We needn’t be as grim over these days as ‘Clytemnestra, after the murder’ John Collier 1882 {{PD}}

We’re coming up on a couple of really rough days; they don’t have to be too bad, though, if we know how to face them. These forecasts are from ECLIPSE:

30 October we are in denial about some important things: the inevitable supremacy of nature, our own wounds, our needs, the fact that we have a wild, primal part that may contain a few things our civilized side considers unflattering. We can’t move forward, can’t create the future we want, if we are carrying a load of shame over things that just are. Our mistake is in seeing these things as bad, when they simply exist. Stop rejecting part of yourself, believing that some plastic idea of who we should be is better than the stinking, caterwauling, lusciousness of a human being in three-dimensions. With Merc retro, now’s the time to practice loving ourselves as we are, without that pesky over-socialized brain getting in the way. (Saturn semi-square Ceres, Mars opposed Chiron, Venus quincunx Sedna, Sun conjunct NN)

31 October it’s time to deal–with values that aren’t truly our own and don’t support our empowerment, with aggression, competitiveness, egotism, and even hatred we’ve been sensing that may finally break out into the open today, with the need to tell someone how much we love them, and with the way the image we’ve been propagating betrays both our highest values and our real empowerment needs. Whew! That’s heavy, as we used to say. So how do we handle things? Centering ourselves at our core is really the only answer; that allows us to both stay true to ourselves and to deflect any ill-will someone else cooks up toward us out of their own misery. And don’t forget that part about sharing some loving feelings with someone else; if you happen to do that with the person running toward you with an axe, you just might discover you’ve found the recipe for world peace. We must note, a Fist of God with base of Earth-Juno and apex Vesta; this says that in order to live those highest values we must first see to our own material empowerment. Though it’s carrying water, chopping wood both before and after enlightenment, we must realize that it’s seeing to those physical needs that gives us the true freedom to honor our values. As someone said sometime: nobody cares about freedom when they’re hungry; living our values requires a willingness to deal with the physical, and with physical needs–there’s nothing spiritual about turning our noses up at our own humanness. ALERT: more incidents that feed into/ reflect the UR-PL square. (Mars trine Pluto and quincunx Uranus, Mercury semi-square Venus, the Fist).

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