This earth was never meant to be too big for us
You can’t be terrified of something when it’s all you have— from “Fighter’s Plea” by Jon Sands and Rachel McKibbens
Sept. 11, 2001. The Banda Aceh earthquake and tsunami. Fukushima. The founding of WikiLeaks. Edward Snowden, whistleblower. What do all of these things have in common? For one, the astrological chart for each of them has a significant feature in the next-to-last degree of Gemini, where the Sun and Jupiter meet in a conjunction Wednesday. As a result, all of these events are trying to draw our attention to a common theme.
That theme is the atrocity that counts as “corporate conduct” these days, including corporate control of government — and the lack of accountability corporations face in everything from “simple” negligence to outright Machiavellian deal making, lying and manipulation. It’s too easy in this time of “tragi-tainment” and “virtual reality” to get distracted by the story du jour in the media, dropping the last big issue from our consciousness like a piece of chewed gum to the sidewalk.
Jupiter and the Sun, coming together in Gemini — the sign of the mind, communication and duality — are trying to get a point across. By conjoining in this curious degree that keeps showing up in charts for era-defining events, these planets are shining a bright searchlight and sweeping it in a great arc as if to say, “There! Do you see it NOW?”
No, the point is not that one particular Dr. Evil is behind all of this. The point is that we have to start seeing the connections between these things shaping our lives and the world in which we live. To see them, we have to look for them.
But there’s a taboo against doing so in our society. Have you noticed that? At its most insidious level, this taboo means that anyone who sees interrelationships between events gets labeled a conspiracy theorist.