This is the week that was, or, er, is, or, er, will be, forever and ever seared into our hearts. Oh? Says who? Says all the doomsmakers and naysayers and others who can be “trusted” to try to steal everybody’s power that we don’t even know we have so that we can all freeze into fear and go down in flames.

Let’s see, what are the signs and portents?

• September 23, Wednesday: Fall Equinox, Sun enters Libra. Balance of day with night, night ascending.

• Brooding over the entire week: Pluto turns SD September 24-25 while exactly square to Mercury Rx at 12°. Hard, harsh communication; cooperation difficult; possibly digging to the bottom to reveal what’s been hidden.

• September 27, Sunday: Total Lunar “supermoon” Eclipse in Aries/Libra. Absolute necessity for cooperation among equals.

• Plus, over the coming weekend, Saturn, newly entered into fiery Sagittarius squares Mars, moving from 29° of egocentric Leo to 0° of humble, willing-to-work-the-details Virgo. Let’s hope that Leo to Virgo shift means something! That these two difficult plants square off points to a tense, difficult time. How to parse ideals and visions with the nitty-gritty of concrete policies?

And of course, it’s way interesting that this week’s concatenation of super-powerful astrological configurations just happens to dovetail with . . . drumroll . . .

. . . which, in turn, magnetizes all the governmental honchos of the world to gather in New York and give speeches: China, Russia, the Pope, Obama, etc. Some doomsdayers say this summit will hail the rollout of Agenda 30, to replace Agenda 21, an even-more centralized world police state. Hmmmm . . .

Do you think this grand confluence of astrological and geo-political events an accident? I very much doubt it. So does Barbara Hand Clow who, in an interview with Zany Mystic two days ago also mentioned, at the end of their hour together, that she thinks Pope Francis is a real reformer and fine human being. (Whereas I tend to be skeptical.) However, she also said that she’s waiting to see what he’ll do with the supposed coronation (oops, no, whatever they call it when they make somebody dead a “saint”) of Junipero Serra, who, as she pointed out, was responsible for the massacre of countless native peoples in California.

Hmmm. That was the first I’ve heard of this. And it apparently happens tomorrow, in the National Cathedral in Washington!

Here’s a commentary, in the guardian:

The Pope Should Not Grant Sainthood to a Brutal Missionary

And, Barbara mentions Mathew Fox, who has also been lobbying the pope not to go through with it.

Might this be the litmus test for this pope? Stay tuned.