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OOOOO THIS WAS SUCH A GOOD READ!!! MY BRAIN WORMS ARE UP AND ACTIVE!! TY FOR THIS IM GIVING U A SMOOCH

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This a strong and strident piece of writing and the astrology (I am more familiar w/ tropical “western”) is on point. Both fortunately and unfortunately I agree with the analysis.

What leave me disturbed is what I perceive as a simplification and romanticizing of revolutionary struggle and war. It’s no small or simply glorious matter to have your society (as corrupt and karmically due as it is) collapse.

Along those lines, has war and revolution real, fully succeeded in the modern world? Especially in the last century? The scars left on the newly freed nations. What their leaders and the ppl have to become to “win”. Cuba. Nicaragua. Ireland.

I’m not saying v_____ isn’t necessary. But it does seem to be a vicious circle from which we never fully emerge. You have a victory in one generation only to have it pop up in the next or yourself become the oppressor. And while I sadly have to agree that non-violence has been ineffective in the US, in the last several decades to say it has never moved the needle also seems like a simplification.

Astrologers, it seems to me can also be visionaries. I still haven’t given up on the ideal that humanity, nation to nation (should this be the way that we continue to organize ourselves) and as a whole can move forward into a nonviolent future. But this will take not only an exposure of the bankruptcy of the empire archetype, but also a realistic view of revolution and war. To me it is nothing to celebrate, only to endure.

I say this of course as a person living under the privilege of the US empire, but also as one whose ppl have always been on the chopping block.

Thank you for what you do…

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