. 

The first two weeks of August are not a good time frame to add any unnecessary extra pressure to the people and situations around you. Understand that many people are at their breaking points under the tension of this Grand Cross. Move gently but firmly, and allow as much leeway as you comfortably can without compromising your own position. 

 Saturn in Libra has started to get some space from the proceedings, moving into the second decan of the sign of the scales. Mars in Cancer will not square Saturn in Libra until August 24/25 at 14 degrees. 

Mars, the final personal planet to transit Cancer, and Saturn continue to gain speed direct as Uranus and Pluto retrograde, and the Cardinal Grand Cross formation of the Summer of 2011 is loosening its grip. Uranus in Aries and Pluto in Capricorn remain within the longer-term series of seven squares, exact at various points between June 2012 and March 2015, which does not let up completely until Uranus enters Taurus for good in March 2019.  

Future Cardinal Grand Crosses involving Uranus and Pluto: August to December 2013 and April 2014 

We won’t experience another full-on Cardinal Grand Cross until late August 2013. At that time, Saturn will no longer be in Libra, but Jupiter will be in cardinal Cancer. 

The personal planets in Libra will move into place within the Cardinal Grand Cross – which is four squares or two oppositions involving planets in all four cardinal signs - triggering this grand-scale initiatory formation in waves, just as we experienced this summer. 

August 23-27, 2013 - Venus in Libra will move into place, forming the fourth leg of the Cardinal Grand Cross. 

September 14-20, 2013 - Mercury in Libra will pass through this territory using a nine-degree orb for aspects. 

October 1-13, 2013 - The Sun in Libra will trigger the Cardinal Grand Cross using a 10-degree orb for aspects. 

December 23, 2013 – January 1, 2014 - Mars in Libra moves into Cardinal Grand Cross formation to close out 2013. Mars then moves out of orb in Libra but retrogrades back in.  

Extreme Potency: Exact Cardinal Grand Cross at Lucky 13 April 2014 

April 21-24, 2014 – This is the big one. Mars Rx in Libra makes an exact Cardinal Grand Cross configuration with Jupiter in Cancer, Uranus in Aries, and Pluto Rx in Capricorn all at Lucky 13 degrees of the cardinal signs. Whew. 

This exact Cardinal Grand Cross formation will strongly colour the Mars retrograde through Libra (February 28 to May 19, 2014) indicating a very tenuous and strained balance with a sometimes immense degree of personal exertion to maintain it while moving rapidly toward our goals. 

Aren’t you glad Saturn in Libra is drilling us on our maturity and responsibility with Libra themes right now? Weak points related to this sign’s energy would (and will) wreak major havoc within these future Cardinal Grand Crosses. Going out of balance within the pressurized circumstances of this formation would require an immense amount of effort to put right. Under this type of tension, if one spring goes, they all go. 

This formation, especially the exact one April 21-24, 2014, will have a hugely polarizing effect socially with a tendency to move to extreme ends of the spectrum in relation to other people or groups. Mars is in detriment in Libra and indicates struggle to maintain any semblance of social diplomacy and good relations. It will take great effort (Mars) to maintain peace (Libra), especially in light of the groups gunning for another world war. Thirteen is a potent and highly symbolic number, and we can expect this formation to be used to trigger further symbolic events on the world stage. 

Learn your Libra lessons well between now and October 2012, and the foundation will be set as far as future success with these Cardinal Grand Cross formations.

Ceres Stationing Retrograde in Aries and Why the Armies Aren't Fighting the Famine

“If only armies could fight famine.”

This was the segue between two news stories on one of Canada’s private broadcasters, CTV, a couple days ago. These words were spoken in that practised, low and authoritative “anchor voice” by the carefully coiffed and dramatically rueful news anchor. The first story was about Canadian soldiers returning from Afghanistan. The second was about the famine in East Africa.

Here’s a big news flash that didn’t make the broadcast: they can. Armies can fight famine. There's no reason why troops around the world could not be dropping massive quantities of food, water and medical supplies right this minute to the hundreds of thousands of people starving to death in Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia and other African nations including Djibouti, Sudan, South Sudan and Uganda.

Instead, Somalia is one of the six countries currently being bombed by the United States.

This famine has not come as a surprise. Many areas have not had rain for two years. Food has been scarce for two years. This was a long time coming, and the failure to act at every possible juncture up to this point is what has pushed it to the verge of catastrophe. It’s the lack of direct action from our so-called leaders that has allowed people to slip into misery and hell and starvation, and it’s a continued lack of action that is causing people to die.

And instead of direct action (Aries) now, we have the mainstream media manufacturing a reality for the viewing public where the hands of the Armed Forces and those who give their orders are tied, where nothing can be done in time.

It’s the same manufactured helplessness that is worked up after all humanitarian crises these days, and it’s false.

Armies can fight famine. Armies can get food and water to starving people. But it takes strong will and decisive action, and those handing down their orders choose not to deploy them in these ways. This is the Plutonic point that needs to be driven home for the viewing public. As long as the mainstream public swallows the story that there is nothing that can be done, nothing will be done.

Asteroid of agriculture, grains and fertility of the Earth Ceres is stationing retrograde (July 26) at zero Aries - that very potent first degree of the zodiac. It just passed through the anaretic (29th) degree of Pisces – related to the cyclical famines and plagues brought down on and allowed to happen to humanity. Ceres will be back in Pisces August 10 until January 19.

Ceres on the first degree of Aries requires direct action. Move. Take action. Do something effective. Hit your mark. It requires quick decisions and basic actions to get the food to the people. In Aries (soldiers), it requires an army.

But Ceres in Aries is square Pluto in Capricorn right now within Cardinal Grand Cross formation. Pluto in Capricorn relates to the rotten-to-the-core corruption of our hierarchical power structures. It relates to a top-heavy bureaucracy so bloated, dysfunctional and out of touch that quick, direct, effective actions (Aries) are just not a product of its machinations.

The hierarchies (Capricorn) are deadly (Pluto) in their illegitimacy.

Instead of food and water drops, the mainstream media broadcasts news of Canada’s useless "International Co-Operation Minister" Bev Oda making a useless official visit to Kenya complete with useless photo ops and useless clichéd statements spoken into the cameras.

Oda spent her time announcing the $50 million aid package that will ostensibly show up sometime while starving children take their last breaths.

The failure of leadership is so extreme it has taken on an Orwellian flavour as the propagandists on the nightly news continue to prop up its authority, manufacturing a reality that holds nothing and no one accountable.

Juno Finishes its Nine Month+ Transit of Virgo and Enters Cardinal Grand Cross Territory

Soul mate asteroid Juno is currently transiting the final degrees of Virgo and will enter Libra July 27 until October 25. This ingress is interesting because it means Juno will enter the Cardinal Grand Cross formation just as Mars in Cancer kicks it into high gear again during the month of August. 

Juno in Libra indicates that the sometimes sticky and tense interactions with other people this August are there to help us balance the tension of these four cardinal squares/two oppositions so we can all have our needs met within them. 

All four cardinal points - Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn - require our attention and effort, and we're directed into all four corners as we work to keep the tension at the right settings. Too much focus and pressure on one area results in a break. Too little in another area allows things to unravel. It's an intricate balance, and, as of July 27, the responsibility and requirements within our relationships draw attention to areas that are key in our successful tending of the Grand Cross. 

Juno moving into Libra is a big shift not only because of the Grand Cross. Juno has been in Virgo for over nine months - since October 3, 2010. It completed a 3.5 month retrograde through Virgo from January 19 to April 30, 2011 and went retrograde on the anaretic (29th) degree of the sign. There weren't any pesky details getting by this transit through Virgo and our pain-in-the-ass Virgoan soul mates were there to ensure it. 

From a previous post: 

"Juno relates not only to covenant marriage/soul relationships but also to the type of difficult emotional experiences and power dynamics that type of commitment can bring with it. The type of difficult emotional experiences and power dynamics any type of soul commitment can bring with it. This asteroid in the birth chart relates to an area to which we are "married," as well as to the flavour of our deep, soul-bonded relationships. However, contrary to what's drilled into people's heads these days, these relationships are not always meant to be romantic, sexual or long-term. 

The term soul mate refers broadly to a person (or animal) brought into our lives to form a relationship based on mutual soul work that could not be fully catalyzed or completed alone. Juno's placement can also relate really broadly to a relationship with a certain energy of the zodiac with smaller interactions acting as catalysts - definitely at work as Juno retrogrades in Virgo. 

This is more a soul mate relationship with the universe and with your own soul impetus - definitely loving, not necessarily sexy and spicy." 

Juno is currently conjunct my North Node in Virgo, and I've been getting heaps of criticism (Virgo) here over the past week. I've been called a fearmonger, a hater and a paranoid conspiracy theorist, among other things. I've even been compared to Nancy Grace. 

There are Juno in Virgo "soul mates" (mostly from a New Age persuasion or from a more consensus political perspective) trying to deconstruct me as I deconstruct various power structures and those using them. 

This is nothing out of the ordinary. When you take a strong stance outside consensus reality (including supposed alternative consensus reality), it generally ensures that there will be equally strong opposition. The criticisms are just coming in a stronger wave than usual due to the Juno in Virgo transit. 

I have to say, they made me cackle like a hen. The thing about any transit in Virgo is that it will pick, pick, pick at any and all illogic, weak points, laxness, rough edges, hypocrisy. It's generally done for good reason - so you fix every last detail that might trip you up over the long run and can function as a hole-free, well-oiled machine. 

On the other hand, the Virgoan Juno soul mates being a pain in our asses right now can actually be disregarded if they don't have valid points. If they're not catching anything that actually needs to be fixed with their pointed criticisms, they're just being pains in the ass - not pains in the ass with a helpful and necessary purpose! 

In its ultimately beneficial Juno way, the interactions this past week actually showed me I'm on the right track. 

This is definitely one benefit of nitpicky Juno in Virgo coming to the end of this nine-month+ transit. If there's nothing real to nitpick despite people's best efforts to find something, you've done a good job. 

If there are no adjustments required to your course of action, on you go.  

READINGS: I am currently howling at the moon on the prairie with the coyotes, and my internet connection is off and on. I'm available for telephone and e-mail readings until August 24 when I will be back to citified internet and can offer international Skype readings again. If you do book a reading over the next month, don't be alarmed if you don't hear from me for a couple days due to the connection issues. I will get back to you as soon as possible.

Venus Opposite Pluto and The Royal Divide

Thankfully, mercifully, "The Royals" have departed. Maybe my gag reflex can finally relax. 

Since the Canada Day New Moon eclipse within Cardinal Grand Cross July 1, the Stockholm Syndrome of this nation has reached frenzied pitch, fuelled by newlyweds Wills and Kate traversing the country. 

Breathless, starry-eyed royal subject after breathless, starry-eyed royal subject gushed into the cameras about every detail of the experience as they lined up for a glimpse of the duo. From coast to coast to coast, the mainstream media showed a transfixed public, drunk on celebrity, designer blazers, and the newest diversion from what's really going on in this country/on this planet. 

This past Canada Day was a historic one with an eclipse within Cardinal Grand Cross formation falling on the day of Canada's "birth." In Cancer, this has to do with "family" and opposite Pluto, it has to do with corrupt hierarchical power structures. Sounds about right. 

These are definitely some sick and twisted family dynamics. 

I wrote about them in a post this past Victoria Day, and the themes remain: 

A diversionary and symbolic visit by the British Royals as "yet another shout out to Canada's toxic Mummy Dearest mother figure and the overlying and underlying power structures of the British Empire...as we watch powerful, murderous figures dupe the mainstream into thinking they warrant our celebration." (Adding to the Plutonic creep-out factor, let's recall Ms. Kate is currently wearing Diana's ring.) 

This eclipse was prime time energy-wise for the new generation of British power to mark its territory in Canada, eclipsing the old and charming its subjects with beauty, money and powerful celebrity. 

As usual, I'm on the surreal and isolated Plutonic end of the spectrum: what most find beautiful, wonderful and attractive (Venus), I find repulsive, horrifying and anger-inducing (Pluto). People's values (Venus) turn my stomach (Pluto). The seedy underbelly of the situation, hidden to most of the transfixed onlookers, is all I can see. The glowing observations of people ignorant or in denial of the Plutonic layers hit me in overwhelming waves like the smell of rotten meat. 

The spell broke yesterday as Venus in Cancer opposed Pluto in Capricorn, and Wills and Kate departed for Los Angeles, California. 

I have to say I found Wills' parting words just a little ominous: 

"Our promise to Canada...is that we shall return."

The Cardinal Grand Cross U.S. Independence Day Sets the Stage

We're having a mini-breather right now as the Sun moves out of Cardinal Grand Cross formation just as Venus, newly in Cancer, heads in (July 7-13). We also have a multitude of very nice trines just becoming exact to further ease the astro climate. Venus in Cancer was trine Neptune in Pisces at around noon today Central. 

Mercury in Leo trines Uranus in Aries tonight at 7:47 p.m. 

Mars in Gemini trines Saturn in Libra July 6, and Jupiter in Taurus trines Pluto in Capricorn July 7. 

Venus moving further into Cancer means things will start heating up again mid-week as we become aware yet again of the extent of our constriction under these conditions. 

Venus enters the first aspect of the Cardinal Grand Cross Thursday, July 7 at 4:44 p.m. Central, and it's quite potent: Venus in Cancer square stopped-in-the-zodiac Uranus in Aries, just about to turn retrograde July 9. This Venus-Uranus square has the potential to be emotionally raw, feisty, and unstable with squabbles and tempers kicked up seemingly out of nowhere - all depending on how far people really are from exerting themselves authentically and following their own impulses, rather than subverting those things to maintain emotional comfort, familiarity, and status quo. 

The blazing individuality of each member of the nuclear family is busting out of the pre-set roles into all its technicolour egalitarian Aquarian-era detail, and the newly emerging facets of identity could prove shocking and anger-inducing, especially as the supportive feminine energy (Cancer) says it's had enough. 

The fiery Uranus in Aries impetus applied to our most sensitive emotional relationships then spreads and stokes the Plutonic fires as Venus moves into opposition with Pluto in Capricorn July 8 (7:31 p.m.). Old relationship roles, especially for mothers/the nurturing version of the feminine, and old versions of self within relationship are being necessarily morphed out of. Though this is a point of survival (ie. we have to go), with Venus in Cancer, most people will find it uncomfortable. Go slowly. No rushing ahead trying to head off the discomfort or you will be left with even more sticky, emotional detritus to wade through. 

Venus entering the Cardinal Grand Cross fray turns the heat up in our personal relationships, especially as they tie in to money. We have a pressurized underlying emotional tone set to "short-term and long-term survival," and everyone being spurred into new, more potently individualistic territory can create some big clashes as we diverge from those with whom we were once compatible. 

Venus' final aspect within Grand Cross formation is a square to Saturn in Libra July 13 at 2:35 a.m., and we are challenged to work within the reality of our relationship constructs, including business relationships. Some need to shift. And if they are too stuck and cemented to shift, some need to be discontinued altogether. 

Transiting Venus in Cancer conjuncts the United States' Venus-Jupiter in Cancer this week as it squares stationing Uranus in Aries, marking the nation's Venus Return. The U.S. is also experiencing its Saturn Return (in Libra), and a new "foreign relations" cycle is beginning at this time. Unfortunately, the path that has been set out involves more of the same - a lot of bombs and dead people. 

The U.S. corpo-government doesn't just shake hands when it meets you - it crushes every bone in your hand. 

As of United States Independence Day today, it is bombing six different countries: Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Yemen, and Somalia. 

The boundaries of its 'manifest destiny' as supreme dominator continue to spread. 

Back in the day, the 'higher ups' had supposedly given the green light on plundering, pillaging, and forcefully controlling the continent. Now, it's the entire planet. From Senator H.V. Johnson around 1845: 

"I believe we should be recreant to our noble mission, if we refused acquiescence in the high purposes of a wise Providence. War has its evils. In all ages it has been the minister of wholesale death and appalling desolation; but however inscrutable to us, it has also been made, by the Allwise Dispenser of events, the instrumentality of accomplishing the great end of human elevation and human happiness. It is in this view that I subscribe to the doctrine of "manifest destiny.""

The correlations to New Age doctrine, first rising to prominence in the last decades of the 1800s, are striking. The necessary sacrifice of the lower vibrating, unenlightened and unawakened so that (a select few) human beings can reach "higher consciousness," "enlightenment," "the fifth dimension," "the New Earth," "a new reality," etc. The spiritual arm and political arm work in lock-step toward the same ends. 

The strategic set-up to make this global 'manifest destiny' a reality (not just for members of the United States, but for "Global Governance" as a whole) has been put in place. The stage has been set for the unfolding of the seven exact squares of Uranus in Aries and Pluto in Capricorn between June 2012 and March 2015. 

You may recall that Obama has stealthily deployed U.S. Special Forces to 75 countries around the world, most as eyes were turned to the disaster going on in the Gulf of Mexico in the spring of 2010. 

Canada has just extended its military mission in Libya by three months. 

With Uranus in Aries as wild card, the power of people finally saying "fuck it" and getting up off their knees continues to disrupt and dislodge the carefully laid plans... 

The United States has also reached its $14 trillion+ debt ceiling and is bombing people on maxed out credit cards (Pluto in Capricorn), begging for more credit to continue the devastation by August 2. This follows in the economic wisdom of the day: if you can't afford to do something you want to do, just get a higher limit on your MasterCard. 

The United States of America is a Chiron in Aries nation opposite Saturn in Libra. This indicates that the version of the United States that came into existence in 1776 - again, the highly corporate version - has felt insignificant and slighted on the world stage, possibly because of its relative youth and inexperience. This version of the United States, with that gnawing wound in Aries opposite the old school Saturnine establishment, has never felt as if it were truly taken seriously, and because of this, felt the need to exert its identity and importance again and again through excessive might. 

Many times, despite ridiculously superiour weaponry, it lost. All those losses to guerrilla warfare, the survival of movements it tried everything in its power to suppress and destroy, the humiliations played out as the world watched with (real or imagined) countries snickering behind its back, are embedded in this Chiron wound. 

The United States, as the major nuclear weapons holder in the world (Uranus/Pluto, uranium/plutonium), will be on the guns a-blazing war path as Uranus irritates this wound throughout the Uranus-Pluto square series and beyond. 

Uranus is heading to an exact conjunction to the U.S. Chiron at 20 degrees Aries, making its first pass June 24, 2015. 

Uranus will be just past the final exact square to Pluto in Capricorn at that point, culminating in this conjunction to the U.S. Chiron in Aries, and will station retrograde on this point July 25, 2015. 

This is an attempt at Chirotic redemption through war, aggression, and violence - so, of course, it won't work. 

Outing the underlying understanding of "manifest destiny" in the collective unconscious of this nation and others, along with the idea of the inevitability of war to support higher quality of living, plays a big role in discontinuing the coerced acceptance of never ending war on this planet, being driven in a big way by the United States on this July 4, 2011.

The Final Eclipse of Our Summer 2011 Triple Eclipse Season: Cancer New Moon Solar Eclipse Within Cardinal Grand Cross Formation July 1

This is some Solar Return chart for good old Kanata.

Strap on your party hats. Hold onto your beer coolers. This birthday celebration is going to be one for the astrological record books.

The Cancer New Moon within Cardinal Grand Cross formation happens in the wee hours Friday morning (3:54 a.m. Central Daylight Time). This is Canada Day - Canada's officially recognized birthday - and the New Moon eclipse falls exactly conjunct the Sun-Uranus conjunction in Canada's confederation chart.

The version of Canada that came into existence that day in 1867 was only one version - the corporate, British-ruled one - but that seems to be the version that wreaks most of the havoc. At the same time as our debt-ridden neighbour to the South has its economic power checked and ultimately usurped (this eclipse falls just three degrees off a conjunction to the U.S. Cancer Sun and a few degrees from its Venus-Jupiter conjunction in Cancer), this New Moon eclipse pushes that version of Canada into new prominence and into deeper roles on the world stage.

Coincidentally (not), British royal newlyweds Wills and Kate have chosen this weekend to make a stop in the nation's capital, Ottawa, for the first time in almost 15 years. Breathless subjects abound as this historic Canada Day New Moon eclipse ushers in a new strategic importance and image on the world stage for this country under a new generation of British control. A symbolic changing of the guard along the familial lines (Cancer) under this potent Dark of the Moon/New Moon energy.

There is also a tie-in with the 'far North' with this eclipse, as it will be visible only in a portion of the Antarctic Ocean, and we can expect intensified jockeying for position and control over the water and territory in Canada's North as an offshoot theme. This includes offshore oil drilling. Watch for various interests attempting to plant their flags, regardless of the interests of the people who already live there.

What follows is a re-post of my article from May 8 on the New Moon eclipse at 9 degrees Cancer and some of what it means for this country: Canada Day Cardinal Grand Cross Eclipse: Well, Golly Gee Whiz. Look Who's Fuelling the Global Nuclear Industry

The July 1 New Moon eclipse in Cancer amidst the Cardinal Grand Cross happens on Canada's birthday, and this nation is poised to take on new position and influence within the broader global agenda.

Uber Global Governor Stephen Harper is at the helm for the next four years with a brand, spanking new majority neo-conservative government (won with only 39% of the popular vote), and this global position is going to involve a whole lot of war activity. We see an aspect of this with the installation of Canadian General Charles Bouchard as head of the illegal NATO campaign against Libya. But that, friends, is just the tip of the depleted uranium-tipped iceberg.

Canada's benign, peacekeeper image, so strategically useful on the world stage, is in the process of being stripped bit-by-bit by a Pluto in Capricorn opposition to its Cancer Sun. Squared by transiting Uranus in Aries, the shocking extent of Canada's role within the global war machine emerges as the facade is stripped. The fundamental understanding of Canada's identity on the world stage - past, present and future - shifts rapidly and repeatedly over the next four years.

The Sun in Cancer Triggers Another Wave of Cardinal Grand Cross Action: Dramz, Dramz and More Dramz

As of the solstice June 21, the Sun in Cancer has entered the Cardinal Grand Cross fray and triggers a new wave of intensity, tension and movement - both inspiring and potentially anxiety-inducing - on the heels of Mercury. 

The Sun will square Uranus in Aries June 26, oppose Pluto Rx in Capricorn June 28 and square Saturn in Libra July 2, just after the Cancer New Moon eclipse July 1. Potent stuff. Everything I said in this post as far as navigation of this configuration still goes: Mercury Enters Cancer and Triggers the First Wave of the Cardinal Grand Cross. 

The only real differences are, we're consciously within this configuration now, and egos will be getting involved (and potentially mashed). These are, at times, incendiary aspects triggering lightning-flash tempers (Uranus in Aries) that can go to extremes. 

(Just try plagiarizing and New Age-ifying one of my articles if you don't believe me. Heh.) 

Just as soon as the Sun heads out of range of the Cardinal Grand Cross configuration, Venus enters Cancer July 4, triggering the next wave of blistering intensity. Venus in Cancer squares Uranus in Aries July 7, opposes Pluto Rx in Capricorn July 8, and squares Saturn in Libra July 13. Our relations with other people (and our money) enter the mix strongly here. 

We then have a little reprieve for the last two weeks of July as Venus in Cancer moves out of orb of the Grand Cross until Mars enters Cancer August 3, drawing things to a state of tension on all fronts again. Mars in Cancer will square Uranus Rx in Aries August 9, oppose Pluto in Capricorn August 11 and square Saturn in Libra August 25, but things will have loosened considerably by the end of August. 

By August 25 and the final angsty aspect (Mars square Saturn), the Cardinal Grand Cross Summer of 2011 is drawing to a close, and we can start to gain some perspective on what movements and decisions it spurred and what directions we find ourselves going in coming out of it. Uranus in Aries stations retrograde July 9, just a little over one degree off an exact square to Pluto in Capricorn. These two are in a long-term square formation with seven exact squares going on between June 2012 and March 2015. The themes and new directions kicked up this summer, initially spurred in the summer of 2010, will be with us for a good long while. 

Cardinal Grand Cross points of intensification: 

 - June 18 - 22 as Mercury in Cancer triggers the Cardinal Grand Cross 

- June 25 - July 2 as Sun in Cancer triggers the Cardinal Grand Cross 

- July 1 - Cancer New Moon partial solar eclipse at 9 degrees Cancer within Cardinal Grand Cross formation 

- July 6 - 13 as Venus in Cancer triggers the Cardinal Grand Cross 

- August 8 - 25 as Mars in Cancer triggers the Cardinal Grand Cross

Mars in Gemini Square Neptune in Pisces and Willow is Plagiarized by a New Age Ascension Promoter

I'm really not sure of the alchemical energetics on this one. Willow the staunch New Age critic, having shit-kicked the ascension ideology more times than she can count, has her solstice article plagiarized by "Tyberonn the Earth Keeper" in a New Age newsletter sent out to his mailing list. It's quite the Mars in Gemini square Neptune in Pisces scenario (exact 1:45 a.m. tomorrow morning).

I have to say, my words folded into standard New Age ascension ideology really doesn't seem like a wise admixture to me.

Certain sentences were changed to New Age-ify it, but it comes straight from this April 22, 2011 post:

A Cardinal Grand Cross Summer Solstice and Triple Eclipse Season: Here We Go Again

The link to my last triple eclipse article from 2009 is even still included in the body of the post.

I orginally found it posted on the website Ascension for All. I e-mailed the woman who runs the site to tell her, and she replied that she got the information from a newsletter sent out from Tyberonn.

This is what was posted under Tyberonn's name:


Cardinal Grand Cross Summer Solstice

"Cardinal Grand Cross Summer Solstice in Triad Eclipse Season Summer 2011

ASTRO-VIEW

Another Grand Cross is coming, and it’s happening in the overlapping wash of 3 eclipses and a mega Solstice. And wash is the key word. Let it wash you clean! Fact is the planet is headed into very similar astro conditions as the intense summer of 2010 with a Cardinal Grand Cross forming by the June 21, 2011 Summer Solstice and the
entry of the Sun into Cancer…but this time the Astro-Gods aren’t fooling around…they
really means business! 3 Eclipses, a Solstice and Grand Cross…sheesh !… So get
ready to have your world rocked !

That same energy while intense, does require you to stay positive and focused, and
fight off the heavy-duty, industrial strength waves of lethargy. But stay on point,
this energy can also be utilized for great gains. Yes, so it will be hard, but
so has the last 2 years , and that which doesn’t defeat you can make you stronger!
Really !! Get ready to release and clean house.

** Gemini New Moon: June 1, 2011 at 4:03 p.m. CDT solar eclipse at 11 degrees

** Sagittarius Full Moon: June 15, 2011 at 3:14 p.m., total lunar eclipse24 degrees

** Cancer New Moon: July 1, 2011 at 3:54 a.m., partial solar eclipse at 9 degrees

In addition to the 3 eclipses and solstice, Mercury will enter Cancer June 16 and
kick off a two-month Cardinal Grand Cross. There are two oppositions forming four
squares among the cardinal signs. It is kept strong as Mercury, the Sun, Venus and
then Mars in Cancer trigger the Cardinal Grand Cross configuration into late August
opposite Pluto in Capricorn with Uranus in Aries opposite Saturn in Libra. Saturn
in Libra stations direct June 12 at 10 degrees. So yes, you are in another crucible,
purifying, boiling away what blocks you. That’s not easy. In the cardinal signs,
these aspects are forcing us to make our moves under tense and pressure-filled
conditions.

Let’s be clear: we’re taking the directions that are being gravitationally motivated,
almost force fed.Its coming on like a freight train, a locomotive.

So you may even find relationships that you thought on one level were fine, actually
pause or end, sort of or a stepping away period, even from friends and loved one
takes place. There is a reason for it, even if you can’t initially see it. A space
is given that can lead to a new birth of who you are. So these relationship ‘break-ups’are sometimes ‘no-fault’ endeavors. In this crucible scenario, it is simply a time to move inward and evolve without carrying any baggage with you. Often when we step into newly opened space, an emergence of redefined leadership can position itself for all involved. Even with initial levels of confusion and duress. So suffice it to say that this 2011 summer season , things are even more astro-intense than last year.

In 2011 there is even less room for error or for denial. Last summer, the 2010 Grand-Cross configuration was actually a cardinal t-square with the fourth leg of Saturn in
late Virgo making it an energetic Grand Cross. It was a Grand Cross by orb (degree),
but it was not truly a Cardinal Grand Cross because Saturn was in a mutable sign.

This summer, Saturn’s in Libra, and so the 2011 Cardinal Grand-Cross is the full-on
real deal. So the GC of 2010 was the dress rehearsal! So get ready, get your ducks
in a row, and make 2011 work for you ! … Because in addition, Uranus will be
highly potent, pulling into a retrograde station July 9 at 4 degrees Aries. As it
stations, Uranus will be within a degree of its first exact square to Pluto in Capricorn at 5 degrees Capricorn within the Cardinal Grand Cross formation. This is some lightning-hot intensity ahead of the first exact Uranus-Pluto square June 23, 2012.

If people were able to resist or deny the grand-scale movements and global upheaval
initiated (and forced) during the cardinal t-square summer of 2010, that will change
this summer, the Cardinal Grand Cross summer of 2011, there is no hiding under the
rug. So if there is a hidden obstruction, an ego balance or a bad-habit skeleton
hidden away in the emotional closet, expect it to face you front and center.

Use the Solstice

Use the Solstice of June 21 to recharge, its a brief refuge, but also an empowerring
one. It will allow you the needed energy to use the eclipses for examining and self
redefinaition, release and re-balance.

But avoid getting overwhelmed, in this intensity there is always a flip side…
try not to get depressed or fall into anger outburst. Manage this and you will find
you can utilize this energy for the positive. Its a great amplified energy to manifest within. Take time to meditate.

Sagittarius North Node

But despite the intensity, good things can happen. With the North Node transiting
Sagittarius, there will be renewed optimism and expansion in our lives between the
chaos and intensity. It’s when we’re pushed to our breaking points and beyond that
the power of our inherent wisdom, and strength gains and proves its real mettle.

The versions of truth being portrayed on this planet – even the supposed alternative
versions – are not even close to the real story. More of the true picture begins
emerging in 2011. This is both in the individual and mass global realms. Truth
is being revealed as the shadow is replaced by the light.

As Jupiter enters Taurus June 4 and becomes the depositor of the North Node, we
draw on the wisdom of simplicity, goodness in basics, groundedness, reserve, and
one of the most important aspects of humanity’s continuation on Planet Earth -
endurance. Like the bull, we persevere. We dig in.

Triple Eclipse Season

The Cardinal Grand Cross at the northern hemisphere’s Summer Solstice this June
is sandwiched in a triple eclipse season, which includes a total lunar eclipse at
24 degrees Sagittarius conjunct the North Node.

We’re not going to be able to hold standard positions in the same old fort this
summer. Everything is on the move. The cardinal points are triggered all at once,
and there’s no avoiding it, no hiding, it will confront you wherever you are. There
is no possibility of damming ourselves up against the force of what needs to move.
Things are not as they were, and we come to understand more fully what that means
in this energy. And that message varies with each individual. But change will happen.

Eclipses usually produce a between-spaces, unglued energy, resulting in big emotional
back-drop changes and sometimes involving shattering events. The timing of global
socio-political events is often tied to these points….but so is individual shift.
Big shift. Eclipses happen every six or so months and are basically New and Full
Moons that involve a more exact alignment than usual of the Sun, Earth and Moon
and are considered more potent than standard New and Full Moons because of it. There
are usually two – a Full Moon eclipse and a New Moon eclipse – though three is not
all that rare….but these are always much more powerful in threes.

Two New Moons in Cancer and 3-Eclipse Season, All Wrapped Up in Pluto [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=fmz86ncab&et=1106105004954&s=0&e=001GcQyVDdKbUpyfLhOQBSc_kUJWE4kyQYB7l99FjD-0H-d9PPuKnKAFkZTilKc18a3x6gfSfbsvvMVIICtQaILuNt4UNinyGmy9uXh2pSRDW-vZ8clJy7HPgt3-7Accc41gitsv8mDKnaj5aLERf_EqJqhMm_3CYwd4lq-Q3c1lvi54V_X-Vuj6g==]

This summer we have three eclipses (Gemini New Moon, Sagittarius Full Moon, Cancer
New Moon) in combination with the two-month Cardinal Grand Cross, shaking our foundations and spurring movement that much more.Its a time to self examine, be ready for surprises, redefine relationships , and manifest highest intent.

This period extends through July, but the Triad-Solstice Crucible reachers is finale
on the last of the Triple Eclipses on 1 July, 2011. The Cardinal Grand Cross Energies
extend further, into mid August. Time to clean house ! 2012 is almost here…

” People get ready theres a train a coming

You can’t take no baggage …you just get onboard”

From Tyberonn at www.earth-keeper.com"


Sorry, Tyberonn. Plagiarism wasn't cool in Grade 11 English, and it sure isn't cool now - especially when you're using the work of a person who opposes your schtick to the core.

To be continued...

Continued...

It turns out it wasn't even Tyberonn who plagiarized the article but someone who sent out Tyberonn's newsletter for him.

What a Neptunian clusterfuck.

Mercury Enters Cancer and Triggers the First Wave of the Cardinal Grand Cross

Mercury enters Cancer at 2:09 p.m. Central June 16, officially kicking off the two-month Cardinal Grand Cross. This is the configuration of two oppositions/four squares in the cardinal signs - Uranus in Aries opposite Saturn in Libra and Pluto in Capricorn opposite Mercury, the Sun, the Moon, Venus and Mars in Cancer - in effect June 16 to August 29, 2011. 

I've written a few posts on the subject to establish the astro flavour and structural bones: 

April 22, 2011: A Cardinal Grand Cross Summer Solstice and Triple Eclipse Season: Here We Go Again May 8, 2011: Canada Day Cardinal Grand Cross Eclipse: Well, Golly Gee Whiz. Look Who's Fuelling the Global Nuclear Industry May 24, 2011: Neptune Stations in Pisces and We Head to the Gemini New Moon Entryway Into the Cardinal Grand Cross/Triple Eclipse Summer of 2011  

Mercury in Cancer will form an unstable, angsty, angry square to Uranus in Aries June 18, marking the first official aspect of the configuration. Words are uranium and then plutonium-laced. Verbal battles cut to the core and get to the meltdown point very quickly this week, so take a breather, get some space and do your own thing (ie. just say screw it) to stay on an emotional even keel whenever possible. Keep in mind the pressures people are under - and most don't even have astrology to help them through it. Allow room for their emotional states while not sacrificing your own. 

From the Uranus square, Mercury moves into opposition with Pluto in Capricorn June 19. Still boiling from the contact to Uranus in Aries, this opposition creates a potentially volatile and highly polarizing effect. Lines in the sand have most certainly been drawn at this point, and the tension simmers, simmers beneath the surface. This has a big theme of: those who are in ignorance/denial of Plutonic realities on this planet versus those who aren't. The distance between the two looks huge, but in an instant, this configuration can shift things. 

Mercury moves to the final aspect of the configuration - a square to Saturn in Libra - June 21 on the solstice. On the heels of so much constrained yet volatile energy building and with so much seething beneath it all, this has a highly constricting effect. We really need an outlet here to blow off some of this Grand Cross steam, but Saturn in Libra keeps us fully within our social restraints and responsibilities, forcing us to be mature and to keep our cool under sometimes immense pressure. 

Hey, this is our Cardinal Grand Cross to bear, and it's just getting started. 

People are pretty regularly going to be hitting the "Go ahead, punk. Make my day" point, in direct proportion to how much b.s. they've been swallowing. Do NOT fuck with anyone and don't leave yourself open to be fucked with. Keep to yourself as much as possible, and let as much slide as you humanly can. People are pissed, but they will be containing it (as they've been trained to), and when the repression hits the point of no return (especially with women), avoiding other people's detritus while not kicking up any of your own is a very smart survival tactic. 

Releasing some of the pressure by talking it out with allies who truly get where you're coming from also helps immensely, as long as the pressure-relieving is reciprocal (Saturn in Libra). And it has to be someone who can deal with hearing how you REALLY feel about things and vice versa. Otherwise, things get even more incendiary. 

All four of these squared off/opposed energies are going to need our attention, and it's going to take all our focus and resolve to keep the tension at the right settings. Yes, there will be tension. It's guaranteed. But it's a matter of balancing it all against itself so that no one energy runs away with us. 

What Mercury is doing this week forms the pattern the other personal planets - the Sun, Moon, Venus and Mars - in Cancer will follow over the next two months, creating successive waves from the sign of the crab until near the end of August. This is global as well as personal. Things are shifting on all fronts under tense, pressure-filled circumstances, and if you're feeling a bit on edge - four cardinal squares mixed with three eclipses will certainly do that to a person. 

The good news is: things are moving, finally, because they have to. The Moon enters Capricorn just after midnight tonight (Central time) and squares Uranus, conjuncts Pluto and squares Saturn throughout the day tomorrow. The emotional undertone is officially set to "Cardinal Grand Cross." 

 Cardinal Grand Cross points of intensification: 

- June 18 - 22 as Mercury in Cancer triggers the Cardinal Grand Cross 

- June 25 - July 2 as Sun in Cancer triggers the Cardinal Grand Cross 

- July 1 - Cancer New Moon partial solar eclipse at 9 degrees Cancer within Cardinal Grand Cross formation 

- July 6 - 13 as Venus in Cancer triggers the Cardinal Grand Cross 

- August 8 - 25 as Mars in Cancer triggers the Cardinal Grand Cross

Neptune Stations in Pisces and We Head to the Gemini New Moon Entryway Into the Cardinal Grand Cross/Triple Eclipse Summer of 2011

Flooding in southeastern Saskatchewan

As I've written about, the current cardinal t-square formed by Uranus in Aries opposite Saturn in Libra square Pluto in Capricorn becomes a quite unsettled (and unsettling) Cardinal Grand Cross mid-June through the end of August. We're under very similar astro conditions as we were last summer, only tighter and more condensed. The parallels are striking - and orchestrated.

- Last summer, the Canadian prairies, where I'm located, were flooded. This caused massive crop failures - if farmers were even able to get a crop in after an unusually cold and wet spring. Honeybees starved to death due to the lack of flowering crops - not a good omen.

This spring, we have more of the same: unusually cold temperatures and heavy precipitation. Farmers can't get on the land due to flooding. People along the rivers have been evacuated from their homes, and they're calling it a once in 300 years flood.

- Last spring and summer, the prairies had wild weather all summer long, including baseball-sized hail, destructive winds and tornadoes.

This spring, various U.S. states are experiencing deadly tornadoes and baseball-sized hail. A HAARP-induced tornado Sunday night in Joplin, Missouri killed at least 116 people and destroyed large swathes of the 50,000-person city.

More artificially-created, unnatural disasters are to be expected. Don't blame Mother Nature or even global warming on these ones. Their hands are being forced.

- Last spring, the major, gut-wrenching disaster was the oil/Corexit/synthetic micro-organism horror show in the Gulf of Mexico.

This spring, it's Fukushima. (Both events are under media blackout.) The most recent readings released to the public show radiation releases from Reactor 1 shot up from 45 sieverts per hour to over 200 sieverts per hour on May 22/23. For perspective as far as how much radiation this is: an exposure of six sieverts per hour results in almost immediate human death. With a timeline of nine months until containment (as if anyone could really pinpoint it), the entire northern hemisphere is at risk for contamination by radioactive fallout - all while the government and media tells us next to nothing. Almost 5,000 Japanese nuclear power plant workers have been found to be suffering from internal radiation exposure after inhaling radioactive materials near the disaster site.

- In April of last year, a volcanic eruption in Iceland spread ash across northern Europe, stranding 10 million air travellers.

This May 22, just after Family Radio's "Rapture Weekend," another volcano blew in Iceland, kicking up similar clouds of ash and causing more air traffic problems.

- Last summer, the G8 and G20 meetings took place June 26-27 under a cardinal t-square/energetic Grand Cross as well as a wickedly potent Capricorn Full Moon lunar eclipse exactly conjunct Pluto at 4 degrees. The meetings took place with Uranus on the zero degree of Aries, moving into its long-term square position to Pluto in Capricorn, and planning for the Uranus-Pluto square series was laid out.

This summer, NATO is involved in a brand new war against Libya, headed by Canadian General Charles Bouchard. The initial attack was scheduled to begin on the vernal equinox 2011 as Uranus re-entered the zero degree of Aries. (The invasion of Iraq was scheduled to begin on the vernal equinox 2003 as Uranus ingressed Pisces.) NATO warplanes have been bombing Libya since then with the heaviest shelling to date happening this morning. Three people are dead and at least 150 injured, many gravely.

Osama bin Laden's death was announced May 1 just before Obama's appearance on The Oprah Winfrey show, giving his approval ratings a boost as he leads the United States into another attack on a sovereign nation. Other reports claim bin Laden has been dead for years. Now, aggressive language is being ramped up against Pakistan for supposedly harbouring bin Laden, justifying an attack against that country.

It's all a farce.

As we head into another potent eclipse season within Cardinal Grand Cross, the socio-political scene across the globe is incendiary, and the orchestrated war machinations take direction from the energy and decisions made at those G8/G20 meetings under the Plutonic lunar eclipse.

Obama has recently made purposefully confusing statements about Israel and Palestine, with CBC reporter Neil McDonald writing: "A diplomatic fog surrounds U.S. President Barack Obama's explosive remarks last week about the borders of a future Palestinian state...The diplomatic fog, as is often the case, is deliberate."

You nailed it, Neil.

Neptune is currently stationing retrograde at 0 degrees Pisces (going retro June 3), and communication tensions related to this strong Neptunian overlay infuse the Gemini New Moon eclipse June 1. Everything has that tinge of foggy surreality - especially when related to the media (Gemini) - and this energy is being purposefully utilized to veil, divert, confuse, and sway mass opinion.

We're in a confusing and arduous place with this Neptune station, moving through life in a world where dream (nightmare?) and waking life are difficult to differentiate.

The Sun in Gemini is currently moving out of a square to stationing Neptune in Pisces. As the Neptune-influenced Sun moves through the eclipse and to a June 13 conjunction with the South Node in Gemini (followed by Mercury, Venus and Mars), media-related diversions abound. The line between truth and manipulated information is as blurry as a surrealist watercolour, and we're only getting the latter from most sources.

And still the Sagittarius North Node demands that we stick to the truth - staying firmly within the bounds of what we know and feel to be true, what we have faith in. This is the shield that keeps us sheltered as we move through the kicked-up Geminian detritus of half-truths, partial-truths, artifice, lies and utter bullshit. This is how we stay straight and true as an arrow, moving through the bluster of words and frequencies attempting to toss is this way and that.

- Gemini New Moon: June 1, 2011 at 4:03 p.m. Central, partial solar eclipse at 11 degrees
- Sagittarius Full Moon: June 15, 2011 at 3:14 p.m., total lunar eclipse at 24 degrees
- Cancer New Moon: July 1, 2011 at 3:54 a.m., partial solar eclipse at 9 degrees

- Cardinal Grand Cross (Uranus in Aries opposite Saturn in Libra, Pluto in Capricorn opposite Mercury, Sun, Venus, Mars in Cancer) in effect June 16 to August 29, 2011

Points of intensification:

- June 18 - 22 as Mercury in Cancer triggers the Cardinal Grand Cross
- June 25 - July 2 as Sun in Cancer triggers the Cardinal Grand Cross
- July 1 - Cancer New Moon partial solar eclipse at 9 degrees Cancer within Cardinal Grand Cross formation
- July 6 - 13 as Venus in Cancer triggers the Cardinal Grand Cross
- August 8 - 25 as Mars in Cancer triggers the Cardinal Grand Cross

Now, I'm pretty sure those who read this blog are able to handle and absorb the facts of our planetary situation, but for those who find information laid out like this overwhelming, I will remind you of the love, spiritual guidance and people fighting the good fight that you are always connected to, never separated from. We're experiencing this mystery together, and the love and spiritual power we belong to is so much stronger than the forces attempting to break it.

No matter what happens, you are loved, you are beautiful and you are whole. Every nasty trick and shitty turn of events is just one more layer to experience (with black humour, if possible), move through and shed. They never touch the core of you. They don't even come close.

The loving spirits we're connected to know what we're going through. The information we're collecting, the perspective we're gathering, and the work we're doing are invaluable. None of it goes to waste. All of it matters. We're here now for a reason, and for those of us who have the skills, getting to the root, to the full ground-level reality of what's going on here is where we're most effective. This is how we add to the cumulative knowledge of what's going on and what can be done about it. This is how we hit the energetic marks where things can change.

Not many can go there, right to the central points, so there is honour in doing so. It hurts. It's hard. It's scary. It's lonely. And you're honoured for doing so. Feel the lineage behind you. Feel the grit it's gone through. And honour yourself for being another sexy, hardcore motherfucker in a line of sexy, hardcore motherfuckers who had the courage to go there. Thank-you for having the courage to stay with it. It's not easy.

I don't live in terms of things being "light" or "dark," "positive" or "negative." I personally believe that the light-dark paradigm is an artificial one, perpetuated through New Age to keep people from their true effectiveness. To me, that way of looking at things is overly simplistic. It keeps people using training wheels. I just don't see things in those terms, flipping back and forth like a switch. I don't feel the subjects I write about are "dark" and that I then need to run out and take a bunch of hits of Neptunian ether "light" to counteract the effects.

My soul craves give-it-to-me-straight reality. That's what I find beautiful and inspiring. I know it and feel it, anyway. I'm not able to deny it. So to know the way things are on a deep level gives me strength. It validates that I am not crazy and that my experience of this planet is on the money.

I'm not attracted to gloss, watered-down social artifice, or artificial light. I like reading about reality, and that's what I like writing about, so that's my contribution. It's the type of information I find important and pertinent to the situation of being human on this planet at this time. So, to use a hockey metaphor, I have to keep driving to the net, and I can't and won't apologize for the information I include on this blog.

From now on, I write what I write, and the chips can fall where they may.