On late Thursday afternoon, September 9th, President Biden fired this salvo in a televised speech:
“We’ve been patient. But our patience is wearing thin. And your refusal has cost all of us.”
This three-sentence burst occurred merely three days after the September 6 Virgo New Moon, inenvitably setting us up to grasp its full meaning at the September 20 Pisces Full Moon.
That’s how it always works: the New Moon, and the days around it, set up the monthly story, while the Full Moon provides a revelation/culmination.
Whatever is left unresolved will carry over and be integrated into the next New Moon—October 6.
It’s almost a guarantee that a *lot* of things will be left unresolved during this Full Moon, so we’re looking at a big backlog in October.
Much of our micro and macro life next month will be dealing with the unanswered questions that this Full Moon illuminates. And judging from the above quote, you can guess the nature of those questions: they deal with authority, its limits—as well as cost, value, loss and gain.
As a reuslt, the autumn arsenal of emotions we’re looking at are: forgiveness/revenge; righteousness/self-doubt; hope/disllusionment; projection/self-blame; trust/deception; justice/coercion.
Indeed, we’ll see the shadings and the subtle pendulum swings between both poles, in ourselves and in the world of relationships.
Because what is Biden’s speech without some other party involved?
This Full Moon ushers in a fall season of understanding our personal shadow through the shadow of others, while simultaneously cranking up everyone’s encounter with the collective shadow.
Do rules create a happy utopia? If so, to what degree—and how many rules are too many? Who gets to write and enforce them—and what recourse do dissenters have?
All these questions pop up now, but under unstable conditions.
Pandora’s Box has been opened, and the great social contract that we’ve enjoyed is on the backfoot.
People feel they are getting a raw deal in society, in romance, at work—and due to that stress, they’re not in the mood for nicey-nice compromise or soft answers. They want real solutions, dammit.
Everyone is taking stock of what they need going into the cooler months. I refer not to just financial or physical goods, but also emotional, spiritual and psychological wealth as well.
We have a supply of demands. It’s not like the goods are in hand: we must engage in some kind of fierce negotiation, which is loaded to the gills with a need for karmic justice.
Even the tyrant these days frames himself as beleagured and under attack, as if he’s the underdog trying to do the right thing. Oh, the irony.
And so let’s review the latest episode of Zeitville now, with an eye to this theme of cost and reward, authority and obedience, virtue and rationalized vice.
Pandora’s Pleasure
Given the context we’ve discussed so far, we have to ask: what is in the modern Pandora’s Box?
We see that the power to control an outcome is inside the modern Pandora, and this is a logical continuation of the previous episode, where Casey and Nemo felt the desire for this power.
Which is to say: when our desires this autumn stem from a sense of lack, then they will seek the “cure” of control.
Hence the important multi-month struggle ahead: we can understand our desires as their own reward—or as an unmet demand.
The former is like having direct access to the energy of your desire, as if it were a backyard radish you plucked for your evening salad.
So, for example, you may very badly want a certain girl or a certain return on your investment, but this begins leading you down the path to finding a Pandora, automatically.
Our deep challenge is to feel a sense of oneness with our desire, to experience it as the ambient bird song on an April day: it simply exists in a state of basic goodness, singing back to us the eternal value of our self-worth.
It’s almost as if obsessive want trains us to see our desires (and thus our self-worth) as dirty, bad, taboo. We may even feel guilty about our incompleteness, which drives us deeper into chasing some external object.
Unless we start putting in the hard work on this now, many of us will learn the hard way. Some will have things stripped away from them, rather than getting ahead of the process by letting go and forgiving.
You will see compulsions, obsessions, rabid primal urges asserting themselves societywide as people grapple with a sense of lack buried within their desire.
What we see at this Full Moon is that, if people are able to satisfy their urge with a Pandora’s Box, then they only open themselves to more confusion, aimlessness, disorientation.
And so Casey and Nemo effectively get what they want, while realizing they’ve both opened a can of worms in their own lives and in the context of their romantic relationship. How are they going to explain this to each other?
Both are now getting a sense of what each other has been up to. How are they going to face themselves, too? Wouldn’t it have been so much easier to say to themselves and each other, “I accept my situation, I am vulnerable.”
When you try to play with control, it ends up playing you: that’s the message we’ve got in store for several months.
So, what’s the solution here, if we’re all going to feel like we have tons of demands but very few deliverables?
There are a couple of things. 1) Letting go. Some of these demands may be too aggressive. Sometimes we want things that are not really intended for us—but we rationalize they are for us, like we see Casey and Nemo rationalizing their lust for power.
2) Speaking of ownership, and back to the theme of hard work above: We need to keep our focus on the fact that there are no shortcuts right now.
We’ve gotten a little taste of the Soaring Twenties or the Patchwork Age this year. Create an NFT and make a cool grand. Bust the bankers and support retail underdogs. Watch the media narrative get undercut by hip-hop celebrities.
That blindingly-fast change can habituate us to impatience, feeding this seed of lack within our desires.
We want more, we want it differently and we want it soon—heck, we wanted it yesterday.
Speaking of yesteryear, a big part of this Full Moon theme is nostalgia, which we see when Casey encounters a show about a “better America.” Over this autumn we’ll see a spike in synchronicities surrounding past people or even childhood memories. It may add to our insistence that the future must reflect a goodness equal to that of an imaginary past.
But the cosmos is tapping the brakes as we try speeding into the future while gazing through our rearview mirror.
Again, here’s how it works: all desires are a reflection of your self-conception. They’re not supposed to “do” anything. They add the critical ingredient of FEELING, like a cool crisp breeze before it rains, or the scent hovering around a beautiful rose.
We believe that getting what we want will prove to us who we are—when in reality the desire itself is who we are!
A sense of powerlessness makes us conceive of our desires as unmet demands, like, “Hey, I must grasp this thing, I must consume it before it consumes me.”
Thus, we are currently prone to seeing other people or outcomes as external Boxes that might both control and redeem us—both poison and cure.
And the reason for this is because we’ve lost a connection with the oneness within ourselves. We have a supply of demands.
So we ask now: What is it that we really need? And how we can commit to the hard work of marrying these desires with our sense of self-worth?
Yes, you’ve got it, reader: behind all of this Pandora curiosity is a fear of committing to who we truly are at core. We think some external thing, some outcome or effect, will prove our worth.
In fact, our worth is internal. Abundance over scarcity. Let this adventure begin.
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