Zeitgeist Trends: October 23, 2021
COVID bloomed and science did the near-impossible and hatched a ready-Freddy vaccine. Too bad its arrival coincided with a new phase of technophobia.
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SATURN SQUARE URANUS.ย I canโt explain why, but for some crazy-ass reason the ongoing transitโour clarion call of the momentโcalls to mind thatย Taylor Swiftย song Wildest Dreams.
But not the twee version that Swift released. Iโm hearing the twanging and tumblingย Ryan Adamsย remake from his homage to Swiftโs albumย 1981. Melancholic and sinister.
โThis is gonna take me down.โ
Dreams are Neptunian by nature, although presently the Neptunian has been replaced by the Uranian. The collective dream is our technological dream.
What used to be an endlessly layered palimpsestโpainting the veil of our unconsciousโis now a solid glass screen. Held in our hand. Sitting on our desktop. Streaming the dreaming. Outside not inside.
This is a dangerous rearrangement.
โHeaven canโt help me now.โ
The Saturn Uranus square is ordinarily interpreted asย Saturnโsย saturnine solidity being undone by Uranian pressures and paroxysms.
But think of it another way. Saturn as a golem who bears a poisoned appleโ the suspicions that send Promethean clarity into a tailspin of projection.
โHeโs so bad but he does it so well.โ
COVID bloomed and science did the impossible and hatched a vaccine in months rather than years. But with it came the bad apples.
Today Iย read an articleย in theย New York Timesย aboutย Joseph Mercola, an internet-savvy osteopath in Florida (itโs always fucking Florida) who is considered one of the worldโs kingpins of disinformation.
Even Mercolaโs last name is caught up in the zeitgeistโI mean, a mercury-laced soda would kill you.
Fitting too is Mercolaโs rangy, saturnine appearance. Heโs the perfect circuit board for someone responsible for sharing 65-percent of all the anti-vaccine messaging on social media.
Inquiring minds want to know: When does misinformation become murder?
โNothing lasts foreverโฆโ
People incorrectly assume that the anti-vaxxerโs distress is related to something ominous about the vaccine. Never mind the historical relevance of polio, smallpox, and mumps vaccines.
The internet has gifted the Cassandras with both crazy wisdom and amnesiaโhaywire Uranian prescience, toโ
โโฆsee the end as it begins.โ
Timing, weโre told is everything. In the same way that god only spares some mobile homes in the trailer park during the killer tornado.
At baseline what we call โtimingโ doesnโt exist. Meaning, what seems to be synchronized is simply this and that arising and disappearing simultaneously within our field of experience. (You figure this out after 45 years as an astrologer).
COVID arrived just as the culture (Saturn) was hitting its tipping point regarding our technological mindfuck (Uranus). Suddenly zealot-like mania flipped into paranoia.
And readingย this expose on Facebookย today, well, who can blame us?
It is technologyโwhatย Thomas Pynchonย called, โa conspiracy between human beings andย techniquesโโa sort of witchcraftโthat carries our shadow today.
And the umbra has landed on the vaccine. Setting off a rift within the culture that makes old-timey partisanship seem quaint.
Our current schism, fomented by technophobia, isโlike all warsโfraught with the potential for mass destruction and death.
Although now, with the poison (Saturn) ensconced within a billions-reaching electronic platform (Uranus) the frequencies are short-circuitingโthe vaccine static is deafening.
As in any war, propaganda becomes the fallout of our addiction to stories. Hell, weโll listen to any narrative if it helps to make sense of the incomprehensible.
But what used to be called investigative journalism has been replaced by memes and misinformation.
Does veracity matter? (Donโt askย Mark Zuckerbergโhis Moon Saturn conjunction in Scorpio makes him a key player in plague dispersion.)
Truth is too expensive to access today. Itโs all locked up behind a paywall.
โI thought heaven can't help me nowโฆโ
Good luck interpreting our new wild dream. Your life might depend on it.
Love,
I love this! It helps me understand the astrological significance of our current global situation. As always your writing is dynamic and compelling. Thank you!
Thanks for sharing. Iโm relieved to read something that is not urging the rise up of โpeopleโ against the โgovernmentโ as both categories have many nuances, paradoxes and are not simple binaries. What Iโm noticing is there is small independent media actually doing investigation. For example ICIJ and the Pandora Papers. Iโm also seeing people on the frontlines sharing info and finding a way forward. Many injustices have been revealed and there is a possibility for collective action. Can this break through the myths around us and the ones we weave ourselves from? Who knows.