Bangin'

DEAR LITTLE OLD FEBRUARY starts with a bang. Full Moon in Leo/Aquarius arrives on the 1st at 9:45 pm PST. It is lining up with the opposition of Neptune in Aquarius and Saturn in Leo. On the 10th, the Moon in Scorpio T-crosses with the exact opposition of the Sun in Aquarius to Saturn in Leo.

Mercury goes retrograde at 8:38 pm PST on the 13th until March 7th. In the midst of that, in mid month, a Yod runs for a week with Saturn being in the opposite mid point to the sextile of Mars in Capricorn and Venus in Pisces (both of those planets are considered exalted in those Signs in olde astro speak).

New Moon occurs in the tail end of Aquarius on the 17th at 8:14 am PST. The Sun enters Pisces on the 18th at 5:09 pm PST, the same day as Chinese New Year - the Year of the Boar. Right on the heels comes Mardi Gras Tuesday/Ash Wednesday just as Venus goes through the last ticks of the Zodiac before entering Aries on the 21st at 12:22 am PST.

Speedily, Mars enters Aquarius on the 25th at 5:33 pm PST. Mercury backs into Aquarius the next day and we round out the month with Saturn exactly opposing Neptune on the 28th at 4:01 am PST.

Time isn't marching on; it's rushing to judgment day. The sands of time appear to move extraordinarily fast when they get to the bottom of the spiral. This effect is well described in the cogent writings about the ending of the Mayan calendar. Forget about holding on to your ass. You won't even be able to find it. You won't be able to get ahead of yourself either, because of the rapidity.

Be.

February is of course our fastest month anyway, but this baby roars, rages and rockets in every kind of way. Be aware of the Shreds that arise from the extremes of comings and goings.

Be.

I remind you: this is a terrific year. 'Tis wonderful if you are being yourself and making choices and intending to manifest what you want in your life. It's terrorific if you control out of the ancient fears and projections of the mind. Flux 'em if they can't take the joke. Humor is most helpful from here on out. What with it being the year of the Boar, I suggest you see the two wonderful Babe movies to keep things in perspective. (Praise by the way to Aussie film makers and to the fantastic Magda Szubanski!)

You ain't gonna get bored this year, except with your old neuroses which are draggish at least. Claim your own consciousness and clear your own karma and melt the chunky bits that trip you treacherously. Addiction stories will be very highlighted this month and onwards. Let's get beyond the moral bullshit and face what's going on in those loopiest of stories that beget sooooo much pain for sooooo many. You can't fill the hole in the soul/sole with more of the whole. You are your own being, not projections like body and spirit. Addiction is the very model of Creation itself. You chase or chaste after carrots on sticks. Fulfillment is a mythed opportunity. You are not an emptiness that needs stuffing. You are not a lack attack that must be abundanced. The body and soul are, though, and they are not you. They just be flickerings in the house of mirrors. Look after your wonderful self. Regular pamperings of the simplest sort shall satisfy reasonably well if you come out of identifying in the mind and especially the higher mind notions of righteousness and wrongeousness.

If ya wanna be creative, now is the time. Wowie zowie kapowie. We be bangin'! You go girl. You go guy. Collaborate. Elasticate. Circulate. Get the lead out and spring into your step. Dump that stupid old get it perfect crap but do take care of the details. If you don't, they'll bite your bottom quicker than you can say: huh.

Allow the cupidity of Valentine's Day ye horndoggies. The love just one for ever and ever thing just simply doesn't work anymore. There's no right or wrong to it. It just has melted into the amazingly dynamic free for all that we've got going on. The integrity of your own being is what counts along with clear and direct communication. If you hide while you seek, you'll be barking up the wrong trees while masking what you really want. We're all on the early part of the learning curve with this. We make it up as we go. Brittle rules and gooey grabassedness will get their instant karma. Be with the ones you love being with. And let the rest... rest.

America/Americans are immensely depressed, but in the form of hyper mania, hyper consumption, hyper distraction. This madness is hitting its own walls. The rumblings of the crumblings cometh. If this depression of internal repression and external oppression is not faced, it is driven hard and fast down into the emotional body causing riotous acts personal and collective. If still not faced, the depression is driven down into the body, the body politic, the body of Gaia. Quakes are highly likely. Catastrophes likely shall spill over the dammed. Cataclysms will scratch the eyes out of the dogmatic. Pestilences will prey upon those still stubbornly identified in the victim position. An aside here to praise dear Oprah Winfrey in her preciously meeting her students in her new school in South Africa with the sincere and most important remembrance that a person is not where they come from. They can be their dear and wonderful selves. Ho!

Be. See. Say. Sigh... and sing.

Sincerely,
Mark

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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