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Tuesday’s edition of Planet Waves will be a live webcast tonight. The program will cover the situation in Iran and the astrology of the summer.
Planet Waves Radio will be webcast tonight, Tuesday, June 16 at 10 PM ET on Blog Talk Radio. The Sun is wrapping up its course through Gemini, and as it reaches Cancer on Sunday, June 21 we enter the astrology of the summer. This consists of a New Moon a day after the solstice in the second degree of Cancer (activating the Aries Point) and then a series of three eclipses in July and August. This is a complete revision on the astrology of the first half of the year and portends a summer of many unusual developments and potential progress. The floor is open to talk about all of this, with a focus on the power of eclipses.
Also, the current strife in Iran is related to Pluto in Capricorn.
Please tune in tonight at 10 pm ET.
Yours & truly,
Barbara Hand Clow has a unique approach/path/view to the growth and balancing of our consciousness which I intend to explore while the Aquarian trio is rx.
handclow2012 dot com
I’ve been meaning to reply to this. Political process is nonexisstent without personal progress. The reason why politics is so fucked up is specifically about sexual hangups, the inability or lack of desire to communicate, not dealing with death, and greed. You can trace every control issue back to one of these things.
There are a lot of people who are not going to change, and who have no desire to change. And there a lot of people who are just busting with desire to grow who have no idea how to go about it.
Growth technologies are everywhere. Even if we look at what emerged in the 1960s and 1970s – some extremely productive therapy techniques – we would have plenty to work with. The work of Fritz and Lora Perls; Eric Berne; Betty Dodson; and many other humanistic thinkers, offers plenty in the way of ideas, techniques, and a vast knowledge base of experience that has been written about copiously. Therapy models like Hakomi and Internal Family Systems offer actual relief from the pain that we are in.
Many others have been developing experimental models for relationships. While they don’t have widespread acceptance, the knowledge base developed by the best minds in the poly movement would be of great assistance to many, many people – and do mean those who fancy themselves monogamous. It’s not about being any one mode of lifestyle; it’s about how we think about relationships, and whether we think about them at all.
What we need are more trained practitioners, and more willingness for people to get involved, experiment and explore. We DO NOT KNOW HOW UPTIGHT WE ARE. I think many of us are afraid to find out, and it’s a lot easier to know because at least then you can unravel yourself. But many people steadfastly refuse to admit they might need help; refuse to get help; refuse any form of mentoring. We all know plenty of them; we might even be them.
Second point is that it does not take a lot of people getting their heads together or even partly together to help many others; to set sane patterns in the community; to shift languae; to apply ideas from growth models to other aspects of life; to write and spread ideas in ways outside therapy practice, where we really need them.
It really takes very few people to get momentum going. It takes even fewer to get the conversation going.
Hi GG,
Pin them on it, no… but developing discernment is *critical* to understanding how to work with these big ol’ balls of conflicting values, priorities and straight up ego called ‘politics.’ Discernment comes from self-trust.
In my view, *every* human being (and not a few animals) comes with an interior roadmap to self-trust, self-recognition. Even the most abject mofo has it built in, and culturally there are keys laying around everywhere.
Without that trust, we’re simply tools. With it, we actually *make* decisions.
Doesn’t it seem like reacting to complexity with anguish might originate somewhere else? If so, maybe personal clarity can reveal the political complexity as funny, ironic, tender, weird – but not necessarily intractable.
Make sense?
Interesting comments on the show about personal growth being a sort of substitute for political progress.
I never considered the idea before.
The problem is there’s not much of a roadmap for personal growth. Everyone pursues it differently, following the paths that happen to be available to them, and that happen to appeal to them.
A teenage girl in a remote region will pursue personal growth through different pathways than say a middle-aged man in a big city.
So while I’m all for the idea, I don’t know how it can be effectively promoted on a big enough scale to make a difference in a socially progressive way, which was your thought.
I think people achieve personal growth — overcoming their fears, shedding emotional baggage, etc. — through a really tough, soul-searching, individual, long-term process. I don’t think we can pin our hopes for stuff like health care or environmental preservation on a process like that. Can we?
regards.