Full Moon in Aquarius -Sunday July 25th

"Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be laid low—and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain—"(Isaiah 40:4-5)

Last week Obama signed the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, as well as the Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2010, which had been languishing in the Senate for an indecently long period of time.  Yet the story that dominated the air waves and the news media, was not about finally getting some kind of regulatory reform on Wall Street after they sent the country into a nose-dive recession... it wasn’t about finally making sure that the happlessly unemployed were not being left to rot, no, it was a fabricated fiasco created by some off-the-wall teabaggist, defaming a woman of integrity, by deliberately editing a tape to make her sound like a racist against white folks. 

Faux News ran with the story, and when legitimate newscasters pointed out how Fox News was greedily running after the ratings while promoting an insidious agenda against the administration and this country, they also got attacked.  But brilliant Rachel Maddow fought the good fight with Bill O’Reilly of Fox News, as is her wont:

....FOX News, continually crusades on flagrantly bogus stories designed to make white Americans fear black Americans, which FOX News most certainly does for a political purpose even if it upends the lives of individuals like Shirley Sherrod, even as it frays the fabric of the nation, and even as it makes the American Dream more of a dream and less of a promise.

For this crazy pushing-us-to-embrace-alternatives Aquarian Full Moon, Neptune will just be peering over the horizon when located in Washington, DC.  Neptune rules lies, deception, scandals, slander, oil, oceans, gases as well as gasbags.  It opposes Mercury in Leo (the media).  Something really good happens, so it becomes imperative for the right to distract the public with some sort of made up rumor... and even when the stalwart Shirley Sherrod was vindicated, time and again, the supreme gasbag himself, Rush Limbaugh still kept beating that dead horse, appealing to the teabagging party base of white fear. 

And it is a distraction.

What we’re really needing to address with this Full Moon in Aquarius looking wistfully at the cardinal t-squaring-4 (soon to be 5, when that cuddly ball of fire, Mars joins the party on the 29th), are issues about the unequal distribution of power and inequality, and how these need to be addressed.  They will not and can not be ignored, or avoided, no matter how many Neppy smokescreens are created.  We’re all going to be feeling this one, one way or another.

The rulers of this Aquarian Full Moon, Saturn and Uranus are exactly opposing one another.  Mars enters Libra on the 29th, yells at Uranus, across the room on the 30th, and joins forces with Saturn on the 31st.  This is kind of an ouch moment.  Very uncomfortable.  Or at least very, very loud, and potentially explosive.  It’s kind of like choosing sides in a kickball game, where all the kids are really hyped up on speedballs.  Do you really want to get in the middle of this?

This is the sort of activity that pulls us in 3 to 4 directions, all at once.  Some may identify with one leg of the t-square, trying to maintain some sort of plan or structure, others with another, just tossing all propriety to the wind, but more often than not, they’re all doing their own thing at once.  What becomes evident is that some sort of major change is afoot, but exactly how that is supposed to play out is dependent on so many existing and conflicting factors, that it will be really hard to decide, where and how to make a commitment and which side to stand on.  However, action is imperative, and especially when Mars joins the picture, unavoidable, and even explosive if resisted.  This is the stuff of which all out warfare is made of, and in which sudden and/or impulsive accidents occur. 

It can also be the impetus for revolutionary movements for progressive change, and evolutionary changes in the world of cutting edge technology.  It’s about the incentive for invention, and learning how to adapt to extraordinary events in volatile times.  Change is inevitable, and a more equitable distribution of power is needed.  There is great potential at times such as these, and it’s up to us, all of us, as to how it’s going to be used.

Healing Mother Earth

There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed.~ Mohanda K. Gandhi

With the Solar Eclipse in Cancer on Sunday, we are reminded of the things that Cancer rules and brings, what our losses are, what we strive to protect, and what we need to let go.  Cancer rules mothers, home, family, country, our native roots, including our planet... it rules the sea, and all those who depend on her for their livelihood and survival: sailors, fishermen, and the creatures who live at and feed from her shores. 

Solar Eclipses occur at the New Moon, and similar to the New Moon, the energy is like a wave rolling forth into the future, carrying the seeds of intention planted with her.  Its energy is most potent the first few hours after the Eclipse, it continues for a few days, and carries forth the affirmation into the future,  not for days or even weeks, but as a super new moon, it carries forth for several months, even years.  Therefore this is a critical time to visualize and form our intentions in a positive manner that is for the good of all concerned.

Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, For strip-mined mountain’s majesty above the asphalt plain.  America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea. ~ George Carlin

Let us lay the intention that those who have the power to easily find the right people with adequate knowledge and capable of the right actions will successfully restore the Gulf of Mexico and its environs to perfect health and beauty. The Christian Science Monitor reported in its article, Six lessons from the BP oil spill:

a Taiwanese company has retrofitted a supertanker with skimming equipment that it says is capable of vacuuming up to 21 million gallons of oily water a day. By comparison, the entire emergency response from the time of the accident, April 20, to July 1 had collected only around 28 million gallons. Though the ship, now in the Gulf, is untested, BP officials are giving it a try. Experts say similar supertankers were used to suck up much of the contaminated water after a massive spill off Saudi Arabia in the early 1990s.

Government and BP officials are also testing 32 centrifuges that can separate oil from seawater, devices being championed by actor Kevin Costner. Some experts, such as Norman Guinasso, director of the geochemical and environmental research group at Texas A&M University in College Station, believe such machines hold promise. He can envision a fleet of 100 or so boats equipped with the devices that could be quickly dispatched to the site of a major spill. "That's what I would like to see," says Mr. Guinasso.

Onshore, authorities are experimenting with a microbial sand scrubber that emulsifies tar balls and injects oil-eating bugs into the sand to consume the hydrocarbons. The device, which uses microbes from the Gulf of Mexico, was designed to pull oil from the tar sands of Canada.

We need to be weaned off fossil fuels.  This is what we need to release and let go, like a bad habit that is eating us up inside.  What is standing in the way?  Ralph Nader stated it simply in 1980 (Loose Talk ~ Linda Botts):

The use of Solar energy has not opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.