| Eyes of the Cat By the blue tiled walls near the market stalls
There's a hidden door she leads you to... The fixed fire sign and the season of what some traditions call Midsummer (or Lammas, the Second Planting) has arrived with grand and dramatic style. These last days of July 2002 also come with an odd and potentially uncomfortable split between Cancer and Leo -- Jupiter is void-of-course (which means it's now at the end of its run in its current sign, and not making any more aspects to major planets till it arrives in the next sign) and does not get to Leo for a few more days. Yet other planets are arranged in a fiery locomotive pattern with the Sun -- Vesta, Mars and Mercury, stirring things up. Everything seems to be a really big deal, the whirlwind has turned a new color or two, the stock market is doing goofballs (or is it espresso and Prozac), an asteroid is heading kind of near the Earth, corporate America has hired models to pose as CEOs being carted off in handcuffs, the fifth congressman in US history was booted -- they are a spiritually pure lot -- and, for sure, Dubya's stock traders are buying a lot of issues at today's fabulous discount prices. People who know the stock market know, you buy when it's low and sell when it's high. Cross your heart. There is, at the same time, a measure of security and confidence lacking in the inner picture, but a stiff wind is about to come out of the south. My hunch is that Jupiter moving into Leo (for the first time in a dozen years) promises that a whole lot of people are going to feel a whole lot better, and soon. I have faith. Leo possesses a substance of energy, a kind of solid light lacking in every other sign, and we are very literally made of starlight, our bodies and our minds. But our relationship to light often eludes us. We need contrast, which is a mix of dark and light, to see at all. Often, we get stuck looking into the shadows. But cats, you know, they can see in very dim light. And most of what they see is movement. And now, a message from Chiron in Capricorn Within a few weeks around when 2001 became 2002, an astrological event paralleled a mundane event -- the Enron story broke, and Chiron entered Capricorn. Capricorn, say the ancients, is the sign of government, honor, office and admiralty, hence the astrological energy field also associated in modern times with corporations, career and reputation. Chiron is about awareness. Where Chiron goes, we need to bring awareness. The wounding, for most practical purposes, is ignorance; the healing, also speaking practically, is consciousness. Whatever else healing may involve, it always involves becoming more aware. When you think of Chiron in Capricorn, imagine a bright light shining down those dark corridors of power in the corporate/government world. We are learning a butt load, are we not? Most people don't think the Enron story is funny, but I got a good laugh out of the report that the company maintained a fake trading floor to impress visitors with how diligently securities were traded; this illusion being designed to persuade analysts to give Enron stock a stronger rating. Honest-to-god scammers, or what? More recently, it's been disclosed that in complicated energy deals with Citigroup (whose flagging stock is an albatross around the neck of the Dow), no energy was actually sold. Enron was fundamentally a front operation for Citigroup to move cash elsewhere, reporting it not as loans to a loser, but rather as purchases of a commodity. By March, the Hunt the Boeing link was becoming the biggest hit on the Internet; this friendly little project suggested rather suggestively that there was no airplane crash at the Pentagon. Wacky stuff, but what the heck -- there was no airplane wreckage, and there was no fuel event associated with the crash of a fully-loaded airliner. Shortly thereafter, US Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) called for a federal investigation into Dubya's early knowledge of the terrorist attacks. Downright strange, but by May, the story was out of control, making the cover of Time and Newsweek, and pretty much everyone got it; Bush knew or should have known. To cover this up, more bogus terrorist warnings were issued by the White House and the Bush Knew story fizzed out. But Worldcom to the rescue! The nation's biggest bankruptcy soon became the nation's second biggest bankruptcy, with a new $5 billion accounting scam included. The first, of course, was Arthur Anderson, Enron's auditing house, which shredded and deleted documents. Meanwhihle, we keep hearing over and over of Bush and Cheney ties to aspects of these scandals. This is a very interesting sequence of events, do we agree? And everything so blurred together, kind of like it's all one big thing happening, one distinct moment in history. Remember way back when all we heard about was Monica Lewinsky for an entire year. A lot of energy has blown through, and continues to do so. Saturn has passed through the unbending rays of Pluto (the Saturn-Pluto opposition). Rare eclipses have shaken our reality. Time is compressing, or our perception of time is doing so, and time is perception. Months seem like weeks, at times, days seem like hours. Through it all, we've experienced the first months of Chiron in Capricorn, what I propose we can accurately call The Great Exposé. And though many look, few choose to see. I have spoken so far of the events of the exoteric world, the outer environment, which have been set before a backdrop of nonstop war in the Middle East and Afghanistan, wildfires through the American West, floods and a variety of other events that can be rightfully summed up as Earth changes. And all of this, set against the scene of a stolen presidential election, sometimes called a bloodless coup. The spiritually inclined, many among our readers here, might say: ah, but these are the events of the outer world; these are merely illusions. But we might also say, this is what we have made of our world, or what has been done to our world, or at the least, this is the world in which we live. Is that a meaningful reflection? Can we actually consider these events and persuade ourselves that they have nothing whatever to do with us? Or have we denied many things for a long, long time? And okay, what if it's all an illusion? Why are we hallucinating this particular trip? What is it that we need to become aware of? I'll be back with a horoscope next week. |
