Well, it seems this is still the greatest topic of conversation at the moment. And with good reason, it is difficult to ignore rage whether it is you own or someone else’s. My feeling is that there is a bigger picture but I have yet to see it. Generally the information I get from others helps me to ‘triangulate’ and I can hone in on the wisdom, but that has not happened yet, which tells me that we need to just sit with it for awhile. Sometimes we just have to accept, and experience before we can process and understand. Having said that I don’t think we need to feel apathetic or stuck, we can still be active in our awareness and watch the process unfold.

On the 20^th of March, the Spring Equinox the sun moved into the sign of Aries, the warrior. Aries is ruled by the planet Mars, the god of war. This is the time of year when we step into our internal warrior, using the power of Mars to emerge.

The feelings have come in many interesting forms. All the women I have spoken to seem to think they are menopausal or suffering PMS. If women are in fact aligning with the moon then this would make sense. In the natural rhythm of earth women should ovulate the night before the full moon and begin to menstruate on the new moon. The new moon in Aries occurs today March 26^th. It will be interesting to see if this hormonal feeling begins to subside after today.

It is of course possible that we are all affected by the moon, men included, even if our body chemistry is not aligned. I have begun to keep a record of major emotional/energetic fluxes in my own life, just out of curiosity. In time I will be able to see the cycles that come up and determine if they are in alignment with the phases of the moon, seasons… Even before the 20^th of March I began to over react. This happened in many ways.

I am definitely over reacting to the weather as are many people around me. I have always been sensitive to storms. I can feel them coming, sometimes days ahead, usually from a headache due to the shift in barometric pressure. I have that Mercurial symptom of being a ‘human barometer’. Lately it has become unbearable, moving to migraines dizziness and sometimes feeling like I am going to pass out. At first I thought it was age. After speaking to others and witnessing the storms my head was predicting I think it is something else. The people around me are also report sever migraines as well as vertigo, nausea…confirming that I am reacting to something outside of myself.

My feeling is that there is a lot going on a round us and we are beginning to respond more intensely to it. There is the weather on our plant Earth and there is also solar weather and Galactic ‘weather’. All of these have an effect of us.

My first experience with sunspots was a couple of years ago. It was Spring and every one was in rage (then as well), we were having sandstorms, the internet was screwed up, the network (cell phones) was erratic and generally not working. During one of my many phones calls with friends asking ‘what the hell is going on’ it hit me…sunspots. Not sure where it came from, but it happened to be true. We were going through a period of high sunspot activity. It was then that I began to understand what that means, and it is something that everyone should be aware of.

“Although sunspots themselves produce only minor effects on solar emissions, the magnetic activity that accompanies the sunspots can produce dramatic changes in the ultraviolet and soft x-ray emission levels. These changes over the solar cycle have important consequences for the Earth's upper atmosphere” (http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/SunspotCycle.shtml).

I recommend that you look into this because it DOES affect all of us. The other thing to realize is that we have been in a generally low period of sunspot activity. Sunspots have an 11 year cycle, we have reached the bottom of the cycle and it is on the way up due to peak in 2011. Wow, more synchronicity!

As well as sunspots there is a lot of other activity in the galaxy that affects us. In the Mayan calendar we are in the Galactic cycle. Part of this evolution of consciousness is seeing ourselves as part of humanity and our role in the Galaxy. A subject I will address in a future entry.

Coming back to the issue of rage I think it important to see when we are being influenced by external events. Not to put the blame elsewhere but for clarity. The reaction is still personal and still illuminates some aspect of the Self but knowing the source of the ‘inspiration’ can help us in the processing and understanding of the event.

Enjoy the new moon!