Like everyone else, life goes on in my corner of the world, too. This week, despite the transits and exciting political news, filled itself with the real world, demanding a lot of attention to those things common during strong fixed square aspects like we’re having. Yep, we’ve got Venus and Mars messing with each other - you’d think by now they’d know what to expect; we also endure Saturn and Neptune inching into exactness with each another. Just the sound of inching into exactness gets Mars and Venus piqued. Life’s demands overwhelm a whole lot of people right now. The Universe allows no person to be immune from celestial influences. I won’t bore you with my own life details, but suffice it to say the word overwhelming fails to satisfy the description required. Like everyone, while so much goes on, it’s work staying inspired. I was dang near making a chant that sounded something like, “Blah, Blah, Blah.” But then “Boom.”

I’ve been wondering if I’d get fired up about Sunday’s solar eclipse. It appears I might yet be able to rally. This morning I encountered the latest terrorism tactic from no less than a half dozen sources. It seems some idiot decided it would be fun to start a new hoax intending to shake loose all retained bodily waste. According to the hoax, an acid ridden galactic cloud, coming from a black hole 28,000 light years away will arrive here in nine years (even a precise time is given for arrival) and dissolve everything in sight. It seems the Chandra observatory observed this cloud eat up an asteroid. This hoax classically defines the Saturn-Neptune opposition. Saturn demands facts and reality. Neptune spins fear and wild, hysterically based fantasies. Why is Neptune winning? Simply, people don’t like Saturn. A simple research effort on a pithy search engine could dispel this myth. But no, that’s too much work. It’s more fun to forward hysteria and create drama.

Venus and Mars actually like this hoax. They’re using the classic line uttered by more than one military person on the verge of heading into harm’s way. It sounds like, “You know, I could get killed over there... and I might never be able to have sex again.” Good line and it has a scary level of veracity. But think about it. The head butting between Venus and Mars actually wants people to do some serious head butting of their own. Yep, get in there in those intense, sizzling relationships and/or find your passionate creative/political/spiritual cause and get on with that. Saturn and Neptune also head butt. Their collision is that of reality versus fantasy. Truly, a person cannot exist on Earth in complete non-reality, but the wise masters of esoteric teaching claim it’s best to live in both worlds. Be inspired. Bring dreams and inspirations into real manifestations. This can’t happen with the snap of a finger you know. It all takes passion, purpose, persistence, perseverance and damn hard work.

For those of you for whom this is not a new message it may sound like blah, blah, blah. Right now, Venus and the centaur Hylonome just finished alignment. Mars will head back to oppose her starting tomorrow when he goes retro - and not in a fashionable manner. Saturn will ultimately catch up with her, too. Hylonome asks a tough set of questions. Where’s your greatest regret in life? If today was your last day on the planet in a body would you feel complete? If not, what must you do to get that level of completion? She urges all to have no regrets in matters of career and relationship.

Maybe you took a psychic boom when you first read about the acid-planet-eating-galaxy thing and before you recognized the cadence for being bogus. Assuming that you did, it’s now time to stop responding to illusions that life fails to meet your mission standards. Instead, bear down. There’s an eclipse Sunday (10/02) in interactive Libra. If you need partnership, a team or outside motivation, get it. The reality is those engaging with the oppositions at hand have little to no concern that the world will end in 2014, which lies well after the Mayan Calendar expiration anyway. You can live on the passion, energy, effort and pursuit of happiness for a long time to come.

Sure you’ve heard that before. Blah, blah, blah.