{"id":3563,"date":"2008-10-09T07:54:56","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T12:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=3563"},"modified":"2008-10-09T08:07:15","modified_gmt":"2008-10-09T13:07:15","slug":"pluto-in-capricorn-astrolog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/pluto-in-capricorn-astrolog\/","title":{"rendered":"Our wake up moment and the role of guilt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi all,<\/p>\n

I am mostly preoccupied at the moment working on Friday’s article, which involves Pluto in Capricorn and family abuse dynamics. Lately I think that it’s possible that we’re in a wake-up moment: that this is what it feels like to let go of the long slumber of the 21st century: of fear and enmity and the systematic stripping of our human rights; only to be left with credit cards that we’re no longer sure will work tomorrow. Whatever you may say about this on an economic level, there is an emotional dimension to it as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Eric<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

At the beginning of the Bush presidency there was much analysis of his language, basic posture and actions being that of an abuser. Like most survivors of longterm abuse, we “got used to it,” we made the adaptations that were expected of us, and we tried to move on — dragging the past behind us, often ignorant of what it really was about. The interesting thing about abuse survivors is that they (we) are so often wracked with guilt — and this happens to be, on one level, the essence of Capricorn: the guilt associated with supposed obligation, and with breaking free of it.<\/p>\n

I have suggested on a number of occasions that if you want to see what material you’re going to be working with during Pluto in Capricorn, study the era from late 2001 through 2005 and investigate what that tells you. Decide what you accomplished, what you did not accomplish and most of all, what you learned.<\/p>\n

And please consider this equation, from my article How To Be Your Own Lover<\/strong><\/a>, that deconstructs guilt. This segment was co-written with Joseph Trusso, my longtime Holistic Therapist and mentor, whose background is (among other things) in Gestalt therapy. In taking on Pluto in Capricorn, we will need to challenge and overthrow the guilt of our families, of our society. It is what is paralyzing us against standing up against injustice, against the lack of emotional freedom we feel, and ultimately it’s what’s going to mess up our children. I am curious to read your comments below as I craft Friday’s article.<\/p>\n

Fritz and Laura Perls, early pioneers of Gestalt Therapy, taught that guilt is resentment turned against itself. Generally speaking, children, being the powerful yet powerless little critters they are, take upon themselves the notion of “fault and blame.” They cannot imagine adults (who are personifications of the gods and goddesses) making an error. If they do, it’s still the “fault” of the child. “If only I would’ve done this or that, daddy wouldn’t hit me.” “If I was more quiet, mommy wouldn’t drink.” And so on. Since they are at “fault,” they are “guilty,” and since they cannot rage against the adults very successfully or have a real impact on the direction of events, they turn the resentment at being pruned, modified, corrected, disciplined, strongly directed, or dictated to, back at themselves.<\/p>\n

That is guilt. It’s fair to say that our lives, so often filled with the idea that we cannot influence the direction of events, so often caught in the web of control, of bosses, of taxes, of children, and yes, of our sexual relationships, are often holographic copies of these original crushing relationships with parents and teachers. Yet as adults, the programming, the patterns, are contained within us. They are internalized. Check it out: do we have especially creative jobs? Dare we say what we feel, go where we want, be who we are, or have sex with who we desire? Or are we pruned, modified, dictated to, and denied out of existence by our own self-control?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Eric<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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