Dirty Little Secrets – Big Little Lies
Woe unto them that call evil good and good evil; that put darkness for light and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter![1]
An intriguing New Moon beckons on November 1st. It is a New Moon in the sign of Scorpio and in Scorpio we can never be sure if something is real or true; Pluto and Scorpio wear their masks very tightly.
Scorpio has two rulers – Mars and Pluto – both of whom at this New Moon just happen to be at the very end of their tethers, lying exactly opposite each other, at the anaretic 29th degree of their signs, Cancer and Capricorn respectively. This is an unusual occurrence that has the potential to be a tension fuelled opposition – violent/aggressive even – where people may lose all sense of proportion. But, as I said in my last blog, Mars in Cancer operates coercively and manipulatively, so this will be a particularly passive, aggressive aspect; and Pluto always has power and trust issues, so we may not always overtly see what is really going on; the real agenda will be hidden and behind the scenes.
When we see planets at the very end of their signs, we are spectators, or if we are lucky participants, in endings and new beginnings of some kind. This Mars/Pluto tension remains across the Cancer/Capricorn axis right up until the day before the US election, but still continues when Pluto moves into Aquarius and Mars into Leo, albeit with a different style of energy. In fact it continues for an extraordinarily long time - right up to early May 2025. So things that are provoking tense emotions right now look as though they continue, but perhaps with a different feel and style.
We have the two rulers of Scorpio pitched against each other – the God of War versus the God of Death and the Underworld. And Scorpio energy can be challenging in itself. It can be intense, dark and very private to the point of being incredibly secretive. It is unyielding, uncompromising, penetrating and can be ruthless. But can also be healing, cathartic, passionate and obsessive. Feelings in Scorpio run deep and can be transformative in nature; Pluto and Scorpio want to achieve mastery of whatever they do. Whilst the Mars side wants to assert, the Plutonic side will more likely manipulate, conceal and bury any thoughts or feelings – so once again a strong sense of coerciveness behind the scenes, until Mars enters Leo that is. What exactly are the dirty little secrets? What are the big little lies?
The New Moon falls in the second house of assets of the UK chart with the Mars/Pluto opposition falling across the 10th house/4th house – government/homes and families. The UK’s wealth has been both directly and indirectly afflicted by the Budget by making life harder for so many businesses that are already on the edge to be successful and, therefore, create jobs. As a friend said to me this morning, it’s like a ‘doom loop’. And for already hard-pressed farmers, those who produce the nation’s food, the budget has made life so much harder. And all this, just like the election, at the Dark of the Moon, where there is no energy left to support it. It’s like 12th house energy that bodes well for things that are hidden and for secrets and lies but not for our futures.
For the USA the Moon sits within the first house of the body politic of the nation. America is still in the throes of its Pluto return, symbolising a change within its empire ruling abilities. There is something that needs to be learned as the American destiny axis is triggered by this Mars/Pluto opposition that will cross its nodal (destiny) axis. With the US election now just days away, Mars energises Trump’s Saturn/Venus conjunction; with the New Moon on his progressed Moon and Uranus sitting with Algol very close to his Midheaven, what sudden responsibilities or family issues is he going to be asked to step up to? He seems to be peaking in popularity at just the right time. Robert F Kennedy Jr.’s chart is also particularly energised at this New Moon. The Moon sits within a degree of his Saturn, whilst Mars/Pluto hits his Uranus/South Node opposite Mercury, Sun, Venus, North Node, Chiron. This point in time is particularly ‘loaded’ for him. Whichever side wins the election there is likely to be some kind of civil unrest.
Israel also is not off the hook either. As with America the New Moon sits within the first house of the body politic of the nation and its South Node/Chiron conjunction – what past wounds are being learned and perhaps repeated here? The Mars/Pluto opposition straddles Israel’s MC/IC axis – this is likely to be a defining point in Israel’s history. Iran appears to be the main goal to draw into a war. The New Moon highlights Iran’s Midheaven as well as their Chiron and Sun/Moon midpoint, whilst the Mars/Pluto opposition highlights Iran’s Jupiter in the 12th house of hidden enemies.
Round-up since the Full Moon:
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar killed. Sinwar has said his life was hardened by growing up in a refugee camp.
A meeting of BRICS’ delegates signals the beginning of BRICS’ pay system and gold-backed currency.
US election – Starmer sends delegation to influence Harris prospects. Has he backed the wrong side for future relations?
C40 Mayors to be given more money.
Falling fertility rates in the UK signal a birth rate that does not sustain the population.
$41 Billion of World Bank’s climate change fund goes missing
In my last blog I wrote about duality and this was highlighted for me as I listened last week to a brilliant talk given by Dr. Ahmad Malik on the inversion of dualities where, in our upside down world, evil is actually portrayed as and encouraged to be believed as good.[2] And this will be by design to fit in with the beliefs, desires and ideologies of those who are in power. If we look back in history, we have always lurched from one war to the next, one power struggle to the next or one ideological belief to the next; always someone’s ideological beliefs and someone’s desire for money and power, with never a thought to the misery of the masses who suffer as a consequence. It’s always about balancing what the so-called elites want to do with keeping the masses under control. In our topsy turvy world war is peace, health is sickness, men are women, and CO2 is not the gas of life for plant growth as we were taught in our biology lessons, it is now a poison changing our climate.
In an age of deliberate inversion at the root of everything lies the $ sign, and alongside money lies power. What makes the so called ‘elites’ who appear to be in charge of every fibre of our lives today so different to you and I? They are not more intelligent, they are not more beautiful, they are not born into royalty – they just happen to have more money. And money buys power and the ability to mix with the ‘right’ people, own the ‘right’ car and the ‘right’ house. Mind influencing through advertising, marketing and social media makes us believe that if only we buy a particular dress, use a particular make up, have a Brazilian bum lift, we will be ‘there’ too – wherever there might be. However, the masses appear to be in pursuit of conformity so that the fear of missing out and of not fitting in drives society. If Tik Tok praises it, the masses will pursue it. Even if a medical treatment/gene therapy has been proven to have serious side effects, but advertising and mind influencing praises it, the masses will still even subject their unborn children to it, such is their blind belief and trust.
In our inverted world the success – aka profitability (because everything is about profit) - of a health business/medicine depends on people being sick. Politicians no longer serve the people, in fact they never have, they serve the interests of corporations and powerful lobbyists or in other words they serve the money. The news does not deliver the news – it propagandises and brainwashes. The ability to control and influence the mind is a constant theme through my blogs. And it is only through this conditioning and through indoctrination, propaganda, behavioural manipulation that ideological ends can be achieved. Generally fear is the key – fear of sickness, fear of the ruthlessness of another country or just a general fear of missing out on something, not fitting in with everyone else. Evil works through inversion, pretending and tricking that the lie is the truth and the truth is the lie. The German people during WW2 went along with Hitler because for the majority of them, life was ok. Their creature comforts remained, their bank accounts remained in credit, and they weren’t being discriminated against, persecuted, starved, beaten, shot, stripped, jailed and turned into slave labour.
In the 1700’s we entered a world that wanted to explain everything via the scientific, rational, mechanistic route, the truth became strangled, and the veil of appearance became thicker and less easy to see through as we went further into the required industrialised age of capital growth, propaganda and large-scale manipulation. Then came the real mind washing influence in the late 1800s with the first cinema showing in Paris. Between the two Jupiter/Neptune cycles that began in 1920 and 1932 respectively, and with the additional cycles of Jupiter/Uranus and Jupiter/Pluto thrown in between that emotionally tumultuous wartime period of WW1 and WW2 (Jupiter expands and takes events worldwide), came the remarkable progress of television.
Getting a ‘cinema’ into every home became the big propaganda goal. The fictional series Star Trek portrays an alien group called the Borg, techno-organic beings who link together in a hive mind and whose goal was to forcibly transform individuals to ‘achieve perfection’ by injecting nanoprobes into their bodies – the ultimate body snatchers where everyone is to be assimilated into the Borg. People’s natural desire to do good for their families and loved ones was weaponised. It was that easy. Via the glitz and glamour of the cinema and films, and its smaller but more prolific cousin the television, we have been seamlessly led into a type of Borg hive mind. On a physical level high exposure to blue light brings actual discomfort to the surface of the cornea bringing a type of digital eye strain alongside disruption of circadian rhythms and other pathologies. But the propaganda and mind control being brought into every home was a crucial part of the achievement of the ideological belief – the effects of light and blue light, particularly on young brains and minds, would become an added bonus.
Today we know that cabinets and governments around the world have been infiltrated by the ideological desire for technocratic life. Before entering politics Keir Starmer pursued a legal career – from 2008 to 2013 he led the Crown Prosecution Service where he oversaw a major programme of reform and streamlining, a key part of which was the widespread adoption of digital platforms and technological transformation. The transformation from paper to digital was a defining moment in the history of the criminal justice system. We know that he also plans to expand the facial recognition system. Is this the role he is in government to fulfil – the digitalisation of our everyday life? Whilst you are distracted by a brutal budget, elections and threats of war, what is taking place in your back yard?
Has a rationalistic worldview which now regards human beings as ‘organisms’, and the nature of our earth as another capitalistic ‘resource’ to be used for monetary growth, reduced us into a soulless world? Has our universe been reduced to a machine – ‘a collection of elementary particles that follow the laws of mechanics, with human beings merely ‘small machines caught in the big machine’, having neither soul nor spirit? Does consciousness become just ‘a meaningless byproduct of the bio-electrical processes in their brains’? Will AI bring the moment when humans perfect themselves and engineer/doctors will eliminate any malfunction? Paradise is being promised but what happens when the propaganda is revealed as a lie? Theres nothing wrong with AI in itself; it can’t be put back in the bottle anyway, and it could be used to assist our everyday life. It just depends on who is in control as the souls of the masses are being sold out for the dollar even more than they ever have before.
In a soulless world the masses are ‘encouraged’ to pursue conformity – become the hive mind, the army of foot soldiers. Astrologically, however, we can see that the backdrop is changing. Conformity does not fit with Pluto’s entry into Aquarius – Aquarius is the world of the rebel mind, the non-conformist, the one with pink and blue hair; neither do the entries of Uranus into Gemini or Saturn and Neptune to Aries support conformity and subjugation. In the chart for the New Moon, ‘passive’ Mars trines (harmonious) both Mercury and Neptune and is a part of what is almost a ‘mystic rectangle. Mars is in a wide sextile (opportunity) to Uranus, with each in a trine to Pluto and Mercury respectively. Mercury sextiles Pluto, Pluto sextiles Neptune and Neptune sextiles Uranus. So within the background of the collective there is a lining up that forms a beneficial background energy – it’s there even if you are not really feeling it above the ‘noise’.
The antidotes to all the narratives and ideologies of control and totalitarianism are love and a sense of humour – both of which are incomprehensible to those who have sold out their souls. A friend of mine ‘rescues’ dogs and cats that others may not want as they would be considered ‘imperfect’. In her words her salvation from a life of problems and struggles is that “I come home every day to a house full of love”!!! Mercury, the planet of mind and thought, and the only God who was permitted to travel to both the Upper World and the Under World, is part of this mystic rectangle and, in my opinion, he is the key to everything. He represents awareness, the mind, thoughts and critical thinking. Don’t just cancel out friends because they think differently, perhaps tarred with the ‘conspiracy theorist’ brush that makes them the ‘non-conformist’ and, therefore, ‘unsafe’ to be around. Don’t dismiss politics because it is ‘boring’; politics determines how you are able to live your life. Make it your business to understand what is in store for you. At this Hallowe’en period, when the veil is thin and Mercury is at the end of his time in deep, penetrating Scorpio, we would do well to take notice of Mercury’s abilities to ‘cross the veil’ and allow ourselves to truly ‘see’ the end goals of ideological agendas, to examine that ‘red pill world’. Mercury (our minds) draws all the background energy together. Why is it such a requirement to influence our minds quite so much? Because our minds can either enslave us or set us free.
[1] Isaiah 5.20