Moments before the Sun ingressed Gemini Monday, a two-mile-wide tornado cut through Oklahoma mowing down homes and schools, ending its approximately one-hour trip in a town called Moore. It happened within hours of the third of seven Uranus-Pluto squares, what I call the 2012-era aspect. Before I discuss this chart, I have a comment that I’ve wanted to make several times recently when I’ve been covering the seemingly endless litany of disasters that we are witnessing.
The world has been fitted with an extended nervous system that connects anyone with access to television or a cell phone to endless information — including instant contact with the pain and struggle of people many miles or continents away.
Often we see these things unfold live, or moments later on video recordings; that was the case today, as video cameras tracked the tornado’s approach to Moore, Oklahoma.
While we’ve all been gradually interconnected by radio and television since the first commercial radio broadcast in 1920, human consciousness has never experienced anything like the instant, global spread of imagery and information like we have now. What might have taken hours or days to reach people in remote areas (or even years, if ever), now we can watch live coverage of — for example, as happened today, a tornado makes its way across the landscape and eventually slams into a school. There is conflict between the ability of technology to deliver the image and its apparent inability to do something about what is happening.
Our senses were never intended to extend this far, or to perceive from this point of view — especially for those who are empaths or sensitives. They are more practical, intended to provide information about our local surroundings and the people with us in any given moment. Now we’re subject to incursion by anything that happens anywhere, and most of the time what we hear about is painful. We can watch the view from a helicopter as homes are splintered. We survey the damage instantly on live television rather than reading about it a day or two later, accompanied by a black and white photo, or seeing it on the next night’s news.
That is different than being presented with the immediacy of parents missing their children, something almost every human, especially one with kids, can feel viscerally. The benefit here is that perhaps the pain will get us to rise to the level of wanting to stop this from happening to others. The pain humanity and certain industries in particular is spreading would finally have a purpose if it actually focused anyone’s attention on why we collectively don’t want it.