Dear Friend and Reader:
Besides the news moving so fast it’s difficult to keep up with the developments — one more enormous than the next — time itself seems to be moving with strange velocity. Nobody seems to be able to grasp that we’ve all woken up one morning and it’s mid-September. And here, at the seven-year checkpoint to the World Trade Center coming down, we find ourselves witnessing another equally harrowing collapse: one capitalist giant after another either hitting the ground or being grabbed just before making contact.
Yesterday’s news that the United States government purchased the world’s largest insurance company, the American International Group, to prevent a global economic meltdown is simply breathtaking. It reveals that “free enterprise” and “sink or swim” and “let the marketplace sort it out” and “economic Darwinism” are, well, not quite what we were told they were. Trickle down economics feels more like bricks falling from a skyscraper.
Time has been moving so fast that we don’t necessarily remember that at Beltane of this year, the cross-quarter day that occurs on May 5, when the Sun was in the precise middle of Taurus, we had a New Moon. Taurus is about value and values, and an event on the cross-quarter connects us to the Aries Point: the point in the zodiac that says The Personal Is Political. Let’s remember that the bull is the very symbol of Wall Street itself: that bull in the photo is the logo of Merrill Lynch, which was bought out by Bank of America this week.
When we see an activation of the Aries Point, we always get big news. This has happened a dozen times in the past decade — stuff like Sept. 11, the tsunami and other events. The Aries Point is like this bell waiting to be rung, only it’s not a bell, it’s like a crystal bowl that vibrates the universe.
How does the precise middle of Taurus connect us to the first degree of Aries, and why does that matter? The relationship is 45 degrees; half of the Almighty Square aspect (90 degrees, which represents structure in our over-structured world). Think of the 45 degree aspect as a trigger.
When we see enormous events like we’re witnessing now — and what is happening is the biggest financial news since 1929 — I go back and check my writing to see if I had any clue what was coming at all…and here is what I find, from Daily Astrology & Adventure: