You may be able to catch a cosmic breath this week. There aren't any significant shifts in the astrology. There is a tremendous amount of ongoing shift to integrate or disintegrate or whatever you may have going on. Rest, venture out, recreate, take care of biz and wait. It is worth waiting on major adventures 'til we get Pluto into Capricorn later in January. Likely you are very, very weary anyway, but to adventure into new territories right now will certainly require reconfiguration after Pluto shifts and who needs it. The last week of January includes Pluto shifting Signs, Mercury going retrograde and Mars going direct. That's an awful lot of coming and going at the macro and micro levels. This week we limbo whilst wallowing in a vast Limbo that is difficult to describe but noticeable in its effects.

Here's some odd stuff I've been seeing. Obama will get assassinated or somehow taken out severely before the end of the election process. If Oprah goes back out on the trail with he and his wife, she's highly liable to be assassinated too.

Quakes are imminent. I don't know where. I suspect Puget Sound area fairly soon. LA not yet. The Midwest will come in near years. It feels like South Carolina is vulnerable too.

The Beijing Olympics this summer are huge in their implications in every way. The world is reOrienting. The big cheese is sliding eastwardly off of the cracker. This is very messy. Mainstream figures just came out that said China's and India's economies are 40% over valued. There's a lot more to shake out. The main pattern throughout all of this is up and down, severely. No one can rest into anything. It's topsy turvy. Nothing will make sense and an awful lot of senseless behavior will dominate.

Likewise economies and prices will yo yo. Shortages/lack will be common. It's the no-thing/every-thing polarity. Those who have everything will feel like they have nothing and envy those with nothing...... and then try to adopt their babies. We just can't get enough. So we run out and then we revaluate. I don't see dumbness going obsolete any time soon. The more conscious you are the more the gulf will be. Lots of people are heading for deep stupid, deep stooped. Folks and the world are going down so that others can go up. It's always this way, but now we can see and it's often not very pretty. The beauty is being. Be and let it all come and go cuz it always does, but if you don't know let it be, you'll be shredded on the wheels of your karmic projections and all the hope and belief will only grind deeper and harder.

You are not your beliefs. Your beliefs hate it when I say that. Your beliefs lead you from your being. Take your pick.

You are not your needs. Reframe to choice. Needs keep you in control from every direction while thinking that you've got control. Good luck with that. I say be and choose. You want something or you don't. Drop the need stories.

Whine all you want, but also make choices. Whinos are despaired from choice. We've all got plenty of it. Express yourself, but don't make your feelings real. If ya make that shit real, it all goes begging real, real quick. The way the world is going to be for a couple of decades will elicit a lot of complaint. Go ahead and let the emotional farts out responsibly. But choose.

If you don't do what you want now, you aren't going to be able to do very much of what you want later. The trances and trickeries that are coming down the pike are unprecedented in their effectiveness. The sheep have been well groomed, shorn of course, and are ready to bah bah bah with every blah blah blah of the terrorizing agendi. Power won't work for you; it'll backfire. It'll also backfire for the manipulators. So just wait around for them to suffer, be and take the reins from them as they fall apart.

This is an awesome time for manifesting what you want personally and collectively. If you/they haven't faced their shadow, the shadow will manifest. If you have faced the shadow to a deep degree, you'll start to have manifest much more of what you want.

The unconscious is what kicks people's asses, not what's bad.

The WGA writers strike is very important in that it is upholding the right to strike in big public way after that has been severely damaged for decades. There's lots of pressure on them because so many others' livelihoods are dependent upon them in the biz. We'll all have to stand up a bit in the years ahead one way or another. Few of us are paid a living wage anymore. The rich have gotten extremely richer in a very short amount of time and it has shredded our society. Unions aren't the ultimate answer, but people choosing and expressing and taking it to the streets will be important.

I reckon we could use an Existential Convention. Any sense of work and play has been muddled in this declining empire. Nobody wants to work and everybody wants to spend. A deep reevaluation will have to take place to sort this. Meanwhile, society is breaking down. Composting will rule for awhile. Fertility will result down the road in the years ahead. Compost your shit. It smells better and grows what you want better.

These are the most frustrating days I have ever seen. You are doing well just to hang in there. Be and choose. Let things unwind. Resistance to the unwinding will wind you up tight. Take time to rest and recreate. Do less. Thin your stuff out. Do whatever remedials you may have in your life. Trim the loose ends. There are adventures that await you. You can enjoy your wonderful self throughout.

Best to you,
Mark