Vernal Vigor ~ 22 February 2007

While many have reported this year getting off to a sluggish start with a pinging sound that implies all psychic pistons might not be operating in perfect syncopation, perhaps a bit of relief appears with the Venus ingress into Aries. Sure a lot of folks do not render Venus in Aries as particularly friendly; right now, so what? She’s crossed over the point of the Vernal Equinox, all fired up and ready to rock and roll, a distinct improvement over lock and load. Venus reminds us to make a clear list of priorities based upon the fervor one holds in the heart (or wherever) for those priorities. Then, instead of discussing how much fun the year has been thus far (or not), she insists that like fresh sprouts, we stretch and reach into the realms of aspiration. And she suggests doing it now.

Now? But Mercury’s retrograde. True, it is. Ever wonder how many fantabulous transits have been pissed away by people hesitating during Mercury retrograde? If a person has Jupiter passing by Venus in the midst of a Mercury retrograde era, take note of the retrograde effects but use the dang transit. The Jupiter to Venus is a rarer occurrence. Sometimes, our best intent to align with the ideal timing causes tentativeness. Today, Mercury and the Sun align, which also means that Mercury and the Earth align, if viewing the entire solar system picture. What an ideal time to pick up dropped post-it notes, sort them and take care of worldly stuff. This is my favorite time of Mercury cycles to follow up on all things outstanding - outstanding meaning incomplete, not “wow!” Any unfulfilled bids, promises, wishes and paperwork can come to a heightened level of clarity and potentially, resolution. In the next twenty-four or so, call your accountant, check on transfers, reissue gentle and firm pressure on your agents and representatives and re-pitch the best you’ve got to offer. Given you do, Venus likely smiles on your reinvigorated effort.

During the past couple of days a huge amount of Internet attention went out to the asteroid Apophis (99942). Discovered in 2004, this Near Earth Object (NEO) figures to be a Potentially Hazardous Object (PHO), meaning its orbit poses a collision threat to Earth. Indeed it does. Estimates indicate that Apophis could/maybe/might impact our planetary platform in 2036 or 2037. If nothing else, it might come closer than one of our communications satellites that hover over Earth at an altitude 22,300 miles, giving us quite a rush. Then again, it might collide with one of the other known 833 PHO’s (or one of the unknowns) before then, incalculably altering its orbit. Yep, 833 known PHO’s including the likes of Zephyr, Pan, Minos, Hathor and Hypno.

I’m not much interested in promoting scary scenarios of doom. That job appears to belong to the Homeland Security Department in the United States and a handful of psychics and channels who evidently never had the chance to finish terrifying stories around the fire during summer camp. What interests me is the recent proposal that the United Nations be charged with finding a way to avert asteroid-based global catastrophe. The truth is, Earth will be hit again. We just don’t know when. Personally, I’m of the belief that the sense of urgency around diverting asteroids motivated the comet collision mission of a few years ago. Since we’ve landed on Eros - a feat resulting from a Valentine’s Day rendezvous - we’re pretty sure we can master redirecting the harder asteroids. But if we rely upon explosive devices, soft core asteroids pose a greater problem as they’ll likely absorb some of the blast; who knows what laser beam prompting would do, if anything?

Anyway, a number of years ago President Ronald Reagan suggested that if the Earth ever faced invaders from other worlds, the countries of the world would unite in thwarting the threat. Let us hope that this could be accomplished without an ego feud like the one between Patton and Montgomery in Africa during World War II. Back to point, we do have a threat from invaders from inner space; it’s just that they manifest as space rocks, not grey aliens or aliens of any other color for that matter. The image is rather cool, really. What if the planet could aspire to work as one world? True be told, if the Earth is impacted by the rather large Apophis, life on Earth will be severely disrupted (destroyed?) for quite some time, no matter what faith one maintains, what dogma one believes and what weapons the country of residence maintains. Global unity in this cosmic effort could be a good idea really. We could develop a reasonably nondestructive method of asteroid deflection. Of course, we’ll have no idea if that’s tampering with Mother Nature, so to speak. Nonetheless the effort pulls the world together and hopefully can install larger vision that neutralizes the squabbles over this and that now impairing consciousness and evolution.

This recent media blitz about Apophis coincided with the Sun entering Pisces and crossing the point where Apophis comes closest to the Sun. How cool would it be to launch this united effort and use the same zodiac degree as a check point of annual progress? Write your political leaders. Maybe this is Pluto to the Galactic Center. If you don’t want to become toast, work together. From a space point of view, we’re all in the same jar of jam.

I’m not inspired to write a commercial today. You’re certainly welcome to visit the store in my website and find some goodies to assist in making the vernal vigor sound like “vroom!”