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One of the most well-known astrology situations is “Mercury Retrograde.” A lot of misunderstanding goes along with this idea. When a planet turns retrograde, it doesn’t actually go backward, but rather appears to go backward because the revolutionary motion of the Earth temporarily takes over that planet. From our point of view, it appears to go backward. When I first thought about becoming an astrologer, I was told not to assume that I knew what the signs were but rather to let each sign show me what they were as I encountered them. Similarly, with moments like Mercury Retrograde, I don’t want to give a backwards idea all the power. Don’t retrograde yourself by giving away all your power. Communication may go inward during retrograde, but that doesn’t mean you can’t find ways to turn that in your favor. Learn more at https://markborax.com/.

The biggest altered state of all is normalcy. My years playing music and playing astrology like jazz confirmed for me one thing: collective consciousness is a drug. Sacred medicines rip a hole in the trance of normalcy to allow the filler material from many dimensions of time and space to come through. When you allow the multidimensional nature of existence to come through instead of being resistant to it, you experience that 1960s vibe. Asking, “Who are you, who are we, and what can happen?” will tap into the collective consciousness and resurrect our planet in the current times of revolution. Learn more at https://markborax.com/.

Alexandria was the capital of ancient Egypt. Our world and the core of what we know have been influenced by events and studies that took place and were recorded in the Library of Alexandria. The Library of Alexandria represented the cumulative knowledge of the ancient world. Assembling that many non-denominational and open minds resulted in immense discovery and revolution. Comparing that to the current age is frightening. And yet inspiring. If such a thing could happen once, it might happen again. Learn more at https://markborax.com/.

Let’s talk about the magnificent death of Scorpio, the art of obsession. The view from the Scorpionic part of our souls reveals the strange disintegration of our time as being primarily the result of damaged instincts. Scorpio is the most instinctual sign. The Scorpio parts of you are the oldest parts. As a species, we’ve lost touch with the instincts that tell us what is going to kill us versus what is going to make us alive. When the vast majority of a species can no longer tell right from wrong, that species is in trouble. We must repair damaged instincts to dismantle the old, obsolete furnishings of the past. Learn more at https://markborax.com/.

The idea of placeholders comes from Paul McCartney. McCartney once dreamed a haunting melody that he was certain came from his subconscious remembering of some old jazz tune. He called friends to see where the melody had come from. No one knew. In order to remember this melody so he could write lyrics, he made up nonsense words about scrambled eggs. He needed a phrase with the right meter to hold the place of what would become the lyrics to “Yesterday.” Writing my latest book was more of a Shamanic initiation, a recording of cosmic placeholders for what my sub- and supra-consciousness knew long before I could find the eventual words. What placeholders do you see in your life? Learn more at https://markborax.com/.

How does Pluto in Aquarius affect the Pluto in Leo generation? Pluto just entered Aquarius for the first time in 240 years and will be there for another 20 years. The last time we saw Pluto in Aquarius, the sign of Revolution, there was a revolution in the U.S., Haiti and France. And now it’s back. Those of us with Pluto in Leo are the Baby Boomers, the largest demographic alive on the planet. Leo is the sign of self, of individuation. If Leo is the pumping heart, Aquarius is the circulatory system. It spreads energy from the center to the multitudes. The collective consciousness on planet Earth is due for a revolution. It’s time for us to use our personal revolution of awakening consciousness to overthrow obsolete ideas and ways. Learn more at https://markborax.com/.

Free will or predeterminism? This question is one of the main questions I’ve been asked over my forty years as an astrologer. I don’t see it as either free will or predetermination. Neither feels correct by itself. Both start to feel correct to me when each allows the existence of the other rather than canceling the existence of the other. If it was just predestination, that reduces the creative participation of human beings. If it was just free will, there’d be no grand design. In Soul Level Astrology, I see birth charts as a conduit to the parts of you that were here before and chose to come back to get a few things done. That conduit describes your reincarnational arc from life to life. While all aspects of your behavior are not predetermined, there are certain setups that simply don’t begin and end with a single incarnation, but carry over from the long past to the deep future. It is both free will and predetermination. Learn more at https://markborax.com/.

You don’t necessarily need to know who you were in a past life to clear its blockages. You don’t need to visually or audibly connect with who you were in order to free yourself from its shadow. You can identify your past life blockages by tuning in more to your current life experiences. Especially in those areas where for a long time you seem to exert a lot of energy to get somewhere that you keep not getting to. When you find repeating themes of certain blockages in your life, recognize them as an opportunity to find something new in something old. Learn more at https://markborax.com/.

Claiming your basic fundamental right to be, the right to exist. This is a rite of passage that many of us haven’t gone through at this time on planet Earth. This is probably the single most important initiation you could ever go through. Breathe into absolute authority and permission for you to be you regardless of what anyone else thinks. Even if you don’t yet clearly understand what it means to be you, you’ll head there once you claim your right to be it. Learn more at https://markborax.com/.

There’s a lot of fear spreading around the collective psychic space of our time. We’re on the verge of a whole new era. It’s easy to identify with everything that’s threatened, everything that’s ending instead of identifying with the beginning of a new era. If you fall into the dominant paradigm, you’re lost. You’re hopeless. It’s in the corporate interest to keep us in a state of fear. In order to read the deeper story of our time, you have to dig into the soul. Yes, many things are ending, this might even be the beginning of the end of the human species. This might be the beginning of the end of planet Earth. But underneath all the things that are dying, something greater is striving to be born. Inside each of us, love, truth, and compassion are all dying to be born. This is who you are. Learn more at https://markborax.com/.

Leo’s job is to come alive at core and bust out of the herd mentality that turns lions into sheep. Mark’s going to pour on the soul force that allows us to make creativity the reason we’re here. Soul Level Astrologer and bestselling author of the monthly Cosmic Weather Report newsletter, Mark Borax, will tap his 35-years' astrology experience as he delves into the treasures found in his upcoming book: The Ruby Heart of the Dragon: Sun Signs for our Times. Pre-order Mark's new book at Therubyheartofthedragon.com

When politicians fail, artists are necessary. We need artists to lead the way and envision the new. Politicians are failing all over the world. It doesn’t matter if they’re right or left, up or down, male or female, black or white, the system is bankrupt. It only siphons money to corporate interests. I am an anti-politician because the system is too screwed for anyone to make a difference. Artists are necessary because they’re the only ones whose imagination is free enough to begin conceiving pathways beyond the delusional entanglements of our times. Let the artist in you help us envision a better way, a way of love, compassion, and unity. Learn more at https://markborax.com/.

After you died in your last life and before you were born in your current life, your soul looked back at all the lives you’d led and came to some understanding about why you might come back again. At that point of the journey, you made a few prenatal resolves of why you would come back. At the bottom of those resolutions is love. Love is the reason we all come back. How to live that love becomes a very personal odyssey. It’s extremely challenging to live the love that you are in today’s society. When you discover that there is so much love packed into you and that that’s what you owe the world, the expression of the creative force of love is what becomes the art of your life. What is the art of life that you are creating? Visit https://markborax.com/ to learn more.

The spirit of revolution needs to be rekindled. The roaring twenties are what the sixties desperately tried for, but couldn’t fully get to. In the sixties, we broke out all over the world to realize that we are not here to be a cog in the machinery, we are not here to serve the establishment. We are here to be the outrageous, unique individuals that we are. We are here for reasons of love, art, and creativity. We’re here to unite rather than separate. Opposing forces stopped the spirit of revolution in the sixties. Will we keep it alive today? Visit https://markborax.com/ to learn more.

Take me on down the Burma Road. The ability to connect to one's past and present lives through the gift of music holds such transformative power. May the gift of music usher you into your own awakening. Please enjoy my song, The Burma Road. Visit https://markborax.com/ to learn more.

Your first human incarnation was but a spark. Do you remember all the way back to when you were everything because you had not yet become something? That spark is still in you. You are burning with a fire deep within. You came from love. You are made of love. You are going back to love. Love is made of all. And all are made of love. When you ignite the spark within, you not only recreate yourself, but you recreate the whole universe. You tap into the full power of human incarnation. Visit https://markborax.com/ to learn more.

Have you considered the cosmic power of sex? The French term for orgasm translates as “the little death.” But there is also a bigger death that is available through sex. Sex can transcend the experience of satiating our lust and become something cosmic. It can be about exorcising the trapped energy from a previous lifetime. At that point, the experience switches from getting our primal needs met to healing the wounds of past lives and freeing ourselves in the present. This is how we can live into the full spiritual power of sex. Visit https://markborax.com/ to learn more.

The sign of Cancer is searching for a perfect fit, which requires a blend of inner and outer seasonal development. Mark will take us into the creative world that lies under the crab shell. Soul Level Astrologer and bestselling author of the monthly Cosmic Weather Report newsletter, Mark Borax, will tap his 35-years' astrology experience as he delves into the treasures found in his upcoming book: The Ruby Heart of the Dragon: Sun Signs for our Times.

Loving someone deep enough and not having them love you back is like the scream of a butterfly. When you love that hard something somewhere is bound to die, making way for something else to be born. You may not ever know for certain what exactly is dying or what precisely is being born. You may find yourself in endless waiting, questioning, or confusion about where love comes from and goes. But the journey surrounding this cycle is what invites us into the greater cosmic story of love. Visit https://markborax.com/ to learn more.

On Halloween of 1970, I took my first acid trip. I tripped for three days and nights and it was magical, transformative, and terrifying. I thought I was never going to come down again and be normal. I went on a cosmic journey that in some ways I’ve never come back from. I discovered that life is so much more than anyone had ever told me and anything I’d imagined. The story behind my first trip continues to follow me through the years and allows me to see the interconnectedness of life, creativity, and the perpetual cosmic journey that is available to us all. Visit https://markborax.com/ to learn more.

Astrology is a system of thought that provides stories. Like all such systems, it can be used either as a crutch or a goad. When astrology is used as a crutch, it tends to typecast people, it reverts to clichés, it gives the ego a lot of strokes. But it fails to inspire, encourage, and activate the deep creative force in individuals and place their destiny into their own hands. When that system of thought is used instead as a goad, it encourages individuals to grow beyond their own blindspots and weaknesses and habitual stories they tell themselves and discover new stories. Watch more Soul Gems: https://www.youtube.com/@soullevelastrology3479/featured

Here is a letter I received from one of my clients. It’s a look into one person’s experience of a soul-level reading. It is an honor and joy to come alongside other journeyers as they find themselves at a crossroads in life. Sometimes during readings, we make assumptions about what we hear. We envision and force meaning on the interpretation. The importance of any reading is not just the reading itself, but always the journey it can lead you on, and the lessons you don’t know are waiting for you.

I wrote this poem 50 years ago while reading John Steinbeck’s “East of Eden.” It’s a playful and lyrical revision of the Creation story of the Garden of Eden. To play with the interconnectedness of language, myth, legend, and lived experience is to be reminded of the unity of all things. As the story goes, it began in the Garden of Eden, but it lives on through us today.

Happiness doesn’t result from getting rid of your problems. Happiness results from getting rid of the wrong problems and bringing on the right ones. Wrong problems are the ones that keep you going around and around and around the karmic merry-go-round without ever getting off. It’s like having the same stupid arguments with your mate, spouse, parent, or child, ad nauseam. The right problems are the ones that compel you to dig deeper into your nature and grow beyond your blindspots and limitations. These are problems that invite you to challenge your way of thinking so you can grow. When you shift the problems that keep you on the karmic merry-go-round to the ones that inspire you to grow, you get much closer to happiness. Visit https://markborax.com/ to learn more.

Astrology of the soul is a lifestyle. I don’t just teach students at The College of Visionaries and Wizards how to read astrology birth charts from the soul, but how to live from the soul. You can’t just dip into spirituality, metaphysics, and astrology every so often unless you’re living it and actually becoming that art. Living from the soul means taking everything that happens as an invitation to awaken. Life itself is an invitation to awaken. The birth chart is filled with near-infinite information, many, many layers. If you’re going to go down to the deepest layer, you have to learn how to live that way. A soul-level marriage, job, friendship – it’s all a state of being. It’s not a tricky little clever technique.