LOOKING AHEAD (and Behind): As usual, “it’s a process”

December 2, 2022

 

My friend Laura sent me her post on the coming Full Moon a few days ago, and I was so taken with it that I said I’d put it up too, as soon as she did. So here goes.

BTW: she uses minor points (asteroids, etc.) much more than I do. Not surprising, since she’s a Gemini, with more focus on details. As a double Sagittarian (opposite Gemini) I can’t help but focus on “the big picture,” utilizing planets, their sign and house positions and configurations, with emphasis especially on their relations to the angles of the chart (Ascendant/Descendant horizontal; Midheaven/Immum Coeli vertical).

Full Moon in Gemini — December 7-8, 2022

Please pay attention to the Sabian symbol for the Moon in her chart reading. I will also offer another Sabian symbol in this post.

And I quote, directly from her post:

December 7 Full Moon in Gemini, 11:08 p.m. Eastern US time. This “Long Nights Moon” almost exactly conjuncts Mars in the 16th degree of Gemini. Rounding up to 17 Gemini, the Sabian Symbol for this conjunction is: THE HEAD OF A ROBUST YOUTH CHANGES INTO THAT OF A MATURE THINKER. Dane Rudhyar calls this “a process of MENTAL METAMORPHOSIS.” This Full Moon/Mars conjunction happens right between the US natal Descendant and the US natal Mars, meaning questions about relationships, war, and known enemies are “up” for the United States. With double Mars involvement, answers to these questions will demand decisive action.

Saturn in Aquarius loosely trines the Full Moon. The day prior, the Full Moon’s ruler–Mercury–enters Capricorn, which Saturn rules. This double whammy of Saturn energy adds to the “maturity” theme. The next month pushes us to grow up, especially in the mental realm. As new information arises, we can’t stomp our feet like children having a temper tantrum or youths spouting off. Instead, our minds will need to accommodate sober concepts and revelations.

Mars conjunct the Full Moon in Gemini suggests the idea of “information warriors” bringing worldview changing details to light. The Sabian Symbol adds to this Mars energy with a KEYNOTE: The transformation of physical vitality into the power to build concepts and intellectual formulations through which knowledge can be transferred. We will see increased fights to “control the narrative.” Such battles may include strategically tossed “grenades” that explode former talking points. Gemini rules early childhood education, so tensions between parents and School Boards could also increase at this time.

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Okay, now let’s look at the chart for the Full Moon, set for Washington DC.

 

That unusually exact Mars/Moon conjunction during the Full Moon really packs a punch, especially notable since it’s in the 10th house of the path (as set for D.C.) and so very very visible. Previously hidden info gushing out from everywhere, like a gigantic official narrative pipe that is springing a hundred leaks at once, and no matter how much scrambling to fix the holes, the leaks quickly saturate the collective atmosphere.

Now, let’s add  another Sabian symbol to the mix, this one for the Sun: 17° Sagittarius:

AN EASTER SUNRISE SERVICE DRAWS A LARGE CROWD.

Keynote: The culturally stimulating longing for group participation in the process of rebirth.

[This longing thus offers] direction, meaning, and through group action, a greater dynamic intensity.

The obvious keyword here, is REBIRTH.

 

Imagine yourself among the thousands (millions?) of “anons” who have been not just following, and trying to make sense of, the many conflicting “narratives” over especially these last three years (ever since the covid con, then slogging painfully through the Biden residency), but many having found their calling as digital soldiers, researchers, par excellence! And boy, do we ever long for cultural rebirth!

But: remember the retrograde action of six out of ten planets this past autumn? They are now, one by one, turning to go direct — Jupiter itself turned SD on November 23, on the same day as the New Moon in Sagittarius, both seeding this upcoming Full Moon. And that occurred just past the Balenciaga scandal (which itself followed and links to the FTX scandal), virally spreading, and subtly and not so subtly and thrusting pedophilia, child trafficking and worse finally into the mainstream limelight. Add to these revelations the shocking film Died Suddenly, released on November 21 with 7 million views in the first 24 hours.

There’s no denying it now. CRIMES. AGAINST. HUMANITY.

Mars and Uranus are due to turn to go direct also, but not until January. More on that below.

Meanwhile let’s move forward to the Winter Solstice chart, because it features Jupiter again, which will have, just one day prior, entered Aries. 0°00 Sun in Capricorn SQUARE (in productive friction with) 0°07 Jupiter in Aries. What is fired up for ignition (Aries) comes up against the resistance of old systems, structures (Capricorn).

 

Notice: Jupiter at 0° Aries near the Midheaven (and so, in the public eye) squares, almost exactly, the 1° Cancer/Capricorn Ascendant/Descendant axis which itself holds the Sun at 0° Capricorn. In other words, the Winter Solstice moment features the Sun, as it’s setting in the sky, at sunset, a very prominent position, squared off to Jupiter, high above, raining expansion, benevolence, generosity, on one and all. This fight, this creative frisson, between Jupiter and the Sun, between rebirth and statis, the new and the old, will be very much in the public eye, just as the Sun, setting in the sky, paradoxically also begins to lengthen its day during its Solstice rise from the deepest dark.

Okay, now let’s go forward:

Jupiter will remain in Aries only until mid-May 2023, when it moves into Taurus.

BTW: Jupiter went into Aries for the first time in this 12-year cycle, on May 11, 2022, and remained there until October 29, when it segued back into Pisces, for a final sojourn through that sign of dreams, addictions, visions, escapism, and confusion. When it re-enters head-strong, eager Aries on the day before the Solstice, I envision an explosion of energy, courage, and creativity, as pent-up energy from its initial foray into Aries earlier this year finally takes hold and begins to express.

Now to the other planets which are about to go direct:

Mars in Gemini, featured in the upcoming Full Moon chart, turns to go direct on January 12, and will remain in that sign, continuing to, and as it turns, placing even more emphasis upon disgorging bucketfuls of info, disinfo, and misinfo — until March 26, when it reaches Cancer.

Eruptive Uranus in Taurus, which much of this year has been squaring disciplined Saturn in Aquarius, turns to go direct on January 22, 2023. Here we are, still working with the Taurus ground moving under our feet, as financial and other insecurities increase continuously, and this week given an extra punch by the “world’s largest active volcano” in Hawaii going off “for the first time in nearly four decades.”

Slow-moving Uranus which entered Taurus in 2019, will continue to undermine financial, administrative, academic, medical, and other structures we used to take for granted until it begins to leave Taurus for Gemini but that’s not until mid-2025.

Remember folks, this near past, current, and near future Mars/Jupiter/Uranus back and forth process, though utterly destructive of the old, is also immensely fertile, preparing the ground for regeneration, as primal death/rebirth Pluto in structural Capricorn since 2008, inexorably grinds on and on and on, through 2024-25..

 

P.S. Oh yes, and one more: Mercury, will turn to go Rx at 24° Capricorn, just prior to conjuncting Pluto at 27° Capricorn, and will turn to go SD three weeks later, on January 18, 2023. In other words, Mercury turns SD at about the midpoint of the two dates January 12 (when Mars goes SD) and January 22 (when Uranus goes SD).

So I’d say expect more clarity of purpose, and forward motion, in mid-January, from the 12th through the 22nd.

 

 

ALT-EPISTEMOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS on Increasingly, Unceasingly, Foggy World War III

December 1, 2022

 

During this extraordinary journey we conscious ones have found ourselves embarked upon, this confusing voyage through, past, inside, increasing data dumps of info, disinfo, misinfo, speculation, sure bets, hopium, “breaking news,” fake news, etc. etc., with more and more “influencers” popping into view all of a sudden — recent examples, SG Anon and Derek Johnson — most of whom claim behind the scenes “intel”; then there’s the always furious Stew Peters, who suddenly appeared on the scene as a full-fledged news anchor, despite his background as a bounty hunter! His recent Died Suddenly film, viewed seven million times in its first 24 hours, is coming under increasingly skeptical attack. What’s real and what’s fake, hype, disinfo, etc., in that very disturbing film? Were the mistakes, if any, sloppy, or intentional? Is Stew Peters “controlled opposition” and this film designed to destroy “conspiratorial” thinking about the so-called vaccines?

Then, finally in this litany, there’s Elon Musk, who does truly seem to be releasing Twitter from its left-wing myopia, and yet, and yet, who is Elon Musk, really? Especially now that he claims that his Neurolink should be ready for human trials within six months?

 

Back when I was young, in the pre-internet age, we used to speak of “the news” — and all be referring to the same phenomenon, what we now call the MSM.

Yet, even in the early ’70s, while (briefly) married to a newspaper editor, I kept wondering why “the news” was usually dark, bleak, signifying what’s going wrong, rather than highlighting what’s good, right, true? Dick would remind me, patiently, that bad news sells papers, which in turn attracts advertisers. Oh, I knew that of course, but still!

At that point in my life I thought in binary terms, good news and bad news. As if, the inherent mystery of reality could be captured! As if the map could be identical with the territory, and furthermore reflected in linear conceptual/verbal chains. This causes that, which causes that, which leads to that . . .

So I’d walk around town, and imagine myself looking for good news and writing about it. So different than the other! Instead of investigating a car crash, or a robbery, I would focus on the kindness of strangers. This extended thought experiment made me wonder about both the slippery nature of reality and the inherent bias in human perception.

Because, after all, no matter how “objective” I might want to be, my perception is always colored by everything I’ve ever seen, heard, imagined, dreamed, felt . . . Plus, no matter how wide my perspective, there’s always an infinitely wider one; no matter how granular my analysis, it never probes far enough, deep enough, never bottoms out.

And “facts”! What are facts? I started to call them “factoids,” way before CNN briefly picked up the moniker, because, I thought, so-called “facts” are radioactive, they have a half-life. Reality doesn’t stand still, doesn’t offer rock hard sense data for us to pick up on, upload to our brains, work with, spit out again as equally rock-hard “evidence.” Change is the name of the game. Everything is always changing, moving, expanding and/or diminishing, growing and/or decaying, and often both, depending on . . . everything else! What context is large enough to give “definitive” meaning to any “fact” (factoid)?

And if I was “like that” back in my 30s, and furthermore, had already been stunned into continuous skepticism, even cynicism, regarding so-called official, mainstream news, by the assasinations of the ’60s (Kennedys and King), plus the so-called official commissions to investigate them . . . when I think back on it now, my own encounter with reality had left me so disturbed, so PTSDed, that I wonder: how did I actually continue to live, to speak, to enjoy exchanging ideas with others?

It’s strange how such epistemological and psychological relativism as my own can be . . . not eclipsed . . . not set aside . . . but somehow allowed to run parallel with regular life in the human world. While my mind ran wild, wondering how to parse the seeming chaos of phenomena and remain sane, I rarely spoke of this inner disturbance. Nobody else seemed to be bothered but me.

 

Well, that was then, and this is now. Half a century later I am joined by millions of others who have come to acknowledge that we are deep inside World War III, and that this war is not fought with guns, but with ideas, words. And that in this more abstract kind of war, deception, feinting, pretending, are also the name of the game. See Sun Tzu, The Art of War.

Each of us circles round and round inside our own silloed, solipsistic 360° view of “reality” filtered by the biases of both our own unique nature as well as everything we’ve ever experienced and think we have learned about “reality.” Multiplied to infinity now, by “virtual reality.”

Oh, of course, each of us gravitates towards certain others, like birds in a flock, increasingly defined by what “channels” we tune into on the virtual reality spectrum. In that sense, we are not solipsists. Instead, we are all inside Teilhard de Jardin’s noosphere, the virtual “cloud” — of unknowing, while desperately trying to determine if that cloud, rather than  filled with constantly shifting ghostly forms, actually contains stable, steady forms; ones we can trust. So that we can say, with surety, this is aligned with, gives evidence of, buttresses, opposes, disproves or proves, that.

In other words, it’s true, there really is no such thing as “objectivity.” Why, because there’s no such thing as the unblinking, all-seeing eye, the “god,” separate from “his” creation.

 

 

Oh yeah? Say the “religious” among us? The ones who assume, and this is their bottom line assumption — that there IS a clear distinction between the creator and the created. That they are not one, but two. The original polarity, we might call it.

Myself? I’m a pantheist. It’s all divine, all of it, no separation.

All distinctions that we humans make are “made up.”

Once we see reality in this fashion, then World War III, the info war, becomes both more and less difficult to wade through. On the one hand, we know we are making it all up. On the other hand, why is so-and-so making it up in this way rather than that? What’s “the agenda”?

And, personally, for it all comes back to me, how might that agenda attempt to direct/control/enslave my life?

Which is where “spin” comes in. Not sure when this word entered the lexicon to describe the way “the news” works; nor its more recent iteration, “narrative;” together they describe linear (“causal”) chains (of ideas, words, which pretend to represent “data points,” “facts”) aimed in particular directions, thus pointing to particular agendas, stated, or otherwise.

“The news,” now, more and more, refers to immense networks of “data points” connected to one another in multifarious ways. Two examples:

It’s as if we’ve reached the apotheosis of our left-brained “learning curve.” As if, only if we get infused with AI (see Neurolink), will we even care to, much less be able to, “keep on learning.” At least in this manner. In the manner that calls for us to ignore the more subtle calls within our own being, and within Nature herself, calls that whisper.

Pay attention.

Be aware.

You are a sovereign soul, at one with all.