When I asked my spoiled feline how he had earned so many Christmas gifts when he didn’t even come out from under the bed to acknowledge anyone, he gave me that “were you born yesterday?” look.

“It’s simple. I’m a legend.”

A legend?

“Obviously your devoted followers have never had to clean your litter box,” I replied.

“That’s the key, my ignorant human,” he said arrogantly. “You can’t let them see the real you, the boring one.”

The look in his eye told me I shouldn’t pursue this further, but impulse drove me forward.

“Well,” I stammered, “you’re a Gemini, so there are two ‘you’s’, but for many of us in the zodiac, there’s just one ‘you’ and we have to earn our way through life.”

My feline snorted in derision and then said:

“And how many Christmas gifts did you receive?”

I pushed him away from the soft, silky blanket. It was MY Christmas gift, not his.

Being Donald Trump

Speaking of Geminis, the former president and current president-elect Gemini Donald Trump was mentioned in a 1987 book of channeled messages. As I flipped through the book, I thought I saw “Trump” then figured it was an illusion as his name is so frequently used.

No, he’s mentioned, as was Ted Turner, a name and legend we don’t hear about anymore.

This is what always fascinates me – how in 1987 the focus was nuclear war and AIDS. Has either threat gone away?

No, but our newest fears are terrorism and COVID.

Are our fears simply negative “fads?”

If you study astronomy, you learn that our earth-existence is quite precarious. There’s a lot to fear and every now and again a fear of asteroid collision surfaces. But like the asteroids passage, the fear doesn’t last long.

While AIDS fears, nuclear war fears and Ted Turner have receded from the front burner of our consciousness, Trump remains.

The question asked by the querent was:

I’m a successful businessman. Why am I not as successful as Ted Turner and Donald Trump? . . . [laughter] If I program and they don’t, did they choose their life before birth?

The topic was creating our reality. The querent comes across as a simple egotist.

Yet here we are, 37 years later, and this very concern has become “consensual reality.” Not all of us wanted to be Ted Turner or Donald Trump, some even ignored the existence of these two men. Silly me for not taking Trump seriously.

Yet this is now the reality of the United States: consensual “success” of the kind that involves owning entire industries, media empires, retail chains, outer space, DNA and anything else that can be owned.

The desire to “be” like these men has created these men, has fueled them, cheered them at the sidelines. We created this reality. This is the image of success while our boring day-to-day efforts pale in comparison.

The legend of these men – the self-made made innovating, creating and earning by the sweat of his own brow – contrasts with the reality of class structure where those in the highest levels of economic atmosphere support each other, as has occurred for thousands of years.

Trump’s “success” appears to be simply to play the economic system, not contribute to it. He’s not a failed businessman because he’s not a businessman – he’s a tax man playing a game that started with inherited wealth and inherited knowledge of how to play the system and probably much more beyond my knowledge as a simple taxpayer.

Television and media simply promote the legend, the ideas. Television is a representation of our “consensus reality.” It’s not simply entertainment.

Pluto in Capricorn

And why did we create this reality?

The United States has Pluto in 27 degrees of Capricorn which is the sign of success and governs rules, laws, boundaries, and discipline (which to the undisciplined appear as limitations and restrictions).

Pluto destroys and transforms. The year 2022 saw the first Pluto “return” for the United States where Pluto returned to its original 27 degrees of Capricorn after 248 years. We have had one evolutionary cycle and here we are.

The first cycle of Pluto in Capricorn brought focus on success, wealth and status. The United States was the policeman of the world. People came for both political and economic freedom.

As a nation, we are choosing this lesson of “success.” We’ve elected someone that represents the legend of success if not the reality, which like all qualities is in the eye of the beholder.

This second Pluto cycle for the United States is occurring in a more conscious, educated world. Each country has its own evolutionary cycle and the United States as the Capricorn authority of the world is changing.

To evolve more positively, we must think in terms of Capricorn responsibility in addition to Capricorn “success.” The reality of success may be more boring than the idea of it.