As I write this Mars is approximately 6 degrees from Rahu at 24 degrees Aries. The conjunction will be “exact” on 8/1.  Until Mars enters the sign of Taurus on 8/10/22 there will be surprises, challenges, stress and, hopefully, some laughter.

I’ve decided to simply reprint a poem from America’s young Poet Laurette – Amanda Gorman because her words are perfect to describe the times:

Hell and Earth

“Everything hurts,

Our hearts shadowed and strange,

Minds made muddied and mute.

We carry tragedy, terrifying and true.

And yet none of it is new;

We knew it as home,

As horror,

As heritage.

Even our children

Cannot be children,

Cannot be.

Everything hurts.

It’s a hard time to be alive,

And even harder to stay that way.

We’re burdened to live out these days,

While at the same time, blessed to outlive them.

This alarm is how we know

We must be altered —

That we must differ or die,

That we must triumph or try.

Thus while hate cannot be terminated,

It can be transformed

Into a love that lets us live.

May we not just grieve, but give:

May we not just ache, but act;

May our signed right to bear arms

Never blind our sight from shared harm;

May we choose our children over chaos.

May another innocent never be lost.

Maybe everything hurts,

Our hearts shadowed & strange.

But only when everything hurts

May everything change.”

~Amanda Gorman, “Hymn For The Hurting”