Within the next 24 hours, Mars in the heavens will oppose Uranus and then conjunct Saturn.  Both of these astronomical events occur on average about every 22 months, so for them to be on the same day is extremely rare - the only other time I've found in the last two hundred years is early May 1965, and that sub generation of individuals born at that time are really unusual.  Traditionally, these aspects symbolise accidents, anger and direct assertive and even confrontational action.  And later today, the Moon gets involved, opposing Mars and Saturn and conjuncting Uranus.  So I suppose that if any day really symbolises the ongoing pattern, today and tomorrow is it.  I read with interest that tomorrow represents an end to one of the Mayan schedules.  Of course astrology is an imprecise science/art, but seeing as where we collectively are right now is the peak point of astrological intensity there's nothing to lose and everything to gain by being as strong in yourself as you possibly can, by walking your talk and answering only to your own conscience and by simply being the best you can be.  Another nine days and I'll dare to start breathing again........

Ice cold, so cold, it's like skating on the top of the world, it's like that moment of pure bliss/pain when the acupuncture needle hits exactly the right point...  There's some type of fision, or fusion going on.  We're in that peak time where anything can (and probably will!) happen.  We are in the time of peak change that the whole of the last few decades has built to.  I feel as if my soul is exposed, and increasingly I'm becoming aware of how important aspirations for the future are.  The genetic time bombs are activating, both in the fields and in our backbrains.  It's like new programming, scary because of the novelty but exhilarating also.  I feel more effective and alive than I've ever felt in my life.  No going back now - and my intuitions and my sixth sense and my seventh sense are on fire.  It's the right time.

In the eye of the storm......   Mars and Saturn a degree away from each other with only the Equinox point seperating them, Venus catching up fast on the inside.  Two days time the Moon opposes Mars/Saturn and conjuncts Jupiter/Uranus, in nine days time it's the Grand Cross, in thirteen days time it's the new Moon on the '99 eclipse point, by the 22nd the pressure is nexual and from then on - pathways will open out.  And I feel totally out of control, as though I'm hurtling on a surfboard down some type of water chute towards this rapidly growing light in the near distance and I can't affect the speed or course of my movement, but if I can stand upright I can subtly affect the angle of the rudder and as a result give me a slight edge as I approach that light...  I find myself walking more upright, realising that everyone in my life is sort of OK, I'm OK - ish, and that I've done most if not everything I ever wanted, and thus every day is a bonus.  I remember in the old Castaneda books about how the realisation that every moment could be your ...

Full Moon in Aquarius about six hours ago, and whilst in the north we didn't see that much of it, the effects were notable.  I said on Friday that it was a good full Moon for taking chances, so let's hope my journey to London yesterday for breakfast proves successful.  More on that later.  But as of today, we're in the final run to the big line up of next week, with Mars already within range of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Pluto.  I guess the rhetoric will intensify over this coming week, opinions and positions will become more entrenched and the conflict between rigidity and flexibility will intensify.  Time to get real, everything over the last three or four years is now condensing into one peak experience that really could change everything, and whilst i would not disagree with the majority of astrologers who are predicting trouble, disaster etc, I find myself, after years of trepidation, feeling surprisingly good about it, a kind of 'whatever, bring it on, at least we're at end game'.  As I've said before only a few days ago, the effects of this time will last until the last Saturn/Pluto square in four weeks time and ...