Editor’s Note: This week in Planet Waves Astrology News, we have published an issue dedicated to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill (Tuesday’s monthly edition covered Uranus entering Aries, though my article explores the topic from a new angle). Introductions to the three different articles are included with this post, along with the three air sign horoscopes. Planet Waves Astrology News is a subscriber service available for just $1.69 a week. Subscription options are here, and we will answer any questions you have at (877) 453-8265. Additional information is linked on the right-side margin of this page. Please have a safe & sane holiday weekend. Regular blog contributors — I am traveling (today, to the Gulf of Mexico, on Florida’s west coast), and plan to be checking in here regularly.
Dear Friend and Reader:
We are certainly in an Atlantian moment.
Coming to terms with the Gulf of Mexico, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean, named for the mythical Lost Continent that sank because its people could not control their technology, is in part about recognizing the immediate effect of this runaway chemical spill.
For the rest of our lives, the magnificent Gulf Coast, which I was blessed to see just once (from the sea wall at Galveston), will be a hazardous waste dump and wildlife charnel ground. The sight of haz-mat workers and people wearing respirators is the new image of the once-thriving region of the world. It’s become so toxic that as of Wednesday the EPA has called back all of the fishing boats that were participating in the nascent cleanup because workers are starting to get sick with dizziness, chest pains, nausea — classical symptoms of an acute toxic exposure. CNN video yesterday, produced by Anderson Cooper, was eerily reminiscent of descriptions of DDT-sprayed forests by Rachel Carson in Silent Spring. The wildlife sanctuaries, they said, were dead quiet.
Barring an actual divine intervention-styled miracle [if you’re a lightworker, or if you’re in with some friendly space brothers, please get busy], it’s only a matter of time before the sludge gets into the Loop Current and then the Gulf Stream. We could be seeing this oil on the beaches of Key West, of Maine and the coasts of England and Western Europe and as far away as West Africa. Consider this description of the Gulf Stream, from Wikipedia:
“The Gulf Stream, together with its northern extension towards Europe, the North Atlantic Drift, is a powerful, warm, and swift Atlantic ocean current that originates in the Gulf of Mexico, exits through the Strait of Florida, and follows the eastern coastlines of the United States and Newfoundland before crossing the Atlantic Ocean. The process of western intensification causes the Gulf Stream to be a northward accelerating current offshore the east coast of North America. At about [40°0′N latitude] it splits in two, with the northern stream crossing to northern Europe and the southern stream recirculating off West Africa. The Gulf Stream influences the climate of the east coast of North America from Florida to Newfoundland, and the west coast of Europe.”