Scorpio Times: Not for the Faint of Heart
For many of us it is a time of deep reflection, of nesting and sorting out that which can no longer be ignored. We're ridding our homes and lives of things and people we have outgrown. Downsizing and simplifying our worlds. Some of us are experiencing big existential crisis and opportunity, depending on how we view what we're being faced with and how we handle things.
I know so many people who are in the uncomfortable place between the past and the future - the present, that place so many of us fear and fill up thinking about what is behind and ahead of us. I am definitely in that space, at times feeling terror about the decisions I've been making, about the unknowns I'm facing, and how things are going to work out.
It seems to be a common space for many to be in and that seems about right for where our World is at right now.
Some interesting articles to ponder as we wade through this time and space in our evolution.
The simplicity of modern life is making us more stupid, according to a
scientific theory which claims humanity may have reached its intellectual
and emotional peak as early as 4,000 BC.
Nick Collins, Science Correspondent, The Telegraph, Nov 12, 2012.
Intelligence and the capacity for abstract thought evolved in our prehistoric
ancestors living in Africa between 50,000 and 500,000 years ago, who relied
on their wits to build shelters and hunt prey.
But in more civilised times where we no longer need to fight to survive, the
selection process which favoured the smartest of our ancestors and weeded
out the dullards is no longer in force.
Harmful mutations in our genes which reduce our "higher thinking"
ability are therefore passed on through generations and allowed to
accumulate, leading to a gradual dwindling of our intelligence as a species,
a new study claims.
"A hunter-gatherer who did not correctly conceive a solution to
providing food or shelter probably died, along with his or her progeny,
whereas a modern Wall Street executive that made a similar conceptual
mistake would receive a substantial bonus and be a more attractive mate.
Clearly, extreme selection is a thing of the past."
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In this balsamic phase of the moon, her darkest phase just before the New Moon Solar Eclipse in Scorpio,
we are in the perfect mindset to look at the darkest crooks and
crannies of our psyches to release what is stuck, what is rotting, what
is tedious, and what is just plain boring to continue to shlep around.
With Mercury retrograde in Sagittarius (Mercury will move back into Scorpio on November 15) the quest to reveal the TRUTH is on!
Read the whole article here.
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