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       Weeks of 23+30 Aug 2010

After decades of winters not cold enough long enough to knock their number down enough in the Great White North, the pine beetle has so ravaged BC’s forests, they are so prime for tinder. Smoke from hundreds of fires drift all the way to Saskatchewan, and wildfire threat hangs over ¾ of the province. Doesn’t that burn you up?
Along with Mercury turning retrograde Friday, giving rational people pause to rethink what’s said and what they do, Neptune, the Magnifier, was at its closest point to Mother Earth. Neptune, the Pest and the Irritant, points out difficulties and problems, if not outright misleadings and deceptions.
The horribly optimistic NOAA report on the Gulf Disaster was not reviewed by independent scientists after all. It’s horribly wrong. For one, there’s still a plume of oil 35 kilometres long sitting a kilometre under the surface. BP doesn’t care. It can boast a false report and cut off thousands of disaster claims.
Too late, environmental reviews are now needed for deepwater oil drilling. Oil Dealer Saudi Arabia supports religious fanatics but not Muslim flood victims. The “timber mafia” made floods worse in Pakistan, that country ready to fall apart. Niger is in a worse food crisis than 2005. Iran again plays the nuclear Boogey Man. Undisclosed CIA 9/11 interrogation tapes were found under a desk.
Harper continues to silence critics. We don’t need a voice for veteran’s rights or decent data for the census or lethal weapons to be registered, and the CRTC should censor more. Zero Tolerance for a NY mosque distracts from the promised drawdown of Iraqi troops. Obama’s “problem” is he was born to a Muslim father, no matter what he says he is. Half a billion eggs are recalled by a factory farm noted for “problems”. Gulf seafood needs more than a “smell test”. On and on the litany goes for gazillions of “difficulties” nobody seems able or willing to do much about.
And, if you can’t realistically do anything about the Boogey Man (Neptune) going “Boo!” or the Spider’s Web ensnaring you into a hopeless tangle, what do you do? Especially with Mercury saying it’s time to give the verbal and mental push a rest, stop investing in tail-chasing. Give it up. Let it go. Take Time Out. So, I am.

The Weeks of the 23rd and the 30th: Under the Full Moon Monday night, the 23rd, the Sun gets worked up into a sweat, then gets mostly pacified, catching personal pleasantries along its way to a very weak weekend. Then, somebody just has to lose it.
In the background, the club-footed dance of the Giant Planets continues its crush. Saturn split the socially-collecting forces of Jupiter-Uranus on the 8th. Jupiter started its fight back opposing fading, restrictive Saturn last Monday, the 16th. Thursday, the 26th, gives Jupiter the muscle to make (the adaptable) or break (the stubborn).
Then, who knows? That’s not a wild and stupid guess. That’s the wild and stupid, continually spaced-out, going-nowhere-in-particular-and-not-knowing-it condition until Labour Day weekend. Then, the Labour is one of Love, appreciation of Number One, and if not why not? Don’t you like yourself enough? Come on, have a treat.

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Monday - Wednesday, 23-25 August. (apogee Full Moon in Aquarius. The Sun in Virgo aspects Mars, then Saturn / Jupiter-Uranus, then Venus / Mars. 0-2 Mutable, 15-17 Cardinal)
Well, it’s a start, enough shove to get things going, but where’s the support? Who needs it? Everyone is here for themselves, selfish improvements, like a workout at the gym, too sweaty and grotty for public exposure. This is for your own good, to heck with the rest.

Thursday, 26 August. (Moon in late Pisces. Jupiter retrograde in Aries aspects Saturn / Uranus. 1 Cardinal, 16 Fixed)
Giant Planet Complex. What Saturn got so twisted about on the 8th, Jupiter can now unwind. A huge push is on to get things in Order, sorted out, rebuilt, reorganised. Make no mistake, practical adjustments must be made or this breaks into a thousand pieces.

Sunday, 29 August. (Moon in Taurus. The Sun in Virgo aspects retrograde Mercury / Neptune. 6 Mutable, 21 Cardinal)
If you don’t let this dribble out and ooze across the floor, it will splat and splash in the worstest way, sticking slime to the walls, getting generally icky. You don’t want this, no matter what the offer. Now, if a wink, a smile, a coy come-on, that’s another matter.

Friday – Saturday, 3-4 September. (Moon in Cancer. Retrograde Mercury aligns with the Sun, aspect Venus trine Neptune, Mars / Jupiter-Uranus. 10-12 and 25-27 degrees of All Signs)
Wonderful rewards for those daring enough for a radical makeover. Toss all the old plans and ways, give this a real restart. Scrub deep, to the core, down to your base. And, when you think you’re done, go at it some more. Why consider how this looks or feels? It won’t be pretty or nice to get good at attractive. Sweet roses need rich manure.

Sunday, 5 September. (Moon in Leo. Retrograde Mercury in Virgo aspects Mars. 8 Mutable, 23 Cardinal)
Ouch, like ripping the skin off, this hurts! Like eating crow, bones of contention are not fun anymore. You are a dead duck staying in the middle of this highway. To get ahead, step back, look for escapes, new paths. Win by not fighting, staying open, very flexible.
(The Sun in Virgo aspects Venus, Uranus / Neptune. 13 Mutable, 28 Cardinal)
This bus has no driver, but the auto-pilot is pretty good. Nobody needs to control a thing, so let it ride. Consciousness by committee of mindless automatons, it’s a from-the-bottom-up thing. So, who’s that puppet at the podium? Who holds the strings?

If you want the "horrible-scopes", go somewhere else. If you want the meaning behind them, stay on.
 

 16-18 August, 2010
Mon~Wed(the Moon in late Scorpio, Sagittarius. The Sun in Leo aspects Mercury / Jupiter – Uranus. 24-25 Fixed, 9-10 Cardinal)

If you want an agreement, an understanding, a connection that works well, a contract that profits, you couldn’t ask for a better opportunity. Talk is cheap, easy, easily agreeable.

(Jupiter retrograde in Aries opposed Saturn square Pluto. 2 Cardinal, 17 Fixed)  One straw may break a camel’s back. This is a bale dump, heavy and crushing, too much too soon to easily deal with. Daddy Big Bucks is taking away what he thinks is his, what he needs to survive, in his accustomed style of course, and the rest will do without.
 

18-19 August,2010
Wed~Thurs   (Moon in late Sagittarius. Mars and Venus in Libra aspect Neptune. 12 Cardinal, 27 Fixed)
Like lost lovers, first you pine away, despairing, grieving, feeling torn and tossed. Talk about imagination, hyper-sensitivity, overblown melodramatics. Sheesh, gimme a break.

Friday, 20 August. (Moon in Capricorn, squaring an alignment of Venus and Mars. 13 Cardinal, 28 Fixed)

Ah, Sweet Lovers, here is your break. Guileless, guiltless, brazen and unashamed, play to your heart’s content. Abandon yourself in the adventure. Taste this to the full. Then, get a good rest and go at it again. The show is yours to steal. Then, tuck it all away, leave no evidence Sunday. Oh, such sorrow. Such love pined for, masked and secreted under the Full Moon, not to be loosed and known again for the eternity of another week.

(The Sun in late Leo opposed Neptune. 27 Fixed, 13 Cardinal)
Oh, Neptune, you are such a Tease. But, that is part of the seduction, the fascination, the appeal to what you can’t have, what isn’t real. What a wonderful world of pretend and posture, great for the box office. Did you pay much for that ticket?

(Mercury turns retrograde in Virgo. 19 Mutable, 4 Fixed)

Let’s not get ahead of ourselves here. Oh, we did? Then, we’ll have to take something back. But, to where? That place doesn’t exist anymore. This retrograde will sweep many an antiquated tome from your library. Think again, big time!