Is It Really Urgent? ~ 5 January 2006

So is it? Is it really urgent or are you feeling some inexplicable pull to supercharge everything in life? Truly the “hurry up, get going” urgency is not accidental. But judging from the number of ambulance and fire sirens heard from my domicile in the past several days, the urgency may be accident inspiring. Yesterday, the Earth moved as close to the Sun as it does every year about this time. Add to that the heliocentric fact that Mars now stands upon the closest point Mercury makes to the Sun and simultaneously takes on the North Node of Venus. Oh, that sounds like an extra dollop of hurry and close out last year’s books, pay taxes, sign contracts and such.

While those shivering and dodging winter storms in the northern hemisphere have difficulty reconciling the perihelion of Earth (closest point to Sun in the orbit), ask the grape growing, wine producing folk of Argentina, Australia, Chile and South Africa (listed in alphabetical order) how it feels to them. The heat is on. This year, the heat’s on in a big way, and not only climatically.

The Grand Cross thing comes to a boil this month and begins some level of relief after the 21^st when Mars passes Neptune, completing this phase, leaving only a T-square. After the cross, the three-legged pattern ought to be a piece of cake, right? Sure, if one fails to respond to any sense of fictitious urgency, leaving sensibilities for truly urgent concerns. How can you tell which is which? When the Earth is nearest the Sun, it receives all the Sun’s glory through the shortest distance, thus an added energetic intensity. The Earth feels the strongest gravitational grip from the Sun, moving its fastest through space. So, the density of life, the energy underscoring it and the speed with and through which one feels pressured to proceed in resolving worldly matters exponentially increases.

Mars, as noted heliocentrically above, stresses the need for soulful communication and what one wants - what a person really wants instead of what a person is supposed to want. Words set a clear course of definition. Printed documents, forms, e-mails, contracts and such also create a course using words that vibrate at a different frequency. The key: Make sure the words employed are not rushed, stirred by drama or false senses of urgency. Make no mistakes. Slow down and create no accidents.

Just the other day, Zane Stein, Chiron and centaur researcher (check out Chiron and Friends), sent me an e-mail indicating that his research found there was indeed a centaur, Amycus. This beast was the first killed after Eurythus was taken out after raping Hippodamia at her wedding. Amycus initiated the subsequent fight by smashing in the face of Celadon with a candelabrum in the inner wedding shrine. What a charmer. Amycus was then stabbed with a table leg fashioned from a maple tree. I have no place to go with this interpretively in the moment, I’m just being the messenger here. I’ll work on it.

As for Crantor, in Ovid’s accounts (thank you again, Zane), he was killed by the centaur Demoleon in the same battle between the Lapiths and centaurs. Zane suggested, and I agree, that perhaps this naming occurred backward. I’m still checking on details here, folks. What we do know is that both Crantor and Amycus have perihelion points in Scorpio and nodes in Cancer and Aquarius, respectively. Working on what that means, too. More details forthcoming. And those with the Galactic Trilogy CD, more’s coming there, too.

But clearly, as we move into the maximum of the Grand Cross push, courtesy of the impulsive nature of Mars, let us step back and ask the question if the apparent urgency of the moment receives sanction from the importance of life and universal dictums, or is an illusion of our movement through space.