This is how you protect yourself from lies

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On this episode of the Divination for Liberation podcast... The more comfortable we become with confronting our contradictions, the more comfortable that we become with facing the emotional discomfort of meeting contradictions that disrupt our belief system,

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the less vulnerable we are to indoctrination, the less vulnerable we are to gaslighting, and the less vulnerable we are to lies. And if there's anything that we need in this moment of anti-intellectualism, corporate control of the news media, the disintegration and collapse of our hierarchies of knowledge,

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the fascist overtaking of our academic institutions, the wholesale abandonment of our children by imposing illiteracy on them and undermining schools as a possible place for the expansion of knowledge, increasing literacy.

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If we need anything, it's we need protection from being gaslit. We need protection from lies. Hi, it's Dayna. And I'm here with your divination for the new moon in sidereal Gemini. The 2026 Sidereal Astrology Guide says, planting seeds of curiosity to reconcile contradictions.

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If you can't hold it, let it hold you. uh

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Okay, okay, okay, let's talk about Gemini. Before we do that though, let's put this in a little bit of a context. So we are in the midst of a quite major astrological transition that will be occurring through mid-September. So from about the late summer of 2024 until September, mid-September 2026.

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we have been in this back and forth between sidereal gemini and cancer. Those two houses in your birth chart have been getting worn out, and that particular back and forth will culminate in the middle of September 2026 when Mars finally finishes its transit of sidereal gemini. After that, we will be continuing...

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the new kind of astrological thing that began... um Actually, it begins this fall, which is a back and forth between sidereal cancer and Leo. So for now, we're talking about Gemini. This is the new moon in Sidere... Lord help me.

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This is the new moon inside Dereal Gemini, which is kind of a checkpoint on our way out of this particular astrological season into a new one. There's something kind of childlike about Gemini. And in this moment, it's bringing to mind, I cannot remember this creator's name, but he has a stubbed substack or website called The Rip Current. He wrote a book called The Loop.

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I'll drop the link to his sub stack or maybe his Instagram in the description, but he wrote a book called The Loop. And basically what he's talking about is the danger of outsourcing our decision-making to AI and what that ultimately means for us collectively. I think that this is really the...

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ultimate manifestation of the sidereal Gemini transits that we've been experiencing since 2024. If I were to pinpoint a particular astrological configuration that could be correlated to the rise of so-called artificial intelligence and large language models, it would be Jupiter in sidereal Gemini and...

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Saturn and Sidereal Pisces, and they met up with a exact square the summer of 2025. And if you've been following me, you'll know that I talked a lot about that square because it's one that we actually haven't experienced since like the 1400s. Saturn and Jupiter square all the time, right? They square every 14 years or so. And every 60 years,

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they square roughly in the same signs. But because of how the orbits or movements of Jupiter and Saturn kind of fluctuate, that we don't necessarily get repetitions of the same signs in the way that we think we would. And even that repetition can happen on larger cycles than the 60-year cycle that Jupiter and Saturn are on.

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So it's been 600 years since Jupiter and Saturn squared inside Dereal Gemini and Pisces. And in the 1400s, when that happened, that was just as the printing press was about to completely change the epistemology of human culture, right? Human society. Someone on Instagram just reminded me of this guy's name. His name is Jacob Ward.

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really loving his coverage and thoughts about AI, technology, what it means for us culturally, philosophically, and just the nuts and bolts of how it's progressing and changing over the course of time. But back to this printing press thing, right? That would have been the thing that kind of happened on the other side of that, you know...

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15th century square between Saturn in Sidereal Pisces and Jupiter in Sidereal Gemini, such that when we get to 2025 and that square is happening again for the first time, we're having something equally disruptive and equally having capacity to change the trajectory of humans, to change the way that we engage with our own thoughts, to change the way that language functions.

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to change the way we relate to knowledge and information, to change what we believe is worth knowing or who has a right to know it, what they have a right to do with that knowledge. The reason why I say that there's something very childlike about sidereal Gemini is Jacob Ward brought this up in a recent post, but it's also on a post that I wrote back in 2024.

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that's pinned at the peoplesoracle.com. That post is called, Crisis, Cults, and Contradictions. And in Jacob Ward's book, his most recent post, and in that blog post on my website, we both talk about how humans are kind of hard wire to surrender their decision-making.

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And in my blog post, I talked about it how belief systems are the thing that we often surrender our decision-making to. In the era that is now coming to an end, subject matter experts, people who have accumulated a certain level of knowledge on a particular topic, people who have proven their expertise,

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and people who have been given credentials or validated by some institution who we trust as a society. And they say, hey, this person has proven, they have met the criteria required for us to say that they are a subject matter expert. They are someone you should trust on this topic. But the problem is, that a meritocracy

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of information, a meritocracy of expertise cannot coexist with capitalism. Because capitalism does not reward expertise, it rewards exploitation. The more willing you are to exploit people, the less empathy you have,

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the more likely you are to succeed in capitalism asterisks because there are some other factors that make that success more likely. Being male makes that success more likely. Being white makes that success more likely. Being in the imperial core makes that success more likely. So, the childlike nature of Gemini is not necessarily something I'm trying to shame Gemini for.

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or fault Gemini for. I think it's really, really important what Gemini brings us. Again, Gemini is the communal storehouse of knowledge. But with the rise of anti-intellectualism, that storehouse of knowledge, that subject-at-matter expertise is less and less valued because the more knowledge we accumulate, the more uh expertise we develop.

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The more that expertise ultimately is used to point out the contradictions of capitalism, white supremacy and patriarchy, and that's when knowledge becomes a threat to imperialism. It becomes a threat to the status quo whose whole goal is to hoard and accumulate by any means necessary. Right? So that childlike nature of Gemini is the continued openness to new information.

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is the feeling that there's always something to know, is never believing too hard on anything so that there's no room for you to change your mind, seeing curiosity and openness as a value, right? But what we're kind of experiencing with the rise of intellectualism and large language models is Gemini gone too far, that your openness to new information means that even subject matter experts who have

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their expertise should not be trusted because there's more information. And how could one person hold all of the information? Or even the whole premise behind a large language model or so-called artificial intelligence is that the more knowledge and information that I can accumulate and put into these language models, the more super knowledge genius solving all of the problems we can do.

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Sidereal Gemini kind of functions in a birth chart and on a societal level uh by kind of operating from the premise that what stands between me and any goal that I might have as Sidereal Gemini, what stands between a society and the solution, any problem that that society might have is knowledge.

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and information. This sounds really logical on the surface. And if we analyze the past century, we can see that part of the development of societies, particularly in the West, has been giving more and more people access to more and more knowledge.

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whether that is more and more people attending college and universities, whether that is rising literacy rates and focusing on increasing literacy rates, whether that is in the way that we have structured our societies by teaching our children that...

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You are not valuable without an education, and all of your success in life depends on your capacity to accumulate knowledge. Knowledge has been the most valuable thing for anyone who wants to participate in capitalism as a member of the working class. But again, once that accumulation of knowledge, once that expertise and exploration of ideas

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begins to threaten capitalism, white supremacy and patriarchy. Now we need as the society to change our relationship with knowledge and information. And that's what we're living in the midst of. We're living in the midst of a capitalist and imperialist intention to change our society's relationship with knowledge and information, such that knowledge and information is no longer the key to the problems

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that we have as a society, knowledge and information is no longer the solution to our personal woes or collective woes. Now, knowledge and information is one to be equated with belief systems and that facts are always up for debate. And if you believe anything too hard, uh then you are, you know, you're being gullible and you shouldn't just believe what anyone tells you.

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We're also in the age of suspicion. And this is why this whole new moon planting seeds of curiosity to reconcile contradictions is really important. And I want to speak to some of the things it's naming in this moment, right? But first, the one thing that you need to know about sidereal mutable signs that is Gemini, Sagittarius, Pisces, and Virgo is that

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When you have those signs occupied in your birth chart and when we are experiencing a sky in real time through transits that have mutable signs occupied, it means a sensitivity to contradictions. Those of us, myself included, who have a lot of mutable in our birth charts are incredibly sensitive to contradictions.

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And this kind of gives us a cultural role to point out the contradictions, to push ahead past the limitations of our collective myths and belief systems, to explore beyond the boundaries of those things, to name and reconcile and recognize and point out contradictions. People don't like for contradictions to be pointed out. Because when we point out contradictions,

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what we're really doing is poking holes in people's belief systems. And belief systems are the very thing that we use to kind of shortcut our way to making decisions in life. Large language models are doing something, and this is where the post that Jacob Ward made recently really just pinged something in my brain, that large language models are

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taking advantage of something that humans are already hardwired to do. In Div for Lib, we would name this thing as Jupiter, which is to recognize patterns and to use those patterns we recognize as the context for we make other decisions. Meaning that Jupiter's job is to form judgments

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with as little information as possible, meaning to recognize the pattern without having to have too many instances of a thing. Large language models are essentially pattern-recognizing machines, except for these pattern-recognizing machines are not conscious and aware of any type of bias that would inform how someone makes a pattern. So it's really dangerous for us to outsource our decision-making to large language models.

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in the same way that it can often be dangerous to outsource our decision-making and our judgment-forming to religions. Religions really do, in some ways, I think, need to evolve with the consciousness of a people. And in a society where religion has been historically devalued in place of intellectual knowledge, that which can be measured and observed and quantified and proved with evidence, we land at this place where

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all of the structures and institutions that we relied on in a religious way to help us make sense of things and to help us make decisions no longer exist. So there's this vacuum that's been created with what is the belief system that I'm going to use to help me make sense of the contradictions in my life? What is the accumulated knowledge and experiences that I'm going to use as a reference point

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to help me reconcile the contradictions that I encounter. Planting seeds of curiosity to reconcile contradictions is really highlighting the square between the sun, moon, and mercury retrograde inside Dereal Gemini and Saturn inside Dereal Pisces. That square is really saying, how am I going to reconcile the contradictions that I'm confronting? Gemini says, oh, I know.

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You need more information, go ask ChatGTP. We need more data for the large language model. We need more data for the large language model so that we can reconcile this contradiction because the reason we have a contradiction is because we just don't know enough. So we need to know more and get more information. We can see how that can go way too far too fast and cause some big problems. But for sidereal Pisces, Pisces says, and I want to read what I wrote here. Where is it?

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The feeling, Pisces is the feeling that a truth is being withheld. So Pisces is feeling through the gaps of what is said, feeling through the gaps of what is known, feeling through the gaps in what is, uh what something appears like it is, right? Pisces is operating from the premise that people and things are not what they appear to be.

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and that there is some kind of truth being withheld, not explicitly communicated. And the key to the contradiction is in that space of silence. It is in that space of what is not being said. Heise's is really here to protect us from the ignorance of society, the ignorance of our caregivers, and the fact that we actually have a limited capacity to see and know.

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Right? Gemini does not recognize that we have a limited capacity to see and know. We can know all of the things, but Gemini is not Jupiter. So Gemini doesn't necessarily recognize patterns in the way that Jupiter does. Gemini just keeps adding more and more and more information.

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Because ultimately, Gemini's job is to be like a library. The library is where we store all of the information, right? But someone who has contextual awareness of history and culture can bring us into right relationship with that information. Our spiritual leaders, right, who hold our myths, who tell stories to give us examples

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of how we have navigated certain contradictions and situations in the past. Spiritual leaders who are our cultural pattern recognizers who say, this is a story as old as time. You are not the first person to experience this hardship, this difficulty. This is part of the human experience.

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And these are ways that humans have made sense of these contradictions and navigated these things in the past. But part of why large language models are so popular, one, we are being manipulated and gaslit and lied to, right? And so, you know, em we are kind of being subject to so many lies, but those

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manipulations, that gas lighting and those lies are

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We're vulnerable to them because the hierarchies of trust that we have culturally relied upon to help us navigate contradictions, to hold knowledge, to be subject matter experts, to do research, to accumulate data, they have been devalued. They have been, what do I want to say, excommunicated from society.

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They have been disenfranchised, they've been fired, they've had their research shut down, they have been locked out of the capitalist economy in a way that makes their work unfeasible. We've had the work of experts and researchers and subject matter experts pitted against their survival, so they have to choose.

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But this is what happens in an anti-intellectual society, that the thing that you know how to do, the thing that you are called to do, the thing that you've studied, the thing that you know, the thing that interests you, that thing is pitted against your survival in a way that ultimately contributes to the collapse of the hierarchies of trust that make large language models appealing.

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I think the answer in this moment and some wisdom that divination for liberation can offer us at this time is that, Geminis reconciling contradictions? Yes. The whole chat GPT large language model anti-intellectualism thing is a huge problem. However, comma, the benefit and possibility in this moment

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that the curiosity to reconcile contradictions is really connected to what we talked about at the full moon a couple weeks ago, which is to understand when we are encountering information that challenges our belief systems and that can help us see when something we've identified as fact or an indisputable truth is actually a belief system.

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and how those belief systems are kind of wedded to our nervous systems such that when we encounter information that contradicts them, we resist them because we feel like they are threatening our survival. Planting seeds of curiosity to reconcile contradictions is so fascinating at this moment because...

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Everybody's playing Sherlock Holmes in super sleuth right now because Mitch McConnell went into the hospital a month ago and we're just now finding out that he was administered CPR in his home after he was found unconscious and we're being told that it was cardiac arrest. But no other information has been given. We're being told that certain peers of his politically and socially have spoken to him, but we've not seen his face.

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We have not heard his voice. We have not had a statement from his office. And his wife flew off to China. This is the thing that we all just really need to hold on to, and I'm going to pull some cards after this. The fact that there is mutable in the sky means collectively the volume is turned up very high on our collective sensitivity to contradictions.

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Those of us who have immutable signs in our birth charts feel this in a very intense way. But we also know people who point out contradictions are often persecuted. People who point out contradictions are also often taking advantage of the absence of authority figures, meaning makers, clergy.

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subject matter expertise, and a literate population. They are taking advantage of the suspicion that naturally arises when we have to navigate the inherent contradictions of capitalism, white supremacy, and patriarchy. And so when we are encountering these contradictions of capitalism, white supremacy, patriarchy, racism, and imperialism, like with Mitch McConnell,

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or Jay-Z's somewhat convincing performance of being a working class person who finds himself in the position of authority to work out, to point out alleged contradictions in the strategy of a working class's boycott. Like, let's just sit with that for a minute, right? But when we encounter these contradictions, we are being asked to meet them with curiosity, not to uphold them

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not to defend them, not to make them persist, but to figure out what are the actions we take, what are the beliefs that fall apart, and what are the opportunities that open to us when we make attempts to reconcile these contradictions. In your personal life, there are belief systems that you carry with you

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because of the repeated pattern of what you've been through. But that makes it difficult for you to recognize when you're not actually in that pattern anymore. This new moon is asking you to be open to reinterpreting the sense and meaning that you often make of your experience, to...

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When you meet the contradiction between the story you've always believed to be true and the reality that is happening to you now, meet that contradiction with curiosity and a healthy level of suspicion towards your own internalized belief systems. Let's pull some cards.

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It's time for Advice from the People's Oracle. We've got a note from Yasmin, who was the recipient of the advice on the last episode, and I want to share some of the things that she wrote. Thank you for picking my question. You went into so much detail in a short amount of time, like I have never felt so seen. It's such a surreal experience listening to you, like I literally teared up.

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My menstrual cycle, specifically my luteal phase, is indeed beating my booty. I do have some symptoms of hypothyroidism, but it could be due to iron deficiency, so that is still unclear. Now, it could not be a truer fact to my life how I magnify the commonalities in other people, which is why I am very liked person, but not known. Unrealistic expectations? Hello?

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I am extremely hard on myself and have loved ones tell me that I need to allow myself to lean on them and not carry it all. I feel like I grew up as a peacemaker in my home and I never outgrew the habit of putting others' needs over my own. I currently am a caretaker for my grandfather and I feel like I do a lot of caretaking for my loved ones my entire life. I do not feel like anyone paid attention to my distress signals and I convinced myself that my feelings did not matter. Until recently,

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No one really knew I was in distress until my drinking made it a problem that no one could ignore. Heavy on the emotional invisibility. I feel like there are a lot of emotions I do not allow myself to have and when I experience them, that is when I reach for something else because I do not know how to allow the feelings to ebb and flow. Specifically, I think I need to allow myself to be angry and pissed off and maybe share those emotions with other people.

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Sharing when I am experiencing an uncomfortable feeling. We'll see. Thank you so much for the work you do and I look forward to working with you sometime in the future, Yasmin. Well, thank you, Yasmin, for writing in such a detailed response to the advice I gave you and I look forward to working with you too. Let's move on to the recipient of this episode's advice. We've actually got Savra writing in from Cairo, Egypt. Wow.

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The Divination for Liberation podcast is making it all the way to Cairo, Egypt. So that's pretty exciting for me, and I'm excited to see what advice we can offer to Sahra today. Sahra's request reads,

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I'm feeling very lost these days because it's getting quite impossible to survive the conditions continuing to be an artist and teacher. I'm planning to start a food business with my partner who is a chef, but I'm feeling so much grief about moving my artistic career and teaching career to the side to make sure I can survive the conditions. Don't get me wrong. I know I have it in me to build a business and I know I will feel better when what I do can support me financially.

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And I love food and believe that feeding people is important, but I'm dreading the grief of putting my passion on the side. Any advice? Thank you so much. Well, I've got thoughts based on your chart, of course, but I just want to point out one specific thing that you ended your request with. I'm dreading the grief of putting my passion on the side.

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I'm going to talk about some of the conditions in your chart that may be reflecting this moment and just the general challenges you might have monetizing your gifts and making money to be financially independent. But I do first want to say that for so many of us, including Yasmin, who we just talked about from last episode's request for advice,

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So much of our choices and difficulties in life are because we are avoiding emotions. And that is because we really don't have the experience of someone we trust like our caregiver coming, noticing, and being with us when we're experiencing difficult emotions. Most of us have been put in positions that hit our connection

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with our caregiver against being with ourselves emotionally. And so even as adults, when we have to make choices that contain emotional difficulty, it's very hard to navigate that because we just don't have the practice of understanding that, hey, it's okay and safe to go into your own emotional world and tend to what's going on there, and our caregiver will still be there.

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or we won't be left alone to deal with the emotional reality of our bodies and our lives, that our caregiver will actually join us and be with us and hold our hand and help us cope. So I think the first piece of advice I would really give you, Sara, is to acknowledge the fact that this is not just a matter of money or materiality. This is also a matter of needing emotional support.

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in a difficult time. And I would encourage you to think about who can you rely on in this moment for emotional support in this difficult time so that you don't have to feel like you're alone in the grief. Who will be there with you to hold your hand and say, it's okay, and not expect you to feel differently than you already feel. Okay, now let's look at your chart. Your chart was so fascinating to me. I wrote down some notes and...

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I want to share some thoughts. So first things first is that Mars is really the planet that's running your chart. And when Mars is running our chart, our primary directive and motivation is I need to show what I'm capable of. I need to do it. If I don't do it, who will? It's a very strong identification with our personal power, our sense of responsibility, but also it's what gives us the sense of entitlement and ambition.

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to pursue career paths that are rooted in our skill, our talent, our gift, and our genius, rather than maybe focusing on something more practical that will meet our material needs. Mars dominance can give us that push to resist the pressure to conform and move in the direction of what feels like a passion or calling. This is especially true in a chart where Mars is really strong and there's not

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very much Earth to ground you. I'm going to come back to that Earth, but I want to point out that your Mars is in Gemini. And I find in my work that sidereal Gemini struggles the most professionally. And that is because sidereal Gemini's communal role is to be the communal storehouse of knowledge. Sidereal Gemini is meant to become a subject matter expert.

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They are meant to become a scribe who hold and keep a record of the collective culture. They are meant to narrate what we're experiencing at any given time, whether that's through art or words or visuals. And they are storytellers and orators and griots who transmit knowledge and memory and history in very literal and sometimes symbolic ways.

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Now, in modern society, we don't value in the form of payment or money that role. If you can get inside the institutions of academia, if you can get inside the institutions of art galleries and theaters or film and television, then maybe you might be able to translate that natural...

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predilection that you have to be a storyteller into money. But for most of us, that's not going to be the case. And so I just want to point out some cultural conditions and context, which you're probably very well aware of, that are making this particularly challenging for you, specifically in a time where anti-intellectualism is taking root all over the world. Let's go back to the lack of earthing. When we don't have earth,

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it does two things. One, it's a reflection of maybe the lack of support we've experienced growing up around rooting us and grounding us in the material reality of the world around us. That can mean capitalism or whatever the economic system is in your culture. That can mean patriarchy. That can mean misogyny. It can mean racism, xenophobia, or colorism. As these structural realities...

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that are shaping and forming the options and choices we have available to us, and that are pressuring us to conform if we want to survive and reap the rewards that those systems have to give. So there's a little bit of neglect that often happens when we don't have a lot of Earth in our birth chart. The other thing that's really important about No Earth, and this really brings it full circle to where I started with the grief, is that Earth acts as a protective coating from our inner emotional world.

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It keeps us from getting completely sucked in and absorbed by our feelings, and it gives us a more contextual awareness of our emotions that makes us feel less helpless and more able to work alongside the emotions rather than losing ourselves in it to the point that we can't function. So I would say with that that maybe there's a real fear, maybe because you might be prone to depression. I can see that in your chart as well.

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And that also you are a very hard worker and probably have some really high expectations of yourself that you've internalized that are making you feel even stronger feelings about not achieving the goal that you've set out to in your culture and society. So that lack of protective coating that Earth brings actually is a reflection of how much emotional space you took up in your family.

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and how much reactivity there might have been to your inner emotional world in a way that it kind of permanently exaggerated the intensity of your emotions and left you helpless in learning how to deal with those emotions in a way that didn't completely consume you. So this is just a full circle moment back to the advice that I gave at the beginning, which was, think the most important thing for you in this moment is emotional support.

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You said you know that you are going to be successful and you have the capacity to run and build a business. And you know that things are going to be easier for you when you have the material stability that your art and teaching career haven't given you.

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When you have Aries placements that are contributing to the Mars dominance in your chart, it's very important that you recognize that your self-worth doesn't have to be rooted in what you achieve and what you do and what you don't do. That your self-worth and perceived failures don't have to be tied together. And so maybe that's part of the belief system that you're being challenged to confront at this time, that just because you did not achieve what you set out to do,

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This doesn't make you less worthy of approval. This doesn't mean that you're not a real artist and it doesn't mean that you don't have anything valuable to offer. Mars Dominance always feels like it's their lack of effort or their difficulty in executing, you know, whatever goal that is the cause. And sometimes Mars Dominance really struggles to take into consideration...

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that there are forces working at cross purposes that maybe your individual effort cannot overcome. And that's why the answer to most problems that we're facing in this moment is actually collective action resistance and revolution. A whole other problem for another day. I'm wishing you so much love and care and peace as you are making this transition, Sara. And I really do pray that you have the emotional support to help you keep improper perspective.

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just what this change means for you and good luck in your business with your partner. If you would like to be a recipient of Advice from the People's Oracle, go right down to that description box, find the link, click it, fill out the form. And I'd love for you to be the next person that I give advice to on the segment Advice from the People's Oracle.

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July 18th on Zoom. I am presenting another workshop this time, are your big three really your big three? What if your big three, not your big three? What if you don't have a big three? What if you only have a big one or two? What does that even mean? Well, let's find out on July 18th. There are 10 spots, eight are available. This will be at 11 a.m. Central on Zoom. And I will be...

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guiding the participants through exploring the meaning of their sun, moon, and rising in their sidereal birth chart using the divination for liberation method. And then I will introduce each participant to what is really in your big three or big one or two according to your sidereal birth chart. Everyone will get a copy of their birth chart.

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Recording will be available afterwards for all who participate. This is not a situation where you can sign up and then watch later. You really need to be there because this is going to be kind of a dialogue and back and forth.

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All right, I'm back with Taro at this new moon inside Dereal Gemini, where we are planting seeds of curiosity to reconcile contradictions. What wisdom and insight is available to us as we move through this new moon time period? What are beneficial perspectives to take? What are ways that we should view and understand this time? And what are insights that we can carry with us?

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We've got the five of cups on the bottom, which we definitely have had recently, might've been at, I don't know if it was at the full moon in Sagittarius. I think it was actually at the new moon in Taurus that we had a month ago. But the five of cups is often alerting us to an emotional reality that is very uncomfortable.

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It is alerting us to feelings that we may not want to deal with and feelings that kind of we have to deal with. We often treat our emotions like something that we have to avoid. We treat our emotions like a problem that needs to be solved. And what I notice so often in my coaching work specifically is that so many of

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the patterns that we find ourselves trapped in in relationships are often due to the avoidance of an emotion, right? There's a video that I have on my PsycheSelfSoul Instagram page. If I can find the link, I'll point it out here. But in that video, I talk about how healing your attachment wounds requires you to be rejected.

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Right? Particularly if you're someone who tends towards anxious attachment, because the anxiety is, who do I have to be and what do I have to do in order to avoid this person rejecting me? We turn into people pleasers, we comply, we emotionally self-abandon, and we're trapped in that pattern over and over and over again because our nervous system

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is not equipped to handle rejection. But what I talk about in that video is that by being trapped in a pattern, an anxious pattern of avoiding rejection, you're actually rejecting yourself in advance. You're saying this part of myself is unwelcome in relationships and so I will not be this part of myself. This thing that I do, this way that I show up,

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is something that will not be accepted by people, and so I will act like it doesn't exist. And maybe if I act like that thing doesn't exist, then I won't be rejected. But healing really comes from disrupting the pattern, and the disrupting of the pattern actually means feeling the very feeling that your behaviors are trying to avoid.

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I think that as we are kind of reconciling contradictions and planting these seeds of curiosity, there definitely are some collective emotions that we tend to avoid. But I would challenge you to ask yourself, what are the feelings that you put off limits? What are the emotions that you don't want to deal with? And how is that part of a larger belief system that it's hard for you to really see?

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What patterns are you noticing or what situations and circumstances and events in your life are actually illuminating contradictions in your relationships and alerting you to like, you're doing this whole convoluted thing because you actually don't want to experience grief. You're doing this whole convoluted thing, ending up in the same situations over and over and over again because you can't tolerate rejection. You, you know...

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You don't feel like you can cope with sadness, right? You, you know, whatever that feeling is, this five of cups is saying, hey, you actually gotta feel that thing, because if you don't feel that thing, you gonna be stuck right at the checkpoint of this thing that life is giving you an opportunity to pass. We've got the page of swords, which is absolutely the card of curiosity. And we've got...

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the King of Swords. I think this is like such a perfect, like symbolic reflection of the sky. We've got the five of cups, that is Saturn in Pisces and Jupiter in Cancer, all of this water. And then we've got the page of swords and the King of Swords reflecting the sun and the moon and Mercury retrograde both in Gemini. This is a very watery and...

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airy sky, which can be quite a challenge to navigate because the air gives us distance and perspective that can mean dissociating from the emotional reality. Not always a bad thing. Sometimes that's what you got to do to pay the bills. I'm just saying. Right. And the water is beckoning us into our body. So the air is saying, hey, get a little distance. You don't have to believe what you feel. And the water says,

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Don't let your thoughts convince you of something that's not true. You know what you feel. You know what you're sensing. You know you're being lied to. There's a pattern here. But the key to unlocking the patterns in this moment is both curiosity and finding a really healthy relationship with our suspicion. The page of swords is about asking questions. Like I said, it's really the card of curiosity. It's saying, wow, I'm in...

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this experience or this place where I can treat the information and data and the circumstances like something new. I can approach it as if I don't know anything at all. I can ask questions. I can be open to new information. I can understand and recognize when I'm using old interpretations that don't necessarily up.

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because I'm meeting a contradiction that renders those obsolete. And then we have the King of Swords. Kings are always alerting us to our authority in the situation or an authority figure in the situation. In this case, the King of Swords is kind of this other progression of the sword story or this other side of the sword story.

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that says, hey, you need to be able to figure out what information and what data is useful and reliable, and what information and data is not useful and reliable. Remember with Gemini, we're approaching things as if the solution to every problem is more information. When we meet a contradiction, it is between what we know and what we're seeing or being taught in the moment.

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And so to get past that contradiction, we just need a little bit more information, right? But the King of Swords is asking us to stand in our authority in a certain way. It's saying that, hey, I know we're in this time where we're being told that you can know anything and you can know everything.

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You can ask chat GPT how to do brain surgery to remove a tumor. And that means that now you are capable of doing brain surgery to remove a tumor.

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Let that sink in for a minute.

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Like, mm-mm. No. I think the other thing that the King of Swords is alerting us to with this Five of Cups and Page of Swords is this idea that we have that to be a civilized person, to be a civilized society means that you are open to dialogue and conversation and everything is just a negotiation away from being resolved.

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But that's not true. It's not true at all. First of all, you can't negotiate with terrorists, whether they're political terrorist or whether the emotional terrorists that are antagonizing you and preventing you from moving past whatever pattern that you're stuck in. Right? But the other piece is that putting words to things and having conversations can have us bypass the reality of what we're actually dealing with.

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In this case, in the five of cups, how something makes you feel sometimes is more important information than, you know, ah what that thing actually is. And I want to frame it for you this way.

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The challenge those of us with sidereal Pisces placement deal with, and the challenge that we're confronted with right now with Saturn being in sidereal Pisces, is one, this idea that the feeling of suspicion itself, the feeling of skepticism itself, is a value judgment that we project onto the person in front of us.

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That if I feel like someone is hiding a truth from me, if I feel like there's information being withheld, then that's what's happening. They're doing it on purpose, or I just need this person to admit that they're lying and to admit that they're withholding the truth from me and that this person is now a liar and gaslighter and unworthy.

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Right? But the nuance in this moment is saying, can you hold on to the truth of how you're feeling and let that inform your choices and decision-making without necessarily needing to prove that this person or this situation has it out for you? How would you move if you

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operated from the place that your emotions and the feelings that you have are important information that you use to respond to your own body. The King of Swords is not necessarily asking you to ignore your feelings. It's not asking you to devalue your emotional experience.

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But I think it is saying that emotions are data, just like the insight you get from a therapist, a conversation that you have with a friend, or a viewpoint that you encounter in a book you love. All of those things are data. But when they contradict each other, we immediately try to create a hierarchy out of them.

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And depending on our birth chart, it'll really tell us what's the hierarchy that we normally make when we meet contradictions. Right? Air signs, air dominant charts, mercury dominant charts, Saturn dominant charts, these are people who are going to have at the top of the hierarchy uh notions of objectivity, information that they encounter through other people.

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and rationalizing and intellectualizing things as the top way that we reconcile contradictions, right? You know, if we have a very watery chart, our feelings, taking our emotions seriously, prioritizing emotional safety, and leaning into our suspicion and skepticism is going to be the top way that we try to reconcile or meet the contradictions that we face.

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If Earth, you you have Capricorn or you have Taurus, Venus, Virgo, all very strong, then these are going to say, actually, it is what it is. This is the social and material reality that you're in. And so whenever there's a contradiction to be reconciled, we're relying on the social and material reality to do that for us.

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rather than how something makes us feel, or rather than seeking out new information or insights from trustworthy sources. And then of course, if you've got Mars, or you've got fire, Leo, Jupiter, Sagittarius really strong in your chart, you're going to meet those contradictions with a sense of entitlement. That this contradiction is a statement about your sincerity, or pointing out your own hypocrisy.

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This contradiction is a statement about what you're capable of, or it's a statement about who you are and your worth and whether or not somebody takes you seriously or believes you. We all have our own internal hierarchies of trust that kind of reflects what is our go-to way of meeting the contradictions of life. In this moment collectively, the primary thing we're dealing with

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is the contradictions of power, the contradictions of capitalism, white supremacy, patriarchy, imperialism, racism. And those of us who are really strong, mutable, you know, we spend a lot of time pointing out contradictions, but that's because for us, kind of the worst thing to do is to operate in this space with unreconciled contradictions, right?

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it's to operate in this space where we haven't been meticulous enough to tease out what is fact from what is false. Or we, you know, we are not um leaning into the suspicion and answering it in a satisfactory way. Part of what I see in these cards is that pointing out contradictions is really important.

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And sometimes that's what we have to do. But sometimes the fact that there are contradictions in and of themselves are alerting us to how we need to move. And that contradictions are really normal. The last thing that I want to say is that

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Contradictions are so normal. And when we operate from this place that like...

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Contradictions are a moral failing.

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think we really miss the point. And part of what makes me say this is just, you know, client work over these past few months. But I'm witnessing this thing with Jay-Z, where he's trying to equate Black people using Google websites as something that undermines or contradicts the tactic of selectively targeting targets.

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with a boycott. And somehow, to him, that is a contradiction that renders our boycott not only ineffective, but somehow a moral failing or a manifestation of our ignorance.

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But in reality, it's actually pointing out Jay-Z's.

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misunderstanding of the function of a boycott. And it's also a way for him to deflect from the contradictions of growing up poor and working class and becoming someone who has access to the power of whiteness and capitalism. On the one hand, in a way that we should all envy and respect,

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but on the other hand, as something that we shouldn't take too seriously because he's still a man from the Marcy Projects. The more comfortable we become with confronting our contradictions, the more comfortable that we become with facing the emotional discomfort of meeting contradictions that disrupt our belief system,

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the less vulnerable we are to indoctrination, the less vulnerable we are to gaslighting, and the less vulnerable we are to lies. And if there's anything that we need in this moment of anti-intellectualism, corporate control of the news media, the disintegration and collapse of our hierarchies of knowledge,

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the fascist overtaking of our academic institutions, the wholesale abandonment of our children by imposing illiteracy on them and undermining schools as a possible place for the expansion of knowledge, increasing literacy.

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If we need anything, we need protection from being gaslit. We need protection from lies. And I feel like at this new moon, there are some seeds being planted for us, that the more we are able to face the emotional discomfort of our internal contradictions, that our relationships are inevitably presenting to us at this time, the more equipped we are for navigating a world

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where we've been abandoned by the authorities and the leadership who is supposed to illuminate for us paths of meaning and trustworthy information that helps us reconcile contradictions in an informed way. That is all for today. Thank you for tuning in to the Divination for Liberation podcast. I am your host, Dayna Lynn Nuckolls. I will be back in a couple of weeks with

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Another episode of the Divination for Liberation podcast, we are inching very, very, very close to eclipse season. So while the next full moon will not be an eclipse, it is a part of the eclipse story. And that means we are shifting into a new narrative of major cultural shifts. We're moving from the fixed

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identity, how do I know who I am, to the cardinal, how do I harness power and control? And specifically in sidereal cancer and Capricorn, eclipses are talking about economy, economics, economic power, economic structures and institutions. Is it capitalism? Is

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It's socialism, is it communism, is it fascism, is it an oligarchy, a kleptocracy, a plutocracy? What is it? What is it? That's we'll be talking about soon. Of course, I will have the link to the latest wastewater data for COVID. Right now, we're not dealing with an infectious disease that is spread human to human. We are dealing with...

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What's the word I'm looking for? Contamination. I will drop some links to trustworthy experts who we should be following in absence of a functioning public health organization in this country. Oh my God. I just sometimes the div for lib sidereal astrology is so on point that it's hard to believe. Like,

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we're having to figure out how to make sense of uh national food contamination without a trustworthy government entity to tell us WTF is going on. But it's in these moments that we are having to rebuild our communal hierarchies of trust without the government. And when we talk about building parallel structures,

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that function as alternatives to a collapsing empire. This is when it happens, when there is a crisis and there is no government source or entity that we can trust. And as a matter of fact, the very protocol and policy and structures that were in place, not only to prevent this from happening, but also to be a trustworthy source we can rely on how to navigate it like it's gone. It's literally been dismantled.

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So this is the moment where we have to do the thing that is revolution. Who do you trust? Why do you trust them? Who do you believe? Why do you believe them? In the meantime, in between time, take care of yourself. Limit your exposure to the news, especially as a black person. It's just a lot of psychological warfare right now and a lot of spiritual terrorism.

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meant to remind you that you are not safe here, meant to remind you of your place, and to keep you in your place. And the answer to that is to reach left and to reach right to your neighbors, to your family, and to your friends, and to shore up those connections of trust, to create networks of care and self-protection.

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and to also remember in this moment the state wants you dead, but that doesn't mean you have to lay down and die. See you soon. Bye.