First Quarter on 11.8.97 @ 18 Scorpio 53'

A good time to die, with the Moon in Scorpio & Pluto stationing direct on the 13th of August. Just because your share portfolio is leaking like a colander, your wife's run off with your stockbroker & you've been diagnosed with AIDS, it's no reason to 'toss in the towel' & call quits. Your ancestors haven't been raping & pillaging for generations just so you could go soft when the chips are down. At the end of the day it'll be the bottom line & real men don't drop their daks (trousers) just because the Great Mother has them by the short & curlies. Hey, this is a cliche marathon so don't go getting cute with me! I see that a digitized John Wane is back in beer commercials just to prove that real men don't communicate, they just belch ultimatums. If all this sickens you, then I'm on the right track. When you're throwing up your lower chakra role modeled bullshit I'll really know I'm doing my job. If all this twisted gender nonsense is really getting up your nose, you do have the choice of getting off it. These are the outmoded patterns of the past that are like concrete gumboots to your urge to fly. It depends on who you hang out with & whether you have the integrity to stand alone. The best you can do right now is acknowledge their existence & know that they are going to show up even more strongly at the Full Moon. Mercury stations retrograde on the 17th August. Increases capacity for introspection & self speaking. Can create difficulties in communication with others. Full Moon on 18.8.97 @ 25 Aquarius 32' Bun fight time! All artists & bleeding hearts should leave the room; maybe even the country. You could all go to Tasmania now that you can't get 21 years in goal for hiding the sausage with the blokes. Pleasure = Sin= Punishment??? The light of this Full Moon is like a spotlight on your prejudices. There is so much lurking at the bottom of your garden that will fill you with the urge to defecate. And it's all yours, you made it, patented it & matured it all by yourself. Of course, significant others helped, but then they have to otherwise they can't become significant others, can they? It's all too hard?? Your personality structures feel like they're going to burst? There's so much energy being released here, just looking for some creative form. So how are you going to handle it? Detach or dissociate? That seems to be the real choice. Detachment is becoming less reactive to your past memories & being able to talk about them, seeing how impersonal it all is. Everyone has similar stuff, because you're in the same culture with similar Karma. Just choose your sharing to be specific to the issues involved. That is, share with someone living on the same aspect cycles, so you can be sure they have sufficient similar experience to make good communication possible. Dissociation is the real problem here. Splitting off from facets of your behaviour will not serve you. Better that you should feel guilty, ashamed, weak or fly blown. The feeling will pass as it's just part of the passage of ownership. When dissociation has occurred, you've got to find the missing part out there & make life hell for it. Persecute & goal those who persist in their perverted ways of seeking bodily pleasure. The body must be dominated, the devil makes dirty work for idle hands, you'll go blind if you do that, etc, etc, etc. How sick are you? You're 50 & still like snuggles & singing silly songs. Visions of Sodom & Gomorrah, fundamentalists in authoritarian & trembling fear trying to turn the clock back. Not even having the integrity of owning their fear, their mortality, their organicness. The legacy of Pluto transiting through Sagittarius. The disowned uroboric serpent, hitching a ride on an eagle & looking for a home. Not down my trousers or up your skirt! Religious fundamentalists gone insane on their diet of old books that should have been allowed to molder into dust. What's it like being ridden mercilessly by your ancestors superstitions. Now there's something to bet on. 5/2 on the ancestors win.