I can’t cease crying. None of us can. Oceans of grief roll via for a mess of causes at any given time. It’s exhausting to suppose, plan, or assemble a full sentence. The larger Los Angeles space remains to be in an acute disaster as I write this. The winds will not be via with us, the shortage of rain looms, and the electrical present of concern that extra untold devastation could also be across the nook is palpable.
Complete neighborhoods have been worn out. Altadena, a historic Black group birthed within the Civil Rights Motion, is gone; the Palisades and Pacific Coast Freeway charred; wildlife terrorized; and ecosystems decimated. There are toxins in our air that may do god-knows-what to our our bodies, our infants, our meals, our earth, and our communal well being.
If there’s one factor that turns into clear in these moments, it’s how a lot we’d like one another. The best way I’ve hung onto every phrase that anybody round me says, determined to know what different persons are feeling and pondering and deciding and processing. Who misplaced what? What number of? Who wants a house? The place did they go? They misplaced all the things? They don’t know but? Who else do I must textual content, name, go away a voice memo for? It’s a trauma response to make certain, but it surely appears like historic expertise embedded deeply inside us. Attain out. Keep in contact. Test in. Neighborhood is how we survive this. Caring for each other is how we uncover the very best of ourselves — it’s the that means of our lives. The best objective we may ever stay into.
We’d like us. Particularly as a result of we’re utterly unprepared for the repercussions of local weather collapse. We’re in the midst of one of many worst disasters identified to this metropolis of angels, and we’re amid the inauguration of the following President of america who’s (amongst so many different exceptionally difficult issues) a climate-change denier. About to take the throne is a person who has sworn to open the floodgates for much more capitalist, colonial, company violence to happen.
The present villains of our story are unmasked and unashamed, happy with the earnings they’ll reap from our losses.
Months in the past, once I initially appeared on the astrology of January, I grimaced. Full of signatures that learn as relentless challenges, the opening monologue of 2025 was not one I used to be trying ahead to. Particularly realizing the outcomes of the US election.
The month started with a Mars–Pluto opposition on January 2nd. That is the mark of one thing grueling, merciless, harsh, ruthless, volcanic, excessive, and scarring. It’s additionally a mark of main energy performs. It coincided with per week of maximum violence in New Orleans, New York, and Las Vegas right here in america, in addition to Trump’s claims that Canada ought to develop into the 51st state, that Greenland and Panama ought to be beneath American management, and that he wouldn’t rule out utilizing army drive to make that occur.
On January sixth, Mars retrograded again into Most cancers (the signal it has an awfully troublesome time in), signaling a sticky state of affairs that will take months to clear up (it is going to be retrograde right here till the top of February). In Most cancers, Mars brings up problems with safety, household, and residential.
Dwelling.
It was, after all, on January seventh that the fires in Los Angeles started. The Palisades and Eaton fires, among the many largest, instantly evacuated hundreds, destroying road after road of our group’s houses. A long time of recollections, proof of lineages, lives up in smoke. And we’re nonetheless counting losses, readying ourselves for no matter is subsequent. Praying for rain.
The Full Moon in Most cancers that sat with Mars retrograde (nonetheless inside orb of the opposition to Pluto) on January thirteenth magnified troublesome themes about house and household. From a distance and the “consolation” of my vantage level in 2024, this Full Moon appeared painful as a result of Mars so usually aligns with instances wreaked with havoc — worse in an indication it doesn’t do effectively in, and extra devastatingly so when retrograde. Most cancers is an indication that is aware of the way to activate our most primal feelings, has us swimming within the depths of our emotions, and makes us wish to curl up within the fetal place and cry for mother.
It was clear that the center of the month would harm.
However this ache that we’re in, the acute loss we’re experiencing, is at the very least partly man-made. To not say that fires aren’t a part of the cycles of nature, however the colonial mission that we stay inside seeks to dominate and decimate the pure world, relatively than respect its rhythms. The local weather disaster we’re in is due to the large abuse of assets companies have been capable of get away with. And warfare. The greed of a only a few swallows up the lifetime of all of us en masse, finally. It’s a lure that we all know we’re all ensnared in, and moments like these give us a glimpse of the longer term we don’t need. A future that’s positive to return if we don’t be taught from these classes, if we don’t grieve and switch that grief into motion.
We will do all the things attainable to avoid wasting all the things attainable. And all the things we save reclaims a world of potentialities. If main astrological occasions in Most cancers educate us something, it’s that care is our biggest forex.
This subsequent week brings us a really totally different, however equally ominous signature: a Pluto–Solar conjunction in Aquarius. Occurring on January twenty first, it’s the first of its sort on this register 248 years or so. It’s a mark of a brand new period that sadly aligns with the inauguration of a president that has promised us his imaginative and prescient of plutocracy.
I’ve a variety of ideas about this signature and this second — how bleak it seems, how heavy, how excessive and all-consuming, and the way bizarre the tech battles will develop into. However I wish to go away us with this: If we’re speaking about Pluto in Aquarius, now we have to middle the truth that, collectively, we’re extra highly effective than they may ever be. We all know this, however we have to act on it. Day by day, all day. With or with out reward. If that is the dawning of a brand new period, let it’s one which brings us whole readability about what we will change and all that we will save.
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