In
order for society to function properly, we need to be able to assume that most
people are going to behave rationally. And when I was growing up, it was
generally safe to make that assumption. But now things have completely changed.
No matter how hard one may try, there is simply no avoiding the hordes of crazy
people that seem to be taking over our society. https://www.zerohedge.com/health/have-you-noticed-crazy-people-are-starting-take-over-our-society
First coined by Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Carl
Jung, the shadow represents the repressed aspects of the personality that are
rejected by the ego. According to Jung, “The shadow personifies everything that
the subject refuses to acknowledge about himself.” It is a blind spot over
behavior, sneaking up unexpectedly and sometimes leading us astray.
The shadow dwells nebulously below the surface of our
inner existence, influencing our actions and coloring our experiences. It is
the stuff that fuels nightmares, creeping through unnoticed by our conscious
faculties, surfacing as neurosis or even inexplicable rage.
In astrology, the 8th house deals with the shadow-self. If we have not been conscious with the way we have been behaving with others this is the place where life holds up a “psychological mirror.”
In the US national chart – the Sibly – the Sun is placed
in the 8th house. In the last few years it has been receiving an opposition
from transit Pluto which is about to return to its radix place in the chart. In
ancient mythology, Pluto was the lord of the “underworld”. Astrologers
recognize that Pluto transits bring to the surface all that has been repressed
or hidden.
US foreign policy has for decades has constituted an
overreaching desire to achieve and maintain global hegemony through wars. It has focused on dividing the world through cultivating
sectarian animosity and pitting neighbors against one another in vicious,
unending combat. All this was all done
under the garb of maintaining global peace, security and stability. This then
was the national shadow.
Traditional
astrology relates the eighth house to crisis, hidden matters, anguish of mind, and
deadly fears; yet psychological astrology often refers to it as a house of
inner transformation and growth. It should be remembered that true
transformation follows the burst of creativity that occurs after the lessons of
this house have been properly digested. Only by facing our innermost fears
are we able to overcome them and move on with the strength of experience and
wisdom. But this house is not relevant to the period of growth, its concern is
the inhibiting factors that stand in our way. It is a house of personal
vulnerability, albeit perhaps a necessary vulnerability from which we may eventually
gain.
Transits to planets
in the 8th house often show a need to accept the loss of elements of
life that are no longer fruitful or have served their purpose; the nature of
the planet will indicate how the loss is accepted. http://www.skyscript.co.uk/temples/h8.html
In the US Sibly, the Sun [13cn] is square Saturn [14li]
placed amid the stars of Corvus, the Raven – a bird that has a universal connection with malevolence, insincerity,
glorification in the misfortune of others among other things.
Currently, Saturn is transiting opposite the US Sibly
Sun. Saturn transits to the radix Sun are among the most powerful. No one likes
them. They are heavy, somber, and not fun at all. All Saturn cycles are karmic
in nature. They are about the transformation of symbolism into material reality
which is why astrologers like to refer to them as “reality checks”.
Moreover, the Sibly Sun is conjunct the asteroids Siwa
and Psyche [1].
PSYCHE: Recognition
of childhood trauma; raw wounds psychologically; vulnerability; memories;
insight; psychic impressionability; psychological recovery; the state of your
“mental health;” head wounds; brain states.
SIVA: also SIWA:
Episodic, catabolic (breakdown/through) process that precedes insight;
destruction of density/fixated beliefs.
With the powerful transits taking place opposite the
Sibly Sun, the US national psyche is going through a breakdown. Whether this will lead to a breakthrough only
time will tell.
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