End of an Era? ~ February 15, 2006

Since last July we’ve all endured Mars in Taurus for what seems to have lingered since the creation of the Mayan calendar. It has been a long run full of promises and setbacks jointly dotting every human’s daily planning schedule. Now Mars presses through the few several degrees of Taurus dredging the likes of the asterism, Pleiades. This Taurean component classically bears a weeping association. Yet, the tiny, compact cluster possesses the attribute of shedding reactions of blame, guilt, shame and regret. Should an individual have grown accustomed to such things as a part of her/his nature, ironically, the release of these less than ideal reactions and emotions often finds themselves dealing with remorse regarding the loss of what’s become familiar despite its lack of attributes.

Two of the biggest kindling sticks in the solar system, the Sun and Mars, now square one another. If feelings that need to clear do not naturally fall away, a charge results. Certainly, volatility and incendiary reactions can pepper the patterns of those choosing to remain unaware in the next several days. Believe me, it’s a challenge. In the interest of avoiding the urge to explode, how about paying particular attention to the fuses? Note the flaming fuses leading to your personal powder keg. Whilst you’re at it, why not notice the way you’re presently wired? Certainly the lengthy Mars in Taurus interval recently endured arouses an attachment or two that plug into all imaginable emotional detonators.

In the past day Mercury and Uranus aligned with one another in the emotionally evocative Pisces. How’d that work out for you? Did you let yourself explain your reactions, state your emotional needs and declare all your sensitivities? If so, the Sun-Mars square ought to offer up the next few steps of consciously attended, well-intended actions to invoke. If not, the Sun-Mars square throws rejection issues and tender feelings on the top of everything requiring your attention. Testy would be too soft a word.

Still, the lingering influence of Mercury and Uranus can be applied. I thought it better to wait to disclose this until the Moon cleared Virgo lest emotional declarations seem unnecessarily curt and overly punctuated or critical. If you take a few moments to focus upon the feeling inside before uttering something intending to arouse sensitive reactions, the crux of the matter efficiently and fairly surfaces. When others report they simply didn’t know you felt that way, the matter stands resolved and strong steps toward resolution follow. Right?

Perhaps many plan on finding Mars’ movement into Gemini a relief (February 17th - April 13th/14th). But wait, there’s a lot more involved than a slippery slide down the streets of duplicity. The transit of Mars through the domain of the twins could be broken into three stages. First, the acquisition phase. This involves faithfully documenting each idea with focused ferocity. Specifically, each concept encountered requires, at minimum, 283 seconds of dedicated conscious attention. During this interval each and every nuance must be recorded in something that resembles hard copy. Relying upon the process of recollecting cannot possibly cut the mustard. Two, the ideas developed must be succinctly applied in one’s own life without exception and without contradiction. The application of new ideas develops a database of experience, which become the baseline of wisdom. The wisdom part appears as stage three. Later in his Gemini passage, Mars opposes the Galactic Center. Yep, that thing again. And for the next two years you’ll hear an exhausting amount about this black hole at the nucleus point of our galaxy. To be the one offering up the new insight, you must have completed your beta testing of the application before announcing to the world you’ve found the alpha to the omega of it All. Should one not be expert in such linguistics, for those to whom one pontificates, it’ll all seem Greek.

Follow the letter of the cosmic laws as outlined by the laser pointer of Mars. Then, relax a spell and let your brain have at least one iota of peace.