Taking a page from those initiated into living relationships with their gods rather than just dogma, I ask beginning students to write about each planet as if it were someone they know or could know, like a character or even as a deity.

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Yes, the keywords become lead words, but the goal is to create a relationship and a depth of understanding with the planet. To push beyond the positive or negative feelings about the planet into more of an active, even living description or engagement of the planet.

During my exchanges yesterday about my saying that the Lion's Gate was bullshit, there was comment that stung: that my take was cynical. As a recovering cynic, that gave me pause. So, let me clarify I'm a former Baptist minister who went into the ministry at 12 years old. I was a fundamentalist and stayed in that ministry and viewpoint until I was 19, a sophomore in college. This shapes many of my views.

Yup. No one has said that we must become Astro-CNN for the world. My mental health has improved greatly.

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A rant to follow up on this cuz it's a Mars day, and I've thought a lot about this. I see many new astrologers stressed and burned out often about keeping a daily social media schedule with astrology. So, I want to say a few things. They may be shocking & piss off some folks.

Don't watch this if you hate spoilers, and plan to see #TheFlash. But I agree with this reviewer. The Flash FLOPS Box Office PANICS DC - Review via @YouTube Some additional details here since #TheFlash's ending is NOT the ending that was planned and there's a reason:

As I alluded earlier, people confuse the sensitivity of #Pisces for weakness. This can prove a deadly mistake. Literally. This is why I include #Pisces as the consigliere of something I dub the #ZodiacMafia. More here:

Anyway, it's time to #flow on about the #WaterBearer, the one we call #Aquarius #Saturn actually rules 2 signs of the #Zodiac, like most of the other 7 planets, except the Sun & the moon.

As the warm story-inspiring light of #Sagittarius dissipates, we feel the darkness creep around us w/ our days shortening. At the pt. of the shortest day, where night & darkness would seem to prevail, we step into the mystery & power that is #Capricorn

The journey into #Scorpio will start a lil different. Let's start with the fact that I never wanted to be one. Being born on this mythical creature called the cusp btwn Scorpio & Sagittarius (Nov. 22). It was a no brainer for me: I was a Centaur.

Okay, I'm Muslim, and I understand that some Muslim women wear a niqab (face covering except for the eyes) with their hijab. But what is the point of that on a dating site? #Sigh So far being on Muslima.com has been the most bizarre of online dating experiences. I've already fended off scammer with a very elaborate scam. She confessed to it when I busted her in straight-up lie. (She put up an obviously doctored passport.)

In #Virgo, we have the representation of the harvest, of the moment of separating the wheat from the chaff. We can be content to analyze the various differences and components. We can be efficient, precise, and attentive to process.

There's a lesson here, and it's not about Cawthorn's taste in fashion or having fun. It's more related to the saying, "Don't bring a knife to a gunfight." It seems Cawthorn showed up with an envelope opener instead.

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The one thing I've observed in all my years on social media is when you get dragged, it's often less about your enemies, but more about the friends who decide to stop protecting you. Or who just outright turn on you and throw you to the wolves. I believe this has happened here.

That's an ancient idea, advanced in "Western" culture in the Myth of Er. You can think of it as more a symbiote, guiding you. We are forgetful vessels with the Daemon to remind us of who we are and our purpose.

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Just the opposite for me, though. A tree can have hundreds of thousands of leaves, never in the same place, in its lifetime but we have a Cosmos that needs to keep one individual soul over many lifetimes? That's a pretty poor Cosmos. Best to surface new buds.

There's no doubt that astrology is controversial AF as @conduitofhealin says. In fact, I think astrologers could benefit MORE from debating each other. But we too often descend into arguing. Those are not the same. I know, I know. Why can't we all do whatever we feel called to do? Or say whatever we feel called to say? Well, there are at least two good reasons: a non-astrologically educated public AND astrology is as much an art of reason as it is intuition.

It's time. The inchoate, frothy sea of #Pisces is without differentiation. It needs the clarity & singularity of 1 instead of the duality of the fish.

Of course, after #Aquarius has poured its steely and idealized waters on us, we see two fishes swimming in opposite directions before us. This is #Pisces. Pisces memorializes the struggle of how the impermanent is made to endure, of how what endures dissolves away

Good points in this article if it’s not behind a paywall. But I’m amazed how the author also doesn’t mention how communist/totalitarian states also learned to have hybrid capitalistic economies. That changes everything. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/… For example, during much of the Cold War, countries like India and China had closed economies. But as they opened their economies up, they were better able to support themselves. Russia has learned to do the same, unlike its Soviet self.

If I ever went to the dark side and became a full-on skeptic (and this has happened with a few astrologers actually), among the first things I would attack are people's attachment to signs (what I call signology) and houses. They are THE shakiest aspects of astrology. Zodiac signs are interesting and fun, but the real protein in astrology rests with the dynamics of the planets and stars themselves. In fact, what many don't know is that much of the significations for the signs come from the planets that rule them, their modality, and...