The Black Diary

The 22^nd March as Saturn temporarily returns to Fixed Air after 29 years absence

What you think you become…

In a world awash with opinion it can be hard to find your ‘own’ voice, after all much of what comes through you arises from sources external to you, sources that you have ingested and made your own. But is your voice truly yours? Are you opinions truly your opinions? Or are they merely iterations? Finding your own voice is not an easy thing to do, since from birth you are encouraged to repeat what you are taught – whether through the ‘education’ system, through social conformity or the absence of time to ruminate, reflect and formulate. For over 900 million people, the poisoning of the crown has meant enforced enclosure and a withdrawal from the world. Yet that does not mean withdrawal from intellectual conformity, or indeed finding the space to breathe inwards and reflect. However, it could offer that very opportunity if you switched off the constant barrage of fear and negativity, so pervasive within the media, and you turned inwards to connect with your own voice and your own ideals. What you read, what you listen to, what you watch influences your mind and it helps to shape the way you think about reality. Francis of Assisi recognised that fact back in the thirteenth century and requested of those joining his monastery to forgo literature, to meditate and to write from their perspective. Rather than dumbing down his monks, the Franciscan’s produced some incredibly erudite, insightful and soulful contributions to the Western mind from non-literate and educated initiates.

Needless to say that the world has been strongly reacting to the colonisation of its mind over the past few years and you could view this time, if you are in a vulnerable position atop of the pyramid, as an opportunity to re-colonise people’s minds with fear of survival, whilst implementing policy to prevent the free flow of information. But let’s not conspiratorise the trauma that many are experiencing in their families. However, one of the messages of Saturn’s return to Aquarius is to pull away from the world and to go inwards to decolonise your mind and to formulate your own opinions and ideals and the very first step is to discern what you watch, listen to and read, after all our media is the master of desensitisation and distraction. During this initial entrance of Saturn into a differing consciousness archetype, the question I’d like to poise to you is ‘are your thoughts truly yours or are they merely iterations of other people’s opinions and world views?’

Be well during this poignant time and I hope you take comfort in how quickly nature recovers from humanity’s pause…

I will leave you with a YouTube clip of Prince’s 2009 song – Colonised Mind

Andrew Smith ©2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hn6Y29VAl0