In today’s subscriber mailing, titled Taking a Chance at Being Yourself, Eric wrote of tomorrow’s pivotal New Moon in Aquarius conjunct Mars, “Don’t be surprised if you find yourself feeling rather strongly about an idea you have. Aquarius-styled, that’s going to be an idea about standing out as an individual, something that most of us could do with a little more of.”<\/p>\n
We’re all watching events in Egypt closely to see if this New Moon will come with President Mubarak’s official departure from office (in the last two hours, the NY Times has announced Obama’s urging of Mubarak not to run for office again and Mubarak’s subsequent announcement that he will not). But this astrology, obviously being played out in collective political ways, is visible in Egypt in personally political ways as well.<\/p>\n
Producer for Democracy Now!<\/em> Sharif Abdel Kouddous reported today, “And when I came here on Saturday, people were \u2014 were just doing chants and marches, but \u2014 and you have to understand that people in Egypt have not had an opportunity to voice their opposition for so many years, so many decades. And they\u2019re evolving now [inaudible] street theater. You see now political art. It\u2019s a blossoming of political expression that is happening here. Egyptians are finding themselves.”<\/p>\n I think we often get caught up in thinking we have to find ourselves first in order to be ourselves. But maybe it’s in being ourselves that we find out who we are? And here we have the perfect moment to do just that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In today’s subscriber mailing, titled Taking a Chance at Being Yourself, Eric wrote of tomorrow’s pivotal New Moon in Aquarius conjunct Mars, “Don’t be surprised if you find yourself feeling rather strongly about an idea you have. Aquarius-styled, that’s going to be an idea about standing out as an individual, something that most of us … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}