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I was accused by some of my readers of being unpatriotic. I explained no, I am Quaker. Among the few things I can say we Quakers all stand for is opposition to war. Who would Jesus bomb?
Dear Friend and Reader:
I AM looking forward to the day when I can publish an article and not worry about losing subscribers or being told I am a “conspiracist” or “anti-science.” This is unusual feedback, given that the theme of my writing career has been covering unpopular, controversial, dangerous and taboo subjects, often involving the conduct of bureaucrats and so-called scientists.My well-developed field of speciality is scientific fraud. I started writing about this when I was 19 years old and have persisted throughout my career as an astrologer. There have been times when I raised money for my investigative reporting — always to cover scientific tests — from my readers, who were excited about what I might discover.
I’m cautious of declaring (in the words of that old rock song) “Everybody’s so different; I haven’t changed.” However, that may be true. That said, the world has never really been friendly to the idea that the government is collaborating with big corporations to poison us. But occasionally, it’s in vogue.
There were only two other times in my Planet Waves career when I was at odds with many of my readers.
I’ll skip one and tell you about the discussion nobody but me remembers. Once upon a time, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Condi Rice and company were about to invade Iraq, which had done nothing to the United States or its allies. In fact, Iraq was our ally just a few years earlier.
They made many nightly appearances on every network claiming that Saddam Hussein had something to do with 9/11, and was about to have the atomic bomb. I called foul.
I was accused by some of my readers of being unpatriotic. I explained no, I am Quaker. Among the few things I can say we Quakers all stand for is opposition to war. Who would Jesus bomb?
Speaking of, the one time I felt the most like the teacher Yeshoua was one afternoon when I was living on Vashon Island. This was around 2003 or so. A minister on the island was preaching war from the pulpit on Sunday; some of his parishioners told me. I saw him one day on the street and asked him about it. He was at least forthright in explaining that the wealthy members of his parish were in favor of attacking Iraq, therefore, he spun his sermons that way.
You may imagine the conversation that ensued.
Which war? The one being waged by tech and pharmaceutical giants on the civilian population, aided and abetted by government officials, astrologers, rock stars, the entity Abraham, and now, Papa Smurf of the American left, Noam Chomsky.
Here we are again. To relate to one’s audience these days (which means to not lose advertisers, not get fired, or have any clients), most places, you have to go along with the current war. Or, as one publisher explained to me last weekend, you must conceal your viewpoint from your readers and advertisers.
Which war? The one being waged by tech and pharmaceutical giants on the civilian population, aided and abetted by government officials, astrologers, rock stars, the entity Abraham, and now, Papa Smurf of the American left, Noam Chomsky. He recently said that vaccine hesitant people should be isolated. I’ve also heard Chomsky say that interning Japanese Americans (i.e., citizens of the United States) in concentration camps during World War II was the right thing to do. He may get his wish. Such camps are being built in Australia and Canada, and there is a law pending to do so in New York. Chomsky only pretends to understand the propaganda model of the news, otherwise he would not participate in it.
He only pretends to understand science. Otherwise, he would be talking about the infection fatality rate and the well-known problems with a scientific device to which most people have surrendered their lives.
None of these people, or more accurately, entities, can put three words together without telling as many lies. A month ago, C-Span video of Anthony Fauci surfaced, wherein America’s favorite doctor announced in late 2019 that the flu had to be rebranded as something as terrifying as cancer or AIDS (one minute audio).
From a marketing standpoint, he and other panelists on C-Span argued, the whole problem with the flu is that people think they get better (which is true). So we have to “put a gown on it” and disrupt everything so we can roll out the new mRNA next generation vaccines and achieve better than our current dismal 23% market saturation. [Listen to my program or watch the full video.]
Upon hearing me tell him about that, one of my neighbors, a wealthy real estate attorney I’ve known since around 2008, told me to get lost — to go away — and added that the chances of my assertion being true were “between zero and negative 10.” I guess pandas can fly after all.
Anyone with five minutes of spiritual study or the least modicum of what used to be called common sense knows you cannot wage war on an emotion. But it’s easy to terrify people, especially for someone who can broadcast on every channel at once.
My original title for this essay came from investigative reporter Celia Farber, who correctly said the other night that we are living through the deification of terror. Twenty years ago, it was the supposed enemy: we were waging the war on terror. Remember that? Today it is a god, to whom we must make sacrifices (including human sacrifice).
Anyone with five minutes of spiritual study or the least modicum of what used to be called common sense knows you cannot wage war on an emotion. But it’s easy to terrify people, especially for someone who can broadcast on every channel at once. What our society did, though, was bomb poor people in Afghanistan and Iraq. In the process our society killed countless combatants and civilians, and suffered casualties to hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women. (Now we learn that the Veterans Administration is about to deny health benefits to those former service members who do not get injected.)
Bombing “towel heads” and “sand niggers” (and waving flags and putting yellow ribbons around trees and calling potatoes Freedom Fries) was at the time justified by many things, none of which were called hatred. Among them: those animals make women cover their faces!
The United States has an odd way of becoming its enemy. Now, everywhere I look, I see people covering their faces and expecting others to do so.
China used to be our enemy: last time I checked, it and the U.S. have thousands of those ICBMs pointed at one another; we can make civilization go bye-bye in 20 minutes. Now, we are adopting every measure of social control that the Chinese have used to manipulate and dehumanize their population for many years.
After World War II, the United States imported 1,600 Nazi rocket scientists, who designed the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) program that rigged the world with hydrogen bombs. Then, those same engineers moved on to nuclear power.
The most famous among them, Wernher von Braun, a former major in the SS, designed the Saturn V rocket said to have taken people to the Moon [read my analysis here]. It did not stop there. The primary Nazi strategy was to merge the government and the most powerful industrial corporations, and to round up and kill off any undesirables and dissidents (often claiming they had a disease).
China used to be our enemy: last time I checked, it and the U.S. have thousands of those ICBMs pointed at one another; we can make civilization go bye-bye in 20 minutes. Now, we are adopting every measure of social control that the Chinese have used to manipulate and dehumanize their population for many years.
Many Americans are, today, begging to be tracked, traced, biometrically stalked, socially distanced, isolated, masked, socially ranked, disinfected, inspected, injected and green-passed into eternal bliss and everlasting freedom. And many believe — as does one of the most venerated philosophers of our day — that everyone else should be locked in their house, or isolated in a camp if they won’t stay home. Food is allegedly only for those who comply.
We now live in times when if you have faith in the body’s ability to heal, you are a conspiracy theorist. If you read the ingredients on packages, you are allegedly anti-science.
It is easy to miss that the most pressing spiritual issue of our day is the impact of digital technology on our society, and our individual lives. I don’t mean people being dumbed-down by Twitter, or kids having their attention span reduced to five seconds flat.
I mean we are being driven out of our bodies and our senses, by which I further mean being driven to insane behavior and delusion. I will again quote Eric McLuhan, son of Marshall and father of my friend Andrew:
“The body is everywhere assaulted by all of our new media, a state which has resulted in deep disorientation of intellect and destabilization of culture throughout the world. In the age of disembodied communication, the meaning and significance and experience of the body is utterly transformed and distorted.”
If Eric McLuhan had been talking about LSD, we would know what he meant. Everyone knows that stuff can warp your perception of your body, making you think you have eyes behind your head, or whatever. You might have some difficulty telling what is real from what is not, or where you begin and where someone ends. He is talking about being driven insane by digital conditions — individuals and society.
It’s a little harder to understand that he is warning about digital technology turning us into phantoms of ourselves (on a good day), or robots (the rest of the time). Neither are capable of expressing love and respect, or feelings, though those are the things that make us human in the humane sense of the word.
We now live in times when if you have faith in the body’s ability to heal, you are a conspiracy theorist. If you read the ingredients on packages, you are allegedly anti-science. Someone who looks at the data can be called stupid and disrespectful. If you want to take care of your children, you can be called antisocial.
Since none of us has ever been right all the time — and since pharmaceutical companies and big tech have an atrocious track record of abuse of our trust — we might consider a collective ratcheting down of the utter arrogance that has now become acceptable, even compulsory behavior.
More than half the people reading this article have read countless self-help books and accept some form of the idea that love and fear cannot mutually coexist. You have gone to workshops and most likely eat organic food. You have no doubt espoused the belief that we must accept others for who they are, and not be afraid of differences.
It’s time to stop pretending and start living this truth, if indeed it is true.
Such does not include, “you must believe my delusions,” or, “I am terrified and therefore you must do what I say.” I will point out again that we went from “flatten the curve for two weeks” to “you cannot work without this injection you may disapprove of or be allergic to.”
It does include, “I respect your choices and your right to exist in society” (or in our family, or school). It does include, “You raise your children, and I raise mine.” It does include accepting that there is risk everywhere in life, including when you walk out the door and cross the street. In fact every medical procedure or preparation, no matter now “minor,” has a risk.
Since none of us has ever been right all the time — and since pharmaceutical companies and big tech have an atrocious track record of abuse of our trust — we might consider a collective ratcheting down of the utter arrogance that has now become acceptable, even compulsory behavior.
There are a lot — a whole lot — of people expressing very strong views, who have done very little reading, whom I have never heard utter “I might be wrong,” or, “Yes, I looked more closely and changed my mind about that.”
I will end with a few words from A Course in Miracles.
“Your Godlike mind can never be defiled. The ego never was and never will be part of it, but through the ego you can hear and teach and learn what is not true. You have taught yourself to believe that you are not what you are. You cannot teach what you have not learned, and what you teach you strengthen in yourself because you are sharing it. Every lesson you teach you are learning.”
Faithfully,
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Planet Waves Monthly Horoscope By Eric Francis for November, 2021
This will come with various trials and tribulations that will be worth enduring and, if you can, embracing in the most positive way possible. You are where you are for a reason, and not one determined by fate. You made a series of decisions that got you where you are today.
Aries (March 20-April 19) — You may feel as if a commitment in a relationship or partnership is interfering with your self-development, and for that matter, with your wider social life as well. I would agree: you seem to be in a tight spot, though you’re also fully invested. Therefore, focus on taking care of what you have given yourself to, and allow the other aspects of your life to wrap themselves around this particular involvement. From the look of your solar chart, it’s unclear whether this matter pertains to an intimate personal commitment, or a professional and financial commitment. It may be all of the above, and even if a few of the above are involved, you’re in a situation that you can think of as being about your whole being in a state of transformation: your life could be taking a whole new form. This will come with various trials and tribulations that will be worth enduring and, if you can, embracing in the most positive way possible. You are where you are for a reason, and not one determined by fate. You made a series of decisions that got you where you are today. Some of them were based on wanting something, and others seem to have been based on avoiding a sense of discomfort or of being a misfit. Speaking of which: not exactly belonging is the overarching theme of your astrology for the foreseeable future. You would likely have it to some degree no matter what you’re doing. Every individual is unique (and that is one of the few appropriate uses of that word, it’s so true). Yet most people plaster over their true being with image control and assorted public relations tactics in order to seem likeable or to avoid rejection. This is simply not an option. And that’s a beautiful thing, because the only answer to your situation is sincerity.
You have the ability to get busy with an agenda for the elements of your life that are calling for revision. This should be easier than usual; with revolutionary Uranus making its way through your birth sign, you are under the constant influence of “something has to give.”
Taurus (April 19-May 20) — This month brings the first lunar eclipse in your birth sign in many years, the first of a series of eclipse events that will gradually shift your relationship to yourself and to others. Eclipses return to sign pairs (in this case Taurus/Scorpio) on an approximately nine-year cycle, so they are the kinds of events that mark decades. Generally, these involve events that interrupt the continuity of one’s life. Things that have been the same forever can give way to transitions. At other times, there may be sudden disruptions, though that does not look like what you have in store this month. The first event is a partial lunar eclipse on Nov. 19, which will serve as a reminder of many things you need to change or adjust. You have the ability to get busy with an agenda for the elements of your life that are calling for revision. This should be easier than usual; with revolutionary Uranus making its way through your birth sign, you are under the constant influence of “something has to give.” Yet you are a person of habit more than any other sign of the zodiac, and it’s not easy for you to give up your familiar territory, whether mental, physical or relational. Yet it’s important to recognize that you’re in the zone of make changes, or your life will be changed for you. You do not need to alter, amend or restructure everything at once. Rather, begin the process in earnest, with a few important decisions. The thing to watch is the underlying basis of how you come to your conclusion of what to do: that is called referencing your values. With each adjustment you make, you will come a little closer to the level of what you might call your personal constitution. You have such a thing, even if you haven’t read it.
Yet bear in mind that your body is wholly under the influence of your mind, and vice versa. You will feel how you feel, meaning that stress, tension and fear impact both your emotions and your physical body. No fast-acting solution is possible.
Gemini (May 20-June 21) — If you want to feel better, you might consider food. We all know the world has gone gung-ho over one theoretically brand-new “disease” and one experimental drug, and is convinced this is the solution to everything. That could only be possible under late-stage capitalism and full digital conditions. All the organic vegetable co-ops in the universe don’t seem to be enough to remind us that food and health are intimately related, and that food and water matter more than any other variable when it comes to predicting health and wellness outcomes. Your particular reminder is that Ceres is making a long passage through your sign (in all, it stretches on until May 2022). Your solar chart shows you have a sense of invincibility where your health is concerned, though you’re also subject to an ongoing, ungrounded fear of terminal illnesses. This may be acting up now that Mars is making its way across Scorpio, your 6th solar house, which can provoke anxiety about your physical health. Yet bear in mind that your body is wholly under the influence of your mind, and vice versa. You will feel how you feel, meaning that stress, tension and fear impact both your emotions and your physical body. No fast-acting solution is possible. Often, such things do far more harm than good, if they do any good at all. And though you may think that some intervention (involving a sharp object, Mars) may make you feel better, defenses tend to build tension and anxiety against the thing defended against, whether that thing is real or imaginary. So, you might start with something old-world, and eat the food that your ancestors thrived on (by which I mean in the early 20th century and before). You might also avoid that which aggravates you, and most things that come prepared out of packages. Make your choices consciously, and do not confuse wellbeing with immortality.
When you study what you feel, you may wonder about the seemingly taboo elements of your desire nature, or of your creative nature. Taboo is one thing; malevolent is quite another. Beware the trick which leads people to believe that edgy, different, deep, interesting, saucy or hungry is somehow bad.
Cancer (June 21-July 22) — With the Sun now moving through Scorpio, you have likely regained your sense of perspective. You need that: the wide, panoramic view, rather than the telescopic or microscopic view. This includes your view of yourself. It’s essential that you see your life in its context, which is not easy, as you are at the center of your world. And what is that context? As was once said by a sage of old, “By their works, ye shall know them.” Or as is properly written in scripture, “A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.” And it concludes, “Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.” Study what you make, with any part of you that is capable of creation. When you study what you feel, you may wonder about the seemingly taboo elements of your desire nature, or of your creative nature. Taboo is one thing; malevolent is quite another. Beware the trick which leads people to believe that edgy, different, deep, interesting, saucy or hungry is somehow bad. You certainly qualify as different, and you’re willing to explore feelings and desires that others would never dare to get near, much less enter with sincere curiosity. You are being invited to experience all of the different facets of your nature, without judging them, or yourself. What that Bible verse does not make clear is that when that good tree brings forth its fruit, there may be a deep journey on the way to creation, and the integration of many elements from nature. Trees detoxify the environment, for example, by trapping carbon dioxide and turning it into a pear or a cherry. Therefore, allow yourself to feel, to be, and to create — then, suspend judgment and trust your process. While you’re at it, pay attention to what people make.
Be cautious of the place where your own insecurities intersect with what you perceive as challenges in business and personal partnerships. Under the current astrology, it would be easy for you to feel hemmed in by rules or responsibilities you don’t like.
Leo (July 22-Aug. 23) — Mars moving through one of the most sensitive angles of your chart is either lighting a fire under you, or setting off the fire alarm. Be cautious of the place where your own insecurities intersect with what you perceive as challenges in business and personal partnerships. Under the current astrology, it would be easy for you to feel hemmed in by rules or responsibilities you don’t like. However, the more productive use of these conditions and the astrology that symbolizes them, is to work with an organized structure and take advantage of the collaboration with others to get the job done. As usual, you are in the coordinating role. Once you put on the red jacket and take over as senior steward, you will find many resources, and people willing to accomplish the goals as you define them. People are very likely to respond to your leadership in positive ways, and they will feel good about it. As much as people want to help, they don’t know how to work together toward a common goal, so they need to be shown, and have a good example set. These days, you have the perfect blend of an original — even daring — approach to leadership, and also respect for people’s boundaries and their resistance to change. You don’t need to advertise how innovative you are; just gradually push the edge into some interesting experiments. You will find that some of them get a result, and each time you do, you will learn something and get additional ideas. The world is ridiculously risk-averse right now. Nearly everyone is shell shocked and disoriented by the events of the past two years. You can afford to take some chances, and to try things that others might not think of or be willing to try.
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What’s happening in your astrology right now? What year were you born? That says as much about you as your Sun, Moon and rising sign. Your year of birth is the true focus of your growth process and the opportunities that you have. Dear Friend and Reader: My approach to astrology is based on what is happening right now. I have just completed Planets in Motion, an e-Book that covers about 20 transits happening to people ages 1-84. This is an easy introduction to using astrology in practical ways. I write in clear language and bring your astrology to life. It comes with an audio introduction to the topic to help you get oriented and learn the value of transits. Thank you for your business and your trust.
Rather, invest your thoughts and energy into tracking what you want, and in what direction you are headed. Slow down and pay careful attention to everything and everyone around you, rather than being blinded by desire or seeming necessity.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sep. 22) — You are pursuing something that is moving slower than you are, so you don’t need to rush. Rather, invest your thoughts and energy into tracking what you want, and in what direction you are headed. Slow down and pay careful attention to everything and everyone around you, rather than being blinded by desire or seeming necessity. From the look of your solar charts, you must be cautious of investing yourself in a situation that seems desirable now, but which is leading toward an emotionally and mentally complicated situation. That situation could manifest seemingly out of nowhere, though the setup is in place now. There are so many forces at play it would take a while to go through the possibilities. However, it’s crucial to treat any even vaguely obsessive energy with extreme care. In our world, we think of caution as attempting to avoid and evade any possible risk. That is not true; there is a risk to everything, even drinking a cup of coffee. Rather, I am suggesting that you make choices one at a time, in the context of understanding why you want what (or who) you want. One element of this scenario is a potential clash between what you want or need as an individual, and what is considered acceptable by society. You may find yourself in a position where having given up a right or a privilege will conflict with your basic right to make choices about your existence. You are, however, still in ongoing control of whether you give up your power — or at least you have an influence, as long as you recognize the issue for what it is. We cannot have it both ways: a perfectly egalitarian and ‘nonthreatening’ world where everyone gets to be in their safe little comfort zone, and a world of free individuals working out their choices.
You may discover a vast, underground well of drama coming from previous generations. It may manifest in such a way that you really think it’s about you personally, such as the direct results of your past actions in this lifetime.
Libra (Sep. 22-Oct. 23) — Who you are is in part the product of your past. Yet your current reality does not need to be dictated by your past — including very distant elements of family history you may have no idea are driving you. Yet discovering the various factors and forces is the theme of the next few weeks. You are in one of those astrological phases where this is a good time to remind you that nearly all of the karma you feel like you’re dragging around, working out or burning as fuel is the property of your parents, grandparents and great-grandparents. This is not what most people have in mind when they think of an inheritance, yet we all collect a little or a whole lot of this from the people who came before us. You may discover a vast, underground well of drama coming from previous generations. Yet you may not recognize it as such. It may manifest in such a way that you really think it’s about you personally, such as the direct results of your past actions in this lifetime. I am not proposing this to absolve you of responsibility for the decisions you make. Rather, what I’m saying is that the source of energy that is powering what seems to be a present situation has been around for a long time, and has been passed down generation to generation. It is difficult to think that a bunch of immigrants walking around in fedoras and wool overcoats in 1920 could have anything to do with our world today, though in truth, the issues were the same; the opportunities were the same; the social pressures were the same. Nearly everyone longs for liberation, and nearly everyone is terrified to challenge what is habitual, familiar and scripted by the dictates of the past.
Your goal is not to ruffle feathers or shake anyone up — that would be a misunderstanding of your growth necessities. Rather, you seek only to be uncompromisingly who you are. While modern political theory would call for some kind of negotiation or intervention, what you are seeking to express is not negotiable. It is your birthright.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 22) — It is likely that your exploration of your true being and your reasons for living will clash with your family, or what you consider your community. Therefore, be prepared for such an action, or make the choice to do nothing new or assert your desires (and the latter is unlikely). The reaction could take a diversity of forms, though the bottom line is the whole notion of being accepted by your perceived tribe. Both Scorpio Sun and rising are extremely sensitive to group pressures and expectations, despite your self-image of doing what you want, when you want. Everyone knows that to truly step out involves alienating some people, which often leads to the discovery of who your friends are and are not. Your goal is not to ruffle feathers or shake anyone up — that would be a misunderstanding of your growth necessities. Rather, you seek only to be uncompromisingly who you are. While modern political theory would call for some kind of negotiation or intervention, what you are seeking to express is not negotiable. It is your birthright. Yet this requires an element of surrendering the need for approval, acceptance and support from people you seem to cling to for just those things. This may seem like an impossible choice, though it is not. You do not need permission to make your own decisions, other than from yourself. You do not need to know in advance who will have what response or reaction to you — that is making your life about other people rather than about yourself. And what of that? Well, a quick spin through the cable channels will result in numerous claims that do so is in some way antisocial or monstrous, negligent or intentionally harmful (or in a word, ‘selfish’). That is the central issue of our times.
What you size up and figure out now can guide you for many years, if you get clear with yourself and use your assessment as a guide to the future. I know I’m making this sound easy, in a world where few people remember yesterday and even fewer have the ability to propose what they might want tomorrow to look like.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 22) — Take this opportunity to sort out your thoughts, and in particular, your business plan for the next couple of years. While Jupiter is moving in direct motion through Aquarius (which ends in late December), you have the potential for an extended moment of clarity. This means access to your thoughts relatively unclouded by your emotions or confusing astral influences. The fusion of Sagittarius and Aquarius (through Jupiter) is about practical idealism. As Jupiter moves into Pisces and into a conjunction with Neptune in early 2022, the practical melts away and your idealism can venture into unrealistic territory. What you size up and figure out now can guide you for many years, if you get clear with yourself and use your assessment as a guide to the future. I know I’m making this sound easy, in a world where few people remember yesterday and even fewer have the ability to propose what they might want tomorrow to look like. We live in times of mandatory terror, which is thinly veiled as mere anxiety. Any thoughtful reflection can be unsettling or even disturbing. The current trajectory of collective events does not end in a good place; all you need to do is extend the lines on the graph following the current trend. Presently, you have the ability to think in a way that is independent of the fears of others. This is not assured, though the potential is in reach. Once Jupiter is in Pisces, it will be more difficult for you to slip out of the thrall of others and their magical solutions to problems that don’t exist. You are an intelligent person, and you would be well-served to listen to what your ethics and your senses are telling you. Logic and reason play a role in this process, and right now, you have full access to these things.
Events the coming month or so, particularly toward mid-month, will challenge your confidence and may seem to shake your faith in yourself. Yet you are the only person who can do that or allow it to happen. Beware of any situation where you are turned against yourself — particularly by anything defining itself as a group or a collective.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 20) — Jupiter and your ruling planet Saturn have turned to direct motion in the financial angle of your chart. If money has not started to flow more freely, you are confident that it soon will be doing so. This, in turn, is a reflection of your deeper faith in yourself, and understanding something about the strength of your character. However, this is not about posing, or faking it till you make it. It’s not about your affect but rather your psychic orientation toward yourself. Access to inner strength is sublime. It does not clock you or anyone else on the head. It’s like taking careful steps on a floor, feeling the truth that it will hold you up, rather than hesitating because with each step, the boards seem to give way and threaten to snap. Events the coming month or so, particularly toward mid-month, will challenge your confidence and may seem to shake your faith in yourself. Yet you are the only person who can do that or allow it to happen. Beware of any situation where you are turned against yourself — particularly by anything defining itself as a group or a collective. Closer to the point, be careful of interpreting any such notion from the phantom known as society. It is an illusion; a conjuring; a product of nonstop public relations effort that seeks only to alienate people from themselves. You could easily get caught in this yet again. You will know you are if you judge yourself against some external standard of goodness, or hold yourself to a moral standard where you come up short. It is one thing to choose to do what is right. It is another to feel like you are being tried and convicted in some nonexistent court of public opinion.
This time in your life is a profound test of your values and whether you are true to them. The whole matter is clouded by the presence of Neptune in Pisces, which is urging you to either take a truly humanitarian approach, or to challenge yourself and ask whether you’re really doing so.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — One role of Aquarius is to bring people together. The question is, for what purpose? Your own, or something you’ve been told to do? For some natural and friendly experience, or to submit to the will of others? What is not written in astrology books is the two-faceted nature of your sign. In one expression, Aquarius is about individuality and freedom. In another, it is about everyone believing, thinking and doing the same thing — though this cannot happen, the effort is what matters. Aquarius is the sign whose natives refuse to brand themselves liberal or conservative, as they can have distinct elements of both. The question today is, where do you stand? When you look at the world and see what those in authority are doing, do you agree with it? How closely are you looking and listening to what people say — that is, besides their claimed anxiety over one particular news item? Aquarius is a humanitarian sign, and it’s currently populated by the two largest planets. Jupiter has a way of setting fashion trends, and we are currently in “do gooder” territory. Just like Cola-Cola sold people turtle doves, a cozy home, peace, love and harmony in the 1970s, we are now being sold a kind of social consciousness — but is it the real thing? This time in your life is a profound test of your values and whether you are true to them. The whole matter is clouded by the presence of Neptune in Pisces, which is urging you to either take a truly humanitarian approach, or to challenge yourself and ask whether you’re really doing so. Yet the critical matter is that your true direction is not going to come from outside yourself, and anything that does is suspect. Yet listening to the inner voice of one’s conscience is lost and verging on forgotten. It is up to you to remember — for you and everyone around you.
You are also under unusual pressure, though you might not be able to give it a name. It’s important that you do, so that you can see the way that subtle feelings are influencing your perception of your existence, of your future, and the choices you are making now.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — It must seem like there is quite a bit that is outside of your control, influence and awareness. Some things (and some people) have gone missing, though you might not remember till you find them accidentally. You are also under unusual pressure, though you might not be able to give it a name. It’s important that you do, so that you can see the way that subtle feelings are influencing your perception of your existence, of your future, and the choices you are making now. You need something like what (in the days before GPS) used to be called the standard deviation chart on a ship. Vessels have their own magnetic field, which would influence the compass. But the corrections could be determined, such that an apparent compass heading of 245 degrees could be corrected to 249 degrees, compensating for a four-degree known deviation. You need something like this, so that you can correct your own perceptions, or at least nudge them in the right direction. There are two factors to be aware of. The conjunction of Pallas and Nessus in your birth sign is giving you a keen sense of the corruption of the world, and in particular, the political system. This might incline you to either ignore your observations, obsess over them, or compensate with a Pollyanna view (“all people are inherently good inside”). Second, Chiron in your 2nd solar house Aries is likely to be taking your self-esteem down a few notches from where it should be. This, in turn, could lead you to act as if people don’t care, and to take their actions personally when they are not. Sincerity begins with you. Respect begins with you. The fair and just use of power begins with you. You are still making all of your own choices, regardless of any propaganda that you are not.
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