For awhile now I've been thinking about this Pluto in Aquarius transit as also a particular conversation with Leo, or rather, with the intertwined themes of the Aquarius/Leo axis. And Leo is, in some respects, the sign of the king as solar hero and ruler over all. I suspect that part of what we'll be wrestling with in the next almost twenty years is that relationship between the individual (Leo) and the collective (Aquarius). How do we celebrate the individual in a way that isn't at the expense of the collective? How do we function as a collective without suppressing or denigrating individual expression?
We've been in a very unbalanced place for a long time here in the U.S., where the individual is absolutely sacred and screw the needs of the collective. But those places where the collective is prioritized to a similar extent to here *over* the individual are equally problematic and repressive. I do believe there's a middle way, but I also think it's really hard to manage that balance the larger the collective gets. We have to find a narrative that is emotionally compelling enough to people to make them want to invest their energy in that balancing work, because what Trump offers is a very compelling emotional narrative on the side of the individual and of authoritarianism.
A couplet from a poem written by Chinese sage Du Fu around 750 AD, as his nation entered a similar apocalypse (offered last Friday by Roshi Joan Halifax in a dharma talk at the Zen Center in Santa Fe NM)
I have been doing a lot of work around family scapegoating, so imagine my surprise to see the word scapegoat in my horoscope. Well, perhaps not surprising but certainly confirming. Thank you!
Thanks for your newsletters they are hopeful and I like the wildness of them.
I live in NZ and thanks for including the links of the haka in parliament the other day led by Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke. Highlights the clash of Māori protocols against the colonial “norms”. Time to change. We marched to parliament yesterday and it was powerful. Speaking of the death throes of the old I think and hope this is what we are seeing with our current governments actions.
Have you seen the podcast called We Are The Great Turning? You and yr readers might enjoy it. It’s been giving be hope too. Allowing ourselves to feel the our grief for the planet and ourselves in order to embrace action.
Thank you for this newsletter — it’s the first piece I’ve read that makes sense, and dare I say it? It gives me hope. It’s inspired me to get back out there and fight.
For awhile now I've been thinking about this Pluto in Aquarius transit as also a particular conversation with Leo, or rather, with the intertwined themes of the Aquarius/Leo axis. And Leo is, in some respects, the sign of the king as solar hero and ruler over all. I suspect that part of what we'll be wrestling with in the next almost twenty years is that relationship between the individual (Leo) and the collective (Aquarius). How do we celebrate the individual in a way that isn't at the expense of the collective? How do we function as a collective without suppressing or denigrating individual expression?
We've been in a very unbalanced place for a long time here in the U.S., where the individual is absolutely sacred and screw the needs of the collective. But those places where the collective is prioritized to a similar extent to here *over* the individual are equally problematic and repressive. I do believe there's a middle way, but I also think it's really hard to manage that balance the larger the collective gets. We have to find a narrative that is emotionally compelling enough to people to make them want to invest their energy in that balancing work, because what Trump offers is a very compelling emotional narrative on the side of the individual and of authoritarianism.
Very well though-out and said! Thank you, Asha.
A couplet from a poem written by Chinese sage Du Fu around 750 AD, as his nation entered a similar apocalypse (offered last Friday by Roshi Joan Halifax in a dharma talk at the Zen Center in Santa Fe NM)
A nation is shattered
Mountain and River remain
Beautiful share. Thank you for watering these seeds.
I have been doing a lot of work around family scapegoating, so imagine my surprise to see the word scapegoat in my horoscope. Well, perhaps not surprising but certainly confirming. Thank you!
Many thanks for a wonderful start to Tuesday :D
Kia ora Rob,
Thanks for your newsletters they are hopeful and I like the wildness of them.
I live in NZ and thanks for including the links of the haka in parliament the other day led by Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke. Highlights the clash of Māori protocols against the colonial “norms”. Time to change. We marched to parliament yesterday and it was powerful. Speaking of the death throes of the old I think and hope this is what we are seeing with our current governments actions.
Have you seen the podcast called We Are The Great Turning? You and yr readers might enjoy it. It’s been giving be hope too. Allowing ourselves to feel the our grief for the planet and ourselves in order to embrace action.
Loved reading this! Thank you!
Thank you for this newsletter — it’s the first piece I’ve read that makes sense, and dare I say it? It gives me hope. It’s inspired me to get back out there and fight.
Copies of PRONOIA for everyone this season (again), as we all need a brilliant reminder to stay vital. RB, thank you!
thank you so much for this, Rob. It's so needed right now.