The latest issue of Planet Waves’ stunning, in-depth premium subscriber content has just been mailed out. If you’ve been reading our free blog of a while, consider buying this issue as a single purchase here to get a taste of what thousands of readers receive on a weekly basis. In today’s issue, Eric delves deeper into the context of Neptune’s influence on world- and reality-changing events, the inspiring, ambiguous mystery of Neptune’s move to Pisces today, and the creative potential now at our doorstep.
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My father used to teach history . . . he taught it with a passion that kept it from being dry. As I read Eric’s retrospectives over the past year, history through the lens of astrology has taken on actual depth and meaning beyond the intellect and into cosmic connectedness — within and without. There still live biased perspectives from individual standpoints no matter where the retrospect emerges; however, the addition of astrological alignments and influences really brings it all alive for me as never before, something in which to swim. The retrospect becomes a lived story that not only makes a lot of sense to me, but also brings authentic compassion to my own life and that of others. Brilliant work. Much gratitude from here . . .
I mean– Neptune in Pisces.. was up watching the snow fall last night…
Thanks dearest Eric for another amazing weekly edition. Just skyped with a friend of mine who has moved to Cairo to live and work. They were putting tarmac on the road outside the building she lives in all night last night, and clearly used highly toxic products. She and other people in her building had a violent reaction to something they used and had vomiting and diarrhea – like a kind of food poisoning. I wonder if anyone knows what could have brought this reaction on? What horrific stuff were they using? Heavy snowfall in Rome after 27 years, toxic tarmac in Cairo… ,haven’t had time to check out other news properly yet.Pisces in Neptune didn’t come in on tiptoe.
Yes, climate change is a big Neptune in Aquarius issue, primarily because it’s been reduced to a matter of belief. That really is the issue: who believes it, as if that changes anything. The denial machine just cranks out this notion that if you don’t believe it, it’s okay because that means it’s not true. The thing about scientific evidence is anyone is free to “not accept it,” especially in a mode of discourse that doesn’t have reason as a guardrail.
I am sure we can spot many more examples of this — but climate change is a huge one.
As for bolt-ons — like “recycling” — I have read that paper recycling causes more dioxin pollution than new paper production, due to the increased amount of bleach necessary. Glass goes into roads. God knows what happens to plastic. And in any event it all just feeds back into the system. What we need is a movement, and ideas, and products, that help us reduce. I have finally figured out that using reusable plastic containers for certain products works better and uses less and is cheaper than plastic bags. Easier to show in a picture, but if I have half a pepper, half an onion, 2 ounces of cheese, etc., I now toss them into one small container that is easy to wash. One small container could save boxes and boxes of ziploc type bags.
Given the choice I will always purchase a product packed in glass than in plastic. The reusable grocery shopping bag is a good idea, though enough of us still forget them that we need a way for them to be free / shared / reused (obvious issues from that).
Yes GG climate change and environment have risen on the agenda…but consider how utilitarian most responses to environmental problems have been – just bolt ons to the present capitalist system, lots of policy discussions but no actual policies and a whole host of gadgets to buy so consumers can feel like green activists while not changing their lifestyles one jot. Most of the big eco organisations now take funding from the big corps deluding themselves they are changing things from the inside. There are committees, think tanks, gatherings and, oh my gosh yes, are there blogs -all these things the intellectual equivalent of Viagra – but few are actually doing anything meaningful. There’s no passion, we are still lacking inspiration and so disconnected from nature – which seems to be the only thing that makes anyone care. I’m looking forward to something a bit more connected this time around.
It was a great run-down of big events while Neptune was in Aquarius — but what about climate change? It has been slowing going on and building up for a hundred years — since the Industrial Age started — but we didn’t become aware of it until Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth.
cheers, GG
Good catch, Arts!!!
Gee whiz.
Just some food for thought: According to Wikipedia, Viagra hit the US market in 1998. I have been thinking that this coincided with Neptune in Aquarius. The pill itself increases blood flow, not passion, not interest. not any kind of real dialogue. Just mechanics. Maybe Neptune now at home in Pisces will actually engage us all on a more creative level based not on an intellectual understanding of sexuality but of an emotional/physical engagement? As stated by Eric, “Neptune in Aquarius has been a kind of dry experience”. Perhaps our need for pills will be distanced as we enter into a more fluid state?
“The next long edition monthly horoscope will be published the evening of Weds., Feb. 22. ”
Oooh, that’s my birthday. Looking forward to that!
Spot on as always with this weekly edition. Thanks for writing it!