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.

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.

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Today’s Oracle takes us back to the Taurus monthly of October 01, 2006

A relationship is looking for some extra space within your household or living space. This may account for the pressure you’re feeling. It’s not enough to clear things up on the mental or emotional levels; the physical plane needs a lot of attention these days, and in your life right now that means freeing up a room or finding a space to spend time where there is enough room to have some freedom and uninterrupted time. The emotional challenges still persist — but will be easier in a clean, well-lighted place.

(The Daily Oracle is a random selection from one of 10,000 Eric Francis horoscopes. New horoscopes by Eric are published weekly plus twice a month in Planet Waves Astrology News and Planet Waves Light. The Oracle itself is a divination tool available to subscribers to either of these services.)

Editor’s Note: We’ve been asking our clients for feedback about the professional services we publish, and your responses have created the opportunity for an exciting dialog.

Dear Eric:

I signed up for your newsletter after reading you for some time via Cainer’s site and your original Astrology Secrets Revealed forum.

What attracted me to your work was that you are working with the esoteric elements of Astrology and not just the usual arcane interpretations, as you do work with the energies as they are meant to be — holistically in every area of life.

Everything that I have read points towards the fact that we are spiritual beings living a human existence and that we are here to remember what that life is meant to be; astrology is just the start of an ancient tool that helps us work with and through these issues and we need good astrologers, like many who you admire and many who have come before us, to navigate that journey.

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By Judith Gayle | Political Waves

Standing back from our political situation, I think of the Laurel and Hardy schtick where Ollie turns to Stan and says, “Here’s another fine mess you’ve gotten us into.” Blubbering, Stanley wheezes out little peeps of distress, squinches up his face and scratches his head.

We’re Ollie. We’re Stan. And this fine mess is the result of decades of policies and decisions by Reagan, Bush the Elder, Clinton and Bush the Younger. Obama is the newest engineer on our runaway train, but he doesn’t seem to have any magic tricks to offer us. Most presidents don’t have to deal with both domestic and foreign firestorms at the same time, and you can tell that Obama would rather be flying at jet speed, not careening along on rickety, old paradigm tracks toward the cliff looming ahead. Doubtless there are some mornings when Obama peeps, squinches and scratches, too; perhaps most mornings.

In order to free Congress for big legislation like health care and energy reform, Obama chose to ‘move on’ from Bushy criminal investigations, thus taking on ownership of the fine mess we’re in. The obvious result of GW’s hubristic tenure — hyperextending militarism and the free market right to the edge on warring, spending, borrowing and deregulating — is that we’re now over the edge on every front. Government has always kept the worst projections and assessments from the public in order to keep the economy calm and the people compliant. The good news is that, coming off several decades of denial-binge, the public now recognizes that facts trump political rhetoric. The bad news is that the political system is so hamstrung by partisanship that it can’t move more than baby steps at a time, impeded by those who think “the good old days” of American dominance and expansion are still an option.

In this country, “where seldom is heard a discouraging word,” we lie to each other and to ourselves to preserve that sunny Reaganesque illusion. Believing lies is our national version of Prozac. Not wanting to know is a sedation overdose that has now landed us all in the emergency room. Because we still don’t want to face the truth, we continue to slap band-aids on national wounds to our treasury, liberties and ethics that gush like BP’s failed pipes. Each day that passes makes a dire situation more critical.

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By Len Wallick

The astrological events of this week are too big for one daily blog. Yet they also constitute a continuum. Today, your itinerant reporter will strive to make a beginning of it with a summary of the up to now combined with a metaphor to carry us forward. Hopefully it will serve to make more sense of things rather than less.

Today is the Cancer Solstice. In 240 BCE a Greek astronomer named Eratosthenes used the occasion of this annual event to estimate the size of the Earth. In doing so he proved for the first time that the Earth is a finite sphere. The playing field upon which all human life takes place was shown to have boundaries and limits. Thus it is clear that we are all in this together. All of us. No exceptions.

This week’s astrology reinforces that message as do recent events in the world and in our personal lives. Like all great truths, it is easy to say, but difficult to make it a permanent part of what we walk around with inside ourselves. Hardest of all is to practice it on the outside where we come into contact with each other. Be that as it may, it seems the time has come to do just that.

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Today’s Oracle takes us back to the Taurus weekly of August 18, 2006

Welcome any guests or visitors this week, and accept that their presence may have a profound influence on your life. If nobody shows up from the outside, those with whom you share emotional or physical space are in a sense your most important teachers. More is changing than you can yet imagine; the forces of nature are at work behind the scenes, setting you free from so many past circumstances. Surely you must sense some deep change coming — though you seem to feel quite at home in your skin. That’s a fine combination. Family Focus: Make sure children know that their home really is their own.

(The Daily Oracle is a random selection from one of 10,000 Eric Francis horoscopes. New horoscopes by Eric are published weekly plus twice a month in Planet Waves Astrology News and Planet Waves Light. The Oracle itself is a divination tool available to subscribers to either of these services.)

Editor’s Note: We’ve been asking our clients for feedback about the professional services we publish, and your responses have created the opportunity for an exciting dialog.

While fairly new to Planet Waves, the moment that lead me to subscribe was when I’d had yet another “a-ha, this helps me make so much more sense out of what is going on in my life right now” moment. (A friend had been occasionally forwarding me the weekly and the monthly ‘scopes.)

Eric’s ‘scopes bring deep insight into the planets’ alignments and heart-felt compassion to integrating the planets’ constantly changing alignments with our own constantly changing individual human experiences here on Earth.

As we move into the era of 2012 transformation, Eric’s continued insights have become an essential ‘touchstone’ as I navigate my own personal journey towards self understanding and soul/being actualization.

With appreciation and gratitude,

–Ann

Editor’s Note: The following post, titled On Father’s Day, Every Dad is the Favorite, was written by Dr. Ellen Libby for Huffingtonpost.com.

One father's tools of the trade. Photo by Amanda.

It’s Father’s Day! Feeling Special?

Father’s Day is fast approaching and children of all ages will soon celebrate their fathers with words, gifts, and cards. Some fathers will enthusiastically and whole-heartedly embrace the tributes coming their way, while others will be more guarded, not psychologically prepared to celebrate.

These mixed responses on Father’s Day are rooted in a father’s own childhood experiences and his memories of celebrating Father’s Day with his own dad. These memories are also shaped by the father-son relationship: Was he the favorite child? Was he unfavored? Was he overlooked when growing up?

It is, in part, this family experience of feeling favored or not, that teaches children to embrace their own specialness. Men who experienced favoritism as a child most likely developed the psychological maturity needed to express love. Fathers who were either unfavored or overlooked as children are less likely to see themselves as special. They may have grown up not believing that they are fully lovable and thus, they might struggle to fully accept expressions of love this Father’s Day.

Fathers who were the favorite child

Fathers who experienced the benefits of favoritism as a child most likely developed the confidence that evolves from having won the quintessential struggle — being deemed more special than anyone else in the family. Favorite children learn what it is like to be praised or even exalted. These childhood experiences mesh with subsequent life experiences, preparing these men who are now fathers themselves, for adulation from their family on Father’s Day.

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I’m currently in Madison, WI (on the way to Cedar Rapids and Des Moines) and I saw a feature in the Sunday paper about what else could go wrong, for example, an environmental disaster in the Great Lakes. It’s good to see this kind of discussion, though on one level it’s about 50 years late, and on another, it’s never too late to stop the next problem before it happens.

It seems like the oil gusher has fallen off of page one, after an astounding run of about 60 days (minus a week at the beginning and the past week when the World Cup started to take over. From what I am reading, there is a chance — I would put it at 50/50 — that BP will not be able to cap its well: that it will become a permanent feature on the Earth. There are currently two relief wells in progress, each of which has a chance of stopping the flow from the bottom by some time around August. (We have a good article about this in the queue by Heather Fae Speaker, one of the Book of Blue models, a talented writer who wanted to help out with some journalism — I just need to edit it, and I’ll get that to you soon.)

If you’re worried what else can go wrong in the world, I suggest you focus your mind on the following: dioxin and genetically modified foods. Nuclear power is a big problem, still, though at the moment it’s fairly well contained: but we will have to come back to it. The people who are responsible for this stuff have no clue what they are doing. I know from reading their corporate memos, and I know from asking my father what he knows about nuclear power. He has spent many years of his life in the nuclear industry and he doesn’t know that much — but he trains the guys at power plants to (shall we say) ‘talk to’ the press if something goes wrong. But the limits on his technical and biological knowledge are frightening, and remind me of Tony Hayward sitting there in front of Congress saying sorry he has no clue about this, that or the other thing.

Since the well blowout in April, I’ve had this song going through my mind. Good thing for You Tube — I haven’t seen a copy of The Dream of the Blue Turtles since the dawn of time.

PS, if you’re in Cedar Rapids and would like to have lunch, drop me an email at dreams – at – planetwaves.net. I won’t be there long, but I thought I would drop in and put a face with the name.