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<\/a><\/div>\n\nIt
\nseems a bit unconventional, if not downright rude, to ask the Hard Questions
\nabout someone\u2019s life on their birthday. You don\u2019t usually hear things like \u201cSo,
\nyou going to do something about that terrible marriage of yours this year?\u201d
\nover the cake and ice cream. Nonetheless, I find myself here in America, on
\nthis July 4th<\/sup>, falling into that role: taking it upon myself to play
\nthe role of Pluto.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nseems a bit unconventional, if not downright rude, to ask the Hard Questions
\nabout someone\u2019s life on their birthday. You don\u2019t usually hear things like \u201cSo,
\nyou going to do something about that terrible marriage of yours this year?\u201d
\nover the cake and ice cream. Nonetheless, I find myself here in America, on
\nthis July 4th<\/sup>, falling into that role: taking it upon myself to play
\nthe role of Pluto.<\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nPluto
\nasks hard questions. Perhaps worse, it stands there and stares at you
\nunblinking until you provide the answer, or until you die (likely from the same
\nmalady Pluto was asking about in the first place).<\/span><\/div>\n
\nasks hard questions. Perhaps worse, it stands there and stares at you
\nunblinking until you provide the answer, or until you die (likely from the same
\nmalady Pluto was asking about in the first place).<\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\n*** <\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nThere
\nI was yesterday, getting off of yet another of New York\u2019s many beautifully loud
\nand dirty subway stations and crossing the street when I saw It. The Symbol. The
\nMonolith. The Memorial. The one building in America that can never, ever be
\njust \u201ca building\u201d any more, but must now forever stand as a gigantic steel
\nQuestion Mark pointed at the clouds, silently awaiting your interpretation and
\nresponse.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nI was yesterday, getting off of yet another of New York\u2019s many beautifully loud
\nand dirty subway stations and crossing the street when I saw It. The Symbol. The
\nMonolith. The Memorial. The one building in America that can never, ever be
\njust \u201ca building\u201d any more, but must now forever stand as a gigantic steel
\nQuestion Mark pointed at the clouds, silently awaiting your interpretation and
\nresponse.<\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nSeeing
\nthe World Trade Center in person for the first time is an interesting
\nexperience for those of us \u2013 that is, everyone \u2013 who remembers the attack of
\nSeptember 11th<\/sup>, 2001. We\u2019ve all seen the news footage countless
\ntimes, on documentaries and in memorials and on badly-shot YouTube videos by
\npeople convinced that such a Terrible Thing could only be the result of a vast
\nconspiracy.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nthe World Trade Center in person for the first time is an interesting
\nexperience for those of us \u2013 that is, everyone \u2013 who remembers the attack of
\nSeptember 11th<\/sup>, 2001. We\u2019ve all seen the news footage countless
\ntimes, on documentaries and in memorials and on badly-shot YouTube videos by
\npeople convinced that such a Terrible Thing could only be the result of a vast
\nconspiracy.<\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/i><\/p>\n
\n(Frankly,
\npeople, I don\u2019t want to get into that here. I\u2019m already straying far enough
\nfrom my appointed subject of \u201castrology.\u201d But I will say this much: if you
\nthink it requires A Vast Conspiracy for humans to do terrible things to each
\nother, you really should get to know your fellow humans a bit. They are
\ngenerally a good and decent lot, overall, but when there are billions of
\nintelligent creative beings with imaginations and opposable thumbs and
\ntechnology and a huge bloated bellyful of hatred to draw upon, very big and bad
\nthings can happen. Sometimes.)<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
\npeople, I don\u2019t want to get into that here. I\u2019m already straying far enough
\nfrom my appointed subject of \u201castrology.\u201d But I will say this much: if you
\nthink it requires A Vast Conspiracy for humans to do terrible things to each
\nother, you really should get to know your fellow humans a bit. They are
\ngenerally a good and decent lot, overall, but when there are billions of
\nintelligent creative beings with imaginations and opposable thumbs and
\ntechnology and a huge bloated bellyful of hatred to draw upon, very big and bad
\nthings can happen. Sometimes.)<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nSeeing
\nthe WTC in person really puts the news footage in perspective. Scaling up the
\ncrash and the kaboom and the fire in one\u2019s mind, it\u2019s easy to see how utterly
\nApocalyptically terrifying it must have been for the people there that day to
\nwitness it in person. Such a thing couldn\u2019t have helped but be utterly world
\nchanging for those who witnessed it. By extension, all of America witnessed
\nwhat happened that day, and of such a sight mythology is often born. And certainly, that mythology has become a way of life, infiltrating and influencing the daily details invisibly, as our mythologies tend to do. <\/span><\/div>\n
\nthe WTC in person really puts the news footage in perspective. Scaling up the
\ncrash and the kaboom and the fire in one\u2019s mind, it\u2019s easy to see how utterly
\nApocalyptically terrifying it must have been for the people there that day to
\nwitness it in person. Such a thing couldn\u2019t have helped but be utterly world
\nchanging for those who witnessed it. By extension, all of America witnessed
\nwhat happened that day, and of such a sight mythology is often born. And certainly, that mythology has become a way of life, infiltrating and influencing the daily details invisibly, as our mythologies tend to do. <\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nPluto
\nwas in Sagittarius when the attack happened. Sagittarius is known to be a Sign
\nof Big Ideas and Bold Actions, and certainly both the attack and what followed
\non would qualify as \u201cbig.\u201d An outlandish assault, followed by an enormous
\ninvasion, followed by another enormous invasion of questionable relevance to the
\noriginal incident\u2026 that\u2019s Sagittarius, which often has the compulsion to Go
\nLarge or Go Home. Sagittarius also has a fondness at times for ritual and
\nsymbolism, and the September 11th<\/sup>, 2001 attacks have certainly been
\nritualized and fetishized, especially here in New York City. One doesn\u2019t have
\nto travel far before encountering a reminder in one form or another of what
\nhappened.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nwas in Sagittarius when the attack happened. Sagittarius is known to be a Sign
\nof Big Ideas and Bold Actions, and certainly both the attack and what followed
\non would qualify as \u201cbig.\u201d An outlandish assault, followed by an enormous
\ninvasion, followed by another enormous invasion of questionable relevance to the
\noriginal incident\u2026 that\u2019s Sagittarius, which often has the compulsion to Go
\nLarge or Go Home. Sagittarius also has a fondness at times for ritual and
\nsymbolism, and the September 11th<\/sup>, 2001 attacks have certainly been
\nritualized and fetishized, especially here in New York City. One doesn\u2019t have
\nto travel far before encountering a reminder in one form or another of what
\nhappened.<\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nPluto
\nis in Capricorn now, and the death-stare of Pluto is now turned to practical
\naction. The bouncy philosophical outlook of Sagittarius (Freedom and liberty
\nfor all! Don\u2019t tread on me! All you can eat!)<\/i> is now tempered by the cool resolve
\nof Capricorn.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nis in Capricorn now, and the death-stare of Pluto is now turned to practical
\naction. The bouncy philosophical outlook of Sagittarius (Freedom and liberty
\nfor all! Don\u2019t tread on me! All you can eat!)<\/i> is now tempered by the cool resolve
\nof Capricorn.<\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nOn
\n9\/11 (Look! We\u2019ve abbreviated it and given it a name, so that it\u2019s both easier
\nand harder to think of and discuss! It might as well be the name of a
\nbadly-behaved pet. \u201cDammit, 9\/11, get off the kitchen counter! Look at the
\ndamned hairball 9\/11 coughed up on the new rug! Quit humping my leg, 9\/11!\u201d)<\/i>
\nall those grand and wonderful American Ideals of Freedom and Liberty and Free
\nExpression were slapped in the face by the natural consequences of embracing
\nthose very same ideals. So perhaps it\u2019s only natural that Pluto in Capricorn
\nwould see a reaction.<\/span><\/div>\n
\n9\/11 (Look! We\u2019ve abbreviated it and given it a name, so that it\u2019s both easier
\nand harder to think of and discuss! It might as well be the name of a
\nbadly-behaved pet. \u201cDammit, 9\/11, get off the kitchen counter! Look at the
\ndamned hairball 9\/11 coughed up on the new rug! Quit humping my leg, 9\/11!\u201d)<\/i>
\nall those grand and wonderful American Ideals of Freedom and Liberty and Free
\nExpression were slapped in the face by the natural consequences of embracing
\nthose very same ideals. So perhaps it\u2019s only natural that Pluto in Capricorn
\nwould see a reaction.<\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nAnd
\nwhat reaction do we see? Oh, practical, organized Capricorn\u2026 you always were
\nthe clean-up crew for the mess the Centaur Sign left behind. The almost-predictable
\nover-reaction to 9\/11 was an America that still worships freedom\u2026 but records
\nyour phone calls. You are still free to speak your beliefs and be yourself and
\nlet your personal freak flag fly\u2026 but it will all be silently watched and recorded
\nby a CCTV camera and NSA software, and it’s all be analyzed somewhere, and one day you just might accidentally end up on a no-fly list when you’re off to your aunt’s funeral in Tulsa. But, hey, freedom, am I right? <\/span><\/div>\n
\nwhat reaction do we see? Oh, practical, organized Capricorn\u2026 you always were
\nthe clean-up crew for the mess the Centaur Sign left behind. The almost-predictable
\nover-reaction to 9\/11 was an America that still worships freedom\u2026 but records
\nyour phone calls. You are still free to speak your beliefs and be yourself and
\nlet your personal freak flag fly\u2026 but it will all be silently watched and recorded
\nby a CCTV camera and NSA software, and it’s all be analyzed somewhere, and one day you just might accidentally end up on a no-fly list when you’re off to your aunt’s funeral in Tulsa. But, hey, freedom, am I right? <\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nBut
\nthere are still fireworks and hot-dog eating contests, so the party continues.
\nEveryone feels a tiny bit safer for the freedoms they have sacrificed\u2026 not
\nreally realizing how much they\u2019ve given up, and not realizing that if someone
\nsufficiently clever is out to get you, they will still find a way no matter
\nwhat fences you put up or how expertly you contort yourself into a useless ball
\ntrying to hide from them.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nthere are still fireworks and hot-dog eating contests, so the party continues.
\nEveryone feels a tiny bit safer for the freedoms they have sacrificed\u2026 not
\nreally realizing how much they\u2019ve given up, and not realizing that if someone
\nsufficiently clever is out to get you, they will still find a way no matter
\nwhat fences you put up or how expertly you contort yourself into a useless ball
\ntrying to hide from them.<\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nI
\nstill love you America, but in the spirit of freedom that your Revolutionary
\nforebears were so filled with, I\u2019d like to point out that your responses to the
\nchallenge of being America in the age of Pluto in Capricorn have been kind of,
\num\u2026 un-American.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nstill love you America, but in the spirit of freedom that your Revolutionary
\nforebears were so filled with, I\u2019d like to point out that your responses to the
\nchallenge of being America in the age of Pluto in Capricorn have been kind of,
\num\u2026 un-American.<\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nHappy
\nBirthday, America. Once you\u2019re done the cake, please try to remember the real reasons we
\nlove your big, loud, shiny spirit so much\u2026 and ask yourself if you\u2019re still
\nacting like that, or just biting your own nails down to the elbows out of fear.
\nYou\u2019ve become a little less than your Best Self during Pluto in Capricorn.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nBirthday, America. Once you\u2019re done the cake, please try to remember the real reasons we
\nlove your big, loud, shiny spirit so much\u2026 and ask yourself if you\u2019re still
\nacting like that, or just biting your own nails down to the elbows out of fear.
\nYou\u2019ve become a little less than your Best Self during Pluto in Capricorn.<\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nAnd
\nthere are many years of Pluto in Capricorn yet to come.
\n
\n<\/span><\/div>\n
\nthere are many years of Pluto in Capricorn yet to come.
\n
\n<\/span><\/div>\n
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It
\nseems a bit unconventional, if not downright rude, to ask the Hard Questions
\nabout someone\u2019s life on their birthday. You don\u2019t usually hear things like \u201cSo,
\nyou going to do something about that terrible marriage of yours this year?\u201d
\no…<\/p>\n