I dwell in Possibility – A fairer House than Prose
— Emily Dickinson

Even with all the bemusing, worrying, sad or annoying things undeniably going on in the world, there is at least one reason to be consoled. Much is possible and little is certain at this time. It is not always that way. Nor can things continue to be that way forever. All of which makes this a blessed, if exasperating, era to live in.

It is as though your life is contributing to the composition of an epic poem. Less is explicit. More is open to interpretation. Rarely is one definition indisputable — just like poetry.

Gender is no longer necessarily defined by genitals. More people are practicing unconventional domestic relationships. What a person is — or even what life is — is increasingly becoming a subject of dispute.

A self-described democratic socialist is contending to be the nominee of the Democratic Party in the U.S. Leading the pack for the Republicans is a reality television star. Those looking for a conventional job are finding such positions harder to come by. The examples go on and on. Nearly anything formerly taken for granted in the 20th Century has now become optional, or even exceptional.

It seems nobody knows any outcome for sure right now. It’s all most of us can do to take in and evaluate all the alternatives and their consequences. Yet, with alternatives now more the rule than ever, boundaries on consciousness and what you can be aware of have, as result, expanded. Just as poetry expands the boundaries of language, and what you can express with it, possibility is throwing open metaphorical doors and windows previously closed.

As one might expect, the fairer house of possibility is symbolically showing up in the astrology right now. That’s especially true if your focus is the sign-ruling planets. With the exception of the Moon, which changes signs about every third day, all of the major planets (and a great many of secondary importance) have evacuated the fixed signs of Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius.

In astrology, fixed signs have the quality of conferring definition and resisting change. Those with fixed signs prominent in their personal astrology do indeed tend to demonstrate such admirable qualities as stamina and perseverance. Yet, the same personalities also often cling to routine for its own sake, and potentially limit themselves and others with an insistence on order and a proclivity for rigidity.

People with cardinal signs (Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn) dominating their astrology, on the other hand, can become very restless if they are not initiating something new. For their own part, folks who are born with a rich component of mutable planets (in Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius or Pisces) tend to get a charge out of stirring things up.

None of the slow-moving outer planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto), which correspond with the political and public realm of society and history, have been in fixed signs since Jupiter left fixed Leo and entered mutable Virgo back on Aug. 11, and Saturn entered mutable Sagittarius on Sept. 17. Since Jupiter spends more than a year in each sign, that means the world as a whole will implicitly be dwelling in some significant possibility until at least next September.

Additionally, since Venus left Leo behind to ingress Virgo on Oct. 8, and until the Sun departs cardinal Libra to enter fixed Scorpio on Oct. 23, all of the faster moving ‘personal planets’ (Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars — once again, making exception for the Moon) will also be expressing themselves through emblematically expanded boundaries.

For you, that means two things. First, it will be implicitly as difficult to keep the changing world outside of your life as it is to keep the wind from entering open windows and doors. As if in compensation, however, it will be easier for you both to contribute to and to accept what is creatively ambiguous, entertaining the possibility of an entirely new life for yourself.

Just as some people are uncomfortable with how poetry requires one to bring definition rather than receiving it, there are those for whom the next ten days will be more distressing than entertaining. Try not to be among them.

Consider giving possibility a chance. Contemplate going even further when something unusual but interesting presents itself for you to define. These moments do not come often, and you will never know how you feel about dwelling in them unless you give yourself a fairer chance.

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Since you are reading this, you know that the world did not end yesterday as some had predicted. That’s good news, but no surprise to astrologers. In case you haven’t noticed, astrology is about cycles rather than ends. The great thing about cycles is that every end is also simultaneously a beginning.

As discussed here a week ago, Venus ends a long two-part stretch in Leo today shortly after 1:29 pm EDT (17:29:06 UTC). By making its second ingress to Virgo this year, however, Venus also implicitly begins “Your Time To Shine.”

Additionally (as Amanda, Fe and Eric all discussed this week), Mercury’s last retrograde of 2015 ends tomorrow, essentially allowing Mercury’s two-plus months in Libra (From Aug. 27 to Nov. 2) a fresh start.

All of which leads to to the grandmother of fresh starts just before 8:06 pm EDT Monday (00:05:40 UTC Tuesday): a New Moon. In this case the Moon will catch up with and symbolically merge with the Sun at 19+ Libra. That will be right after both of the luminaries have have been emblematically recharged by an opposition to galvanizing Uranus, which is on the other side of the zodiac in Aries.

The axis from Libra to Aries implicitly represents relationships, which go through cycles of their own. Hence at least one apparent theme presents itself with the Libra New Moon next week: how to handle those cycles.

The key to handling cycles of relationship is to see that they really are without end. That’s true regardless of whether the relationship in question is between you and another person, you and a group of people, or with life itself. For in every relationship’s end there is either proof or strong evidence of a simultaneous new beginning leading into a new phase of continuity.

It is only attachment to maintaining stasis that makes endings appear to happen. Such attachments are understandable. It’s only human to want good times and good relationships to last forever. Yet, only a small exercise of imagination allows you to see that even the shortest cycles do last forever — because no subsequent cycle will ever be quite the same.

Neither does it take much thought to understand that any cycle brought to a standstill would not be good news at all. Wanting any one moment to last forever is not only impractical, it’s counterproductive. Even the finest moment of your life would lose meaning if there were no other moments to compare it to. It is only by seeing the connection with all others that your connection to any other can be understood and appreciated.

And in that understanding is a through-line that is anything but straight. Rather, all lines in reality inevitably curve. And only through that curving (and the cycles brought forth) is connection made possible.

So it is that with each connection comes a new cycle. With each cycle then comes a renewal. With each renewal, endings instantly become beginnings in a world that is part of a solar system, which in turn is part of a universe — which, in its every part and every expression, never fails to indicate that each and every being, thing or moment (as well as the greater whole) is, in fact, without end. It is, instead, continuously with any and all else.

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The word “chaos” has a lot of baggage. That baggage has a history. That history, in turn, is probably recurring constantly, but only in an approximate way. The probable expression of recurrence as rhyme rather than exact repetition is key both to your understanding of the universe, and to your empowered participation in it.

Many ancient creation myths posit chaos as the terrifying initial condition of the cosmos. Then, some divine being or other brings a nice, safe, comforting form of order — but at a cost.

The price of positing chaos as the initial state of all things is the surrender of your power. Specifically, it means giving your power away to those who claim to represent divinity and the authority to maintain order.

Observing recurrence either artistically (through astrology or music, among other modalities) or scientifically (such as through mathematics), suggests another point of view: that chaos is only a form of re-ordering. The study and practice of re-ordering, in turn, implies that the universe has a more dynamic potential than the status quo allowed for by creation myths that effectively concentrate the power of many in the hands of a delegated few.

Playing music, practicing astrology, or accounting for chaos mathematically implies that the world is in fact constantly beginning anew in some way that is also familiar. Great musicians, for example, never play the same musical phrase the same way twice. Each recurrence of the phrase then represents the initial conditions for new possibilities.

In a similar way, you are empowered to recognize how familiarity in any given moment of your life constitutes the initial conditions of what could be an entirely new and different way of living — which you can participate in creating, or not.

To do so, however, you must reclaim your power from those who represent themselves as mediating between you and creation. That is not so easy.

The established order promises safety and comfort in return for giving up your power. There is a lot of appeal in that offer if you perceive the alternative as being powerless in a terrifying world. Additionally, those in whose hands power becomes concentrated have a long history of being rather terrifying themselves in response to any challenge.

Think about how vulnerable you feel when accepting responsibility for what you are and what you do, even in small things. It’s a risk. Yet, in taking that risk there is sometimes the prospect that others will see themselves in you, creating the initial conditions for community, beginning with the example you set. If there is anything to astrology, now is one of those times.

Every once in a while the conditions above indicate a familiar song recurring anew below. In the present case, that potential is for creating form anew here below. Even so, astrology cannot answer the questions that will determine what the outcome will look like. That’s where you come in.

One question is whether you will give away your power and allow any re-creation to be formed by others, or whether you will participate in the forming. Another question (assuming your participation) is whether you will act to empower all others in an authentic and genuine new order, or whether you will act to empower just some others in an ostensibly new but actually repetitive recurrence of the old order and its ways.

Without getting all technical on you, the initial conditions currently implied by the astrology are not represented by just one planet. It’s a bigger picture, open to interpretation. However, Saturn, the most familiar planet most often associated with form and definition, is probably the best focus at this time as regards to themes of chaos and order.

More precisely, the best focus is taking into account Saturn’s recent record of about nine months oscillating back and forth in a five-degree corridor of the zodiac between Scorpio and Sagittarius. It may have seemed like a chaotic time for you, but that time is over. Saturn is now embedded in Sagittarius for the next two-plus years.

When a planet changes signs, it is essentially like an orchestra musician changing instruments. A new role in the greater whole is implied, not just for the planet, but for you. Combine that new role with aspects Saturn is now (and will soon be) receiving in Sagittarius from other planets in other signs, and some form of new arrangement would seem to be available for your part in the bigger picture.

When you consider that Saturn takes nearly 30 years to complete its orbit around the Sun (and to complete a circuit of the zodiac’s 12 signs), those new arrangements could very well be historic.

That’s how the interpretation being offered here is that this time in history, and your place in it, will represent a choice embedded in your every decision and action for the two-plus years Saturn will be moving in Sagittarius. The established order, so as to maintain is hegemony, has not taught you how to recognize or to make this choice. You will have to begin learning on your own, but only at first. Other individuals who are not acting to enforce the established order (in other words, most people) will teach you by how they respond to you.

As a first requirement, you will need to examine yourself. Specifically, you will want to look at any way in which you, whether consciously or unwittingly, act as an agent for the power structure. For example, think about any time you might say “shame on you” or otherwise judge others based on criteria that have been handed down to you from those in authority.

Once you consciously and intentionally free yourself from being an unpaid deputy of established hierarchy, you will finally be able to make choices that set a pattern of example — a pattern you have thought through and elected to pursue on your own.  

You will know you are facing such potentially lonely choices when you feel vulnerable. You will know you made the right choice when you risk discomfort, and in so doing receive support from other individuals (rather than from established authority) for your example. By the same token, pay attention when others on the same path of reformation as you question your choices.

Those others who are comforted by an example that harmonizes with theirs will constitute the seeds of new community, and will also be your teachers. Now would be a good time to begin recognizing who those allies might be. Doing so may not be easy, but an effort to start could result in a new and better life for more than just you, even long after your natural life has run its course.

So that’s the interpretation being offered here. Where some may see chaos while Saturn moves through Sagittarius, you are being provided with an alternative: to see instead the initial conditions for a better way, and for a better you.

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Unless you are one of the proverbial movers and shakers in the world, you may not have had a lot to say about the course of current events as of late. The news of recent weeks has been dominated by powerful people heading up large, influential institutions of the established order.

In the latter half of September especially, world leaders were coming and going with greater frequency than would normally take place in such a short period of time. The meeting and talking among them has been unusually prolific.

At the same time, celestial objects most often correlated with the powerful in the world have been dominating the astrology. It begins with the Sun and its inherently sovereign role in the sky and on the zodiac.

The Sun’s power as the dominant central figure of both the solar system and astrology (emblematic of your waking consciousness) is never more evident than during a change of season. Last month we had that when the Sun entered cardinal Libra to precipitate an equinox.

The Moon is right up there with the Sun as regards to its importance, both in tangible reality and astrology (where is represents your dreams, emotions and intuitions). The Moon’s power as a complement to the Sun is never more evident than during eclipses. Last month we had that, too.

After the Sun and Moon, planets of long orbital periods (because of their great distance from the Sun) — called the ‘outer planets’ — tend to correspond with the long passages of time by which generations, nations and cultural institutions are defined and measured.

Whenever these outer planets change sign or direction on the zodiac, there tends to be a corresponding change that will be noted by history. Last month, with Saturn finally committing to Sagittarius, and the end of Pluto’s slow retrograde, we had that as well.

Beginning this month, it will implicitly be your time to shine, as is already being indicated by Venus, both literally and metaphorically. Because Venus is one of two planets (along with Mercury) that orbit between Earth and the Sun, it inherently corresponds with personal matters, especially issues having to do with your values and your priorities.

Nowhere in the astrology are indications of your time to shine currently more evident than in the current motion and position of Venus, both in the sky and on the zodiac.

If you have been awake and outdoors with clear skies in the hour or two just before dawn lately, you will have noticed a bright, steady light rising in the East before the Sun. That would be Venus. It is so bright that you could be excused for thinking it to be an approaching airliner with its landing lights on. As a matter of fact, only the Sun and Moon outshine Venus.

Over the next handful of weeks, Venus will combine with the waning Moon, Jupiter, Mars and (eventually) Mercury to put on a substantial celestial show before the Sun rises and brings its definitive day and light. In astrological correspondence with that pre-dawn show coming together, Venus will finally be leaving Leo (the sign ruled by the Sun) for the long run. It enters Virgo for a second time this year on Oct. 8, one week from today.

Venus first entered Leo way back on June 5. That’s quite a while ago. More than a month later (July 18), Venus first entered Virgo where it stationed retrograde on July 25. That retrograde motion brought Venus back to Leo as July ended. There it has been ever since. Now in direct motion since Sept. 6, Venus is today beginning its last week in Leo, until July of next year.

As it moves to leave the Sun’s dominion behind, Venus is implicitly signaling that your hour (or two) to shine is very near at hand.

On the political level, especially if you live in the U.S., you will be more and more the center of attention as a voter. On the cultural level, we are approaching what for many will be a holiday season when the quality and extent of your participation will have greater consequences economically. There are also subtle indications that you will have a chance to define your personal role in both your generation and the world as perhaps never before in your life.

You can (and probably should) begin your preparations to shine now. Unlike political and cultural leaders, you will not have a staff of advisers to prepare you. Then again, you also won’t have the pressure to be all things to everybody, a situation that often brings the high and mighty to compromise themselves and their constituents through contradictory behavior.

To shine to the best of your ability all you will have to do is get clear on, and remember, what is most important to you. That way, when it’s your turn to lead the leaders by your example and consent (just as Venus will be leading the Sun into the morning sky), you will be able to discharge your most important responsibility in the world — to be true to yourself. If you can do only that, you will have started to make sense of not only the world’s astrology, but also your place in it.

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The effect of electronic communication has been profound. Telegraphs shrunk the world. Commercial radio and telephones pervaded life. Television brought what was called a “vast wasteland.” The Internet made things more interactive.

Now, access to all the world’s media constantly accompanies anybody who can afford a personal electronic device. Yet, for all of its influence, the history of electronic communications has also been very short.

The first working telegraphs were not in place until the mid-19th Century, less than 200 years ago. After that, things happened ever faster. With the advent of oceanic cables, it was possible to send messages around the world by 1902. With each successive form of communication technology, change of all kinds accelerated.

Now we have a world distinguished by a very rapid cycling fostered by electronic communication. Personal electronic devices become obsolete very quickly. The term “yesterday’s news” has become almost quaint. News developments are now updated and rapidly replaced every few minutes by reports of new events. Trends in entertainment (which is now all but indistinguishable from news), the arts and even science turn and reverse repeatedly. Fortunes are made and lost in a day, every day.

If the same sort rapid cycling were taking place with your moods and thoughts, you might be diagnosed as mentally ill. Similar fluctuations in blood pressure, pulse rate, respiration or metabolism would certainly make you feel physically ill. Fortunately, you are not your electronic devices — not yet, anyway. You are not so fast, and that’s good.

It is also fortunate that Mercury is astrology’s most logical corollary for both your mind and its electronic extensions. It can move around the zodiac at a speed of more than two degrees a day, but that rate is not continuous. Often Mercury is not so fast. There are even times of its retrograde (like now) when Mercury retraces its steps as if to repeat, review and revise; and that’s good too.

Unfortunately, Mercury’s periodic retrogrades (usually three times a year for about three weeks at a time) have acquired a bad reputation, when the reverse should be true. It’s not natural to plunge ahead at breakneck speed. It’s not good for your health. You have to sleep. You need to eat.

There are periods when it’s appropriate to slow down. There are even occasions when retreating and repeating are not only desirable but necessary. You are nearly always the better for those times. Hence, there is no reason to think you and your life cannot be better for Mercury retrogrades.

As represented by the context of retrograde Mercury’s conjunction with the Libra Sun tomorrow at 10:38 EDT (14:38 UTC), now is an excellent time to overcome the conditioning of stereotyped, hand-me-down astrology — as well as what rapid-cycling electronic media hands you. You can do so by simply saying ‘not so fast’ whenever possible, and see what happens.

The actual planet Mercury passing between the actual Sun and the planet Earth always correlates with the symbolic Sun and retrograde Mercury occupying the same degree of the same sign on the zodiac. This defines their interior (some say “inferior”) conjunction. There is, in fact, nothing inferior about it.

The interior conjunction always marks the mid-point of any Mercury retrograde period. In the context of everything else, this particular interior conjunction tomorrow represents a perfect time to say ‘not so fast’.

There has been a lot of very rapid change in the world and in astrology since mid-September. You probably know of the changes in the world, at least superficially. Along with the unprecedented travels of Pope Francis in Cuba and the U.S., there have also been many other meetings of the world’s political leaders in the same, remarkably short span of time.

Neither is it every day that the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives up and resigns. It is as though several months’ worth of current events have taken place in about two weeks. All of it (and more, more, more) has been brought to you by, and through, the non-stop phenomena of electronic communications.

The astrology has been similarly busy. We had a solar eclipse on Sept. 13, which probably seems like a long time ago now. We have just come out on the other side, with a total lunar eclipse you might have had the chance to see late Sunday (or early yesterday, depending on where you were).

Between those eclipses, Mars changed signs to enter Virgo, which in turn aspected (or emphasized) Saturn; Saturn, in turn, concluded nine months of slow oscillation from Scorpio into Sagittarius on Sept. 17. Additionally, the Sun precipitated a new season and equinox by entering Libra less than a week ago on Sept. 23. And don’t overlook Pluto resuming direct motion once again. These couple weeks have been like a highlight reel featuring a rapid cycling through astrology’s biggest events.

Unfortunately, highlights give you no idea how things got to be the way they are, or where they are going. This is therefore a good time to emulate Mercury (which represented your mind and its versatility long before electronic connections existed) as it merges with the Sun (which, among other things, is emblematic of consciousness). Go back so as to re-read those speeches and review the issues for yourself.

Tell the the talking heads of television, “not so fast.” Exercise some critical thinking of your own. Don’t feel pressured to select a candidate so fast either. Rather, set aside some time to listen to them debate. If probable photo ops and possibly staged events seem like dreams come true, don’t believe them so fast. Take time to digest, integrate and dream your own dreams instead.

It is better to let the world go by for the present than get by you forever. There is a lot going on, and if you are going to do your part, you need to be selective and take it in and review it at your own pace. So maybe, to cite just one example, lay off the sports for the time being. You can catch up with scores and standings more easily than with other, more substantial things.

Give yourself until Oct. 9 (when Mercury resumes direct motion once again) to go back and catch up at your own pace, as much as you practically can, with practical stuff. You won’t be sorry. It will be worth it. For you are very probably living in a very different world from just a few weeks ago. Get to know it, and how your life fits in. Not through all those electronic communications that drag you from one thing to the next, but by being mindful and conscious — even if it means not going so fast for a while.

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Somewhere along the way, the amazing phenomenon of will, along with the many ways people can relate with each other and the cosmos, got into a narrow rut. Will became something either to break or assert in connection with power. Equality in relationships went by the wayside in favor of roles. Options and alternatives were either forgotten or prohibited.

Cooperation, probably the single trait that contributed most to humans being able to survive and prosper on Earth, was distorted into a scheme where the will of many serves the way of a few.

Community turned into hierarchy. Relationships between people and to the universe became one-sided. Our previous solid connection to Earth, sky and each other was diminished.

There are exceptions to the rule of being in a rut. There are ways to get out of a rut of being ruled. The Society of Friends (Quakers) is but one example of how people can relate to each other and the universe in gentle ways without need for a willful few to dominate a submissive many.

Yet, in literal spite of the Quaker’s grounded model of participation, few seek to become one. Perhaps because being a Quaker is no way to get ahead of others. Maybe because Quakers most often employ will to pull with each other creatively (which is challenging) rather than push against each other destructively (which is easy).

Issues of will and ways are turning up in the astrology even as you read this. Yet, like the gentle Quakers, many of those issues are being dominated by images of easy power, which promise much and deliver nothing — except an ever more narrow and deeper rut, which betrays your humanity rather than nourishing your highest potential.

Witness all those who are infatuated with pushing the manufactured (and ill-defined) idea of a “super Moon.” Even more sobering is how easily the implicitly divine phenomenon of a total lunar eclipse is being corrupted by a distasteful, dubious and explicitly profane advertising campaign to promote and sell what is called a “blood Moon.”

Haven’t you had enough of violent motion pictures and video games? Haven’t bullies and the brutalities behind the euphemism “power politics” worn out their welcome with you at long last? Are our connections to the Earth, sky and each other beyond repair? Is your will only capable of argument and dispute? Is there not yet a way to be both human and humane?

Perhaps when willful Mars finally leaves the fiery ways of Leo behind and enters grounded Virgo shortly before 10:18 pm EDT tonight (02:17:29 UTC tomorrow), we will finally be able to begin experiencing our current astrology for what it is.

For it is as if the astrology of the entire year thus far has been compressed like a software file, to be efficiently downloaded into your consciousness during the final two weeks of September. The third of three Mercury retrogrades in air signs reiterates. The second of two paired eclipses elevates. Saturn finally getting off the dime and leaving its past behind substantiates.

The second of two equinoxes re-relates the year’s theme of transition — not as a destiny, but as an option and an alternative to being in a rut. But only if you will yourself to defy all the ways of intimidation and intoxication that will otherwise keep you in it.  

It is has been a year in which your life has been confronted with a choice between the difficult ways of transition and the easy rut of denial. That’s especially true as regards to how you see your own personal will and your own daily ways in relationship to the rest of the universe.

As with any compressed file however, the information from this brief and amazing period of astrology can be distorted or lost if it is not opened properly. As it always is with astrology, the will to open yourself to it and the ways in which you do will make all the difference.

You can make a difference in what remains of this month. If you will it, there is a way out of the rut — for you, and for all of us together.

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Len is available for astrology readings. You can contact him at lenwallick [at] gmail [dot] com.

Among the many photographs received since the New Horizons spacecraft sped by Pluto on July 14 is one as remarkable for its caption as for its image. Take a look by clicking on this sentence. The image includes “majestic mountains and icy plains” along with the hazy hints of atmosphere backlit by the distant Sun.

Every bit as notable as the image itself, was the description (“written by a professional astronomer”), which noted that Pluto’s terrain had “a strangely familiar appearance.” Indeed.

Or perhaps, it is better to say “in word as in deed.” One might even go so far as to omit the word “strangely” and simply say “familiar” — finally admitting that we might have known as much, or should have, long ago.

For after half a century of space exploration, our astronauts and robotic probes continue to encounter the familiar. Water, mountains, even complex organic molecules — which are an intrinsic part of your body — keep appearing on planets, moons, asteroids, even comets.

Patterns and processes once thought to distinguish Earth are turning out to be what Earth has in common with many of its celestial neighbors. Indeed, literally in deed, anything truly alien to your consciousness is turning out to be the exception rather the rule in our explorations of our celestial neighborhood thus far. In fact, it would seem increasingly reasonable to say that your inner space and what we call outer space could very well be one with each other in fact rather than in fantasy.

The same quality of speculation becoming inference is proving true for the very small as well as the very large, as recently developed imaging techniques for molecules has shown.

That inner space and outer space might well be one and the same is not a new or revolutionary idea. Motion picture artists such as Stanley Kubrick (in “2001”) and Tim Burton (in “Beetlejuice”) have proceeded from that theme as a given. Long before motion pictures, Galileo observed the moons of Jupiter in January of 1610 and inferred a heliocentric solar system. And long before Galileo, astrologers accepted and continued to demonstrate how all things could be correlated by the principle of “as above, so below.”

Yet, many still stubbornly adhere to Plato’s unspoken assumption (propagated to this day by many priests, politicians and philosophers) that you are separate and alienated from creation. This pernicious assumption has long been the basis upon which a brutal established order can take away and keep your power with impunity.

Which is how artists come to be marginalized in the world as “artisans.” Which explains the real reason Galileo was persecuted. Which underlies the summary and unsubstantiated dismissal and disrespect astrologers must endure from all but an enlightened few.

Even when the manipulative doctrine of alienation is revealed as an absurdity by those who offer to cure your pain of separation in exchange for money (money!), its perversity persists as a widely accepted norm through systemic intimidation.

Yet, you know. You know better. In spite of all the painful conditioning designed to break you like a horse, you can see yourself for yourself no matter where you look. Fortunately, the cosmos itself cannot be reached by those who continually reinforce their pernicious conditioning upon you. Positioned precisely between the largest and smallest things (as you are), you can look to the universe to verify that the knowledge you were born with is a truth from which you can never be broken.

Whether you look within, or out as far as Pluto, you know the truth. And tomorrow, shortly after 4:20 am EDT (08:20:29 UTC), the truth will be demonstrated again in an equinox unprecedented in your lifetime.

You will be able to see it in the astrology, when the Sun enters Libra to conjoin the Kuiper Belt object 58534 Logos. Literally translated, Logos means “word” — or even better, “THE word.” The word which, in more than one creation mythology, was not only present at the beginning, it was the beginning. Logos, which has not met the equinox Sun in the first degree of Libra for over three centuries, will be symbolically partnering with the Sun (which, perhaps foremost among its many interpretations, represents consciousness) to affirm what you know.

You will be able to see it in the physical, empirical world. No scientist or other priest of Plato will be able to hide it from you. At the moment the symbolic Sun enters Libra, the tangible Sun will appear directly over Earth’s equator. Not because it’s a coincidence, but because that’s the way it is.

Tomorrow, on the same day the Sun appears directly over the equator, it will rise in the precise direction of East and set in the precise direction of West no matter who you are, or where you are on Earth. You will also have the same amount of daylight as anybody, anywhere in the world. For one day the inalienable cosmos will demonstrate what you and everybody knows for all to see: that you are created equal.

Yet, as with all things in astrology and in your life, you must do your part. You can disregard and deny what you know. You can let the day of this year’s Libra equinox go by and heed not the word, which all things have in common. You can choose to be separate, the stranger, the alien. You can elect (and elect representatives who will tell you) that you are not created equal.

Or you can choose, as people have since long before history was written, to recognize tomorrow for what it is. You can acknowledge yourself for what you are. You are, if you choose to do your part, one with and equal to all things.

True aliens are not born, they are made. On the occasion of this equinox, and for your own sake, if nothing else, consider what you know and make of yourself as the blessing of your innate knowledge would have you do. Spread the word.

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