The Grasp of the Local Group ~ 12 August 2008

The Grasp of the Local Group could be Friday’s late night space invader horror film on an obscure channel, but it’s all about Mars mixing up with a whole mess of black holes. Over the next days Mars makes a tense, but evocative angle to the creatively rich core of the galaxy and follows with a similar push on Pluto, asking for transformational rendering. And there’s a lot more to it than those two influences.

Mars, having just spun his way past the Whirlpool Galaxy, now travels in the vicinity of the Local Group, a cluster of more than thirty galaxies that congregate around a common gravitational core known as the Super-Galactic Center. Each of these galaxies runs on an “engine” that operates on super massive black hole power. What one may notice is that as picky pot holes are encountered that we might blame on collection of Virgo influences, many of these are deeper than imagined. In fact, when one puts a toe in to check the depth, not only does one realize there’s no bottom... one realizes one has gone beyond known dimensions of time and space, now grappling with a template of consciousness that makes sense in this non-ordinary reality, but you know when you bring it back to “ordinary” reality, it’s going to be hard to apply.

The passage of Mars to the collection of black holes will be in effect from now until about the 27^th of August at which point Mercury and Venus add their two cents for another week. They’ll speak up loudly about needs, desires, wishes and expectations that orbit in the relationship and economic universes. Will they be heard? Depends on how Mars gets done.

Black holes contribute a series of paradoxical interesting effects all of which have symbolic or metaphorical references to consciousness. A black hole cannot be seen because no light can come out (actually it’s bent over backward upon itself). Yet, the gravitational influence and consumption of that which dares near a black hole heats up the surrounding region of space to millions of degrees making the area energetically bright. Some black holes are the brightest objects known. As well, the intense gravity bends light so severely (and warps time, too) that can actually reach around or see behind an object.

The process of consumption exhibited by a black hole seemingly takes the matter of things around it (galactic gas, dust left over from Creation, stellar mass, light) and gobbles it up, compressing the stuff into infinite smallness, essentially squeezing the light out of it. Could this be a “take what matters and lighten it up” metaphor? It’s far better to get behind that one, especially if using Mars to flirt with the event horizon of black holes.

When a planet occupies the same space as a black hole, a horoscope experiences difficulty expressing that planet. The complaint is that the influence is invisible, unclear and almost off the charts. In black hole reality, the planet takes a joy ride into another dimension of consciousness in the interest of returning later - possibly even before the journey began - with some exceptionally keen insight. Let us hope.

So what do we get to expect? Realize as many masters report, it’s not always how it seems. The fireworks seen on television during the Olympic opening were electronically superimposed. Also during Olympic festivities the adorable little girl singing “Ode to the Motherland” was lip synching. If we really knew what was going on behind the scenes, we might think differently of things.

Just to add another influence to the mix here, on August 13^th, the reality base of Saturn in Virgo challenges the fairly recently named Trans-Neptunian Object Borasisi strolling through Pisces. For whatever astronomical reason Borasisi is named for the Sun in a fictitious religion, Boknonism, created by Kurt Vonnegut in his novel, Cat’s Cradle. Bokonism is a religion made up of lies, but if a person follows those lies they live a good life. (More on this aspect in the new Politics section of my website).

How paradoxically cool is it that as Mars in Virgo probes super massive black holes in search of invisible truths, Saturn and Borasisi oppose? Can we get anything out of this? Absolutely.

First, apply instinctive, primal filters. If a statement made by a news pundit, politician or employer induces a shiver up the spine, take heed. The difficulty lies in determining if that was a positive shiver or a take heed and be acutely perceptive impulse. To honor the daily collection of impulses, take a little time out to calm the noise of the day. Go deep, way beyond the point of mental chatter in search of life solutions. It is possible that the solution is a shift of energy, not an action? Some say, “Change your attitude and opportunities appear.” According to black holes the premise goes: know the core of your energy and be receptive to what naturally draws to it. With black holes there’s no forcing of fits or making it work. When a black hole grabs, it’s a done deal.

Given an energy reset and assuming black hole proximity brilliant luster, shake off the labels and accusations thrown at you by those not knowing your unique behind the scenes agenda. There’s no need to contest or rebel against such claims. Simply, reconnect with yourself.

Once Mars enters Libra (August 18), and for the next week or so, he engages the core of the super-galaxy, the Super Galactic Center (2 Libra 04, 2000 position). This point represents soul mating. The distinction offered up by the black hole does not promise meeting or reaffirming with your spiritual one and only; it insists upon your psyche falling completely into the singularity of your soul. Reset your sense of being to shake off the negativity of the world. Clear the unthinking projections cast your way. Insure your vitreous domicile is stone proof. Be cool within your conscious thinking and declarations as you seek what suits your spirit. Allow nothing to shake the core instincts that constitute your consciousness.

Add the lunar eclipse this weekend, and the air is chock of insight!

Speaking of this weekend, a big debate is scheduled at John Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory on the status of Pluto.