Pluto Opposite Sun: Listening to the Soul 

The Sun is just past its opposition to Pluto, an opposition that activated the current transiting opposition between the USA’s Sun and Pluto in the same signs.

The Sun/Pluto opposition brings up the complexities and shadows of the national unconscious here in the US.

Here are some of the complexities at play, and I take these from the narrative I’ve witnessed in my facebook feed over the past two days from all different kinds of people who read my horoscopes:

* The subjects of gun ownership, gun carrying, gun possession
* The subjects of police brutality, bias “training,” and racism
* Addressing race without further polarizing racial tensions
* Ignoring race and further polarizing racial tensions
* Anyone not with something is inherently against something else
* No, we can be both against certain aspects of something while for other aspects of the same thing
* Anger, blame, and self righteousness regarding the group we most identify with or support
* Avoidance, denial, and suppression of the group we are least willing to identify with or support
* Calling for all kinds of love and compassion while neglecting the simplest or smallest acts of love and compassion in our day to day lives
* Not using our voices to call for action in the world, despite the amazing amount of attention and time we give to our kids, or our friends, work, etc. 
* Silence is accused of racism
* Accusation is accused of racism
* The sins of previous generations…a real thing
* The sins of previous generations…a story that keeps us stuck in the past
* Anger is healthy and real
* Anger needs to be channeled and used constructively
* Anger divides, we need peace, patience, kindness
* Movements have to be more than just trendy hashtags
* No, movements in this day and age are made and advanced through ideas and the war of ideas in the media
* White privilege is real and here is how to talk to someone about their white privilege 
* Talking to someone about their white privilege will only polarize things further
* Forgiveness means forgetting
* No, you can forgive but not forget what’s important
* Compassion and patience is a weak response
* No, compassion and patience is the only way anything substantive gets accomplished
* We are more than race
* We can be more than race AND be defined by our race
* This is not my responsibility, I did not do anything
* This can be both not my responsibility and my responsibility 
* Anti everything attitudes and conspiracy theories
* Delusional positivism and naive trust
* The problem is more systemic than it is racial
* The problem can be both systemic and racial
* No, the problem is racial, and until we start there, nothing will change
* The system is rigged by the 1%
* The word rig is rigged unconsciously

and last but not least…

* Pokemon Go is consuming your news feed almost as much as everything above…

Prayer: Help us to see diversely. Teach us to listen to each other.