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How much do we know about where we’re going?
I mean that individually as much as collectively—because each of our individual choices matters more than ever.
We glimpse the collective in media, in symbolism and in our conversations about what’s happening now, but these things are just aggregators of the desire that beats in each of our individual hearts.
If you want to know where the zeitgeist is headed, ask where you’re headed.
Here’s the issue: if each of us really looked at which highway we’re on, would we suddenly realize we’re en route to Nowheresville?
Facts are nowhere to be found right now, it seems, and yet facts are what’s needed to flesh out our road map. If you’re going to San Francisco from New York, fact is you have to eventually go west. If for any reason you’re unable to go west, then. . .maybe you shouldn’t assume you’ll end up in San Francisco.
Another metaphor is to think of it like a trial.
This potent Sagittarius Solar Eclipse/New Moon is similar to the opening statements part of the trial.
Broad brushstrokes are being made in our minds about what we are going to face and how we intend to defend ourselves this winter.
Then comes the fact-finding process—we’ll reserve that for the Gemini Full Moon newsletter.
But that’s exactly how it works in the legal world: you broadly outline the road map and then you’ll take the jury to your intended destination, concretely and later, in a presentation of facts and evidence.
And again, due to the nature of this Eclipse, we have to wait for those Gemini facts to arrive in two weeks.
Can someone FedEx Overnight some facts, please? This is a real problem.
You cannot go into a trial or an exam without a basic premise or road map: “Witness A will testify that Event X occurred.”
So how do we formulate basic premises in our lives, while acknowledging that we are lacking the facts necessary to support a feasible plot?
Oh, boy.
It’s time to go into the shadowlands again: from here, we consider how to solve logical problems from the perspective of desire.
This is all about seeing within our past an echo of the future calling us forward into destiny.
Investigative Action
Imagine your life as a film noir.
You’re digging around in alleyways and basements of your unconscious, deep in the shadowlands of desire.
Each pressing need you feel now leads you deeper into rabbit holes of the past, where discomfort and pain await, like musty scrapbooks abandoned in an old shoebox.
We open these boxes, and release into the air smells, sights, memories of what once was and what we once hoped could be.
And what brought us here is the NOW—the deep primal urge to satisfy a need that is keeping us up at night and won’t let go.
Be honest: you have one of these urges right now.
This is why it’s important to look into the shadows, to peer deeper into the darkness—some purity, some new look at our past, hides there.
In other words, doing investigative work on our past, we understand what it is that propels us now.
We finally have that second chance to get what we truly want.
Our restless, dissatisfied desire forks at this moment: Take one path, and it can be all about obsession—one MUST HAVE THE THING.
Take another, and you can feel the angelic call of God, inspiring you to sacrifice petty egoic cravings for a chance at greatness—for a chance to feel something that stretches beyond yourself.
This is the purpose of pulling on the thread of NOW to find the way BACK so that we can go FORWARD.
The interconnectedness of time washes across individuals who dare to throw their hand into its river and pull out the beating heart of their own truth.
“I accept who I am, and what I feel, therefore I commune with All That Is, Has Been and Will Be.”
Experiencing purity in the shadows is the definition of…superhuman.
The Superman
The superman is a concept that captivated us in the 20th century.
Particularly in times of war, it was a symbol that resonated with scholars and leaders.
Whether approached with obsessive worship or concerned skepticism, it was a twisted symbol: the superman as an avatar of hubris, of existing for the sake of destruction.
This made the superman a strangely simplistic being, and through that simplicity we eventually glimpsed his fatal flaw: when one only destroys, the inevitable end is that the destroyer will be forgotten to time.
Legacy is everything, you see.
Discussing the Vietnam War, priest Dan Berrigan once said this about the superman’s fatal flaw:
[The war] isn’t working. It’s a very simple judgement. Too simple, perhaps, for the complexities of our power.
Perhaps in a deeper spiritual sense, too tough to face, because it means the end of a giant—the last days of superman.
It means for those with the capacity of overkill, kill is not enough.
The real thing required is…to be able imagine the real world and imagine human beings.
As long as the dinosaur couldn’t do this, he ended up on the museum shelf.
The superman…can raze [the world] and destroy it, but he cannot give life.
And he cannot truly even, as we know so bitterly, he cannot live himself.
But I’ve just pointed to another definition of the superman—one equally simplistic, but a step higher into heaven. Pure and creative.
Even in its potential destructive ability to re-write the past, this superman is creatively destructive.
It seeks to find what truly stands the test of time, and what must be updated for the benefit of future generations.
What has outlived its purpose may never have possessed true purpose in the first place.
A shocking revelation, yes—but this allows us to update that event out of our past, to really bring out its beautiful potential.
During our focus on beauty this winter, we’ll zip along the spectrum of violence and tenderness, as I’ve been saying for weeks now.
Do we violently update a memory out of frustration—hating ourselves for not knowing what we know now?
Or do we tenderly kiss our Sleeping Beauty, and through this electric touch, purge the memory of all uselessness, updating it into a luminosity that can shine a path forward?
Let’s bring this full circle:
In seeking to formulate good basic premises now, we must accept the power we have.
The power we have now is our desire: it rages within us, it paces the room. This seems dark and unholy, but when we bring responsibility to this power, we understand what its purpose is.
Its purpose is to help us turn old memories into new chapters.
A superhuman task of superhuman strength, to be done with utmost tenderness.
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