Weekly Roundup #2
Entrees, Jupiter Aries - Machismo Returns!, Moon Capricorn, Capricorn and Pisces #2, Saturn Aquarius
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ENTREE.
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This happened with the Moon in Scorpio - BLOOD-RED, OCCULT SHADOW.
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The student debt conversation started as the Sun entered Virgo and ended when Mercury left Virgo. Virgo, the Sign of the bean counter.
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The revival of old media is a Uranus Taurus thing (~2018-2026). People will love digital again in a few years, like they did in the 00s (thanks to Neptune Aquarius, 1998-2012, and now Pluto Aquarius ~2024-2043, also Uranus Gemini from 2025).
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All this "normal mode" "having a normal one" stuff is textbook Pisces and will SOON DISAPPEAR (~3 years). Pisces is at once bland, acceptable, and alien. Unsettling and yet complacent. "It was always there... wasn't it?" Thus the Mandela Effect jokes (?) from recent years...
Pisces affords a place for everything, the stranger the better. Thus the "black trans midget paraplegic" discourse years ago when Uranus was in Aries - Pisces is weird because it allows anything, Aries is weird because it strives to stick out and assert its own unique values.
MAIN.
Jupiter Aries - Machismo Returns!
The lame masculinity gurus who plagued the Uranus Aries era (2010-18) are back like a fungus with Jupiter's current transit of Aries. Dickless clowns like Ivan Throne, Rollo Tomassi, Jack Donovan and so on vanished for the most part post-2018, but they’re BACK BABY:
The statistics map to the transits, as usual. Tate gets his first bump ~2nd May when Venus enters Aries and makes his kind of controversialism appealing. Jupiter enters Aries on May 11th and the interest is sustained.
The second bump comes as Sun Cancer squares Jupiter Aries ~June 28th. The square fuses the controversial machismo of Aries with the skin-crawling intimacy of Cancer - thus a man who presents himself as giving the intimate, ugly truth about boy-girl relations is empowered.
This is complex so I will explain: Jupiter square Sun combines the principles of teachership (Jupiter is literally named "Guru" in India) with the principle of individuality, so Tate as an identity (in addition to his teachings) is elevated.
Venus is sextile to Jupiter, thus the teaching is woven together with a narrative, a "vibe", a mood for interpreting the world. Mars square Pluto means that masculine (Martian) force is carried to its extreme during this time. These forces launched Andrew Tate.
The last big push comes ~Jul 13th as Mercury joins the Sun in Cancer and opposes Pluto Capricorn. Mercury force is what makes things go viral, and contact with Pluto drives the collective need to communicate to an extreme. Cancer and Capricorn are parental Signs. Thus...
The words of a sleazy substitute father figure are circulated en masse. They concern brutality and hardness (Capricorn) in domestic affairs (+ Cancer). Ruthlessness (Cap) in pursuing one's supposed "biological needs" (Cancer).
Venus also squares Neptune around July 13th, lending the narrative an ideal gloss. With Mars transiting Taurus from July 6th to August 20th, masculinity (Mars) was tied to possessiveness (Taurus) - thus women were conceived of as objects to be pimped and trafficked.
One can always go deeper, deeper, infinitely deeper into what the planets are doing, but this is a good start in describing why chinless moron Andrew Tate came to the fore in this moment.
Capricorn Moon, Capricorn vs. Cancer
Moon Capricorn is a difficult placement, life gives you no free lunches and no shoulder to cry on. You can't rest on your laurels and all your comforts are to be won through hard work. But the best possible attitude to all that is EMBRACE THE PAIN.
AND, just as Capricorn puts all its hardness, gloom and crushing weight onto the Moon, the Moon forces its idiosyncratic demands and sensitivity into Capricorn's lap - it does not take a straightforward, rational path to success.
Animator Richard Williams (who did 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit') is a solid example of Capricorn Moon and its bottomless capacity for hard work: He singlehandedly animated around 5 minutes of high-framerate animation, drawing upwards of 8 hours a day in his 80s. (View here. Warning: Violent.)
Some Capricorn Moons: Vangelis (Fat Greek man, composed 'Blade Runner' soundtrack), HR Giger (Artist, created the monster from 'Alien'), Tim Burton (Directed 'Nightmare Before Christmas'), Damon Albarn (Gorillaz), Adolf Hitler, Nelly Furtado - and more! They're pretty gloomy...
Capricorn is Goth. Capricorn is Egypt, dust, industrial gloom, coldness - its opposite Sign Cancer is death & the crypt, the graveyard. See what they have in common, similar though Capricorn is hard and Cancer is infinitely soft & tender
Capricorn and Pisces #2
Pluto Capricorn: ~2008 - 2024; Neptune Pisces: ~2012 - 2025
Cap-Pisces Era: ~2012 - 2024
1. Capricorn and Pisces come together in the fact that hard work and disciplined practice (Cap) lead to sudden mutations in skill, new possibilities dropping into your lap, things simply "clicking", the flow state (Pisces). Mastery (Capricorn) leads to intuition (Pisces).
2. Stoicism and asceticism are yet more products of the Cap-Pisces era: Capricorn the Sign of self-mastery and self-denial, of cultivating hardness, and Pisces the Sign of self-overcoming, of escaping slavery to habits.
i love catching blurry sidelong glimpses of gigantic inscrutable systems that impose hidden order upon the world
Capricorn is the systems of hierarchy which impose order and Pisces is hidden, immense & inscrutable. Blurry glimpses. Put them together and you get the current moment: Conspiratorial crypto-government.
4. Quoth @deepfates:
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was hijacking human memetic desire to commodify the value form producing desiring-machines that deterritorialize the striated resources of the planet and accelerate a feedback loop of technoindustrial capacity
This kind of post is textbook Capricorn-Pisces material which will soon appear as antiquated as the "cyberdelic" lingo of the '90s. Neptune in Pisces produces the current inclination to highly abstract "theory," Pluto Capricorn the hardness & pessimism.
From 2012 - 2017, Uranus Aries led to an emphasis on particular personalities. Think of the kooky characters who haunted our screens throughout this period... Aries + Pisces = Eccentric teachers. + Capricorn = Pessimists, hard men, etc. Thus Nick Land, Slavoj Zizek, silly old Stefan Molyneux, and so on
5. The idea of the RED PILL™ is textbook Neptune Pisces - “Welcome to my secret world, the real reality which only I can guide you through.” With Pluto Capricorn, the aim of all this is to become a Mover and Shaker, a hard man, brutally effective in his pursuit of Success™. Supposedly.
6. Working hard and playing by the rules is textbook Capricorn. Capricorn fails when it can't transcend the game it's playing and realise there are implicit rules behind the official rules. Scorpio and Pisces help it do this... They help it play the REAL game.
Scorpio puts Capricorn in contact with the sordid underworld of power, Pisces also with the hidden world of unspeakable privileges and backroom deals. Water Signs concern that which is so (♋️ intimate, sensitive), (♏️ shocking) or (♓️ unusual) that it can't be mentioned straightforwardly.
Pluto Aquarius
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The mid-20s will see a great return to the (at times suffocating) sincerity of 2010-2012 - thankfully no STOMP CLAP HEY! revival, but a bold pioneering spirit, a refusal to accept, contemplate or be complacent - a HATRED of vague, abstract thoughts, "bodies" and "spaces."
From the mid-20s to the late 30s, people will form an ideal of breaking out, fighting free of the corruption which oppresses us today and forming working societies. Neptune Aries will produce the ideal of freedom, Pluto Aquarius the drive to civilization. The fantasy will be you and your gang of friends destroying corrupt institutions and replacing them with something better, a hopeful vision of the future (Aries + Aquarius).
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This all kicks off next Spring. Pluto enters Aquarius and people stop taking the raw deal that's handed to them. The untenable situation which we're skating towards after two years of insanely destructive lockdowns, theft of public resources and a war of choice with Russia will finally bear fruit.
The Sun, Saturn, Neptune and Mercury will be packed into Pisces through March 2023. They will all be ruled by Jupiter in Aries, which above all seeks to break up corrupt, unjust structures. March 15th, the Sun will join Neptune as it squares Mars: It will be a time of chaos.
Pluto's last transit of Aquarius accompanied the French revolution and the founding of independent America, as the crushing burden of British rule finally became intolerable. (This developed through Pluto's last transit of Capricorn - draw parallels to now if you wish. Capricorn is the gerontocracy.)
Saturn's transit through Pisces will turn people towards more religious and conspiratorial modes of thinking - cultlike, following gurus who promise to lead them through the chaos. People will be open to new ideas, but many predators will seek to take advantage of this.
As unpleasant as it may be, chaos brings opportunity. The burdens of social conformity and of finding a healthy accord with an increasingly rotten society will pass, and new challenges will arise. There will, in all this, be hope, but it will be hard-won.
Much dirty laundry will be aired. Much rot will be burned out. People will dig in for a long fight, as many will no longer have an alternative. They will demand a new deal, a new accord on which to found society. This is Pluto in Aquarius.
The archetypal Aquarian situation is this: Interest groups band together and come to the big table. Each must be given a piece of the pie. Depending on how integral or threatening they are to the whole, they get a bigger piece. Negotiations go on until everyone is satisfied.
This is why Aquarius is Saturnine: It is the brute fact of needing to compromise and to share the pie equally in order to go on living. You can never stand up to the whole. Try taking too much and you will be thrown to the dogs. It produces a tense and crystalline equilbrium.
This Aquarian process will soon be the guiding motive of life on Earth for about 20 years. People will come to the table and seek a new deal. People will band together for the sake of independence, though they sacrifice something to the group. They will think of the future.
The selfish, individualistic striving of Capricorn will no longer be the rule. The pessimism, hardness and make-do of Capricorn will pass. There will be no path forward alone. We will be compelled to associate into interest groups, so that we may survive and make progress.
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