Dear Friend and Reader:
The last time there was a Jupiter-Uranus conjunction on the Aries Point — in the summer of 1969, in Libra (precisely opposite the Aries Point), we watched the stunning display of technology as NASA put men on the Moon. Everyone has seen those shaky videos of Buzz and Neil taking those first delicate steps on the surface of another planet.
Now in the summer of 2010, which I have suggested is the anti-Sixties, we have another scene depicted on remote video, this time at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, only we are watching helplessly as mankind has reached the edge of its technological capability. Jose Arguelles was right: we have reached the edge of technology. We have created a problem that we cannot solve. Even if we solve it by August, there will still be many times the Exxon Valdez dumped into the Gulf of Mexico, the Loop Current and the Gulf Stream.
If we look around we will see many examples of the edge of technology: medical science can diagnose better than it can cure or prevent. We can create millions of tons of plastics that make us sick and that we don’t know how to dispose of. We have amazing cars that are not sustainable.
Fortunately, the Jupiter-Uranus conjunction is inventive, and in Aries it’s self-inventive. There is the promise of some breakthrough in technology, though we may not see it for a while. And on the Aries Point there is a collective dimension, where we reinvent ourselves and become something new, participating co-creatively with one another’s reality: or that, at least, is what the astrology says.
One of the great conjunctions of our lifetimes happens Tuesday. After that, the next step is up to us.
— Eric Francis
eric and all the other pw contributors: may i just say THANK YOU for being so incredibly on-point, such voices of clarity in the wilds of insanity. especially in this last week, when it feels like all the contributors have spoken to me especially directly. when the going gets tough, you guys really do get going.
you have been talking about a calling of the tribes; thanks not just for describing it, but for helping to make it happen.
keep it up!
Bnaidus-
thankyou for sharing- I am in Sequim Wa and not 3,000 miles away-only a ferry ride away..cool ….Many blessings on all your dreams and doos too…
I’m not going to have another opportunity to write about the astrology of this moment until after it has passed, so I’d like to take a moment to reflect on what’s about to happen in my life.
Eric has been using two metaphors that fit my life exactly. The first is that of the “gathering of the tribes.” My parents are coming in from out of town to visit me, which itself is a pretty infrequent and unusual occurrence. But what’s even more extraordinary is the reason they are coming. I am going to be attending a major progressive political conference on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday — and what is so amazing is that my parents expressed an interest in attending this conference as well. They are both well-informed and very committed independent moderates, so I was shocked when they expressed interest and a left wing progressive conference. What’s more is that I have a feeling that the contacts I make at this conference are going to be very significant in terms of my career. I’m not going into this with any specific expectations, but I just have this sense that this conference represents a critical turning point…both in terms of my career, in terms of my relationship with my parents, and in the evolution of their political views. The timing, coinciding with the Jupiter/Uranus conjunction on the Aries point, seems auspicious.
The second metaphor that Eric has used is that of a new idea manifesting in consciousness. That is very much the case for me. Last week, I encountered a discovery of sorts — from the field of psychology — that I believe has the potential to transform politics as we know it. I work in political advocacy and the psychological researchers who are versed in the area of inquiry that I’m talking about clearly have no idea of the significance of what they have discovered OR how to make it useful to political managers. But I do. I’m a bit nervous to say much more than this, for what I hope will eventually be proprietary reasons. (Information is power.) Since Uranus entered Aries, I’ve been walking around feeling like somebody from the future just traveled back in time and handed me the formula for a technology that that hasn’t been invented yet. It’s an incredible feeling. It’s like I’m at the beginning of an extraordinary journey, but I’m still packing my bags.
The birth of an idea, the gathering of the tribes, and of course all of this in the midst of national and global calamity…I would put it this way:
Prepare for the future. The future is NOW!
1greenguizer – Great to hear about your plans…may your vision spark many others. You might be interested in the eco-art of Christy Rupp (also in the Catskills) – she made sea turtles out of TIDE plastic detergent bottles many years ago. She has a great website.
Our project is over 3000 miles away, on Vashon Island in the Puget Sound. We are working in collaboration with SEEDS, socialecologyvashon.org….I learned this evening that the committee who awarded the grant was very, very eager to fund this project…very indicative of a shift in the wind – they’ve never funded a socially engaged art project before.
One more thing- all you beautiful people that are moved to create can do something like the sea turtle thing in your communities…….I have 2 booths at the Kingston WA farmers market with friends and I will be getting the word out to the public tommarow – taking extra bike rims to give out there to interested folks.. We can in a week or two show them all somewhere public and start the dialog going….Yippeee whooohahh
Bnaidus -thank you for your inspiring story and beautiful vision, I will check out that site. I just wrote up a proposal and sent it off to my friends, artists and any who love our oceans- to make art sea turtles out of old bike frames, (you can get them for free at bike shops) and make them into turtle’s adding found and/or recycled materials with our prayers and intent these turtles can swim into our mass conciuosness and open the way toward positve change and dialog the vision of a world without fossil fuels. Acting as prayer/alters/ remebrance for all creatures who cannot speak for themselves.
So be it…..
@ 1greenguizer’s closing comment: “I had visions of a community projects to build a recycled materials art shrine to the gulf and all her lost and dying inhabitants- and build it as a rememberance and way in to the important conversations and questions of how we can all change…just an idea”
Yesterday, I was just awarded a large grant to create a community, eco-art project on a very toxic site (heavy metals, pesticides) – a permaculture garden will slowly heal the soil with plants and mushrooms, and community altars will be erected (made from scavenged materials on the site) like acupuncture needles gentling touching the meridians of the sickened soil. Stories of our grief, our visions, and particularly ones from gardeners (of any sort) will be solicited, to be placed in drawers and pockets on the altars. There will be ceremonies, rituals, a website and more…We hope that this project will inspire others to create spontaneous community altars for all sorts of issues….we need to come together in multiple ways in this time….I’m hoping that “anti-sixties” means that we really create community this time and the art doesn’t get commodified. Actually there’s no longer space for art to be separate from the activism and reconstructing the systems we live by is inevitable…
BTW I’ve unsuccessfully applied for grants for similar projects for almost a decade, so it seems that it is time for this kind of work to manifest. My saturn just went from retrograde to a RETURN (this week) so this massive planet must be pushing the doors open. Yipee-doo-dah. We’ve all got our work cut out for us.
Let’s spread that idea wide and far, Igreen, yes?
1greenguizer said:
“Now for something positive- Art to raise awareness where I live and where you live- I had visions of a community projects to build a recycled materials art shrine to the gulf and all her lost and dying inhabitants- and build it as a rememberance and way in to the important conversations and questions of how we can all change…just an idea ..”
I LOVE>LOVE>LOVE this idea!!! How to get it started?? hmm…..
http://1800recycling.com/ has wealth of ideas and examples of stunningly creative recycled art. One of my favorite sites (also has FB page)
I love the great way(s) the question(s) keep being posed here: in terms of what Eric repeats, here we have this amazing astrology, this amazing energetic time of astounding gushers of potential inspiration and how can we use it in blessing ways for mutual good? and why is it showing up otherwise so persistently?
My personal sense is it is raw energy and it is truly (I think this gets said here a lot also) up to us individual and collective how we use and ride and embody it…. and one service being performed is to gush up from underneath and release all manner of toxins and prevent denial……
seems to me coming to terms with that function itself as a blessing in potential has got to be a baseline element of going forward creatively with anything because what I observe is it is to the extent we cannot make that inner dance move that we get individually and collectively bogged down.
and Love love love the recycled art project idea…..
Patricia,
I like your idea very much – that ripping feeling is a want-to-manifest-from subconsciousness. No doubt tied into all the ‘work’ I am doing just now (I mean spiritual/emotional) Very astute, thank you. I will create the space and we shall see.
In awake life today stepped outside a sub-consciously-created barrier, one I have passed through many times, this time making space to connect more closely with someone I know only slightly….and suddenly find myself reaching out to many people and differently – which is fun if nothing else. So maybe today’s experience has something to do with the dream/wake feeling.
I always feel VERY strange when discussing this kind od thing “aloud”, but here I shall – I was given memories of the destruction of “Atlantis” and that is vivid still in pictures and feelings inside me. I separated at that time from my “sister” Sariah and it is recently that we have reunited – after she had returned to the Light and I chose a different “fate”.
BTW, that my connection today was to someone in music is not surprising, I suppose. Part of my thinking last night upon sleeping was about the idea of vibration and harmonics.
More is manifesting now than I can ‘conscious of’ for sure.
Ah – the adventure of human life!
xo
awordedgewise, I haven’t been experiencing anything like that, but what has come up for me is ideas that came to my mind 3-4 years ago are resurfacing. The difference being then I was paralyzed by fear (a good thing, all things considered) and now I feel capable of action.
Between sleep and awake is the dream world. So if there’s a ripping of that edge, then perhaps there is something wanting to make itself manifest from the subconscious world to the conscious? I think of the veil that separates these worlds… the discomfort you feel may be the reluctance to what you don’t know, what’s behind the veil, this is common, so make the choice to let it through. Greet it. Welcome it. Give it space. That is, of course, if you want to.
Anyway, that’s what comes to my mind based on your short description and what I feel with it.
Patricia MoonRose
Amanda, I like the inversion theory and what it may hold in store. Thanks for posting that thought.
I was listening to NPR’s Science Friday and during one segment about the oil tragedy a caller suggested that NASA be handed the reins. Because, they train for outer space in inner space (under water). They have training and expertise in the water environments, are highly specialized and skilled, and often innovative when necessary. Apollo 13 was mentioned.
Another caller mentioned we know more about the back-side of the moon than we know about the bottom of the Mexican Gulf. How true, we so well know now.
There just may well be a call to remedy that in the science community, and by the public too. Maybe since the space programs have been put on pause, the ocean will be the next exploration environment. Seems like a long overdue proposition.
There were many other comments echoing those I’ve seen on Planet Waves… some nearly identical. To include, do we want to take a good hard look at this tragedy, and make changes, or put our heads back in the sand? Will we learn from this?
Another caller mentioned “The Greatest Generation” and the sacrifices made by the people (individuals) for a cause (collective), how they were united in purpose, and how everyone felt good and wanted to do their part. He wondered aloud if that was the only generation capable of such service. Worthy of the question.
I don’t know. We Americans are pretty spoiled. Entitled even. And as I was driving along with the crowd in my car earlier, going about 70, one caller remarked how she had saved over $1000 one year driving 55 instead of 75… I slowed to 60 and thanked her for poking me. Even this needs to become a habit for me, and with a little effort it will. It’s also a great example of herd mentality and going with the flow… and jumping out of the stream long enough to set one’s own course when diving back in.
Patricia MoonRose
1greenguizer,
A veritable font of info you are today. . . all of it interesting, to say the least. Not surprised by the study of college students, but sure glad the Canadians have the official researched #’s. Thrilled and chilled by the Alvin Research submarine findings, and that a ship called Atlantis was involved! Best of all, your idea is wonderful. . .a tribute to the Gulf and all we have lost, created from recycled materials. Genius! Thank you for sharing.
Wonderful writing today to all of you…
On the theme of anti 60s -I think it was a Canadian study yesterday announced that College students today are 40% less empathetic to fellow humans, and everything then those in the 1960s and 70s – and the reasons attributed were exposure to violence through media such as news, video games, movies, tv and a lack of spending time in nature.
Also did you know that back in 2000 the Alvin research Submarine was sent down to do oil exploration for the woods hole Oceanographic institute in the Gulf along with other agencies and discovered the oil and gas at 17,000 feet where it was bubling out of the rocks- the ship that was manning the submarine is the RV Atlantis- my ex- was a pilot of the Alvin submarine.
Now for something positive- Art to raise awareness where I live and where you live- I had visions of a community projects to build a recycled materials art shrine to the gulf and all her lost and dying inhabitants- and build it as a rememberance and way in to the important conversations and questions of how we can all change…just an idea ..
Eric and all,
I do remember watching the Moon landing in ’69, hardly believing my eyes that this could be real. . . really happening. It was a moment of shared elation, with my friends and with the world, especially Americans. We weren’t only “on top of the world”, we were on the MOON for heavens sake! Now, in comparison, we, the world, and especially we Americans ,are collectively in despair. Not just “IN THE PITS” but at the bottom of the sea in our shared misery.
As the influence of last months New Moon conjunct this country’s natal Atlantis (23+ Taurus in the 6th house) fades away and we move toward the next New Moon conjunct the U.S. Mars (21+ Gemini in the 7th house), I wonder if technology will aid us or further damage us. Being in Gemini I guess it could go either way or both ways.
There is a small/minor set of aspects that colors my speculation of the super conjunction of Uranus and Jupiter happening right now. That would be Vesta newly into Virgo and conjunct Mars in late Leo, trine Ceres backing out of Capricorn (but still conjunct Pluto), and opposite Chiron at 0 Pisces (yet not completely parted company with Neptune in the last of Aquarius.) Even though traveling with major powerful planets, these 3 have a smaller yet powerful message of healing on their own. They are linked to the Aries Point conjunction in a subtle way, but to me they carry a 2nd message apropos of Gemini.
Incidently, the goddess Astraea, who was the last of the gods to give up on the human race, is at 5+ Virgo in the U.S. (Sibly) chart. Transiting Vesta will conjunct her on or around June 11 and shortly after that, Mars will transit her. Progressed Astraea (in the U.S. progressed chart) is at 21+ Sagittarius, near the Galactic Center (which in the 1700’s was at 23 Sagittarius.) This will put her into opposition to the New Moon on June 12 as well as opposite the U.S. Mars ,while in square to the U.S. Neptune (which the progressed U.S. Moon is conjunct.)
I hope Astraea(U.S. natal) will be influenced by Vesta (transit) to not give up on humanity. (Progressed)U.S. Astraea is in a position to influence (natal) U.S. Mars and strike a balance during this upcoming New Moon. I hope she prevails!
be
..just a bit of logic painting.. There is no such thing as “helplessness”. Technology is painting by numbers.. Neptune is strong. ..we have the capacity to solve this in an instant, if.. folk want to be honest, helpful, ..or.. possibly, even Kind.
..It’s the “profit for corporations,.. and Not the allocation of resources to the people, which has imbalanced this world for aeons..”
..Make that internal shift..
..and seriously,.. REGULATE INDUSTRY! NOT PEOPLE!!
With Love,
Jere
Me again, guess I’m about little blips on a page this AM:
Ironic or not – “the edge” theme is so appropriate personally right now – every morning for the past week – and today in particular – I ride an “edge” each morning upon waking. Sleep is good, waking is good, and this does not feel like anxiety or the like, nor is what I’m experiencing similiar to when one is rudely awakened prior to natural cycle.
It’s like ripping through the edge of something that lies dormant between sleep and awake.
I still have my “in-between” time of half asleep meditation after the ripping. But the ripping has a unique feeling (pain?) (and unasked and unanswered questions) as I’ve never experienced before. It’s not feeling of the gusher either .
Anyone else?
L.
Down a path, I flagged this uTube video last night – lots of presents re: quantum concept:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oePY_MH3mqk&feature=related
The Matrix of Illusion
(Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra, David Wilcock, David Icke, Michael Talbot, Gregg Braden,David Lynch, James Traitz, Robert Anton Wilson, Neil Kramer, Grant Morrison, Bill Hicks)
Takes us to the moon differently, perhaps.
xo
Eric,
Is it a breakthrough in technological progress as we understand it that seems lurking?
Or a different understanding of what technology is and therefore different answers because we begin asking different questions?
Just wondering (since my star skills are still way novice).
Thx.
L.
The news continues with scenes reminiscent of the 60s buildups (and blowouts):
“New aid ship heads to Gaza, Israel vows to stop it”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100604/ap_on_re_eu/eu_turkey_israel
By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS and DAVID RISING, Associated Press Writers – Fri Jun 4, 8:26 am ET
ISTANBUL – An aid ship trying to break the blockade of Gaza could reach Israel’s 20-mile (32-kilometer) exclusion zone late Friday, an activist said, but Israel’s prime minister has vowed the ship will not reach land.
Eric:
One of your best Friday editions. Proud to be part of the familia.
Amanda:
From your fingers to the eyes and ears of all. As the angel says in Tony Kushner’s ‘Angels in America’: “Let the Great Work begin!”
you know, as many times as you’ve called these times we are in “the anti-sixites,” it never occurred to me to see the remote-video-expansion-into-the-unknown parallel between the moon landing and the underwater oil disaster.
even spatially the are inversions of each other: beyond the earth’s surface vs. below the earth’s surface; through air vs. through water.
and yet the moon and the oceans have such a close bond, with ms. luna affecting the tides; the oceans even respond to the moon’s phases, with higher-than-usual tides at full and new phases as the moon’s and sun’s gravities work together.
hm… potentially creative expansion on the moon in the sixties, clearly destructive expansion in the sea now. society seems to have used that expansion decades ago to justify and fuel the self-righteous greed we’re seeing in full force now. if we’re truly looking at an inversion, perhaps that means we really are poised to use the current destructive expansion to fuel growth that is creative, ethically sound, and life-affirming.