Looking Back

Old Jimmy Buffet song, usually in his rotation at all shows?

“I took off for a weekend last month
Just to try and recall the whole year.”

• Changes In Latitudes,
  Changes In Attitudes
  (Jimmy Buffett)

Professionally, I passed the six-year mark at the rock shop in Austin, having toyed with the idea of other venues, but that one, with its consistency? Been the best for me. Enjoy my time there.

My tenure allowed me a chance to hone and refine the way I work. I still get the occasional “No, not interested in astrology, how about a card reading” walk-in customers. Keeps me on my toes, and keeps me in touch with my roots. Then, too, the place itself is thoroughly enjoyable.

It’s settled into an even pace of 1st & 3rd, then after coordinator replacement, 2nd & 4th Tuesdays.

Always did have a fondness for Tuesday in Austin, cf., Two-Meat Tuesday.

So it will be alternate astrology on alternate Tuesdays, still. In Austin.

Time spent in “hospital” waiting rooms? Escorting friends and family then waiting on procedures and therapies, that’s dropped off for a bit, was quite busy as the designated driver for the last few years, especially for the first half of this last year. About done with that, I hope. Not me, just being a supportive friend.

“Kramer, you’re a true friend. If you ever need stool softener — I will return the favor!”

If it’s not fun and entertaining, then I’m not interested, nor, do I feel like I should be required to participate.

Now that neighbor? Anything for him — he’s fun.

New mantra, “This is my last year for putting up with this BS.”

Looking Back

Last summer was the Scottish play, Comedy of Errors, and… Richard 2. Spurious, idle studies beforehand yielded some new material, and a love of wordplay, yet again, but also turned a new favorite spot to stay, in a shipping container ‘house,’ such as it is. Stay awesome. That is an experience I would recommend, again and again.

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New premise, born out the last year’s dabbling with Shakespeare in print and on stage? It’s not the words, but the spaces between them. Not original, but an idea. Discuss.

An old Sagittarius buddy, long ago, observed he liked my daily dribbling. “It’s not what you say, but what’s left unsaid.”

That came back around, end of the year pause and reflect.

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A single post that sums up much, professionally, personally, and with some unstated goals?

The Ditch.

Looking Back

There was one outstanding fishing trip. Two? Three? The Texas Gulf Coast, the Devil’s Elbow? The hurricane two years ago seemed to upset the fishing pattern, but it’s back, and fishing was as good as always. Looking forward to more trips this coming season.

Looking Back

The perfect game? Watching Millennials “OK Boomer” — my peeps. Perfect Gen X game.

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Anno Mirabilis 3

“Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy.”
Hamlet (V.i.88)

One of the essential concepts I try and deliver? Astrology is nothing more than language, like poetical language, highly charged with meaning. Watch real aficionados when they talk about a shared topic. Look around, at a gathering of astrologers, there will be heated and animated discussions with a special shorthand code, “Then I had Pluto square that, and you know how that goes!”

People outside our circles don’t understand.

I wanted to title this talk, “Generations in generations and the year ahead,” but that’s a little unwieldily.

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Generations in generations.

Each “generation in a generation” is merely a subset of larger whole. But the two generations that are largely Capricorn subsets? 1959-1961 (ish) and the Harmonic Convergence Millennials 1987-1993 (ish)? With those two specific subsets, that’s where there’s a concentration of Capricorn. Capricorn and Saturn.

As noted before?

“Tangible results from practical effort.”

(cf. Jupiter in Capricorn)

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Let’s discuss “All things Capricorn for a moment. Its planet is Saturn, and Saturn is roughly on a 28 year cycle. For the sake brevity, let’s just assume it’s that 28-year cycle. 1960 to 1988? Part of that “Saturn Cycle.”

How Capricorn tends to present? It’s an energy that tries to find real-world connections, practical uses, productive outcomes for regular action. To some, Capricorn favors the mundane and routine. While all generalizations are false, part of the heart of Capricorn is about finding practical application to toil and travail.

An early, integral part of my education included the book, The Tao of Pooh, as both a philosophical and metaphysical ideology. It also re-introduced me to Eyore, the sad, saturnine donkey.

So here are three versions of my understanding of the Capricorn energy. That poor donkey, “No good will come out of this, alas.” The industrious, “We need to make money with this,” type, and finally, the harvesting individual, that original archetype of the new year.

Saturn’s glyph? Know what that is? It’s, I’ve been told, the Scythe of Cronus. That’s inserted into the greater subconscious as the old man at the end of the year, presaging the baby of the new year.

A more modern version? Because I spent a fair amount of time in border towns, I found the cult of the dead, a figure of a hooded death’s head, usually with a Yorick-like skull in skeletal hand, and the scythe. Grim Reaper?

Specifically, in the border towns with the allegedly criminal element, the “Cult of the Dead” is popular. Smugglers consider it a patron saint; although, we’re hard pressed to find it in the current pantheon of Judeo-Christian mythos.

The coming year presents two very distinct flavors of energy.

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One of my buddies has a perfect bumper sticker for the saturnine donkey version of this coming year, and like a true Capricorn, she’s always off on a new rant, watching the news and yelling at the TV. But the sticker reads, “If you are not completely appalled, you haven’t been paying attention.” That’s the Eyore version. “No good will ever come of this.”

Flip it around, and the Cult of the Dead, with its iconic Grim Reaper(ish) figure and figurine, featured on candles and in iconography? It’s about reaping what was sown.

The symbolism is frightfully clear, about cutting away what doesn’t work.

Maybe the Stoics were right.

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Over the years, I’ve got a love/hate relationship with so-called “social media.” All my links and various contact points?

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Having been at this for a spell, though, I tend to have a slightly different point-of-view, some would suggest a bit skewed, for my own take on “social media.”

I don’t have “Facebook” on my phone, nor, for that matter on any of my tablets. Just a computer, and even then? Just via a web-based interface.

That’s merely an example.

When I first started writing about the generations and the Anno Mirabilis ahead? I realized I skipped an important piece of the puzzle, the elder millennials.

While I favor just astrology-based terms to define these elements, I did note, the 1959-61 (Saturn in Capricorn) with the Saturn-Jupiter Conjunction subset as key players in this next miracle year, I left out the rest of the Jupiter/Saturn conjunction kids, mostly the 1980-81, and the Y2K kids. While I’ve referenced this before, the Saturn-Jupiter cycles, looking at that list?

This plays well with those circles in cycles. The idea is that the Jupiter-Saturn conjunctions, especially the older “millennials,” that is a big part of the this 2020 change.

Saturn is about structure, and its best symbols? Poignant even now? The old man with scythe, sometimes depicted as skeleton, come to harvest? Saturn cuts down what is no longer growing. Jupiter, flipping around the analogy, is Mr. Good Times. This brings out the best of the best, but also the worst of the worst. Best of the worst, in conjunction?

The Saturn-Jupiter conjunctions, about every 20 years or so, are moving from two centuries in earth signs to a century in air sign.

The anomaly in that list? Y2K (Taurus). Or 1981 (Libra).

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What this means is that the “Life of the Mind” is growing out of that fertile, rich earth that is covered with seeds from the last two centuries. Old material, new material, old material in a fresh light?

One place this all becomes more apparent is our interaction with so-called “social media,” how we act, how we react, and what we do with it.

The only part of the “social media” I find entertaining, these days?

Bad Astrology.

What I like about it is that abundance of astrological-themed memes? A great number of them are good for entertainment, but astrologically not congruent with current practices. Like, “Aquarius: water signs…” (Aquarius is the Water-Bearer, an Air sign.)(1)

Social Media, as it turns out, is a very fragile structure spun up out of the airy firmament of the mind’s eye, yet social media in its various forms still offers insight into the collective sub-conscious. However, the loose congregation of social media, and its global impact with gradually eroding borders shows how this will work in our future.

Have to wonder, as we look forward towards what’s going — astrologically — in 2020? Was Marshall McLuhan correct? “The medium is the message?”

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(1) There will always be one. “I’m an Aquarius, and I don’t like being called an ‘airhead,’ so I am a water sign. So there.”

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