Wednesday October 8, 2025
– Full Moon Phase – step out, take action, breaking away, expression
– Moon in TAURUS –
– Retrogrades –
- Pluto – May 4th – Oct 13th
- Neptune – Jul 4th – Dec 10th
- Saturn – Jul 13th – Nov 28th
- Chiron – Jul 30th – Jan 2nd
– Best Days (from the Farmer’s Almanac) – Oct 8th – – Advertise to Sell, Ask for Loan, Dig Post Holes, Jar Jams/Jellies, Mow to Slow Growth, Paint, Slaughter
– Planting Calendar (from the Farmer’s Almanac) – Oct 8th – 9th – Good days for transplanting. Good days for planting beets, carrots, onions, turnips, and other hardy root crops where climate is suitable.
– Sabian Symbol for the Solar-Lunar Year: – 11 ARIES: the ruler of a nation
– Aspect of the Aeon Sophia: (Wisdom): – Kali – The Destroyer
– Aspect of the Aeon Thelete: (Will/Desire): Elias, God of the West, God of Transformation
– Sabian Symbol for the Solar-Lunar Month
– New Moon in VIRGO – SUN/MOON – 01 VIRGO: in a portrait, the best of a man’s features and traits are idealized (EARTH – 01 PISCES: a crowded public marketplace) –
– Second New Moon in VIRGO – SUN/MOON – SUN/MOON – 30 VIRGO: having an urgent task to complete, a man doesn’t look to any distractions (EARTH – 30 PISCES: a majestic rock formation resembling a face is idealized by a boy who takes it up as his ideal of greatness, and as he grows up, begins to look like it)
SUN – 16 LIBRA: after a storm a boat landing stands in need of reconstruction
EARTH – 16 ARIES: brownies (fairies) dancing in the setting sun
Last week I offered a top ten list of lessons from the book 1984. Well, that was not the only top ten list. And I found another that was just as impactful and worthy of review.
10 lessons from George Orwell’s 1984
1. On Controlling Truth
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
→ Lesson: Control over history is control over destiny.
2. On Surveillance
“Big Brother is watching you.”
→ Lesson: Constant surveillance crushes freedom and breeds self-censorship.
3. On Language and Thought
“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?”
→ Lesson: Limit language, and you limit imagination and dissent.
4. On Propaganda
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”
→ Lesson: Repetition of contradictions can make lies feel like truth.
5. On Fear and Control
“In the face of pain there are no heroes.”
→ Lesson: Fear can break even the strongest spirit.
6. On Reality
“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”
→ Lesson: When minds are manipulated, reality itself is altered.
7. On Conformity
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.”
→ Lesson: Blind conformity ensures perpetual oppression.
8. On Power
“The object of power is power.”
→ Lesson: Totalitarian regimes seek power for its own sake, not for the people.
9. On Memory and Truth
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
→ Lesson: When truth is denied, obedience replaces reality.
10. On Resistance
“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.”
→ Lesson: Awareness and action must awaken together for real change.
From what I see in the world, we are living in a dystopic reality. Did the writers in our past imagine all of this? Put it on paper and then dream it into existence? Or were we like this and it keeps getting worse.
It is amazing what the human mind can believe and then achieve. But for all the good that can be dreamed up, evil can also be created. And is that evil intentional, or just a byproduct of the success?
I am reminded of another dystopian novel – Atlas Shrugged – where the people in power truly became psychotic. And the movers and shakers of the world went on strike against them. To me, Galt’s Gulch is looking pretty enticing.
A Word of Thanks
I wanted to take a minute to thank all of my subscribers here on Substack. Your support of this site has helped me keep it going. Astrogardens was birthed on January 1, 2018 as a place to write about my garden. Regular posts began in April with the New Moon in Aries.
A couple years later I migrated to Substack after my email service deleted my account during Mercury Retrograde. They said it was for violating their standards. Since I was not paying for the service, they did not feel the need to explain what those standards were (my guess was talking about c0v1d).
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