Blame It On the Stars

It seems as if a force as strong as an intense hurricane has jumped into the 2011 arena and is shaking the Tree of Life until all of the rotten fruit, dead branches, and browning leaves are falling to the ground with regularity.

It’s not quite spring, and yet the first months of the year have been all about cleaning house. And if no one planned an early Spring Cleaning, forces beyond our mortal selves appear to be shoving the world and a few of its high profile inhabitants into shedding a super flashlight beam into the dirty, cluttered corners of their world for all to see.

How can anyone ignore the seeming “coincidence” of once-suppressed emotions of frustration, mass anger, individual mental illness/addiction/afflictions that are at critical mass? I’m not talking Mother Nature and the typical political rants. A Pandora’s Box of karma, previously ignored and/or hidden desires, fires, geyser’s, are spouting out into earth’s atmosphere like a vast container of super quality fireworks. Fascinating to watch; dangerous to be near when the fuse is lit.

It’s not just the Warlock-Adonis-Winning-Duh or Gaddafi  - or the very, very unusual long-term stand-offs in Wisconsin and additional unrest going on in the U.S. This post also concerns a trend I’ve been watching in the lives of people who live far away from the cameras of public interest.

To clarify, I realize that “life” moves in cycles - as does nature’s seasons. I “get” that truth: sheet happens for a while, and then, if fortunate, the plumber arrives and all the pipes are fixed and life flows on for a while without a hitch. 

But something’s different right now. It’s as if skeletons long shoved into crowded closets of shame or blame have been raided by things that go bump in the night and one awakens to see the gnarly truths on disheveled display spread out on the floor in blinding daylight. Ugly stuff, indeed! Or, for some people, a positive wakeup reminder that it’s time to remove the denial blinders.

To what am I referring beyond the obvious examples? Bizarre actions, reactions and extremely strange behaviour has been rising to the surface in supposedly enlightened individuals. Professionals in their craft have been on the verge of unlike-them breakdowns; once-reliable people have bolted from responsibilities citing suicidal feelings in the middle of a project; horrendous accidents have disfigured those whose work depends on how they look. And these are stories I’ve simply heard about people in the lives of people in my life.

Looking at what may be causing various parts of the world and individuals to suddenly unleash the demons or festering anger at continued oppression and injustice during the same time period, or others who have been slapped with a huge wave of un-wanted reality, I’ve felt that there may be more to it than the typical response of “it’s just the sign of the times.”

Your life might be easy, wonderful…and you don’t relate to what you may deem as “negativity” in the atmosphere. Perhaps your personal life is steady and not tainted by the whoosh of odd cosmic energy, but it’s no coincidence that there is a different hue to the colour of the lid of Pandora’s Box this time around. And thus I’ve looked to astrology to learn what is going on with planetary alignments which could be stimulating the hidden to come out into the open.

You may not believe in astrology. You might find such a focus a quasi-superstitious belief of people whose feet rarely touch the ground. All right then. You have your attitude about it and I have mine. Just humour me for a moment on the possibility that Astrology IS a Science. Within "Science" are mystical, logical, mathematical, illogical, unexplainable, forces yet to be fully discovered and advanced. Each day brings new discoveries in that realm.

"Sensing" things is not a Science, although we know what has been said about "women's intuition." Combining astrology with intuition, there is an intuitive beeping within my inner radar that suggests what we are witnessing has a great deal to do with planetary influences - not the "End of Days"

To explain why I feel this way, adding the astrological influences, would take too much time today. So...more will come on this subject – tomorrow – unless Michele Bachmann makes yet another rambling statement against the Obama administration as “gangsters.” Then I’ll have to post her picture and write snarky remarks about that little hypocritical tart.

Oh, be still my bleeping heart.