Buried Bondage

THIS IS AN EXTREMELY INTENST MONTH, a gateway to very intense times for years to come. Anxiety at every level, personal and collective, is skyrocketing. All month, except for the last two days, all four Mutable Signs have planets in them thereby forming a Grand Cross. These are karma burners in which you feel oh so stuck and then try oh so hard to get unstuck which only double binds you deeper into stuckness. When you realize your own consciousness, you realize that you weren't stuck in the first place and the stories and karmas melt of their own unrealness. If you identify in the mind, higher or lower, you only embed deeper into the software of suffering while you think that change and power have eliminated your suffering... and then... surprise!

All the shadow of power, material and spiritual, is now coming up like magma. All the anxiety covered by transcendence and denial is erupting. Saturn goes into Virgo 9/2 at 6:49 am PDT. Saturn stays in a Sign for about two and a half years. It's a noticeable weather change whenever it happens to shift Signs. Virgo is the poster child for worry and anxiety and the service/servile patterns that those unresolved feelings generate. You don't have to do good to redeem your existential bad. You are not bad and you don't have to good your way out of things. If you stay in that loop, it's going to get ugly. The do gooding will beget rather bad results, until you wake up in the pattern and just simply do what you want to do. Unshould! Unshoulder!

Pluto goes direct on 9/7 at 7:54 pm PDT. Venus goes direct 9/8 at 9:13 am PDT. New Moon Solar Eclipse on 9/11 is at 5:44 am PDT. Interesting astrologies have been landing on the 9/11 anniversaries for years. Mars opposes Pluto while Venus opposes Neptune on 9/21. That's interesting in that Venus and Mars will be opposing the planets that are their higher octaves. 'Tis an excellent time to get perspective. The Sun enters Libra for the Equinox on 8/23 at 2:52 am PDT. Full Moon 8/24 at 12:45 pm PDT. Mars enters Cancer 8/28 at 4:54 pm PDT.

All of the above adds up to lots of changes while simultaneously the Grand Cross makes you feel like nothing is changing. That's the mind for ya. It's got ya coming and going. You can turn off the software by direct intention if you claim your own consciousness. If you don't, you will be pinged and ponged by all the different rackets in the Game spiritually and materially. All the action/reaction noise is at full blast from here on. Every action while identifying unconsciously in the projections will lead to big reaction, which in turn will inspire more action and... the knot thickens. Any and all effort will get you more and more tired while feeling more and more trapped. The sense that there is no way out will be inflamed. Transcendence will appear to be the only way out and that will be the very way that the noose will tighten. The Good News will be the bad noose. You will not be able to think, will, pray, change, hope, love or magic your way out of this baseline dilemma. That's the very point of this time. You can see that change only maintains the software that creates suffering in the first place. You can try to halt change by going to the cave, or suicide or ascension or what has you, but none of it will work and that will be more and more apparent and the desperation will deepen and create all manner of madness. The world is always like that, but now it will be evident. You won't know what to do and what you do won't work. Then what...? Except there won't be much what or then. There'll just be the existential realization that you are caught in a looping dream. You can intend beyond this double binded system. I can help you with that if you are interested. Contact me for a session if you are hearing what I am saying.

Bondage will be a major theme for some years. Folks are getting very tired of wage slavery and consumption slavery. People are sick and tired of the bondage of love and all it's stories. (I'm about 75 pages into the writing of my book about love, by the way.) Even Hilary and Barack represent the battle of two bondages, sexism and racism. The general feeling is that you can't get anything to quite work out. That's the way it always feels but now it will be screamingly obvious. Very onerous, taxing areas of life like education and health care will be seen as broken and unfixable. All the money that's thrown at education has little to do with education and much to do with propaganda and conditioning. America throws more money at health care and gets little out of it but more costs and poor health. Health care obviously has little to do with health or care and has a whole lot to do with profits for the big boys who make the big noise. The defense department doesn't defend us in any way. It's been the offense department for tooooooo long. All social issues are in crisis. Big waves of collapse are imminent. What we have been doing is not working for the people. It has been working for the profiteers. If the spell of depression, which is American culture, ever pops, a remarkable number of people are going to be very angry. I say let it out. Say what you want and don't want. Your voice does have effect. Expressing with your voice encourages you to express with your choice. Exercising your choice and voice will bring about change in the direction of institutions that do work for people and the planet. The time will come. In the interim, it all falls down.

So be nimble, be quick so that you can jump over the candlestick and other flaming concerns. If you go unconscious, shit hits your fantastic fast. Adding power only will empower the problem. Use your choice, not power. Be and choose and play your way through the crashing and burning. Be with the ones you love. Be and see. Choose and cruise. Say and play.

You are fine,
Mark

PS: I'm on an Astrology and Karma Clearing tour of North America for the rest of the year. If you'd like me to come to your area to share with you and your circle of friends and family, please let me know. I offer talks, seminars and of course karmic astrology consultations and karmic clearing sessions. I'd love to meet you in the flesh. My work is very dynamic and always fun. Some of what I offer can be found on my Calendar page along with what gigs are booked so far. It's all possible. Looking forward to being with you wherever you may be.

© Mark Krueger, 2007

Mark Krueger offers PlanetVisionsUpdate, a weekly e-newsletter update of humor, insight and support regarding the shifting currents of the moment. Also be sure to check out his Weekly Wonders for a "quickie!"

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mark Krueger has been a professional astrologer for over 29 years. He is author of the popular weekly PlanetVisionsUpdate on his website in which he reflects the personal and collective goings on of our times in a unique and funny way. Mark is a seer of karmic patterns and offers a way to clear through the Dilemma. He's a dynamic playful speaker who offers richly rewarding talks and seminars all over the world.

By phone or in person, Mark offers Karmic Astrology Consultations for individuals, couples and families, as well as Karmic Clearing Sessions. Mark travels the world offering Talks:
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   * The Astrology Chart as Karmic Imprint

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