With Mars in Cancer, Moon in Aries and Gemini, and Mercury in Gemini

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Today we explore more about the Grand Irrationality being triggered by Mars during the entire first week of May. As you know, Mars is at 26-29 Cancer, the focus in a septile-series "Kite" configuration where it triseptiles first Pluto and then Neptune. This activates the entire pattern of occupied and unoccupied points. Over the next few days these 3 planets will be joined in the 7-fold harmonic "Star" when the Moon is in the second decan of Aries and Mercury is 5-8 Gemini. This is one of the more important times of the entire year for everyone.

As you know from previous articles on the Grand Irrationality, it's indicated by Neptune septile Pluto. Any septile series aspect is associated with irrational and/or obsessive-compulsive behaviors, critical choices and changes that may not seem to make much sense, and the general hard edged constant series of forks in the road we're all confronting 7 times a month as well as at least 21 other times a year. This is a widespread influence and accounts for why things are so weird at present, and why many people are making choices that make no sense at all.

As I told you a few days ago, currently Mars is triggering the effect www.aquariuspapers.com/astrol...-3.html through Mars-ruled activities and people and specifically whatever house we have late Cancer in our charts. Any planet or angle we have in these zones is subject to more pressure than usual, and shows where we are making critical decisions that will impact our lives in the future in major ways.

The Moon in Aries will add a 4th active point in the overall pattern tomorrow, May 3 or Sunday, May 4, depending on where you are. On May 4 Mercury enters the pattern with a forming triseptile to Pluto and septile to Mars, though it won't be within orb of biseptile to Neptune until May 5. May 6th will be of particular note, since the Moon in Gemini will conjunct Mercury both septile to Mars, biseptile to Neptune, and triseptile to Pluto.

Those in the Eastern hemisphere will find May 4, 5, 6, and 7 to be the most dynamic time span. For everyone, this will definitely stimulate all Moon, Mercury, and Mars related areas of our lives, and things will play out wherever we have Gemini and Cancer in our houses.

We can also expect this pattern to be triggered at the times of the day corresponding to whenever the Ascendant or Midheaven crosses through these zones. Of course, this will vary depending on where in the world we are, since different locations have different rising signs at the same moment in time based in longitude and latitude considerations.

Keywords to areas being stimulated are Differentiation, specifically Realization connected to Desire on the Individual, Mental, and Spiritual levels and Zeal connected to Discovery on the Actional, Physical levels. Another set of keywords related to the focal area of the Kite are Stabilization, specifically Ingenuousness connected to Consolidation on the Individual, Mental, and Spiritual levels.

There are other keywords, but they will be dependent on how these planets specifically configure in your particular chart. Certain generations and sub-generations are affected more than others. Those born with Uranus or Pluto in late Cancer or the Virgo or Scorpio zones are no doubt in major transformation, as are those with Uranus in late Sag or early Capricorn. Those with Neptune in the Virgo, Scorpio, late Sag or early Cap zones are confronting forks in the road of their ideals. Those with Saturn in any of the zones are confronting choices that determine how bound or free they'll feel in years to come.

A brief elaboration: Those with Jupiter in the zones are confronting shifting futures and philosophies, while those with Mars in the zones are facing crucial actions that may require shifts in directions or how they effort. If your Venus is in a zone, the choices involve relationships, values, likes and dislikes, while Mercury in the zone affects your view, interpretations, and how you coordinate your life departments. If your Moon is in a zone, it's affecting your feelings, habits, and what and how you care about self, others, and things, while if your Sun is in a zone, it's affecting your life, light, vitality, and how you find and offer illumination.

To reiterate, the houses these points fall in show the life areas where these choices are occurring. The houses ruled by the planets involved also show the life areas where these changes are happening, but more in terms of how you view and deal with those parts of your life.

The planets are the "inner lights," or elements of personality that can and should be raised to the highest possible level of functioning. The signs on your houses show what planet rules what area, and the sign of that planet shows your inherent bias in approaching those affairs of the houses ruled by the planet. (While it sounds complicated, it's not, but more than this is not possible in the scope of this article. That's for a set of classes!)

Obviously I cannot answer individual questions about how this is affecting you, since there are 10,000 possible manifestations depending on your hologram, your Dharma, and your responses arising from your Free Will. This is one of those times when we are making choices whether we want to or not, or even if that which confronts us makes little or no sense.

I suppose I can offer that we need to be good surfers, ready to shift our balance as the wave forms shift, and not worry that it makes no sense that the wave is breaking this way or that. The object is not to get tossed off the board while displaying skill and having as much fun as possible in navigating the changes.

You can find out more about this on-going phenomenon creating widespread uncertainty and lack of clarity in this article, The Astrology of The Grand Irrationality - What Is It? www.aquariuspapers.com/astrol..._o.html