We
are being challenged to
consider the implications of living in a
world where official lying has become the norm.

What
does our tacit
acceptance of this lying do to our personal integrity, and to our own
psycho-spiritual growth?

What
toll does it take on our
collective
psyche?

And
what harm have our mass
self-deceptions done to the planet
we live on?

Imagine
you’re a movie
projectionist, watching, for the
zillionth time, a corny
movie with a stale old plot. Suddenly, it comes
to a halt with a loud snap. The film in your
old-fashioned reel
projector has broken and is dangling onto the dusty floor. Your first
impulse is to stare at it in panic, incredulous; to lament the damage,
to fret over the interruption of your assignment and to worry about what
your boss’s reaction will be. But you don’t indulge these thoughts.
Instead, you feel a gleeful smile spread over your face. You pick a new
movie and thread in the reel.

Such
is the opportunity we find
ourselves in this summer. There is
radical change in the air; there is breakdown all around us. If we’re
smart, we’ll take advantage of it.

The
universe is bound and determined
to instigate wild disruptions of
our individual and collective habits. We can see this from what the
planets are doing in the sky right now. What is not fated is how these
disruptions will manifest. If we ourselves channel the energy, on
purpose, with clarity and soul-intention, we can use our creative wills
to steer the changes in life-affirming directions.

This
July have we are being given
the chance to play with powerful
forces. But it’s just an opportunity, not a dictum: there’s no
cosmic gun to our heads. We don’t have to get conscious and
engage with the energy. Free will exists, after all: we can try to sit
back and pretend we’re passive observers. But it won’t work very well.
Our resistance to what’s trying to happen will create suffering.

The
conscious path, by contrast, may
involve pain (in the positive-Saturn sense, of painstaking effort), but it will not involve suffering. We can either keep watching
the tired old movie that’s already in the projector, or we can thread in
one of our own choosing. Taking up the mantle of conscious choice is
well worth considering.

The
key configuration in the sky
this summer is the Grand Cross, the
most stressful configuration in astrology. With Saturn, Uranus and Pluto
in a T-square, and the quickly moving lights in Cancer supplying the
fourth piece of the puzzle, the energy we are feeling is tense and
insistent. We may miss the mellowness of previous summers; we may feel
nostalgic for years past, when the world wasn’t being blindsided by
critical issues peaking all at once, as it is now. But this summer’s
stresses are exactly what humanity needs to motivate phenomenal bursts
of growth.

We
are being challenged to consider
the implications of living in a
world where official lying has become the norm. What does our tacit
acceptance of this lying do to our personal integrity, and to our own
psycho-spiritual growth? What toll does it take on our collective
psyche? And what harm have our mass self-deceptions done to the planet
we live on?
The Saturn corner of the Cross
is demanding that we look at
the lack
of responsibility we have expressed towards Nature. With Uranus and
Jupiter opposing Saturn, many people are feeling they must put
themselves forward, in whatever way is natural and appropriate to our
talents, and respond to the urgency in the air.
Mars conjoins Saturn at the
Full Moon on July 25 and during
the few
days afterwards, bringing July to a close with a bang.
Mars, the planet
of bold, explicit action, will add an extra dose of militancy into the
mix.
This means that the movie we
choose in our visualization
should be
an action movie, with a star—us—who meets with courage whatever comes to
pass.

http://www.daykeeperjournal.com/2010/07/brand-new-movie/

Astrology: Summer 2010 Galactic
Alignments
Leo
and the Lion's Gate
The summer solstice of 2010 opened the door for a summer filled with
challenges and changes based on planetary alignments. Some considered it
a gateway for the powerful flood of high frequency light that enters
the planet Monday July 26, 2010.
This summer we have experienced the energies of a partial lunar eclipse
and on July 11 a total solar eclipse as the energies build, each
alignment affect one or more groups of people within their matrix.
The
solar eclipse on July 11 puts the spotlight on Cancer, the sign
of mothering, empathy, caring, and connectedness.
On
a personal level,
it highlights the importance of simple kindness in our life. High-level
Cancer inspires us to treat every sentient creature as if it was a
treasured child of the universe.
To
relate in a Cancerian style
is, at
its best, to open our hearts towards every being as if they were as
bonded to us as a treasured family member.
On a global level, the Cancer
archetype is putting the
emphasis on
our connectedness with Mother

Earth, whose ongoing defilement by the oil
industry raises many troubling questions. Blaming the
rapacious
profiteers of Big Oil (Pluto in Capricorn is one corner of the Cross) is
easy enough to do; as is pointing the finger at the corrupt government
officials whose failure to protect our environment can be traced to
deep-pocket corporations (Saturn square Pluto).
But the deeper we look at this spring and summer’s transits, the more
likely we are to find our own oily footprints in the sand. There
are
many stories hidden within the chart of the Deep Water rig explosion on
April 20, 2010 (2),
as well as the charts of the transits during June, July and August,
that suggest how ordinary people have accepted and maintained the
ecological mess we find ourselves in.
The
many lies that BP told and
is still telling the public about the
spill, the cover-up operations BP launched that are now coming to
light—propaganda which was repeated by the media—are collectively
symbolic of this crisis of intelligence. It is a crisis that is thematic
in the US chart, whose spine is a natal
Mercury opposition. Moreover, transiting Mercury and Neptune oppose
each other to the degree at the Full Moon of July 25..
For
the USA, these changes are especially pointed. The T-square
between Saturn, Pluto and Uranus—with Jupiter thrown in for good measure
since early June, and Mars exacerbating the whole configuration in late
July—has been hammering the Venus/Jupiter conjunction in the USA
(Sibley) chart. This configuration pins down the issue of American
values like a butterfly in a scrapbook.
There are two more upcoming powerful galactic planetary alignments in
the summer of 2010 adding to the transformational feelings you may
already be experiencing.
T-Cross
On July 30 a T-Cross July 30 six planets - the Moon, Mars, Jupiter,
Saturn, Uranus and Pluto - all forming a very difficult and stressful
set of oppositions in the cardinal signs of Aries, Libra and Capricorn.
This alignment will appear from Earth as a straight line of six planets
with the sun in the middle; Uranus, Jupiter and Mercury lined up on one
side of the sun, while Venus, Mars and Saturn will be lined up on the
opposite. The Earth will thus be perpendicular to this alignment,
forming a giant T-shape. The Cardinal Cross, this event hasn¹t happened
in the past 5,000+ years.
Grand Cross
On August 6, we find a Cardinal Grand Cross of seven planets as Venus
joins the alignment, and the Moon moves into Cancer. The alignment
suggests a death-rebirth sequence.
There
will be an
explosion of light onto the planet this summer! by Gloria Amendola
The Crosses
of Summer, 2010 by Dan Furst
Grand
Cross Astrology   Wikipedia

  Grand

Cross 2010   YouTube