August brings two eclipses, a total solar eclipse in Leo on the first of the month signals it is all change as far as the zodiac is concerned.
Leadership, showmanship, entertainment, politics, the high days of summer, are all affected by a sudden shift in the cosmos and the mood music of the times.
Then following right on from that comes a lunar eclipse on August 16 in Aquarius, indicating the mood shift again in the body politic, in the ideals, hopes and aspirations for the future that are shared by the common man and woman.
Eclipses reveal what has been previously hidden. When the all powerful rays of the Sun are very temporarily shut out by the Moon being in front of it, then it gives the more distant cosmic emanations a chance to reach through to planet Earth and the consciousness of mankind.
A lunar eclipse in its turn allows previously ignored emotional issues to surface as the lunar emanations in their turn are temporarily interrupted.
So even if you resolutely refuse to observe the changes wrought around you by events and the chatter of the media, if you believe it is all chaos out there, at least take note of the dramatic changes that the month of August brings.
We are of course in the run up to the US general election, and with a change in the leadership certain for the country, it is about now that the attack dogs will start to come out as the competition begins to intensify.
Leo is nothing if not intense. You ain’t seen nothing like what is about to happen as the two sides start lobbing their best shots at one another.
It is always a source of bewilderment to me how the mockers of astrology deride how the gravitational effects of distant rocks should be considered to have any possible influence here on planet Earth.
What is most remarkable is that these mockers seem to be firmly rooted in the 18th century. We now know there are lot more forces out there in the cosmos than gravity, even though that mysterious force does distort the space-time continuum, so that light can apparently bend around objects in its path because of gravity creating an indentation in space-time.
Light too is part of the electro-magnetic spectrum, with electricity, ultra violet light and X-rays, radio waves, just some of its constituents, all travelling at…the speed of light, 186,000 miles per second.
So why the preening poppinjays who believe they have understood all the forces in the universe should be so certain there is nothing else to discover in the universe is beyond me.
The ancient Indian sages have always maintained that only those who are able to lose their egos – and that means casting aside all the numerous props to the delusions and fantasies to which the ego is subject – will be able to ever truly observe the objective world and its wonderful to behold forces at work. If they only had the eyes to see.
Since these forces are so powerful – consider the H-bomb shock and blast to get some hint of energy in its pure, concentrated form – it is just as well that their secrets are guarded by the need to cast aside all egoistic drives and desires.
For me, it was seeing the effects of the Sun and Moon on a remote fishing village in India over three months that revealed the marvellous mechanics of the universe.
Just take a look at a clear star-filled unpolluted sky to realise our place in the universe. As an Australian aboriginee said to me, you can feel you can reach out and touch the stars out there in the outback, but then his most ancient race does not need to be told of the pulse of the cosmic energies impacting all life here on planet Earth.
(This is an extract from the Kozmik Horoscopes newsletter for August 2008.
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