In this week’s premium subscriber issue of Planet Waves, Eric delves into the subject of denial with regard to the Sept. 11 incident, breaks new astrological ground with an overlooked and misinterpreted asteroid in that event’s chart (hint: it’s related to the issue’s title), and gives a thorough breakdown of the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, historically and astrologically. As you might guess, it’s all connected.
Whew — that alone would make for an incredibly rich issue, but as usual, this one also contains Eric’s 12-sign horoscopes (based on the Virgo New Moon this weekend) and a few astro-news briefs. You can read it all by purchasing this issue individually here. Or, try us out with a one-month free trial subscription here as you transition into the next season.
From the “SKY” section: “That said, beware of religiosity — which basically means faux piety, with added shamltz. There is no need for a spiritual excuse for anything, or a spiritual explanation, except maybe if you actually see someone walk on water.”
Maybe no need for a religious explanation for anything, but a spiritual understanding of many things seems to be what is most lacking.
From Richard Tarnas, regarding astrology: “Modern civilization pays a high price for living in a universe that it believes is random and spiritually meaningless. Nature is not honored but is instead exploited for short-term benefit. And a purposeless universe creates a sense of deep spiritual emptiness inside, which people try to fill with endless consumer products, so that the industrial technology producing those products is cannibalizing the planet. But as we know, you can never get enough of what you don’t really need. A new vision of nature and the universe as ensouled, as spiritually significant, would give a better ground for both moral responsibility and a sense of spiritual belonging.”
To quote “Anonymous” : “Religion is for those who are scared to death of hell. Spirituality is for those who have been there.”
In my case, it was religion that made me spiritual.
JannKinz
It will be interesting and long-overdue, yes.
The engineering approach to 9/11 debunks the conspiracy theory.
False flag has two meanings: a concocted event, used to justify a war; or exploiting an event for a subversive purpose. 9/11 fits both descriptions. It will be interesting to find out what really happened, and who really personally it.
Such a great issue, everyone – thank you!
A family member of mine reacts to most conspiracy theories with undisguised contempt. They are a true-blue conservative, and an empiricist and scientist who demands facts above all else. I was taken aback to hear them tell me the other day that they are certain 9/11 was a False Flag event. That tells me something is afoot in terms of people questioning established beliefs.
Here are the thoughts provided by Christine Farber — a psychologist I work with doing Planet Waves. I set her the audio file of psychologists speaking in the film Explosive Evidence (linked here).
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Hey E. Sauer in the rising degree is an Interesting find! I haven’t seen Explosive Evidence, yet; just clips of it.
The female psychologist in the audio clip does a nice job of describing cognitive dissonance. The term often sounds too limited for what it describes; the psychologist fleshes out the phenomenon in her description of her own experience of breaking down. For her, integrating the evidence evoked an existential crisis- a confrontation with some foundation which had held her up until that point.
Based in my clinical experience, I would say that if an individual, or community, is having difficulty integrating facts with existing cognitive frameworks, it is because these facts contradict deeply held beliefs- beliefs that have emotional and existential significance. The contradictory evidence is experienced as a threat– to something. This something may be primal relational or identity or self-worth paradigms, which may all amount to the same thing. A good psychological question in such a case is What if this were true? Regardless of the facts of the given situation, this question gets to the connective tissue of our world views/ assumptive world: the stuff that makes up our attachments to our beliefs- stuff that is personal, developmental, generational, karmic.
It’s interesting to me to wonder about people who are courageous enough to confront and allow space for threats to their foundational beliefs- clearly a sign of psychological health and maturity. May be even more so for the individual who is able to hold that space for new ideas, questions, or facts which contradict societal norms or “truths.” As you know much more than I do, this is Aquarian territory- the place where Uranus and Saturn meet and call for authority of the Self… and the kinds of experiences that bring up normal, and probably archetypal fears and guilt around the powers that be and one’s relationship to such. Tarnas’ Prometheus. (As an aside, I think there are people who are quite comfortable being rebellious and looking at “the other side” of whatever. For them, the question of What if the status quo (or existing truth or whatever) were in fact true? is a good question because it is worth discovering whether there is an attachment to the rebellion, etc.)
I also think, perhaps ironically, that we need each other to do this sort of work- to discover the Prometheus within. Your work- your writing and research and ideas- instigates this in others. Thank you for that 🙂
C
What I appreciate so about Planet Waves (Eric) is that the material is so
synergistic, visionary, intelligent and courageous. It’s anything but the
“same old, same old,” yet it avoids being so way out there that it’s
impractical or simply a turn-off.
Thanks so much — and the very best to you, Eric, and everyone else involved
with Planet Waves!
burning river —
i’m with you. i know i’m biased when i say i think we put out an amazing issue every week. but when we finished with this one, i have to say i kind of sat back and thought, “whoa… this one is just jam-packed.”
even without eric’s breakthrough about the asteroid Sauer — but that puts some real icing on one hell of a cake this week.
“the kind of conflict wherein you have no idea what the issues are, or who is on what side, or whose side — the kind of war that George Orwell wrote about in 1984, when the enemy changes in the middle of the newscast, mid-sentence.”
Brilliant sentence.
But not as brilliant as the conclusion that was reached in the paragraph the above quote is taken from,
nor are the above quote and subsequently mentioned paragraph as brilliant as the insight and profound understanding offered by the entire article.
And then (AND THEN) there is astrology’s contribution: Sauer. I had looked that up also because of finding it as a point in my chart. Totally inconclusive information , until today.
What’s in a name? Everything.
Eric, UBER brilliant journalism.
Sincerest thanks and gratitude. I am SO thankful I had the good sense to be a subscriber from the beginning of finding this site. I don’t agree with everything, but this one article makes every penny supporting PW ALL worth it to me.