More of Mars and More ~ 15 June 2010

Following the tracking of Mars in Virgo from last week, there are two important components to put into play this week. On the broader cosmic scale, for the next five to six days the Geminian Sun opposes the Sagittarius based Galactic Center and its supermassive black hole. All the innovations, consciousness revelations and brilliance inherent in the Galactic Center are easier to download, open, comprehend and put into play in real life. The can opener to the cosmic consciousness, can be found in the tool belt of Mars and his current involvement with an array of black holes located early in the signs of Virgo and Sagittarius. Truly, anyone looking to bring down some great ideas, whether natally connected to either of these transits or not, can do just that. It is a time in which anyone making a well-intended effort to track and feel the tantalization of inspirations, may.


Mars’ desire to enact productive ideas while in Virgo throbs as if highlighted with his favorite shade of red. As he scrapes across the black hole matrix spanning between Virgo and Sagittarius, he activates a ten to eleven-day cycle of mental acuity. The acuity allows ideas encountered to be immediately recognized as meritorious and if taken one step further, applies the first critical step for successful capture of the ideas flitting about in the ethers.


Ever get a series of ideas in a given day and promise yourself that you’ll write them down later when you relax at the end of the day? How’s that promissory agenda working out these days? Likely the squeeze of life and the harried ways of Jupiter and Uranus together in Aries, constantly add one more thing that needs to be handled before the end of a day’s activity can be marked as complete. Then, who feels like thinking? Those ideas remain for tomorrow, right? Not necessarily. The ideas from the Galactic Center appear as fast moving blips on a radar display. Track them now or they’ll soon be transferred to the controlled airspace of a nearby state of mind or someone using the required black hole protocol.


What is the required black hole protocol? In this case the idea development parameter appears in the form of an allotted time interval for a concentrated focus on an idea at the time of its first flagging of your attention. Underwriting this black hole array is a developmental x-ray burst of 283 seconds. If one remains in a state of dedicated attention for this interval, any fleeting thought fleshes into a retrievable concept that can undergo additional development later. Back in the olden days of the previous century, photographic images captured on film were developed in a solution that required time to extract the latent image from the light recorded onto a silver particle emulsion. The photographic process offers an appropriate image for emulation with the nature of idea development according to the Virgo-Sag array of black holes. Presently, those souls working with this image who apply the best efforts of Mars glean the maximum results.


Each and every time a new idea appears over the next ten days or so - most strongly felt for the next week - dedicate four minutes and forty-three seconds to that idea. Write down or document everything that comes to mind in the moment. Back in the olden days of last century one had to write the idea, then print and photocopy it, or ensure multiple storage places on computers and in hard copy files. These days one can store it on a phone, call it into voice mail boxes, iPad it or place it safely in any number of new electronic technologies. A word of caution applies here. Since this idea is new, fecund and yet unprotected, be aware that you can tweet it away, YouTube it out of your dominion, or Facebook post it, and in so doing lose all claim to your tracked idea, subsequent rights and back end royalties.


Sure it’s true that your goal is to enlighten the planet. But Saturn in Virgo (also still in ultra strong aspects to the Galactic Center) and Pluto in Capricorn insist you maintain a level of practicality and fiduciary intelligence. You can be certain that when the idea for the iPad first appeared, the designer did not post a comment on social networking, seek a new crop of fast thumbed followers or petition obscure and devious funding sources on Craigslist.


Anyway, focus for nearly five minutes on any thought at the time of its arrival. If you must run longer, run longer. Should you have a day job, take a ten minute break and do your documentation (not using the company’s computers or Internet). That way you can remain true to your professional responsibilities and honor your greatest consciousness tracking proclivities. Sometimes a second or third idea appears while focused upon the first insight. Apply the same 283 second attention burst to those secondary ideas and similarly to any tertiary layered ideas that follow.


Following the x-ray wave is a bit like taking a time exposure of the sky above. It takes a while to receive enough light - symbolic of comprehension, illumination and conscious awareness - to form a useful image. Once an appropriate exposure - or a sufficient duration of download or development - occurs, one can trust the idea remains safe and secure. It can be enhanced later at a more convenient time when life’s daily priorities do not scream from every direction. This is not to suggest that one can leisurely sit back and explore the ideas received now after the ending of the Mayan Calendar. This is not to suggest that the Mayan Calendar brings the end of the world. This is to suggest that if those tracking the good stuff get on with it soon, they may have the result of their efforts packaged in some unique way that allows humankind’s collective consciousness to grow and expand, making its way through the keyhole of the next portal of evolution on Earth.


As the solstice occurs and the Sun passes through the early degrees of Cancer next week, it opposes a series of strange, powerful pulsars. The nutshell of this opposition declares that if you “feel it” or the ideas recently received gnaw at your gut for attention and embellishment, and if you follow the creative flow, those ideas develop faster and go further than is humanly possible. With a dollop and dash of Martian activity applied, of course.


That activity might be best conducted in a short interlude of solitude. Every year, just following the solstice in which the Sun transits Cancer, the earth reaches its maximum physical distance from the Sun (this year, 6 July at 11:31 GMT). That’s hard to believe in the deserts of the southwest when the temperatures soar, but it is true. When a planet achieves aphelion - the most-distant point from the Sun in orbit - a symbolic retreat, or pulling back for perspective, benefits the agenda. Scurry like a good little crab to the side and out of the way. Seek a refuge location and hunker down with the creative stirring inside.


Over the next three weeks, ideas are ripe for developing. It should also be noted that during Jupiter’s current sprint in Aries, he tracks with the potent pulsars mentioned above. Like a cheerleader who can kick your posterior should you not respond to his rallying chants, he adds his own version of motivation. Regardless of whatever altruism you harbor in your soul and what humanism you seek to invoke through the ideas you foster, Jupiter reminds you of a more simplistic bottom line. It does come back to you. You must track the ideas and perform the prescriptions for life that these ideas promote for you. It is for the fulfillment of your personal growth, your evolution, and the continued flourishing of your soul.


It’s time for Jupiter to point out something else. Both he and the dwarf planet Makemake cozy up to the Sun as close as they can in the same place in Aries. The dwarf planet or whatever she is, Sedna, operates under the direction of a north node in Leo. Eris retreats as far from the Sun as she can in Aries, an action replicated by the yet to be named dwarf planet dubbed Snow White. The Hawaiian named dwarf planet Haumea carries the north node destiny banner of Leo as does her Pacific goddess colleague, Sedna. More, Haumea’s perihelion weighs in under the auspices of Aries. The combined effect of these transformative Trans-Neptunian bodies signals a need to restore a solid sense of self and maintain the view that one is the center of their own universe, as is true for any other creature in creation. By no means does this imply an egocentric view of life or a return to primal solipsism. These notations promote that one become and remain soulfully strong.


It is only with soulful strength - and currently with the persuasive pressure of Mars - that one can make the dent in the bucket of planetary consciousness for which the collective soul of humankind yearns. You up for it? Good thing, because Mars is ripe and thickens the hasty pudding, where no doubt there is proof to be found.


If you’re still lacking inspiration, why not pull up a star map for this week’s passage of Comet McNaught, set your alarm clock and gaze into the heavens to see what you can see and better yet, perceive.