I've been RTing @taalumot's powerful encounter with astrology today because this is exactly what it is and why I do it. when you look at the events in your life as they correlate to your transits, the idea of ✌️ coincidence ✌️ evaporates irrevocably.
@taalumot it's also the sort of thing which is so deeply personal, profound, and so obvious (and even when you know *just* the basics) as to become a reckoning with everything you thought you knew about how life, the universe, and what we're doing in it works.
you can't spoonfeed it to people. it's impossible. it requires an Encounter, and one that requires the seeker to be willing or else the mind cannot accept it, even completely rejecting it later. but if you're ready to see it it will rip your eyelids off
one thing I've learned exploring my spirituality in tandem with astrology more deeply is the effects of transits are almost entirely about your level of consciousness.
with awareness, transits move from happening TO you to happening THROUGH you: you can express or channel them
example: in November the Mars/Mercury-Saturn square w the Sun & Pluto *very* closely aspected my natal Sun, Moon, AND Ascendant. I remember the feeling very well, because this was a peak of my meditation and awareness practice, and knowing astro I was concerned I'd get injured
I don't have the words to describe what I actually did, but it felt like by *opening* within myself, allowing the transit to pass through me, rather than flinching or unconsciously being assaulted by its concrete manifestation. I could feel *all* of it in my body
while y'all know my stance is "NFTs are fine (meaning have plenty of both value and problems) on SOME chains and from SOME participants", the furor around them is a lovely little preview into the future of Pluto in Aquarius in ~2025: control of, by, for, about the masses
we are moving from a world of isolated individualism facilitated by corporate/governmental/religious ego feeding in exchange for capital and energy to one where one has to decide where they stand and where their energy goes amongst literally everybody else in the world
"decentralization" is a brainworm with as many upsides and drawbacks as centralization. the upsides are personal autonomy, ownership of one's own data (and migrate if your local cluster turns sour), and the ability to build into the system with relatively small startup costs
one of the most valuable ideas I learned from @nobuhojimichaan is "ase", which I understand as the accumulation of connective, energetic attachment between all things, especially the mental and emotional. it changed how I relate to pretty much everything
it implicates that wherever you put your attention of any form, a charge of some form accumulates, whether you want to call that "energy" or another conception. it's neutral, but it points out how attention creates a glue between us and the observed
it can be dissolved, unwound, released, relinquished with awareness, nonjudgmental reception and some other energetic techniques that are more subtle than I can describe atm. it echoes perfectly @visakanv's "focus your time and energy on what you want to see more of"
I've given up trying to explain to people that astrology/tarot can repeatedly, concretely used to predict and reveal information you couldn't know otherwise because it just doesn't go into people's heads. you can repeat yourself til you're blue in the face, it doesn't matter
you can shove an entire list of people using astrology to make money on the stock market every day in public, something many people claim is a "random walk" (lmao) and they won't get it twitter.com/i/lists/135851…
it doesn't matter how many times you say "it doesn't make sense to say you 'believe' in astrology, you either use it or you don't, it keeps working, it has always worked, just LOOK at it" because it's simply too high of a cognitive cost for people to even think about