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Email or mail your universal or personal question to Causalworks, 32 Porteous Avenue, Fairfax, CA 94930 USA. If you have a personal astrology question and you’re OK with it appearing publicly in this column, send it with your complete birth data (date, time and place of birth). Q: So many random and domestic killings and shootings in such a condensed time frame during late January and much of February [2008] here in the U.S. Why so much violence during this period? (F, via email) (Reprinted from Expansion newsletter, March 2008) It's the influence of Mars going direct on January 31, 2008. Mars had been retrograde ("backward") for over two months, appearing from our perspective to retreat into peacefulness. When Mars goes retrograde every few years for a few months at a time, the world does a sweet turnabout into a more Venusian energy. That's when people become more like Artisans in Reevaluation and Acceptance. Mars energy can hold itself into this self-reflective pattern only for so long. Once the tiny door of freedom opens, Mars bursts out in an unconscious, automatic-pilot flame of blind rage, and there can be (and often is) a bloodbath involving guns, ammunition, meat cleavers, anger, bombs, testosterone, arguments, forklifts, Warriors, the Goal of Dominance and Aggression Mode --- you get the idea. Back when Mars went direct in 2004, animal activitists bombed the Shaklee Corporation. When Mars went direct in 1993, you'll recall that David Koresh's compound burned to the ground after a violent standoff with the FBI. In 1995, Mars direct brought deadly gas terrorism in a Tokyo subway, the workings of a self-styled religious leader with a personal vendetta. At the same time, a disgruntled Post Office employee killed six of his coworkers. Mars going direct affects us in a willful way. If we own our personal will and take responsibility for it, then Mars helps us solve problems and take action. If we stuff our Mars-like personal will under a veneer of proper spiritual behaviors rather than truth, Mars can come out as our Baby Soul Shadows: gun-wielding killers looking for reassuring explosions. The next Mars direct
phase will be in March 2010, two years from now. Between now and
then there will be plenty of other challenging times, of course;
but also plenty of peaceful times. We'll be okay if we flow along
with the hard bits and appreciate the easy bits. Thanks for your
very timely question. Ignorance is contorted bliss. Ignorance lacks discernment. Ignorance hides, shuts down and tries to be inert. Eventually, ignorance has to open and evolve --- and no one has any control over this process. What looks like personal choice is actually a conscious shift of direction in tandem with the creative life force behind and underneath all form. The rate of evolutino in this process means nothing. Innocence is fully present, open and alive and simple. It can look like staring, but it's actually delicately responding to everything simultaneously. That's what's called knowing. Bliss is a temporary state when desire ceases. Desires usually come back, then you seek the satisfaction of those desires. Once satisfied, again there's temporary bliss. Complete bliss is the cessation of all desire. It comes when you realize the world "out there" is a cartoon, a continuously swirling projection of the contents of your own mind. Who can prove for sure that it exists? Here's an example: If you go to the Mt. St. Helens volcano cam, you can usually see the mountain. Once in awhile, a snowstorm will cover the camera with icicles, and all you can see are icicles. Ignorance would say, "The world is an icicle." Innocence would say, "I believe there is a world beyond the icicles, although I cannot prove it." Bliss would say, "Time for tea and toast." Complete bliss would remain silent. It simply sees the icicles, camera lens, mountain and personal reactions as an eternally-changing "outer" panorama of something that is also, literally, nothing. Great Zen koan question, and thanks for sending it in. Home
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