Galactic Grandstanding ~ 9 January 2007

Over the past days I’ve been intently pondering what to write about the Mars-Pluto conjunction on the Galactic Center later this week. It’s in effect now and has been for a month and shall linger, according to Pluto, pretty much all year. Many have written about the political tones of Mars and Pluto, which generally lack a sense of global evolution. How far are we getting if we’re still warring? There is a Sagittarian question here, but that’s Mars to Pluto stuff, not Galactic Center stuff. I’m going to go after more of the GC stuff. The real Mars/Pluto notation of the week comes from the scientists who now theorize that we might have destroyed subtle life forms on Mars during our first landings there. I checked this out with Percival Lowell, the crazy, rich guy from Massachusetts who built a telescope in Flagstaff, Arizona in the 19^th Century to search for water (whose presence on Mars was just recently confirmed - again) and life on that planet. Ah, basically he’s too cheesed off about it to even comment, so let’s go on to other things.

Generally speaking, the Galactic Center brings inspirations that feed the technological, innovative, progressive mind of humankind. The airplane is a Galactic Center innovation, for instance. Black holes typically manifest some sort of paradox as the enlightenment unfolds. As news of an intense stomach flu ravaging the country tops online sources, yesterday’s news that stem cells can be safely obtained from embryonic fluid seems lower on the list. How cool is this? No fetus needs to be “destroyed” to acquire stem cells. The entire Sagittarian arguments about what’s right by God in the matter go moot. Science can again step forward and conduct research to save lives - even those lives of the people so adamant against the research in the first place.

The irony continues. No one yet figured out that the big stink in New York City resulted from sports talk shows dissing the pitcher Randy Johnson for his lackluster performance in the Big Apple. It’s okay. We’re welcoming him back in Arizona.

More personally, each person on Earth can manifest a blip or five of brilliance even if not connected to the Galactic Center by birth chart. Given Mars and Pluto, here’s how you recognize your insight. Let’s say you’re in the kitchen or office trying to do some physical feat (that would be Mars). The lack of success in the task inspires Pluto. Bad words rooted in frustration cause your lips to quiver as you deny polluting the atmosphere with profanity. In that moment invention beckons. What does it take to unwrap a ream of computer paper without spilling it? Or why are carafe coffee pots so hard to pour? Too mundane for you? Well, each ease producing item that reduces frustration opens the cracks of consciousness microscopically wider. With the daily details handled more smoothly, you can sit and look at the hibiscus flowers outside and understand consciousness just a bit better. This time frame is fraught with ideas of how to conduct life in a way that allows the process of getting it, understanding it and letting go of all that precludes it. Some of it might be connected to a simple act of doing.

Regardless, messages and insights pour down the pipe at supercharged speed. Someone’s going to do the downloading. But here’s the big deal. What if the information headed your way violates one of your beloved tenets of consciousness? Somewhere along the line, it’ll likely happen. All astrologers took such a hit with the change of Pluto’s status. The key is, though, instead of dwelling on what happened to Pluto, look what happens by giving Ceres, Charon and Eris equal weight in the transformational scenario. I suspect the GC stands poised to download that to anyone willing to listen, just as Percival Lowell could have talked for hours to those who wanted to hear why he knew there was water and life on Mars. What a whack job he was! What a wonderful brilliant, progressive, way ahead of the curve looking around the bend, whack job.

Anyway, there’s even more to come. Throughout the year, Jupiter makes multiple contacts with the Great Attractor (14 Sag 06, this year). People like Walt Disney, Elian Gonzalez (think immigration), Terry Schiavo (rest her soul, death with dignity icon and support for stem cells), General George Armstrong Custer, brilliant astrologer Robert Hand and Brittany Spears were all born with the Sun on the Great Attractor. This point is so rich gravitationally, it bends light so we can see clean behind it. Think of that! No one can pull the “guess which hand” routine or “guess what I’m withholding” during this time frame. Better yet, with the bend of light you get to know what lies beyond the next bend of the road. It’s not about precognition. It’s about instantaneous realization and recognition in the present.

Theoretically, the Great Attractor assists the Galactic Center all year long in letting people know when they’ve hit the main vein of the ore flow of consciousness. It’s there. It’s now and it’s time to see behind every manifestation of life for the hint of awareness. This definitely ain’t no man behind the curtain deal. Could it be any cooler than that?

As this year begins and the downloads run rich, I’ve had to make some choices. For the time being I’ll be taking a hiatus from the Media Village scopes and columns. I’ll be back later in the year, but at the moment I’m writing a mainstream book on the effects of the solar system’s reorganization on collective consciousness. It’s going to be great. It’ll have astronomical history, mythology, those coincidental things that happen in the world with astronomical discovery and the astrological symbolism underscoring them. I’ve got to get a lot of pages behind me in the next ninety days to fulfill promises to agents, so I’m hunkering down with even more aluminum foil strategically squished in rectangular places in my office than ever before.