Radu said:
I'm trying to investigate now addictions (growing amount of evidence of the omnipresence of addictions in our life): there is consumer addiction (oh so promoted in the media), tehcno adddiction (addiction to all kinds of gadgets), media addiction (addiction to the "news"), TV addiction, cyber addiction (internet addiction), internetporn addiction, games addiction, sports addiction, work addiction... not to mention drug addictions (alcohol, smoking, cannabis, heroine and so on).
Would there be an astrology addiction as well?
(such as checking out transits, all people's natal charts and other stuff)
Whaddya think ?
Absolutely. Astrology is a great tool but for some it becomes a way of handing over control of their lives and in so doing, believe they have also handed over responsibility. Checking their dailey transits before deciding if they will 'risk' driving the car today, casting a synastry chart prior to every first date and casting horary charts daily for every event, significant or not. These people are easy to spot because they generally peel out comments like "mercury in aries hear so sorry but i cant be tactful" or "no im sorry but I dont date men who's uranus is opposite my sun". Their addiction to astrology has given them a "get out of jail for free" card.
We have created an environment that abdicates responsibility at every turn. Just look at the growing list of mitigating circumstances a defendant can use in court to abdicate responsibility for a crime.
We are constantly told by society to blame our parents, our community, our government, global warming, genetics, the drink, drugs, peer pressure etc etc for the failings in our lives.
We have become emotionally lazy with excessively fragile egos. The phrase du jour is "i cant". We have become emotionally disabled, gender disabled, learning disabled, attention disabled, racially disabled, age disabled and no doubt there are those who claim to be astrologically disabled as well.
I'm not sure why we have allowed this pervasive disease to rob us of our virility. It is beyond my comprehension as to why we embrace an impotent effectless life but without a doubt we have.
The very nature of addiction is that it numbs, removes and replaces whatever it is in our lives that we are trying to ignore. We are told that guilt is wasted energy but what if, say just for a minute, we entertain the idea that we have a conscience and that our conscience seeks to let us know when we are on the wrong path, making mistakes or hurting ourselves or others. Why is responsibility such a dirty word.
I had some counselling after my marriage broke up. I expressed guilt at not meeting the needs of my children to a satisfactory level. My counsellor put her hand on mine looked me in the eye and said, "you did the best you could with what you had, you didnt know any better so dont blame yourself". What a load of rubbish. Lets not sugar coat the truth. I was more concerned with my own issues than those of my childrens. I was lazy, self centered and selfish. I did not need to be told i wasnt responsible because i was. Now im not suggesting we all dress in sacking and cover ourselves in ashes but it is time for a reality check. Addiction of any kind is rooted in fantasy and it is there that we run when reality becomes ugly. Its easier to pretend our lives are not ugly than it is to actually change our life experience because easy is good...isnt it?
Rogue red
