Today Mercury enters one of its home signs – Gemini – (it also rules Virgo) at about 7:12 am EDT. This emphasizes the inner twin/duality theme that retrograde Venus and the Sun have opened us up to. As we test the permeability of the membrane between our psychic or internal halves, the sky is asking about the membrane between honesty and lying.
Specifically, the Sun is conjunct the lunar South Node in Gemini (and therefore opposite the North Node in Sagittarius) – and all of it is square Neptune in Pisces.
Earlier this week, we considered Brad Blanton’s practice of ‘radical honesty’, but what good is radical honesty if you’re talking to someone determined to believe lies? Blanton doesn’t really address that psychic posture, despite its prevalence in our culture.
There are a lot of reasons why we may choose to stay in denial, whether about something personal (spouse is having an affair) or something cultural (political lies that perpetuate wars) – even when it’s absurd (Obama is a socialist Muslim who hates white people). We want to be comfortable. We want to avoid feeling ‘bad’ or guilty, and have not found adult tools for dealing with those emotions. We want to avoid conflict or loss. Our fantasies are richer than our actual lives. Maybe we’re just not paying attention enough to be discerning.
It’s convenient to believe lies. Lies give us a way to avoid responsibility, to avoid action – so people become eager to be lied to, and corporations relish the carte blanche this offers them to poison us in myriad ways. When lies get really big – think Fukushima or Sept. 11 – it’s overwhelming. To see the truth in such a situation means encountering a feeling of helplessness. Then what do you do?