The North Node Heads for Sagittarius

North Node in Sagittarius March 3, 2011 to August 29, 2012

There is one more week of North Node in Capricorn before it crosses into Sagittarian territory March 3, and this shift is going to be a relief. For the past six months, our successful path forward has driven us straight into the heart of the Plutonic beast, complete with multi-layered, to-the-core terror training. We've gotten up close and personal with the corruption, abuse and yuck Pluto is unearthing in Capricorn as it excavates our structural hierarchies and the power dynamics within - and we haven't even drawn any danger pay.

The North Node formed an exact conjunction to Pluto at 3 degrees Capricorn on November 9, 2010. The Pluto-North Node conjunction happens on average every 17 years:

February 11, 1909 at 23 degrees Gemini
August 25, 1926 at 15 degrees Cancer
November 28, 1943 at 8 degrees Leo
December 31, 1960 at 8 degree Virgo
October 31, 1977 at 15 degrees Libra
February 22, 1994 at 28 degrees Scorpio
November 9, 2010 at 3 degrees Capricorn
November 15, 2027 at 4 Aquarius
June 3, 2062 at 25 Pisces

The North Node in Capricorn was also involved in that super hardcore, stone cold serious meeting with Ceres and Pluto during the Via Combusta Venus retrograde in Scorpio this past fall.

Suffice it to say, things have gotten tight.

Since the North Node entered the sign of the sea goat in August of 2009, we've had to suck it up, get on with it and slowly and painfully make our way forward amidst ongoing destruction, doing in-the-moment restructuring and making whatever progress we could as Pluto in Capricorn steamrolled on. It has been traumatic, picking up on the unresolved business of the Pluto in Cancer generation. The emotional, psychological and psychic weight and pressure of all that has remained unsaid, undealt with, unrecognized, unredeemed, suppressed since the hey day of that generation (and before) is immense.

Now, we're on the very outskirts of Capricorn North Node territory - in the really depressing, run-down industrial area - and things are looking pretty bleak.

But we can sense a shift coming on. The North Node in Sagittarius March 3 and Uranus in Aries March 11 bring a strong push into fire - creativity, inspiration, expression, aggression, movement. There's some expansion coming on our path. New experiences. New mixes. The next 1.5 years on Planet Earth are going to require an ongoing development of deep, Sagittarian faith.

As we've seen with the uprisings in Egypt, especially, we're going to be connecting across cultures, drawing on and sharing information and stores of cross-cultural knowledge, especially feminine knowledge - not because it's trendy and cool, but because we have to in order to survive.

We're going to be exploring a world that has ceased to have much truly untapped territory, a world under Pluto in Capricorn lock-down in many ways. There will be limitations to our freedom along these lines, and we'll be required to seek inspiration in new ways, discovering rich, new sources. Always, there will be an impetus on reframing and transforming belief systems, making them relevant for the current moment and situation, shaking valuable kernels of truth out of the dogmatic, masculine-heavy belief structure hierarchies that exist almost across the board at this point in human history.

And then we have the Gemini South Node.

"On some level, our communication and connection in this internet age have reached a peak. The interplay of ideas and information has reached critical mass, and things shift greatly on that front from March until August 2012.

We're getting booted out of some of the emotional and social reliance on this form of connection and turned down the North Node Sagittarian path of direct experiences with the big, bad world, relying on our stores of information, the connections we've made and what we've learned through the interactions as the fires of Sagittarian faith and inspiration propell us forward. This will be a refreshing shift in the long run (barring a total internet crackdown by the Global Governors)..."

We've already had both metered internet usage (put down in Canada for the time being due to mass public outcry) and the infamous Obama Internet Kill Switch fly onto our radar screens, and further attempts at controlling, censoring and eroding can be expected over the next 18 months with the Gemini South Node/Sagittarius North Node.

We're driving toward the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth with a Sagittarius North Node and those who would like us diverted from that goal will also be working this polarity for all its worth.

One cool thing about this placement is a movement into more of a natural, law of the jungle way of things. The law of cosmic grace, the law of the cosmos, the grace in truth - all these things become empowered. This is very different from the current rigid, hierarchical/patriarchal and generally corrupt Capricornian versions of law and order.

Metaphysical law is different from the standard variety. This shift is going to be very interesting.

Exact Mars-Pluto-Mercury Conjunction at 4 Degrees Capricorn

As I type, we've got a line-up in Capricorn of the North Node, Mars, Pluto and Mercury Rx at 2, 3, 4, and 5 degrees of the sign. Tomorrow night between 10:05 and 10:15 p.m. CT, we experience Mercury Rx, Mars and Pluto coming together in a ridiculously potent triple conjunction at 4 Capricorn, just two degrees off our carved-out soul path forward indicated by the North Node. Take note of that 10 minutes in time as we are cosmically awash with understanding and body intuition about how we progress, personally and together, from here.

We've been waiting patiently as intelligence, communication and interaction planet Mercury ground out its retrograde station in Capricorn, and we now gain some very intriguing information and insight as Mercury gains momentum retro and slides back over a conjunction to Pluto, Mars and the North Node.

Mercury has been informed by a sextile to Venus in Scorpio on the day of its station (December 10) that the feminine has a little something to say - strategically, and with purpose. She'll keep it to herself until the right moment presents itself, as the feminine does, but there are some fine points that have been criminally neglected. There is unfinished business from the Venus retrograde and Ceres-Pluto conjunction that must be attended to if we are to make any real progress, rather than recreating the Hel structures of the past. There are touchy areas that need to be touched to bring about the release of the stolen feminine energy still tied up, locked down, languishing - areas uncovered through the diligent efforts of the personal planets transiting through Scorpio, now brought fully into play as Venus moves direct through its retrograde shadow.

All that Capricorn is disposited by Saturn in Libra which, in turn, is disposited by Venus in Scorpio. So it all goes back to our lady, see?

The Sun is in Sagittarius as the bodies come together in Capricorn, and the truth needs to come out. But how far are people willing to dig to get to the real stuff? How many comforting, buffering layers are they willing to come through? Or will they be satisfied with surface scratching?

Venus in Scorpio won't. Take my word for it.

The other feminine body in the zodiac, the Moon, is in late Pisces at the time of the triple conjunction in Capricorn. Uranus and Jupiter are in Pisces, too, sandwiched between the Moon and Black Moon Lilith. The deep, dark, neglected feminine Piscean truth is: we have to get the sea back into the sea goat or the end of the Age of the Fishies and entry into the Age of the Water-Bearer is going to bring one damned unpleasant era on this Earth. Mass spiritual extinction.

Our personal actions and use of words are stripped to the Plutonic bone here, but with good reason. All our energy is needed now for the most effective and empowering pathways.

If we stick to business over emotional habit and allow only the right ingredients into our alchemical mix at the time of this conjunction, personal progress can be fuzed here much more coherently with the broader collective progress we've been aching our whole lives to achieve. The scattered and tattered pieces we've collected from the far reaches of our soulscapes can be brought back into the fold and integrated lovingly, in their own time, strengthening the whole system. We can find the right edges and the right angles, finally, to more consciously (Mercury) fit our personal goals (Mars) like puzzle pieces into the larger framework and broader shifts, thereby finding a new emotional touchstone and security for that beleaguered Cancer South Node.

As the structural outgrowths collectively held in place by brittle and outdated illegitimate power super glue come crashing down, we are zooming through the cracks.

Every body in the zodiac aside from Mercury is moving direct, and we are catching a glimpse of the true potential of these times and of us within them. We're also heading to a short period of time (December 30, 2010 to January 25, 2011) when EVERY body in the zodiac will be moving forward. Though periods of immense pressure and constriction can still be expected, the steps are beginning to be laid out as we move to the first Uranus in Aries March Equinox.

A Pressurized Mercury Retrograde Station Conjunct Pluto-North Node in Capricorn

Mercury enters Capricorn tomorrow evening (6:10 p.m. CT), and we're heading into one beast of a Mercury retrograde just in time for winter solstice and the holidays.

After the ingress, Mercury will conjunct both the North Node (2 degrees) and Pluto (4 degrees) in Capricorn before stationing retrograde at 5 degrees on Friday December 10 (6:05 a.m.). Oooh, boy.

For those unaware of the current lock-step manoeuvres of the Global Governors and their corporate partners, holiday air travellers in the United States are in for a real treat (a dried-up, store-bought fruitcake sort of treat) with the choice of either a privacy-invading, rights-stomping, irradiating full body scan or a privacy-invading, rights-stomping, verging on sexual assault full body pat-down at airports across the country.

Stevie Harper and his government, always in complete compliance with the Obamanation, have also spent 11 million taxpayer dollars on 44 of these hideous things in order to outfit all major airports in Canada - Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Halifax. This goes along with the 317 scanners installed at 65 airports across the United States.

Just as Toronto police quietly slid LRADs into mainstream policing tactics via the G20 Summit this past cardinal t-square-infused summer, Canadian airports are now sliding these rights-violating American "security" protocols in, and the sovereignty of our country continues to be eroded under the North American Union-loving types people erroneously call our leaders.

In Canada, though, only passengers bound for the United States have to go through the scanners or have a pat down and only if they have been chosen for a secondary security screening.

Nonetheless, airports are places where a bunch of multi-dimensional hi jinx goes down, where energetic vigilance is always necessary, and this makes things quite dicey, especially for those with highly sensitive systems. Let's just say there is more to these scans than meets the eye and more going on than is apparent on the physical level.

After Mercury stations retrograde December 10, it moves back to conjunct Pluto yet again, and we experience a triple conjunction of Mercury, Mars and Pluto at 4 degrees Capricorn on December 13, two degrees from the North Node. The top-down, integrated police state manoeuvres (Pluto in Capricorn) involving state intrusion on people's bodies (Mars) while travelling (Mercury) is an unfortunately textbook mix for these astro energies. If people are unable to apply a little of that Plutonic X-ray vision and awareness for themselves here as they are unceremoniously stripped of yet more personal privacy and liberty, the slide down the slippery slope continues.

It's quite interesting to follow the Plutonic roots and see who is financially benefiting from these scanners.

Michael Chertoff, former secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and co-author of the United States Patriot Act, was the vociferous member of government calling in mainstream media for these scanners at airports across the land. It turns out Chertoff's security consulting agency, The Chertoff Group, counts Rapiscan - the company that manufactures the scanners with quite a fitting name - among its clients.

This is along the lines of former Monsanto executive Michael Taylor being appointed to a high level position with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The cross-overs between business and government have gotten the point where they are, in actuality, completely Plutonically fuzed.

So don't expect the Mercurial function to be zipping along for the next couple months. We entered the retrograde shadow November 22 at 19 degrees Sagittarius, and things have already started going haywire. Expect glitches, weighty delays, time lags, very tight and pressurized communication. A lot of patience is going to be required.

We're being kept on point here in no uncertain terms and challenged to be direct, honest and on-topic.

Just as Mercury enters Capricorn, it sextiles Venus (December 1) which has just re-entered Scorpio. No one is in the mood for any crap, and those skimming by as bullshit artists can be easily unmasked under these aspects.

Venus is heading through Scorpio until January 7, and we're moving forward in relationship stripped clean of detrimental old emotional attractions and etheric connections, puncturing wounding illusions and dissipating the Neptunian way of falling for potential over reality. If any of this tail-end Piscean era stuff is clinging to your pant leg and trying to hook you back in with Venus direct, just stay with it, stay focused and keep calmly removing it and re-directing as Venus traverses Scorpio. The Venus square to Neptune-Chiron in Aquarius and trine to Jupiter-Uranus in Pisces on the January 4 Capricorn New Moon/partial lunar eclipse is the big status report that will show us just how far we've come, so long as we've done the work (Saturn in Libra).

As always with Mercury retro, there is a rewiring going on that needs its sweet time to be completed. Conjunct Pluto, it is happening in light of ever-growing collective awareness of the core Pluto in Capricorn realities unfolding on our planet and of our own personal paths through it.

There is a stripping down of mental function, communication and transit to bare necessity. The ongoing requirement for the purging and purifying of our mental environments and communication habits gets serious here. We're heading right into the heart of the Pluto in Capricorn corpo-governmental beast, and we need our mental environments to be as clear of nefarious influences as possible as we go.

Ceres and Pluto in the Headlines: You Only Want Me For My Potash

Corporate consolidation (Pluto) in the agricultural sector (Ceres) continues at warp speed, and the race is on as the North Node in Capricorn exactly conjuncts Pluto, something that happens only every 17 years or longer. This Pluto-North Node conjunction in early Capricorn is creating a potent channel with the potential for major strategic progress toward long-term goals - both personally and collectively/globally.

As always, there are different ways to work with the prevailing astrological conditions, depending who you are and what you're doing with your time on this planet. With Pluto involved, the energies go to extremes.

Some of the Plutonic progress made here will be for the broadest, 'seven generations' type of good as far as unearthing core truths and realities, increasing awareness and empowerment, and working to extricate and liberate us from hell scenarios being purposefully triggered and unleashed on our planet. Using newly sharpened cataytic awareness of underlying energetic realities and newly unearthed Plutonic understanding and connections to shed the influence of pyramid-scheme hierarchical misery and suffering, driving ourselves forward in the spaces between those constructions.

With Pluto being the ruler of Hades, though, this channel will also be used in an attempt to further the goals of evil and cruelty on this planet. Here's where the Global Governors and their millions of minions come into play, jockeying for position to be current-day rulers of Hades, it seems.

This conjunction was exact November 9 after both Pluto and the North Node conjuncted Ceres, the Goddess asteroid related to grains, cereals and the fertility of the Earth. Purposefully-created worldwide food shortages, inflation on the price of food fuelling diabolical derivatives schemes, profiting from the starvation of the people, corporate GMO power grabs, criminalizing independently grown foods and natural supplements, raids on independent farmers - these are the Ceres-Pluto headlines, all aspects of the corporate move on food that has been slowly building.

Now is a quickening. Control the food; control the people.

But the corporate free-for-all climate seems to be taking a turn along the North Node path...

The Canadian government blocked the initial attempt at a hostile takeover of Saskatchewan's PotashCorp - the world's largest producer of potash - by Australian company BHP Billiton. Billiton was given until December 3 to come back with a sweeter deal but withdrew its bid instead. BHP Billiton controls potash interests, the rarest component in fertilizer, around the world and has a finger in many pies as the world's largest diversified resources group.

The idea of my home province, agrarian Saskatchewan, losing control of its potash industry turns my stomach. This turn of events doesn't mean the industry is now safe - the Canadian government seems to be open to more lucrative foreign offers - but this block is still good news for the people of Saskatchewan and for Canada. It's also a somewhat surprising move coming from Stephen Harper's Conservative government - especially as Harper returns from the latest G20 meeting of Global Governors in Seoul, Korea, this weekend.

This decision comes as Canadian fertilizer maker Agrium is bidding $1.1 billion to take over the Australian Wheat Board and has the Australian government crying foul along free trade lines.

The chair of the Australian Parliament's foreign affairs committee, Michael Danby, said in Canadian media, "I think you can’t selectively be a member of the World Trade Organization....Either you believe in free trade or you don’t."

Danby also said this type of protectionism shows a tightening of international markets that replicates the conditions of the Great Depression.

Let's recall that we are heading into a series of squares between Uranus in Aries and Pluto in Capricorn - in effect now, but becoming exact seven times between June 2012 and March 2015. The last time Uranus squared Pluto, Uranus was also in Aries, but Pluto was in Cancer. Those squares were exact between April 1932 and January 1934 - right in the thick of the Great Depression. The stock market crash happened in 1929, three years before the first exact square, and the current (ongoing) economic collapse was triggered as Pluto entered Capricorn in 2008.

One of the reasons given for the block of the takeover was trends showing that potash prices are going to rise - making BHP Billiton's bid of $40 billion too low. Who would have thought sleepy little Saskatchewan would find itself with some of the hottest stocks on the market?

Potash is one of three key components in fertilizer (along with nitrogen and phosphate) and is the rarest component by far, with only 13 significant producers around the world. There's that Lucky 13 again.

Consolidated corporate control of fertilizer goes in lock-step with control of the seed supply, as the Big Six (DuPont, BASF, Monsanto, Syngenta, Bayer and Dow) rush to patent their "climate-ready" seeds, designed to grow in poor conditions, with less fertilizer. Hmm...

As manufactured weather crises create the conditions for grand-scale food shortages (as they have this past cardinal t-square summer), the corporate GMO-shleppers are going to be right there with their climate-ready seeds. Rising input costs is one of the major factors driving independent farmers out of business, and as the price of fertilizer rises (with supplies being consolidated in the hands of very few world players), there will be yet more pressure to use these GMO seeds.

But here we've got a big, uncharacteristic block from Stevie H, and it's not all friendly good times in the Global Governor/CEO clubhouse.

The feeding frenzy of hostile takeovers, mergers and strategic manoevres finds corporations swallowing each other (and government-owned resources) whole, and there is increasing viciousness in the ranks. Friend turns to foe in the blink of an eye under these types of transits, which will only be fuelled by the wildcard energy of Uranus in Aries beginning this March.

We're dealing with Capricorn here, and in general, these are slow and gradual movements, building over time. Big strategic moves are being made under this aspect and this web bot-alerted tipping point time - mostly in setting up new relationships (Saturn in Libra) as Obama and his cast of characters troll Asia under a deadly and symbolically erupting Mount Merapi.

The exact meaning of these strategic manoevres and relationships is Plutonically obscured. There is a delicate balance that the Global Governors need to manage and maintain - and they're keenly aware of this fact. They can't move too fast or get too power-hungry or they will trigger a revolt that reaches into the lives of even the most blissfully unaware Hockey/Soccer Moms and Doting, Dutiful Dads.

The North Node moves into Sagittarius March 3, and the conjunction to Pluto is strong into Spring Equinox 2011.

Pluto Conjunct the North Node with Ceres in the Mix and Food as Ammo

The North Node and Pluto are conjunct at 3 degrees Capricorn. 

It's Remembrance Day in Canada - the day we remember the war dead in ceremonies and with a moment of silence at 11:00 a.m. The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, observed to recall the end of World War I on this date in 1918. The words, "Never again," pass through many lips on this day. 

 But in actual fact, the war is still going on, still smouldering. Though most don't see it, the war never really ended. And this marks a fitting day to become more fully aware of just how the war has changed, is changing, right before our eyes so that we can we can peacefully disengage. 

With Pluto and the North Node together in early Capricorn, our necessary soul's path forward leads us right into the thick of it, into previously obscured battlefields. Ceres, the asteroid related to grains, cereals and the fertility of the Earth, is strongly involved here, having conjuncted both Pluto and the North Node over the past month and still within five degrees of their conjunction. 

We can see quite clearly, with Ceres and Pluto so intertwined, how the chemical warfare that has been brought down so horrendously on human beings in the past - in these wars we are remembering this November 11th - has Plutonically morphed, gone into the soil and embedded in the nourishing Ceres domain. 

Corporations once involved (and still involved) in acts against life on this planet are now clamouring to control our food supply. 

A group of six chemical corporations (DuPont, BASF, Monsanto, Syngenta, Bayer and Dow) and their biotech partners (Mendel Biotechnology and Evogene) are working to create a stranglehold on the world's seed supply with their genetically modified versions, implanted with foreign genetic material of many varieties. 

The most recent strategic move on this front has found these corporations stockpiling patents on "climate-ready" crops - genetically designed and marketed by them just for these "End Times," y'all! 

As nature and the weather are purposefully manipulated to create natural food shortages through floods, heat waves, hail storms, droughts and pest outbreaks (fuelling derivatives schemes), these companies are going to swoop in and save the world with their magical GMO seeds that will grow in even the crappiest of conditions! No rain? No fertilizer? Soil is the shits? No problem! Under this dystopic plan, the natural fertility of the Earth is destroyed (Ceres-Pluto), and only complete reliance on these corporate GMOs will save us from starvation. 

These chemical corporations that would like us to be dependent on them for our food supply are war criminals (corporations are people, right?), guilty of committing heinous crimes against humanity - crimes that now continue with the manipulation and corruption of our DNA through pollution of food, medicine and environment. 

Monsanto produced chlorine and mustard gases used in the trenches in World War I and is the company that brought us Agent Orange, a defoliant used to strip trees of their leaves during the Vietnam War. Agent Orange is highly toxic, carcinogenic and killed or debilitated hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese people and Vietnam veterans, as well as causing widespread genetic damage and birth defects. The depleted uranium of the 1960s and 70s. Also among Monsanto's list of improvements to the human condition are saccharin, DDT, PCBs, bovine growth hormones and Aspartame. 

Those who read this blog regularly will recall that Bayer is the maker of the fluoroquinolone antibiotic Cipro, designed to ward off anthrax, prescribed to me for a mild urinary tract infection last December. This drug poisoned my entire system and caused debilitating side effects from which I am still recovering. Cipro has been repurposed as a cure-all post-anthrax scare and is prescribed widely by doctors in North America for minor infections. 

The side effects are kept from the public and from most doctors, who are not aware or do not believe these types of side effects are possible. 

Bayer was part of the Nazi chemical and pharmaceuticals conglomerate IG Farben, along with BASF - another German chemical company trying everything to get into our refrigerators and pantries. IG Farben was the only company in the Third Reich that actually ran its own concentration camp. It bought and used human guinea pigs to test its drugs and manufactured the deadly pesticide Zyklon B, which was used in the gas chambers. 

DuPont is a corporation now in the chemicals and plastics game but started off manufacturing gunpowder, becoming the largest supplier to the U.S. military by the mid-19th century. DuPont was also a producer of plutonium and played a major role in the Manhattan Project and the creation of the atomic bomb. DuPont has been the key company behind the development of modern body armour, including the development of Kevlar which led to the bullet-proof vest, now prevalent in police and military units around the world. 

American chemical company Dow produced napalm and Agent Orange for the U.S. government during the Vietnam War. After public protests of napalm, all other companies making it stopped production, leaving good old Dow reaping the profits as the sole provider. Dow also managed a nuclear weapons production facility from 1951 to 1975 near Denver, Colorado called Rocky Flats Plant that was involved in multiple radioactive leaks and contamination fires. Thousands, probably tens of thousands, of plant workers have died or are sick from cancers caused by radiation exposure and most have had their compensation claims denied. Dow was ordered in 2008 to pay $925 million in damages to 12,000 homeowners who live downwind of the plant for plutonium contamination, but in September 2010, an appeals court threw out the award. Dow and the other company involved were indemnified by the U.S. government in the case, meaning taxpayers would have paid any judgment along with the companies' legal fees. 

Swiss-based Syngenta is the only company that calls itself an agribusiness company, focusing on the production of Frankenfoods entirely. 

Do these sound like the people who ought to be responsible for feeding the world? 

As Pluto and the North Node come together, post-conjunctions to Ceres, food truly is ammunition. None of the atrocities committed by these companies have been resolved in any way at this tail-end Piscean era. They have gained strength and power through war, poison and human suffering, and now they'd like to control the world seed supply. Fancy that. 

These moral giants, partnering with Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, are also donating royalty-free seeds to poor African farmers (corruption of the root). Take it from Indian farmers, Africa. Just say no. 

There aren't many companies that can say they are directly responsible for hundreds of thousands of farmer suicides - but Monsanto can! Over 200,000 farmers have committed suicide in India since 1997 and the introduction of patented GMO seeds. You see, those seeds that they're handing out free today cannot be saved from year to year - a common farming practice. These seeds have been engineered as "terminator seeds," which do not germinate for use in the next year. Even if the seeds did germinate, a farmer saving seeds like Monsanto's RoundUp Ready variety would quite easily be slapped with a patent infringement lawsuit. Even if you haven't saved the seeds, Monsanto will often willy nilly slap you with a lawsuit. Just ask hundreds of North American farmers who face ruination due to this corporation as it attempts to corner the market. Poor farmers who think they are getting a hell of a deal from Monsanto soon find that they are forced to buy these seeds from year-to-year. If they do not have the money to keep buying, they are out of business - not to mention the damage to the soil and waterways growing these GMOs does. 

To curb its critics, Monsanto has taken to hiring Blackwater mercenaries to spy on anti-GMO activists. You'll remember Blackwater as the group hired by the U.S. government that regularly opened fire on and murdered Iraqui civilians during the war there. From "Monsanto paid Blackwater (Xe) to spy on anti-GMO activists — The Nation":

"A spokesperson for Monsanto, reached by Scahill, first denied the relationship with Blackwater, but then admitted that Monsanto had paid Total Intelligence for intelligence reoprts

“… about the activities of groups or individuals that could pose a risk to company personnel or operations around the world which were developed by monitoring local media reports and other publicly available information. The subject matter ranged from information regarding terrorist incidents in Asia or kidnappings in Central America to scanning the content of activist blogs and websites.”"

The merger of police state/military industrial complex with corporate GMO food. Pluto-North Node-Ceres in Capricorn. 

Actively supporting the alternative to this chemical-ridden horror show has never been more important. There are many good sources of organic and non-GMO food available. Farmer's markets are populated by local farmers committed to producing good food. Yes, there are still good people out there. 

Who would have thought buying real food from a farmer's market or organic grocery would become a revolutionary act? But in this Pluto in Capricorn toxic corporate age, that's exactly what it is. 

Buying natural supplements is also one of those revolutionary acts as federal legislation attempts to crack down, forcing reliance on Big Pharma. Bill C-36 in the Canadian legislature is designed to impose drug-style restrictions on natural products, in effect, outlawing their sale and reducing their availability. 

The Canadian distributor NOW FOODS (a company whose products I use) was recently told by the federal Natural Health Products Directorate that 53 of their natural products had to be removed from shelves. 

Chipping away... 

Despite this top-down clamp-down, the alternatives are still out there - we just have to dig a little (Pluto) to get to them. Pluto shows us the ugly stuff so we have the necessary knowledge and will to drive to the alternative, to something better. 

Ceres is asking us to take a closer look at what truly nourishes us, including standing up for what's right. 

On October 19, just as Ceres and Pluto formed their conjunction, it was announced that, for the first time, Bayer CropScience had settled with three Texas rice farmers suing over the contamination of their rice crops by Bayer's genetically modified LibertyLink variety. 

The contamination by Bayer's GMO rice has caused more than 7,000 long-grain rice farmers in five U.S. states - Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas - to lose European markets, bringing export restrictions, bans on two kinds of high-yield seeds and a plunge in prices. The losses are in the billions of dollars, though, of course, you can't really put a price on this type of contamination. The farmers affected in the five U.S. states are currently suing Bayer over the contamination of their crops. Bayer has lost six previous trials brought by the farmers to the tune of $54 million. These initial trials were considered bellwether trials to test the waters for the remaining cases. Bayer is now challenging those decisions with appeals and post-trial motions. The Texas farmers were asking for relatively little compensation - $430,000 plus punitive damages. They settled for $290,000. A veritable bargain for Monsanto. 

So there are cracks forming around the edges - not least of which is the Big Six fighting and undermining each other as the greed and thirst for complete domination force them to attack each other. 

As I wrote earlier, the Pluto-North Node conjunction, last experienced in late Scorpio in February 1994, infuses our soul-driven path forward with the Plutonic impetus for excavation, increased awareness and transformation out of the deadened husks of previous modes of operation, both personally and collectively. 

With Pluto involved, there is an elimination necessary of one path over another. A reinvestment of energy and resources into the vital track driving us forward. This is true on many different fronts, but here, with Ceres involved, we can use the energy and impetus of this conjunction to eliminate corporate food from our lives to the best of our abilities, drawing from more fertile soil. We can use our buying power and the decisions about where we place our currency to support the vital alternatives wherever we can. 

The choices we make about the food we eat, the water we drink, the supplements we take, the products we purchase and how we live our lives are potent. They act like water running through those cracks, making them bigger. 

This is how we fight back without aggression - we fight for our health, our strength and our well-being. There is wiggle room here, though it's tight, and if we have the choice of something better, it's our revolutionary act - our duty, really! - to make that choice. 

Pluto-North Node-Moon Conjunction at 3 Capricorn, Soul Instructions and Crossing the Great Stream

Pluto, the North Node and the Moon come together today at 3 degrees Capricorn with Ceres closely involved at 9 degrees. The Moon conjuncts Pluto and the North Node almost simultaneously at 2:14 p.m. (CT). 

This conjunction is fascinating to me. Pluto-North Node conjunctions happen on average every 17 years, with quite wide variation possible. With Pluto involved, they can be seen as generational markers related to the broad, collective themes being Plutonically lived and worked on at that time - and that will continue to be lived and worked on by the babies being born during that Pluto generation. 

These are the Pluto-North Node conjunctions experienced on this planet over the past 100 years: 

November 9, 2010 at 3 degrees Capricorn 

February 22, 1994 at 28 degrees Scorpio 

Hallowe'en of 1977 at 15 degrees Libra 

December 31, 1960 at 8 degree Virgo 

November 28, 1943 at 8 degrees Leo 

August 25, 1926 at 15 degrees Cancer 

February 11, 1909 at 23 degrees Gemini 

Due to the timing, we skipped this conjunction during Pluto in Sagittarius. 

The next conjunction of the North Node and Pluto occurs November 15, 2027 at 4 degrees Aquarius. The one following that, the conjunction in Pisces, will not occur until July 4, 2062 at 25 degrees. 

As this conjunction infuses our soul-driven path forward with the Plutonic impetus for excavation, increased awareness and transformation out of the deadened husks of previous modes of operation, both personally and collectively, there is an elimination necessary of one path over another. Crossing the great stream. 

Along with the elimination of certain modes of being, there is a necessary reinvestment of energy and resources into the vital track driving us forward. There are some tough decisions to be made, but this is Capricorn we're talking about. It's pretty much the sign of tough decisions. 

This is a point from which we can consciously work to eliminate the Five Year Corpo-Governmental Plan from our lives and from our planet, redirecting our resources, realigning our decisions, and committing our personal buying power to building a vital track out of the corruption. Here, we can commit to a path out of the poisonous corpo-governmental stranglehold that has brought life on this planet to the brink and into more soul-sustaining, nourishing terrain. 

The Moon and Ceres being so strongly involved is highly significant as we rework the Cancer-Capricorn polarity and shift male-female and masculine-feminine power dynamics. There is a back-to-basics feel here, a simplicity, with the ability to choose what is nourishing emotionally, to body and soul, over what is profitable and possibly a rush in the short-term but ultimately destructive, damaging, traumatic. 

An interesting aspect with the Moon (mothering) involved so strongly is that, as we all get our Pluto in Capricorn-infused soul instructions, so do the babies born over the past two years who have natal Pluto in Capricorn. Hey, this is Capricorn. Of course, they're starting young! They're here to shift things along the Cancer-Capricorn polarity, including motherhood/parenthood and the family unit, so might as well start from the ground up. 

The Pluto in Capricorn babes on the planet currently are the vanguard - just as the early Pluto in Leo and Pluto in Virgos were who experienced the Pluto-North Node conjunction in their babyhood. The Plutonic generational intention is also being anchored here for the Pluto in Capricorn souls yet to come over the next 14 or so years. If you're planning a baby in the next 14 years, this is a point in time to connect with as far as understanding the broader soul intentions of those about to come to the planet. 

Pluto gets to a sign in the zodiac when to not bring the hidden issues to awareness, to not apply the Plutonic strip-down and gut-level transformation of the expression of that sign, would mean soul death, if not physical death, for humanity. High stakes we work with on this planet. In Capricorn - you guessed it - it has to do with the emerging collective awareness of the dirty dealings, corruption and increasing stranglehold of the consolidated corpo-governmental military industrial complex and related set-ups. 

Aligning properly with the broader Plutonic process in our own lives is kind of a big deal, and with this conjunction, we get a ripe window of time to do just that, following new soul instructions intuitively and practically out of the deadened, crystallized structures and forms that no longer sustain life. If the personal aligns with the transpersonal collective transformational momentum in just the right alchemical mix at this point, guided by the soul knowledge of each individual, there is huge progress possible out of the Pluto in Capricorn rubble. 

At the same time, heading right into the heart of the beast so as to understand what we're really dealing with takes a great deal of courage and commitment to delve deeper and go further - hell, to even keep going at all, at times. Those who do not have the best interests of humanity at heart will also be using this portal to advance strategic goals. 

Let's recall that we are heading to a series of seven exact squares of Uranus in Aries to Pluto in Capricorn (June 2012 - March 2015). The last time Uranus in Aries was in a series of squares with Pluto (five) was 1932 to 1934 when Pluto was in Cancer - the Great Depression, the rise of the Third Reich and the lead up to World War II. This is not to say history will repeat (though they're trying), but unfinished business from the Pluto in Cancer generation is definitely being kicked up with Pluto transiting the opposite sign and squaring Uranus. 

Suffice it to say we are having to master our deepest fears on multiple fronts. We're at a reckoning point as far as where we find ourselves on this planet - on the precipice and at a vantage point that is both spiritually soaring, wondrous, electrifying and inspiring as well as emotionally, psychologically and physically devastating, horrifying. These are the Plutonic extremes. 

In order to reach the wondrous spiritual heights, we must have the roots, we must be adept with the spiritual depths in the most difficult aspects of human experience on this planet. 

As we hurtle through this portal and start to gain momentum, the other planets are going direct like dominoes. We're pulling up old anchors one-by-one as Neptune, Chiron, Venus, Jupiter and Uranus all station direct by December 5. 

December 5 to January 25, 2011 is a time when all planets, excluding Mercury, are direct and many wheels start to turn ahead of Uranus re-entering Aries March 11 and a huge push forward into new territory at Spring Equinox. 

We need a running start into that time in order to launch ourselves beyond the entrapping tail-end Piscean Age tendrils and the nasty uses of Pluto in Capricorn energy - to truly cross the great stream - and that running start begins now with the initial steps. The South Node is in Cancer. Things are not as they were. It's all a bit foreign and hard on us emotionally. All we can do is align ourselves with what is coming into existence, carving out our path step-by-step, responsibly, and with laser-like soul-guided precision to get there.

Pluto Conjunct the North Node in Capricorn and Heading Right Into the Heart of the Beast

Ceres, Pluto and the North Node are conjunct in early Capricorn, with Ceres just out in front. Pluto and the North Node come together exactly November 9, and our soul's path forward, the path leading us where we need to go collectively and personally, is driving us right through the heart of the corruption, terror and misery being purposefully inflicted on humankind. We have to see it if we are to change it, every last grasping tentacle.

There is a macabre puppet show going on at this tail-end astrological Piscean era and a sickening global ritual sacrifice of the most symbolic Piscean variety, with those at the top of a corpo-governmental oligarch stealing and manipulating energy, especially spiritual energy. There is attempt after attempt to break what is true and honourable as an offering to all that is sick, corrupted, demented. A grandscale attempt at the bending and turning away of the pure and true from its actual meaning and purpose, harnessing it to create abomination of surreal proportion. With human beings, animal and plant life and the balance of nature simply collateral damage on the way to these end goals.

The Presidents and CEOs are just the middle managers, of course, taking orders from much further up the pyramid scheme chain of command.

As are the New Age leaders - both open and covert - at all levels of that hierarchical ladder, locking their hapless followers in, though most don't recognize the game.

And we have absolutely bleak world headlines showcasing their handiwork.

We're in an era of HAARP-induced weather wars and frequency-induced energy wars, where dirty deeds and horrifying attacks can be committed under the radar, with an angry Mother Nature as convenient patsy.

These are absolutely heinous abuses of energy and of natural law. Atlantis Lite run amok...yet again. Turning our most basic and vital connections to the energies of the Earth against us.

A cholera outbreak has killed 300 Haitians, among the 1.3 million still displaced and desperate for assistance after the January 12 earthquake that toppled houses, businesses and infrastructure. Health officials are worried the cholera may settle in, along with tuberculosis and malaria. And the outpouring of international aid lines official pockets.

The Haitians are people who sought freedom from their enslaving French and British oppressors, no matter how deep the financial debt it would require to pay off the slavemasters and no matter how devastating the trade bans enforced against them. That set of priorities, that energetic precedent, is dangerous to those powers trying to drive the entry into Aquarius their way - away from freedom. As is the depth of soul and spiritual connection that would spur and sustain such a move out of the shackles of slavery.

Seven million remain homeless in Pakistan after the catastrophic floods in July that damaged almost two million homes and destroyed crops on a massive scale in that nation's breadbasket. Here's another deep, spiritual tradition, the strength of which you can see in the calm and peaceful faces of Pakistanis who find themselves in terrifyingly uncertain circumstances.

And in Indonesia, a 7.5 magnitude earthquake was followed by a tsunami and then a volcanic eruption at Mount Merapi in Java Tuesday. All three disasters hit within 24 hours, killing at least 300 with 400 more missing and tens of thousands displaced. This follows the December 2004 tsunami off Sumatra that killed 226,000 people.

Indonesia is another country that holds old, spiritual knowledge, wisdom and traditions - the type that certain forces would not want being carried over from Pisces to Aquarius.

It's being reported that likely among the dead is the elderly spiritual guardian of Mount Merapi, Mbah Maridjan, believed by many Javanese to possess magical powers. Maridjan was the volcano's "widely-loved custodian," regarded as a protector who used a combination of Islamic and animist rituals to keep Merapi under control.

And in Canada's North, yet another fairly pristine and untouched area where traditional people hold an energy close to the Earth, British Petroleum and Imperial Oil (parent company to ExxonMobil, by the way) are attempting to woo the northerners into opening the Beaufort Sea to offshore oil exploration and drilling.

Yes, as the horrifying disaster continues in the Gulf of Mexico, all under media blackout, these companies held a public meeting Monday night in Inuvik, Northwest Territories to pitch their case.

Two companies that should have been liquidated to compensate people in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico are still, in this Pluto in Capricorn Age, open for business and intent on spreading their devastation even further. Not happy leaving even one vein unspiked...

There are still so few, relatively, who can or will connect the dots. So few who are willing to go all the way, to see right to the root, to truly peel away the false idols and shimmering Neptunian mirages.

But that Scorpio stellium is still working away. Mars on the anaretic degree, about to enter Sagittarius early tomorrow morning. The Sun, Mercury, Venus retrograde and Vesta. And the North Node conjunct Pluto and Ceres. The truth is getting harder to deny...

Ceres and Pluto and this Fall's Venus Retrograde in Scorpio

The Moon is now just past full in Scorpio and acts as an emotional indicator of what shape we're in heading into next October/November's Venus retrograde in Scorpio.

This Full Moon as precursor brings to light any issues related to our pasts that need addressing: relationship dynamics, etheric attachments that need to be discontinued, crystallized emotional reactions, triggers and habits, and stultifying conditioning that need to be dealt with.

At this Full Moon, these things are ripe for release, and we shed what we can now. Anything we deal with at this point lightens the load on the upcoming Venus retrograde (October 8 - November 18, 2010) and puts us in much better position to use those energies consciously and proactively, instead of receiving the unpleasant Scorpionic burns that force us into conscious action.

A really interesting thing about this Scorpio Full Moon chart, and the subject of this post, is the just-about-exact conjunction of Ceres and Pluto, two bodies that really mean business - especially in the sign of business, Capricorn! Oh, I'm so funny.

Ceres has been making the steely-eyed run up to this guy for a while and is currently at 4 degrees Capricorn, less than one degree from Pluto Rx at 5 degrees. Now, less than a single degree from full contact, she turns retrograde - just hours after the Full Moon in Scorpio. Mmm-hmm.

It's not time. Not just yet, Ceres says. We've got a whole lot of working things out to do before we can actually meet face-to-face and not tear this little planet to shreds in the process.

Mythologically, these two have a long and brutal history between them. Serious Scorp stuff. Going to the mat, hitting where it hurts most, dragging you to hell and back, destroying every single thing you love, rageful, wrathful stuff.

Ceres is pissed. The feminine force (represented by the asteroids) is pissed. And Pluto, well that dude was born pissed. There is brutal hurt here. And the only sign that could possibly contain this complexity of history and emotion and transmute that sort of anger and anguish into something beneficial for all involved is Scorpio.

And guess what? The final show-down, when Ceres and Pluto do finally meet face-to-face in conjunction, happens during the Venus retrograde in Scorpio this fall. You have to love astrology. You just have to.


I'm not a big mythology buff by any stretch. I just work with the very basics in order to understand the astrological energies, so here are the basics of the Ceres-Pluto history so as to understand the dynamics at play:

Pluto, Lord of the Underworld, kidnapped Ceres' (also known as Demeter) daughter Persephone and hauled her off to his dark and twisted underworld to be his Queen.

Ceres is the quintessential Earth Mother, Goddess of plants, especially grains/cereals, the seasons, the harvest and the fertility of the Earth, in general.

When Ceres realized her daughter had been abducted and dragged off to the underworld, she became so depressed, so full of rage and anguish, that she made the cold and the dark descend on the planet, and nothing would grow. Literally, she had the power to destroy life on Earth, and this Mama in anguish for her kidnapped child did just that.

There are a few different versions about how this stalemate between Pluto and Ceres was finally brought to a head and solved.

In one, things got so dire on the planet with the cold and dark and nothing growing that Zeus, King of the Gods, forced Pluto to return Persephone, sending Hermes to retrieve her. Unfortunately, Persephone had eaten some pomegranate seeds while chilling in the underground, and eating any food while you were down there meant you were forced to stay, at least for a portion of the year. Based on the number of seeds she ate, Persephone had to return to the underworld for four months of every year - corresponding with the winter season.

In another version, Hecate, Goddess of magic, witchcraft, childbirth, lunar lore, ghosts, crossroads, gates and walls - a dark feminine figure herself and one brave and wise enough to deal with the underworld - rescued Persephone and brought her back to the land of the living.

And in still another (a version I've personally favoured), Persephone got herself out of there after coming to fully understand the power dynamics going on and realizing if she took action and wiggled and exerted herself in the right ways (properly used her masculine force), she could break her own chains to the underworld and get free. Possibly wishful thinking from a Ceres-Pluto square person with a Scorpio stellium, but I like it.

Regardless of how Persephone was returned, there is definitely some unfinished business between Pluto and Ceres. Ahem. Don't we know it?

This is the subtext of our relations and of the events going on between now and the end of the year. There is a lot of dark emotion being stirred, very ancient. A lot of old wounds being triggered and old distrust. All the aspects of human emotional and relational existence that most people prefer to deny exist, especially relating to the feminine and its historical abuses.

It's interesting that Ceres, when it was discovered in 1801, was classified as the 8th planet. After about 50 years, it was reclassified as an asteroid.

And in 2006, both Pluto and Ceres were reclassified as dwarf planets.

So the playing field has been levelled by this dual reclassification, and now the masculine (Pluto) and the feminine (Ceres) can finally get down to brass tacks. Under these conditons and with a lot of strategic effort, they can come up with a balanced, working partnership with which they can both be satisfied. Or die trying. heh

Really, we're at the brink of destruction on this planet with a hog-tied feminine and a masculine running amok. We're hanging on by a thread, and so we're reminded: the entry points for integration of the feminine are at those points where change can no longer be resisted. That's most points, these days, but successful integration still requires great skill.

Venus in Scorpio relates to, among other things, unequal power dynamics in relationship, domination/subjugation, emotional poisoning, abuse and the hell that unequal relationships put people through.

But it also relates to the deepest, closest, most soul-satisfying and fulfilling of relationships. A true mutually beneficial merger of energy and resources and the creation of a force that can do exponentially more together than it could apart.

There is the potential with this fall's Venus in Scorpio retrograde to clear the way for relationship mergers of that beneficial, soul-deep variety, but only if we clear the distorting detritus and histories that would keep us from that first.

The Ceres-Pluto conjunction this October happens in tight conjunction to the North Node in Capricorn, as well, so the path we're carving out post-Pluto-ingressing-Capricorn-destruction-and-collapse is infused with the energy of this conjunction of feminine and masculine. Committing to concretely addressing the imbalances within all structural set-ups as we go forward. The North Node conjuncts Ceres first, followed by Pluto. The feminine comes out in front...

I love that the asteroids are playing such a strong role in the skies these days. They probably always were, but they're making themselves known with greater force. To me, this represents the feminine stepping up, coming to the decision-making table, making herself heard. She's not screaming or wailing (though she sure feels like it at times, and who could blame her?). She's composed, strong, speaking her wisdom firmly and in measured tones, in such practical, common sensical ways that no one can dispute it. This increases the odds greatly of real influence and integration.

The asteroid Goddesses are also sick and tired of Venus getting all the play - especially when Venus is prone to jealousy, vengefulness, vanity and female back-stabbing and game-playing, all while getting credit for nothing but love and beauty and fanciful delights.

So Ceres (on behalf of the other feminine asteroids) and Venus have a little unfinished business of their own to deal with this fall, but I'm sure with a little effort, they can come away with their own mutually beneficial agreement.

Pallas, transitting Scorpio until early October 2010, also has some things to say on the "bullshitty feminine/masculine dynamics" front. Pallas is the asteroid related to female warrior and truth-teller energy, and in Scorpio, it's not afraid to strike right at the root of the matter.

Meeting Pallas in strip-the-facade-and-get-real Scorpio would more than likely be too much for lovely Venus to bear on top of all that Ceres-Pluto tension, and luckily, Pallas enters Sagittarius before Venus' retrograde in Scorpio. The sign of Scorpio will be ringing with Pallas' blazing trail of truth, though, so there will certainly be no denying the things that need work during Venus' retrograde.

As has been said a million times before, women/the feminine is far more multi-dimensional and diverse than just the loving and pleasing mate (Venus), the mothering nurturer (Moon), or the vindictive, vixen/seductress version of the dark feminine.

The strengthening of position of the feminine asteroids, to me, indicates the unfolding of the true feminine force, in all its glory and all its ugliness - or at least, the potential for that. It's all in how we apply it, of course. Do we have the courage to be honest here and really unfold with integrity and authenticity or do we stay safe (and stuck) in the old, one-dimensional societal feminine constructs, playing the same games and roles and falling into the same traps? Echoes of the 1960s again.

Ceres is the largest asteroid by far, and her power is a suitable match for Pluto. Equal power dynamics is what we're after, and this grand Earth Mama leads the way for the rest of the feminine forces.

She's got back-up, though, as she takes a retrograde breather until August 8 and then goes direct, heading to that October 19 meeting with dear, old Pluto. The feminine forces are with her on this one every step of the way.

At the same time, the feminine is working at a bit of a disadvantage because so much of its previous work and influence have been unrecognized and therefore, unassisted, left to wither on the vine or use huge energy reserves fighting for bare survival.

Again, just as with Black Moon Lilith energy, with due care and attention, we can help the feminine do what needs to be done in our own lives, and doing that is the gift we have to offer these Goddesses. They'll gladly accept.