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I have apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic dreams fairly often. They vary widely in content and feeling, but one aspect that is consistent in my post-apocalyptic dreams is the reclamation of commercial infrastructure for people to live and socialize in. My dreamtime experiences of what happens after the end of civilization as we know it is not a wasteland, but one in which a huge proportion of resources (both physical and non-physical) are freed up for use by regular people living life close to the ground. There are no more jobs that require office buildings or commuting or technical support. There is no more advertising or mass trans-cultural entertainment. There are no more organizational structures that exist only to create and exchange imaginary money. People still work, but labour is vastly simplified and geared towards feeding, clothing, housing and amusing self and family and local community. “Ownership” is redefined—a big clue that the key to any future outside global capitalism...

Well, today’s the day that Pluto moves into Aquarius for the first time since the French Revolution. Of course, it’s just a movement over an imaginary boundary marker. But our whole world is made of imaginary boundary markers that we’re forced to respect—like nation-state borders, or time zones, or the value of money. And judging by the amount of attention this astrological ingress is getting, not just from astrologers but from the general public, I have to conclude that Pluto in Aquarius is a very real thing that will, at the very least, change how we think. So my question today is, “What are some new ways of working with Plutonian themes?” Plutonian themes are death and rebirth, creation from destruction, in all the literal and metaphorical ways we can possibly imagine. First cards out from the Thoth deck are—and I shit you not—“Death” and “The Lovers”. What I see here is pertinent to my own work, exploring past life (or “other life”, since time is just a construct) trauma,...

Tomorrow evening the sun will move into Aries, beginning a new solar year and marking the spring equinox, followed within 24 hours by a new moon in Aries. Mercury, Chiron and Jupiter are hanging out in Aries as well, preceded by Venus and Uranus one sign ahead in Taurus, followed by Neptune and Saturn one sign behind in Pisces, and Pluto in the final minute (1/60th of a degree) of Aqua. With all planets in the solar system direct, the energy right now is full on, packed with full-steam-ahead power. Brick walls are prone to getting punched through like the Kool-Aid man at any time right now. This kind of unstoppable confidence and power is what it takes for rebirth, regeneration, recharging—all words that came out of these cards today. This is the end of an era and the beginning of something new, and the train is not slowing down to let people on or off anymore. Wherever the course has been set, that’s where we’re going. And from all indications, our destination is the peace and...

Whether it’s dissolving precarious foundations or pushing out the tide to reveal that there aren’t any foundations at all, the Time Lord in Pisces is reality-checking a world economy that is essentially a giant Ponzi scheme. There is only one solution: owning up to the no-pants, hair-on-fire reality of the situation (that creating, manipulating and laundering money doesn’t actually turn into anything of use or value to the world and is, in fact, a huge drain on society), and to accept the inevitable decline in “value” (read: Super Mario gold coins) of western economies, GDPs and hoarded private wealth. So today my question is: How will our illusions about money and wealth be further dissolved by Saturn in Pisces (and Pluto in Aquarius)? The answer comes in three parts: We will have our priorities reset. Clearly this is already happening when we were forced to confront the value structure of our own lives during covid. Put your faith in the deep water of constant change rather than...

Today is the day of Venus, and she is currently opposing the moon in Libra and sextiling Mars in Gemini (which is trining the Moon, which is trining Saturn as well). The sun is now beginning to conjunct Neptune, which will get tighter and tighter as the month wears on. Don’t know about you but things are getting very dreamy even though there’s this underlying intensity of purpose coming through. Feels like an episode of Twin Peaks where the deep meaning is in whispers between characters that the audience doesn’t here, or in backwards-talking metaphors that aren’t exactly clear even in reverse. My question is: “What secrets are being whispered by our local planetary consciousnesses at this time?” First cards out are Gemini: Cross-Pollination and Aries: Act, which speak to the subtle communication between different forces, like a bee “communicates” with a flower. Really, the bee initiates a process of change but has no say on how that change is carried out. Each force, each...

It’s Jupiter’s day and he continues in his conjunction with master healer Chiron, both opposite moon in Libra today. Sometimes healing is found in self-assertion and “taking care of number one”, not in avoiding conflict or compromising. Jupiter does have a tendency to blow things out of proportion, but at the level of the human collective, I’d say that the empowerment of self is much more needed than increased confidence in any appointed ruling bodies. Libra can be the cult leader, the controlling zealot who justifies himself and his actions on self-righteous grounds. My question today is “How can Arian/first house embodiment of personal power heal the world?” First card out of the Astro deck is Taurus: Cultivate. In sidereal astrology, which reflects that current state of the sky, Jupiter is conducting Chiron in Taurus. The tension between Aries and Taurus is the journey of coming into power, first for the self and then for the community. The ram may take sudden initiative to...