I’ve
been talking with a lot of my friends recently — in
private where they felt comfortable letting their guard down — about the dirty little secret
no one is supposed to talk about. The shame people feel when they can’t find a
job…We are supposed to pretend, in this stupendously individualist culture, that
it is our fault. The buck stops here. I am responsible for my failings in life.
Of course this is demonstrably not true. We are merely living through
late-stage capitalism and our parents lacked the foresight to warn us about it.
The
mental disease of late-stage capitalism is shame, the devastating feeling that
we failed ourselves in the Land of Opportunity. This great lie that we whisper
to ourselves is how they control us. Our fear that other impoverished people
(which is most of us now) will look down on us for being impoverished too. This
is how we give them the power to keep humiliating us.
I say
no more of this emotional racket. If I am going to be responsible for my fate
in life, let it be because I chose to stand up and fight — that I helped dismantle the
global architecture of wealth extraction that created this systemic corruption
of our economic and political systems.
April 13
Joe Brewer, the author of the essay The Mental Disease of Late-Stage Capitalism lives and works in
Seattle, WA. The message that he is trying to get across is contained in the
Total Solar Eclipse of March 8. As we
have seen in the past, eclipses download their message most clearly at those
places where they occur on the angles. The March 8 eclipse was powerfully placed
on the descendant at Seattle as part of a Jupiter-Saturn-Neptune T-square. Here
the asteroid Psyche is on the MC
opposite Aesculapia on the IC. A key
phrase for Psyche-Aesculapia is “mental
trauma or illness”.
This South Node Solar Eclipse T-Square, and this lunar
cycle, creates a powerful force to let go of constructs in our lives that no
longer provide room for growth, movement and expansion. In other words, we have
grown as far as the limits imposed by those constructs have permitted. It is
now time to either begin to change those constructs so they can allow a greater
level of growth, expansion and fulfillment, or to dismantle those constructs
all together. [1]
The eclipse is placed in Pisces about which Dane Rudhyar
wrote:
Pisces is an era of
storms and of wholesale disintegration. But Piscean winds of destiny may impel
men of vision and courage to discover many a "new world," as much as
they do destroy or suffocate the many who stubbornly resist change. Transcendence,
overcoming, piercing through illusions and false security, severance of social
ties, embarking for the great adventure with utter faith and in denuded
simplicity of being: all these things are to be learned in Pisces. Man is here
face to face with himself, and with that Greater Self which he names: God. He
can refuse such a confrontation. He can cling to oppressive and decadent
cities. He can bundle up with refugees and moan forever before the Wailing
Walls provided by dying religions and bloated social "Saviors." But
then, he will be ploughed under, as manure for the spring sowings.
To renounce and to
transcend means mental criticism of a sort. Mind, in the Signs preceding the
equinoxes (Virgo and Pisces), is the constant critic, cutting away the
crystallizations or fallacies of the past and intent upon clearing, the stage
for a new kind of living and realization. It is mind telling what should be
forgotten, pruned away, regenerated or transcended. In Pisces, the social delusions,
the exaggerated idealism, the cranky notions, the revolutionary fetishes, the
scientific materialism, the civilized monstrosities which have swarmed through
the Aquarian period must be cut away.
Joe Brewer published his essay on April 13. If we progress
the eclipse chart to that date, the progressed MC forms aspects to the eclipse
T-square triggering its message.
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