Intensity This Week
Upping the evil and insanity this week…
Mercury, Venus and Mars, all Squaring Neptune, while Jupiter conjoins.
Neptune makes whatever it touches feel more elusive. It is a planet associated with illusion, non dual consciousness, and universal “love”.
Mercury, -mind, logic, speech. Venus -our values, sensory perception, love, resources, relationships.
Mars, -action, passion, assertiveness- but in Gemini the sign of mind, this all feels like a perfect stew of delusion. Potentially being led astray. Being hooked by the double whammy of our mind and emotions.
Neptune also causes us to long for God. We project our Godlike fantasies on to other people, things, and institutions. Hoping to find and be saved by the all encompassing love we are hard wired to believe resides there.
Jupiter magnifies and expands that which he touches. While asking us to search for the seed of higher truth within it.
All week the headlines have felt very dark.
Aside from all of the pedophilia, rape, corruption, and murder, in the headlines… it feels as though the throughline of them all is “evil”.
What guards from evil?
Truth/love.
So what happens when the concept of truth/love gets co-opted or distorted?
I’d say, we are looking at it.
It is imperative we get crystal clear on what love is.
Love is never ever divorced from a grounded source of UNIVERSAL truth.
Meaning a truth we universally agree actually exists.
Such as
Sex with children is wrong.
Driving after drinking is dangerous.
Cooking with fire was a revolution.
Universally accepted. Observably true.
We know it because of its isness.
On top of all these bizarre stories swirling around, I’m seeing a really disturbing trend.
In the past few weeks, I’ve seen people in the conservative Christian eco-sphere justifying their positions by saying something overtly cruel, and then following it up with-
“I love everyone “
“I love the people who hurt me.”
“I love the people that want to take me down.” “I love the people who have cancelled me” etc.
Afterwards it’s followed by a very very conservative, borderline oppressive world view.
In all honesty, I’ve seen the same type of phenomenon used to justify left leaning ideologies too. Justifying cruelty, by saying “this is good for you. It’s the “right” thing”.
I‘d have to write for a long time to flesh the details out. And they aren’t exactly necessary to make my point.
We’ve probably all had a creepy family member justify some kind of off handed cruelty, abuse, or toxicity, by telling us they “love us”.
My point is, or rather my concern is, this idea of “love” being used to justify potential atrocities.
Because of the human need for belonging, and acceptance. Along with our hard wired drive to seek the divine.
Language, in general can create huge deceptions.
Just feel into some of the headlines of the last few years.
Every where we look, someone is trying to hook our attention, in the hope that they can enroll us in their agendas.
The news, celebrities, politicians. Even our friends on social media.
Our culture, in this moment, just feels so dangerously removed from a cohesive reality (truth).
And morals, values, deduction, and “right thinking” (joining in ideologies) are being used as the shiny object.
I’ve said before, if we aren’t fully embodying our own mission, purpose and intention, it is easy for us to be highjacked in service to someone else’s.
We need to have a clear, grounded, understanding of what truth/love is. So it cannot be weaponized against us in any direction.
We need to be crystal clear about our personal values. It feels as though this never been more important.
We need to know what we believe, because we’ve inspected our beliefs and we know they are grounded in a universal truth/love.
The need to guard our minds from untruth and unreality is equally important.
Why, because we will be driven towards nihilism, hopelessness, and despair in the current climate without them.
Squares and oppositions are about growth. We are being asked to rise to the occasion. To see through the fog, and cling to the true.