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The Gulf and the Depth of Illusion
Wednesday August 25, 2010


With Virgo-Pisces in the house yesterday, Robert Phoenix honored the feminine on his show, the Daily Farcast -- standing up for the Great Feminine, the ocean of consciousness, the sea as conductor of life. He said, "Without the sea and without the attendant currents, both in the water and in the air, our planet is a dead planet."

He played a recording of the wives of Gulf fishermen, including Kindra Arneson, who has been a heroine since Day 1, and who Robert calls, "a woman on fire." She and the other women righteously rage at the government for declaring the seafood safe, even though BP released untold amounts of a known highly toxic chemical solvent into the ocean blue.

It's inspiring, but also disturbing, to hear these women state what seems a no-brainer -- that chemical testing should be done on Gulf seafood to determine if it's safe. In the backtracking of Mercury Retrograde in Virgo, with all this food going out, the fishermen who have already been through so much, are the ones sounding the alarm. It's human conscience showing up, and commonsense-based concerns that people will get sick from their product.

Something is very, very fishy here. And I would wager that most people sense that. There are gradations of truth, but as Robert mentions, now that many in the Gulf are realizing the scale of this, they are logically grappling with fear. The loss is something that can't be put into words, and the implications of what's been revealed about who is in charge -- is the stuff of nightmares.

New Orleans writer Summer Burkes, on her site Ladies' Guide to the Apocalypse writes, "We have lost some measure of wildlife, culture, property, beauty, river, marsh, sea, home, vibe, peace of mind, way of life, indigenous populations, and mojo down in the Gulf Coast, and we risk losing it all." Burkes hauntingly calls it a "fortune teller's crystal ball for the rest of the world, where we are facing a crucial prospect: wipe out all semblance of infrastructure and watch the house of cards fall just as the land reaches its poison-death tipping point."

So far, the summer's cardinal t-square has brought extreme signs that "business as usual" can't continue. And the natural response to seeing the liquidation of the planet is anger. In another of Robert's interviews with Andrew Harvey, the latter said, "There is an aspect of the divine that is outrage, that is purity howling when creation is violated by terrible cruelty." Anger can be a purifying force, as another wise elder Maya Angelou said, "Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."

Right now, with Uranus retrograde in Pisces, we are in it, trying to stay afloat in waters that have become toxic on a few levels. That's why this anger, at unconscious forces, can be like a purifying fire that begins to lift us out of stagnation. While it's scary to "go there" and really see the devastation in the Gulf, the courage of these women is enough to light other fires....and that's how it starts.