By Len Wallick
We don’t know yet. We can’t tell yet. We can’t see yet. Since April 20, 2010, the 900 pound gorilla has grown and grown and grown. If you don’t know what that refers to, take a deep breath, feel the sun on your back, have a drink of water or touch a tree and consider that the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico could just possibly and ultimately take all of that away.
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We don’t know yet. Given one short-sighted lie after another, we don’t know how bad it is or how bad it’s going to get. Uranus ingressed Aries on May 27 just as we were waking up to the scope of lies and dismal potential. Jupiter following the next week seems to have magnified things. But we don’t know yet.
We can’t tell yet. Since Saturn stationed forward in late Virgo on May 30, nobody has been willing to say if the the petroleum volcano can be stopped or when. If the damage can be healed or when. If balance in the natural world is irretrievably lost. If justice can be achieved in the law and economics. Saturn usually corresponds to creating structures for sustenance, but we can’t tell yet.
We can’t see yet. Pluto in Capricorn historically corresponds with a restructuring of institutions and cultures. It seems inevitable that it would happen in a world increasingly toxic. But the transformation and metamorphosis of Pluto often takes place in the dark and we can’t see yet.
Above all, the square aspect calls for action. Two would shout. Four is a constant scream to do something and now. Put those four on the cardinal points and no consciousness is exempt. But if we don’t know, if we can’t tell and we can’t see our way clear, what exactly are we supposed to do? That hooks us back to yesterday’s blog. Back not only to the corresponding geometry but also the single underlying ethic of baseball.
MIT’s renaissance man Noam Chomsky once averred correctly that organized sports were intended to be “a distraction from what’s important”. It is therefore with considerable deliberation that your curmudgeon correspondent continues with the baseball metaphor as a tool to bring awareness and perspective to the continuous and current grand cross at the cardinal points.
As a point of fact, however, for most of its participants baseball has never been very organized nor professional. For generations, women, children and men would gather to experience what has been called the divine geometry and proportions of the game. Because it was fun. Because it inspired something within them.
Among other things, astrology is about geometry and proportion. The geometry of the moment is a cross. Four ninety-degree angles. In baseball this is a diamond. In astrology it is four concurrent squares. In either case, having the four corners occupied is a moment of maximum tension. The next event will release that tension. The nature of that event is determined by the participants. The quality of the unfolding depends on the extent to which each participant observes the game’s great ethic.
That is usually referred to as “the way the game was meant to be played”. Giving one’s full effort in executing the most intelligent action under the circumstances, no matter how hopeless the chances of success. Part of the divine geometry and proportion of the diamond is exhibited by a single event that has taken place uncounted times over a century. The batter hits a routine grounder to an infield defender. The defender then fields the ball in a routine manner and throws the batter (now transformed into a runner) out at first base (an island of territory that belongs to whomever gets there first). Time and time again the runner is out.
Yet the great ethic of baseball demands the the runner give it his all and attempt to beat the throw. It is considered a great offense to the game and all who have played it not to do so. Why? Because the routine is never a certainty. But consistent integrity of effort can be. If and only if the participants observe the great ethic, then on the occasion when the routine becomes the exception, the opportunity created can be availed.
Which brings us to Chiron. Yesterday the Sun ingressed the sign of Cancer and joined the cardinal grand cross with a square to Uranus in Aries. Tomorrow it continues that aspect — the tension, the routine if you will — with a square to Jupiter. But today routine is the exception. Today the Sun forms a trine (120 degrees of separation) to Chiron, now retrograde in Pisces. A trine of support. A trine of flow. A trine of opportunity.
Back on April 20, when Chiron first ingressed Pisces the economic, cultural and governmental institutions upon which we depend for our survival let us down. They failed to observe the great ethic of baseball. They did not give the full, intelligent effort called for by the circumstances. They do not deserve a place on the playing field. They should be forced to pay us for a ticket and watch us show them the way the game is meant to be played.
Today that’s the gift of Chiron, the inconvenient benefic, the teacher, the awakener. A gift of awareness for those who give their all with integrity and keep their heads. Safe at first.
Offered In Service
“Because the routine is never a certainty. But consistent integrity of effort can be.”
Dear Len & Planetwaves friends, Thank you so much, Len, for sticking with your baseball metaphor despite the intimidating Noam Chomsky’s opinion. ‘Consistent integrity of effort’ is exactly what’s on my mind right now. That quality has gently been infiltrating my life since my early 30’s, late I agree, due to a chaotic and abusive upbringing. But it’s my choice now. I take responsibility for all my reactions and responses now. It’s the only way to change them. Now at almost 54, I’m ramping up my ‘consistent integrity of effort’ with the help of my loving creator who expresses creator self in many beloved people around me and resources like Planetwaves, etc. Midlife is a great time to do this because of all the ‘crisis’ energy available. How do I want the 2nd half, or at least last 3rd of my life to go? What good things do I want to take into the future with me and what time-wasters do I want to leave behind? I know what they are for me. How do I choose to respond to this world, this beautiful planet, our mother? How do I choose to respond to the events of my life? Thank you so much. Because of your focus on BP, I include something I posted for Eric. Thanks, susy
From my writing group meeting Monday, May 24, 2010:
He splashed her singing in the sunshine as she planted her flowers, weaving some of the blossoms into a headdress where they wiggled as she moved in the breeze, mesmerizing, fascinating. He was water; she was earth multiplying and rooting seeds within her rocky, but friendly breast. She was a beautiful planet, a world unto herself, gliding through her paces in her place in the starlit universe, draped in blue, white, green and brown, innocent and unbroken. If only she could have stayed that way, listening to the music of the spheres praising from the heart of her a never ending song.
“Enumerate my children,” she cried. “So many you have never seen shaped to infinite size both large and small, all, all of you my children. Each giving way to the next in the dance of creation. And now you, my human children have wounded me in my side, poisoning my lover water and killing my sea children and bird children and soon, soon even yourselves in your rush to be the first of my children to consciously choose the hour of your own departure. You will leave me riven and macerated; what will be left of me when you are gone? I, I who have given you all I had in the miracle of my own creation and placement in this amazing universe.”
@moonrose. Thank you for your reply.
My tone was indeed coming from a darker side of my brain. I had just finished reading Len’s post, and was thinking it over. My “accidental” comment was coming from thoughts of a quote from HBO’s remarkable Treme, “What hit the Mississippi Gulf Coast was a natural disaster, a hurricane, pure and simply. The flooding of New Orleans was a man made catastrophe, a Federal fuckup of epic proportions.” And I was musing on the many posts on Planetwaves over these past two months illustrating the un-naturalness of this man-made oil geyser. So, I posted a comment about a realization – no more, no less. It certainly wasn’t the most erudite point I’ve ever made, and it mostly revealed that I was late to the ballgame. My conspiracy theorist membership card has expired, I’m sure.
I posted what I did because they were events that came to mind. They were events that happened in my lifetime that I saw on live TV….and while watching these events unfold on a TV screen, Hitler’s birthday was brought up and/or one of the other preceeding events tied together by talking heads and the rumor mill. I’m neutral as to Hitler’s birthday but Dylan and Eric and any number of tv station acronyms appeared to think it had a symbolic power.
I didn’t consider 420 day to be a negative annual event.
January 21st holds no terrible memories for me. I thank you for your concern, but I think we’re having some interference or static in understanding one another. That’s all right, it’s a pretty natural thing too. Plugging along and getting to know each other and having a dialogue is the point, I think.
High Five Len!
🙂 and xo to everylife here in PW Virtual Space as well as aboard spaceship earth.
Feelin’ the Healin’.
It appears that Chiron’s message is being heard loud and clear. Good show.
Moonrose: a hug.
thanks HazelF. I don’t think I’ll disappear again and I really appreciate your encouragement not to.
I’m off to the pool on this sweltering warm and humid day.
thank you —
I am feelin’ the love… And I hope ya’ll feel mine too.
xo
moonrose
Dear Paola, thank you for what you shared, and in such a sensitive manner too. I remember that, though I don’t remember specifically what it was about. I didn’t know about your upbringing and I’m sorry I caused an old wound to resurface. There can be good in that, though: we can’t heal what we can’t feel.
It’s true, I can be direct, but I don’t consider myself aggressive. I certainly don’t want to be either.
Who made me post police anyway?! I do wonder! :0) The thing is, my dad always, and still, says things that are completely negative or hurtful without having any facts to back his point of view up or any consideration of a larger picture. So a sensitive spot in me can surface too, and my intent is always to show something that maybe we don’t see, or to consider something maybe we should.
Speaking of baseball, even guys with .200 batting averages are considered good and paid well. Imagine that, 2 of 10 times at bat they might connect with the ball and get on base. And that’s considered good! So we gotta swing the bat, even if all of us rocks (thanks patty!), all of us rocks, sometimes rock the boat in the process.
Thank you to all the third base coaches out there! We’ll get to home plate yet.
much love & gratitude,
moonrose
PMoonrose, et al, what Patty said, I second. And as I seem to recall Patricia, you mentioned once that you hesitated to write on here and held back in the past – well we’d be the poorer for it if you were to revert back to that way of being, so please don’t consider quittin’ the thread or anything else on here…d’ye hear?
And Paola, knots in stomachs are such brilliant indicators aren’t they? Even though I know that for myself, I still ignore them from time to time and store them up until eventually I blast something out, making everything so much worse and always regretting it (as I’m sure some of you have borne witness – embarassed look on my face here) – so good for you for heeding your guts, which I think takes guts.
Aye, blogs are a bugger for misunderstandings etc, but it’s great when we try to sort ourselves out as we go. This is the way to go…
Lots’o love.
I noticed that April 20, 2010 in numerology adds up to a 9 – a worldly number. Anyone with children born on April 20 of this year should be taking extra care of these glittering diamonds, for surely they will be the future leaders.
Life Path 9 – philanthropic, humanitarian, socially conscious, and deeply concerned about the state of the world. Compassionate and idealisistic, you are a Utopian and will spend your life trying to realize some aspect of your Utopian dream, sacrificing money, time, and energy for a better world. It is in giving that you will find much satisfaction.
What a fitting time for Chiron in Pisces to enter the ballgame. It is important to remember that we chose our parents and our birth dates before we were born. I don’t usually look at numerology, but it has its place in the scheme of things.
The outcome of our game is not carved in stone. How our spirits progress is up to us. The stars are the same for everyone, but as Len has shown through this analogy, the players are spread out. Life is a game of anticipation, not one of dread, and a wrong turn can always be corrected in this lifetime. Make all wrongs right, is my best advice. One strike out doesn’t condemn you to life on the bench. Get up and start the game over.
Moonroses, you rock. and so does everyone else. I love all ya’all.
Dear P. Moonrose,
I feel a knot in my stomach and therefore I am going to say something regarding this discussion.
Some time ago, a month, maybe more, I felt the same regarding a comment you made to something I had written in this blog. Differently from Judebaker, I choose not to answer and stop the polemic right there, I don’t think that a blog on the internet, that hundreds of people read, where you can’t really see (physically) each other, is a good place to have a discussion that can be delicate.
But I felt hurt, as you did exacly what my parents have always done: stop me and judge me whenever my voice raised a little, whenever I was showing the least sign of aggressiveness.
So I felt hurt, and, as Judebaker said, said to myself that writing on a blog really requires guts, and maybe I wouldn’t write on this blog never again, if I had to be publicly criticized.
Of course after a few days I wrote again, I overcame it and found the way not to take it personally. I appreciated a lot the suggestions you gave me several times in this same blog. But I noticed – and I absolutely don’t want to hurt you in saying that – that a few times you made remarks to messages in the blog that showed some aggressiveness, even a light and healthy one.
And this is my point, from somebody that was made ‘shut up’ many times: energy is life, is vital, and some way of expressing oneself can be perceived as aggressive when they absolutely are not in the intention of the speaker. It’s just passion.
Thank you.
Karen, thank you… the tricky sometimes sticky bits of this style of forum, indeed! I too am grateful for it even so.
xo
moonrose
judebaker,
I apologize sincerely if you felt I was discarding your opinion or post. When I countered your post, and I realize that I did, I whole-heartedly came from a place of widening the view, adding another perspective. I welcome this from anyone, anytime, in any circle I visit as I know that it will only benefit me and help me grow; so I come from that place. It’s impossible to singularly see everything all at once and a community that comes together to improve ourselves and one another, like PW, I would think would welcome such vantage points. I know I do and as such, it’s a give and take in my life. You are right, we do not know one another so I could not know if you would appreciate it or not. I didn’t consider that before I posted, and I apologize for that too.
From where I sit, and in reading your post, even again, if you had not ended it with “For some reason just realizing that, it doesn’t seem so accidental anymore.” after listing the events that you listed, it would have changed the entire tone of your post. That lent an overall negativity to it, and even though you didn’t use the word ‘horrific’ I would suggest that another common thread that exists besides the date itself within the events you chose to list is devastation of lives, and to which horror would aptly apply. Of course, as I mentioned, the association with Hitler came much later than his birthdate.
I did follow your link, and even googled others of my own, and then I wondered why you didn’t also post a few other momentous events. Again, a tone and staging was set by your words… I just followed it. And my reply was based on that.
I am pretty certain that your post was genuine and not meant to cause harm. I am also pretty certain that harm is often caused because a bigger picture hasn’t been considered. Maybe I’m guilty of that too, and I’ll put energy and thought to this today.
I am sorry that January 21st brings such terrible memories to you and I hope you find healing with that. There are resources available that can clear that from your being and I hope you seek something out and explore it. April 20th holds no remorse for me, but one barometer I use often is how something might affect a child and I find myself getting very protective when it comes up possibly hurtful. Not so much for me, but for children who are so affected by the carelessness or ignorance of the adults around them and which often takes so so so very long to overcome, if they’re ever so fortunate. I am not directing that statement at you in this instance, let me be clear on that.
So thanks for your post, judebaker. I hope you now also understand a little better where I’m coming from with what I chose to post. Like you, I risk too, and I hope you keep risking too. I won’t respond on this thread again but I will attentively listen to anything further you might add, please know that.
xo
Patricia MoonRose
Hmmm….it’s interesting, this virtual conversation space. I hadn’t read moonrose’s comments as chiding at all; ironically I had perceived them to be coming from a place of ‘wonderment, thought and some bravery’…..and deepest compassion, offered in humility. Maybe, judebaker, it’s not about whether we post on something but *how* we do that and *how* we read something. It’s interesting that you seemed to perceive moonrose’s comments as some sort of attack, but I’m glad you were able to come to a place of being as responsive to moonrose’s remarks as you wished her to be to yours…
It’s good for me that this space is here, tricky bits and all.
@moonrose69
I respect your having a perspective, but I did not say ‘horrific’ at all in my post. I said it was a strange date.
I put a link in my post (for those who might actually have a birthday on April 20), or those who were also interested in the date to GO LOOK and see for themselves and make their own judgments because there are a lot of events over a long period of time. I was aware of the limitations of my statement.
My post was coming from a place of wonderment, thought, and some bravery in daring to post about a date on a site that offers up a daily portion of astrological depth….and I’m sure at least a half dozen people who could strip my musings upside-down by telling me that a calendar date isn’t really a date, but just a number or something along those lines. I was prepared for debate or to learn something new, so I risked posting. Yes, risked it. Because standing up for what you say by putting your real name to it for anyone to Google takes guts.
Yet, I feel as if you are trying to chide me, then make nice to get me to be quiet, as if my opinion does not matter. That your remarks are subtly patronizing me. And I feel as if you didn’t really read what I wrote, nor click on the link I provided. You don’t know me, and I don’t know you, but we are both here posting on this site – so that is some common ground, is it not? Can you trust that I was genuine in my post and not trolling to intentionally cause someone some pain? That what I posted is important to me in some way and shutting me down like that causes me to feel some hurt?
I apologize if you do have a grandchild born on April 20th and this is the first time those events have come to mind for you. But am I supposed to stay quiet about all dates due to someone maybe having a birthday on that day?
In order to try to feel what you might be feeling, I went to January 21 (my birthday) and looked at all the events that went on. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_21 and hey, I read that in 1899 on my birthday, Opel manufactured its first automobile. Which took me rather horrifyingly back to the emotional and muscle memory of being in a back seat of an Opel when my family’s car got rear ended and the car was totaled. And the smell of burned rubber and sight of dripping oil takes me right back to this post about the oil spill – and it all ties together. So now, that information is in my mind, and is personal to me, and I hope that provides a trade off to what you may be feeling so that we can share equally some feeling. And I take responsibility for my post, but I don’t take it back.
Ahhh, Len — you have brought me home. I grew up loving to watch baseball. I found it exquisitely beautiful.
Over time (and a few geographic relocations), my passion for the game dimmed. The 1994 strike just about doused the flame & I’ve been to maybe 5 games since then, even though I can walk to a major league ballpark from my home or office.
Now here I am, reading some observations on astrology and I find that beauty again. In astrology and my beloved game. Thanks for bringing me home…what every batter wants.
Gary B,
I’m sure you are right about Mercury at 0 Leo and the Full Moon on 7/25 (after the Sun at 0 Leo on the 22nd) being meaningful and revealing. Will think about that. Afterall, when Venus hit 0 Leo earlier this month, the President gave his speech and we found out about the 20 billion escrow fund setup by BP.
Thanks for your interest!
be
Ah Len, what a master you are! Methinks the gorilla has become the white elephant and you shine a light on the whole room….
As for dates…well, my father used to make much of my brother (his son…) being born on Hitler’s birthday; words that were symbolic of much unhealthy behaviour from father to son and a virtual abandonment. Here we are, many years later and wounds are only just beginning to be healed. A deed may have happened on a date but that doesn’t necessarily make the date significant or of negative consequence per se. Saturn is so often seen as negative but he can be your friend if you approach him with wisdom and/or openness to growth (speaks she with Saturn in the 7th opposite sun and venus rising….sigh….). So I’m with moonrose69 on this one and would encourage mindfulness in our comments about dates. And of course Hitler was a babe in arms and completely innocent when born…how much the atrocities he committed were the acting out of the abuse he received as a child we will never know.
I haven’t properly studied the astrology at the moment – can barely get a grip of it in my own chart but speaking straight from the gut, I want to say is Chiron about healing *through time*? Or maybe that’s what’s going on with his connection with Saturn/Kronos/time (his father). Maybe we need to revisit our myths – does Saturn need to sever the genitals of his father Uranus to protect his mother (Gaia/earth)? Surely we need to sever the ability of companies to keep raping the earth. I’d been wondering about the archetypal mother in all of this so maybe that’s the link. And of course Pluto is the son of Saturn, who fathered and abandoned Chiron. Saturn protected his mother from Uranus but then acted in the same boorish way when he seduced Philyra. Hmmm…I realise these are undigested meanderings when I’m very tired but I’m going to post them anyway. Chiron teaches us to teach and heal from our wounds; maybe we need to give a voice to each and every one who is affected by this tragedy, ie every person and each living thing on this beautiful earth – and of course the earth itself. Planet Waves is surely a chironic bridge in this respect…
With thanks to Len, Eric and your team.
judebaker, I am inclined to stress caution in associating April 20 with the events you listed, and just those events. The history of time covers much more ground than just a few specific years with events with large impacts. Besides, the birth of Hitler isn’t a horrific event in itself – we were all babes at one time – the horrors came much later.
And imagine how that must feel to someone with that birthday, to read that, or, what if you had a child or grandchild with that birthday and that association has now been made in your mind: the birth of hitler, columbine, waco raid and how does the Oklahoma bombing make it as April 19th, not even on the 20th, anyway?
No harm meant : just adding another perspective.
xo
moonrose
Lack of integrity, we have seen, in the game: (to use your words) “one short-sighted lie after another”.
One difference, perhaps, between a good player and a great player: “consistent integrity of effort”. The batter must always always run as if they will beat the throw, and must make the assumption he/she will make it. No lagging here.
I don’t hear mention of good sportsmanship, when no matter how out of character your opponent may act, the importance of maintaining one’s ethics and spirit of the game are paramount. And part of the baseball experience too. No brawls on the mound please. Watch hockey for that stuff!
And last, at least in the games I played, it’s good sportsmanship to not obliterate your opponent when you’re ahead, or impose a mercy rule.
Good lessons for life. Thanks for the refresher, Len. I love this analogy you’re making.
xo
moonrose
hypnotic:
The judge in question was appointed by Reagan to his Federal bench in Louisiana, and receives money from the oil industry.
The White House is going to appeal the court block.
well here’s a glimpse
http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/06/22/4544862-court-blocks-deepwater-moratorium
fuck fuck fuck
(thank you for a beautiful heart-touching post Len)
Stepping up to the plate, confident and relaxed, one takes a “round” bat and a “round” ball and has to hit it “squarely” to produce something sweet and satisfying. Pure intuition. It comes at you so fast that you have to be in the zone to connect and produce.
Thanks Len for this particular home run (all your posts are out of the park!) and the great invite for us all to step up to the plate and take a relaxed, confident swing at life.
I don’t think Noam Chomsky has very much fun.
Len,
I think that it will have to be a routine grounder to the third baseman, to start the turn of a rare triple play, to level the game for the Home team against the loading of the bases by oil,government and banking!
Bkoehler,
I would like to hear your follow up on your comments from yesterday. I would think that Mercury’s pass over 0 degrees Leo in early July and the full moon on July 25th near that point would trigger the evolution of events.
Gary B
one of your best, i think, len. beautifully described, and bringing the ethics of the game into play elevates it from pure visual illustration to something truly useful to consider.
I love this Len, you are a genius at the parallel, or diamond in this case. The news this morning regarding General McChrystal’s interview was described as shocking. I thought “Uranus”. A first (Aries). The astrology is self explanatory.
The General’s words were destructive of the trust and integrity between the military and the President of the U.S. In the solar eclipse of Jan 14-15 this year (and still in effect), Mercury (words) is conjunct Pluto (destruction), stationing retrograde and square retrograde Saturn(President).
In that chart Uranus was still in Pisces (lack of bounderies) and sextile the eclipsed Sun, the Moon, and Venus (values) conjunction in Capricorn, as was the Pluto-Mercury conjunction and the north node of the Moon. The square between retro Saturn (President) and the Mercury Pluto conjunction (volatile words) were delayed (solar eclipse) until late yesterday when Uranus (unexpected and unprecedented) was square the Sun (consciousness)and the Moon had moved into Scorpio.
In light of the trine between Sun and Chiron today, I’m expecting this event to be a “teaching moment” and truly a consciousness raising tool for both the government and the military, and maybe even the press. Perhaps this Saturday’s lunar eclipse will show us how this story unfolds as well as that of the Gulf of Mexico disaster.
be
I hadn’t realized it happened on April 20th. What a strange date that is – Hitler’s birthday, Columbine, the Waco raid, the day after the Oklahoma City bombing…also its 420 day. Here are all the historical events: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_20
For some reason just realizing that, it doesn’t seem so accidental anymore.
Amen.