Good morning, starshine

Melchior & the Ghostly Galleon

Very early and dark, cool 44F and falling, clear sky with no fog, a welcome change. Good morning, starshine, and the moon is a bright white disk on black, what? velvet? Maybe winter is over, woodchuck meteorology wrong again. Forget Phil, astrology rules: what could Gaspar, Balthasar, and Melchior tell us by gazing at the moon?

Winter seems over this morning, not sufficiently yielded to springtime for me to gather a blanket, bundle up and start out on a screen porch with coffee and laptop, moongazing. I’m no New Ager, but one thing’s certain: the moon isn’t in the Seventh House, because love sure as aitch isn’t steering the stars. Warring greed is at the wheel, an insane crowd-controlling god of selfish immediacy is driving, and let me off at the next fork in the road.

Special in my email this morning, Carl Hiaasen’s PCNH piece from last week, “Muddying the waters.” At church yesterday, some breakfasters went for the casseroles with green jalapeños, some steered clear. I like it spicy. CH likely flavored his essay too hot for some with a dig at Red states, but he’s right on. Florida joining other icons of stupidity by fighting a Chesapeake Bay cleanup project? AYFSM? Florida, where filth, selfishness and greed are decimating the oysters of Apalachicola Bay, fighting cleanup of the nation’s other oyster treasury? I would say I can’t believe this, but seeing is believing and I was thinking of the moon and a song, and this sure isn’t the Age of Aquarius. To a onetime sometime astronomer, astrology is as absurdly small-think as climb up on the mountain and wait for the end of the world eschatology, but the New Agers have it right about this being some age of bullheaded, warring, selfishness and greed. Is it Aries? Let me off.

The moon is a ghostly galleon, tossed upon cloudy seas. But it isn't in the Seventh House and this is not the Age of Aquarius.

When the moon is in the Seventh House

And Jupiter aligns with Mars

Then peace will guide the planets

And love will steer the stars

This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius

Age of Aquarius

Aquarius! Aquarius!

Harmony and understanding

Sympathy and trust abounding

No more falsehoods or derisions

Golden living dreams of visions

Mystic crystal revelation

And the mind's true liberation

Aquarius! Aquarius!

When the moon is in the Seventh House

And Jupiter aligns with Mars

Then peace will guide the planets

And love will steer the stars

This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius

Age of Aquarius

Aquarius! Aquarius!