Tuesday, July 25, 2006 | Leo New Moon THE LEO New Moon is just a few hours away, as I get ready to wrap up for the night. The Moon is void of course, as of this writing. Personally, none of my gears are connecting and I'm sitting here listening to Atom Heart Mother for about the 10th time since I spirited it from a friend's house Saturday evening. A friend in the states just wrote to me: "I was thinking that right now, you almost have to take a god-like perspective to be able to stand the news. Imagine you're up on a cloud somewhere, looking down. But then, even the gods must get bothered by our extreme flawedness...and then it comes down to, if I were Athena, who would I smite, which isn't very useful if you're not actually Athena." I am guessing there are many Planet Waves readers who are freaked out by what has been happening in Lebanon, which is just heaped on top of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. As my friend suggested, it's not really possible to look at this and make any sense out of it on a human level. What does the Leo New Moon say? Justice is a living factor in the equation. The other shoe will fall. But I must add this, from Judith Gayle, editor of Political Waves: "Statistics show that in any war or violent conflict, 90% of casualties are civilian; over two-thirds of those civilians are women and children. I can't look at any more pictures today. The reptiles are in charge and all I can feel today is disgust ... and bitter tears, unbidden and unstoppable, for the children ... so many beautiful little children ... and those people in the world today who FEEL this terror, this calamity, in their very cells and call it by any other name than murder." We all know right from wrong. Many of us want to do something about it. Today, take a chance. Speak up. Refuse to allow your conscience to go silent.