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We are reaching an inflection point in our Freaky Fall.
The energy now is similar to the cliffhangers at the end of my Zeitville episodes: much of what happened this week and through the end of October will be picked up during in December, but with deeper intensity.
November is kind of a bridge chapter: it promises to bring a big dose of spookiness, but the upside-down confusion of October is dialed back. Some order needs to take place so December’s story can ride in.
This is why the people around you and the conversations you’re having now may figure prominently over the holidays. Furthermore, you may already start to see the lesson you’re intended to learn this winter, or the solution you’ll need to apply.
Generally speaking at a collective level, the lesson and the solution deals with chains: we have bound ourselves, and thus each other, to societal programs we believe will give us a certain outcome.
And that certainty, however lackluster, gives us a perverse security in exchange for a paradigm of control and obedience—it doesn’t matter here which side of the master/slave dynamic you fall on, because we all switch back and forth under this.
One of the sneaky ways we keep ourselves bound to these chains is through an excessive focus on some glorious future that will resemble some glorious past.
This impatient, aggressive, independent Aries Full Moon blast from October 20 to November 4 is urging us to focus on right here, right now.
As a result we may go Hulk Mode in ourselves and in our relations, suddenly aware of the chains that bind us—and we want out.
These eruptions serve to expose the spell of false security we are all under.
For many of you, chapters are ending and turning; many things once stalled are moving forward.
But what happens when an awakening makes you choose to stay in chains?
A Glossary of Chains
There are many different kinds of chains. A vow of love is a chain—well, more like a bond.
But hiding in a cage so no one can love us, or putting others in a cage so we can love them…those aren’t bonds, those are chains.
We know from the kink community that there is a strange pleasure in chains—and they can be exceptionally insidious when in less tangible form.
Take a current popular motto: “Just go live your best life, they don’t deserve you, someone else will come around.”
Again, the overarching karma right now is the domination of truthiness. While this phrase technically holds a grains of truth and is often applicable, it lacks nuance, especially when adopted universally wholechain.
What happens is that everyone runs from relationships, straight to the shortcut of self-pleasure, rather than doing the hard work of communication.
Or worse, in another manifestation they end up staying in bad relationships that keep them from facing core issues of true communcation.
Chains don’t have to appear like they drag you down. That’s why it’s so easy to slip into them—and stay. They’re a shortcut to a self-pleasure that stings like the crack of a leather whip.
The dominatrix of truthiness not only finds its way into our personal lives but wreaks havoc on our relationships. There is a chain effect.
“Living your best life” is truthy. It often happens on the heels of someone living under the illusion that another is extremely superior—to the point that they represent some perfect ideal, love it or hate it (probably both).
What happens is the “liberated” person merely trades one set of chains for another more to their liking.
They live the shackled life of excessive non-commitment, or they commit themselves to twisted dynamics—relationships that excite them with the bondage of false security.
Because let’s be real: vulnerability, forgiveness and honest communication are the true security. People are trying to squeeze security from relationship paradigms that don’t actually serve them.
When gripped too hard, the thorny rose of love will sting rather than enchant.
That’s why this current window is so focused on slicing, severance, separation: that is the only energy, however bitchy and abrasive, that’s going to get us moving in the direction of mutual independence and freedom from societywide imprisonment.
Roses on Composted Leaves
As we see in this week’s episode of Zeitville, the lesson of these dramatic eruptions—which may indeed bring false projections on each other—is intended to break stagnation.
We will need to learn this winter the lesson of empowering each other, and of being able to receive love through giving ourselves power.
This is the way that the micro will overcome evil at the macro level, which dangles and peddles insidious chains from pyramidal peaks of control.
Yes, it is some kind of dark market in which we buy a false security. We must boycott it and choose the risk of love.
Only vulnerability promises true power.
This will largely play out romantically. But it will hit our work life deeply, too, as well as how we simply organize society.
Upon the compost of rage, regret and vindictivness there can grow roses of compassion, surrender and forgiveness.
But these blossoms may erupt due to a shock. That’s what Casey and Nemo realized in their abrasive text battle. All it takes is to say what you’re really feeling in the relationship.
While things happened fast in this episode—and they likely did for you too recently—there’s also a sense of monumental work revealed. That’s the cliffhanger of October: something came to light, but it’s not a done deal…it’s, well, a BIG deal.
And a lot of us are thinking: Can I tackle that? Can my partner or the object of my desire tackle their half of the work?
Yes, the work ahead that October hinted at will involve more than a few scratches.
But which would you rather have: the beautiful battle wounds of honest communication. . .or the puncture marks from a false security gripped too hard?
You see, we’re at an inflection point because we’re cutting through the false stories we’ve adopted societywide. Extremely inflated, social media-fueled self-worth. Low, down in the gutters self-worth.
Through anger and fiery words, we watched Casey and Nemo creatively destroy the cut-out personas that kept them bound to stagnant hoarding of excessively high or low self-worth.
Now, this is dangerous work. If we’re careless, we can slice each other up while pruning away dead weight. There aren’t many easy options currently, either. Our range of motion is limited.
So this is the counterpoint: for every drop of violence, add a drop of tenderness.
Casey and Nemo suddenly feel directly in touch with their desire as form of self-expression. The desire itself is the goal—right here, right now, however messy.
We’re going back to basics—back to the coremost part of ourselves. Do our old values and relationship paradigms really serve us? Or do we blindly worship them?
Get specific about what you want to break off from your relationship—anything that keeps you from the long-term reward of vulnerability.
A lot of times the stagnation in a relationship may occur not due to stasis per se but from falling into patterns and programs.
Even patterns of trauma that have erased the self over time must be dealt with soon, October says. These patterns made the self feel unworthy of love or like it had to conform to the partner’s wishes to receive love rather than stand up for itself.
Feeling faith and hope in this new unchained state is difficult. It can make you feel adrift in unmapped territory. But it’s really just a return to the original self, before chains were adopted.
Glimpse again the pre-chain state of tenderness and innocence. Strengthen the bond by strengthening who you are individually in the relationship.
Be that person to each other which initially attracted you and brought you together.
In the beginning, you were tender and innocent, infinitely powerful in your vulnerability.
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