Everything is fake in our society today – or at
least a great many things are. Our world is filled with an extraordinary amount
of lies, deception, disinformation, misinformation, fakery, fraud, facades,
mirages, propaganda and brainwashing. The good thing though is that once you
awaken to the deception, you can use it as a tool for raising your
consciousness. The idea that virtually everything is fake can be empowering
rather than depressing. Sure, we’ve all felt overwhelmed, sad, angry and
impotent at times when we’ve seen just how easily our (mis)leaders can fool the
masses with sophistry and empty rhetoric, but they’ve all been placed there to
challenge us to wake up more quickly and fully, and reclaim our world. August 18 http://www.wakingtimes.com/2015/08/18/everything-is-fake-top-40-pieces-of-fakery-in-our-world/
A Mirage
This
article appeared on August 18 coinciding with the Crescent Moon. A chart for
the Moon phase at Washington DC has the Jupiter-Neptune opposition on the meridian square
Saturn on the Ascendant. Neptune is the planet of illusions, fakery and deceit.
With Jupiter the planet that expands or blows things out of proportion we have
everything touched by the Neptunian fraud.
Enter Saturn, the planet of the
real. Squaring Jupiter-Neptune it helps us discriminate, the real from the
unreal…truth from lies. The following extract from Bill Streett [1] explains
the Saturn-Neptune dynamics:
Collective
Mourning and The Loss of the Dream
During Saturn-Neptune alignments, instances
of loss and tragedy manifest that compel humanity to focus on the rift between
the ideal and the reality of our situation….(and) the issue of the division
between our aspirations and the downfall of our human condition become front
and central issues. However, this division between the ideal and the real is
not made transparent through the urging of inner knowledge but through specific
circumstances that engage loss, tragedy, and their resultant mourning. Saturn
symbolizes not only impediments toward the manifestation of another archetype
but Saturn also creates a sense of endings, terminations, and conclusions
relative to the symbolism of the contrasting planetary archetype. When
discussing expressions of the Saturn-Neptune gestalt, one has to acknowledge
that events and experiences transpire that give a sense of endings around
Neptune’s core and fundamental symbolism. Thus, with Saturn and Neptune, we
often need to witness the loss of a dream, the surrender of some collective
ideal.
[1] The
Desert of the Real: The Saturn-Neptune Gestalt by Bill Streett http://astrologyforthesoul.com/billstreett/satnepgestalt.html
Excellent. Seeing through deception is really empowering rather than depressing. In India the word for real or truth is Satya. 'Sat' means 'as it exists. Hence uncovering 'truth' (as things are) is an empowering skill in the sense that when practiced consistently, it leads us to enlightenment -- in gradual steps.
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