Well now. The universe seems to be serving up quite the brew of tragedy and comedy this week. You’re not alone if you’re finding it difficult to navigate, whether in your contact with others or simply within yourself.
On the one hand, tomorrow the Sun aligns with the Galactic Center, the core of our Milky Way galaxy — just as it does every year, and as it will again around this time in 2013. Honest. So don’t go telling the Milky Way this is the last week of the Mayan calendar; it already made vacation plans with the Andromeda Galaxy to go skiing in Tahoe in February, and those reservations are non-refundable this time of year.
Yes, all the talk of the apocalypse really is that ridiculous.
On the other hand, we’ve just witnessed one of the most heartbreaking, least understandable mass shootings in recent memory — and it’s only one of several this year alone in the U.S. Here we are in the final lead-up to the fabled Age of Aquarius, that era of enlightenment we’ve been singing about ever since Hair opened Off-Broadway in 1967. And what are we doing about it? Shooting and grieving, joking about the apocalypse and secretly worrying we might be right.
I think, perhaps, the idea of the world ending (or instant mass enlightenment) on the Capricorn solstice is ludicrous for one main reason: as horrific as things can be now, they are always met by astonishing love and humanity. At the same time, no matter how many of us ‘get it’, we still get tripped up in our day-to-day lives. Neither the dark nor the light has this world wrapped up and labeled as solely its own.
Meanwhile, as we continue onward, today begins with the Moon in Aquarius making a sextile to the Sun and the Galactic Core in Sagittarius (air to fire). Sextiles offer energy that flows easily, though you have to make the effort to tap into it. It could be that the air of detachment the Aquarius Moon has offered our emotional body yesterday and today has opened the door ajar just enough to ignite our spirits with whatever cosmic truth the Sun and GC are cooking up for us — though it’s subtle. With all the heaviness around, if you don’t go looking for it, you might not notice it.