What Will Be the Story of Your Life in the Coming Months?

EXPLORE THE BIG PICTURE OF YOUR LIFE with my MID-YEAR AUDIO PREVIEW of YOUR DESTINY for the REST of 2020.

This week my Expanded Audio Horoscopes explore themes that I suspect will be important for you during the next six months.

What areas of your life are likely to receive assistance and inspiration?

Where are you likely to find most success?

How can you best cooperate with the cosmic rhythms?

What questions should you be asking so as to create the best possible future for yourself?

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SATURN AND PLUTO CONJUNCT IN CAPRICORN

Saturn and Pluto have been conjunct in Capricorn from January to late March this year, and will be again from July to December. Their conjunction in Capricorn doesn't happen often. The last time was in 1518—when Spain's King Charles I opened the trans-Atlantic slave trade on a massive scale.

He authorized Spain to ship enslaved people directly from Africa to the Americas, marking a new phase in the transatlantic slave trade in which the numbers of enslaved people brought directly to the Americas rose dramatically.

Clearly, the Pluto-Saturn conjunction in Capricorn in 2020 is an opportunity to reverse and remedy one of civilization's greatest calamities.

More info here.





PEOPLE WHO ARE VOID OF EMPATHY

If you’re feeling impatient or weary about your conversations and arguments with people who are void of empathy, you have life's permission to let them go.





THE POSSIBILITY THAT RACISM CAN BE UNDONE

George Wallace was one of the 20th century's most vicious and dangerous racists. He personally perpetrated irreparable harm and damage on many African American people.

As a presidential candidate and four-term governor of Alabama, he supported "Jim Crow" and opposed desegregation. In his 1963 inaugural speech, he declared, "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever."

Surprise: Later in his life, George Wallace totally renounced his bigotry. He said his past actions were wrong and publicly asked for forgiveness from black people.

During Wallace's final term as governor (1983–1987) he made a record number of black appointments to state positions, including, for the first time, two black people as members in the same cabinet.

His conversion can serve as a symbol of the possibility that racism can indeed be undone.





CONSORTING WITH THE ENEMY

My favorite George Wallace story: Shirley Chisholm was the first black woman elected to Congress. While serving seven terms, she was an outspoken warrior who fought tirelessly for the rights of women, minorities, and the poor. "My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear," she said, "is my mouth, out of which comes all kinds of things one shouldn't always discuss for reasons of political expediency."

Yet one of Chisholm's most famous exploits was her visit to segregationist politician George Wallace in the hospital after he was shot. Her supporters complained that she was consorting with the enemy, but years later it paid off. Wallace helped her win the votes of southern congressmen when she sponsored legislation to give domestic workers a minimum wage.





HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.

—anthropologist Margaret mead

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Nonviolent protests informed by civil disobedience are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts. Those that engage a threshold of 3.5 percent of the population are usually successful.

—political scientist Erica Chenoweth
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There are moments in life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative from which we cannot escape.

—journalist Oriana Fallaci





SKIN TONES

In 1992, Crayola began making Flesh crayons in eight different skin tones—finally acknowledging that the color of Caucasian skin is not the main one.

And a few weeks ago, Crayola announced a further expansion of that variety. In July, it will release a pack of 24 crayons featuring a range of different flesh tones from people all over the world.

Bonus: The company that makes Band-Aids will begin creating bandages in a variety of skin colors.

These symbolic measures aren't as critical as, say, making sure American cops no longer use chokeholds. But I think they're important in expanding people's white people's awareness and redefining the culture's imprints.

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P.S.: Browndages, a black-owned business, has been making bandages for brown skin for a long time. Please support them.

Additional info here.





WE HAVE THE POWER

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be changed by humans.

—Ursula K. Le Guin

We live in a racist society. Its power seems inescapable. But like the divine right of kings, it's not. We will dismantle it. Any human power can be changed by humans.

—Us

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We really can overthrow racism.





MORE PRONOIA RESOURCES:

Millions of COVID Cases and Deaths Averted Thanks to Lockdowns — One of Humanity’s Greatest Achievements

Minneapolis has banned the use of chokeholds by police.

Dallas adopted a "duty to intervene" rule that requires officers to stop other cops who are engaging in inappropriate use of force.

New Jersey’s attorney general said the state will update its use-of-force guidelines for the first time in two decades.

In Maryland, a bipartisan work group of state lawmakers announced a police reform work group.

Los Angeles City Council introduced motion to reduce LAPD’s $1.8 billion operating budget.

MBTA in Boston agreed to stop using public buses to transport police officers to protests.

Police brutality captured on cameras led to near-immediate suspensions and firings of officers in several cities.

Street in front of the White House is renamed "Black Lives Matter Plaza.”

Statues honoring Confederate soldiers and politicians, most built during the heinous "Jim Crow" era, have been removed in Birmingham and Montgomery and Mobile, Ala.; Louisville, Ky.; Jacksonville, Fla.; Nashville, TN, and Alexandria, Va. Activists in many other cities are petitioning for their statues to be removed. More info.





I hereby renounce and dissolve any denunciations that I may have inadvertently or carelessly hurled toward this Beautiful World when I was under the sway of bad ideas, delusional attitudes, or unloving influences.





PRONOIA FOR EVERYONE

By aligning my passion with the protests, I'm expressing rage and grief about decades of police brutality toward African Americans—as well as White America's centuries-long harm against black lives and black culture.

What also animates me is my love for African Americans and my longing for them to be free to live their lives in peace, prosperity, and grace. I am inspired by joyous gratitude and celebration for their gifts and the blessings they offer.





CALLING FORTH OUR DEEPEST LONGINGS TO CARE FOR EACH OTHER

I have begun publishing on Medium.com. Here's a piece I recently posted, "Calling Forth Our Deepest Longings to Care for Each Other"





PRAYER FOR STORIES THAT REDEEM

I pray to the ancestors with their medicine stories
I pray to the descendants with their elixir stories
I pray to the tale-tellers alive now
who subterfuge their way free
of the dead stories that numb and pound and sicken

I pray that they will reforge me
into a magnet
for visions of unbuyable wonder
and dreams of pregnant rapture
and fables from beyond the brain

May they craft me
into a sweet vessel for creation myths
that are alive with mist and smoke and whispers
unknown to the Internet

May they massage me
into a blissful mess of receptivity
so I can always detect
the dramas and comedies and parables
owned by the solar system
and copyrighted by eternity

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I pray to the chroniclers
who rebirth killed history
I pray to the narrators
who remember stolen memories

I pray to the journalists
who track down
the taboo conversations
that women and children
have explored
in the middle of the night
for the last four thousand years

I pray to the compassionate liars
who disinter insurrectionary enchantments
and restore their dazzling dark joy

May those agitators
and awakeners
and animators
mark me with signs
that my creature teachers
will recognize
in the propaganda-free future

May they infuse me
with resurrected confusions
that sensitize me
to the prematurely solved mysteries
that I need to crack open again

May they make it easy
for the medicine beasts,
the talking animals,
the earth's real gods,
to welcome me
as one of their own





SONGS TO INSPIRE ACTIVISM


"You Can’t Kill Light, You Can’t Kill Love" by Monica Pasqual

"Lions" by Skip Marley

"Resilient" by Rising Appalachia





HEART ADVICE FOR DIFFICULT TIMES

“When there’s a big disappointment, we don’t know if that’s the end of the story. It may be just the beginning of a great adventure.”

—Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times