Index
Preview:
Desert Magic by Dana Davis. (iUniverse, 2008.)
Strong Enough To Die by Jon Land. (Forge, May, 2009.)
Dying By The Sword by Sarah D’Almeida. (Berkeley Prime Crime Mystery, 2008.)
Peace, Love and Murder by Nancy Holzner. (Gale Five Star, August, 2009.)
The Sword-Edged Blonde by Alex Bledsoe. (Tor Fantasy, July, 2009.)
Since January, we’ve been looking at a chicken/egg question relating humanity’s group mind to the forces that drive big business to feed that group mind’s hungers.
Why is our world the way it is? Why do people do what they do? Which is the cause and which the effect?
If we can solve the mystery of that relationship, we can apply the solution to all huge institutions humanity creates: government, insurance, conglomerate manufacturers, universities, hospitals, charities, organized religion, banks, publishing, Hollywood, Bollywood, retailing, wholesaling, advertising, Wall Street, main street, armed forces.
“Large institutions” are usually represented in astrology by the twelfth house, and Neptune. Transiting Neptune is entering Pisces the natural twelfth house. Pisces and the twelfth house are ruled by Neptune which means Neptune’s effect will be multiplied starting May, 2011, then setting in hard in February and November,
2012. Children born with Neptune in Pisces will be something else!
More importantly for this column, Neptune rules the glamour and illusion elements of entertainment. And I have always maintained that entertainment is a necessity ranked with air, water, food, clothing, shelter. We need to dream.
Solve this mystery of cause-effect between the group mind and our large institutions for any one of those large institutions I have listed, and you will find the same relationship between our group mind and all the large institutions. As above, so below. So let’s look “below” very carefully.
One thing that intrigues every human being and can even