Midway between two eclipses, there’s lots going on in the world. And much of it is obscured or presented in ways that are duplicitous and misleading. This Neptunian Piscean theme has much bearing on the next few months, as Neptune comes into alignment with the North Node (exact in February 2025) and more broadly the next two years, as Saturn and Neptune come together (exact in February 2026). But as it pertains to now, Libra Season and the imminent Libra New Moon south node solar eclipse, there are things to consider around the shadows of Libra...
Black Moon Lilith (BML) is currently in Libra, along with the South Node, Mercury and the asteroid Juno. Venus has entered Scorpio a few days ago, where she is fallen in the nocturnal home of Mars.
All things cast a shadow. Libra is idealistic and oriented towards justice and balance. What could be wrong with that? The thing about Libra is that it relentlessly, sometimes unconsciously, seeks out the perspectives of others. It does this in the pursuit of doing what is right and just. In doing so it relativises itself out of existence. And that is why the Sun, planet of the individual self, is in detriment here. It cannot express itself freely because it is always considering others’ needs ahead of its own. That is the fundamental orientation. This leads inevitably to ambivalence, which can render it indecisive, passive and inert. So with Libra, one’s own needs often go unmet. And that is where we meet the typical Libra shadow manifestation of passive aggression. Because even though the genuine conscious intent is there to be ultimately good, just and righteous, above reproach, the need exists for one’s own individual expression and one’s own needs to be met. That’s why we need Aries to help us find balance between self and others. Aries advocates for self first. It is oriented to exist in the world, and to act, and to claim space and to blaze a trail. In this way of course Aries without Libra becomes problematic. All me and no we. This not healthy either because relationships are a crucial and vital element of human experience, and Libra inherently understands this and strives to forge, maintain and strengthen connections. So we need both.
So when it comes to this Libra new moon south node eclipse with BML on the 3rd of October, we are wise to keep these themes in mind. It is interesting that individualism has become a negative, like a dirty word, associated with the “my body my choice” antivax crowd and freedom community. And paradoxical because our liberal democratic society is so narcissistic, yet demands that people relinquish our individual rights. As well, there is a more primitive reflex at work in the collective and in the individuals that make up the collective or herd. Lucien Levy-Bruhl coined the phrase participation mystique which refers to an unconscious psychological identification with one’s group. Levy-Bruhl believed it to be a relic of the past, but Carl Jung thought otherwise. Under duress, in states of arousal, many succumb to regression into participation mystique, seeking strength in numbers. Conformity to the herd gives one the sense of security. Nietzsche too could perceive it, in the 19th century, when he wrote “once the I was hidden in the herd: and now the herd is hidden in the I.”
This all ties into now, with the UN’s Summit of the Future finishing up in NYC. I saw Albo at Biden’s house a few days ago, which suggests that he didn’t delegate this event, but fronted up himself for the globalist schmoozefest. Its worth noting that Albo is a Pisces, with BML in Libra.
There’s this pretense of goodness, justice, equality. But its an illusion.
Conformity. One among many. Herd mentality. Participation mystique. Groupthink.
The United Nations.
In the human tendency to default to Libran ideals which the astrology warns us about now, since July 2023, with the South Node in Libra we have had opportunities in the collective and our own individual lives to reflect upon how these attachments (whether to people or ideals or assumptions) keep us stuck in old patterns. We might get to uphold the pretense of righteousness by persisting with conflict avoidant strategies, people pleasing and the path of least resistance, but we know, our Aries individualistic instincts know, that this is inauthentic and self-sabotaging. If we are tuned into this sense of knowing, we might have been taking steps towards our own self-actualisation, provoking conflict both internally (its not easy for the Libra part of us to rock the boat!) and external challenges in our relationships. For Libra it can feel like a battle to claim space. And what can be hard about it is that it is not just one war you need to win. The needs of others, which are often legitimate, tend to encroach upon our island forever. So we need to be eternally vigilant and that can be hard work, especially for Libra who genuinely likes things to be not only nice and pleasant, but fair. So with some of the ideals being put forward by the globalists, such as the UNSDG’s, there is an inner conflict that erupts, because we don’t exactly disagree with these goals. Who could? Ending poverty? Who doesn’t want that? But this is where we need access to the instincts again. Because there’s something afoot in these ostensibly virtuous goals... and there is a cost involved with such lofty ideals.
Its time, not to bring peace, but a sword.
All the documentation, literature and endless lengthy publications (propaganda) outline the time of metacrisis that we’re living in. This is interesting to reflect upon because it’s a narrative. Its something that has been fed to us for several generations now, whether its about the culture wars, climate change, or whatever else, we are conditioned to think in terms of emergency and crisis. Like we’re at a crossroads. On a precipice of acute global peril is what they write in their document Pact for the Future. The focus of this year’s event is strongly on future generations and they frame their intentions and actions in terms of their obligations. So in the future, anyone who is reading over these documents cannot fault the approach and intentions of these sickos. Haha. And they’ve got a whole lot of amazing sincerely well-intended people on board. All the best ideas have been co-opted and corrupted by the globalists. When looked at retrospectively, all these glossy publications will comprise recorded history for this period of time, this transition, or great reset. And what historians will find is endless bullshit doublespeak and minutes of meetings whereby that seem to show legitimate process. And if they have their way, it will look as though this consensus reality represents humanity as a whole. The UN press release that came out on the 22nd September, announced the adoption of the Pact for the Future which they say is “a strong statement of countries’ commitment to the United Nations, the international system and international law... designed to turbo-charge implementation of the SDGs.” There is little to no mention of this latest commitment/agreement to “the transformation of global governance” in the news or mainstream media. And yet the member states will take their marching orders and return to their posts, within governments and bureaucracies around the world, to draft legislation and rewrite policy, and cooperate with corporate stakeholders (big data, big tech, big pharma, military industrial complex...) to implement change in alignment with UN/WEF goals that will affect us all!
Yuval Noah Harari has just published his latest book called Nexus where he bangs the drum for censorship, which he of course does not identify as censorship but as the removal/eradication of “junk information, fake news and hate-filled conspiracy theories”. He calls for “costly institutions” to separate these forms of mis/disinformation from “facts and reliable information.” In Edward Bernays’ 1928 book Propaganda, he writes about “invisible government” and propaganda as the legitimate instrument it uses to “organise public opinion”. What we today call “control of the narrative” Bernays says is imperative to an orderly life and the maintenance of civilisation. To lose control of the narrative like what happened with the invention of the printing press is to lose control of the people. Revolution will inevitably ensue. Harari draws a comparison between the printing press which he suggests led to the witch hunts and our own time’s digital revolution (the internet) and spread of unreliable information, implying a potential witch hunt again. It made me think that these people, the elites lets say, are scared. They can sense the revolution. Or which hunt. Its gathering momentum. So they need to gain control over information again.
Incidentally Bernays was born in 1891, right around the Neptune Pluto conjunction in Gemini. This conjunction of the two outer planets in the mutable air sign of Gemini has obvious implications for the use of language and information as instruments of deception and control, and Bernays’ book cuts to the heart of this with precision.
It is important to consider whether the system upon which we have come to rely seeks merely to subdue and use us as a means to its own ends. The cognitive dissonance that is elicited by revelations (even inklings) of the underlying nature of reality is painful. I understand why people turn away, rather than confront that possibility that the system is/has become corrupt, even malevolent.
Pluto is retrograde and back in Capricorn 2nd September until 20th November, making aspects to Uranus in Taurus (trine), and Neptune in Pisces (sextile). This three-way transpersonal planet activation promises potential developments from which we may benefit, both collectively and as individuals (more on that in a mo). But the shadowy manifestations can be readily perceived on both “sides” of politics in ideological extremism and fanaticism, obsessive rebellion and eccentricity, and “a diffusion of evolutionary potentials in misguided or ineffective political pursuits” (Renn Butler).
The US election represents one very potent manifestation of this activation. And its worth taking a step back every time we feel ourselves becoming polarised to one end or another. I do feel for Americans, because even those of us outside the US (yes me!) can get caught up in it. And in social media, the division and dehumanisation and intensity is just rampant. Part of me likes the idea that RFKjr and Tulsi and Trump can turn things around. But I am not convinced of this. It seems all but undeniable that the system is inevitably corrupting because it has run its course and is now in the phase of decay. That’s why we can see its faults and flaws so clearly, because there’s not much else left. It is time to let it die. Something else needs to emerge from the wreckage, the corpse of this weird modern experiment. And I think that it will. I don’t know how long that will take. In some ways I feel it is already sprouting little green shoots of life. This weekend there are two big events: People’s Reset in UK and Rescue the Republic in the US, looking for positive change, a new way.
But I don’t think we are in for an easy time of it. I don’t think utopia is around the corner. I think we have a long road ahead of us dealing with these globalists and their insistent pernicious agenda. They are only just getting organised with this censorship operation and that is quite daunting.
A bit like the next full moon lol which is in Aries, exactly conjunct Eris and square Mars in Cancer. There’s lots to say about Mars in Cancer, with a retrograde that will carry us into 2025 but I’ll come back to that in a future newsletter. This full moon on the 17th of October promises to highlight the discord and friction that is palpable in the world, and looks set to intensify based on the astrology. Chiron and Eris are in a wide conjunction too, so Chiron’s energy is definitely a big part of this lunation, helping Mars to bring in some vulnerability if we are willing. More likely though, in the collective at least, there will be intense conflict, and the wounds of war as symbolised by Chiron in Aries may become all too obvious. The positive potentials for individuals exist within the willingness to confront the crisis in good faith. By crisis I don’t necessarily mean it will be a big dramatic event for everyone, but the discord that permeates the collective now is so multidimensional, it comes through such a variety of polarising issues, that everyone is disturbed to some extent, often to the extent of outrage, by something, if not everything. In other words, Eris’ discord and strife is unavoidable in the world now. And we can try to opt out, avoiding the conflict, trying to sit on the fence, or distract ourselves from the trouble we’re in through whatever, scrolling, alcohol, drugs, busyness... but these tactics (which are often unconscious) prevent us from making use of the opportunity we have. To me, Chiron and Eris coming together indicates that the medicine we need is the discord and strife. The outrage, that compelling emotion, is just our guide to get to that place inside that holds the medicine. If we follow the emotional energy inward to its source and examine the underlying cause of the psychological (complex) activation (differentiating it from the outer “cause”) and consider how this insight can inform a way forward, and lead to action we can take in our own lives that will bring us closer to authenticity, we have participated in the alchemical process of transformation. We are doing the work of Pluto. We transmute our disempowerment (by the system, other people, our social circumstances) into personal empowerment. We do not allow oppressive external forces to define who we are or what we can do, but by working within our means and scope (reality), taking responsibility for our own emotions and the messages they are conveying, we do what we can. A shift occurs and the new perspective/attitude opens up expansive opportunities for new directions.
In any case, I think its wise to reflect upon how much political conflict we’re engaged in. Renn Butler also describes the critical attitudes towards the abuse of power, idealism and faith associated with the outer planetary archetypes (Uranus, Neptune, Pluto) coming together, and likewise the sense that collective emancipation is not possible without individuals doing their inner work. I think its crucial that we put these two ideas together, because its one thing to be awake to all the shitfuckery in the world, but its useless if that awakening doesn’t restore us to our own inner sense of what’s true and real, and give us access to our inner authority. If we haven’t made that connection we’re missing the point. It becomes cynical and nihilistic pretty quick if we lose sight of our individual capacities and put our faith in systems of governance and so-called leaders that consistently prove themselves to be inept at best, evil at worst. So theres lots of fruits from our climbing the Capricorn mountain, between 2008 and now, and perhaps on reflection you may find that you have cultivated a connection to inner authority over that time, a kind of self-reliance, as Ralph Waldo Emerson referred to it. He had Mars, South Node, Vesta and the Moon in Leo, so this was undoubtedly a painful lesson to learn. Because Leo in its brilliant radiance likes to shine upon an adoring audience and so receive bountiful applause. But that’s the thing with self-reliance, it’s a solitary path in many ways, and you can’t be preoccupied with being appreciated. Emerson had Chiron in Capricorn too, so I think this wisdom he offers us, has come in a most poignant way, through hard experience and suffering. He wrote in 1841 “Trust thyself... the power which resides in [man] is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried... God will not have his work made manifest by cowards”
The work of the globalists is not heroic. They have themselves regressed into a state of participation mystique, positioning themselves as leaders. Though they ostensibly seek to save the world, their true intent aims only to save the world, the system, they have constructed for themselves and their own ilk. In this sense, we can trust that our individual efforts to live aligned with a deeper self gnosis are guided by something else, something numinous, something new. God’s work is not made manifest through secular bureaucracy any more than it is through religious zealotry and dogma. We must strive to cultivate our own connection to the authentic self and follow it, and only it.
Come what may.
Lilith, depicted here by John Collier (1887), is a temptress. In Libra she is demure, but no less enticing. The wiles of Libra’s idealistic intentions pave the road to hell. And we are on it.
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Gobsmackingly clever Zoe ... and as you highlight ' vigilance is the price for freedom' Thank you