We apologize for being MIA in the last few months — haven’t had much time to post. But with this weekend’s news regarding the devastating earthquake in Chile on the heels of last month’s events in Haiti, commentary is a must. This is a very clear lens through which we can see and measure the energy of the transits we find ourselves living under right now. With Pluto (planet of massive transformation) in Capricorn (an Earth sign), earthquakes are no surprise. Capricorn represents structure: the bones of our body and the infrastructure of our communities. This includes bridges, roads, and the walls of our homes. Pluto made an exact square to Saturn, the ruling planet of Capricorn, on January 31st — almost the precise midpoint between the two earthquakes.
It may seem totally disconnected, but if you look deeper, you’ll see that Frank Rich’s assessment of February’s political events goes hand-in-hand with the wild fury of the earth’s crust. In “The Axis of the Obsessed and Deranged“, Rich calls the murder-suicide of Andrew Stack III (the tax protestor who flew his plane into an office building in Austin, Texas) “a flare with the dark afterlife of an omen”. Once again we must pay attention, even if our first instinct is to make fun of the tea partiers. They aren’t simply misinformed, moronic haters; they are potentially very dangerous for the state of our union. According to Rich, the the right just gave Stack a pass, and some politicians even flirted with condoning his actions.
Rich says:
It is not glib or inaccurate to invoke Oklahoma City in this context, because the acrid stench of 1995 is back in the air. Two days before Stack’s suicide mission, The Times published David Barstow’s chilling, months-long investigation of the Tea Party movement. Anyone who was cognizant during the McVeigh firestorm would recognize the old warning signs re-emerging from the mists of history. The Patriot movement. “The New World Order,” with its shadowy conspiracies hatched by the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission. Sandpoint, Idaho. White supremacists. Militias.
If we want to avoid the tectonic plates of our democracy from smashing into one another, now is time to pay close attention to the energy that’s manifesting now. Look at your own shadow material and help your neighbor, friend or lover to find theirs as well. That’s the only way to get through it all: let’s expose our fears to the light and purge the earth-shaking demons within.
