How about a little astrological rambling today? Oh, good, I knew you’d be interested! Okay:

Today was the Capricorn Full Moon. A lot of people have been commenting on this one! The Capricorn Moon makes demands, initiates commands and applies stern corrections.

Capricorn’s motto is, “Don’t be afraid to break it. If it can be broken, it’s not strong enough.”

And Cancer’s motto is, “I’m breakable, where can I hide? How can I protect myself, where do I go to be safe?” Like all oppositions, they are two faces of the same thing, inextricably connected. When they don’t understand this, they fight. This is the primary challenge of integrating any polarity.

When these signs face each other unwillingly, they are enemies. This is where war and oppression are sourced. Terror protects itself from rage, rage intimidates terror. Capricorn controls through rules and obligations; Cancer protects itself by sinking into its own subjective mire of emotion and memory, by revealing herself only when she feels strong.

I say terror rather than fear because while fear can be a reaction to a mental judgment or idea (for example, fear in response to the following thought: “there’s a bear, oh my god, bears kill people, they’re dangerous!”), terror is pure, simple, visceral and can’t be prevented from reacting without resorting to the deceptive expedient of denial.

Terror is the experience of the part of the self that remembers that the bear did kill you, and you were dead, with entrails sprawling and guts rooted through for the good parts. Terror is triggered by memory of trauma that has not been processed. When you remember having been devoured by the bear, whether you realize that you are remembering or not, thereafter, when you encounter another bear, you experience an automatic, inarguable and completely reflexive terrified reaction. Thoughts, if they occur, take place entirely in the depths of the subconscious.

That’s Cancer. Terror.

Capricorn is rage, a cold, pure rage composed of a focused will to evolve, to manage to continue the existence of life, and not a single selfish individual either but an entire species.

Capricorn is where you know exactly how much effort is required in order to accompliah a task that is necessary for survival. When the two signs are in balance, Capricorn is also how far you need to go to make sure your Cancer side is safe, protected and allowed to feel her feelings as deeply as she needs to in order for healing into the deep past.

Cancer is the deep past. Tthe Cancer side remembers everything that has ever happened to you, especially all the ways you’ve been hurt and all the ways you’ve died, and also the ways your foremothers died, what they knew, what they had learned and the stories they told.

Cancer is your heritage, and she is your mother, you are her child. She provides the link to all your mothers and their mothers. You all have bonded to your mothers’ bodies, and Capricorn requires you to take responsibility for keeping your genetic line safe. In Cancer, the only safety is with Mother.

In the Capricorn-Cancer polarity, balance is found when we accept responsibility (Capricorn) and take appropriate, grounded action for our emotions (Cancer), our memories, our childhoods and the evolutionary survival of our species, which means, the good of the planet which cradles it.

We survive as a species not by becoming stronger, more aggresive, more vulnerable, smarter or any single change or improvement. We survive by becoming fitter, by adapting better to our environment and its changes.

The Cardinal Cross is the birthplace of the self within its context. Altogether, it describes how we are oriented relative to our matrix. The cusps of the houses which correspond to the cardinal signs (known as angles) are the portals through which we may interface with the world around us.

In our inner world, we are the creators, the generators, the communicators and the containers of our selves. But there is a double split in our inner worlds; the split occurs in the cardinal cross

Capricorn is the earth element sign of the cardinal cross. In order to get to the Capricorn point, known as the Midheaven, we must strive, work and commit. We are required to grow into this place; it is the arena of physical and societal mastery, of ambition, of what we strive to become in the world.

Here, we take responsibility for the enormity of the task that faces us. For in Capricorn, we are called on to accept responsibility for the fate of the collective entity that is our own species, which requires that we accept our dependency on the health of the biosphere. We are being called upon to restrain our excesses.

This is the portal through which we are meant to add our political and social preferences to the general consensus-building process (this is exactly how evolution works in nature and at a genetic level in all life) and thereby help to guide our species to its evolutionary destiny.

Capricorn holds the keys to the Future, as Cancer retains memory of the Past. In Capricorn, our personal fates depend utterly upon finding a collective consensus agreement for how to live rightly that suits our own personal style and needs.

Of course, if we were expressing Capricorn’s potential fully, the world would look very different. There would be no war, simply ceaseless, relentless negotiation with our environment, just as occurs in nature. War is rage attacking whatever is in front of it, and the reason for war is frustration at the ways that life does not reflect our personal style or needs, writ large.

Humanity is ultimately one single entity, and all our dramas, tales, triumphs and woes are visions playing out in the mind of that great big growing baby.

We, this entity (plural because face it, it’s us) are the only begotten child of God, and it’s our responsibility to grow up and look around at what we are doing to our rooms. And clean up after ourselves. This mess is disgusting.

Cancer and Capricorn can help each other, and when they bind and commit, marry themselves fully within a given self, you will gain the fitness you need to become the true Child of God and Earth.

If there is a God, then Astrology is the language that God is teaching us now. Who do you think the three wise men were? How do you think the prophets prophesied?

There are two faces of astrology. The inner self, which is charted in the relationships within between planetary forces, and the human collective self, whose evolution is charted in the movements and relationships between the planets in the sky, right now.

The first is fascinating and compelling and of profound importance to some. The second is crucial.

Let me teach you this language. It gets lonely with so few folk who speak your tongue. I have taught some, and I’m good at it. Pluto (in Capricorn now) says, it’s important to take that collective responsibility now and not a moment later, young man. Uranus says, watch the fuck out because the storm is coming.

If you don’t want to die in a global war, make your peace with yourselves and each other before Uranus transits into Aries in 2010.

Back in the late nineties, I wrote a song called “In the Moon of Fire.” Though I didn’t know it at the time, I have a feeling this Uranus ingress into Aries is the time that song referred to.

In the Moon of Fire
Carry nothing but your weight
Bear no gifts, and pack no freight
Would you rather be on time, or be too late?
Bear no grudges, but don’t you wait

The chart for the Uranus ingress into Aries shows that the Moon will be full in the fire sign Sagittarius on that day. This is a time of massive potential conflagration.

It’s also a time of massive potential paradigm change. Myself, as an astrologer, I predict paradigm change. We’re not stupid, just figuring it out. Some of us are pushers for change, and some are resisters, and we’re all doing just what we’re supposed to. It’s all got to happen in its own right and good timing, according to Capricorn/Cancer.

This ingress is a big portal time. This particular chart has many indicators that we’ll be given all the help we need in terms of energy alignments for positive evolution in the direction of planetary surthrival (that’s a word I just now invented, meaning not only surviving but thriving too).

So, happy-sad, scared-mad Capricorn Full Moon today, ruled by Saturn, the two-faced God. It’s survival and growth, but also the tedious business of decomposition and preparing the garden. And it’s all good anyway.

Here we have no escape from challenges. But our challenges are made meaningful when we start to look for and perceive the meaning in them.

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