{"id":67964,"date":"2013-06-18T00:01:46","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T04:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=67964"},"modified":"2013-06-18T10:32:06","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T14:32:06","slug":"sun-jupiter-conjunctio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/sun-jupiter-conjunctio\/","title":{"rendered":"Open your eyes and connect the dots"},"content":{"rendered":"

This earth was never meant to be too big for us
\nYou can\u2019t be terrified of something when it\u2019s all you have<\/p>\n

— from \u201cFighter\u2019s Plea<\/a>\u201d by Jon Sands and Rachel McKibbens<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sept. 11, 2001. The Banda Aceh earthquake and tsunami. Fukushima. The founding of WikiLeaks. Edward Snowden, whistleblower. What do all of these things have in common? For one, the astrological chart for each of them has a significant feature in the next-to-last degree of Gemini, where the Sun and Jupiter meet in a conjunction Wednesday. As a result, all of these events are trying to draw our attention to a common theme. <\/p>\n

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Jupiter (orange ‘4’) and the Sun conjunct in Gemini. The Sun will be ingressing Cancer on Friday; Jupiter follows June 25. They will join (l-r) Black Moon Lilith, Venus, Mercury and Vesta there. Ceres (far right) will be in Leo when Jupiter arrives.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

That theme is the atrocity that counts as \u201ccorporate conduct\u201d these days, including corporate control of government — and the lack of accountability corporations face in everything from \u201csimple\u201d negligence to outright Machiavellian deal making, lying and manipulation. It\u2019s too easy in this time of \u201ctragi-tainment\u201d and \u201cvirtual reality\u201d to get distracted by the story du jour in the media, dropping the last big issue from our consciousness like a piece of chewed gum to the sidewalk. <\/p>\n

Jupiter and the Sun, coming together in Gemini — the sign of the mind, communication and duality — are trying to get a point across. By conjoining in this curious degree that keeps showing up in charts for era-defining events, these planets are shining a bright searchlight and sweeping it in a great arc as if to say, \u201cThere! Do you see it NOW?\u201d<\/em> <\/p>\n

No, the point is not that one particular Dr. Evil is behind all of this. The point is that we have to start seeing the connections between these things shaping our lives and the world in which we live. To see them, we have to look for them.<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s a taboo against doing so in our society. Have you noticed that? At its most insidious level, this taboo means that anyone who sees interrelationships between events gets labeled a conspiracy theorist.<\/p>\n

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So what about those disparate events listed at the beginning? They all point to a larger truth. Even if they don’t point to the same factors, they point to something larger than themselves — and always something about which there are unanswered and unasked questions. Whomever you think was behind the Sept. 11 incident, it’s the impetus for nearly every decision that American society makes; the cause that connects thousands of effects. The Banda Aceh disaster may have been triggered in part by oil drilling in Tasmania, and worsened by the weight of ice coming off of the polar caps. Do people even know that air-powered drilling for oil (or fracking) can cause quakes?<\/p>\n

Fukushima would not have evolved into a nuclear disaster had it not been for the negligence of the operating company and the general hubris of those who say nuclear power is safe. Even more significantly, nuclear power is a direct outgrowth of the nuclear weapons program, a fact that is well-established and rarely ever stated. <\/p>\n

WikiLeaks did one thing mainly, which is to show the connections between events not generally accepted as related. Most of what WikiLeaks releases are documents involving warfare. It’s become a resource for opening up corporate and governmental secrecy, showing us the motives and lies behind contemporary wars. And Edward Snowden has just let us all know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that our government cannot be trusted not to turn on the public — again with war and security as the excuse.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s easier to perpetrate crimes of all sizes and varieties if there\u2019s no pattern to detect, no connections made and if everyone\u2019s distracted. Sun-Jupiter in Gemini wants you to understand that this is about you; it\u2019s about all of us; it\u2019s about understanding the big picture and speaking up about what we see. This world is ours — we can\u2019t afford to be afraid of it or to ignore it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This earth was never meant to be too big for us You can\u2019t be terrified of something when it\u2019s all you have — from \u201cFighter\u2019s Plea\u201d by Jon Sands and Rachel McKibbens Sept. 11, 2001. The Banda Aceh earthquake and tsunami. Fukushima. The founding of WikiLeaks. Edward Snowden, whistleblower. What do all of these things … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7221,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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\/67964"}],"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=67964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}