MOON ENTERS GEMINI, MERCURY STATIONING SQUARE SATURN

Moon just entering Gemini…

Just as we might have imagined, the hazing effects of NEPTUNE’S square to the nodal axis are subtly starting to seep through. Although the collective vibe is still very communicative, the glamorising effects of Neptune are smearing the lens of both Nodes, discrediting Sagittarius’ exorbitant beliefs whilst undermining the veracity of Gemini’s facts and data. Ideas transmitted through visual imagery, TV and electronic media have reduced all politics, news, history, science and other serious topics to just mere entertainment.

We are not strangers to this circus by now. Neptune’s semisquare to Uranus (2016-19) has hypnotically placed us under all sorts of altered states and our reality has more or less been turned into a global reality-TV saga, one where around 3.5 billion users are all starring in their own personal Truman show… 

The fully glowing Gemini Moon just swerved into Gemini and until she passes over the North Node in about 48 hours, it’s gonna look like Crazytown Central, probably in a town just near you.

Gemini’s Ruler Mercury has been retrograde for last three weeks, now stationing around 25°54′. Will our all-round cosmic postman deliver the mail, or will it be soaking wet? A sustained square to Saturn means that all media is currently under close scrutiny, and we are developing a threshold of intolerance for a certain degree of nonsense.

But then, who’s the arbiter and judge of who, in this old mess?

In any case, the news will keep us tense and irritable for another couple of weeks until around Nov 17, when shocking results are outright rejected. Then we shall see just how mean Mercury Scorpio can turn when he’s obstinately opposed by that stubborn freak, Uranus in Taurus.

☿ □ ♄, Nov 01-06. Mercury turns direct ☿ SD Nov 03, 17:45 UTC

The civil discord generated by this rare ☿ SD □ ♃/♄/♇ □ Eris right now is utterly out of control. This is the ‘election’ to end all elections…

Moon in Gemini:

Opinions are just emotions, flipping from one moment to the next; polls unreliable and subject to the whims and fancies of prevailing winds. Most exposed to mood fluctuation, gaslighting and psychic invasion during the Moon’s square to Neptune, around 22:00 (EST) Tuesday. Nothing is serious and nothing is real that isn’t simply an emotion, messing your mind.

“We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn’t, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves. The roots of liberal democracy had held. Wherever else the terror had happened, we, at least, had not been visited by Orwellian nightmares.

But we had forgotten that alongside Orwell’s dark vision, there was another – slightly older, slightly less well known, equally chilling: Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Contrary to common belief even among the educated, Huxley and Orwell did not prophesy the same thing. Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley’s vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny “failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.” In 1984, Orwell added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we fear will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we desire will ruin us.

This book is about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was right.”

― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, (1985)

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