Effigy (53 page)

The transit has come!

He envisioned the bright orb of the sun. He could see it through his eyelids. There was a black speck marring the glowing surface, a small round star crossing the face of the sun. The morning star. Venus.

As the sun’s rays penetrated his skin, the New Ager felt Quetzalcoatl’s energy soaking into his pores—an energy stripped from the surface of Venus and transported to him on the rays of sunshine. He rejoiced in the glow, in the
feeling
of the Venus Transit.

Quetzalcoatl was bestowing the blessings of the new age.

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