Monday, Oct. 10. 2005 CHART: http://www.planetwaves.net/charts/pakistani.html I THINK IT'S REASONABLE to ask what's happening...during the past 48 hours we've been presented yet another situation involving mass death and destruction, this time in Pakistan, India and Afghanistan. For reference, events like this used to happen every few years, not five or more times in a single year. Meanwhile, Central America and Mexico continue to experience massive flooding and are living in the aftermath of earthslides brought on by torrential rain from a third major hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico region, Stan. The chart for Saturday's quake reveals the image of a global event. The chart's focus is a combination of Sagittarius, Pisces and Libra. The Sagittarius MC (10th house cusp, the 'top of the chart'), is half a degree from the Great Attractor at 13+ degrees Sagittarius; the Moon is a quarter of a degree from the Great Attractor, at 15 degrees Sagittarius and 14 arc minutes. (Explanation of the GA is below.) Pluto is close by, at just over 22 degrees. The Galactic Core is involved, at 27 degrees. The but the prominence of the Great Attractor (the most massive object known, in this chart located one degree from the MC and the Moon, is the obvious trigger in the chart), which has made itself known in other major quakes, is something to make note of, because (as we are seeing and feeling) the impact spreads far wider than it ordinarily might. This is the signature of the Great Attractor. So, too, is a split or division of some kind. It can divide opinion, perspective, reaction, response. Pisces is the sign rising (2+ degrees), with Uranus in Pisces close behind. This Pisces/Uranus imagery, with Neptune occupying the 12th house, looks to me like astrology apropos of the flooding in Central American and Mexico as well. Libra continues to be prominent in all charts now, in part based on the presence of the South Node, Sun, Jupiter and Mercury close to or in the 8th house (death, power, money, secrets). Mercury, for the quake, was in the last degree of Libra (the exact degree it occupied during the night of the 2000 stolen election). The Sun in Libra was within a degree of the ascendant of the Sept. 11, 2001 chart -- a degree that keeps showing up again and again, continuing to establish that the 9/11 chart is a world horoscope. Remember that we had an eclipse in Libra just one week ago, on the Aries Point -- the latest in a long series of Aries Point events that make the news personal. We are in the inter-eclipse zone, with an Aries eclipse of the Moon happening in one week from now; this will continue to accelerate the news and involve the wider public, outside the local area of the event, to the greatest degree possible. But it's the prominence of Sagittarius, particularly the MC angle, the Moon, the Great Attractor, Pluto, and the nearby Galactic Core, that says think big picture; think globally. And the prominence of Sagittarius offers the potential for some hope and for a spiritual perspective. Consider that former enemies are now needing to cooperate (India and Pakistan) and the United States is in a position to help a country with which it is at war (Afghanistan). The quake ignored the existence of the border. It is centered on Kashmir, which has recently been a territory so hotly contested that we have recently risked nuclear war between the two countries. It was only a few years ago that massive armies were piled up on the borders. But then there is doing something with this information on a personal level. How is that really possible, in our small lives, which are increasingly dominated by economic concerns? Herein lies the real crisis, the one that determines our ability to actually respond. It seems like the natural response to what is happening is fear, and possibly wondering when your community is going to be next. Fear is a reaction that includes pulling in, cutting off communication with the people close to you, shutting out the world and its events, or acting in alienating ways. Fear is the response that says don't participate in the world. Remember, any reason will do -- any reason at all. While the quake and earthslides are not happening in your community, many people are tuned in through media imagery, as well as on the subtle levels; and we have to respond in some way. We know or at least suspect that this is all part of a much larger problem; a much wider situation, and that is potentially quite scary. But right now one issue is overload. Event by event, we are watching the world as it is turned into an evacuation project. But there is nowhere to evacuate to, and for the moment, there is nowhere to actually process our experiences of these crushing events; to say how we feel, and be heard; to have a sense that we are in this together. Processing (or not processing) such massive world events individually, alone, is not going to work -- particularly when their purpose seems to be bringing us together. But this same state of potential can be used by dark powers to cultivate and exploit a lot of fear, which is another issue that happens to be present now. Fear does nothing but divide people who might otherwise have the same interests. As the world seems to descend into chaos and eternal darkness, we in the United States, the UK and Australia are still being told that the answer is to kill more people, and that the solution is "complete victory." We will know we have sane leaders in power when someone says, hey, the world is in trouble -- let's move our resources away from making war and into taking care of the planet and it's people. But I want to ask you a real question: why isn't that happening? I'll have the chart posted as soon as possible. Please check the top of the blog for the link.     e More on the Great Attractor: http://www.ericfrancis.com/sagittarius/sagittarius10.html