"Belly Boarding the Lunar Waves" by Captain Chaos 1997 Sagittarian Lunation

New Moon on 11.30.97 @ 7 Sagittarius 54 The Jones Sabian Symbol for 8 degrees Sag. is "Rocks". Well, rocks n roll is OK for a Sag but the other doesn't compute, except maybe if it's about the integrity of stone. Rocks is for galloping on, that's about all. Or what Capricorns have for breakfast or Scorpios poop when they're really pissed. Enough of this deep & meaningful. Back to business. This new moon conjuncts Pluto, semisquares Venus in Capricorn & sextiles Uranus in Aquarius. Looks rather transpersonally demanding. The Venus conjunct Mars in Capricorn can easily freeze up so that there's no peer group interaction. This is especially so with Pluto being involved, demanding a depth & intensity of relating that both Capricorn & Sagittarius avoid. So just when you're looking forward to your annual excess of sex, drugs & rock n roll, the cosmos seems to be saying "clean up your stable, scrape out those quaint old beliefs that keep you stuck in the past & go looking for new technologies that will expand your world view". Well, the latter is just great for Saggness & maybe you'll just forget about the former. This is the dilemma of the Uranus/Pluto sextile & this is the moonth that you get your strongest dose. In the broadest symbolic terms, how do you reconcile the square between Scorpio & Aquarius? What's the meeting point between the deep & the sky? Is there something that flies in the sky & dives deep in the water? What? No animistic parallels for this on planet Earth? No wonder you're having difficulty; probably have to go real neocortical abstract. If it doesn't exist outside, you make it up anyway. Like extraterrestrials from the sky that choose to live at the bottom of the ocean. I hear someone made a movie on this about a decade ago. Just mind hooks, you note. First Quarter on 12.7.97 @ 15 Pisces 10 Oh! What a fog out this is going to be. The Moon is conjuncting the South Node in Pisces, Jupiter sextiles the Sun & Venus is conjunct Neptune. The Uranus/Pluto request of this moonth is for a union of height & depth. Now, everything goes out of focus, it all seems too hard, so why not just fall back into the familiar soup of romantic infatuation. The struggle to create new forms is likely to be swept aside by the habituated patterns of looking for saviours in the outer world. Jesus, save us! How long are you human beans going to continue this outmoded pattern of irresponsibility? I know it's a really difficult one, because it's stuck on top of your Parent/Child dilemma. You know - that familiar Cancer/Capricorn stuff. The inner child's still looking for an all wise/knowing parent to tell them how to handle life. Pity all you got was horse shit. The further you look down the steep slope of evolution, the more primitive the thinking, naturally. So Santa Claus, with his pot belly came down the chimney. Oh! it's blocked up ‘cos you've got central heating! It was originally all about a winter solstice festival recognising that the shortest day of the year had been reached & that for the next half year, the strength of the sun would be increasing. The Solar spirit would be warming the Earth, the crops would grow & all would be well for mankind. Until the next winter or the next drought brought famine again. So for those with a northern hemisphere temperate climate consciousness, look for some notion that's more abstract. The ‘return of the Sun' never had much appeal for Arabic cultures. By the way, Mercury stations retrograde at this First Quarter. May add to the confusion if much of your communication is misunderstood. Full Moon on 14.12.97 @ 22 Gemini 08' The main planetary pattern is a "hard opposition". What's this I hear you cry! Well, you know what an ‘easy opposition' is -- a third planet sextiles & trines the opposing planets. In this case, Uranus semisquares the Sun & sesquisquares the Moon. I'm so pleased you're learning so much. You must be highly delighted. Now no-one knows much about these hard oppositions because they haven't been labeled & published hence they don't exist. At least not on this planet until this moment of extraordinary creativity. In the beginning God moved mysteriously upon the waters & lo & behold - a hard opposition was divided from the swamp, wrapped in tissue paper. And it was good to be hard. So sayeth Captain Chaos. Oh! - get on with it. Sorry, sorry, sorry to exist! Just kidding. I was just illustrating the dilemma of notions & language - especially when they're in striped pyjamas. At this Full Moon, the shadows are your misinterpretations of the world. It's all consensus & there's nothing ‘real' in it, except that others support your beliefs. Uranus is going to be shaking the fabric of your intellect & making you feel real uncomfortable. You don't believe in Father Christmas any more? How about in your ability to be generous with your time & energy. Oh? you think it's about giving things. That's OK & may miss the point. It's OK to see the world in a radically different way, just don't expect others to fully understand what you're raving on about. Enjoy being called a space cadet or something similar. Saturn stations direct on the 16th December, so you may feel strapped in a straight jacket at the same time as an overwhelming urge to break free. It's really not an either/or situation, even if your intellect knows only how to categorise its interpretations in this fashion. So do something really intelligent. Experience all this on a feeling level, honour your commitments regarding the body & its needs; and focus your attention on the new ideas, technology & how to liberate yourself from outmoded identity. Last Quarter on 22.12.97 @ 0 Libra 04 At this Sun square Moon, Chiron sits right on their near midpoint. What shall we call this? A mini T-square or T-square x 0.5? It could be painful & you might realise that Mummy & Daddy were/are just ordinary struggling human beings who never had much of a clue. They were just imitating life & doing what seemed right. The ideas, beliefs & notions they had were inherited from their parents. Forgive them my children for they knew not what they said. I have fun throwing in the patriarchal horseshit commands just to see if you bite. If you don't, it could be because you're dead & have just forgotten to lie down. Anyway, the good news is that, because Venus is slowing down prior to going retrograde, Mars has raced up behind & ‘goosed' her. As she is also approaching Uranus, she doesn't mind in the least & looking at the scroll he's carrying down the front of your trousers, declares that he must be really pleased to see her. He excuses his rampant biology & says that he just wants to be friends & have a platonic relationship. Then, 4 days later, on ‘good little christians boxing day', she stations retrograde, slips from his mind grasp & disappears into the wilderness, to spend a celibate 40 days mediating on her lost youth. With Mercury stationing direct on the 27th of December, perhaps at least she'll write to you. So it's adieu to you & merry xmas cheer. I'll lower case my way through cyberspace & revisit you around the capricorn new moon. Is this new fashion about no-one getting taller than anyone else - the new egalitarianism. let me know if you can work it out. captain chaos..