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It’s not denial. I’m just selective about the reality I accept.<\/em>
\n— Calvin, in Calvin and Hobbes<\/em> by Bill Watterson <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Today is Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011<\/a><\/strong>. The Moon begins in Capricorn and moves into Aquarius at 6:08 pm EDT. An Aquarius Moon is famous for its desire to bring groups together, for wanting feelings to make sense, and for the ability to detach from emotionally intense situations before they become destructive — a good skill to have lately.<\/p>\n

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Tonight is also the night between the worlds — in various calendars (including Pagan) Oct. 31 is the last day of the old year and Nov. 1 is the first day of the new year. If the psychic veils are said to be thin this time of year, this night out of time is one of the moments of transparency. This has old tradition behind it, and it’s part of why there is so much attention paid to ghosts in these days. <\/p>\n

Yet the ‘thin veil’ metaphor has other connotations, including a kind of inner transparency between the veils of one’s mind. Those are the real obstacles to perception, I would say. In Monday’s Daily Astrology, we brought up the theme of denial inherent in the squares of Venus and Mercury to Neptune and Mars’ opposition to Neptune.<\/p>\n

Actually denial is inherent in Neptune itself, and the three personal planets mentioned provide the subject matter. This, we could sum up as emotional, sexual, related to change, and on the theme of death (themes that include Mercury and Venus in Scorpio, and Mars in Leo — all aspecting Neptune at the same time). Yet these three planets carry much of what we experience from day to day: our senses, what we feel, what we know, what we want, who we love, and how we feel about ourselves. If we include Neptune in the mix, there can be a lot of confusion or idealism; sometimes confusion as a result of the world, or our relationships, not working out quite as we were expecting.<\/p>\n

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Sex and death, however, are the things we’re typically in the most denial about. Our research truffle-sniffers went out this morning and came back with some quotes on the subject of denial. After reading them, there was one funny thing missing — so few of them were directly associated with either of these topics.<\/p>\n

Denial is not a passive process. It looks passive, in the same way that a talented con man looks honest. Pretending not to know something that you know, or pretending that something does not affect you, takes a lot of energy. In the spirit of thin veils and new beginnings, here are some thoughts on denial.<\/p>\n

“The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we’re afraid. We fear we will not find love, and when we find it we fear we’ll lose it. We fear that if we do not have love we will be unhappy.” — Richard Bach, author of Illusions<\/em> and Jonathan Livingston Seagull<\/em><\/p>\n

“Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.” — Ambrose Bierce<\/p>\n

“How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.” — Frank Herbert <\/p>\n

“Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.” — Rigoberta Mench\u00fa Tum, Guatemalan social reformer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate<\/p>\n

“I felt I was drawing close to that age, that place in life, where you realize one day what you’d told yourself was a Zen detachment turns out to be naked fear. You’d had one serious love relationship in your life and it had ended in tragedy, and the tragedy had broken something inside you. But instead of trying to repair the broken place, or at least really stop and look at it, you skated and joked. You had friends, you were a decent citizen. You hurt no one. And your life was somehow just about half of what it could be. — Roland Merullo, A Little Love Story: A Novel<\/em> <\/p>\n

\u201cDreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris.\u201d
\n— Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals <\/em> <\/p>\n

“Your denial is beneath you, and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs, I see through you.” — Bill Hicks, comedian<\/p>\n

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It’s not denial. I’m just selective about the reality I accept. — Calvin, in Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson Today is Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011. The Moon begins in Capricorn and moves into Aquarius at 6:08 pm EDT. An Aquarius Moon is famous for its desire to bring groups together, for wanting feelings to … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7221,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1734],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48157"}],"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\/7221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}