Jessica Murray on the Oil Disaster

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Jessica Murray on the Oil Disaster
Wednesday June 16, 2010

The slow motion catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico is shaping up to be a four-way tug of war for the summer's intense grand cross energies. You've got communities like Destin, and Key West, Florida taking matters in their own hands (Aries) and in doing so defying established authorities.

I caught up with SF-based astrologer Jessica Murray, esteemed analyzer of such events, after reading her article Deep Water. In it, she notes a collective awakening in the public mind about this disaster: "from that of an accident brought on by the failure of a mechanical device, to that of an example of how government fails to regulate oil companies, to that of an entire system where corporate interests are allowed to commit travesties against Nature." Pluto (destruction) of the Earth (Capricorn) -- in a way that's covert, controlled, conspiratorial -- is out in the open in a way that can't be denied.

And then there's the Saturnian issue of responsibility -- what's my/our part in this? Says Jessica, "Saturn going into Libra is about forcing us to look at our laws, as you say, both explicit and implicit (moral laws, actual legal mechanisms, personal sense of what's fair). Saturn's job is to find the flaws, to pinpoint what we've missed, to notice what's gone loose and careless. So in Libra it's a teaching about where we've been slack about justice: environmental justice, racial justice (e.g. all this anti-immigration fervor), Nature's Laws."

Here's the rest of her response: "Saturn makes us redefine whatever sign it's in; and this placement has particular resonance for the USA, which is heading towards its Saturn Return. As a collective we're coming off a period of three-decades'-worth of abdicating responsibility as regards equality, basic issues of fairness, and balance (e.g. the balance between human "progress" and nature; between corporate profit and the common good). Now we're experiencing the karma of that laziness. It's blowing up in our faces. Factor in the explosive energy from Uranus and Jupiter which are both opposing Saturn (from Aries: activism [witness the angry spirit among the populace over the desecration in the Gulf]

And then factor in the square from Pluto, which is exposing the corruption that underlies all this laxity. Our legal system's desperate need to be tightened up is being symbolized by the out-of-control financial industry, but Pluto is revealing the deep-structure corruption that is making regulatory efforts so problematic (how can Congress rein in Wall Street when Wall Street controls Capitol Hill?). Most recently, this conundrum is being symbolized by the dysfunctional MMS (US Minerals Management Service), whose integrity as an oversight agency is as polluted as the seas it allowed to be defiled."

Finally, there's the Cancer corner, which Jessica gets into in the first downloadable lecture on the Cardinal Cross Years/ In this one, she'll be focusing on the upcoming Full Moon in Capricorn/lunar eclipse (June 26th) that draws in the Sun/Mercury in Cancer.

Cancer is the sign of the ocean, the waters of the womb, primordial origins of life, and kinship with animals or people (family lineages). She reminded me that as a Cancer Sun, feeling this defilement of the oceans is both intense, and the path to expressing the particular genius of the moonchild. That it's important to feel it all, but also to find a way to letting it go. One way to catharsis is action -- cardinal is initiatory, impactful -- and looking for the right ways to become engaged in the great shift of our time.

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Cancer is the sign of the ocean, the waters of the womb, primordial origins of life, and kinship with animals or people (family lineages). She reminded me that as a Cancer Sun, feeling this defilement of the oceans is both intense, and the path to expressing the particular genius of the moonchild. That it's important to feel it all, but also to find a way to letting it go. One way to catharsis is action -- cardinal is initiatory, impactful -- and looking for the right ways to become engaged in the great shift of our time.