To paraphrase the great god McKenna, human history represents such a break with the biological systems of organisation that preceded it, that it must a response to some kind of attractor or magnet that lies ahead in the temporal dimensions.  Never before has a species evolved that can laugh at itself or kill itself, and there's never been a species that can anticipate futures.  The boundaries of what in the past has been 'normal' space/time are beginning to fragment, we are being called forward to a point of individual and communal knowing that our ancestors have dreamt of for thousands of years, and it's our privilege to see this time, to make it happen, and to go on and beyond the old boundaries of existence and consciousness.  Everyone is their own shaman now.  And I'm rambling, and signing off before someone knocks me down for not doing any astrology....