Astrologer, published author, conference presenter, world traveler, founder & editor of Crone Chronicles: A Journal of Conscious Aging (1989-2001) , and founding visionary of Green Acres Permaculture Village (2010 to present).
It would seem so. The phrase is from a 3/6/23 article in the WSJ, “College Should Be More Like Prison” wherein the author, a former college professor who now instructs inmates, notes their serious dedication, their hunger for learning, which she realizes, likely is related to them not being infected by technologies that generate what’s app, cheat sheets, and now chatgpt.
But it’s not just college students . . . The Tucker Carlson revelations (remember: the word apocalypse means revelation) as to the Truth embedded in the J6 videos have turned the tables upside down. Thanks to Tucker’s newly gained access to the J6 archives, videos forbidden by the J6 kangaroo court show trial now make their way into the public eye, to the extreme consternation of both Democrats and RINO Republicans, who prefer lies to truth, their own sniveling cowardice to the courage of conviction.
.@TuckerCarlson Calls Merrick Garland a Liar After Alleging Five Officers Were Kill on January 6
"Joe Biden's Attorney General Merrick Garland is a liar. He just lied about something that is provably false."
"No police officers died that day on January 6. None. Not one." pic.twitter.com/9AxItgX8xT
— The Vigilant Fox ? (@VigilantFox) March 9, 2023
Celia Farber shared this post by 2nd smartest guy in the world, which not only details the remarkable Tucker Carlson monologues and videos, but also lets us know that Tucker himself is being censored by his network, and may have to find other ways to get more of what he has discovered out to the public.
I notice the cultural erosion of integrity here where I live. Not in this place, Green Acres Permaculture Village, but all around us, and even in people who “apply” to live here and turn out to be liars, schemers, cheaters in one way or another. Never before have I found myself needing to check out every single situation carefully so as not to be scammed! It’s not just the internet, either, that has made this possible. The erosion of the dedication to the love of Truth, a core foundational value for both individual sovereignty and authentic community, has been ongoing for decades. Who knows when it began? As Wittgenstein once put it: “It’s hard to go back to the beginning and not to further back.”
I can remember, as a kid in the 1950s, when life was structured and clear. Clear consequences for breaking rules, whether god’s commandments, or civil laws, or school rules or family rules. Do this, and that happens to you. Law of karma. This cause produces that effect. There is safety, security, in having a clear structure to operate within. (No wonder the imprisoned love to learn! No distractions. Plus, their daily needs for food and shelter, increasingly threatened on the outside, are taken care of.)
Somewhere along the way, the link between cause and effect dropped out of awareness . . . Integrity dissolved into a “culture of casual cheating.” The result? Genuine community, communication, connectedness, have all been eroding for decades. What? What happened to us?
How can we return to what we once knew? I suggest that this return will require that we open to a reality larger, fuller, more mysterious, than that of being mere indoctrinated consumers of mechanistic materialism, an entrenched ideology that still rules our universities, our corporations, our so-called govern-ments (govern minds). This larger, fuller, more mysterious world is that of Truth, the Love of Truth, itself the basis for genuine human contact that can grow and evolve and deepen, offering the fruits of aliveness, continuously, effortlessly shedding and spreading abundance to all.
SATURN IN PISCES
Saturn, which governs the karmic law of cause and effect, moved into Pisces two days ago, only one hour after the Full Moon in Pisces. Disciplined, structural, formal, rule-bound Saturn has left mental crazy cooperative chaotic Aquarius for sensitive watery addictive escapist Pisces, to remain in that oceanic (wishy-washy) spiritual (deceptive), divine (illusory) sign until February 2026.
With Saturn in Pisces, it is imperative (a Saturn word) that we begin to structure our lives to include the more nebulous — from a Cartesian/Newtonian scientistic point of view — reality of SPIRITUALITY, that which lies beyond material form; a dedication (Saturn word) to a higher purpose (Neptune in Pisces, the oceanic bliss that surrounds us if we but let go of our small ego minds, for even a millisecond, to become present, in hushed silence, surrendered to the whole).
For me, this means to continue long-held daily patterns of various forms of meditation (yoga/chikung/taichi), plus daily morning walks with puppy Shadow wherein I aim to get and remain silent within, so that I, my busy monkey mind, can open open open — to the caressing breeze, the whistling wind, the sun’s warmth, the robins mating calls, the hawks and galaxies wheeling overhead.
And then, when I meet someone walking towards us, I smile, eyes shining with gratitude to greet such a one. Unless fatally distracted, isolated, lonely, due to active cell phone addiction, this so-called “other” not only smiles back, but waves, even greets me aloud. Speaks. We speak, mediated by our emissary, puppy Shadow. One second, or one minute later, we both continue on our way, hearts expanded, lifted, thrilled to have truly been fully present with and for each other as authentic beings in a universe full of suffering.

And remember, Truth is even more remarkable. In fact, there’s no end to the mystery inside.

And he does so in just about one minute. (See the finale of the short video at very end of this post). NOW. During the magnificent conjunction between Venus and Jupiter in Aries, which, if you haven’t seen it yet in the sky, though separating, is still visible, shortly after sunset.

Not surprisingly, this powerful Venus/Jupiter conjunction, which, one might say, serves to expansively ignite a new, loving, unifying energy, just happens to conjunct Russell Brand’s natal Moon/Mars/Jupiter conjunction in Aries. And . . . that’s not all. In doing so, it also lights up his entire harmonious Mystic Cross configuration that links Mars/Jupiter/Moon/Pluto/Neptune/Sun.
BTW: If you are mostly unfamiliar with astrology, once again, I say, don’t worry, you’ll get the gist, plus will possibly begin to open to the magnificence of how the Above does correlate with the Below, thus revealing life on Earth to be decidedly, unfailingly, and mysteriously . . . Neptunian!
Please be aware, that like many who refuse to be framed up by the matrix, Russell Brand supposedly “suffers from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and bipolar disorder.” In “fitting into” these western medical diagnostic categories, he reminds me of another brilliant, fearless contrarian, she who is also currently burning up the internet with Truth, Roseanne Barr.
Here’s his chart:

And here’s one discussion of the Mystic Rectangle:
Now, why do I call him Neptune’s Avatar? Well check out his chart, above. Sun in rapid-fire, fact-oriented, always curious Gemini, closely opposes spiritual Neptune in far-reaching, seeking-ever-expanding perspective Sagittarius.
And remember, Neptune is also the signature of deception, illusion, addiction, manifesting in one who has great trouble tolerating the extreme differential between the ideal — oneness, mystery, communion — and the contentious, separatist, individualistic, narcissistic, egocentric civilization into which we have all been born. As an avatar, Russell Brand situates himself, and his own life experience, directly in the alchemical cauldron of Neptune’s domain.
If you’re like me, someone who is just beginning to focus in on Russell Brand as someone to pay close attention to as humanity’s great revelation, the Great Awakening, proceeds, you might, like me, also want to check out his profile here, which details his troubled childhood: a difficult kid, raised by a single mom as an only child, sexually abused by a tutor, on and on . . .
https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/russell-brand-5124.php
He tells us that he got addicted at age 19, the very age when eruptive Uranus, originally in Libra, closely squaring Venus/Descendant in Cancer, by transit, crisscrossed over his Capricorn Ascendant/Descendant axis! I can imagine how that eruptive energy (originally signifying his eruptive relationship with family, especially his mother, who raised her only son all by herself) surfaced in a big way, so powerful that of course, at that age he couldn’t help but seek to calm, to pacify that volcanic energy, by whatever means available.
And, what’s really interesting to me, is that, when he went into recovery, at age 27, transit Neptune (ruling both addiction and spirituality, communion, remember) reached 8-10° Aquarius, and thus, in combination with all the planets off his natal Mystic Cross, temporarily created a Grand Sextile, also known as Star of David: six planets, all sextile one another, around the chart, connected across the chart by three oppositions.
https://cafeastrology.com/articles/aspectpatterns.html#star-of-david-or-grand-sextile

Russell Brand does have an “intense, hard aspect,” remember, from Venus, conjunct the Descendant, in loving, sensitive Cancer, to eruptive, volatile Uranus in Libra. This aspect, which triggered his fall into addiction, is very close, and likely especially reflects his relationship to his mother, who remember, raised him, a difficult only child, all by herself.
In sum, his eruptive natal Uranus square Venus/Descendant, triggered and fueled his calamitous fall into Neptunian addiction at 19 when it — transit Uranus — criss-crossed the Ascendant (and opposed Venus/Descendant, squared natal Uranus); then, at age 27, one might say that “the hand of God intervened” when Neptunian addiction gave way to an even more powerful configuration when transit spiritual Neptune reached the area of Aquarius that illuminated his original Mystic Cross and temporarily integrated his entire chart into a very rare Grand Sextile Star of David.
On freeing himself from addictions:
Okay, here’s the recent appearance with Bill Maher that went utterly viral, and did so, as Venus/Jupiter, lighting up the evening sky in Aries, triggered his original Grand Sextile. I’d say that Russell Brand, blessed by transits of first Uranus at 19, which turned him into an addict, and then Neptune at 27, which lifted him to the possibilities of genuine communion beyond addiction, has, within that single rapid-fire minute, newly birthed (Aries) a loving (Venus) expansive (Jupiter) unifying (Neptune) energetic on this long suffering planet, Earth.
Oops! It looks like that video has now been pulled. Just as I went to publish it here!. . . See if you can find that video. Originally published 3/3/23.
Okay, here’s Russell Brand’s reaction to that show with Bill Maher. Haven’t watched it yet myself.
Aha! Here it is again. Wonder if it will be allowed to stay up this time.
”And you? My teacher looked up, his left eyebrow arched, pencil poised. 'I want to do a paper on the concept of time.’” I mumbled, timidly. 'Time?' He sniffed. “I wouldn’t touch the subject. Too difficult.” — AK, 1967
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Yep! Totally agreed.