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IF YOU’RE EXHAUSTED FROM the endless news reports on the ongoing political crisis in the US, you’ll appreciate the alternative takes in this discussion with astrologer and author Jessica Murray in my latest episode of the WOODRUFF cast. We moved through diverse topics, everything from the Trump inauguration chart, Elon Musk's accelerating megalomania, the hollow core (and promises) of AI and cryptocurrency, and the necessity to resist the feeling of being powerless.
In this go-round, we discussed:
• Steve Bannon and “Flooding the system with shit.”
• Adam Curtis’ prophetic documentaries.
• Carol Cadwalladr’s tips on How to Survive the Broligarchy.
• The dark side of the sign Cancer and ‘arrested development.’
• The Sun-Pluto conjunction in the Trump inauguration chart.
• Astrology is a study of cycles within cycles, not single transits.
• Activism today? You have to live from the center of your horoscope.
• Trump’s gift of providing MAGA with a cultural identity.
• Pluto’s governance of the mafia and the mob.
• Luigi Mangione and the series Day of the Jackal capturing the zeitgeist.
• Saturn conjuncts Neptune and WTF? The ‘manosphere’ and psychic Viagra.
• White dudes’ demands to reassert their power and control.
• Elon Musk’s ongoing mental health crisis as it’s mirrored in his natal chart.
• The phantom core of AI, bitcoin, and cryptocurrency.
• The importance of holding a co-emergent tragi-comic view.
Jessica Murray’s presence online:
Her website MotherSky. Her Instagram profile. And her books on Amazon. You can also find her super-sharp lectures and teachings at Tony Howard’s Astrology University. And here are details about her upcoming online lecture, Controlled Abandon: The Saturn-Neptune Conjunction, on February 27, 2025.
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