On 1/19 at 7:10 pm PST, Venus in Sagittarius opposes retrograde Mars in Gemini, somewhat near the Galactic Center line. There's lots of shredding going on around gender, inside/outside, self/other, belief/knowledge, alienation/chauvinism and friend/foe. So much of social life in the world is based on unprocessed sibling crap. It just gets acted out over and over again. It's getting worse on the way to worser. People are ready to kill/die for the most silliest dumb shit and all the big dumb shit. Let's hope we get tired of it all soon. If not, hemorrhage/triage ad nauseaum/infinitum for more years than you want to face.

Thinking and believing are both based on the same projective mechanisms that never really work.......... but you think they will........... and after a conditioned while, you'll defend your belief in that mirage, all for the sake of the mirage and not for your sake. It's like the Stockholm Syndrome, wherein you become and defend your captor. The ultimate pirate in all of this is just the software of the mind, mind that is physical/spiritual and everything in between. It divides you to conquer you by the distraction of what was never there in the first place, except layers of karmic conditioned habit and identification. The machinery is just yinning and yanging, onning/offing but you get all distracted about whether the glass is half empty or half full and miss that the glass has a big hole in it and you don't even like what's in the glass, but.......... there you are defending the system of good/badness while going thirsty along with everybody else.

Tired yet?

The software bumps you uphill to a higher octave of the mind and you believe you are getting some where:



Ascending and Descending by M.C. Escher
Copyright © Cordon Art, Baarn, the Netherlands.



Relativity by M.C. Escher
Copyright © Cordon Art, Baarn, the Netherlands.

Do you still think the Game is going to work for you?

All that ever goes on in the dream of Creation is this:



Drawing Hands by M.C. Escher
Copyright © Cordon Art, Baarn, the Netherlands.

You are not the creator or the created. It's an artifact of the software. You aren't in it like you think. It thinks you into it and then rather insists that you like it and you do until you don't. If you see the loop and you are tired, I can help you by remembering to you how to claim your own consciousness so that you can clear your identification in the merrygoroundroundround and thereby clear your own karmic sedimentary layers, your trail in the dream. You'll never miss it. It'll always miss you. There's a clue in there........

The Sun enters Aquarius 1/20 at 8:44 am PST. You are free. Trying to get free keeps you identified in being trapped. This is what is endlessly being sold in religion, spiritual whatevers and Wal-Mart,............ for that matter. Realize your own consciousness, your own being. Dissolve your identification in the mind, all of it, not just the earthly bits. It's all the same Dream. You aren't in it like you think and it isn't who you are. The worlds are falling apart. Aquarius will accelerate that feeling and recognition. It's the End Times of ancient projections, so everything ends. Not the end of the world, but the whirl of all the projections, projective ends........... there's nothing there....... there never was...... mirage in vagueness...... what is in the Dream, stays in the Dream. Now we get to realize that. If you realize the mind, you will realize a heap 'o endings for some time to come in the slow, flaying lane of the good ole mind that'll make it oh so real. If you realize your own consciousness, you can play with it all and enjoy your wonderful self along the way. You'll also be more helpful, if that's a biggie for ya.

Jupiter and Saturn are trine this week too. These are lovely times despite the burning karma and the roar of impending tsunamis of karmic blowback. Being intentional flows. Control and pushing the river will beget you a katrina 'o nine tales. Allow the rhythm of your body/personality. Take them out of their boxes and let them breathe. You'll look a bit messier, but you are tending to exhaust while trying to get it right. That shit just makes you wrong and then you have to do the prescribed right. Not gonna work, so give it up.

Full Moon in Leo/Aquarius is on 1/22 at 5:35 am PST. Face heartbreak. Give up saving humanity to mend your broken heart. Give up running away from humans and humanity and your own so-called humanness. Face the hurt and all. It'll melt. Intend that it does. It's not you. We'all can have a lot of fun together in the years ahead, despite appearances.

Mercury conjuncts Neptune in Aquarius at 5:16 pm PST on 1/22 as well. You are likely to be very spacy these days and so is every one else. Be aware. That's different than beware. Beware is based on looking through fear. Just be, just be aware that things are wiggly. That way you can generally dodge the karma chunks of fear manifesting itself. You can manifest what you want and clear your identification in fear.

I'm reluctant to even approach the subject of American politics. I do see it as fruitless. (I saw one report that Hillary won NH via Diebold voting machine tweaking. Who knows?) Right now there's the famous Chinese fire drill going on. Sorry for the racist cliche. How about a Bush Administration fire drill? How soon are they going to yell fire and when are they going to set them? So much more will be revealed in this whole process about the process, but likely real issues and real politics in this surreal game while still not matter much. We're a bunch of real winners alright and that's about what we're going to find out. USA has been winning on steroids..........

The big political day will be Super Tuesday 2/5 when most of the states, and especially the biggies, have their primaries. Mercury will be retrograde. Everybody will be reeling (unrealing) from Pluto having entered Capricorn and it's Mardi Gras: Fat Cat Tuesday. Mal Temp Roule..... This will be another parade of politicians throwing out useless shiny trinkets while everyone is depressed well below seeing level and there's a tsunami coming over the horizon, the surging insurgency emergency from every hemorrhaging ignorance that will be blitz.

On 1/24 at 12:06 am, Venus enters Capricorn right after she conjuncts Pluto. You are likely to be feeling grim and grimmer. It feels like death. We can smell it too. It's acomin' and we can't do a lot about it. Don't buy it. Don't bury or transcend these feelings. Realize your sovereignty beyond them. Feelings always come and go, as does life itself. The churn is intense now and for many years to come. If you depend on your feelings, you will sink tsunamically. They are good info; they are lovely. They are not you. They are just another aspect of the mind just like your body. It doesn't matter whether you segregate them or unify them or whatever. None of it works, but it always has seemed so. Right now you can see that the whole dream, including dear feelings, finally don't remedy your suffering. Suffering is existential. It exists in the Dream. It's not you. You are not some supposed projected higher self, god, grace, glory, soul, oneness of the love of the ancient order of what has you. You aren't some scum of the mortal realms smeared on the bottom of your soul. Claim your own consciousness and clear your identification with all the rest....... and unrest.

I've been writing to you on in2light for nearing 500 weeks in a row. I feel very tired. I have paid to write to you all along. Donations have never matched my costs, which are extremely modest. I have never been paid for my investment, time, work, expertise and intellectual property. This is how it is for many of you, perhaps most of you, as well. It is time we value ourselves and each other, or we, or what we offer, will perish.

This coming PlanetVisions Update of January 25, 2008, the day Pluto enters Capricorn, will not be published here in its usual place. If you would like to read what I write, please make a donation to me through PayPal. If PayPal doesn't work for you for some reason, perhaps you can find a friend who would help. After I receive notice of your donation, I will email you the PlanetVisions Update. I'll see how it goes. If I receive no interest, I will quit, knowing that my readership does not value what I offer. I recommend that you do something likewise in your life. You are not be paid and valued for what you share too.

It is time for fine people who do fine work to be well paid. Otherwise, I suggest stopping; you'll discover why you've been giving it away all these years; the others will find out what you've given through absence and maybe their hearts will grow fonder. Resentment will be eating folks alive from here on out. Postal comes later. Depression, accidents, ills roll down hill too. Being good and trying hard and praying sincerely will not be nearly enough. The times they are deranging. You can be and play with unrolls and Iraqs. Incredibly changing times do not have to be bad times. There is an awful lot that we're glad to have come to an end. May your suffering come for an end for you.

Best wishes,
Mark