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I cover a truly unusual combination of factors gathering in mid-Sagittarius, on a point called the Great Attractor — the largest thing known to science. The alignment includes Ixion (anyone is capable of anything), Pholus (small cause, big effect), Pallas (politics), plus Mercury and Mars. This will be gathering for the next week or so, peaking when Venus stations direct on Nov. 18.
I then look into the Keith Olbermann situation that many of you have read about here and elsewhere. Keith, one of the voices of reason in a mad world, was suspended from his position as anchor of MSNBC for giving campaign donations to three Democratic candidates. After his fans collected 300,000 signatures on an electronic petition in just over two days, he was reinstated Sunday night and resumed broadcasting Tuesday.
Finally, I look at the square between Vesta in Scorpio and Nessus in Aquarius. This is about healing a kind of collective sexual wound. I respond to a reader who asked, “You write about sex, but what about sexual abuse?” I will have more to offer this question; I give a preliminary short response in today’s podcast.
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Fe, Thanks, that’s a good point.
Eric, You have said it clearer than I could; that was the delineation I was looking for. The clip of George Carlin (bless him) states the problem but it sounded very negative to me because he kept saying we can’t do anything about it. I don’t believe that for a moment. Thanks.
Carrie, my general guide is, “state the problem in a way that it can be solved.”
I count that as waking up. I count stating the problem in a way that it feels impossible to solve as victimization. That is the same guideline I have writing the horoscopes.
Eric, your sensitive coaching in this podcast is something so rare to find, so appreciated and effective in these times. Thank you.
(p.s. love the idea of a webinar on media research… 🙂 )
Seems to me there is a step process to this stuff; first people need to awaken out of the fog and then they need to empower themselves to make changes. Those are two very different things that are specifically appropriate depending on where one is at in their thinking or awareness.
Carrie:
Pardon my over-generalizing, but I think its awareness that’s the key here. That awareness could be colored with all the fences and walls that society has put up in order for us to be controlled or to behave. But that awareness also means that even though colored, its also transparent.
From there, I think its the heart that must follow in authenticity. Our thinking has been muddled and face it, over the past ten years, been clouded with rage against the things, the people and the Wheel threatening to crush us.
What is right in this situation now? And what is this situation? As we can see our individual rights chipped away, our privacy invaded, our sense of personhood violated and our planet despoiled, its not a matter of where — you can pick any point as Eric says, and start there. Its a matter of when.
It is about the heart and its inclination.
When is it victimizing ourselves and when is it waking up to reality? I see the lines blurring on that a lot. For example, I read here at PW a lot of things about people needing to wake up from the fog and realize the truth but I also hear that we cannot keep being negative and blaming anyone because that means we are being victims. I know what is meant by those but someone else may see a mixed message.
Today someone sent me this video clip of George Carlin talking about “the truth” (his words) : http://cfs-p4.l3.fbcdn.net/42105/523/386727257823_56218.mp4?xwrhost=video.l3.fbcdn.net&L3O=cfs-l3-ash2.facebook.com. I see this video as being in that blurry area because it can help wake people up to things but it can also sound very negative; as though we can’t do anything about it. That’s what I mean about the lines blurring on things like that. How do we differentiate between what is awakening and what is victimizing? Seems to me there is a step process to this stuff; first people need to awaken out of the fog and then they need to empower themselves to make changes. Those are two very different things that are specifically appropriate depending on where one is at in their thinking or awareness.
Great post, love, and yes you are correct.
There’s alot of teeth gnashing out there in the poliblogs, and lots of blame. That attests to the bitterness you brought up. This, I think is part of our habitually victimizing ourselves, framing ourselves in the victim mode instead of taking action. Passive versus active.
As we have said time and again: WE DO NOT HAVE TIME FOR THIS.
We already know what we’re up against. We’ve been up against it now for years. Time to escape the fog and delusions, get real clear–and move forward, good information in hand and head.