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Patrick Geary✨'s avatar

I totally agree. These transits reflect something in America - something in the cosmos - much bigger than the temporary whims of any particular administration. Let’s make the best of them! 💥

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The Cranky Astrologer's avatar

Nice round up! I agree - people who think everything would have been hunky dory under a Harris administration are lying to themselves about the nature of U.S. empire, imo. This astrology was inescapable.

Thanks for the shout out!

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Bryan Winchell's avatar

Last summer, I got kicked out of a mundane astrology Facebook group for basically making the same observation!

I think one of the reasons astrology can feel threatening to some people is because it suggests that there are deeper levels at play and life isn’t as simple as heroes and villains.

There’s always a part of me that would love to have not a time machine but a timeline jumping machine, just to go over to this moment in other timelines, including one where Kamala Harris is president or Joe Biden or RFK Jr., etc.

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Eva Sylwester's avatar

For sure, it is hard for people, whether or not they are astrologers, to admit that everyone has a Plutonian shadow side, but that is especially wild that you got kicked out of an astrology group for it. I am reminded of the Solzhenitsyn quote that the line between good and evil passes through every human heart. No one wants to hear that, though, and that's why I am dragging my feet on promoting the Pluto book.

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Anteros Astrology's avatar

Yes and all of those people who are canceling us are the ones who predicted Harris was going to win. They are complete incompetents who have never learned from their mistakes one time. Instead they project their own prejudices upon the people who they could most benefit from. They make the grave mistake of assuming that just because those who predicted Trump would win that we are fanatical right wing ideologues rather than look at our astrological methods.

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Eva Sylwester's avatar

And that sort of arrogant attitude among many Harris supporters just hurts their own chances of winning elections. In my lifetime, same-sex marriage went from something that very few people supported to something that actually happened, and I think that was in large part because supporters of same-sex marriage were willing to have hard conversations with their critics. No one enjoys having those sorts of hard conversations, but they had no other choice if they wanted to achieve their goal. In the years since the legalization of same-sex marriage, I have seen the left become much less capable of having hard conversations. Whoever you are, whatever cause you support, if you can't engage with your critics candidly, that's not good.

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Bryan Winchell's avatar

That group just couldn’t accept that there IS a Shadow side to the (Left, progressives, Establishment Democrats, etc.), so while there official rules were something like “no explicitly political posts without any astrology,” the Admin (and others) was constantly violating it.

The thread that got me booted was after the Admin had posted a CNN article about the dangers of another Trump regime and its connection to Project ‘25. I responded with what I thought was a reasonably balanced and inclusive comment:

(Paraphrasing)

It’s too bad that no matter who wins the presidency, half the country was going to feel under the gun.

Immediately, because I didn’t follow the Team Blue Donkey orthodoxy, I was incorrectly labeled a MAGA man and Trump supporter.

Their way of dogmatic thinking is no different than GW Bush’s after 9/11 when he divided the world into two with “Your either with us or you’re with the terrorists.”

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Eva Sylwester's avatar

And honestly if Team Blue Donkey could get their head out of their own, well, ass, they might win elections more often (which I would generally prefer). Some of them seem to be more interested in achieving absolute moral purity than in anything else. The Republicans of course have their own variant of moral fanatics, but one of my points in "Scenes from a Realignment" is that Trump got elected in 2016 as a result of the Republican moral fanatics being reined in to some extent at that time. If Trump's current administration pushes too hard on the Project 2025 stuff, I think there will be a deserved backlash against the Republicans. I think regular people just want to live their lives without extremists on either end telling them what to do.

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Anteros Astrology's avatar

Definitely interested in advertising at some point in the future. This is a great idea. I admire all of your initiative and consistent work ethic. I'm trying to step up my game and produce more polished, better researched professional articles but it comes very slowly to me. Once I have a few more articles up I'll get back to you.

https://open.substack.com/pub/karlskellenger/p/a-horary-reading-for-locating-a-missing?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=fjmlo

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Eva Sylwester's avatar

Having advertisers definitely pushes me to stick to my weekly schedule. I missed Feb. 28 because that was the day I uploaded my book to Amazon, and I wound up giving the advertiser who had paid to be on that week two free weeks to compensate. I think that's the only Friday I have missed in over a year, though.

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