The Lighter Side of Fire

By Len Wallick

Comedy isn’t pretty”
–Steve Martin

As Neptune prepares to station direct within arc minutes of its discovery degree in Aquarius, the Scorpio Sun today gets into the flow with a remote object that was discovered in the same degree as Neptune but over a century and a half later.

The Moon, for its part, moves from expressed harmony to confronting mystery in the course of a day. And Mars, well Mars fire walks like an Egyptian.

Welcome to election day in the United States. To those for whom politics is a passion or occupation, this is a desperate and frantic climax to months and even years of hard work and devotion. Of course, the results and their consequences of this mid-term balloting will ultimately matter to nearly every American citizen and a good many of those who are not. It’s a matter of degree and a matter of time.

Lest we take ourselves too seriously, however, Sol offers some perspective. Today the Sun demonstrates a flowing water trine that is too timely to be ignored. That aspect is with a binary system that crosses the orbit of Pluto. The names of the objects in that binary are Borasisi and Pabu.

The names are taken from a fictional novel that combined science, history and the darkest of comedy. The title of that work was Cat’s Cradle. The author was a solar Scorpio born on eleven-eleven, Kurt Vonnegut.

The late, great Mr. Vonnegut exemplified in his life the theme for our week (and perhaps the next several), that is the tour of Mars in Sagittarius. Being held prisoner by Nazis must have been no picnic. Being held prisoner by Nazis in an underground slaughterhouse meat locker would been terrifying. Being held prisoner by Nazis in an underground slaughterhouse meat locker while the entire city around you is incinerated in the most horrific non-nuclear aerial assault in history could easily have been enough trauma to drive a man mad.

Instead, Kurt Vonnegut sublimated that experience into a lifetime of creativity that provided equal parts laughter and pause, with not a few tears, for millions of readers. In the mythos of Cat’s Cradle, Borasisi is the Sun, Pabu is the Moon and their estranged relationship is at the core of Bokononism, the fictional religion featured in the plot.

Now, turn your attention to a group of astronomers laboring away just before the end of the twentieth century, trying to ignore the possibility that Y2k could destroy all their data, and freezing their butts off night after night on top of Mauna Kea. They were witnessing sunspots that could swallow our planet without a trace, super novas, black holes, entire galaxies devastated in the depths of cold eternity.

Then one day, after pouring over thousands of photographs they spot it. An undiscovered object in our solar system. Something to publish so as not to perish and maybe enough for tenure. And after all that with so much on the line for their reputations and livelihoods they name it Borasisi and Pabu?

That’s healthy perspective for you.

Today, the Virgo Moon treads the path more often taken but somehow ends up in the same place. Fresh from the veil, Luna sextiles Mercury in Scorpio. If ever there were a time to speak the unspeakable, it would be a climax. This heartfelt harmony of earth to water echoes with the passionate sound and fury of election day and will no doubt coincide with reports of same.

But Virgo also opposes Pisces, ruled by Jupiter and currently the residence of both Jupiter and Uranus. Jupiter also rules Sagittarius where Mars has just begun a gauntlet of transcendence which the Moon feels twisting inside, but never more than at the end of the day, at the end of Virgo when Luna conjoins Makemake.

This past July 11, the shadow of a total eclipse scored across thousands of miles of water making brief landfall less than a handful of times. One of those times was at Easter Island. There, the deity Makemake originated, a creator created by a desperate people who had abused their little island in the void and were suffering the consequences. Makemake was created to supplant the previous paradigm in the hopes that it would make a difference.

And a conjunction to this dwarf planet is where the Moon ends up today, neatly opposed to the expansion of Uranus, the both of them in tension (or is it intention?) with the deep mystery of the center of our galaxy. For some this could be an ending, for others a beginning. Where does this Moon fall in your natal chart? Take a look, it could be worth a lot.

Then there is our intrepid Mars, still tight with Eros for the time being but perhaps awakening to the idea that Sagittarius is not all fun and games. Today a draft opens and the furnace blast of Isis flows from Leo across the path Mars and his boy must cross. In time it will not seem like much compared to the rest and that is the perspective we need.

When the fire surrounds us and we are peering out from the depths of prolonged tension, continued confrontation and unprecedented uncertainty we need to look forward as though we are looking back. With perspective there is humor, with creativity there is redemption.

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