Dear Friend and Reader:
Do you ever get into those really paranoid moods? Anything from FEMA camps to the economy collapsing on your head to your friends seeming to raise an insurrection against your ideals?
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There has to be a better way. But it’s natural to be paranoid in freakish times; it is most unnatural to be chill and hang loose, while aware. Plenty who hang loose tune out; I think we, as in you and I, have a different agenda.
Paranoia seems to persist: disease is a big one; the fear of never finding a real relationship is another, borne out often enough to make the point.
One layer beneath that is the fear of abandonment, which is a death-related fear. It can affect anyone no matter how excellent a relationship they have managed to create. Then we’re jolted daily into being totally paranoid about sex, if you stop and think about diseases or tune into the latest herpes drug commercial on TV (anyone can spread it at any time so you better always be paranoid!). Not only that, anyone could be a spy, your house is bugged, they are reading your email and collecting your naked pictures in a big database.
Psyche square Nessus. The mind pressed into the corner of its own worst thoughts. Moreover, the thoughts that relate to this aspect would seem to come from a sense of having been psychologically abused or emotionally neglected. Psyche is the sense of the mind’s injury; the ‘wound of the soul’ that seems to arrive with the consciousness of the soul. Awareness of the soul is not always painful, but to be done well, it requires a continuous, Zen-like surf along the waves of feeling and compassion.
To do this, it helps to be aware of your own injuries and your own fears. Let’s consider the signs involved — Psyche in Scorpio, a sign that we all relate to individually as our desire nature and in particular sexual desire. Tell me, do you ever wonder if someone is going to come into your life who is able to give you the sex you really need? Or is that thought connected to a more or less permanent fear that it just will not happen; that your own needs are too buried to be reached by another; or that they are too unusual to even reveal? Psyche in Scorpio is like the sense of the perpetual erotic mental or emotional existential injury that will not resolve.
It has a meeting place in the common world — square Nessus in Aquarius. This is the pressure from society to conform, to suppress yourself, to be someone other than who you are, to conceal in all social contacts that you are a person with a sense of having been hurt and thus responding to even casual social encounters with a real sense of alienation; of needing attention; of needing to be who you are and NOT be rejected for it.
And obviously we are talking about so many layers of reinforced social and individual injury that if you really look at the problem there can seem to be no way out. I hold out the faith that this is not true; that there is a way out, that the aspects that point out the problem always have the solution. But I can tell you this, to find our way out we’re going to need to muster up the courage to express ourselves and the perhaps greater courage to respond to other people who are doing so.
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Friday 30 May 2008
Pallas (3+ Taurus) quincunx Hylonome (3+ Sagittarius Rx)
Eros (18+ Gemini) semisquare Pallas (3+ Taurus)
Vesta (18+ Aries) square Varuna (18+ Cancer)
Venus (6+ Gemini) quincunx Chariklo (6+ Scorpio Rx)
Mars (11+ Leo) square Pandora (11+ Scorpio Rx)
Venus (6+ Gemini) semisquare Eris (21+ Aries)
Vesta (18+ Aries) trine Quaoar (18+ Sagittarius Rx)
Venus (6+ Gemini) sesquiquadrate Jupiter (21+ Capricorn Rx)
Arachne (0+ Libra) quintile Varuna (18+ Cancer)
Juno (24+ Sagittarius Rx) opposite Ceres (24+ Gemini)
Psyche (14+ Scorpio Rx) square Nessus (14+ Aquarius Rx)
Sun (9+ Gemini) septile Vesta (18+ Aries)
Eros (19+ Gemini) square Logos (19+ Virgo Rx)
Oracle takes us to May 21, 2004 – Pisces – Weekly
You are about to take that big chance on the count of three. Taking a chance means no guarantees; that’s written right into the deal. But we are also not talking about going to Vegas and betting the house on a roulette wheel spin. Einstein was right. God does not play dice with the universe, and God does not play dice with you. So what happens over the next few days is anything but random, even though the events that feed into current developments have roots so far in the past you may not remember them. But think back; there are obvious connections.