11th April 2011

We’re all in recuperation mode, recovering from giving too much and receiving too little in return.   There is a major disenfranchisement being revealed just now.  Around the globe we’ve been effectively shut out of the power to influence our own lives economically, politically, sexually.  We’ve been told we don’t deserve things like health care and homes, the right to vote, to care for our children properly.  And so we try harder, and harder.  And get less and less.  It’s time to get off this merry go round and make claim to our own existence, create our own ease and prosperity.

Astrologically what’s triggering this process is a line up of dwarf planets that are revealing an underhanded game of ‘blame the victim’.

Quaoar is on a slow approach towards the Galactic Centre, already in Gate 11.  Makemake is in Gate 6, square to the Galactic Centre.  Both Quaoar and Makemake have an aspect of disenfranchisement – throw the indigenous people out of their homes because we want the land.  Or in Makemake’s case because we want to put the people into slavery.

Lilith played her hand in the recent New Moon, and expecting women to play the victim for society’s ills has been a large part of the US political debate since then.  Icelander’s are having their own experience of wondering why they are trying to repay the money plundered from their economy.  This is a question that is about to explode upon the world at large.

The North Node is supporting these two planets, directly conjunct the Galactic Centre (11.5).  New ideas are being revealed, old ideas suddenly and shockingly debunked.  And the South Node – what we need to let go of?  It’s in the Gate of Standstill, a place where we say ‘Oh, blankets and trinkets.  What a lovely offer, you’re so kind, but No Thanks!!’

And then there’s Eris.  Tomorrow we have the Sun conjunct Eris, and then the whole Aries bunch will turn up to inhabit Gate 42 between now and early May.  Jupiter, Mercury, Mars and Venus.  1992 QB1 is in Gate 42 as well, creating a bridge to a new consciousness, a new prosperity that flows from creativity not power, greed and theft.

Eris is showing us a new way to walk away from the complications of groupthink and find our own path.  No more parcelling out the blame and then playing the game.  If you know how family systems work, you can see it writ large on the political scene at the moment – each party and ideology playing their part in the drama.  We project our hidden darkness onto the other players and everyone goes around again.  Merrily, merrily!

Uranus in Gate 25 says disentangle yourself from this old matrix of complexity and live freely as yourself.  The new fractal connections arise from flowing freely, not enmeshing out of fear of survival. Ease, grace, prosperity. Stop going round and round in the old game, and claim them as your birthright.