}The Ideal as Magic{
Moon in Gemini
Aspects are mostly good. The hardest is Venus conjoined to Saturn, making us doubt friends, partners, love itself, more than we need to. (Oh, I forgot, it's Valentine's Day! That is something I regularly forget.)
The unusual is afoot. One can be resourceful in surprising ways, meandering where things are interesting.
Those who are enthusiastic partisans may seem superficial. Maybe they are. Maybe their zeal will lead them eventually to something better.
It is good to be humble and not attempt things beyond one's powers or beyond what the world permits, for there is danger of a fall.
If that is avoided, there can be magic through "a tie to the creative power of the universe itself," or, as Dr. Jones puts it, "ideality brought to the point of miracle."
{Thursday} {The Ideal as Magic}
Cosmic Piper
P. S. A bit of politics. It is so early we can't see much into the 2020 election but things are getting very interesting. So many candidates to choose from. So far, no one on the Republican side is officially challenging Trump.
As for the Democrats, the field is large and getting larger. Two whom I feel inspired to comment upon are Beto O'Rourke and Andrew Yang. O'Rourke has said he will decide and announce before the end of February whether or not he will run. I just read some fascinating history of him in the New York Times and find him intriguing. He is Libra and has some Libra flaws---what appears to be indecisiveness, a kind of "live and let live" attitude which might be what we need in politics now, but the Left of his party will reject him because he is not an ideologue and wants to "play nice' with the Right and the Republicans. As many Librans do, he wants to deflect all controversy, make as if it's not there, be on both sides, make nice. I like that. He is a writer, as are most Librans, and the Times published some of his musings during his tour around parts of the country while thinking about running for President. He is an interesting man, who has no definite policy stances on much of anything except that he wants people to get along. Supporting him for President is sort of like being in love with someone, because that is his persona.
The other interesting candidate is Andrew Yang, who has not been getting media attention (yet). He wants a Universal Basic Income (UBI) of $1000 a month for everyone beginning (I think) at age 18. I wrote to his campaign and asked them if this would really apply to retired people of advanced age and they said yes, but another article I saw about this said the 1000 a month would cut off when people started getting their social security. I am not satisfied with or convinced about the answer I got on that. The plan may sound crazy but Yang has very good arguments for it and the more you read about it the better it sounds. It would be financed through a "value added" tax which would hit corporations as well as individuals; they would pay this tax on supplies they purchase, for example. Yang claims that this would be good for the whole economy and he sounds like a well-versed realistic accountant (Capricorn) as well as a humanitarian (three planets in Aquarius). Hmm.
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