Last month I decided to focus more on Twitter. I joined Twitter a decade ago but rarely engaged, probably for the same reasons that you don’t.

I’m vocationally dependent on social media. I maintain a robust mailing list of friends, clients and ‘followers’ (I’m important).

But increasingly the metrics of attention–that used to be spread far and wide across the Net–has suffered network effect, and is now corralled on FB, IG, and Twitter. Social media is the Internet now.

The Net has definitely been hijacked and monopolized. And for oldtimers like me, it’s sad and creepy. You’d have to have been there, back in the mid-90s, when the Net took off. It was a lot of fun.

Although I’m older, I was similar in spirit to those Millennials that crawled out of the womb and hopped right unto a computer keyboard. I built my first website in 1997, and my blog Giving Head (for real title) launched in ’99 before blogs were a thing.

95% of my clients discovered my work from my online presence. And my art direction for an arts foundation in San Francisco requires a continual online engagement. Like many folks today, I’m in for the long haul. The Net sustained me financially for years. Until the dawn of social media.

I mention the above because my scrutiny of FB, which I consider political activism, always elicits the same response: “Why don’t you just leave FB?” I must get a couple DMs like that each month. And my response is the same: “It’s kinda my job to help you pay attention.” Like you, I want to live in a democracy for as long as possible and FB is helping destroy the mechanism, the checks and balances that sustain democracy.

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Today I’m talking about one of the most magnificent events in our lifetimes, the January 2020 stellium in Capricorn.

I’m also recommending a book in this video; always at the top of my syllabus for my students: Dane Rudhyar‘s Astrological Signs: The Pulse of Life.

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It’s so close the date is floating before your eyes, a numerical symbol of hope. January 1 2020. A clean slate, unsullied by time. And your desire to kill-off 2019 feels savage. Who can blame you?

But, wait a minute.

Just weeks after the New Year commences we drop straight into one of astrology’s most peculiar alignments. The January 12 conjunction of Saturn and Pluto in Capricorn.

The last time these two planets converged in Capricorn was in 1518, when Martin Luther unleashed the Protestant Reformation, a movement that altered Christianity throughout Europe.

And so, yes, conjunctions of this magnitude are major, confirming the feeling that we’re living through unprecedented times. In fact, the full overture for the Saturn Pluto alignment has sounded throughout 2019. And once exact, in January, will color not only 2020 but the new decade as well.

Personal questions loom: “What will emerge in my life as the old order collapses? A phoenix from the rubble? Or just another squawk from the cuckoo clock?” Let’s find out.

Until January 15th of the new year, I’m offering a 20% discount on my regularly priced sessions.

This special holiday discount is available to new friends and my regular clients. The offer includes:

• A 50-minute inquiry session. Normally priced at $125.00.

• A free copy of my new private e-report, The Saturn Pluto Conjunction and the Remains of the Day. (To be sent to recipients in late December.) A $3.99 value.

• Plus, in the spirit of baby Jesus’ birth, I’m waiving the regular $3.00 processing fee for booking your session.

• This $99.00 special would normally cost $133.00.

I have limited consultation spots open, so hold your space now. Or better yet, book for yourself and for a friend or family member. An astrological session makes for a really memorable gift.

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I’ll talk to you soon in 2020!

Love,

One of the last truly great images of Hollywood glam-o-rama is Terry O’Neill‘s shot of Faye Dunaway, post-dawn, lolling at the Beverly Hills Hotel’s pool, after winning an Oscar for Network.

Obviously, no one went to bed the night prior.

O’Neill’s ebulient, future-leaning Leo take:

When I first encountered Sean Tejaratchi‘s mindbending books, gosh, about fifteen years ago, I was instantly enchanted–and just a little bit waylaid.

Once you open one of Sean’s collections of vintage imagery, the effect is instantly alchemical, meaning Sean’s deft arrangement of paradoxical or nonsensical pairings (death and scissors, sex and kitchen gadgets, church and state, for example) will force your unconscious mind to reimagine and rethink the too-tight boundaries that define consensus reality.

I can’t explain exactly why this is the case; but after decades of working with the content of my client’s dreams, I can attest to the value in allowing the rational mind to dally in a big tub of images. In one sense this is why working with the Tarot can be so potent, although unlike the Tarot the unexpected and madcap nature of Sean’s vintage collections works quite differently.

And for that reason, I’m recommending Sean’s latest publication, the humongous, 450-page The Crap Hound Big Book of Unhappiness. I’m suggesting this book to friends, colleagues, and clients who are coming to terms with the aura of anxiety surrounding the ongoing Saturn Pluto conjunction; a planetary merger that will set the tenor for the entirety of 2020.

As Sean writes in the introduction to his collection:

My video will take you deeper into the book and also, hopefully, highlight parts of the thesis from my upcoming private report Saturn and Pluto and the Remains of the Day. A report that will be available next month on Astroinqiry.

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