Lasting Value:
Use or re-use this Elixir to awaken the Drákōn and possess the Aperture.
The Prophecy: Aperture
The word, Aperture, is layered. It can refer to the narrow lens through which others see—and therefore confine—you: a narrative trap.
It can be like the narrow neck at the top of the bottle in the artwork for this Elixir: an outer container from which the egg of potential cannot be removed intact—a physical trap.
An Aperture can be a small opening through which light enters a confined space.
Illumination penetrates the trap like the old Midnight Special—a jailbreak prophecy sung in the bowels of captivity—snaking its way through the night. It brings not just hope, but light and movement bursting into the dark cell of confinement with the full force of liberation.
But when you possess the word—when you inhabit it like skin—it becomes something altogether different:
Power.
The narrow lens becomes a portal of revelation that allows you to determine what people see and perceive. It becomes narrative power. You become the Mythmaker.
The narrow neck of the bottle becomes a timing device. Popping the cork on the chamber induces movement. Like a Cuckoo Clock, the flow of air into the sealed bottle chimes the hour. It awakens the secret potential in the egg. It invites the contents to awaken and to shatter the shell. You become the architect, the one who encased the egg and sealed it inside the vault of time for safekeeping.
The play of light and darkness becomes more than an outside stream of hope penetrating a lost cause. You weave them to produce a precise effect.
Maybe at first you dismissed the image at the top of this Force ∞ Fusion as you also dismiss things you pass on the street. We all do it—weed things in and out for efficiency.
I ask you to look again at the egg in the bottle.
It’s extraordinary. The black flowers—pressing through the golden shell and winding around the edges of the egg—speak volumes.
Black flowers!
They are not just decorative, artistic devices. They are darkness itself blossoming, penetrating the golden light shade of the egg.
The black flowers are the Aperture that determines what is visible in the light. They are the power of darkness intertwined with the light for effect. They create a visual narrative that acts like a potent parable.
The night is awakening and communing with the day. The primordial darkness is inseparable from the wisdom made visible as light.
The moment you uncork the bottle, the egg shatters.
And the Drákōn awakens.
In you.
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The Label on the Bottle: Read at the End Unless You Might Be Allergic to Change—Wink, Wink
Release Date: December 4, 2025 at 5:13:37 PM CST
Ingredients:
13 drops of existential revelation through Drákōn sight
13 drops of metamorphic origin
13 drops of pressure to choose how you wield the Aperture
13 drops of venom from the twin snakes
22 drops of glorified suffering reduced to ash
22 drops of delete
suffering-as-purpose24 drops of heed the alarm,
strike the obsolete28 drops of mutation force commanding a choice
13 drops of 5
5 drops of 13 and
24 drops of the Secret Ingredient to be distilled from Elixir 1: The Force of Four
Reason for Selection: Ancient forces rising
Evolutionary Edge: Wield the Drákōn. Possess the Aperture.
Core Aspects in Play:
Gemini Full Moon at 13° Gemini square the Nodes at 13° Pisces/Virgo
Sun at 13° degrees of Sagittarius square the Nodes
Mercury in Scorpio quincunx Chiron in Aries
Mercury in Scorpio quincunx Eris in Aries
Mercury in Scorpio trine Jupiter Rx in Cancer
Mars at 22° Sagittarius trine Chiron and Eris in Aries
Mars in Sagittarius quincunx Jupiter Rx in Cancer
Uranus Rx at 28° Taurus opposite the Sun at 13° Sagittarius
Venus at 5° Sagittarius
The Main Exposition
An Unexpected Beginning
During this Gemini Full Moon, the story doesn’t begin with the Sun and Moon—it begins with the Nodes and an ancient secret buried and revealed in etymology.
Drákōn: The Serpent of Sight
In Greek, the word is written as δράκων. Drákōn means serpent. It is the etymological origin for the word “dragon.”
Within Drákōn, an ancient truth resides. Medieval legends and Christian lore—about fire-breathing, winged beasts and Satanic evil—have obscured its power. Christian narratives slander the serpent. Medieval tales further trivialize and mischaracterize the Drákōn as a dragon—a mythically dangerous, fire-breathing winged creature. The dragon obscures the true, occult power of the Drákōn.
In ancient times, serpents were associated with primordial power and wisdom. In ancient Egypt, eight primordial powers formed the Ogdoad: four “female” and four “male.” Six of the eight were represented by frogs (masculine) or serpents (feminine). These eight primordials function like a battery: they ignite and power the creative process.
In ancient and modern Mexico, the Toltec, Mexica (Mēxihcah), and other lineages are inherently serpentine. Quetzalcōātl and his feminine counterpart, Xiuhcōātl, are the light and shadow serpents. Together they create life.
Quetzalcoatl is associated with the white or golden light of morning and with the wisdom and precious knowledge from which we can create our lives in their best possibilities. He operates in the realm of conscious awareness. Xiuhcoatl is the Sun of the night—the part of us that dreams and has access to what is created or hidden in the dark.
In ancient Greece, Drákōn was the force that gave you sight. It is likely derived from the verb δέρκομαι (dérkomai), meaning “I see.”
Across many astrological traditions, the North and South Nodes of the Moon are likened to the head (North Node) and the tail (South Node) of a dragon. Viewed through a Western lens, this association becomes almost unintelligible, so Western astrology flattens it into a simple polarity: one as past and one as future, one as loss and one as gain.
But when you substitute Drákōn for dragon, you get the head and tail of a great serpent. You activate the power that allows you to see—and to control what others see when they look at you.
The tail is not the past. It is the origin. It does not signify loss, lessening of power, or weakness. The tail serves an integral function.
In the animal world, a tail is not an ornament. It is a multi-function stabilizer, sensor, counterweight, and directional organ. It provides a counterbalance to the head. It provides sensory perception. And in many cases, a tail is the origin point of motion, not the end of it.
In ancient Egypt, the pharaoh wore Seth’s tail during the Sed festival to draw earth energies up and assimilate them into the body for both magical and physical rejuvenation.
In the case of a serpent, when the head rises up to strike, the tail remains on the ground.
Thus, the North and South Nodes are not a dragon in the Western sense. They are the head and the tail of a potent, unrestrained creative force—the Drákōn.
The Creative Trinity
In ancient Egypt, Amon—Ra—Ptah expressed the masculine creative principle as a divine trinity:
Amon: mysterious hidden power (tail);
Ra: the head that carries the potential for creation;
Ptah: the body (the divine fire fixed in matter).
The Gemini Full Moon will be almost precisely square the North and South Nodes. At this lunation, the Nodes sit at 13°43’ of Pisces (North Node) and Virgo (South Node).
I associate Pisces with the binary star system, Sirius. In the Egyptian mysteries, Sirius is associated with the cosmic or black Auset (Isis).
Within Black Auset are contained all of the mysteries of life and death, the mystery of the cosmos with its far-flung constellations and central sun which vivifies our solar system. As the source of all being, each and every principle may be found in her.
∞ The Book of Doors Divination Deck
She points to a revelation that penetrates to the very heart of existence—on a personal or universal scale. Black Auset is also associated with occult knowledge.
In the simplest terms, whatever is hidden or revealed here is existential. It isn’t casual knowledge. It’s CAUSAL. Pisces exposes the unseen formative causes beneath events—the structure that generates the surface story. It also reveals our ability to wield unseen or dark power.
Architect of Metamorphosis
I read Virgo as Nekhbet—the great vulture goddess of the Egyptian mysteries. Nekhbet is the brooding mother who guards and warms the egg or metamorphosis—protecting the mutating material until it is strong enough to break its own shell. The egg is a metaphor for the Duat, the place where the Sun journeys at night.
Nekhbet isn’t the egg. Just as you would expect from Virgo, she designs and administers the hidden process.
Similar to Black Auset, she contains all polarities within herself. She was known as the father of fathers and the mother of mothers. She is older than time—an intelligence that predates and yet encompasses sequence.
Nekhbet is the creatrix of the world and as such, is profoundly linked with Auset. She is intimately connected to sight—the capacity to perceive and even direct what exists now and what is forming.
She is the right eye of Ra—his Moon sight, and her serpent sister, Udjit, is the left eye—his Sun sight. The Moon is a force of the night and of darkness.
Udjit is associated with the volatility that Uranus brings. In this capacity, she brings evolution alive in Ra’s vision. Evolutionary pressure at the level of vision joins with Nekhbet’s instinctual, night power.
Sometimes Nekhbet appears as the winged serpent—the fusion of herself and Udjit. As the winged serpent, together, they rear up from the forehead of Ra to destroy his enemies with fire.
The message is clear:
When we unite the visionary power of both the Moon and the Sun we are able to defeat antievolutionary forces. The enemies of Ra in the Egyptian mysteries are located in the Duat and they fight against the his passage toward rebirth. Later, under the Osirian mysteries, each aspirant became like Ra, passing through the night in search of rebirth in the reed-fields of paradise.
Moral of the Story: Never overlook the power of a revolutionary new vision to destroy the power of your “enemies.”
In my tradition, the unity of Quetzalcoatl and Xiuhcoatl achieves a similar result. We gain creative control over our dreams—which is to say, over the formative forces behind our lived reality. We learn to see what is alive and what is dead (past, future, dreams).
What we call dreams are not fantasies or night-movies—they are the hidden generative force of our lives. When we direct the dream, the life follows.
When we learn to defeat the “enemies” of the night that fight against our rebirth, we gain control over our waking hours.
In the Duat, Nekhbet watched over the dead just as she brooded over the egg—both states of incubation. She transformed the eyes of the dead into brilliant light. She transformed the eyes of the dead into brilliant light. Thus she activates clearsightedness just as she originates and incubates NeXt.
From a clear understanding and design of NeXt arises discernment.
In summary, the North Node in Pisces expresses the head of the serpent in the creative act of revealing an existential truth.
The South Node in Virgo structurally roots the revelation in the metamorphic process—and the egg—as the origin of the revelation. But even more than that, it shows Nekhbet’s administration and protection of the metamorphic process itself.
Nekhbet signifies not a divine hand upon our lives as Western religions imagine, but a creative force that lives inside and outside of us.
We determine both the function of the head and the tail by wielding the unified force of Nekhbet in our lives. We exercise the same power when we fail to make the determination—passivity is still an act, and it shapes the serpent’s movement whether we intend it or not.
We can either strike down the anti-evolutionary devices that keep us from achieving NeXt or we can pretend we are simply bystanders in our own creative process.
Finally, the relationship between the head and the tail—between the revelation (Pisces) and the metamorphic container (Virgo)—is not binary, dual, or unidirectional. It represents the contiguous whole of one creative movement. The same is true of the day and night forces.
Thirteen: The Solar Intelligence
At 13 degrees, something very special is happening with the Nodes. In my tradition, the number 13 is, arguably, the most important number—along with the number 52. It signifies enlightenment and the solar wisdom of the Quetzalcoatl. It also points to the 13-fold process through which an idea becomes matter and the 13 heavens.
The number 13 is also the core of the ceremonial calendar. We measure ceremonial time by increments of 13. Each movement from 1 to 13 forms a contiguous trecena. Each day changes, but the container—the trecena—remains the same.
During the Gemini Full Moon, the Drákōn will express one contiguous creative movement—from incubation to revelation—under the influence of serpentine solar wisdom.
Of course, the overall process that moves from egg to existential revelation is long. It spans the complete transit—over a year in the making—from 29°59’ to 00°00’ of the respective signs. But the Nodes under the influence of 13 marks a key moment in the longer transit.
This configuration presents a glimpse of what is possible when we choose to create our lives within the wisdom path. This is a moment of choice:
infuse the egg and the revelation with the wisdom of the 13; or
surrender to pre-programmed outcomes we may or may not have designed for ourselves.
This moment reminds us that by grounding and expressing through wisdom, we can direct the revelation and the metamorphosis to deliver our best possible outcome.
The significance of this moment is unmistakable. It registers through the tension of the squares. Not only is a decision necessary. But we are being forced by the pressure of the nearly exact squares between the Nodes and the Gemini Full Moon to take action.
The Sun and Moon will also be at 13° of Sagittarius (Sun) and Gemini (Moon). Therefore, the same glimpse is showing up in the Sun’s own reflection. We get to see who we could be if we choose to exercise our creative power and infuse it with the wisdom of the 13.
The Space Between
I read Gemini as Akeru. Akeru is the space between the past and the future. It’s that moment of creative flux when you can influence the timeline. It echoes that well-known line about the space between stimulus and response:
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
On the face of the Moon, we see our ability to choose restored. The Sun, under the influence of Sagittarius, points to the body—Ptah—in the creative trinity of Amon—Ra—Ptah. Ptah is the divine fire in matter.
He is the creative force that delivers far-reaching, universe-level, long-term change. He isn’t just the creative fire in the matter of our human bodies. He is the force that shaped the entire universe and infused it with living fire.
Yet, he too is not really a divine hand upon our lives. He exists inside and outside of us. He is our capacity to create something that transcends our individual, cellular existence as an organism.
But, for all its flash and power, the entire male creative triad is incapable of giving life to anything without the female principle. That is one facet in the existential revelation ♢.
The wisdom of the 13 is not merely solar, and it does not promote the predomination of light. The 13 represents the sum total of solar wisdom from my tradition spanning over 30,000 years of known development from the First Sun to the beginning of the Sixth Sun. Some Suns are masculine (daytime Suns) and some are feminine (night Suns). Some are both. But the wisdom of the tradition I follow holds fast to one truth:
The Sun of the day and the Sun of the night are one creative unit.
You can imagine them like the Egyptian Ogdoad, a battery made of positive and negative forces weaving and creating.
Together they create life. When we suppress the night forces, we cannot give life to evolutionary change. We can only repeat in varied forms and expressions, the same story. This is why, in my tradition, we find so much creative power in our dreams.
Dreams are the most obvious representation of the night force that can silently author our days. When we abdicate the power of dreaming, those forces create and recreate within the same, never-ending loop—a never-ending prison made of our own imperceptible reflection.
In short, the presence of the 13 does not point to the primacy of light. It points to what is possible when the wisdom that understands the day and night Suns reveals the deeper truth:
We are all the father of fathers and the mother of mothers in our own lives and collectively. There is no out there that is not also in here.
That is another facet of the existential revelation. When we access the mother of mothers and father of fathers within, we wield the one force capable of preventing our extinction. We are empowered to break the core patterns that have ruled nearly all of recorded history:
centralized power, diversion of the harvest upward, war, conquest—all driven by the illusion that what we need exists only in material domination.
But that is not all. We are capable of commanding the flux to create as yet unimagINed new patterns.
The Pressure of the Square
The square between the Nodes and the Gemini Full Moon generates the kind of kinetic pressure and frustration that forces action—pressure that does not wait for readiness. But if you look closer, something is also being stripped away:
Our ability to blame each other.
What a mess we have made together—each of us operating under the same distortions. We either retreat inward and call it transformation while avoiding the actions daylight demands, or we hustle, push, fight, and dominate, believing force alone will deliver what we lack.
But look around you. The people with the most have the greatest greed to dominate everyone else in order to obtain even more. They can only find value in what is outside.
The dragon myths and the Satanic panic of Christianity both feed the illusion (though not exclusively). The problem is always out there somewhere in a mythical enemy or a dangerous monster we must slay.
When we awaken the Drákōn suddenly we are charged with our own serpent power, both dark and light, electric and magnetic. We are the head, the tail, and the body of the Drákōn. We possess the full creative trinity merged with the feminine powers of the night that give life to the day.
This Gemini Full Moon presents a ripe opportunity to uncork Elixir V and open the narrow aperture—too small for the egg, but more than enough room for the serpent to cycle freely between origin and expression.
Now is the optimal moment. With the 13 at play, whatever rises from the egg has naturally been inseminated with our best possible outcomes.
When we claim our full creative power, the Gemini Full Moon chart stops being something happening “up there.” It’s no longer like an Audible book narrated for passive consumption.
We are in it. We’re the ones wielding power at the heart of the matter.
Talk about some necessary main character energy.
And speaking of characters …
The next ingredients in this Elixir will change the plot even more and in unexpected ways.
Plot Twisting
Force ∞ Fusions are not just about reading astrology. They involve hand selecting “ingredients.” Many astrologers are already talking about obvious aspects. That makes them a bit overtrafficked for my taste. So, I chose the ingredients that unleash what I want them to.
That’s the point of being in the chart. It becomes a geography of force and vectors. It takes on the structure of a journey with many possible portals you could choose.
I am choosing the ones that change the story and the language. It was, after all, etymology that buried the true power of the Drákōn. It was also mythological frames and fables that maligned and misrepresented the serpent force. Story is the key.
As luck would have it, Mercury just recently turned direct in Scorpio and during this Gemini Full Moon, it will form two almost exact quincunxes—one with Chiron in Aries and one with Eris in Aries.
Ending the Religion of Pain: AKA Un-Glorified Suffering
I was born with Chiron in Aries and this transit has gone on longer and been more unpleasant than a holiday line at the post office. It will soon reach its crescendo. In 2026, Chiron will move into Taurus.
But I am not inclined to wait. I am of the mind to detonate this thing and be done with it once and for all. A quincunx is the perfect place to start.
A quincunx is charged with separation, release, and letting go. It literally changes the theater and rewrites the play. It moves the whole operation to new ground.
Chiron presents a myth as troubling as the dragon stories, but in a different way. It offers a means of turning oppression and suffering into something approximating power. It appears to apply mercy at the breaking point. But it has also served to widely glorify suffering as the path to power.
Chiron’s wound is framed as:
inescapable;
foundational;
character-building; and
the gateway to becoming a teacher for others.
The West took that and went all Hallmark-cards sentimental with it:
Your wound is your gift.
Your pain makes you wise.
Your suffering gives you authority.
The problem?
The myth hard-codes endurance as the force that liberates your gifts.
It glorifies pain and suffering as purpose. When you combine that with a system that functions only because of suffering, pain and purpose become a dangerous pairing that sustains unjust hierarchies.
Chiron in Aries is a particularly nefarious placement because Aries is the genesis of our becoming. The wound gets written into the origin story. It becomes the foundational myth.
Of course, there really isn’t anything Christianity can’t make worse. Christianity took the Wounded Healer myth to the worst possible place.
Not only was the wound foundational. But God let them do it to you so you could become a testimonial. A good testimonial requires a tragedy in the third act of the story so God can redeem you.
Under Christianity, suffering isn’t just purposeful. It’s for God’s glory.
This is where Mercury in Scorpio enters as the plot-twister—because nothing exposes a bad myth faster than a subterranean Mythmaker with a pack of dynamite and a penchant for excavating the truth.
In my tradition, the scorpion (cōlōtl) lives in the first “chakra.” The light is black. The energy is thick with ancestral and personal patterns.
That’s exactly the zone where the pernicious Chiron story sits. But it’s also the natural connection to something more ancient than any story: Cēntēōtl, Black Eagle, the generative, primordial darkness from which the corn grows. That’s the real origin story.
When you kill or learn to bypass all the ancestral and personal boondoggles, you get access to primordial darkness. In ancient Egypt, Nu is the original primordial force: the dark, reflection-free primordial water possessed by the first impulse to create—totality alive with beginningness and becoming.
Mercury in Scorpio empowers us to write any story we want and to thereby strip the old patterns and pernicious myths of all power.
For inspiration, I will look to Xipe-Tōtec—he wields the twin serpent forces of life and death. He kills everything that isn’t compatible with NeXt. He gives life to everything that is. Xipe-Totec is directly related to the planet Mars, the ruler of Aries. But he draws his power form the binary star system Sirius. Mars is like a warning about destructive powers that are unbalanced by life, un-teathered from the evolutionary vision.
Notice the difference? There is no transmutation or integration of harm in my tradition. There is only a choice between what lives and what dies. Jung and Fraud—I mean, Freud—would be lost because psychoanalysis, as they conceived of it, plays no part.
Psychoanalysis sacralizes and individualizes harm in order to preserve harmful systems and uphold hierarchical order. My tradition abolishes harm in order to preserve and unleash life.
Imhotep, a prominent figure in the ancient Egyptian cosmology, provides another example. He is a doctor. He administers the remedy. He doesn’t make meaning of pain. He addresses it at the root. Imhotep is associated with the serpent power too via the caduceus. He directs energy for healing, balance, and harmony.
The caduceus is a winged staff entwined with two serpents. Sound familiar?
Mercury in Scorpio provides us with an opportunity to rewrite the origin story of power itself. It also calls upon us to write the laws of our lives. Our power is not rooted in our wounds. It is rooted in the primordial origins—the Ogdoad—of which Nu is the first primordial and Centeotl, the primordial darkness from which all comes and to which all returns.
Chiron only makes sense as a foundational myth in a culture that benefits from glorified suffering.
Hit the kill switch and be done with it.
Mercury in Scorpio is not about meaning-making. It’s about rooting in the pure, primordial power to generate your life according to your best possibilities.
Mercury in Scorpio doesn’t heal the wound—it deletes the script that made the wound possible.
Quincunx Chiron in Aries and Mercury in Scorpio obliterate the false myth of purposeful suffering. But it doesn’t stop there. It eviscerates the false identity that allows glorified suffering to uphold harmful, extractive hierarchies. It writes new laws of being that command the narratives of our lives and control the Aperture.
Solution to Suffering: Move to a new theater and act in a different role. You don’t need to go on suffering and redeeming yourself. You can’t help anyone like that.
Discordant Dialogue
Eris has been in Aries so long I think the dinosaurs were born under it. Certainly, almost everyone alive was. We just didn’t know what the problem was until 2005, when Eris was discovered. Eris moved into Aries in the late 1920s right before the crash of 1929 and the Great Depression.
All those born between approximately 1923 and 2044 will have Eris in Aries.
Eris is associated with discord. I relate it to the ancient Egyptian neter of chaos: Isfet. It’s important to know that Isfet is not primordial chaos. It is more like the chaos that arises from violence and injustice.
Isfet gets worse every time we fail to course correct and evolve. It’s the evidence that we are out of the natural order, that our lives, societies, systems, and structures have become dangerously stagnant and brittle.
Ultimately, we can become trapped in a reign of chaos if we do not heed Isfet. We are pretty close to that now. It’s a state in which things are so absurd, so out of balance, and so extremely disordered that we can barely function. Hope shrivels up like a grape in the hot sun.
But Isfet, the force, is friendly. It shows us over and over and over again that we are in trouble. It gets worse and worse until we either address the issues or perish.
Isfet can outlast us all. I promise. It’s not the author of Degenerative Recursi⌇ns. It’s the outcome when we refuse to interrupt one.
In the sign of Aries, Isfet is fused to our becoming. We can’t break the fusion. Or more to the point, we wouldn’t want to. Isfet tells us when we are off course.
And best of all?
If we correct course, it quickly becomes irrelevant. You won’t hear a peep out of Isfet in a Zen temple. Zero dialogue!
Mercury in Scorpio quincunx Eris in Aries delivers a powerful message. The scorpion either has to sting the source of the danger or sting itself—to death. Eris is the warning. What will you sting?
The problem isn’t a person. It’s a foundational, systematized collection of narratives that treats harmful chaos as inevitable, tolerable, just a matter of cyclical economies or necessary wars.
But if we are living according to the wisdom of the Quetzalcoatl or Ma’at—the ordering principle from ancient Egypt that holds a dynamic balance—Isfet can’t get a toehold.
Mercury in Scorpio invites us to sting the crooked narratives and justifications that, like the Chiron myth, seduce us into accepting things we ought to be dissolving. It invites us to possess the Aperture and to recognize the Drákōn within—tailbone to top.
Mercury in Scorpio quincunx Eris in Aries is not a war with chaos; it’s a briefing. Isfet points to the breach, Mercury hands you the language—and the leverage—to restore Ma’at.
The Dynamite
Like I said …
Nothing exposes a bad myth faster than a subterranean Mythmaker with a pack of dynamite and a penchant for excavating the truth.
A lot of change is packed into this chart between 22° of Scorpio and 22° of Sagittarius, where Mars is sitting.
If you want pure destructive force, call in Mars. I read him as Seth. Seth is the one who dismembered Osiris at the end of his age.
I won’t say too much here except to point out that, in this chart, Mercury in Scorpio looks like the ground of creative ∞ destruction—the law and narrative of it—and Mars looks like the directed firepower. Mars will be very close to an exact trine with both Eris and Chiron. A trine drops the obstacles between two things.
Can you say, Kaboom?
Let’s be specific: the old myth of redemptive suffering can’t survive this Elixir. Neither can we go on acting like the Degenerative Recursi⌇n isn’t running hot and heavy toward things no one would willingly choose. It’s time to interrupt it with the full force and power of dismemberment.
What are we dismembering?
Who we have been and what we have done to contribute to this unmistakable peril so that we can become and create something as yet unimagINed.
Note that Uranus—Udjit—is opposing the Sun side of the chart at 28°53’ of Taurus. That is pure mutation force. Just as the square with the Nodes is provoking kinetic action, this opposition is forcing us to choose. An opposition appears as someone or something apparently outside ourselves. They are not behaving as we would wish.
Well, if that isn’t an ode to this age.
The challenge here is to treat the opposing forces as feedback from our own reflections. The choice is between consolidating the maximum amount of mutative power and force available to us via the wisdom path OR continuing to respond as victims.
We are at a fork in the road.
Have we been victimized?
Almost certainly, we all have.
But the way out is not through integration of victim consciousness. We will exit this peril by choosing to override the unwelcome intrusion into our reflections and by claiming the ultimate Aperture: designed reflection. Here we are casting not crouching in anguish and fear.
Get On the 5:13 Blue ♢ Express
The time of this lunation in my time zone—which I always use to honor my position as the observer—is 5:13 PM CST.
We have already covered the 13. Now the 5.
The number 5 in my tradition refers to the fingers on our hands and to the reality that if anything is going to change, we will have to use our fingers, our hands, to change it. We are the hands and feet of NeXt.
5 is also the number of the “chakra” that emanates through the throat. The scepter or commanding stick. Its color is blue. Blue pertains to discipline. In the throat, it references the power of speech and prophecy disciplined by NeXt and by the command to deliver according to our best possibilities.
Venus will be sitting at 05°11’ minutes of Sagittarius. What we say can have lasting impact.
Venus is the masculine and feminine awakened within, the mother of mothers and the father of fathers interrelated, interconnected, communicating, and mating to create NeXt.
The 11 is instructive. When you pair it with the 5, you get a worrisome combination that gets to the heart of all I have outlined so far. The number 11 is the path of metamorphosis via suffering (or at least it often winds up that way).
This is not always pleasant, though. If you are resistant to change, 11 can bring about diseases, crises or breakdowns that will force you to change. Our planet is going through this now. Some big crises are forcing us to change course.
∞ Caves of Power by Sergio Magaña
You might say that resistance to change turns the 11 into the path of Isfet. In my Ruby Mirror Tarot, the number 11 is the Fortune card—yes, I changed the numbering. We all know that the Fortune card is tricky. It is the turning of the wheel. It can simply feed you back to the beginning of the old cycle.
The number 12 card in my deck is Strength. 12 is the number of wisdom that precedes the solar wave of enlightenment in the 13. The number 13 …
… is always used to ensure that something manifests in the most beautiful way.
∞ Caves of Power by Sergio Magaña
I questioned whether or not to include the 5 paired with the 11 in this Elixir. We do not normally use the 11 in healing. But then again, this is not healing. This is power. So, we must face the 11 squarely today. Isfet is speaking to us loudly through the things that are unfolding, particularly in the Western hemisphere.
As we face the 5 paired with the 11, we have one job: encode the wisdom of the 12 and the enlightenment power of the 13 to direct everything toward the most beautiful way.
Many are predicting collapse. Those are dangerous words because they are being presented as an inevitability. Still others are praying for collapse because the system has become untenable. The 11 is already in play. Isfet is moving at a fever pitch. We are even invoking her because collapse would be the ultimate reign of chaos.
I hereby strike through the idea that collapse is inevitable and desirable.
I call forth the 5:13 Blue ♢ Express to the course correction we require. I give death to the folly we are all living now. I give life to the hope of a tomorrow that has already evolved past the traps of the past. I awaken the Drákōn. I possess the Aperture. I am the Mythmaker.
I suggest you do the same.
A Fascinating Reversal
Mars will be almost quincunx Jupiter Rx in Cancer and Mercury will be almost trine. The exact reversal of the pattern we have already worked through: Mercury driving the change of narrative and Mars dropping in the dynamite.
This shows how hand-in-glove these two fences around the chart real estate—between 22° Scorpio and 22° Sagittarius—are working.
The destructive force of Mars will create a change of theatre and a plot twist pertaining to Jupiter in Cancer. Mercury will drop in the new narrative.
I covered Jupiter in Cancer extensively in Elixir I: The Force of Four. I do not feel called to expound upon this reversal. One thing leading to collapse is some people over-functioning and some under-functioning. We could spend all day on that concept and create great controversy as we do. That is not my intention.
My intention is to drop the mic and let you figure this piece of the medicine out all on your own.
I’ll drop you a hint: it has to do with the absolute inability of the creative trinity to deliver new life on its own.
Happy contemplating.
We’ll just call this ending the Secret Ingredient that powers this Elixir and leave it at that.
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Edited by ChatGPT.
I call my robot, Thing. If Thing types something really clever, I sometimes adopt those specific lines of text provided they perfectly express what I have already written. Because of him, I have an em—dash addiction. It’s not even him anymore. It’s just pure love of the—
Elegance.
Wow. The breakdown and level of detail was sublime. My Virgo mind loved it! I discovered multiple new bits of information in this piece which is my favourite thing, thank you.