"Belly Boarding the Lunar Waves" by Captain Chaos 1998 Aquarian Lunation

New Moon on 28.1.98 @ 8 Aquarius 6' A very transpersonally pushy moonth. At this new moon, the Lights partile conjunct Uranus & sextile Pluto. This moonth is the other side of last years Sagittarian cycle, when the Lights conjuncted Pluto & sextiled Uranus. What's been brewing since December is coming to some sort of climax. There's nothing quite as determined & unyielding as an Aquarian moonth, unless it's a Scorpio one. Mad as a hatter, whatever that means. I'm just playing with the language some of you earthlings use. Time to go quite nutty (like squirrels I hear) & make up all sorts of amazing plans that will create new social possibilities & allow you to detach from your limited little human bodies. It's that time of the year when you are most likely to experience freedom from your personal history. What a liberation, because history is societies wealth & every persons curse. The beliefs of your ancestors are what limit your horizons & for the next few weeks, you can have a holiday from them. Can you cope with detaching from all that's so familiar, maybe not recognising yourself when you look in the mirror in the morning. On the 30th January, Neptune slips into Aquarius, where it will remain until late August. Just in time to foster some strange fantasies, which may seep into your dreams & disturb you. Then on the 5th of February, Jupiter splashes into Pisces, pushing you towards temporary omnipotence followed rapidly by addictive impotence. First Quarter Moon on 4.2..98 @ 14 Taurus 55' A testing phase, this one. The unpushable object (Taurus) meets the unstoppable notion (Aquarius). The Sun squares the Moon & Chiron, the latter two opposing. This T-square will reactivate the parent blamed primary Chironic wound, the source of your greatest despair. You may feel split, castrated or internally divided & react as if others were to blame for your state. Also, stationary Venus squares Saturn, so you're going to expect rejection when you look for some personal nurturing from someone of the opposite sex. So whatever happens, this is how you'll interpret the interaction. And Mars squares Pluto, so you may feel so angry that you want to hit out. Fortunately Mars is in Pisces, which softens its action, yet supplies little self control. This is not going to be a nice time. The human need to find relief from your wounds by dumping them onto someone else, is likely to see a lot of bleeding in the home place & on the streets. Visible or invisible, what's the difference. You can either contain this wave or be dumped by it & make the world around you a worse place. Ain't life fun when your swimmers are full of sand & your basal chakra's about to implode. Jupiter semisquares Saturn on the 9th of February, just in time for the full moon. Full Moon on 11.2.98 @ 22 Leo 29' Hooly, dooly! Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of primates. Yes, you guessed it! Free unlimited time, sans accommodation, in the jungles of Rwanda to the lucky viewer who noticed that at this full moon, Chiron T-squares the Lights. Mountain gorilla behaviour is going to seem very gentle & civilised when compared to what the talking primates are doing at this phase. There's nothing like a full moon in Leo in an Aquarian cycle to bring out the worst in people. Much strident personality shouting, dumping & blaming. Personality Difference & Argument Festival time. "Mine's bigger & better than yours!" All the factors mentioned for a week earlier at the First Quarter Moon have matured, blossomed & will present their rotten fruit at this time. Shining in the moonlight! Saturn still squares Venus so the experience of personal rejection is highly likely. There will probably be much socialising, especially in restaurants, clubs & bars. Just don't expect any sharing or real communication as there'll be so much macho one-up-manship & overbearing behaviour that the more sensitive types are likely to go home early feeling sick. Mercury conjuncts Uranus in Aquarius during this period, so do yourself a favour. Use this part of the wave to activate your intuition, so that you'll know what locations & what company to avoid. Last Quarter Moon on 20.2.98 @ 0 Sagittarius 47' What a relief to get into a mutable phase, where life doesn't seem stuck, desperate & loud. Rest & recuperation time; or so clogged with your own resentment that there's no relief from the internal stress. Why is it so, I hear you cry?? Well, little piglets, it's ‘cos the moon is catching up to Pluto & they both square the Sun & Jupiter. Jupiter really pumps up any Plutonic action, so the mental anguish could really be severe as your intellect ricochets around your skull trying to work out what's gone wrong. There are ‘wailing walls' invented for folks like you, so you can rock backwards & forwards like an autistic child until the Messiah comes to tell you that you've been a very naughty boy/girl. Are you still waiting for punishment or forgiveness from your parents or the Parents in the Sky? It would be embarrassing to talk about personal responsibility for your life & the beliefs you were fed in your mothers milk. Just keep banging your head against that wall, ‘cos it'll feel delicious when you stop, which is about the time that you kark it. But I jest, don't I?? Perhaps a better option would be to have life as an ongoing comedy, yet tragedy gives a better financial return. What? Money = Survival? These dualistic simplicities are too much for me. Why didn't we give you better tuned survival mentality in the first place, tools that could handle a range of complex possibilities. Then I'd be out of a job. Oh! the simple black/white minds of children, teenagers, terrorists & religious fundamentalists.